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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play
Authors: Nicosia Marissa 
Published: October 2023

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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590–1660 argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays—plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when the playhouses were closed during the civil wars—in order to examine the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past. Through close readings of William Shakespeare’s 1&2 Henry IV, Richard III, Shakespeare and John Fletcher’s All is True, Samuel Rowley’s When You See Me, You Know Me, John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck, and the anonymous play pamphlets The Leveller’s Levelled, 1 & 2 Craftie Cromwell, Charles I, and Cromwell’s Conspiracy, this book shows that imaginative treatments of history in plays that we would normally associate with the past also had purchase on the future. While of course plays about the nation’s past retell history, these plays are not restricted by their subject matter to merely document what happened: Playwrights projected possible futures in their accounts of verifiable historical events.
The Sentient Cell
Authors: Reber Arthur S. , Baluska Frantisek , Miller William 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This volume is the natural follow-up to Arthur Reber’s 2019 book, The First Minds: Caterpillars, ‘Karyotes, and Consciousness (TFM). In that earlier work, the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC) theory was developed based on a number of earlier efforts published in a variety of journals between 1997 and 2019 as well as in talks, colloquia, and presentations at conferences. The core proposition in TFM was that life and mind are co-terminous. All organisms, all species extant and extinct, are sentient. All have an existentially secure consciousness—without which they would have been evolutionary dead-ends, unable to survive in the chaotic, dangerous environment in which life first appeared. And, importantly, all forms of sentience, all forms of cognitive functioning right up to and including those expressed by humans, evolved from the original expression of consciousness at the birth of life in prokaryotes. The proposition that all life forms evolved from those first unicellular species is a widely accepted, foundational principle of the biological and social sciences. The CBC simply applies that same proposition to sentience.
Animal Behavior, Cognition, and Human–Wildlife Interactions in Urban Areas
Authors: Stanton Lauren A. , Wilkinson Christine E. , Angeloni Lisa , Benson-Amram Sarah , Schell Christopher J. , Young Julie K. 
Published: October 2023

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Behavioral change is frequently identified as quintessential in facilitating urban living, yet simultaneously linked to human–wildlife conflict. Changes to behaviors (e.g., boldness, movement, dietary flexibility), cognition, and learning can be near-instantaneous, enabling urban animals to effectively deal with novel environmental stressors. However, behavioral innovations that increase the likelihood of human–wildlife conflict potentially jeopardize fitness gains. Moreover, some species in urban areas are behaviorally inflexible or intolerant of humans, presenting a different set of challenges to conserving such species in cities. This work explains how the principles of conservation behavior and cognition present a multifaceted toolkit for bolstering urban biodiversity while minimizing the detrimental impacts of human–wildlife conflict. Management and conservation strategies will also vary according to the perceived threat and valuation of certain wildlife species. As such, this work additionally explores how social and urban heterogeneity coalesce to influence the spatial and temporal nature of human–wildlife interactions in cities. Tolerance of certain wildlife species by people creates invisible “human shields,” in which species perceived as benign (e.g., eastern grey squirrels or eastern cottontail) in turn demonstrate increased human tolerance relative to those considered high threat (e.g., mountain lions, coyotes). The combination of participatory surveys and conservation behavior allows us to build models that predict and prevent impending conflicts based on: (1) how various wildlife utilize urban space in human-dominated environments; and (2) how human residents vary in their perceptions of those wildlife.
Developing a Toolbox for Urban Biodiversity Conservation
Authors: Spotswood Erica , Lambert Max R. , Pang Selena , Young Jonathan , Stringer Lewis 
Published: October 2023

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Cities and suburbs are functioning ecosystems, but they are unique in their processes and structure. Urban biodiversity conservation in some cases can rely on tools and frameworks from conservation in nonurban areas. But because cities are unique, there is a need to modify, innovate, or invent approaches for urban conservation. This work begins to outline a toolbox for urban biodiversity conservation that draws on classic tools and which provides new approaches to managing species in cities. Such tools are not restricted to biophysical approaches but also leverage the value of urban infrastructure and alternative forms of financing and planning. This work illustrates the use of these tools and approaches with diverse case studies, particularly from the San Francisco Bay Area. Refining this toolkit can ensure that urban biodiversity conservation can advance social equity goals and broader regional and global conservation efforts.
COULD IT SIMPLY BE?
Authors: Steane Andrew 
Published: October 2023

