Putting Things Back Together

The title of the 2001 exhibition 'The Genius of Rome', held in London and Rome, is ambiguous. The curatorial meaning is that the simultaneous presence of painters, patrons and other power brokers during two and a half decades made 'the birth of the…

Political science is the product of modernity and the nation-state. A dominant tradition within it has striven for a positivistic and universal form of understanding, based on the individual actor. Developments in recent years have questioned our…

Design and development work have become increasingly interesting to CSCW researchers. This paper introduces a new perspective for examining that work: recomposition. Recomposition focuses on the activities required to coordinate the assembly of an…

Integrating resources into the Web is an important aspect of making them accessible as part of this global information system. The integration of physical things into the Web so far has not been done on a large scale, which makes it harder to…

I defend the 'bare bones theory', according to which sentences that contain demonstratives should be evaluated relative to contexts that include demonstrata, from two objections: first, that it fails to account for absent demonstrata; and, second,…

In their native environments, proteins perform their biological roles in highly concentrated viscous solutions and in complex networks with numerous partners. Yet for many years, the normal practice has been to purify a protein of interest in order…

Based on a study of survivors in many different organizations, a paper focuses on how downsizing has affected employees' psychological and physical health and how their condition affects organizations. The results suggest that the consequences of…

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 2003, Vol 48(4), 446-448. Provides a review of the book "Psychoneuroimmunology (Vols. 1 & 2, 3rd ed.)" by Robert Ader, David L. Felten, and Nicholas Cohen (see record…

It is a common conceit of academic writing to insist that progress in some given area of law or political theory is hampered by hopeless confusion over the meaning of certain standard terms. My usual attitude toward such claims is one of passionate…

The European Union's Programmes for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland (PEACE I, II and III, 1994-2011) are assumed to be unique, unprecedented interventions designed for the specific context of the Troubles. Yet they are part of a much…