Reads Beckett's comic timing as part of a post-war ethics of representationSamuel Beckett is
a funny writer. He is also an author whose work is taken to respond ethically to the …

Despite extraordinary advances in biomedicine and associated gains in human health and
well-being, a growing number of health and well-being related challenges have remained or …

This paper estimates intergenerational elasticities across three generations in the United
States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exploring how maternal and paternal …

Friedrich Kittler was one of the world's most influential, provocative and misunderstood
media theorists. His work spans analyses of historical 'discourse networks' inspired by …

As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system
became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the …

In this paper, we take up three terms–containment, delay, mitigation–that have been used by
the UK Government to describe their phased response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although …

In the July of 1988, Beckett fell in his kitchen and was discovered unconscious. Hospital
tests were inconclusive. He was thought either to have had a stroke or to be suffering from …

This paper explores the extent to which unskilled internal migrants in the United States were
motivated by the possibility of upward occupational mobility. Drawing on the literature on …

In recent social science literatures, a focus on the “social life” of something suggests an
interest in foregrounding the active capacities of what has traditionally been thought of as …

We study whether banks are riskier if managers have less liability. We focus on New
England between 1867 and 1880 and consider the introduction of marital property laws that …