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Epilogue
Authors: Corduwener Pepijn 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
The epilogue provides a birds-eye view on where European politics have gone in the past two decades, connecting the decline of the people’s party with the growing sentiments of democratic crisis which are gripping many people in Western Europe, today. It argues that a historical perspective is vital to understand why the void created by the demise of the people’s parties in the heart of our party systems creates feelings of democratic uncertainty and crisis. People in Western Europe have only known one stable model of democracy, people’s party democracy, because, despite their many shortcomings, only the people’s parties proved able to balance some of the tensions inherent in democratic government. However, while it seems as if the people’s party’s decline cannot be stopped, this does not mean the end of democracy as such. The people’s party was the answer to democracy’s problems in the twentieth century, but history shows it is not democracy’s default option. One does not need to be nostalgic about the demise of the people’s party. Our own century calls for new organizations, institutions, and ideas.
Visualizing the Unseen in the Victorian Ghost Story
Authors: Lehmann Imfeld Zoë 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
The Victorians were preoccupied with vision and visuality, a fascination that has been taken up by many critics working on nineteenth-century literature. Supernatural fiction has been considered a prime location for the expression of Victorian preoccupations with the reliability of sight, as well as with the latest developments in the science of vision. While much previous criticism explores the cultural and historical significance of literary representations of vision, this chapter returns to the ‘surface’ of seeing—what is seen, what is unseen in Victorian ghost stories. The literary ghost provides opportunities for narrating the experience of seeing what is not there: Victorian ghost stories are full of haunted spaces that should be empty, but are not. This chapter explores some of these narratives, examining how ‘nothing’ becomes visible to foreground the ways in which the Victorian ghost story depicts the seen and unseen.
‘A Lowde Voys Clepyng’
Authors: Saunders Corinne 
Published: August 2023

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This chapter takes its direction from the collaborative project Hearing the Voice, based at Durham University and funded by the Wellcome Trust, an interdisciplinary exploration of hearing voices without external stimuli. While this phenomenon is often associated with psychosis, experience is much richer than this assumption suggests, including both benign voice-hearing and voice-hearing in a significant proportion of the healthy population. This chapter explores voice-hearing and its connection with visionary experience in the medieval period. It examines how literary texts—from penitential romances to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe—engage with the psychological models of the period, while also exploring the powerful creative potential voice-hearing can offer. These writings enhance our understanding of the complex interrelations of sense perceptions as they were understood in the medieval period, but also offer new models for present-day understanding.
Attending to Sound in Early Modern Literature
Authors: Jackson Simon 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
Paying heed to the nature of sonic experience, particularly sound’s ability to penetrate boundaries and the way in which a listener is drawn into the world around them, radically reconstitutes our sense of listening subjects and their relationship to their acoustic environments. This kind of thinking is found not only in modern scholarship on the senses but also in the work of early modern writers. In their distinctive fashions, each of the writers considered in this chapter—Thomas Whythorne, Charles Butler, and Francis Bacon—are fascinated by the ways in which the mediations of sonic experience challenge any simple conception of the listening subject and its relationship to the environment they inhabit. In attempting to transcribe or to describe on the page the distinctive forms of knowing derived from sonic experience, these writers explore the more contingent, situated forms of ‘meaning’ that result from acts of attentive listening.
Festering Lilies
Authors: Dugan Holly 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
Lilies, especially white lilies (Lilium candidum), are complex visual and metaphoric symbols in the Renaissance. For medieval and early modern artists, white lilies signal purity. But lilies also decay rapidly, releasing a strong scent as they die. For poets like Ronsard and Shakespeare, the smell of ‘festering’ lilies provided them with a powerful metaphor about the unseen dangers of desire. The sensuous qualities of white lilies as symbols of both sexual purity and contamination helped to solidify cultural ideals of chastity, beauty, and whiteness as discernible phenomena. Reading the ecological and cultural history of lilies in the Renaissance against metaphors of beauty in Renaissance lyric poetry, especially Shakespeare’s sonnets, I argue that lilies function as eco-material signifiers of race and gender. Chaste and pure or mutable, spotted, and festering, lilies came to signify a powerful figuration of whiteness in the Renaissance, mobilized through metaphors of smell.
