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Early modern paper, formed from the fibers of recycled linen rags, captured the imagination of early modern writers, translators, and readers. Drawing on paper's material properties and history, seventeenth‐century chymists — including Thomas Tymme, Michael Maier, and Otto Tachenius — repeatedly imagine papermaking as a chymical purification in order to claim paper as a chymical invention. In doing so, these chymists seek to demonstrate their art's centrality to early modern knowledge production, circulation, and preservation. At the same time, by imagining papermaking as chymistry, these writers probe the boundaries of art and nature, the mechanical and liberal arts, and the ordinary and alchemical. Further, because of readers' familiarity and proximity to linen and paper, the material book offered proof of chymistry's usefulness, grounded in the tacit knowledge of daily experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While postmodern metafiction (or reflexive fiction) is commonly positioned outside the scope of the Ontological Turn due to metafiction's association with postmodernism's insistence on "world as text," this article argues that metafiction's proximity to scientific theories of reflexivity engenders a shift toward what the article calls body as text, a shift that is synchronous with reflexivity's evolution from cybernetics to biological autopoiesis. To trace metafiction's aesthetic evolution from world as text to body as text, the article examines Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Circular Ruins" (1940) alongside early-order cybernetic theories of reflexivity before examining Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper (2005) alongside later theories of biological autopoiesis. While both narratives demonstrate an interest in the world-building powers of the text, the article argues that Plascencia's novel demonstrates reflexivity's autopoietic ability to examine the interstitial relationship between material embodiment and nonhuman agencies. By moving away from Borgesian self-regulation toward self-assembly, The People of Paper gradually sheds the epistemological preoccupations of its world-as-text aesthetic in favor a more ontological body-as-text aesthetic, thereby opening up the possibility of interpreting Plascencia's novel as an aestheticization not of the construction of reality but of the construction of the body itself. In marking a distinction between world-as-text metafiction and body-as-text metafiction, the latter emerges as a uniquely useful heuristic in the Ontological Turn for modeling molecular embodiment and nonhuman agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay understands what it meant and what it means to read The Pentagon Papers in a few related ways. First, when it appeared in 1971, there were at least three different versions of the Papers available. Because, in other words, the reader had to choose between versions from the very start, The Pentagon Papers had to be read both as a text and as a textual event. Second, although the Papers are often remembered as an unmediated document dump, the whole was, in fact, a highly mediated and intensely narrative document, an effort to present the incoherent story—the violence—of Vietnam as a coherent discourse. As a result, they not only demand but also assume interpretation. Finally, the fact that Leslie Gelb, the Department of Defense editor of the Papers, officially introduced its more than seven thousand pages with a pointed reference to Moby‐Dick encourages us to look for and to understand how something unexpectedly novelistic supports and maybe subverts the documentary force of The Pentagon Papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses two computer science research papers concerning artificial intelligence (AI). Topics explored include the susceptibility of deep convolutional neural networks to input pertubations acknowledged in the 2013 study "Intriguing Properties of Neural Networks," by Christian Szegedy and colleagues, and the capability of sequence-to-sequence language models to execute short computer programs reported in the 2014 study "Learning to Execute," by Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever.

Game media have long participated in projects of nation building by remediating historical, political, and social relations in ways that reinforce affective processes of national belonging. The genre of border games in particular is well-known for staging the discursive and symbolic value of national boundaries through the deployment of specific gameplay mechanics and storytelling elements. However, as this essay argues, border games do more than merely represent borders in games; they reflect how borders themselves might be experienced as games within the cultural logic of gamification. Through an analysis of Lucas Pope's independently produced American video game Papers, Please (2013), this article interrogates gamification as a rhetorical process that communicates how play dynamics sustain the procedural logics of border security and citizenship. Such logics, the game suggests, are marked by the installment of a series of rule-based interactions that modulate affect within the sociotechnical mechanics of state-sanctioned racism to enable the proper flow of both play and mobility. However, through failure, the game also reveals gamification to be an incomplete diagram of control, one where the priming of affect rubs up against the sociopolitical frictions that shape individual play experiences. Ultimately, this article argues that border games like Papers, Please enable players to experiment with the forms of national belonging that subtend our experiences of gamification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay reconsiders literary engagements with the figure of the newsboy in terms of their own ambivalences, critiques, and calls for social reform. Taking Horatio Alger's dime novels as a primary case study, this piece explores Alger's sense that the growth of literary business relied too heavily on the exploitation of poverty conditions produced by and disseminated through the medium of popular print. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay reflects on the materiality of migration with a focus on passports and other kinds of documentary permissions for travel. It argues that throughout the history of the Americas passports have acquired meanings exceeding contemporary associations with national citizenship that are discernible in literary works and in the archival record. It looks to documentary practices in Latin America and the Caribbean to decenter the United States from studies of border crossing and Latinx subjectivities, suggesting intersecting hemispheric practices that delineate the relative importance of being documented or undocumented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on Yale University, Beinecke Library, Osborn MS fb4 that contains several paper folios. Topics include examines that published by Thomas Newcomb for the stationers Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins, the Ambassador centered on negotiations at the French court from 1570 to 1573, a period that included the Anjou marriage negotiations, the Ridolfi plot, and the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