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It is asked whether the physical world could simply be, with no underlying cause, or what it means to ask a question like that. Then the difference between contingent and non-contingent is discussed. Theorems in mathematics can be non-contingent in the sense that they could not be otherwise. By contrast, many aspects of the physical world could be otherwise. And it appears that the universe does not exist out of logical necessity. But values can be non-contingent because one cannot conceive of it being otherwise. For example, there is no possible world where bitterness and revenge are better than kindness and generosity. Such reflections lead us to the edge of issues about the nature of reality which we cannot be certain of, but which challenge us deeply, calling upon us as whole people.
STEPPING OUT
Authors: Steane Andrew 
Published: October 2023

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An attempt at a balanced and well-reasoned ‘reading’ of evolution is presented. Such a reading enables us to step into the role and the freedom (within boundaries) which is our inheritance. The chapter briefly restates the non-random and non-simple character of evolution, and then discusses what it can say about moral and aesthetic judgement in humans. It is not logical to claim that natural processes (such as variation and natural selection) imply that moral values arrived at in human culture are not objective. One can use mathematics to illustrate this. Mathematical logic is neither a cultural artefact nor a reproductive strategy; it is rather a set of patterns which we can discern if we have the requisite mental apparatus. A similar claim can be maintained about ethics and moral value: we perceive them because we have been furnished, via evolution, with the requisite mental and spiritual capacity.
FROM SONAR RESEARCH TO THE DISCOVERY OF SHARP ELECTRIC RESONANCE
Authors: Katzir Shaul 
Published: October 2023

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The invention of the piezoelectric sonar led to large-scale research and development efforts by allied scientists and engineers. To reach their practical goal, their work included both research into phenomena deemed relevant to the design of better devices, and development of the technology itself. The combination made it possible to develop practical sonar systems by the end of World War I. Sonar also required research into hitherto unexamined states like that of crystals under high-frequency oscillations, which led to peculiar observations. With the war’s end, physicist Walter Cady felt relieved from the obligations of sonar research (utilitarian regime), and began studying peculiar results that he had observed earlier but had not pursued since they were irrelevant to ultrasonics. His research notebooks show how he discovered within a few weeks the unforeseen phenomenon of piezoelectric resonance, which would reshape the study and the technological application of piezoelectricity.
DEVELOPMENT OF QUARTZ CLOCK TECHNICS OUTSIDE AT&T
Authors: Katzir Shaul 
Published: October 2023

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The quartz clock originated out of research conducted to meet the needs of telecommunication and the interests of its users. Its construction required that methods be invented for accurately dividing known high-frequency electric oscillations. This chapter examines how, in 1927, seven groups, in the USA, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan, created such a method almost simultaneously. National laboratories needed to connect ‘standard’ frequency measurement units to a clock to ensure its accuracy. Other groups needed to measure, control, and manipulate with frequencies for other aims that originated in the interests of the industrial, government, and academic institutes to which they belonged. Suggesting diverse solutions, they all relied on a shared vibrant field of radio-electronics and methods of crystal frequency control. By comparing their works, the chapter examines their incentives, the technological and scientific resources they utilized, and the kind of research carried out in the various institutional settings.
The Great Celestial Cover-Up
Authors: Littmann Mark , Espenak Fred 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter explores the nuances of a total eclipse of the Sun. It starts with the simple definition of the eclipse wherein the Moon blocks the Sun from view. However, the eclipse holds more stories to tell with its dark shadows, oblong orbits, tilts, danger zones, and amazing coincidences. Moreover, the Moon's elliptical orbit around the Earth affects the total eclipses of the Sun. The chapter also elaborates on the concept of nodes, referring to the Moon's tilted orbit crossing the plane of the Earth’s orbit at two places. It discusses the discovery of the saros and other eclipse cycles that allowed the prediction of future eclipses.
Observing a Total Eclipse
Authors: Littmann Mark , Espenak Fred 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter considers the experience of observing a total eclipse. It highlights how special the first contact with a total eclipse is by referencing the narrative of astronomer Jay Pasachofft. The partial phase of a total eclipse has a power all its own, as the Moon steadily encroaches upon the Sun, covering more and more of its face. Every eclipse veteran urges newcomers to pause as totality approaches to look around at the landscape and notice the changes in light levels and color. The chapter also details how colors and temperature change minutes and shadow bands before the event of totality. It clarifies that a totality can never last longer than 7 minutes 32 seconds.
The Strange Behavior of Man and Beast—Modern Times
Authors: Littmann Mark , Espenak Fred 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter covers the behavior of people and animals during the eclipse amidst modern times. It explores different animal responses to nightfall amid the day, such as crickets singing or livestock going to sleep. Meanwhile, lunar and solar eclipses caused desperate fear and bizarre behaviour in humans in ancient times. The chapter mentions how superstitions about eclipses seldom result in tragedy, most of which are either colorful or humorous. It elaborates on how total eclipses bring out strong emotions in both animals and humans, especially when people’s behavior during a total eclipse is out of the ordinary even if it was understandable.
Coming Back to America—The Total Eclipse of 2024
Authors: Littmann Mark , Espenak Fred 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter explains the expected total eclipse in the United States in 2024. It details the path and duration of the total solar eclipse across the American region. The totality of the 2024 eclipse first touches Earth south of the equator about halfway between Australia and Mexico. Moreover, the 2024 eclipse is expected to last for more than four minutes above Texas. The final landfall of the 2024 eclipse is Newfoundland as it moves across the island for around three minutes before traversing faster eastward across the Atlantic to fall off the edge of the Earth at sundown before it can reach Europe.
Conclusion
Authors: Obert Julia C. 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter summarizes some of the preceding arguments, focusing on the question “why study cities?” and noting the importance of translocal analysis. The chapter then takes on an ecological focus, noting that although people clearly suffer deeply in the grip of colonial power, the land itself is also stifled by violent assertions of imperial and neo-imperial will. And while an individual can subversively claim a street corner for informal labor or paint a liberation slogan on a colonial monument, it is far more difficult to combat the devastating droughts or rising tides of climate change—environmental catastrophes that are already disproportionately affecting the urban poor. The chapter looks briefly at significant ecological problems, and at some local efforts to address these problems, in each of the four cities under study. It concludes with a reminder that the book’s argument is anti-imperialist in the broadest sense: it highlights the deleterious effects of direct conquest, of cultural and economic neo-imperialism, and of anthropocentrism’s colonizing vantage on the “vibrant matter” (Bennett 1) that surrounds us, and it examines the intimate interconnections between these forms of violence—and between the animal, vegetable, and mineral acts of insubordination that resist them.
The Uncommon through the Common
Authors: Rao D. Venkat 
Published: October 2023

