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Democratic Republic of Congo Music
Authors: Trapido Joe 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This chapter looks at some aspects of the music industry in the popular music of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It argues that music exemplified, and on occasion led, political-economic trends in an economy in which the formal sector almost entirely disappeared, and in which gross domestic product contracted every year from 1975 until the early 2000s. In the middle of this political-economic turmoil, the DRC remained a center of cultural production. The capital Kinshasa in particular was a vector for new styles, and Congolese popular music was for some time the most widely listened to music on the African continent and remains important. During the 1980s and 1990s, with piracy and economic contraction in full swing, the record industry saw a very dramatic decline in official music sales as well as a decline in “professional” producers and the familiar infrastructure of production and distribution of a “music industry.” But while there was a drastic contraction in the production of tangible units for the market, in other ways, it is not entirely clear that the industry “shrunk,” or even what this might mean in this context where the economic transformation was such that what “the economy” itself meant shifted radically. This chapter describes this transformation, drawing on a wider contextual understanding of the political economy of the DRC. Notable among these changes is the rise of a form of patronage known as mabanga (lit. “stones”). From the 1980s, such patronage payments became the most significant source of income to most musicians.
Adorno and Post-Colonial Critique
Authors: Sonderegger Ruth 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
After a brief discussion of the seemingly rival concepts of post-colonial and decolonial critique, this chapter first engages with approaches that make Adorno productive for post-colonial as well as decolonial critique. In the next section, the chapter discusses immanent critiques of Adorno (i.e., forms of critique) that acknowledge Adorno’s fine sensorium for some kinds of racism but, nevertheless, appears to be deaf to colonial variants of racism, nationalism, and imperialism. Moreover, the theorists that are discussed in the second part claim that Adorno’s neglect of colonialism also affects the rather convincing elements of his theory. Based on such critique, the chapter will then focus on Adorno’s questionably racist account of autonomy in art and beyond. It will do so, however, in conversations with theorists who work with Adorno to devise lines of flight that lead beyond the impasses of Adornian autonomy. In conclusion, the chapter contends that it is only in some respects that Adorno can become an ally of decolonial thinking. Regarding other respects, however, he refused to listen and learn and, therefore, he remained deaf to decolonial alternatives to his seemingly relentless critique of Enlightenment (autonomy).
Adorno, Nāgārjuna, and the Logic of Negativity
Authors: Nelson Eric S. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This chapter examines the logic of contradiction, negation, and negativity in relation to non-identity in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and emptiness in Nāgārjuna’s Root Verses of the Middle Way. The heterogeneous non-identity of Adorno and the emptying emptiness (śūnyatā) of Nāgārjuna suggest radical alternatives to conventional, dialectical, and dialetheist conceptions of logic. Their respective strategies contest positive assertions about self-identity by unfixing and undoing what is posited and fixated as a standpoint, perspective, or view. Non-identity in mediation and emptiness in dependent origination indicate constellations of problems. Non-identity and “emptied emptiness” do not thereby aim at a new affirmation, even if it is purified or realized through negativity in dialectical sublation or conceived as the affirmation of both sides of a contradiction. These two works express disintegrative and therapeutic critical models and skillful means that have a critical, diagnostic, and potentially curative function in response to the conditions and circumstances of the sufferer (the Buddhist dharma) or contemporary capitalist society (critical social theory).
Bones Matter
Authors: Gil García Francisco M. 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
According to Andean oral traditions, the chullpas lived in a time before the appearance of the sun. The archaeological ruins, and the mummies and other human remains that appear in them, serve to construct the humanized representation of those who are really nonhuman people. For today’s Indigenous people, the chullpas and their world were similar to but different from their own so that, with a few exceptions in Bolivia and northern Chile, the communities do not feel that they are heirs to the nonhumanity of the mytho-historical past. However, the chullpas are also entities of the underworld, which can cause harm and illness to those who do not respect the spaces they inhabit or the material evidence of their existence. In this way, rules of social and moral conduct and of specific relationship with the remains of the past are generated. In this sense, in the ways of relating to these nonhuman people, the construction of the body and the person (both chullpas and present-day Andean peoples) converge. Thus, this chapter proposes an ontology of the inhabitants of the past through the connection between the immaterial dimension of orality and the material dimension of the archaeological record, an ontological exercise in which bones matter.
Russian Metafiction and Global Realisms
Authors: Vaysman Margarita 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Metafiction, also known as self-conscious fiction, is a narrative technique that forces readers to be aware that they are reading a work of fiction. From early critical approaches to metanarrative in literature to more recent enquiries into meta-descriptive strategies in historiography, metafiction has enjoyed significant critical attention. First fully conceptually explored in landmark studies by theorists in the 1980s, it was initially considered to be an almost exclusively twentieth-century and specifically postmodernist phenomenon. As the theory has developed, the geographical and chronological scope of the texts it aimed to describe has expanded, prompting a series of questions about metafiction’s hidden pasts and locations. In Russia, metafiction flourished not only, predictably, in the 1990s (roughly in step with the late stage of literary postmodernist writing in anglophone fiction) but also in the middle of the nineteenth century, during the period associated with the rise of the realist novel. It was exactly this focus on realist poetics—and its supposed incompatibility with metafictional narratives—that caused previous historical accounts of metafiction as a global phenomenon to skip over the nineteenth-century Russian realist novel. This chapter focuses on metafiction’s complex correlation with the Russian realist tradition, as a part of the larger global history of narratives that can be considered metafictional and realist at the same time. It charts the global rise of theories of metafiction from the 1980s to this day and applies these theoretical insights to review the timeline of the development of the Russian realist novel.
Theorizing Global Realism from Lukács to Climate Crisis Literature
Authors: De Loughry Treasa 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This chapter discusses György Lukács’s theory of realism and puts it in dialogue with contemporary literary theories of crisis, climate change, and global literatures. It initially explores Lukács’s concepts of realism, totality, and standpoint, before examining how these have become important to postcolonial and world-literary scholarship concerned with “peripheral” realisms, discussing how this has been articulated in relation to global literature. Realism is then examined as an apt mode capable of grappling with the current era of compound or “poly” crises, given its commitment to highlighting various kinds of inequality across the Global South, and cathecting solidarity from below, at a time of accelerating climate crisis. The chapter then applies a Lukácsian-informed definition of realism to short stories by Tahmima Anam, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, and Yasmine El Rashidi from John Freeman’s collection, Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World (2020). Focusing on the short story is a corrective, this chapter argues, to the dominant focus in theories of realism on the novel. It also highlights how short stories can, given their registration of peripherality through attention to underrepresented regions, characters, and condensation of historical tendencies as fragments, articulate some of the subversive and critical potential of realism at an emergent moment of climate crisis.
Authoritarian Bureaucracy
