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Introduction
Authors: Lim Song Hwee 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
This Introduction sets out the premise for Taiwan cinema’s soft power and draws out some methodological implications for a study of this kind. It proposes that Taiwan offers an intriguing yet important case for the study of soft power because its hard political and economic powers are highly circumscribed. Departing from a tendency in scholarship to pay overwhelming attention to the role of government agents in countries with hard power, it calls for a closer scrutiny of the roles of both nonstate agents and the audience. The study of soft power, hitherto conducted mainly by social scientists, is predominantly interested in tracing the effect of soft power generated by agents’ initiatives. This Introduction seeks to contribute, from a humanities perspective, to the study of soft power by bringing the notion of affect into the equation because it can help us explain the mediating environment that fundamentally undergirds any cultural flow and communicative process. It argues that agency does not stem from Taiwanese governmental and nongovernmental actors devising strategies to promote Taiwan cinema’s soft power. Rather, agency emanates from foreign bodies (both individual and collective, personal and institutional) that, precisely because of their affective resonances with Taiwan films and auteurs, have initiated schemes, processes, and expressions that stand as concrete manifestations of such a soft power.
The Medial Turn
Authors: Lim Song Hwee 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
This chapter traces the flow of soft-power resources across different artistic realms through Tsai Ming-liang’s intermedial practices in order to reflect upon the state and status of the cinematic image in the post-medial era. Tsai’s declared retirement, in 2013, from feature-length filmmaking frees him to develop other modes of artistic practice—what this chapter calls a medial turn, signaled by a move away from the movie theater and into art galleries and museums—that demands an expanded definition of cinema. This chapter argues that Tsai’s drift from the black box to the white cube reformulates the affective relationship between cinema and its audience. It will examine how Tsai, via a carnivalesque staging of his cinematic and intermedial work in his first solo exhibition held in Taipei in 2014, raises questions about the contemporary status of the museum as a cultural institution and a mass medium as public space. As Tsai’s medial turn coincides with his adoption of digital technology in filmmaking, this chapter also explores the ways in which Tsai’s digital turn affords an extension of temporal duration and slowness in a series of short films whose medial attention on the World Wide Web challenges the ethics of spectatorship. This chapter concludes that Tsai’s medial-cum-digital turn shows us that the power that cinema (conventional or expanded) has to move us, whether in the movie theater or in the museum, remains with images that slow us down and that demonstrates to us the softness and tactility of the human body.
Epilogue
Authors: Lim Song Hwee 
Published: February 2022

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This epilogue advances the thesis laid out in the main body of the book by demonstrating how a nation’s soft power in the form of cinema can attract aliens to adopt practices and to develop projects—whether within or without the said nation’s territory—that might, in turn, reinvigorate, rejuvenate, and resurrect that nation’s cinema, becoming, as it were, the latter’s afterlives. It contends that, nearly four decades after its inception, Taiwan New Cinema continues to exert its influence across the world, with evidence ranging from open acknowledgment of affinity and specific filmmaking practices (such as homage and remakes) to other routes and detours (e.g., migration). By focusing on how Taiwan cinema attracts aliens to the island, this Epilogue also turns the outward-bound notion of soft power on its head not so much to discount its impact abroad but rather, precisely, to account for the harvesting of its effects as they travel back home like a boomerang. It maps out the implications of this alien resurrection for our understanding of Taiwan cinema and its afterlives vis-à-vis the three keywords of the book’s subtitle (namely, authorship, transnationality, and historiography) and the overarching framework of soft power (here emphasizing the role played by Taiwanese institutions).
A Plea for Natural Philosophy
Authors: Maddy Penelope 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
This volume collects 11 essays, five new and six reprinted, all completed between 2010 and 2020. Though the topics vary widely, each essay bears in one way or another on the description, exploration, or application of a version of naturalism called Second Philosophy. The title essay traces the source of second-philosophical thinking to the ‘natural philosophy’ of the early modern period, when ‘science’ and ‘philosophy’ weren’t separate disciplines. Those that follow explore the consequences of the second-philosophical approach for the realism/instrumentalism debate in the philosophy of science, for the challenge of radical skepticism about our knowledge of the external world, for the theory of truth and reference, and for the philosophies of logic, arithmetic, and contemporary pure mathematics. Developing these themes involves close engagement with historical figures of the 17th and 18th centuries—Locke, Hume, and Reid—and the 20th—Moore, Wittgenstein, and Austin.
The Constructive View
Authors: Táíwò Olúfẹ́mi O. 
Published: February 2022