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Indian traditions preferred the communicational modes of speech and gesture in generating and disseminating their cultural memories; divergent cultural communities spread these cultural forms across time and space. The Ramayanas live on in performing traditions in the cultures of memory of the subcontinent. Performing traditions are composed of visual and verbal cultural media and put the body to work in articulating cultural memories. The efficacy of mnemocultural forms cannot be measured by the textualist strategies institutionalized in the colonial epoch; these strategies derive from inscriptional technologies and invest in fortifying external retentional systems of memory; in contrast, mnemocultures generate lively archives—embodied repositories of memory enlivened in performances. The encounter between the mnemocultural and inscriptional cultural technologies skewed the receptive responses to cultural memories of India. Textualist technologies dominate intellectual reflection through the universities today and determine the understanding of Indian cultural forms and practices. Therefore, there is a need to explore different ways of reflecting on these lively traditions beyond the inscriptional frames of European interpretations. While focusing on some of the verbal (song, musical-poem, pravachana, parayana) and visual (dance-drama, plastic-iconic, film and television) cultural forms in which the Ramayana disseminated itself, this chapter inquires into the ends envisaged in the itihasic, puranic, kavya, and natya cultural mediations. In the process, the chapter configures the mnemocultural force that enlivens the Ramayanas of India.
What Bahena Saw
Authors: Wakankar Milind 
Published: October 2023

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In drawing a link between Kashmir Shaiva thought (tenth–twelfth century ce) and the poetry of the seventeenth-century Marathi Bhakti poet Bahena, the paper juxtaposes subject formation and power, not in the language of social science but that of religion. Moving between Bahena and the later Hegel, the paper’s comparatism operates not in the domain of cultural difference (Indian versus Western) but at the level of the internal movement of ‘the concept’ itself, the point at which freedom, negativity, and the will cohere. Finally, it is a matter of what is integral in Bahena’s ‘sadhana-penance’; here the force of Shiva helps her relocate her ‘I’ in the eternal ‘being-there’ of the south-western Indian deity Vitthala-Krishna. A new kind of will is born here, but in the ‘unfree’ conditions of self-surrender.
Othering the Same
Authors: George Siby K. 
Published: October 2023

