Sites of Resistance: All-Ages Music Venues in their Local and Theoretical Contexts

This paper shows how all-ages venues resist and contradict basic assumptions behind sociological, cultural policy and "creative cities" approaches to grassroots culture. We use literature review, geographical analysis, and a sound understanding of the actual nature of all-ages venues to discuss the relevance of these institutions to cultural policymaking and sociological theories of social capital alike.Our first section discusses the rise of all-ages venues in terms of a social movement, and posits the movement as a potential counternarrative to pessimistic visions of the future of social capital in youth communities. In our second section, we discuss the definitional and methodological issues in cultural policy that lead to the overlooking of grassroots, participatory, youth-oriented art worlds like those surrounding all-ages venues. Our third section places the rise of all-ages venues in the context of the "creative class" discourse on urban development. Nearby amenities, arts jobs, and high rents are all conventional signs of flourishing culture -- but are negativepredictors of all-ages venues. Instead, these all-ages venues comprise a set of "sites of resistance" across the country, encouraging youth social capital, leadership development and political organization in anti-corporate, communitarian, and ethically-rooted milieu

Fast dynamic deployment adaptation for mobile devices

Mobile devices that are limited in terms of CPU power, memory or battery power are only capable of executing simple applications. To be able to run advanced applications we introduce a framework to split up the application and execute parts on a remote server. In order to dynamically adapt the deployment at runtime, techniques are presented to keep the migration time as low as possible and to prevent performance loss while migrating. Also methods are presented and evaluated to cope with applications generating a variable load, which can lead to an unstable system

The Higher Education White Paper is a good start at introducing real competition between universities for academic places

The Higher Education White Paper, released today, proposes to make student 85,000 places ‘contestable’ between universities over the next two years, allow institutions to take on more high achieving A-level students, and create up to 20,000 places for universities that charge a yearly fee of less than £7,500. Tim Leunig welcomes the White Paper and its proposals, but argues that the proposed changes will do little to improve access to and the quality of, the student experience. ‘Real’ competition is needed

Technological Claustrophobia

Tim O'Riley discusses the genesis of his project to examine how technology can be used to construct a speculative model of a physical and spatial experience

Brentano’s Concept of Intentional Inexistence

What Brentano meant by ‘intentional inexistence’ is explained, as is Brentano’s change of mind about this notion. It is only when we understand the metaphysical and methodological assumptions lying behind Brentano’s original doctrine that we can understand why we have a problem of intentionality in a way Brentano does not.Articl