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Adorno on Mimesis: irrationality or a different rationality? University of Antwerp
Rationality, counter-rationality and irrationality concerning CCTV surveillance. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Camera surveillance has been considered as a form of panacea capable of solving all security issues. It is believed to fight fears by transforming the urban space into something rational and predictable. However, when applied to surveillance, the excess of rationality can occasionally produce an unbearably panoptic world. Insistence on security and its enforcement leads to the restraint of individual liberties and the creation of oppressive and ...
Degree and birationality of multi‐graded rational maps Ghent University
We give formulas and effective sharp bounds for the degree of multi-graded rational maps and provide some effective and computable criteria for birationality in terms of their algebraic and geometric properties. We also extend the Jacobian dual criterion to the multi-graded setting. Our approach is based on the study of blow-up algebras, including syzygies, of the ideal generated by the defining polynomials of the rational map. A key ingredient ...
Can evolution get us off the hook? Evaluating the ecological defence of human rationality Ghent University
Rationality and radical imagination. The critique of Castoriadis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
According to a widespread but superficial understanding of modern rationality, it is a lack of rational control and an excess of passions, emotions and imagination, which is responsible for evils of any kind – in society and politics as well as in individual life. The remedy for evil is therefore to be sought in reason. By contrast, Horkheimer and Adorno argue in their Dialectic of Enlightenment that the root of evil is reason itself, especially ...