Authors: Szakonyi David 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Autocrats do not rule alone. Leaders depend particularly on state bureaucracies to carry out their preferred policies, provide public goods, maintain social order, and organize repression and propaganda. Yet autocratic regimes often lack many key mechanisms, such as a strong civil society, independent media, and regular elections, that help leaders resolve principal–agent problems in bureaucracies. This chapter analyzes the structure and incentives at play in autocratic bureaucracies. Although early literature emphasized a trade-off between loyalty and competence, more recent work has shown that autocrats can at times prioritize meritocracy in bureaucratic systems, in particular for positions not seen as posing a significant threat to their hold on power. Moreover, lacking institutions that provide accountability from below means that autocratic bureaucracies may rely instead more on indoctrination, rotation, and digitalization, to monitor and ensure compliance among subordinates. The chapter concludes with a discussion of unanswered questions surrounding how these bureaucracies work as well as avenues for future research.
Authoritarian Regimes in the Global Economy
Authors: Heathershaw John , Pitcher Anne , Soares de Oliveira Ricardo 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Scholars have argued that a more open international economy would encourage authoritarian regimes to liberalize politically to build better relationships with more democratic trade and investment partners. Yet, thirty years after many previously closed economies across Europe, Asia, and Africa embraced free trade and foreign investment, authoritarian regimes—particularly those with institutionalized party systems and access to resources—seem to be thriving. This chapter explores the ways in which formal and informal changes in the international economy have catered to the economic demands of authoritarian regimes. It shows that autocratic leaders receive financial, technological, and reputational resources through their international linkages, which they redeploy domestically to coopt supporters and repress opponents. This chapter also examines the professional enablers that assist autocrats in the conduct of transnational business. The chapter concludes with a discussion on how best to study practices which are, at times, opaque and secretive.
Fair Trial, Fair Judge
Authors: Quattrocolo Serena 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This chapter aims to identify the major risks to fair criminal trial from the interference of digital tools and, more specifically, from AI applications. In fact, it is necessary to understand the values which are at stake in order to determine how legal orders should react. Actually, the focus is, not only on the crucial principle of the ‘equality of arms’, which has already been addressed, in the literature, as potentially endangered by the massive digital turn. This chapter tries to go deeper, reflecting also on the basic concepts of the jurisdiction, such as the ‘right to access to a judge’ and the notion of ‘judge’ itself, to confront them with an evolution that the future situation may imply. A neutral approach is crucial in performing such a task, as biases may either lead to the underestimation of serious risks to fundamental rights or to overprotection against digital solutions, which may, instead, present potential benefits to tackle the persistent problems of criminal justice such as a backlog of cases, long and unreasonable lengths of proceedings, and the inconsistency and unpredictability of decisions.
Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
Authors: Post Anna-Luna 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Historical scholarship has long highlighted the extensive landscape interventions initiated by state agents, early capitalists and experts in the early modern period, and pointed to the fierce, often violent resistance they evoked from local and rural communities. Such an approach risks narrowly aligning expertise with intervention in the service of states or capitalist elites and positioning experts in direct opposition to people. This article uses the history of land reclamation in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, usually told as a harmonious success story of premodern human intervention in nature, to explore the nature and politics of expertise and environmental thought as different elites clashed. Focusing on the proposed but not executed drainage of the Haarlemmermeer, it demonstrates how experts came to act as agents of resistance who argued for conservation and caution rather than intervention, and shows we can use expert exchanges to gain better insight into the divisive nature of environmental thought in the early modern period.
CELL DIVISION CYCLE 5 controls floral transition by regulating flowering gene transcription and splicing in Arabidopsis
Authors: Xin Xin , Ye Linhan , Zhai Tingting , Wang Shu , Pan Yunjiao , Qu Ke , Gu Mengjie , Wang Yanjiao , Zhang Jiedao , Li Xiang , Yang Wei , Zhang Shuxin 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
CELL DIVISION CYCLE 5 (CDC5) is a R2R3-type MYB transcription factor, serving as a key component of modifier of snc1, 4-associated complex/NineTeen complex, which is associated with plant immunity, RNA splicing, and miRNA biogenesis. In this study, we demonstrate that mutation of CDC5 accelerates flowering in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). CDC5 activates the expression of FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) by binding to and affecting the enrichment of RNA polymerase II on FLC chromatin. Moreover, genetic analysis confirmed that CDC5 regulates flowering in an FLC-dependent manner. Furthermore, we characterized the interaction of CDC5 with the RNA polymerase-associated factor 1 (Paf1) complex and confirmed that CDC5, as part of the spliceosome, mediates genome-wide alternative splicing, as revealed by RNA-seq. CDC5 affected the splicing of flowering-associated genes such as FLC, SEF, and MAFs. Additionally, we also demonstrated that CDC5 contributes to the regulation of histone modification of FLC chromatin, which further promotes FLC expression. In summary, our results establish CDC5 as a key factor regulating flowering. This provides valuable insight for future research into plant flowering.
Cyclic and pseudo-cyclic electron pathways play antagonistic roles during nitrogen deficiency in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Authors: Dao Ousmane , Burlacot Adrien , Buchert Felix , Bertrand Marie , Auroy Pascaline , Stoffel Carolyne , Madireddi Sai Kiran , Irby Jacob , Hippler Michael , Peltier Gilles , Li-Beisson Yonghua 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Nitrogen (N) scarcity frequently constrains global biomass productivity. N deficiency halts cell division, downregulates photosynthetic electron transfer (PET), and enhances carbon storage. However, the molecular mechanism downregulating photosynthesis during N deficiency and its relationship with carbon storage are not fully understood. Proton gradient regulator-like 1 (PGRL1) controlling cyclic electron flow (CEF) and flavodiiron proteins (FLV) involved in pseudo-CEF (PCEF) are major players in the acclimation of photosynthesis. To determine the role of PGRL1 or FLV in photosynthesis under N deficiency, we measured PET, oxygen gas exchange, and carbon storage in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii pgrl1 and flvB knockout mutants. Under N deficiency, pgrl1 maintained higher net photosynthesis and O2 photoreduction rates and higher levels of cytochrome b6f and PSI compared with the control and flvB. The photosynthetic activity of flvB and pgrl1 flvB double mutants decreased in response to N deficiency, similar to the control strains. Furthermore, the preservation of photosynthetic activity in pgrl1 was accompanied by an increased accumulation of triacylglycerol in certain genetic backgrounds but not all, highlighting the importance of gene–environment interaction in determining traits such as oil content. Our results suggest that in the absence of PGRL1-controlled CEF, FLV-mediated PCEF maintains net photosynthesis at a high level and that CEF and PCEF play antagonistic roles during N deficiency. This study further illustrate how a strain's nutrient status and genetic makeup can affect the regulation of photosynthetic energy conversion in relation to carbon storage and provide additional strategies for improving lipid productivity in algae.
Accuracy prompts protect professional content moderators from the illusory truth effect
Authors: Lin Hause , Savio Marlyn Thomas , Huang Xieyining , Steiger Miriah , Guevara Rachel L , Szostak Dali , Pennycook Gordon , Rand David G 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
Content moderators review problematic content for technology companies. One concern is that repeated exposure to false claims could cause moderators to come to believe the very claims they are supposed to moderate, via the “illusory truth effect.” In a first lab-in-field experiment (N = 199) with a global content moderation company, we found that exposure to false claims while working as moderators increased subsequent belief among (mostly Indian and Philippine) employees by 7.1%. We tested an intervention to mitigate this effect: inducing an accuracy mindset. In both general population samples (NIndia = 997; NPhilippines = 1,184) and a second lab-in-field experiment with professional moderators (N = 239), inducing participants to consider accuracy when first exposed to the claims eliminates the negative effects of exposure on belief in falsehoods. Our results show that the illusory truth effect and the protective power of an accuracy mindset generalize to non-Western populations and professional moderators.
Exploring cultures of evidence in energy policymaking in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands
Authors: McDowall Will 
Published: November 2024