An essay is presented which discusses the relationship between the theft of paper, the use of paper as a food wrapper for cheese and London, England's book industry from 1750 through 1799. An overview of the theft of paper from London printers and booksellers and its sale to cheese shops is provided.

Focuses on the failure of literary writer John Milton to prepare a definitive edition of translated documents. Duplication of a state paper letter in two editions; Distinction of parallel publications; Resolution for anomalies.

The author presents his response to three papers on historical criticism that have been accused of containing imperialist discourse. Topics discussed include the inevitable incompleteness of historical evidence, the writer of one of the papers being trained by both historians and literary scholars, and the classification of history as a social science.

The article criticizes against the rhetoric of online paper mills. The purchase of essays from paper mill Web sites is described. The idea that students cannot reject plagiarism is denounced. A classroom-based response to the point of writerly no return faced with options such as the paper mills is posed.

Over the past millennium and across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have been burning paper replicas of the material world to send to their deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of imaginary beings. The paper replicas, which include all types of goods and treasures, mostly old and new forms of money, is commonly referred to as the paper money custom. Studies of the paper money custom have neglected the native opposition to it, especially that of the contemporary intelligentsia, one form of which consists of news reports and human interest stories in the popular press that lampoon the practice of burning paper money. Many stories lampoon the paper money custom by showing how it burlesques traditional virtues such as filial piety. One of the interesting maneuvers in this criticism is how it employs the old and newer kinds of paper monies to shape the response of the readers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article explores narratives of documentary destruction and salvaging during France's Liberation, a moment of uncertain sovereignty over institutions and their material traces. As archival functionaries and government officials sought to uncover and process the paper trail of Vichy and the Occupation, they also confronted urgent questions about administrative continuity as well as legal and moral responsibility. Control over the mass of bureaucratic paper produced between 1940 and 1944, this article suggests, functioned as a critical site of contestation and as a source of legitimacy during the transfer of power. The experience of the war and its aftermath also led France's archivists to discover the practical and symbolic importance of the contemporary administrative document, transforming their pro- fessional practices and institutionalizing a new category of historical time. The relationship between state authority and the archive, often regarded as mutually constitutive, emerges in this account as inherently unstable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the work of Local 65's photo staff, an allied group of member-photographers who took photographs for the union's paper, Union Voice in 1945. Topics discussed include Local 65's interest in photography, Local 65 focuses contemporary racial and gender orders and the practices of unions, and rise of news photography through Local 65's member-photographers.

Explores Henry James's revisions of `The Aspern Papers.' What the earliest alterations did to the text; What he did stylistically; A narrative in which the author tries to control his text and to direct his readers' responses to it; 1908 version; Other versions and his final presentation of `The Aspern Papers.'

