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An exploration of the fundamental realities of the existence Is this the end? If not; how are we to discover and assure for stricken Humanity the vision and the possession of a Better Land? In this volume plumbing the depths of human experience, Alexander Philip explores the nature of reality at its most basic level. Examining the ways that time, abstract thought, and physical sensation affect consciousness, this book posits that matter and energy are the foundations of all existence. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. Alexander Phillip is the author of Essays Toward a Theory of Knowledge

With the evolution of machine learning, predictive risk assessment will establish itself as the standard rather than the exception. However, the excessive reliance on computer software can be detrimental to a state's international human rights framework, threatening the fundamentality of customary international law. This letter highlights the concerns with algorithmic detention during armed conflict, a procedure where the detainee is attributed a recidivist score by an algorithm based on the degree of threat they pose to national security. Accordingly, the algorithm determines whom to detain and the duration of their detention. The primary concern with predictive detention is the instability of data collection during hostility, making the entire procedure manifestly arbitrary. Furthermore, algorithms are pre-set with data inputted by humans. As a result, there will always be room for human error or discriminatory biases that affect its decision-making. These concerns require immediate redressal before military-owned algorithms for the purpose of security detention enter the mainstream.

Although it claims little historical connection to klezmer music or Yiddish culture, the city of Berlin has hosted one of the most dynamic klezmer scenes of the past 20 years. This article analyses ways that place has been made to function as a meaningful unit in the music and lyrics of several artists living and working in Berlin, localising the transnational klezmer revival discourse by rooting the city in their music. Building on Adam Krims' theory of 'urban ethos', I explore how the contemporary city is emplaced in its klezmer music, arguing that these processes of signification allow us to hear contrasting articulations of Berlin. The native Berliners ?Shmaltz! frame their city as an escapist gateway, the American songwriter Daniel Kahn sees a site of painfully unresolved history and the internationalist Knoblauch Klezmer band locate Berlin as an embodiment of playfully multilingual performativity.

Historical introduction -- Talmudic texts -- Midrashic texts -- Mystical (Hekhalot) and magical literature -- Targumim -- Liturgical texts -- Historiography -- Apocalyptic -- Contemporary documents in Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic