n this chapter we motivate the study of disordered media through the example of a porous system. The basic terms in percolation theory are introduced, and you learn how to generate, visualize and measure on percolation systems in Python. We demonstrate how to find exact results for small systems in two dimensions by addressing all configuration…
There can be no doubt that Herman Melville (1819–1891) was keenly inter-ested in all manner of living creatures—as Johan Warodell has noted, not only did he write “one of the world’s most famous books about an ani-mal,” one can find references to more than 350 different species in his works (68–9). For this reason, please take a moment to consider the follow-…
The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare. In Martial Aesthetics, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlikely merger, showing that today's creative warfare is merely the extension of a historical development th…
The design aim for hybrid museum experiences, of integrating digital technology closely with the museum space and the museum visit, means that hybrid museum visits need to strike other diff icult balances – they need to be hybrid in more than one respect. In particular, hybrid museum experiences need to take into account how museum visits are performed. Museum technology falls on a scale betw…
In World War II, during the German occupation of Norway (AD 1940 – 1945), the German occu-pational forces established an airfield in the central parts of Ørland. The main part of the airfield was located at Vik. After the war, the Norwegian Air Force developed the airfield as a base for F16 jet fighters (Hovd 2004). In 2012, the Norwegian Parliament decided on investing in a…
For the debates about the ultramontanization of Catholicism in the course of the nineteenth century the contrast of an early example of pilgrimages and a later case during the heyday of ultramontanism can be revealing. Though sim-ilar in social and gender aspects there are differences on the level of organiza-tion, inherent ultramontanism and transnational traits. The phenom…