This article diagnoses the catastrophe of the present as crisis in motion. Looking to the sphere of circulation as site and source of a multitude of crises in contemporary life, it explores the emergence of crisis not simply in the disruption of movement but in the production of particular regimes of motion. The article tells three stories of crises in motion: supply chain disruption during COVID-19, blockades of colonial circulatory infrastructures, and the disastrous ecologies of extractivism, emphasizing their deep entanglements. This article traces how these crises of lifeworlds are produced by particular configurations of motion that are assembled through imperial infrastructures. Each tale is a fragment of a wider story about the violent motion of expanded reproduction, and between them are common places and peoples in struggle with the entangled crises of premature death, dispossession, and ecological collapse. Yet, in each case, crisis is called to order through refusal. Refusal disrupts racial capitalist and settler colonial circulation as it also opens radical alternatives. Looking to struggles over the imperial logistics of mobility and containment, the paper asks what kinds of collective futures take shape through infrastructure's refusal and repair. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Natasha Trethewey's poem "Native Guard" begins and ends with the phrase "Truth be told," but the poem demonstrates just how difficult it can be to tell the truth — or even a truth — about history. "Native Guard" excavates historical events that many readers will find unfamiliar: the experience of Black Union troops guarding Confederate prisoners on Ship Island in the Mississippi Gulf Coast during the Civil War. This complex history is expressed in a crosshatched poetic form: contemporaneous journal entries arranged in a series of interlinked sonnets that juxtapose the history written in ink on paper with the pain written in blood on people's bodies and the bones buried beneath every historical account. While teaching the poem requires careful attention to historical context, poetic form, and repetition of words, the experience provides an answer to the question students keep asking: Why do we have to keep reading about slavery? This essay describes some pedagogical choices that may help students grasp their responsibility for seeking truths that can't easily be told because they lie buried beneath unexamined historical narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is easy to fall into different modes of reading: books for pleasure, student papers for teaching. This essay considers what it might look like to read student work generously, arguing such generosity shifts a teacher's relationship to student writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we introduce a strongly quasi-local version of the coarse Novikov conjecture, which states that a certain assembly map from the coarse Khomology of a metric space to the K-theory of its strongly quasi-local algebra is injective. We prove that the conjecture holds for metric spaces with bounded geometry which can be coarsely embedded into Banach spaces with Property (H), as introduced by Kasparov and Yu. We also generalize the notion of strong quasi-locality to proper metric spaces and provide a (strongly) quasi-local picture for K-homology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Let D be a division ring with center F, and let G be an almost subnormal subgroup of D*. In this paper, we show that ifGcontains a non-abelian locally solvable maximal subgroup, then D must be a cyclic algebra of prime degree over F. Moreover, it is proved that every locally nilpotent maximal subgroup of G is abelian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will focus on the Chronicles of John Cannon, a ploughboy turned exciseman and writing master living in the Somerset levels who described himself as a "Tennis Ball of Fortune." Cannon's story of self‐education and writerly self‐fashioning took striking material form in an illustrated manuscript book he produced in the first decades of the eighteenth century. As a work and an object, the Chronicles stages a series of conversations between print and manuscript. In exploring this unique case study, we expose how the mixed medium of the manuscript book could present different and mutually supportive forms of authority. In this case, print is referred to through citation, graphic imitation, and paratextual format, whilst at the same time, the virtuoso scribal acts of transcribing and refining within the volume operate as an alternative index of textual fidelity and credibility. Our case study also pushes us to reconsider some of the clustered assumptions around the nature of the manuscript book in this period: this is the work of a male, non‐elite writer, an amateur production. It is not a family or coterie production, and rather than offering a miscellany of genres and hands, it subsumes its varied contents into the narrative of a single life. How do we understand this unique blended form in the context of existing narratives about the nature of the manuscript book? And how might we edit such materials to retain a sense of their hybridity? Cannon's Chronicles also helps us connect the study of the manuscript book to a concern with the social dimensions of manuscript forms in a community of mixed literacies. Cannon's copying and writing became an important performance of professional competence in a culture of amateur literary production. As a case study, his work challenges expectations of gender and class in eighteenth‐century manuscript studies and reveals how the affordances of the pen might reflect the burgeoning print culture of the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we study a discrete approximation to Brownian motion with varying dimension (BMVD) introduced by Chen and Lou in their 2019 paper with continuous time random walks on square lattices. The state space of BMVD contains a 2-dimensional component, a 3-dimensional component, and a “darning point” which joins these two components. Such a state space is equipped with the geodesic distance under whichBMVDis a diffusion process. In this paper,we prove that BMVDrestricted on a bounded domain containing the darning point is the weak limit of continuous-time reversible random walks with exponential holding times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper approaches accomplice work via an exploration of key concepts developed in black social theory, where 'black' indexes capacious traditions of subversive political and social thought, and not simply an epidermal characteristic or descriptor. The paper begins by laying waste to allyship, then describes accomplice work as a contradistinctive praxis through which those who might understand themselves as white unravel and unbecome themselves. A paraontological blackness, I propose, following Fred Moten, Tiffany Lethabo King, and others, is the "method" of that unbecoming. This paraontological, black, unbecoming is also a remaking otherwise, and is thus abolitionist, making the claim that a radical alterity from the strictures of racial identity is necessary, possible, and desirable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Writing and "papers" were first encountered by the Tlingit through contacts with European explorers and traders in the late eighteenth century. Euro- American traders subsequently developed a system of papers of introduction for high-ranking indigenous leaders. These papers became objects of great importance to the leaders, who held them closely and brought them out to show to other important Euro-American visitors. After 1867, US military officers observed that when they encountered Tlingit leaders, they were regularly shown papers from traders in exceptional condition. US military commanders adopted the system, and provided Tlingit leaders with papers recognizing their position and authority, which were likewise carefully preserved. This essay contends that papers of introduction and recognition were conceptualized by Tlingit leaders with the "reverence" accorded in traditional cultural practice to at.óow, thereby instantiating a hybrid bridge of relationship rooted in Tlingit conceptualization of reciprocal and sustained respect for the claims of others. The reverence bestowed by the Tlingit on these instruments was not reciprocated by later agents of US governmentality, notably Governor John Brady, and Tlingit efforts to sustain traditional cultural practices in regard to political leadership through mutual construction of an articulation with US governmentality were repudiated in the early 1900s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents invitations for readers to send research papers and other contributions for the special issues of the journal "American Literature" for 2016. Among the topics to be covered by the issues include comic's queerness across genres, time periods, audiences and production histories, and post-exceptionalist puritanism.

