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Becoming Subject to Change
Authors: Asenbaum Hans 
Published: September 2023

AbstractToday, we live in an age of deep societal disruptions that destabilize our sense of self. This introductory chapter explores the radical democratic potentials of identity disruption. It argues that new democratic spaces such as citizens’ assemblies or social movement gatherings constitute an interruption of the established governance order. They temporarily allow for different ways of doing politics. This provides a space of appearance where the democratic subject constitutes itself. In this space of appearance, participants are judged by their looks, and by their race, gender, class, and age. Stereotyping and discrimination do not only result in inequality within democratic spaces. They also restrict the freedom to live the multiple self. To interrupt discrimination and stereotyping, the chapter introduces the politics of becoming. It argues that the democratic subject itself is subject to change. To free the fugitive self, subjects engage in radical democratic acts of disidentification, which can potentially be realized through anonymity. Anonymity interrupts the established identity assemblage through objects such as masks, computer screens, digital avatars, or pseudonyms. In the digital age, anonymity becomes an inherent part of everyday communication. Through smart devices, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, democratic subjects are reconfigured as cyborgs. Beyond identity transformation, the politics of becoming advances deep societal transformations towards democratic futures. Finally, the introduction offers a summary of the chapters in this book.
Becoming Present
Authors: Asenbaum Hans 
Published: September 2023

AbstractDemocratic spaces such as citizens’ assemblies or social movement gatherings aspire to realize inclusion and equality among participants. However, social inequalities and modes of everyday discrimination are replicated within democratic spaces. So, how can equality be advanced within democratic spaces? This chapter revisits a feminist debate in democratic theory associated with the term ‘difference democracy’. It conceptualizes difference democracy as a perspective in democratic theory that advances inclusion through three strategies: embodied presence, the expression of emotions, and the contestation of inequalities. Difference democrats draw attention to modes of devaluation of marginalized race, class and gender identities. They argue for a politics of presence, giving marginalized subjects visibility within the space of appearance through parliamentary gender quotas and social movements’ identity politics. Yet the politics of presence is overshadowed by the dilemma of difference. Equalizing mechanisms such as quotas in democratic spaces afford presence but also entail essentializing tendencies, confining the democratic subject to its identified body. While the politics of presence successfully advances equality, freedom to explore different sides of the multiple self is compromised.
Becoming Cyborg
Authors: Asenbaum Hans 
Published: September 2023

AbstractIn the digital age, anonymity has become an inherent part of everyday communication. Online communication allows for expressing our identities differently. This chapter explores how modes of disidentification come into play in political engagement online. It revisits the poststructuralist-inspired debate on cyberdemocracy that explains the digital self as existing only through the words it utters. This debate imagines an increase in personal freedom by ‘leaving the body behind’ and conceptualizes cyberspace as a separate realm that follows its own logics. Current debates, in contrast, insist on collapsing digital and physical space. The chapter develops a new theory of digital space beyond these two positions. By engaging with cyberfeminist debates, it explains digital space as an assemblage of material objects, sentient bodies, and performative expressions, in which the material dimension is profoundly reconfigured. Material space is mediated and interrupted by digital interfaces. This theory of digital space allows for rethinking the politics of presence. Explaining the subject of the digital age as a cyborgian assemblage of human bodies and technological devices, the chapter develops the concept of a digital politics of presence. As cyborgs, we interpret our bodies and ourselves differently through the exposure to digital content. Several empirical examples demonstrate that a digital politics of presence allows for the expression of marginalized identities but at the same time renders identity transformative. It expands the agency of the subject to reassemble the self both online and offline.
Aristophanes in Britain
Authors: Swallow Peter 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
This book explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain over the course of the long-nineteenth century, setting it firmly in the context of Victorian classicism more broadly and in the context of the reception of Greek tragedy in the same period. It proves the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was received, across a wide array of mediums, in Victorian Britain, and demonstrates that, over the course of the long-nineteenth century, Aristophanic reception was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues, whether political or aesthetic. A number of case studies are explored, including Wilde, Swinburne, W.S. Gilbert, Shelley, Gilbert Murray, Bernard Shaw, and Aubrey Beardsley. From the start of the long-nineteenth century, the British reception of Aristophanes was tied up in contemporary political debate, as writers activated Aristophanes in support of their own political positions. The second strand of Aristophanic reception, developed around the middle of the nineteenth century, actively de-politicized Old Comedy and instead received it through an aesthetic lens. The aesthetics of Aristophanes—with an emphasis on the beautiful and the archaeological—also lay behind school and university productions of Old Comedy during this period, so that only at the turn of the century was the political and artistic potential of Aristophanes able to find synthesis.
Swine before Pearls
Authors: Swallow Peter 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Percy Shelley’s ‘satiric drama’ Oedipus Tyrannus; or Swellfoot the Tyrant was not widely read, and is not a polished work of literature. But it is valuable as a rare example of Aristophanic reception in literature, not scholarship, before the mid-nineteenth century. Throughout the play, Shelley weaves in countless allusions to ancient comedy, and it shares with Old Comedy a biting, topical humour. Chapter 3 explores the political and literary context of this challenging play, exploring how Shelley constructs a stinging political satire that is both deeply Aristophanic and intensely—purposefully—unpleasant. Swellfoot is truly radical, and therefore represents a unique reception of Aristophanes in a liberal, class-sensitive voice at a time when he was invariably read as aristocratic.
Aristophanes in the Phrontisterion
Authors: Swallow Peter 
Published: September 2023

