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Overdoing Democracy
Authors: Talisse Robert B. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Democracy is an extremely important social political good. Nonetheless, there is such a thing as having too much of a good thing. When we overdo democracy, we allow the categories, allegiances, and struggles of politics to overwhelm our social lives. This has the effect of undermining and crowding out many of the most important correlated social goods that democracy is meant to deliver. What’s more, in overdoing democracy, we spoil certain social goods that democracy needs in order to flourish. Thus overdoing democracy is democracy’s undoing. A thriving democracy needs citizens to reserve space in their shared social lives for collective activities and cooperative projects that are not structured by political allegiances; they must work together in social contexts where political affiliations and party loyalties are not merely suppressed, but utterly beside the point. Combining conceptual analyses of democratic legitimacy and responsible citizenship with empirical results regarding the political infiltration of social spaces and citizens’ vulnerabilities to polarization, this book provides a diagnosis of current democratic ills and a novel prescription for addressing them. Arguing that overdoing democracy is the result of certain tendencies internal to the democratic ideal itself, the book demonstrates that even in a democracy, politics must be put in its place.
Can Democracy Be Overdone?
Authors: Talisse Robert B. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
This chapter lays out the central thesis of the book and clarifies it be means of contrasting it with nearby or distinct opposing theses. The central thesis is that it is possible to overdo democracy, and overdoing democracy is detrimental to democracy. By emphasizing politics as part of democracy, people “crowd out” or have less time for pursuing other goods whose achievement is part of the point of pursuing the good that is overdone. The chapter demonstrates that this thesis is fully consistent with a robust, participatory conception of democratic politics. To avoid overdoing democracy, the book suggests that people find other things to do together, things in which politics has no place. Putting politics in its place does not mean that people must stand back from democratic politics to give elites enough room to govern, which is the minimalist or elitist thesis.
The Place of Politics
Authors: Talisse Robert B. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
This chapter concludes the book. It argues that no matter how thick a conception of democracy one favors, it must be acknowledged that democracy isn’t everything. This is because politics—and therefore democracy—is for something. The importance of getting politics right is partly due to the importance of the goods and aspirations that well-conducted politics serves. The point of democracy is to enable us to lead lives that involve the cultivation of valuable human relationships. But it is the essence of such relationships that the participants aim at goods beyond politics. Although our flourishing both individually and collectively surely requires social and political association, there are nonetheless components of human flourishing that cannot be won by politics alone.
Women of Color in Academia
Authors: Bermúdez Claudia M. , Camacho Rachel R. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
This chapter addresses the intersecting roles of race and gender that impact the lives of women faculty of color. The authors explore the overt and covert acts of hostility that they experienced while co-teaching a graduate-level class and challenged the racism and sexism embodied by some of their students. White fragility speaks to a state in which some White people refuse to acknowledge the systemic nature of racism from which they benefit on a daily basis, instead redirecting attention toward their feelings of discomfort when confronted with their racist behaviors. Hegemonic masculinity speaks to the ways in which some men benefit from political, social, and economic systems that legitimize patriarchy and the subordination of women. These phenomena, rooted in colonialist and imperialist histories that transnational feminism works to destabilize, viscerally affect women of color in the academy.
Introduction
Authors: Valdini Melody E. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the central theory of this book: women’s political representation depends in part on whether men in power see a benefit to associating their political party or government with women. It begins with a brief discussion of the existing literature on women’s representation to establish the foundations of what is already known about women’s path to political office. It then engages the literature on the rational incentives that drive political behavior and goes on to suggest that the self-interested motivations of gate-keepers should be considered in any analysis of women’s descriptive representation. Finally, it presents a synopsis of the following chapters of the book and briefly describes the theoretical contributions and empirical examinations presented to culminate in a new perspective on women’s descriptive representation.
The de Menils’s Reality
Authors: Dohoney Ryan 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Chapter 2 continues with the theme of conversion and shifts to a discussion of Dominique de Menil’s aesthetico-religious development. The first section of the chapter focuses on de Menil’s conversion to Catholicism in the early 1930s and her immersion in the renouveau catholique. Mrs. de Menil’s adoption of ideals of the renouveau was mediated through the friendship and spiritual direction of Fr. Marie-Alain Couturier. He was a leader of L’Art Sacré, a group seeking to enroll the best modernist artist in the service of the church. Working from a discussion of his collection of essays Art et Catholicisme, the chapter argues that Couturier identifies a formal affective structure of intuitive revelation that is capable of translating aesthetic experience into religious experience through abstraction. The reproduction of this formal structure lies at the heart of de Menil’s patronage aesthetics.