The article offers information on the works on paper and visible collective of artist Jenny Perlin. In Perlin's "Addendum," a series of ten watercolor drawings on vellum and paper, the cellular phone is highlighted in the opening drawing. The drawing, entitled "Red Phone," functions to open a visual conversation between Perlin and Visible Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen and Aimara Lin about the lack of reconciliation between materiality and spirit and between different languages. "Addendum" also functions on different registers depending on one's approach or entry into the work.

Focuses on the characterization of paper money in the novel `The Gold Bug,' by Edgar Allan Poe. Role of paper as medium and image in American history and literature; Interpretation of the virtual quality of paper in Poe's fiction through the historical debate over the significance of paper; Reception of paper money during the American Revolution.

The article discusses teaching collaborative writing using Web-based applications. It cites some tasks involved in genuine collaboration, including giving ideas and feedback, creating content, and debating the merits of an overall argument for the paper. The factors to consider in teaching collaborative writing are noted, such as how to help students manage personality differences and how to structure classrooms so that peers trust one another.

Focuses on the use of one-minute papers written by students at the end of a class as an immediate assessment of how well they grasped what the professor was striving to communicate. Ways by which such an assessment method proved to be a success.

This article recovers the Afropolitan histories of Liberated Africans by examining their mobility and freedom politics. Liberated Africans enacted Afropolitanism when they returned from Sierra Leone to Old Calabar and fashioned themselves into Black Englishmen. Their Afropolitanism incorporated a dissident mode of Anglo-cosmopolitanism, thereby undermining orthodox British visions of imperial subjecthood. In using petitions to British authorities to assert their identity as British subjects, they secured their precarious freedom but challenged British monopoly of the Bight of Biafra's transatlantic palm oil trade. Rather than being mere recipients of abolition, Liberated Africans refashioned abolition. They used forged "freedom papers" to emancipate, repossess, and traffic slaves from Old Calabar society while defending their behavior as "redemption" of slaves. Contrary to imperial fixity of African subjects, Liberated Africans evinced an Afropolitan vision of belonging. They simultaneously claimed to be natives of Sierra Leone and Old Calabar. Their contradictory ideologies and practices mitigated their marginality and confounded African elites and British imperial agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Histories of modern and Fascist Italy have usually given little space to Italian colonialism, and histories of colonialism rarely mention the Italian South. This paper considers the agrarian colonization of Libya and Sicily together, reading them as key components of Italy's nation-building and of the Fascist population politics. After the violent reconquest of Libya (1922–32) and the appropriation of all its fertile land, the Fascist regime turned to the rich and restless social fabric of the Italian South, which became the target for a new politics of space and population control. In a complex process of multiple exchanges, the agrarian colonization of Libya (1932–39) became the model for the agrarian colonization of Sicily (1939–43). By bringing together archives that have mostly been kept separate, this paper argues for a more nuanced notion of the South and colonialism. It does so by examining the ways colonialism was theorized and practiced, first by the Italian Liberal governments (1861–22) as a response to the nation's southern question, and second by the Fascist regime (1922–43) as part of a wider project of reclamation of land and people in Italy and abroad. In particular, the paper compares the uncanny similarities between Fascist architecture and urbanism produced at the height of Fascist rule by the Ente di Colonizzazione della Libia and the Ente di Colonizzazione del Latifondo Siciliano. The paper asks, what links the politics of land, grain, and displacement in Libya and Southern Italy? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that the theory of structured propositions is not undermined by the Russell-Myhill paradox. I develop a theory of structured propositions in which the Russell-Myhill paradox doesn't arise: the theory does not involve ramification or compromises to the underlying logic, but rather rejects common assumptions, encoded in the notation of the λ-calculus, about what properties and relations can be built. I argue that the structuralist had independent reasons to reject these underlying assumptions. The theory is given both a diagrammatic representation and a logical representation in a novel language. In the latter half of the paper I turn to some technical questions concerning the treatment of quantification and demonstrate various equivalences between the diagrammatic and logical representations and a fragment of the λ-calculus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a memorial tribute to author and critic Barbara Johnson in the combined form of an essay and literary critique. Her essays "Bringing Out D. A. Miller" and "Bringing Out Roland Barthes" are discussed in the context of a deconstructionist approach to criticism and from the personal perspective of this article's author.