Tastelessness
Authors: Fumo Jamie C. 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
This chapter approaches the medieval English figurative vocabulary surrounding the sense of taste via its antithesis: tastelessness, or insipiditas. It delineates two overlapping expressions of tastelessness in medieval discourse: 1) blandness (ME werish) as a property of certain foods (indeed, tastelessness was recognized in some medieval taxonomies of savour as an actual subtype of taste, along with sweetness, sourness, etc.); 2) the inability to taste well, often in connection with illness and thus humoral imbalance. The creative lexicon of the unsavouri is then explored more broadly, since taste, in medieval discourse, is richly implicated in knowing and discernment, in the medicinal and spiritual as well as the gustatory. Literary examples, read against period accounts of both types of tastelessness in natural histories, culinary and medical tracts, are drawn from various medieval English genres that imaginatively appropriate the unsavouri as metaphorical construct.
A Taste of ‘Sweet Music’
Authors: Smith Simon 
Published: August 2023

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This chapter takes the ubiquitous phrase ‘sweet music’ as a case study in early modern sensory metaphor, ranging across diverse texts and contexts to sketch out the full scope and associations of this gustatory figure. It does so in order to ask how figurative language of the senses might draw upon, mediate, and even play a role in shaping wider cultural understandings and experiences of sensation, and to demonstrate how a more precise, historicized grasp of sensory language can facilitate new readings even of familiar literary texts like Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The chapter traces the precise associations between music and sweetness in early modern texts, asking what may have drawn writers of the period to the trope. In early modern England the sugary sense of sweet had yet to become entirely dominant, encouraging multivalent sensory resonances that are not necessarily apparent to twenty-first-century readers.
The Taste of Revolution
Authors: Skoulding Zoë 
Published: August 2023

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This chapter examines the interplay and tension between language, sensory experience, and time, with a focus on the author’s practice as a poet. It concentrates on one particular project engaging with the linked senses of taste and smell: her 2020 sequence of poems, A Revolutionary Calendar. Devised by Fabre d’Églantine and Gilbert Romme shortly after the French Revolution, the Republican Calendar attempted to recentre time around agriculture, plants, and animals. The 360 poems written in response led to performances that engaged the senses through live outdoor readings in a botanical garden and an online reading that explored the sound of culinary and consumption processes. Drawing on Marx and Serres, the chapter considers how sensory experiences can foster a collective understanding of the ways in which bodies are connected across species, and with the material world that sustains them.
Decomposing adverbs and complementizers
Authors: Corver Norbert 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis chapter examines the syntax of the Dutch wh-element hoe ‘how’ in two of its grammatical uses: its use as an interrogative manner ‘adverb’ (hoeQ(uestion)), and its use as a non-interrogative conjunctive element (referred to as hoeE(ventive)). It is proposed that the two instances of hoe can be reduced to a single linguistic expression, namely a nominal expression. HoeQ starts out as the complement of a silent adposition which heads a PP. This PP is moved to the clausal left periphery, specifically to the Spec-position of a dummy adpositional ‘conjunction’ that surfaces as of ‘if/whether’ or remains silent. HoeE is base-generated in [Spec, CP] and assigns substantive contents (‘manner/way’) to the clause. This nominal clause-marker moves to the specifier position of an adpositional conjunction within the clausal left periphery. Thus, although the base positions of the nominal expressions hoeQ and hoeE are configurationally asymmetric, their derived positions are configurationally symmetric.
