Materiality (auditing)
View article: Time Fibril Womb A Hidden Principle of Material Universe : A Book of the Century IX
Time Fibril Womb A Hidden Principle of Material Universe : A Book of the Century IX Open
Date: 04 December 2025 Project Title: THE SINGLE COMMON RULE: A Unified Multidisciplinary Framework for the Material Universe (The Time Fibril Womb Project) Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Sarkar Affiliation: Adarshabani Mission, Malda, I…
View article: Time Fibril Womb A Hidden Principle of Material Universe : A Book of the Century IX
Time Fibril Womb A Hidden Principle of Material Universe : A Book of the Century IX Open
Date: 04 December 2025 Project Title: THE SINGLE COMMON RULE: A Unified Multidisciplinary Framework for the Material Universe (The Time Fibril Womb Project) Principal Investigator: Ashutosh Sarkar Affiliation: Adarshabani Mission, Malda, I…
View article: ‘Please reseed.’ Camphor, Turpentine, and the Agrogeographies of Celluloid Cinema
‘Please reseed.’ Camphor, Turpentine, and the Agrogeographies of Celluloid Cinema Open
Utilizing a range of Japanese and English-language historical sources as well as recent scholarship on the trade and cultivation of camphor and turpentine, this article explores some of the vegetal materialities on which celluloid film – a…
View article: Entering Global Health After I Was Already In It
Entering Global Health After I Was Already In It Open
This essay examines how personal context and structural histories shape the ways expertise, identity, and authority are interpreted in global health. Drawing on formative experiences within the legacies of colonialism, postwar Europe, and …
View article: The Architecture of Influence: A Narrative Review on the Role of the Atlas Network and Pro-Market Think Tanks in Public Policy
The Architecture of Influence: A Narrative Review on the Role of the Atlas Network and Pro-Market Think Tanks in Public Policy Open
This qualitative narrative review analyzes the available evidence on the role, strategies, and forms of influence of conservative, libertarian, and neoliberal think tanks, with a particular focus on the Atlas Network. Through a structured …
View article: Entering Global Health After I Was Already In It
Entering Global Health After I Was Already In It Open
This essay examines how personal context and structural histories shape the ways expertise, identity, and authority are interpreted in global health. Drawing on formative experiences within the legacies of colonialism, postwar Europe, and …
View article: The Architecture of Influence: A Narrative Review on the Role of the Atlas Network and Pro-Market Think Tanks in Public Policy
The Architecture of Influence: A Narrative Review on the Role of the Atlas Network and Pro-Market Think Tanks in Public Policy Open
This qualitative narrative review analyzes the available evidence on the role, strategies, and forms of influence of conservative, libertarian, and neoliberal think tanks, with a particular focus on the Atlas Network. Through a structured …
View article: ODAM: Ontological Digital Agents Management and the Proof of Being
ODAM: Ontological Digital Agents Management and the Proof of Being Open
The accelerating dominance of non-human agents in digital infrastructures has created an existential imbalance between human intentionality and synthetic computation. All identity-centric and post-hoc verification paradigms have failed aga…
View article: ODAM: Ontological Digital Agents Management and the Proof of Being
ODAM: Ontological Digital Agents Management and the Proof of Being Open
The accelerating dominance of non-human agents in digital infrastructures has created an existential imbalance between human intentionality and synthetic computation. All identity-centric and post-hoc verification paradigms have failed aga…
View article: Generative AI, Quantum Computing, and the Evolving Role of the Scientist: From Technical Routine to Conceptual Originality
Generative AI, Quantum Computing, and the Evolving Role of the Scientist: From Technical Routine to Conceptual Originality Open
This article analyzes how generative AI and, prospectively, quantum computing are transforming the role of the scientist from a technical operator to a conceptual architect. Large language models are already embedded in everyday research p…
View article: Conspicuous Regeneration: Concepts for Microplastic-Eating and Self-Healing Threads
Conspicuous Regeneration: Concepts for Microplastic-Eating and Self-Healing Threads Open