Abstract
This paper explores different “cultures of evidence” in energy policymaking in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. The urgent energy system transformation needed to respond to the climate crisis depends on policies informed by technical and engineering expertise, and particularly energy modeling. Such expertise had traditionally been poorly represented in the energy ministries of the Dutch, German, and UK governments. There is limited understanding of how policy advisory systems have evolved to respond to these emerging evidence needs. This paper presents a framework for describing how cultures of evidence differ, and applies this to a comparative study of energy policymaking in the UK, Netherlands, and Germany. I show clear differences in how evidence is understood and used. The Dutch and German governments have sought technical and modeling evidence from consultants or independent agencies. In doing so, the Dutch and German ministries appear to place stronger value on the “independence” of such evidence, while the UK system builds credibility through adherence to formal procedures. A second clear difference in the cultures of evidence relates to different beliefs about the extent to which expert knowledge can be impartial and value-free. The cases suggest that different cultures of evidence have coevolved with each country’s institutional history and shaped the energy policy advisory system.
An Axiomatic Theory Of Normed Modules Via Riesz Spaces
Authors: Lučić Danka , Pasqualetto Enrico 
Published: November 2024

ABSTRACT
We introduce and study an axiomatic theory of V-normed U-modules, where V is a Riesz space and U is an f-algebra; the spaces U and V also have some additional structure and are required to satisfy a compatibility condition. Roughly speaking, a V-normed U-module is a module over U that is endowed with a pointwise norm operator taking values in V. The aim of our approach is to develop a unified framework, which is tailored to the differential calculus on metric measure spaces, where U and V can take many different spaces of functions.
Trained mesenchymal stromal cell-based therapy HXB-319 for treating diffuse alveolar hemorrhage in a pristane-induced murine model
Authors: Bukulmez Hulya , Dennis Adrienne T , Reese-Koc Jane , Sieg Scott F , Clagett Brian , Kleinsorge-Block Sarah , Somoza-Palacios Rodrigo , Singer Nora , Chance Mark , Highland Kristin B , Emancipator Steven N 
Published: November 2024