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By far the widest reception of Aristophanes in performance during the Victorian period was at schools and universities, where extracts and whole plays were staged regularly by students, to varying degrees of external audience. The influence of these productions is unquantifiable and the information we have about them is undetailed, but their prevalence demonstrates a significant knowledge base of the Aristophanes plays produced, at least amongst upper-class men and boys. This chapter focusses on the tone and styles employed by these performances, which tended towards either adopting the idiom of burlesque, or embracing a more archaeological, didactic approach to the performance of ancient drama.
Shaping Complexity
Authors: Krämer Jörg 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Krämer traces the multiple iterations of the German Medea, first in her 1770s guise as a woman with an inner drama, and second as divine figure, not only aloof, but also estranged from the human context in Klinger’s tragedy of 1787. Krämer argues that the modifications to the German Medea at this time are inextricably linked to wider generic and intermedial transformations. First, Krämer delineates the shift from the unambiguous characters of early opera to the experiments with psychological interiority afforded by the development of ‘monodramatic melodrama’; and second, he explores the rejection of sentimentalism found in the new tragedies by Klinger at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Visual Narrative
Authors: Dotlačilová Petra 
Published: September 2023

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Dotlačilová discusses the key, but routinely overlooked, visual means of representing character on stage: costume. Her close analysis of Louis-René Boquet’s designs for costumes for Jean-Georges Noverre’s ballet d’action Médée et Jason (1763) underlines how much the new aesthetic trends of the century focus on the human body and its movement. Costume designs show Medea’s links to the early operatic witch, in contrast to the humanized Medea who emerges some decades later. The sartorial signs of the underworld in the early versions—mainly bats and magical symbols—became less visible in Boquet’s later designs. The 1791 design presented Medea in ‘her role of princess, woman, and mother’.
Medea as Infanticidal Mother in the Late Eighteenth-Century Theatre
Authors: Schweitzer Zoé 
Published: September 2023

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Schweitzer brings French and British texts in conjunction with translations of the classics. How can the infanticidal mother be accepted within an aesthetic of sensibility? As elsewhere, the constant dialogue with ancient sources, with Horace’s Ars Poetica and Seneca’s tragedy in particular, reveals the adjustments made to Medea in accordance with an early modern understanding of translation practice. Schweitzer unfolds the ambiguity of the translations: they censure violations of decorum, both in terms of sexual references and breaches of verisimilitude, while offering full disclosure in the footnotes. Further, Schweitzer argues that the elimination of violence on stage according to sentimental stage practice, in fact, draws paradoxically even sharper attention to the filicide of Medea and promotes a concomitant taste for suffering. In this way, the double-faced aspects of sensibility in general are explored with help of the figure of Medea.
Medea—Sorceress or Woman? c. 1750 and Beyond
Authors: Lysell Roland 
Published: September 2023

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In Lysell’s chapter, the stage presence of Medea comes to the fore, in twentieth-century productions of the versions by Euripides and Grillparzer. With specific focus on the last years of the eighteenth century, and the beginning of the nineteenth century, Lysell emphasizes the return of the mythical and metaphysical forces in the play. He discusses the move from the humanized eighteenth-century Medea to Klinger’s tragedies where the gods are ‘evil horror forces’, and he extends his analysis to Franz Grillparzer’s seminal Medea of 1821. Here in this early nineteenth-century tragedy, it is both exile as existential determinant and the ineluctability of ‘the ancient demonic forces’ that are foregrounded. With Grillparzer, Lysell argues, the stage is set for the twentieth-century Medea, and her relevance as a psychologically complex figure.
Deterrence under Uncertainty:
Authors: Geist Edward 
Published: September 2023