Abstract
In the decades following the Second World War, the globe underwent massive transformation. It was possible then to believe that the global colonial system was cracking, and possible to believe it was ready to crumble. Ultimately, however, while some meaningful power changed hands and the globe’s political architecture adjusted, the core of the system proved resilient. The channels distributing wealth, political rights, and violence around the globe continued to operate as new enforcement mechanisms arose, ranging from overt and formally acknowledged levers of power and influence (including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank) to the covert tactics of spycraft and propaganda that characterized the political conflict of the Cold War. The mid-twentieth century started the remaking of the world but it only got so far. The project of reparations is to finish the job. Chapter 3, “The Constructive View,” explains the worldmaking view of justice that this book is written to promote. The injustice that reparations respond to is global and distributive, which helps explain what reparations need to accomplish: building a just distribution. The view of racial injustice that the previous chapter introduces also helps explain why racial justice requires reparations: we have to respond not only to today’s injustices in distribution but also to the accumulated result of history’s distributive injustices.
Introduction
Authors: Niebur Louis 
Published: February 2022

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The chapter opens with a discussion of the phenomenon of the “clone,” acknowledging the continuing problems in the Castro for people of color and women. The significance of dancing in gay bar culture is highlighted and a brief history of the legality of gay bars in the United States is provided, with a focus on same-sex dancing. The emergence of disco dancing in the early 1970s and its importance for newly out San Franciscans is described. The introduction concludes with a summary of the story of the San Francisco sound, including a description of its musical characteristics and associated DJs, clubs, musicians, and producers.
Blecman and Hedges
Authors: Niebur Louis 
Published: February 2022

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Against the chaotic backdrop of the Milk/Moscone assassinations, Anita Bryant’s Save Our Children campaign, and the Jim Jones massacre, Marty Blecman and John Hedges established themselves at the center of the nascent San Francisco sound in 1978. First through their DJing, then as remix artists at Fantasy, and finally through their own original productions, Blecman and Hedges shifted the course of disco through their sparse but intense arrangements, incorporation of electronic sounds, and hedonistic ethos. This chapter charts their progress through the late 1970s. While Sylvester and Cowley continued to explore their own space-age sound, Blecman and Hedges worked behind the scenes to steer disco further away from its Philly origins and toward a high-energy style that would serve the culture well when disco, seemingly overnight, was dropped by mainstream America.
The San Francisco Sound Thrives
Authors: Niebur Louis 
Published: February 2022

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Dance music’s continued popularity after the “death of disco” spurred a second wave of records in San Francisco, encouraged by the arrival of a new group of gay Los Angeles DJs. Bill Motley led the way with his high-energy medleys of Motown hits, initially just remixes of the originals, but soon with fully arranged remakes in the form of his creation, Boys Town Gang. With the success of Sylvester’s backup singers Two Tons o’ Fun’s first solo outing, Loverde and Patrick Cowley also decided to produce their own music. By the end of 1980, Fusion and Moby Dick Records had become San Francisco’s first gay-owned, gay-run dance music labels, producing worldwide hits rivaling anything corporate record labels could offer.
Violence and Restorative Justice
Authors: Beckett Katherine 
Published: February 2022

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Existing criminal justice and sentencing policies do not serve survivors of violence well, particularly those who are of color and from disadvantaged communities. Policies that allow for the imposition of long and life sentences are often said to reflect victims’ preferences, but this is misleading. Long prison sentences also consume significant public dollars that could be reallocated to improve victim services and enhance crime prevention efforts. Increased investment in restorative justice alternatives would also provide a more effective, humane, and racially equitable way of responding to the problem of violence. While important questions about scalability remain unresolved, developing the institutional capacity to operate restorative justice-inspired interventions that target violence and survivors of color is an important component of the effort to ameliorate the harm associated with both violence and mass incarceration.
Spreading Hate
Authors: Byman Daniel 
Published: February 2022

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This book describes the rise of the modern global white power movement, tracing its evolution from various Ku Klux Klan organizations in the pre–civil rights era in the United States, skinheads in Europe, and similar groups around the world. Drawing on attacks from New Zealand to Norway to South Carolina, the author details how the movement changed, often becoming more violent in the process. The book examines the movement’s ideas, strategies for victory, impact on politics, and use of social media. The book assesses the political influence of white supremacists: in much of the world, they are roundly rejected, but parts of their message of fear and hatred have crept into broader political discourse. The author also assesses the movement’s many vulnerabilities and how counterterrorism can exploit these through more effective law enforcement and intelligence gathering, international cooperation, and community programs. Successful counterterrorism, however, depends heavily on the right political climate for fighting hate, and white supremacists can expand their influence and conduct more deadly attacks when leaders ignore the threat but suffer huge blows when confronted.
Orchestra Management Handbook
Authors: Newton Travis 
Published: February 2022

