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Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...changes in ownership. But we are more interested in how piracy opens an exploration of the boundaries of sovereignty. Historically, the idea of a contiguous space of sovereignty (where one boundary touches the next, without non-sovereign territories in between) is rather recent, and in many parts of the world does not exist in practice – permanent policing of these...
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...changing the underlying conditions of society that give rise to the kinds of crime that we've all we've all got good reason to fear. W we're never gonna have a position where you're going to have blanket video surveillance, because it's far too expensive. So video surveillance will always be selective, and it's likely to concentrate on the principal thoroughfares and high...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...changed. Plate 1 Rachel Whiteread, House, 1993. (© The artist. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo: Tate Photography.) Gilbert and George, Life from Death Hope Life Fear, 1984, handcoloured photographs, framed on paper, unique. (© Gilbert and George. Courtesy Tate, London, 2005.) Jake and Dinos Chapman, CFC76311561.1, 2002, painted bronze, 92 × 58 × 49 cm. (© The...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...changes when you move the slider. It gets higher when you move the slider to the right and lower when you move it to the left. Similarly, the number indicating the frequency of vibration (the number with ‘Hz’ after it just below the slider bar) gets higher when you move the slider to the right and lower when you move it to the left. The Online Tone Generator’s...
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...change in brightness and that limit is set by its size. This argument may be inverted to state that if the observer sees a significant change in brightness of an unresolved source in a time Δt, then the radius of the source can be no larger than R = cΔt. This kind of argument applies for any three-dimensional configuration where changes in brightness occur across a...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...change! Words: 0 Answer I retired 4 years ago Me jubilé hace 4 años I perform the functions Desempeño las funciones como I fundamentally value affection Fundamentalmente valoro el cariño …gathered around a table Reunidos en torno a una mesa I have a gift for languages Tengo facilidad para los idiomas I am determined to learn Chinese right now Estoy empeñado en...
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...changes between NeoClassicism and Romanticism by means of a comparison between a history painting by Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), the principal exponent of Neoclassicism, and one by Eugene Delacroix (1798–1863), the leading French Romantic painter. David's Oath of the Horatii, exhibited in the Salon of 1785 (see Plate 1), depicts an example of patriotic virtue...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...changes (or not) depending on the particular questions that are set. Ideally, assessments should give every pupil optimal opportunity to demonstrate what they know. In practice, however, tests have been found to be biased against pupils from particular backgrounds, socio-economic classes, ethnic groups or gender (Pullin, 1993). Equity issues are particularly important...