AbstractWhat do emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and autonomy mean for nuclear strategy? Some analysts contend that increasingly powerful computers have inaugurated a “new era of counterforce” which may soon end the condition of mutual assured destruction (MAD), unmaking the so-called “nuclear revolution.” How might AI make nuclear war winnable, and can it reasonably be expected to do so? This book evaluates this question using insights from computer science. It surveys the emerging strategic environment as well as the prevailing approaches that nuclear states use to ensure the survivability of their retaliatory forces. It then describes the challenging knowledge-quality problems that computers must be made to solve to make disarming strikes against submarines and mobile missile launchers possible. The analysis concludes that while AI could enable disarming strikes against the kind of strategic nuclear forces that have existed historically, it will also give states powerful new means of military deception with which they can protect their retaliatory capabilities. But survivability based on deception seems incompatible with established conceptions of strategic stability and could have far-reaching geopolitical implications even if deception makes nuclear retaliatory forces secure from disarming strikes. In short, AI could transform nuclear strategy (and much else) but in ways different from what most observers currently expect.
Strategic Stability in a Deception-Dominant World
Authors: Geist Edward 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThis chapter describes ways in which technological advances favoring deception could change the role of nuclear weapons in international relations. Traditional approaches for evaluating strategic stability appear increasingly untenable in a future where technology aggravates knowledge quality problems. Rather than making the strategic environment more offense- or defense-dominant, new technology may make it deception-dominant instead, favoring those actors who stand to benefit the most from obscuring the truth. While this could lead to disaster, it may prove possible to establish a new paradigm in which mutual incomprehension incentivizes restraint. This paradigm might include major breaks with existing nuclear strategy, such as decentering “deterrence” and reconceptualizing competition in “cognitive” terms. The chapter concludes with some proposals for the theoretical underpinnings of such a “cognitive” strategy.
Intimate Selves
Authors: Abrams Lynn 
Published: September 2023

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The chapter shows how feelings determined decisions and actions in the realm of intimate relationships. It explores how young women of the 1950s and 1960s contemplated, navigated, and recalled heterosexual relationships before marriage. Drawing on contemporary and retrospective oral narratives it describes how women’s experiences were shaped by fear of pregnancy and social norms but also how change occurred with little fanfare. It reveals young women as sexual agents and how risk, curiosity and excitement drove behaviour. The chapter shows how social class impacted on experience. It challenges depictions of heterosexual relationships that assume women’s subordination to men and which take for granted women’s capitulation to the myth of romance.
The Expressive Self
Authors: Abrams Lynn 
Published: September 2023

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This chapter examines the evidence for the existence of poor mental health amongst this generation of women. It argues that public debate about neurosis and dissatisfaction amongst stay-at-home wives did reflect a reality and shows how it gave women a space to express their feelings through the media. The increasing visibility of women’s distress spurred women on to action via self-help organizations such as the National Housewives Register, Pre-School Playgroups, National Childbirth Trust and others. This chapter argues that the expressive culture of the 1960s permitted women to express their frustrations and to act on them. It argues that this is a key moment in post-war women’s lives when they found ways of meeting their own needs alongside the needs of family and home.
Liberating the Domestic Self
Authors: Abrams Lynn 
Published: September 2023

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This chapter examines the strategies employed by women to maintain a sense of self distinct from marriage and motherhood. In the decade before the emergence of the women’s liberation movement, organizations were founded by women for women: the National Housewives Register, the National Childbirth Trust, the Pre-school Playgroups Association. These groups provided social contact with like-minded women and a stepping-stone back to the world of work. This chapter tells the story of this generation of women forging a bridge between the ‘old regime’ of delaying return to work until children were at school and the ‘new regime’ of working through child rearing.
“Like the Growth Rings of a Tree”
Authors: Edwards James , Konishi Junko 
Published: September 2023

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This chapter situates the development of Okinawan musical culture in a socio-ecological systems (SES) framework. Its focus is the sanshin, a three-string lute likely introduced to the Ryūkyū archipelago in the late fourteenth century. As of 2022, the sanshin is among the best-recognized symbols of Ryūkyūan/Okinawan culture worldwide. From the viewpoint of some luthiers and musicians, however, sanshin culture is trapped in a “downward spiral” precipitated by the rise of offshore production and unsustainable tonewood sourcing. This chapter employs the concept of socio-ecological thresholds to track sanshin production networks through five historical inflection points to their present state of crisis. It then delves into local visions for the instrument’s future, focusing on the Kuruchi Island Network, an initiative to sustainably increase the population of Ryūkyūan ebony or kuruchi, a tonewood used to make sanshin necks. For the Kuruchi Island Network and its partners, kuruchi reforestation is part of an integrated strategy designed to push sanshin production into a more sustainable regime by cultivating positive feedback across the sociocultural, economic, and ecological domains. After identifying intersections between the Kuruchi Island Network’s strategy and the SES-based paradigm of adaptive co-management, the chapter proposes directions for future research on coupled musical and socio-ecological change.
Music and Citizenship
Authors: Stokes Martin 
Published: September 2023

