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On Touching
Authors: Hsieh I-Yi 
Published: August 2023

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This chapter addresses the sensorial practice of touching and its centrality to the formation of Chinese “literati connoisseurship.” Drawing from ethnographic research between 2010 and 2016, it explores touching as embodying the sense of “being a literatus” among literati walnut connoisseurs in Beijing. An urban hobby often associated in Beijing with the lifestyle of the Qing dynasty’s Manchus, collecting literati walnuts has recently emerged as one of the most popular genres of cultural collecting currently being revived in the city’s folklore markets. Their natural texture, which makes them appear to have been artificially carved and etched into their unique shapes, renders these walnuts a highly desired commodity in Beijing’s expanding cultural collecting scene. This chapter examines the revival of literati connoisseurship as an embodied practice that is increasingly incorporated into the market of cultural collecting emergent in post-socialist China.
Consensus, Collaboration, Compromise
Authors: Corduwener Pepijn 
Published: August 2023

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The 1960s were with the benefit of hindsight the high tide of the people’s parties in Western Europe. Under their wings and leadership (often in the form of coalition governments), democracy took on a consensual tone in which pragmatic governing in the name of the general interest preceded over ideological strife. The leaders of the Social democrat and Christian Democrat parties agreed on the importance of collaboration, consensus, and compromise and brought these into practice in the form of government led and controlled by these parties on all levels. This chapter shows how they were motived by a lasting quest for political stability that was the legacy of the Interwar era and how this quest for stability led to party control and patronage in all levels of the state apparatus as well as a desire to curb any social tensions, for instance by controlling social partners of the government and the public media. However, if the 1960s were the high tide of the people’s party they were also a turning point, and the end of the decade witnessed growing unease and dissatisfaction with the power of the people’s parties and what was perceived as their managerial style of politics.
The ‘Open Party’ and Its Limits in the 1980s
Authors: Corduwener Pepijn 
Published: August 2023

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This chapter turns to the belated reaction of the people’s parties to the draining of their social support and legitimacy, which had been proceeding slowly since the 1970s. The so-called ‘open party’ was, in name, a far-reaching attempt to redefine their relationship with citizens that aimed to move away from integration of their own constituencies inside party wings towards opening the party to society as a whole. The open party came with a few real reforms, such as the introduction of quotas to address persisting gender imbalances in party ranks. However, it was in the end mostly rhetorical and therefore had limited effect. Parties struggled to come up with creative initiatives that could really (re-)connect them to a society which was ever more fluid and individualistic, and failed to enact reforms that touched upon the privileges of established party elites. By the end of the 1980s the aspiration to open parties to society had even produced the contrary effect: by aiming to ‘dissolve’ into society people’s parties seemed to confirm that they were increasingly superfluous as a means of political participation.
Descent, Spirit, Heart, Senses
Authors: Zemka Sue 
Published: August 2023

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This chapter probes the writings of the great theoretician of the senses, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and demonstrates how crucial his biography is to his philosophy. It tells the story of his tragic love affair with Elisabeth ‘Zaza’ Lacoin—an affair that was triangulated with their mutual friend Simone de Beauvoir—and traces echoes of this loss in his theories of embodiment, perception, and ‘the flesh’. Merleau-Ponty derived additional inspiration from Paul Cézanne, who with his insistence on painting from sensations provides the seeds of a wide-ranging aesthetics of visual art and written literature as activities that transform the private life of the senses (perception foremost) into sociable forms. The chapter argues that death and its aftermath of grief find expression and consolation in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of the senses. Mourning a loved one is a way of seeing that elevates the power of sensation into a creative force for painting, literature, and philosophy.
Partial Sight, Dependency, and Open Poetic Form
Authors: Watt Nuala 
Published: August 2023

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This chapter aims to characterize the poetics of partial sight. It places these poetics within a theoretical framework and enacts them in four poems. The poems showcase a growing awareness of how partial sight affects poetic form. Treating partial sight as symbolic of the limitations of human vision, the poems move from exploring partial sight as a source of identity to using the combination of partial sight and dependency as a generative principle. They express this principle through increasingly troubled syntax, variable lineation, and the deformation by erasure of pre-existing texts on blindness. The chapter posits that partial sight and dependency are relevant to all poetic composition, not sources of social anxiety but catalysts for creativity. In the ‘Coda’, I explore whether identity poetics and partial sight as a formal principle can be combined to challenge the current dehumanization of disabled people by the UK government.
Olfactory Futures in Bipoc Speculative Fiction
Authors: Hsu Hsuan L. 
Published: August 2023