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Written for those who are contemplating jumping into the orchestra management realm, this Orchestra Management Handbook will provide a significant head-start for those entering this complicated, exciting, and challenging line of work. A multitude of challenges have faced orchestra managers since the beginning of the art form, and they will continue to face those who make the orchestra enterprise their life’s work, alongside new challenges that will arise in the 21st century. Whether short-term, long-term, internal, external, or existential, an intentional approach to building, maintaining, and sustaining relationships must be at the core of the orchestra manager’s daily routine. Each chapter of this handbook provides practical strategies, tools, and a variety of resources to those who work in the orchestra management field, with an emphasis on relationship building throughout. Illustrative case studies highlighting innovative practices being undertaken at orchestras across the country are regularly featured, providing the reader an opportunity to learn from the experiences of others. Additionally, each chapter concludes with a series of discussion questions to ponder, teasing out some of the chapter’s key concepts. Few arts organizations have more potential for building community than orchestras—with a typically large permanent complement of artists, a high volume of performances, and a need for large audiences, building community should be central to the internal and external operations of the modern orchestra.
Internal Relationships
Authors: Newton Travis 
Published: February 2022

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Though briefly touched upon in Chapter 1, this chapter explores more fully the organizational structure of orchestras in the United States, including characteristics and functions particular to the not-for-profit orchestra. Organizational charts are discussed and explained, along with sample orchestra organizational charts, including examples of small, medium, large, co-operative, and chamber orchestras. The various roles of administrative staff are explored, including staff positions that are sometimes held by musicians in the orchestra. The chapter then shifts its focus to the hiring, management, and support of the musicians, including the organization’s relationship with unions (both artistic and non-artistic) and collective bargaining.
Marketing and Public Relations
Authors: Newton Travis 
Published: February 2022

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This chapter highlights well-established marketing theory and practice, including the “four P’s” of marketing, and explores the application of those concepts within orchestras. Additional concepts include the target marketing process, the importance of positioning, and the utilization of a variety of channels. New modes of distribution, including digital platforms, are also discussed, as are examples of success. Shifting patron buying habits away from subscriptions and toward single ticket purchases is explored in-depth. Finally, the various forms of public relations and their utility for orchestras in a constrained budgetary position are explored.
Toward Relevance
Authors: Newton Travis 
Published: February 2022

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The goal of this chapter is to underscore the need for orchestras to expand upon their roots in the “classical” tradition and become relevant to their entire communities, not only to the “elite.” Understanding the origins of orchestras helps to frame the chapter, and a variety of perspectives on relevance are shared. Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are defined and contextualized for the reader, and statistics related to the overwhelming whiteness of orchestras are highlighted. Following this framing, an analysis of orchestras’ relevance to their community is addressed, alongside recommendations to assist orchestras who wish to engage in ongoing, sustained work toward inclusivity.
From the Field
Authors: Newton Travis 
Published: February 2022

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This chapter’s focus is on advice and resources from those working in the orchestra management field, providing insight and recommendations to current and future orchestra managers. Because orchestra management is such an applied field, these real-world recommendations and tools are an important component of a book that aims to be a resource to those working in the field. The recommendations are “evergreen,” providing advice and context that could be applied in orchestras within any community, and of any size. The chapter concludes with a comprehensive listing of additional resources related to artistic planning, blogs, news and case studies, career development, equity, diversity and inclusion, management and governance, patron development, and a comprehensive listing of service organizations, associations and unions.
Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy
Authors: Russell Paul 
Published: February 2022

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This book is a collection of essays that are concerned with major figures and central topics of the history of early modern philosophy. Most of these essays are studies on the philosophy of David Hume, one of the great figures in the history of philosophy. One central theme, connecting many of the essays, concerns Hume’s fundamental irreligious intentions. Russell argues that a proper appreciation of the significance of Hume’s irreligious concerns, which runs through his whole philosophy, serves to discredit the deeply entrenched framework for understanding Hume—and much of early modern philosophy—in terms of the idea of “British Empiricism.” In a substantive introduction, Russell outlines how his various insights overlap and connect to each other. The volume is organized thematically into five sections: metaphysics, free will, ethics, religion, and general interpretations of Hume’s philosophy. The collection also features a previously unpublished essay on Hume’s atheism and an essay on Adam Smith's views on religion and ethics that has not been previously published in English.
Probability, Induction, and a Future State
Authors: Russell Paul 
Published: February 2022

