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...account, published in 1993. Derek Taunt An example of a prime snippet of secret knowledge which we had to keep to ourselves concerned the Bismarck, which had been sunk some three months before my arrival in Hut 6. I was told that its whereabouts at a critical moment had been revealed in an Enigma message to a high-ranking German Air Force officer, whose son was aboard the...

...account for change – focusing on synchronic systems (structure), rather than the diachronic dimension (historical development). Change in ‘style’ and even the definition of ‘art’ is central to art history, so the static structuralist approach brings with it considerable problems. It introduced an aporia (unsolvable riddle) into conceptualisations of the...

...account of what gives opium its power to induce sleep in those who ingest it: it has this power, he says, because of its virtus dormitiva, i.e. its ‘soporific virtues, the tendency of which is to lull the senses to sleep’ (Molière [1673] 1879?, 73–4). The point of the parody is that the doctor has merely introduced a fancy-sounding name for the thing that needs to...