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Whereas Western, colonial imperatives of deodorization have simultaneously devalued the sense of smell and instrumentalized it as a tool of racism, BIPOC authors have mobilized olfaction to critique and unravel this colonial hierarchization of the senses. This chapter considers speculative novels by Octavia Butler, Larissa Lai, Lee Maracle, and Cherie Dimaline as experiments in sensory estrangement that explore how olfaction might communicate—and biochemically enact—queer, interspecies, and decolonial relations. Whether as xenogenetic substance or a place-based medium of environmental and spiritual reciprocity, scent functions in these works as a pathway to embodied intimacies and sensory relationships proscribed by racial, colonial capitalism’s ordering of the senses.
Contact, Conduct, and Tactile Networks
Authors: Piercy Hannah 
Published: August 2023

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What might it mean to read touch through Middle English verse romances, and to read verse romances through touch? This chapter explores four short, plot-driven Middle English romances—Havelok, Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle, Eger and Grime, and Sir Degaré—to investigate how the brevity and functionality of their descriptions of touch might make them particularly useful sources for reconstructing everyday understandings of how touch worked in medieval society. The formality of touch in romance writing challenges the association of both touch and romance with the bodily and carnal, often opposed to moral and religious writing or to the supposedly more refined senses like sight and hearing. The portrayal of touch in romance is much more restrained, codified, and ordered than we might expect, opening up surprising connections between the ways the senses are represented and controlled in romances, conduct literature, and religious writing.
Touch and the Sensible in the Play of Mary Magdalene
Authors: Amsler Mark 
Published: August 2023

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Literature can reveal aspects of feeling and sensation otherwise inchoate in society. This chapter proposes a historicized biocultural reading of late medieval sensation, and especially touch, as it informs and emerges in the Middle English Play of Mary Magdalene. Drama instantiates feeling and sensation as part of a semiotics of embodied speech, movement, and object relations within a culturally conditioned space of imagined performance. In Christianity’s core narrative, the apostle Thomas is the most prominent ‘toucher’. However, in late medieval England Mary Magdalene was central to a complex aesthetic and religious understanding of embodiment, flesh, and sensation, especially touch. How the play performs, not just represents, sensation and different touch experiences can give us more detail about what touch signifies and how the medieval sensorium was configured as embodied experience.
Histories of the Human Hand
Authors: Garrington Abbie 
Published: August 2023

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Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood’s Jacob’s Hands (1944) has long been thought a curiosity or a failure—a screen treatment that never became a film. Yet it might reasonably be reframed, indeed best understood, as a vital text exploring modernist manual cultures. This chapter reads the titular Great War veteran Jacob Ericson as a traumatized figure to set alongside parallels from Lawrence’s short stories, clarifying the influence of the latter author upon the work of Huxley in particular. It considers the spiritual and pseudoscientific theorizations of the hand available at Huxley and Isherwood’s time of writing, including the trend of ‘hand-reading’. Finally, it reads Jacob’s Hands’ engagement with Black figures of the Pentecostal Church, influenced by the important Azusa Street revival, as a means of exploring the use of Black actors on-screen to attempt to exploit the haptic capacities of modernist cinema itself.
Touching Wounds
Authors: Das Santanu 
Published: August 2023

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How does the most intimate and elusive of the senses bear witness to historical violence, or, to put it differently, is there a perilous intimacy between violence and the tactile, whether touching at a distance—through sight or hearing—or through our skin? How does literary language evoke the processes of touch? This chapter looks at a range of representations from the First World War, starting with the letters and poetry of Wilfred Owen, then moving beyond the trenches to investigate their colonial (particularly South Asian), African American, and modernist imaginings. What fresh intensities of meaning—epistemological, erotic, political—do such moments of tactile engagement get invested with and what is their relationship to poetic form? Writers discussed range from the British Indian military officer ‘Roly’ Grimshaw and the Harlem Renaissance novelist Jessie Fauset to modernist writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Claire Goll.
Tense inhow- andthat-clauses under visual perception
Authors: Grønn Atle 
Published: August 2023

AbstractRussian exhibits a puzzling tense alternation between present and past in the complement under a matrix past perception verb. The paper proposes an analysis of how the tense data relate to the choice of complementizer: kak/how vs. chto/that. A challenge for Russian is to explain how the simultaneous interpretation arises with past under past without Sequence-of-tense rules characteristic of Germanic languages. The paper argues that the embedded past is independent of the matrix tense and gets a de re interpretation. On the other hand, present tense morphology in the complement under a past perception verb is only licensed in intensional environments, such as belief-contexts, hence in cases of epistemic perception. The complement clause is then semantically dependent on the matrix (de dicto reading), as with ordinary attitude verbs.
Judging European Democracy
Authors: de Boer Nik 
Published: August 2023

