ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ALEATORY
From Latin āleātōrius, from āleātor gambler, from ālea game of chance, dice, of uncertain origin.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALEATORY»
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aleatory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
aleatory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Politics and Philosophy: Niccolò Machiavelli and Louis ...
Instead, these have conventionally been studied from the viewpoint of a philosophical perspective in which politics is excluded. The objective of the present book thus runs against many of the prevailing views on Althusser.
2
The Ministry of Chance: British Romanticism, Darwinian ...
Finally, the concept of chance must be contextualized in relation to the idea of "
the aleatory" itself. "Aleatory" derives from the Latin alea and means that "
dependent on the throw of a die" or "on uncertain contingencies" - that is, on
possible ...
3
The Grail and the Golem: The Sociology of
Aleatory Artifacts
In the case of one of the earliest known aleatory devices, arrows, the two flat
sides of the arrow are differentiated by one being plain, the other decorated. For
games requiring additional complexity as a function of faces, more arrows are
used, ...
Susan M. Schultz has published several anthologies of poetry, and this text represents a collection of her recent works.
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Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk
However, building on the concepts from probabilistic hazard analyses,
uncertainty can be characterized as either aleatory or epistemic in nature (
Budnitz et al., 1997). Aleatory uncertainty is the inherent randomness associated
with natural ...
Patricia Grossi, Howard Kunreuther, 2005
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Human Posture: The Nature of Inquiry
Aleatory Body: Personal Liberation The word 'aleatory' is derived from the Latin
word for a die, which we normally think of in pairs, as dice. What is aleatory
depends upon "the throw of a die," upon "uncertain contingencies" (Oxford
English ...
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Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
"From Heuristic to Aleatory Procedures; or, Toward 'Writing the Accident.'"
Inventing a Discipline. Ed. Maureen Daly Goggin. Urbana, IL; NCTE, 2000. 185-
206. In this essay Vitanza explores the theoretical and practical possibilities of
adopting ...
divergent series related to each other by an aleatory point. Each series may be
visualized as a line formed of points whose interrelations are determined by their
differences from one another. The two lines in turn are set in resonance by a ...
9
Foucault and the Battle for Politics Itself: An
Aleatory ...
In this respect his work challenges the notion that sociology can and should play a role in politics (i.e., projects of societal transformation), since such links are rather believed to be part of the problem.
THE ALEATORY Ordinary metropolitan experience is composed of a thousand
chance collisions. Baudrillard is fascinated with the aleatory juxtapositions,
opportunities and coincidences which derive from dispersal, circulation and
mobility.
Chris Rojek, Bryan S. Turner, 1993
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALEATORY»
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aleatory is used in the context of the following news items.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Barbican, review: 'take a hanky'
If that episode naturally lends itself to dramatic adaptation, what precedes it is a gentler, more aleatory depiction of childhood, in which Dill, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Gazpromneft proposes foreign legal models to start consortiums …
Under an operator's aleatory contract, the mineral developer that owns a license to mining development can provide third party operator access ... «RAPSI, Jul 15»
Hearing Yoko Ono All Over Again
... to Coleman and other free jazz performers, to Karlheinz Stockhausen and Cage, and indeed to Mr. Ichiyanagi's early aleatory compositions. «New York Times, Jun 15»
Critic's Notebook: Opening ears to summer's sounds
For the more aleatory music of the city, you're on your own - but with excellent chances of discovery if you listen. Sometimes, when Fritz and his ... «Philly.com, Jun 15»
It's Comments All the Way Down
One of my favorite things on the Internet is a site called Listen to Wikipedia, which produces a soothing aleatory succession of chimes and ... «The New Yorker, Jun 15»
The definition of artistic greatness: Unfinished ... Works from the …
When artists like Cézanne, Monet and Degas started leaving their paintings in an ambiguous and aleatory state in the late 19th century the ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Fringe Festival gets serious with Co. Venture
Under the influence of his partner, composer John Cage, Cunningham introduced an aleatory aspect to his creations in the 1950s. The real ... «Montreal Gazette, Jun 15»
Commission? Think again
... of the conclusion of a sale, thus depriving brokerage agreements from the risk-of-failure element that is inherent to any aleatory contract. «Olive Press, Jun 15»
One hundred years of no solitude: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred …
There were the delights of the aleatory – just as the three women recited the Michelangelo refrain, two women entered through the creaking ... «Scroll.in, Jun 15»
Review: Mainframe Experimentalism Revisits the Earliest Days of …
In “Computers For The Arts”, Dick Higgins describes two ways of generating output from a computer program – aleatory (randomized) or ... «h+ Magazine, May 15»
