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This paper considers Berkeley's use of Plato in Siris. Berkeley's engagement with ancient thinkers in Siris has been a source of puzzlement for many readers. In this paper I focus on Siris § 266. In particular, I consider why Berkeley says of the Platonists that they "distinguished the primary qualities in bodies from the secondary" and why, given his own well-known misgivings about the distinction, he characterizes this as part of a "notion of the true system of the world." I argue that in Siris Berkeley accepts a distinctive form of corpuscularianism, and that he thinks a distinction between primary and secondary qualities follows from this. I further argue that in § 266, and elsewhere in Siris, Berkeley engages in a careful reading of Plato's Timaeus, which he uses to bolster his defense of the compatibility between corpuscularianism and his immaterialist idealism.

Given ongoing changes in the social structuration of evaluation, the circulation of evaluative information is becoming an increasingly important factor in the production of constitutive effects of evaluation. There is power in the circulation of evaluative information, and therefore also power in attempts to regulate or curb it. Based on one case exemplifying massive circulation of evaluative information (Google Scholar), and one with very limited circulation (workplace assessments), we show how infrastructure, interests and institutional rules are useful analytical entry points into studies of circulation. The paper proposes a new theoretical and empirical attention to circulation of evaluative information as a fragile and contested phenomenon.

Este artículo propone que los eslóganes neoliberales son poderosos, aunque ambiguos, vehículos de simplicidad, polarización y moralidad. En base a documentación sobre el Perú, particularmente sobre las tensiones y confrontaciones antes, durante y después del llamado Baguazo, se propone que los eslóganes neoliberales han sido instrumentales para generar, en lugar de simplemente acompañar, las contradicciones que moldean y continúan afectando los conflictos sociales y ambientales en la Amazonía peruana. Desde esta perspectiva, los eslóganes no son simplemente "formas" cuidadosamente elaboradas, sino que tienen una importancia social que merece atención etnográfica y teorización antropológica.

This article explores the transformation of heritage values from discourse to experience in a new affective economy. The case of Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam serves to demonstrate the intertwined role of affective experience and neoliberal heritage entrepreneurialism. Both are intimately connected through processes of heritage commodification and consumption prompting attention to heritage not only in affective terms alone, but how this relates to the political economy of tourism.

Evaluability assessment is a diagnostic and prescriptive tool which helps evaluators determine whether evaluation is appropriate in a given situation. Thus, evaluation is understood as a situational good. Today, however, evaluability assessment is no longer particularly popular. Mandatory, comprehensive and repetitive evaluation systems are gaining ground in public administration supported by general social, political and managerial norms and values, indicating that evaluation is believed to be a universal good. Can a form of evaluability assessment be re-vitalized in order to pave the way for a more modest, more reflexive, and more context-sensitive belief in evaluation? The article offers a specific list of items in an updated version of evaluability assessment, and concludes with a discussion of the limitations of such approach.

Evaluability assessment is a diagnostic and prescriptive tool which helps evaluators determine whether evaluation is appropriate in a given situation. Thus, evaluation is understood as a situational good. Today, however, evaluability assessment is no longer particularly popular. Mandatory, comprehensive and repetitive evaluation systems are gaining ground in public administration supported by general social, political and managerial norms and values, indicating that evaluation is believed to be a universal good. Can a form of evaluability assessment be re-vitalized in order to pave the way for a more modest, more reflexive, and more context-sensitive belief in evaluation? The article offers a specific list of items in an updated version of evaluability assessment, and concludes with a discussion of the limitations of such approach.

Evalueringsbølgen og dens forskellige former afspejler skiftende normer, værdier og forventninger i samfundet. Henholdsvis "refleksiv modernitet" og "The Audit Society" ("Revisionssamfundet") tilbydes som to analytiske samfundstyper, der hver svarer til bestemte forestillinger om evaluering, og der argumenteres for, at der har været en stigende betoning af sidstnævnte i de senere år. Denne udvikling forklares, og en kritisk diskussion af dens konsekvenser gennemføres. Et af de vigtigste temaer i denne diskussion er et spændingsforhold mellem på den ene side stærke ønsker om forudsigelighed, entydighed og kompleksitetsreduktion i de aktuelle evalueringsmodellers måde at fremelske ansvarlighed på og på den anden side stor kompleksitet i de faktiske problemstillinger, som evalueringsmodellerne konfronteres med i den sociale virkelighed.

Dansk poesi i 00'erne har mere end nogensinde tidligere ?bnet sig for politisk og socialt orienterede diskurser. Denne indoptagelse af forestillingsomr?der, der normalt i den centrallyriske tradition er blevet forvist fra det poetiske dom?ne, har haft m?rkbare konsekvenser for den poetiske form, der i de seneste ?rs flerstemmige interaktionslyrik afviger fra, hvad vi tidligere har set. I mit paper vil jeg give en skitse af, hvorledes dette konkret ytrer sig hos en r?kke af de mest markante danske lyrikere fra de seneste ?r s?som Naja Marie Aidt, Ursula Andkj?r Olsen, Mette Moestrup, Lars Skinnebach og Marius N?rup-Nielsen. I forl?ngelse af dette vil jeg give et bud p? lyrikkens betingelser i ?post-bog-tidsalderen?, hvor litteraturen bl.a. i stigende grad optr?der i interaktioner med andre kunstarter, som performance og som internetformidlede enheder. Jeg vil fremh?ve et alternativ til den ofte pessimistiske diskurs om dette emne, som lanceres i s?vel amerikanske (Dana Gioia, Marjorie Perloff, Virginia Jackson) som nordiske (Ari Behn, Niels Frank, Mikkel Thykier) kritikere. Min holdning er her, at den poetiske genre til trods for alle medie- og formidlingsm?ssige revolutioner stadig er intakt, hvad ang?r en r?kke af sine konstituerende tr?k og sin manifestation af s?vel kvalitativ som kvantitativ art.