Czech evidential relatives introduced byjak‘how’
Authors: Šimík Radek , Sláma Jakub 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe chapter provides a thorough description of Czech relative clauses introduced by the complementizer jak ‘how’. We argue that jak-relatives convey an evidential implication, whereby the speaker expects the hearer to have evidence that the predicate-type denotation of the relative clause truthfully applies to its referential head. For instance, “the man how smoked” implies that the hearer has evidence that the man smoked. We further argue that the evidential implication is a conventional implicature in the sense of Potts (2005) - it cannot be semantically embedded, the relative clause cannot be headed by quantificational heads, and cannot contain expressions semantically dependent on matrix operators. At the same time, jak-relatives appear to be able to be arguments of so-called recognitional demonstratives. Counter to Potts’ basic assumption, jak-relatives exhibit the paradoxical behavior of commenting on the relative clause head while being able to co-determine its extension.
Germanwie-comment and reporting clauses
Authors: Pittner Karin , Frey Werner 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis contribution deals with comment and reporting clauses in German introduced by wie such as wie Peter sagt (‘as Peter says’). These are contrasted with so-clauses as in so sagt Peter (‘so says Peter’). A focus is placed on the categories and the semantics of wie and so. It is argued that wie is a relative adverb introducing a free relative clause, its relations to manner-wie and equative wie are pointed out. Wie-clauses can represent different types of ‘higher’ adverbials. Furthermore, wie-clauses can be speech act-related adverbials or and may occur as discourse markers. So as a ‘similarity demonstrative’ points to the content of the host clause and equates it to the content of the speech act or mental attitude referred to in the so-parenthetical. Wie lacks so’s deictic potential but shares its identifying capacity and takes the content of the host clause as an argument. It is shown that wie-clauses, in contrast to so-clauses, are not parentheticals.
Locating the locative in English pseudo-locativewhere-relatives
Authors: Brook Marisa , Moulton Keir 
Published: August 2023

AbstractIn this chapter we examine a colloquial relative clause construction in English that deploys the wh-element where, as in He got this awful haircut where it’s like a bag around his head. We develop an analysis for such “pseudo-locative” relatives that seeks to explain the locative nature of the relativizer as well as the fact such relatives prefer to express characterizing properties of the head noun (Brook and Moulton 2021). Building on intuitions in Radford (2019) and Van Riemsdijk (2003), and, we propose that pseudo-locative relatives involve abstraction over a variable contained within a situation-denoting topic in the complementizer domain spelled out by where. We suggest that this complementizer where arises from a re-analysis of wh-operator where in closely related relatives that involve an abstract notion of location. We derive a number of predictions concerning the semantics and syntax of pseudo-locative relatives, including anti-reconstruction effects.
The Euro Crisis and the Judicialization of Euro-Politics
Authors: de Boer Nik 
Published: August 2023

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Chapter 5 discusses the role of the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC) in the euro crisis. In 2009, the GFCC returned to the core tenets of its Maastricht judgment with its ruling on the Lisbon Treaty, which it further developed in its case law on the euro crisis. The chapter discusses this case law and the requirement that the German parliament must retain control over essential budgetary decisions. The chapter demonstrates how, in particular, this constitutional limitation constrained legitimate political disagreement over the future of the monetary union. The GFCC’s case law is at odds with the view that budgetary powers should be transferred to the EU in order to address the monetary union’s design faults and ensure democratic control over economic policy. The GFFC’s case law instead reinforced a politics in which fiscal discipline is of overriding importance.