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In several EU Member States, constitutional courts have reviewed European law on its compatibility with national constitutional law. These EU-related judgments deal with issues of major importance such as the EU’s democratic legitimacy, protection of fundamental rights, division of competences between the EU and the Member States, and the status of national sovereignty within the EU. Yet, should constitutional courts decide such issues of major constitutional importance for the EU? Or is it more democratic to leave these matters to political institutions that represent Europe’s citizens and are politically accountable to them? This book argues that national constitutional courts’ review of European law frequently risks constraining and narrowing democratic debate over the EU’s constitutional underpinnings. The book challenges accounts that value national constitutional courts’ EU-related case law for helping to ensure respect for national constitutional identities, opening up a space for contestation and dialogue, or for addressing democratic problems with the EU’s decision-making process. Instead, constitutional courts risk taking sides in good faith political disagreements among elected legislators about constitutional questions relating to the EU, thus distorting, rather than protecting, the democratic decision-making process. The book uniquely combines constitutional and political theory with an in-depth case study of the German Constitutional Court, Europe’s most authoritative constitutional court. Based on an extensive study of parliamentary debates, EU policy documents and interviews with politicians, policymakers, and constitutional court judges, the case study shows how the German Constitutional Court has distorted political debate on European integration.
Electrokinetics
Authors: Tabeling Patrick 
Published: August 2023

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The chapters concerns electrokinetic phenomena, treated in general and in the context of microfluidics. Bascic laws are reviewed. Electrokinetic equations are given, leading to Debye layer, elecroosmosis, sedimentation potential, electrophoresis, along with the various methods of separation used in the field, such as free electrophoresis, gel electrophoresis or micellar electrokinetics. Special consideration is given to DNA separation, and the subsequent gene sequencing revolution, which uses different separation techniques, from gel electrophoresis to single molecule techniques. Dielectrophoresis and electrowetting are presented.
Essays on Relativism
Authors: Wright Crispin 
Published: August 2023

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The classical Protagorean idea that the idea of absolute truth is an illusion—that there is only ‘your truth’ and ‘my truth’, or perhaps ‘our truth’ and ‘their truth’—was until quite recently widely regarded as thoroughly STET, and deservedly discredited. However there has been a sea-change among professional philosophers in the analytical tradition, with distinguished specialists arguing that, when suitably disciplined and refined, relative truth can play a central, illuminating role in the theory of the workings of important regions of thought and discourse. Crispin Wright has been a leading protagonist in the resulting debates. The papers gathered here chart the development of his ideas over the last two decades on three interconnected sets of issues in which the renaissance of relative truth has intensified interest: (1) the general metaphysics of relativism and whether it can rebut the traditional objections to it; (2) the significance of the “standards-variability” phenomena seeming to afflict ascriptions of knowledge and claims featuring epistemic ‘mights’/‘coulds’; and (3) the challenge to find the best formulation of anti-realism about certain areas of our thought and discourse—taste, humour, or etiquette, perhaps—so as to make sense of the intuitive idea that disagreement about matters within these areas can be and often is “faultless.” Overall, the chapters tend to call into question the claimed theoretical advantages of ‘New Age’ relativism and to sketch an alternative ‘minimalist’ account of the function of truth within those discourses where the case for relativism seems most powerful.
On Being in a Quandary
Authors: Wright Crispin 
Published: August 2023

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The chapter addresses three problems: the problem of formulating a coherent form of relativism, the Sorites paradox, and a seldom noticed difficulty in the best intuitionistic case for the revision of classical logic. A response to the latter is proposed which, generalized, contributes towards the solution of the other two. The key to this response is a generalized conception of indeterminacy as a specific kind of intellectual bafflement—Quandary. Intuitionistic revisions of classical logic are merited wherever a subject matter is conceived both as liable to generate Quandary and as subject to a broad form of evidential constraint. So motivated, the distinctions enshrined in intuitionistic logic provide both for a satisfying resolution of the Sorites paradox and a coherent outlet for one form of relativism about, e.g., matters of taste and morals. An important corollary of the discussion is that an epistemic conception of vagueness can be prised apart from the strong metaphysical realism with which its principal supporters have associated it, and acknowledged to harbour an independent insight.
Assessment-Sensitivity
Authors: Wright Crispin 
Published: August 2023