The author discusses African literature, particularly the writings of Chinua Achebe. He refers to Achebe's novel "Arrow of God" which tells the story of how literacy came to Igboland. The story is set in 1922 in Igboland, Nigeria, and centers on a family who gathers together in their dimly lit compound listening to their mother while she tells her children a story. A synopsis of the novel and analysis of the literary symbolisms within the story are presented.

The article discusses several less bounded forms of literary and generic history, forms that escape constraints previously accepted as rules of the literary history game. William Shakespeare's histories and tragedies repeatedly centralize the body in mutilation and pain, the isolated and suffering victim, the moment when the hunted human quarry is run to ground and done to death like that of royal claimant Richard Duke of York at the hands of his Lancastrian adversaries after the battle of Wakefield in 1461. Suffolk's comments represent an attempt to escape the debased condition of "bare life," but to escape from it to another register entirely to the external circumstance of a great man undone by lesser assailants rather than by seeking to alter its essential or inner meaning.

Narrates reflections on the origins, construction and preservation of German-Jewish memory after 1945. Archives as an institution; Unified Berlin Republic's search for identity and legitimacy and Germany's growing confrontation with multiculturalism intensifying obsession with comprehending and re-appropriating a missing Jewish past.

Looks at the reception of the novel `Uncle Tom's Cabin,' in the pages of `Frederick Douglass' Paper,' primarily between 1852 and 1854. Discussion of `Frederick Douglass' Paper and Douglass' cultural situation in the 1850s; In-house review of `Uncle Tom's Cabin' on April 8, 1852 which was probably the work of Douglass' financial supporter and managing editor, Julia Griffiths; More.

Presents a reassessment of French foreign policy during the Crimean War based on the papers of Adolphe de Bourqueney. Role played by Napoleon III in the formulation of inconsistencies in French policy; Classification of the papers produced by Bourqeney; Private letters from the foreign ministers of the time.

In this paper, we discuss the asymptotic behavior of the capacity of the range of symmetric random walks on finitely generated groups. We show the corresponding strong law of large numbers and central limit theorem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we derive from deep results due to Clozel and Ullmo a sharp density result of Noether-Lefschetz loci inside the moduli space of marked (polarized) irreducible holomorphic symplectic (IHS) varieties. In particular, we obtain the density of Hilbert schemes of points on projective K3 surfaces and of projective generalized Kummer varieties in their moduli spaces. We present applications to the existence of rational curves on projective deformations of such varieties, to the study of the Mori cone of curves and of the associated extremal birational contractions, and a refinement of Hassett's result on cubic fourfolds whose Fano variety of lines is isomorphic to a Hilbert scheme of two points on a K3 surface. We also discuss Voisin's conjecture on the existence of coisotropic subvarieties on IHS varieties and relate it to a stronger statement on Noether-Lefschetz loci in their moduli spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Argues that the socio-semiotic work of consumer magazines influences black South Africans. Discussion on magazines as cultural tools; Historical account of the 'Zonk!' magazine; Analysis of magazines in English as manifestations of a black middle-class repertoire