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This essay argues that Hume’s famous discussion of probability and induction, as originally presented in the Treatise, is significantly motivated by irreligious objectives. A particular target of Hume’s arguments is Joseph Butler’s Analogy of Religion. In the Analogy Butler intends to persuade his readers of both the credibility and practical importance of the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments. The argument that he advances relies on probable reasoning and proceeds on the assumption that our past experience in this life serves as a reliable and effective guide for our expectations concerning a future state. In the relevant sections of the Treatise Hume aims to discredit this religious argument and the practical objectives associated with it.
Beer
Authors: Arthur John W. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractBeer: A Global Journey through the Past and Present offers a comprehensible and readable worldwide perspective on the dynamic origin and impact of beer, as well as rich descriptions of its continued importance among Indigenous societies today. Ancient and contemporary beers from the Near East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas document the remarkable influence Indigenous beers have had in shaping the development of food production and state-level societies and are an essential food for contemporary Indigenous societies, inspiring their social and economic actions. In the past and present, beer was and is more than an intoxicating substance; it was and is an essential food integral to maintaining good health. Control over the technological knowledge and resources to produce beer created space for status differentiation and its use as capital-motivated laborers. Beer also serves to unite people and connects the living with their ancestral past. The innovations by Indigenous brewers are now transforming the types of ingredients and flavors produced by the global craft brew industry. This unique book focuses on past and present non-industrial beers, highlighting its significance in people’s lives through four themes: innovating new technologies, ensuring health and well-being, building economic and political statuses, and imbuing life with ritual and religious connections.
The Near East and East Asia
Authors: Arthur John W. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractChapter 3 begins an in-depth geographical journey exploring the relationship between people and beer in Southwest Asia, currently considered the region where the world’s first brewing took place. Southwest Asia beer documents for the first time new types of technologies that may have been associated with distinct rituals well before the advent of grain domestication. Ancient beer research has now changed our perceptions of when, why, how, and where beer was first brewed. This chapter highlights the earliest beer discovered from Raqefet Cave, Israel, followed with later Southwest Asian sites containing the earliest monumental architecture associated with rituals and decorative stone bowls possibly used for beer production. The chapter discusses the site of Jiahu, where beer first appeared in China and was associated with a rich symbolic context. It next outlines the archaeological evidence as to whether beer may have been invented before bread and how beer led to the development of the Mesopotamian state society. The chapter concludes with the ritual use of beer among the contemporary Ainu of Japan.
Tapped Out
Authors: Arthur John W. 
Published: February 2022

AbstractChapter 7 ends our journey with a discussion of the influence beer has had on our species involving our health, economics, technology, and rituals. The chapter connects Indigenous brewing to the craft beer industry in its efforts for sustainability and use of seasonal, local ingredients. With the recent growth of craft beer consumption has come a need to educate and train the next generation of brewers, and this has spurred a relationship between craft brewers and universities. An outgrowth of this partnership is the creation of renditions of ancient beers by brewing arts students working in tandem with local craft brewers as well as experimental archaeologists developing their own brews based on their archaeological research. This chapter includes six of these successful beer recipes, ranging from beer made from stale bread to those infused with chocolate. The art of beer making extends deep into ancient time, but present-day brewers, working with anthropologists, continue to connect the past to the present.
Panentheistic Cosmopsychism
Authors: Medhananda Swami 
Published: February 2022

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Chapter 9 concerns what contemporary philosopher David Chalmers has called the “hard problem of consciousness”—the problem of explaining how conscious experience arises. The chapter provides an in-depth reconstruction of Vivekananda’s Sāṃkhya-Vedāntic solution to the hard problem of consciousness and demonstrates its relevance to contemporary philosophical debates. The chapter first outlines Ramakrishna’s mystically grounded views on consciousness and the views of five of Vivekananda’s prominent Western contemporaries: John Tyndall, T. H. Huxley, William James, W. K. Clifford, and Alfred Russel Wallace. It then examines Vivekananda’s own approach to the hard problem of consciousness and his critique of modern materialist theories of consciousness. Combining elements from Sāṃkhya, Advaita Vedānta, and the teachings of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda defends a metaphysics of panentheistic cosmopsychism, according to which the sole reality is Divine Consciousness, which manifests as everything in the universe.
Introduction
Authors: Lopes Dominic McIver , Nanay Bence , Riggle Nick 
Published: February 2022

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Aesthetic life encompasses engagement with design, fashion, food, ideas, and nature, as well as folk art, the popular arts, and the fine arts. Understood broadly, almost all human beings enjoy detailed and rich aesthetic lives. Moreover, it matters to us that we do. A central task of philosophy is to explain how aesthetic life matters—how it contributes to well-being, a life well lived, or a meaningful life. Traditionally, philosophers have taken aesthetic engagement to contribute pleasure or to provide valuable experience. The traditional answer is sufficiently unsatisfactory to motivate a search for alternatives. Three alternatives are briefly summarized.