This conceptual preprint proposes three architectures for regenerative textile threads: (1) lotus-effect transient threads with sacrificial hydrophobic sheaths, (2) microplastic-eating "Uno Reverse" threads embedding plastic-degrading biol…
View article: The Unruly Region: Re-theorizing Scale, Assemblage, and the Materiality of Belonging in Contemporary Geography
The Unruly Region: Re-theorizing Scale, Assemblage, and the Materiality of Belonging in Contemporary Geography Open
This paper critically re-examines the foundational geographical concepts of region, scale, assemblage, and the materiality of belonging. Traditional geographical scholarship often treats regions as fixed containers, scales as pre-given hie…
View article: The Unruly Region: Re-theorizing Scale, Assemblage, and the Materiality of Belonging in Contemporary Geography
The Unruly Region: Re-theorizing Scale, Assemblage, and the Materiality of Belonging in Contemporary Geography Open
This paper critically re-examines the foundational geographical concepts of region, scale, assemblage, and the materiality of belonging. Traditional geographical scholarship often treats regions as fixed containers, scales as pre-given hie…
View article: Generative AI, Quantum Computing, and the Evolving Role of the Scientist: From Technical Routine to Conceptual Originality
Generative AI, Quantum Computing, and the Evolving Role of the Scientist: From Technical Routine to Conceptual Originality Open
This article analyzes how generative AI and, prospectively, quantum computing are transforming the role of the scientist from a technical operator to a conceptual architect. Large language models are already embedded in everyday research p…
View article: Conspicuous Regeneration: Concepts for Microplastic-Eating and Self-Healing Threads
Conspicuous Regeneration: Concepts for Microplastic-Eating and Self-Healing Threads Open
This conceptual preprint proposes three architectures for regenerative textile threads: (1) lotus-effect transient threads with sacrificial hydrophobic sheaths, (2) microplastic-eating "Uno Reverse" threads embedding plastic-degrading biol…
View article: Generic visuality of war? How image-generative AI models (mis)represent Russia's war against Ukraine
Generic visuality of war? How image-generative AI models (mis)represent Russia's war against Ukraine Open
The rise of generative AI (genAI) can transform the representation of different aspects of social reality, including modern wars. While scholarship has largely focused on the military applications of AI, the growing adoption of genAI techn…
View article: North-South Ruptures: Remaking Geographies of Power and Precarity in the 21st-Century Americas
North-South Ruptures: Remaking Geographies of Power and Precarity in the 21st-Century Americas Open
This paper critically examines the evolving dynamics of North-South relations within the American continents in the 21st century, focusing on significant "ruptures" that are fundamentally remaking geographies of power and precarity. Moving…
View article: Generic visuality of war? How image-generative AI models (mis)represent Russia's war against Ukraine
Generic visuality of war? How image-generative AI models (mis)represent Russia's war against Ukraine Open
The rise of generative AI (genAI) can transform the representation of different aspects of social reality, including modern wars. While scholarship has largely focused on the military applications of AI, the growing adoption of genAI techn…
View article: North-South Ruptures: Remaking Geographies of Power and Precarity in the 21st-Century Americas
North-South Ruptures: Remaking Geographies of Power and Precarity in the 21st-Century Americas Open
This paper critically examines the evolving dynamics of North-South relations within the American continents in the 21st century, focusing on significant "ruptures" that are fundamentally remaking geographies of power and precarity. Moving…
View article: STAGING THE EDIBLE: GENDER, CLASS, AND THE PERFORMATIVE POLITICS OF FOOD IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
STAGING THE EDIBLE: GENDER, CLASS, AND THE PERFORMATIVE POLITICS OF FOOD IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE Open
This article reconceptualises the culinary sphere as a performative stage on which gender, class, race, and power are enacted, contested, and reconfigured. Drawing on Judith Butler's theory of performativity, feminist food studies, queer t…
View article: Between Abstraction and Affect: A Comparative Study of Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A and Pina Bausch’s Café Müller