Abstract Ecumenism
Authors: Dohoney Ryan 
Published: October 2019

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In Chapter 4, it is argued that Feldman’s involvement in the Rothko Chapel came about through two profound losses—the suicide of Mark Rothko and the collapse of de Menils’s relationship with the University of St. Thomas. These events produced a problem of representation for the Chapel, now dissociated from the Catholic Church. Dominique de Menil turned to Feldman to solve this problem with music equal to its ecumenical outlook. Feldman’s music premiered on April 9, 1972. Feldman and de Menil struggled over the structure of the event, with Feldman envisioning it as a “service” in his words that needed a few sermons (by poet Stanley Kunitz and critic Brian O’Doherty). Mrs. de Menil refused the inclusion of other speakers and put the onus of Feldman’s music to shape the affective atmosphere of the Chapel through the power of sound itself.
Introduction
Authors: Bratman Eve Z. 
Published: October 2019

AbstractThe introductory chapter highlights the significance of studying sustainable development, introducing it as a concept that significantly marks approaches to environmental protection, economic growth, and social well-being in the present day. It highlights the main arguments of the entire book, which is first that sustainable development should be thought of as an ongoing set of processes that involve embroilments, rather than a point of balanced stasis where a particular goal has been reached. Centrally, the central argument of this book is that with few exceptions, sustainable development ultimately serves to reproduce and reinforce existing inequalities and yields highly uneven social and environmental results. The socio-natures of Amazonian realities show how injections of capital and state influence produce disproportionately consolidates the power of capital and the state, even as they are contested by members of civil society. The chapter situates the research presented in the book in theoretical context, building upon notions of socio-nature from the field of geography, and drawing upon environmental governance literatures in anthropology and political science to lay the foundations for interrogating sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon.
Capital in the Jungle
Authors: Bratman Eve Z. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Chapter 2 traces the ideational struggles over the Brazilian Amazon from the early explorations of the region by non-indigenous explorers into the 1980s. The chapter specifically highlights the important theoretical undercurrents of how seeing the tropics and the push for modernity in Amazonia became manifested through grandiose development projects and deeply symbolic exertions of state power. This chapter situates the Amazon region as a space fraught with the tension between ecological concerns and state economic planning priorities which often take uneven, incomplete, and erratic forms. These make lasting marks on the landscapes and societal structures in that region, and ultimately provide the ideational foundation for later sustainable development articulations.
Conclusion
Authors: Bratman Eve Z. 
Published: October 2019

AbstractFor many, the Xingu River basin continues to be a site where projections of big dreams for attaining wealth and opportunity simultaneously collide with cultural losses and landscape transformation. The conclusion of the book, Chapter 7, zooms back out to explore the sustainable development framework as it informs state–society relations and uneven manifestations in lived experiences of place. The conclusion also examines prospects for the transformative potential of sustainable development as a utopic vision and offers reflections on the possibilities for sustainable development discourse to become more deeply emancipatory through adopting a new metaphor, involving embroilment—as a means of better grasping the fundamental realities of the concept as it is practiced.
Repost or Die
Authors: Rowson Rose 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
This chapter is concerned with the analysis of contemporary, community-based practices surrounding the user-generated deity Safety Kitty on the image-sharing platform Instagram. Users engage with Safety Kitty both as an image and through the associated hashtag #safetykitty to protect themselves from the existential threat of supernatural chain images shared on the platform. This chapter first demonstrates that the use of “magic” as a rhetorical tool by programmers and advertisers to describe the various mysteriously obfuscating and wondrously enabling qualities of information technologies has fallen out of popular use in recent years. Attention is then shifted to magical thinking as manifest within lay users’ participation on the social web. Drawing from early sociological approaches to magic in conjunction with new media theory, this chapter proposes that the Instagram-based rituals associated with protection from supernatural threats is indicative of a collective understanding of the unknowability of the processes behind our personal devices.
Instant Karma and Internet Karma
Authors: McGuire Beverley 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
This chapter examines the representation and interpretation of karma in social media, focusing on karmic memes and morality. Internet memes depict karma as a strict retribution, often occurring instantaneously, and occasionally revel in the possibility of witnessing or controlling karma. Memes serve as ways of meting out retribution online; by creating, sharing, and reposting karmic memes, people can engage in moral critique without appearing overly judgmental. The chapter also examines the notion of “internet karma,” which enables people to uphold their conscience and appear to be morally upstanding online, even though they may not act on such principles in their real life. It analyzes online discussions that debate whether the “karma points” accrued by such status updates, tweets, and upvotes should be seen as purely fictitious and imaginary, or whether they have positive effects that could support and motivate ethical action.