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The attempt to ethicize and politicize advaita vedānta in the twentieth century had to contend with the criticism that its difference-blind obsession with self-love is an obstruction to conceptualize concrete ethical relations with the Other. In contrast, for contemporary philosophy of alterity, being a self involves exposure to otherness rather than self-coinciding immediacy of identity. In this regard, the advaitic tropes motivating the writings and reformist activities of the twentieth-century poet-reformer Nārāyaṇa Guru can be interpreted in relation to the philosophy of the Other as a form of ‘self-othering’ for two reasons. First, the Self that he is concerned with is other than the Other, or non-dual awareness of moral-ontological connectedness of all beings. Second, in matters of social action, he manifests a distinctive manner of de-emphasizing the self, welcoming and identifying with the Other, and correcting oppressive social practices through peaceful and dialogical encounters without resorting to hostile confrontation.
Beyond Binaries Sreenarayana and the Political
Authors: Raj Dileep 
Published: October 2023

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This article is an attempt to explore a couple of apparent paradoxes in connection with Sreenarayana Guru and his life and works. Karuna or compassion encapsulates the essence of Guru’s politics and life. One cannot teach others to be compassionate. Compassion erupts into existence when one acts compassionately. The chief interest in this exploration is to see how political action is possible without assuming a pre-formed political subject. It also tries to imagine the ways in which the politics of compassion might be reinvented in contemporary times without assuming the existence of Guru-like persons. Though Guru was instrumental in the making of Modern Kerala, his own self-understanding acknowledged no doer behind the deeds. Thus, the very modern habit of ascribing agency to Guru (when thinking, for instance, of renaissance or modernity) becomes problematic. By examining these paradoxes, I wish to further problematize Guru’s allegiance to Advaita. It is argued that his critique of caste was based less on philosophical doctrines than ontological alertness.
Women and Irony in Molière's Comedies of Marriage
Authors: Lyons John D. 
Published: October 2023

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This is a book about how Molière, France’s most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière’s key moves was to pay attention to the way women could use language. Seventeenth-century France was a time when speaking well became exceptionally important. And in this arena women were the trend-setters. Among the most important places to display taste and social skills were the salons, gatherings presided over by women. Yet women still enjoyed little in the way of rights, particularly regarding a central decision in their lives: the choice of a husband. French regulations of marriage contracts became increasingly restrictive, largely to the detriment of women. To draw attention to their plight, women novelists and essayists presented case studies in how men and women misunderstood one another, how women were coerced to wed, how marriages could become nightmares, and how courtships could fail. Against this fraught social background Molière showed women using one of the few assets they had, their mastery of words, and in particular the rhetoric of irony, to frustrate the plans of fathers, guardians, and other authority figures. The comedies discussed here include very well-known plays such as The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Learned Ladies, The School for Wives, and Don Juan, and also less known but revealing and thought-provoking works such as The School for Husbands, George Dandin, and Monsieur de Pourceaugnac.
Introduction
Authors: Lyons John D. 
Published: October 2023

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The two major themes of this book are: first, women’s revolt against restrictions on their right to choose a spouse in seventeenth-century France; second, Molière’s choice of dramatic and verbal irony as a way of representing this struggle by women characters in his major comedies. The introduction first provides historical context about the French state’s increasingly restrictions on spousal choice as the background against which Molière’s comedies appear as timely social critique. And a second part of the introduction describes the forms of irony—verbal, situational, and dramatic—that appear in the eleven comedies discussed in the following chapters. Although these forms of irony can usefully be distinguished, they all depend on context, and this study offers these theoretical and historical considerations only as preparation for the close reading of the comedies.
L’École des femmes
Authors: Lyons John D. 
Published: October 2023

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As in the earlier School for Husbands, in the School for Wives a man hopes to marry a girl who has been his ward since infancy. Convinced that intelligent women often are unfaithful to their husbands, the male protagonist devises an educational plan to reduce his ward to a state of idiocy. His remarks clearly indicate an attack on real advances in women’s literacy in Molière’s day, specifically in the contemporary salons presided over by women. His ward falls in love with a young man and devises a way to write and transmit a love note right in front of her guardian.
Les Femmes savantes
Authors: Lyons John D. 
Published: October 2023

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This is the first of four chapters concerning women’s struggles to marry. This theme is treated in the previous chapters on the ‘school’ comedies (The School for Husbands and The School for Wives), where the paternal authority figure wished to marry his ward. The Learned Ladies depicts a mother who attempts to impose an unwanted husband on her daughter. This comedy is usually seen as an attack by Molière on attempts by his female contemporaries to claim their right to an education and to a voice in intellectual matters. However, we also find here a thought experiment on parental tyranny. What happens when a daughter’s freedom to marry is hampered by a mother rather than a father?