Introduction to Microfluidics
Authors: Tabeling Patrick 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
The book includes six chapters: - Chap 1 is an introduction, including the history of microfluidics, the present situation, the market and an attempt to envision the future. - Chap 2 concerns the physics of miniaturization, in natural and microfluidic systems. A description of basic physical laws, starting with intermolecular forces, including Van der Waals and electrostatic forces is given. The three main domains of fluidics at small scales (sub nanofluidic, nanofluidics, microfluidics and millifluidics) are discussed. - Chap 3 concerns the hydrodynamics of small systems, without free interface. The foundations of the governing equations are discussed. Then the notion of slippage at walls are presented for the cases of liquids and gases. Sections are devoted to the notions of hydrodynamic resistances and capaticances. Finally, inertial microfluidics, i.e. microfluidics or millifluidics at moderate Reynolds numbers, is presented. - Chap 4 concerns the hydrodynamics of microfluidics, in the presence of free interfaces. Bbubbles an droplets in microchannels. Basics of interfaces are shown, surface tension Laplace law, wetting. Surfactants are presented and various laws are discussed - Chap 5 concerns electrokinetic phenomena. Electrokinetic equations are given, leading to Debye layer, elecroosmosis, sedimentation potential, electrophoresis, along with the various methods of separation used in the field. - Chap 6 offers an introduction to microfabrication techniques. Photolithography is presented. Techniques dedicated to hard materials. Direct writing and 3D printing are shown. Soft lithography, and in particular those using PDMS (PolyDimethylSiloxane) is presented, with applications to valving, pumping, along with recent technological approaches.
Hydrodynamics of microfluidics 2: droplets
Authors: Tabeling Patrick 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
This concerns the hydrodynamics of microfluidics, in the presence of free interfaces. In particular bubbles an droplets in microchannels. Basics of interfaces are shown, including discussions on capillarity, surface tension Laplace law, wetting. Surfactants, which play a major role in microfluidics, are presented. Various laws are discussed: Washburn law, Landau Levich, Breteherton, Rayleigh Plateau. These notions are used to discuss the behaviour of droplets in microfluidic systems: breakup, coalescence, bubble pressure drop, droplet production.
Intuitionism, Realism, Relativism, and Rhubarb
Authors: Wright Crispin 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe chapter focuses on so-called disputes of inclination, such as a dispute over whether something is delicious or attractive or funny or exciting. The ‘ordinary view’ of such disputes is that they involve the following three key elements: that the parties can have genuinely incompatible attitudes, that no one need be mistaken, and that both sides can rationally maintain their position in the face of the disagreement. It is argued that the naturalness of the ordinary view for a wide range of subject matters is what provides the root attraction of relativism. Moreover, disputes of this sort, and the ordinary view of them, arise in more philosophically interesting cases, as well: over what is right or wrong, or what is justified or not, for example. Therefore, understanding whether the ordinary view of these disputes is indeed coherent, and what sort of theory of truth it entails, stands to help us understand similar disputes in ethics or epistemology. After pointing out that the three elements of the ordinary view are in manifest tension with one another, the chapter canvasses and rejects several ways of resolving this tension. It then suggests a novel solution to the problem; one arising out of the position that truth can itself come in different forms. If this is so, then one is free to understand truth in some domains—such as the domains that give rise to disputes of inclination—as superassertibility or sustained justification without defeaters. Suitably understood and applied, superassertibility can be invoked to explain a defensible, albeit local, relativism about truth.
New Age Relativism and Epistemic Possibility
Authors: Wright Crispin 
Published: August 2023

Abstract‘New Age’ relativist treatments have been proposed for discourse involving epistemic modalities for the ostensible reason that such accounts best accommodate certain alleged data of retrospective self-correction—‘retraction’—and correction by eavesdropper. The chapter argues for pessimism concerning whether a relativistic semantics is likely to make best sense of these putative data. In many cases, it is arguable that what is corrected is not strictly the epistemic possibility claim itself but the embedded proposition, understood as having been tentatively endorsed or entered into the reckoning for some practical purpose by the making of the original (apparently) epistemic modal claim. In any case, each of these kinds of corrective pattern is not actually upheld in a very significant range of cases, and in general there seem to be no fewer counterexamples to the simplest MacFarlane-style relativistic account than to its non-relativistic competitors. Additional difficulties for the relativist direction include providing the resources to handle certain kinds of embedded epistemic possibility clauses, and the fact that the retrospective correction data seem to be at odds with the admission, presumably integral to relativism, that the criticized claim may have been correct in its original (assessment) context. The discussion indirectly raises doubts whether there is any extant clear model of the patterns that linguistic data in a region of discourse should in principle assume if they are to provide compelling grounds for preferring an assessment-sensitive style of semantic theory.