Disciples of the New Digital Religions
Authors: Chitwood Ken 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
This contribution expands and explores the concept of “hyper-real religions” through the case of the Disciples of the New Dawn (DOTND). A pure parody internet religion, DOTND is subtle and sly with its snark but quite real in its religious import and impact. Based on digital ethnographic observation on social media sites such as Facebook and on blogs, this contribution adds to the conversation about hyper-real religions and “authentic fakes.” Drawing on the literature surrounding these terms and interviews with individuals who share their perspectives and opinions about DOTND, this chapter reconsiders what an authentic religion is in light of authority, authenticity, community, identity, and ritual. By doing this with an “ambiguous fake” religion such as DOTND, this chapter helps enlarge the understanding of what constitutes “religion” in light of digital parody and the ambiguity of the features of religion online.
Plurality Through Imagination
Authors: Laursen Christopher 
Published: October 2019

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Starting around 2009, online communities envisioned and began practicing “tulpamancy”—the ability to imagine a sentient being, or “tulpa,” into existence through heightened states of imagination. Originating in Tibetan Buddhist mysticism and contemporary paranormal lore, online users create tulpas, which they sense as a distinct personality within their minds and bodies, for companionship. Advocates of the practice emphasize healthful and positive aspects, and the plurality of identity that can exist in one body. They promote their practice as a way to overcome depression, loneliness, and other issues of mental well-being. Tulpa creation and plurality arrived precisely because avatars, anonymity, and, perhaps most crucially, inward-focused creativity and collaboration in online environments enabled radical, free-form identity experimentation. Tulpamancy shows how online communities act as participatory spaces in which supernatural or trans-human possibilities are evaluated and repurposed.
Integration-Led Capitalism in the EU
Authors: Kalinowski Thomas 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
The global role of the European Union and its position in the trilemma triangle differ substantially from the global–hegemonic approach pursued by US finance-led capitalism. This chapter first explores the historical choices that countries in Europe made after the collapse of the BWS and the internal, regional dynamics of an emerging integration-led euro capitalism. We show that the EU (and until 1992 the European Economic Community) developed a distinct regional solution for the challenges of globalization with the creation of the single market and the European Monetary Union. This growth model is based economically on a specific European complementary specialization production system and politically on a distinct form of euro-corporatism. This does not mean that national governments and national political economies have become irrelevant, but rather that there is a convergence towards a common EU position when it comes to global economic governance.
State-Led Capitalism in East Asia
Authors: Kalinowski Thomas 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
East Asia is the third world region that is crucial for an investigation of international economic conflicts and cooperation. The rise of East Asia as the ‘factory of the world’ since the 1970s is as important for the global political economy as US-led financial globalization and European integration. This chapter begins with an explanation of East Asia’s role in the trilemma triangle and then turns to an analysis of the historic genesis of the East Asian (developmental) state-led model of capitalism. We then investigate the economic origins of the East Asian success story and in particular the formation of large export-oriented business conglomerates. Finally, we look at the political foundation of the East Asian model, which can be described as an authoritarian corporatist model that is shaped by the alliance of state and business at the expense of labour.
Linear-Gaussian systems and signal processing
Authors: Little Max A. 
Published: October 2019

AbstractLinear systems theory, based on the mathematics of vector spaces, is the backbone of all “classical” DSP and a large part of statistical machine learning. The basic idea -- that linear algebra applied to a signal can of substantial practical value -- has counterparts in many areas of science and technology. In other areas of science and engineering, linear algebra is often justified by the fact that it is often an excellent model for real-world systems. For example, in acoustics the theory of (linear) wave propagation emerges from the concept of linearization of small pressure disturbances about the equilibrium pressure in classical fluid dynamics. Similarly, the theory of electromagnetic waves is also linear. Except when a signal emerges from a justifiably linear system, in DSP and machine learning we do not have any particular correspondence to reality to back up the choice of linearity. However, the mathematics of vector spaces, particularly when applied to systems which are time-invariant and jointly Gaussian, is highly tractable, elegant and immensely useful.