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Citizenship is a fantasy of political community without others. How is it faring in today’s world of authoritarianism, failed states, and climate crisis? In a world where democratic experiment is, by now, a networked and global proposition? What might we learn from music—and from ethnomusicology? The relationship between the idea of citizenship and music is long standing, but it has not yet been looked at from a perspective informed by postcolonialism and today’s decolonizing debates. The case studies in this volume are, consequently, drawn from across Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Its first chapter locates the current ethnomusicological interest in citizenship in broad critical landscape, focusing on approaches to audience, media, voice, and performance. The second surveys a growing body of recent ethnomusicological literature on citizenship, theorized in terms of identity, technocracy, and intimacy. The third comprises case studies developing an approach to citizenship and political subjectivity beyond conventional liberal categories, defined by mobility (“the citizen on his bike”), collectivity (“the citizen in the crowd”), and activism (“the citizen in the square”). The conclusion offers an argument about the implications for citizenship studies of today’s thinking in ethnomusicology, musicology, and sound studies, reflecting on the hardening rhetoric of political belonging in Europe.
Introduction
Authors: Stokes Martin 
Published: September 2023

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This chapter locates the current ethnomusicological interest in citizenship in a broad critical landscape, arguing that the relationship between music and citizenship is embedded in a longer history of philosophical and critical inquiry, and specifically the work of Rousseau, a line of inquiry entangled with the birth of ethnomusicology itself. Starting with the strange case of the “sly civility” of Zeki Müren in Turkey, the chapter plots a route that simultaneously recenters music in the discussion of citizenship and democracy, and decenters the West’s self-placing in the center of such discussions. The chapter explores the broader critical literature on audiences, media, voice, and sovereignty. Ethnomusicology asks its questions, this context suggests, neither in a vacuum, nor in a state of dependence upon a more recent anthropology of citizenship.
A Nick at the Opera
Authors: Schonfeld Zach 
Published: September 2023

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Drawing on new interviews with screenwriter John Patrick Shanley and producer Bonnie Palef, this chapter explores how the hit 1987 rom-com Moonstruck established Cage as a mainstream star and sex symbol, despite his ambivalence toward the film and reluctance to take the role. The chapter chronicles Cage’s unusual romantic chemistry with the much-older Cher, who plays his lover, and analyzes the significance of opera in the film: Moonstruck not only makes Cage’s character an opera lover and contains a critical sequence at the Metropolitan Opera, but the heightened emotions and gestures of the film—and of Cage’s performance in particular—reflect an operatic grandeur. Nonetheless, this chapter explains how Cage’s unhappiness with the film influenced him to gravitate toward darker, less commercial projects.
Application of the Unified Protocol in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Authors: Zanjani Zahra , Joekar Sanaz 
Published: September 2023

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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder characterized by abdominal pain and alternation of bowel movement. Due to its recurrent nature, incidence at young age, and high prevalence worldwide, IBS is an important health care issue. Although no single causative factor has been identified in IBS pathophysiology, the role of emotions in the motor function of the small intestine and colon is well documented. In addition, IBS is closely associated with emotional difficulties, particularly anxiety and depression. The Unified Protocol (UP), as a transdiagnostic treatment targeting emotion regulation strategies as underlying mechanism in emotional difficulties, helps IBS patients identify and express their emotions and modify their assessments of their emotions and emotion-related physical sensations using nonjudgmental awareness, mindfulness, and cognitive restructuring of thoughts, which lead to decreased psychological and emotional symptoms and consequently improve physical symptoms. This chapter reviews the prevalence, pathophysiology, and the role of emotional factors in this disorder. In addition, the application of UP in the treatment of IBS is discussed, and a case conceptualization based on UP is presented.
The Unified Protocol for Smoking Cessation
Authors: Mathew Amanda R. , Cox Chelsea 
Published: September 2023

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Tobacco use is a leading preventable cause of death and disability, and tobacco/nicotine cessation is a key public health priority. However, nicotine withdrawal introduces marked affective disturbance (i.e., anxiety, irritability, depression, and anhedonia). Treatments are needed to address affective disturbance among smokers in order to increase tolerance of nicotine withdrawal symptoms and support smoking abstinence. This chapter presents an adaptation of the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Emotional Disorders for smoking cessation. It outlines a conceptual rationale for modular treatment focused on specific psychological factors (i.e., anxiety sensitivity, anhedonia, and distress intolerance) thought to maintain cigarette smoking. It then describes a detailed treatment protocol and provides a case example of treatment. The chapter concludes with clinical implications and a discussion of future directions for smoking cessation treatment informed by the Unified Protocol.