Talking with Vultures
Authors: Wright Crispin 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe chapter is an extended critical review of Herman Cappelen’s and John Hawthorne’s Relativism and Monadic Truth (OUP, 2009). Cappelen and Hawthorne make a case in detail that conventional contextualist semantic resources suffice for a systematic account of those areas of discourse that advocates of assessment-sensitivity have regarded as most apt for relativistic treatment. The chapter focuses on the case of basic taste and argues, to the contrary, that Cappelen and Hawthorne do not actually succeed in making out a form of contextualism adequate to discourse of basic taste; and moreover that contextualism is anyway an unmotivated direction for this particular area. Rather, a much more promising model is provided by minimalist conceptions of truth and truth-aptitude prefigured in chapter 7. In short, at least for basic taste, the chapter invites a plague on both the relativist and contextualist houses.
Alethic Pluralism, Deflationism, and Faultless Disagreement
Authors: Wright Crispin 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe chapter returns to the “folk”-anti-realist idea about certain areas of my thought and discourse—basic taste, for instance, or comedy—that their lack of objectivity crystallizes in the possibility of “faultless disagreements”: situations where one party accepts P, another rejects P, and neither is guilty of any kind of mistake of substance or shortcoming of cognitive process. As noted in earlier chapters, it proves challenging on closer examination to make coherent sense of this idea, and a majority of theorists have come to reject it as incoherent. There are two significant exceptions in the contemporary literature: relativists often hold it up as something of a coup for their view that it can make straightforward sense of faultless disagreement; and I have argued (Chapters 1 and 2) that making judicious intuitionistic revisions to classical logic can provide resources that suffice to stabilize the notion. The present chapter argues that neither relativism nor intuitionism in fact provides a satisfactory account and indicates how a form of minimalism about truth and truth-aptitude, harnessed within an alethic pluralist framework enables us to do better.
The birth of prohibition
Authors: Seddon Toby 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
In the second of two historical chapters, this chapter examines the international meetings in the first two decades of the twentieth century at which the global drug prohibition system was assembled. After briefly presenting events in the final decades of the nineteenth century, the main part of the chapter focuses on the 1909 International Opium Commission in Shanghai, drawing on original archival research. Through a detailed account and analysis of the Shanghai Commission, it is argued that rather than being an American invention, drug prohibition is rooted in Asia and, in particular, China. The aftermath from Shanghai—a further round of meetings at The Hague between 1911 and 1914—leading up to the First World War is then described. In conclusion, it is argued that this pair of historical chapters demonstrates how the central driving forces in the dynamic that shaped the emergence of today’s prohibition system were not American moralising but rather international trade and commerce, economic regulation, European colonial power, and the modernisation of China.
Judicial Uses of Images
Authors: Goodrich Peter 
Published: August 2023

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A judge springs out of his car on the way to court in downtown Chicago and takes photographs of an inflatable rat. A while later he inserts these photographs into a decision involving another insufflated rodent used in a union protest. The increasing use of images in case law and precedent in the common law world provides a visual atlas of how lawyers see. Using a constantly augmenting corpus of over 400 images drawn from decisions in different common law influenced jurisdictions across the globe, Judicial Uses of Images catalogues, analyses, and reviews the normative significance and affective force of this new medium of legal expression and judgement. An increasingly imaginal transmission of law is critically dissected in the terms of remediation and the emergent criteria and protocols of retinal justice. The affective and aesthetic tensors of viewing are elaborated to provide a guide to the novel visual sensibilities of legality.