Abstract

Introduction
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) can modulate immune responses and suppress inflammation in autoimmune diseases. Although their safety has been established in clinical trials, the efficacy of MSCs is inconsistent due to variability in potency among different preparations and limited specificity in targeting mechanisms driving autoimmune diseases.

Methods
We utilized high-dimensional design of experiments methodology to identify factor combinations that modulate gene expression by MSCs to mitigate inflammation. This led to a novel MSC-based cell therapy, HXB-319. Its anti-inflammatory properties were validated in vitro by flow cytometry, RT-PCR, and mass spectrophotometry. To evaluate in vivo efficacy, we treated a diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) mouse model (C57Bl/6). Seven days post-DAH induction with pristane, mice received either MSCs or HXB-319 (2X106 cells, IP). On day 14, peritoneal lavage fluid (PLF) and lung tissue were collected for flow cytometry, histopathological examination, and mRNA.

Results
HXB-319 increased gene expression levels of anti-inflammatory, angiogenic, and anti-fibrotic factors (eg, TSG-6, VEGF, and HGF). KEGG pathway analysis confirmed significant activation of relevant anti-inflammatory, angiogenic, and anti-fibrotic proteins, corroborating RT-PCR results. In the DAH model, HXB-319 significantly reduced lung inflammation and alveolar hemorrhage compared to MSC-treated and untreated DAH mice. HXB-319 treatment also significantly decreased neutrophils, plasmacytoid dendritic cells, and RORγT cells, increased FoxP3+ cells in PLF, and reversed alterations in mRNA encoding IL-6, IL-10, and TSG-6 in lung tissue compared to DAH mice.

Conclusion
HXB-319 effectively controls inflammation and prevents tissue damage in pristine-induced DAH, highlighting its therapeutic potential for autoimmune inflammatory diseases.