Taking Utilitarianism Seriously
Authors: Woodard Christopher 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Utilitarianism is in the ascendancy in many parts of public culture, but its stock among moral and political philosophers is low. Many philosophers believe that it is a dead end, since they believe that the objections to it are overwhelming. This book seeks to contribute to a renewal of philosophical interest in utilitarianism by arguing that the objections usually thought to defeat it do not do so. It presents a novel form of utilitarianism based on a novel account of normative reasons for action. It argues that utilitarians can explain much of the complexity of our ethical and political thought. For example, they can account for moral rights, justice, the importance of equality, the significance of legitimacy and democracy, and the nature of virtue. Adopting a more complex form of utilitarianism enables plausible replies to the most common objections. Utilitarianism need not be too demanding, nor countenance abhorrent actions. It does not ignore the separateness of persons, nor the distinctiveness of political issues. It can also give a philosophically attractive account of the characteristics of virtuous agents. It is capable of doing justice to much more of our ethical and political thought than its critics realize.
Rights’ Elusive Relation to Interests
Authors: Cruft Rowan 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Chapter 2 examines the relation between rights, interests, and desires, focusing on Raz’s and Kramer’s differing Interest Theories and Wenar’s recent Kind-Desire Theory. It argues that none of the theories respect our ability to create rights wherever we wish through law or promising, independently of the interests and desires of the right-holder. It argues nonetheless that Raz’s theory succeeds as a sufficient condition on right-holding, while Kramer’s and Wenar’s distinct theories come very close as necessary conditions. The chapter argues that it is easy to overlook the limitations of the theories because every right creates a circular ‘status desire’ or ‘status interest’ in its own fulfilment, borne by the right-holder in virtue of her status as holding a right.
Rights’ Relation to the First and Second Person
Authors: Cruft Rowan 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Chapter 4 develops a new account of what it is to be owed a duty. There are two parts to the analysis. The first part says that it is distinctive of a duty owed to a capable party (an adult, young person, corporation as opposed to, e.g. a baby or a rabbit) that that party is required to conceive the action the duty enjoins in first-personal terms as to be ‘done to me’. The second part says that it is distinctive of a duty owed to any party whatsoever (including ‘incapable’ parties such as babies or rabbits) that the duty-bearer is required to conceive the action the duty enjoins in second-personal terms as to be ‘done to an addressable party, a being conceivable as “you”’. These requirements need not be met for the duty to exist, for it to be fulfilled by its bearer, or for it to have a direction—but their obtaining as requirements is definitive of its being owed to someone. The chapter shows how this distinguishes demanding on one’s own behalf as owed a duty from demanding on behalf of another or in relation to an undirected duty.
From Directed Duties to Rights
Authors: Cruft Rowan 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Chapter 6 explains how the foregoing chapters—with their focus on the analysis of directed duties—generate an analysis of Hohfeldian claim-rights, and how this analysis relates to the other forms of rights within Hohfeld’s taxonomy: privileges, powers, and immunities. The idea that claim-rights are enforceable directed duties is criticized, and the conceptual primacy of directed duties is explained. The chapter ends with a summary of the position developed through Chapters 2–6, which together constitute Part I of the book: the conceptual part arguing that rights are fundamentally ‘Addressive’ duties.
Enquiries Concerning the Minds of Others
Authors: Parrott Matthew 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
This chapter serves as substantive introduction to the topic of this volume. More specifically, it discusses three central problems relating to our everyday knowledge of other minds. The first is an epistemological problem concerning whether we are capable of knowing anything at all about the mental states of others and, if we are, how we are able to do this. The second is a conceptual problem, concerning our ability to have concepts of mental states that are applicable both to oneself and to others in a way that preserves unity of meaning. As we will see, this conceptual problem arises if we think that a subject typically acquires mental state concepts on the basis of her own experiences. The third problem is explanatory, and it concerns the psychological processes and mechanisms that underpin our ordinary attributions of mental states to others. These three problems are not only central to existing philosophical discussions of our knowledge of other minds, but they are also the primary questions addressed in this volume. As well as outlining the questions, this chapter serves as an introduction to the way in which each of the subsequent chapters chooses to address one or another of them. The chapter concludes with a proposal for how we might consider the answers to each of these problems as related to the others.
Hubal
Authors: Furani Khaled 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Heuristically evoking Hubal, an ancient Arabian god of the moon, the unknown, and divination, this chapter employs idolatry, a central category of critique from monotheistic theology, to explore ways in which anthropology falls prey to disorientations, conflations, and unwarranted concessions in its study of multiplicity. Concerned with a particular form of idolatry whereby the finite is taken for the infinite, entailing confusion about ends worthy of a life’s devotion, this chapter examines how “culture” and its cognates function as idols in anthropodom. It argues that by conceding to secular state power, and ultimately to principles of sovereignty, anthropology becomes complicit in a wider idolatry that unnecessarily limits its very capacities of reason.