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The chapter was originally published as a contribution to a book symposium on John MacFarlane’s Assessment-Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications (OUP, 2014). In his later work, Wittgenstein famously coined the slogan that meaning is use. One widely acknowledged implication of the slogan is that semantic theory for natural languages must answer to a manifestation constraint: the correctness of such a theory, in contradistinction to rivals, must be distinctively displayed in the linguistic practices of users. The chapter engages John Macfarlane’s argument for an alethic-relativist (assessment-sensitive) semantics for various discourses, including ascriptions of knowledge and claims of epistemic possibility, under the aegis of this constraint. To be sure, MacFarlane’s key arguments for the correctness of an alethic-relativist semantics for these and other discourses seem on the face of it designed to comply with the constraint since his central thought is that certain aspects of our use of statements in the discourses in question—most particularly our willingness to retract such claims in the face of new information—are indeed problematic for the most plausible non-relativistic alternative semantic treatments of them. The chapter directly challenges this. It is argued that a regular recursive truth-conditional semantics, for example, on the model familiar from Tarski and Davidson, plus a developed pragmatics incorporating norms of assertion, denial, retraction, and silence can predict all the linguistic phenomena that MacFarlane takes to favour an assessment-sensitive approach. There is no evidential need to relativize the truth of utterances of the relevant kinds to a context of assessment
Exchangespace
Authors: Seddon Toby 
Published: August 2023

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In the first of two theory-oriented chapters, this chapter develops the new concept of exchangespace as a tool for thinking about what drug control is and how it functions. It begins by reviewing the cross-disciplinary literature on the relationship between markets and regulation and argues for an understanding of drug control as a form of market regulation. Drawing on a constitutive conception of regulation, it develops a specification for the concept of exchangespace, based on the idea that market behaviour and regulatory activity are two sides of the same coin. It argues that the exchangespace concept can be further developed by engaging with complexity thinking and complex systems science. It concludes by observing how exchangespace always functions within a political context shaped by social, economic, and cultural factors.
The politics of drug control
Authors: Seddon Toby 
Published: August 2023

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In the first of two chapters examining the politics of the ‘drug question’, this chapter explores how we can understand what exactly is at stake when drugs and drug control become matters of political contestation. Using concepts drawn from political science, it argues that rather than the politicisation of drugs being a barrier to drug law reform efforts, a serious engagement with politics and ideology is essential to finding better ways of regulating drugs. The drug question is ineluctably political. The chapter concludes by arguing that surfacing the politics of drug control in this way highlights the need to understand law and policy not simply as technical solutions to social problems but also as about competing visions of the ‘good society’.
British Modernism and the Anthropocene
Authors: Shackleton David 
Published: August 2023

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This book assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene—a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early twentieth century was marked by environmental transformations that were so complex and happened on such great scales that they defied representation. Modernist novelists responded with a range of innovative narrative forms that start to make environmental crisis on a planetary scale visible, yet it is their failures to represent such a crisis that achieve the greatest success. This book explores how British modernists employed types of narrative breakdown—including fragmentation and faltering passages devoid of events—to expose the limitations of human schemes of meaning, negotiate the relationship between different scales and types of time, produce knowledge of ecological risk, and register various forms of non-human agency. Situating modernism in the context of fossil fuel energy systems, plantation monocultures, climate change, and species extinctions, it traces how H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Moore, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys undertook experiments with time in their novels that refigure history and the historical situations into which they were thrown. Ultimately, British Modernism and the Anthropocene shows how modernist novels provide rich resources for rethinking the current environmental crisis, and cultivating new structures of environmental care and concern.
Adverse Publicity
Authors: Wells Colin 
Published: August 2023

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Media-generated notoriety can prejudice an accused and this may lead to a jury being discharged, an indictment being stayed, or a conviction being quashed. Adverse media coverage may also give rise to a breach of the right to a fair trial under Article 6(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and lead to contempt of court proceedings against the offending publisher. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized that media reporting of court proceedings plays an important part in the public administration of justice. The limits of permissible media comment may not, however, extend to statements that are likely to prejudice a fair trial. Media freedom of expression can be restricted under Article 10(2) ECHR to protect the rights of others (which includes those on trial) and to maintain the authority and impartiality of the judiciary and jurors. When deciding whether publications created a substantial risk that the course of justice would be seriously impeded or prejudiced, the date, time, and circulation of each publication, the likelihood of it having been read by a potential juror, its likely impact on an ordinary reader at the time of the publication, and its residual impact on a notional juror at the time of trial are all to be considered.