Between Abstraction and Affect: A Comparative Study of Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A and Pina Bausch’s Café Müller Open
This study conducts a comparative analysis of two seminal works in twentieth-century contemporary dance—Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A (1966) and Pina Bausch’s Café Müller (1978)—in order to illuminate the divergent aesthetic logics and philosophi…
View article: STAGING THE EDIBLE: GENDER, CLASS, AND THE PERFORMATIVE POLITICS OF FOOD IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
STAGING THE EDIBLE: GENDER, CLASS, AND THE PERFORMATIVE POLITICS OF FOOD IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE Open
This article reconceptualises the culinary sphere as a performative stage on which gender, class, race, and power are enacted, contested, and reconfigured. Drawing on Judith Butler's theory of performativity, feminist food studies, queer t…
View article: Forging History, The Craft of Unmaking: Metalwork in Contemporary Diasporic Korean Art
Forging History, The Craft of Unmaking: Metalwork in Contemporary Diasporic Korean Art Open
This thesis investigates how contemporary Korean diasporic artists use metal and metalworking processes as conceptual tools to interrogate narratives of modernity and the imperial histories of extraction in Korea that lay beneath. Through …
View article: Libri e scrittura nella poesia di Venanzio Fortunato
Libri e scrittura nella poesia di Venanzio Fortunato Open
Sometimes in his works Venantius Fortunatus (c. 535-600 A.D.) talks of codices donated to, borrowed from or transcribed for someone else, as well as of papyrus letters, wax tablets and autography. This paper aims to provide some insights i…
View article: Tradition and innovation in the design, development and construction of the acoustic steel string guitar
Tradition and innovation in the design, development and construction of the acoustic steel string guitar Open
This thesis investigates the interaction of tradition and innovation. They are often considered to be polar opposites but are, in the terms of this thesis, co-dependent elements in the development of any creative system. In order to examin…
View article: Cuerpos femeninos en transición en las novelas La mujer cambiada y Nada que declarar de Teresa Ruiz Rosas
Cuerpos femeninos en transición en las novelas La mujer cambiada y Nada que declarar de Teresa Ruiz Rosas Open
This essay analyzes the novels La mujer cambiada (2008) and Nada que declarar (2013) by the Peruvian writer Teresa Ruiz Rosas, from the perspective of forced displacement, which serves as the narrative axes through which her female charact…
View article: Carving the Chimeric Mind: The Hohlenstein-Stadel Ivory and the Genesis of Therianthropic Cognition
Carving the Chimeric Mind: The Hohlenstein-Stadel Ivory and the Genesis of Therianthropic Cognition Open
Discovered in the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany, the Löwenmensch or Lion-man figurine, carved from mammoth ivory and dated to approximately 40,000 years BP, stands as one of the most enigmatic and sign…
View article: Carving the Chimeric Mind: The Hohlenstein-Stadel Ivory and the Genesis of Therianthropic Cognition
Carving the Chimeric Mind: The Hohlenstein-Stadel Ivory and the Genesis of Therianthropic Cognition Open
Discovered in the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany, the Löwenmensch or Lion-man figurine, carved from mammoth ivory and dated to approximately 40,000 years BP, stands as one of the most enigmatic and sign…
View article: Nok's Dual Ascent: Independent Iron and Iconic Terracotta, Redefining Early African Technological Prowess (c. 1000 BCE)
Nok's Dual Ascent: Independent Iron and Iconic Terracotta, Redefining Early African Technological Prowess (c. 1000 BCE) Open
The Nok culture of central Nigeria, flourishing from approximately 1000 BCE to 300 CE, represents a pivotal, yet often understated, chapter in human technological history. This paper investigates the simultaneous and seemingly independent …
View article: The Interwoven Empire: Unpacking Inca Statecraft Through Landscape, Materiality, and the Quipu's Algorithmic Logic
The Interwoven Empire: Unpacking Inca Statecraft Through Landscape, Materiality, and the Quipu's Algorithmic Logic Open
This paper explores the intricacies of Inca statecraft through an interdisciplinary lens, focusing on the interwoven relationship between landscape, materiality, and the quipu's algorithmic logic. The Inca Empire, Tawantinsuyu, achieved re…