Taking Heed: Between Consideration and Deference

Some theorists maintain that democracy is a condition in which citizens have authority over matters of common concern. But just what kind of authority citizens have proves difficult to describe. Under...

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<em>At Swim-Two-Birds</em> and the literary development of Aldous Huxley

This article explores Brian O’Nolan’s At Swim-Two-Birds by placing it in the context of Aldous Huxley’s intellectual development as a novelist and critic. We establish the case for Huxley as a precurs...

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The typology of government by adpositions: towards an understanding of “differential”

Adpositions may govern case, and there is dramatic variation in the case values found. Different adpositions often govern different cases, which means that we need to partition (or split) the adpositi...

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Noun-noun coordination in English and functional structure in the nominal domain

I argue that, when two bare nouns are coordinated in English, the resultant coordinate structure does not intrinsically project a number feature. I also argue that this fact is more straightforwardly ...

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Structural and semantic factors in the <em>belief-intent</em> alternation in Basque

Clause-embedding predicates alternating between a complement expressing a belief and a complement expressing an intention seem to be quite widespread both inside and across languages. The two differen...

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Data as a Story Exhibition 

Data as a Story Exhibition The OLH Open Access Award 2025 Awardee Report, authored by Amie Longthorne, Open Data Management Specialist, Liverpool John Moores University The idea and getting started …

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Caroline Edwards discusses the future of Open Access publishing at LSE event

This past January, our Executive Director, Professor Caroline Edwards, was invited to speak at the Open Access and the Commons: The many faces of scholar-led publishing event, organised by the …

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Melancholic Masculinity in Naughty Dog's <em>The Last of Us Part II</em> (2020)

The spectre of the dead father haunts Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II (2020), which garnered praise for its progressive gender representation. In the game’s prologue, the beloved protagonist of t...

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Lost in the Fields: Who is Training Whom when Writing with AI

In this essay, I examine the 2023 AI-generated text Los campos electromagnéticos [The Electromagnetic Fields] by writer Jorge Carrión as an early example (perhaps the first) of writing with GPT-2 and ...

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OLH partners with the UK's leading group of science museums

We’re delighted to announce that the Science Museum Group Journal will join OLH in Autumn 2026. This engaging publication is the official journal for the five national UK museums in …

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OLH Interview with Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL)

In this interview, we speak with the editorial team at Semantics of Natural Languages about the journal's transition to diamond open access, the research communities that inspired their approach, and ...

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Lost in the Fields: Who is Training Whom when Writing with AI

In this essay, I examine the 2023 AI-generated text Los campos electromagnéticos [The Electromagnetic Fields] by writer Jorge Carrión as an early example (perhaps the first) of writing with GPT-2 and ...

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Legibility and Contestability: Opaque Power, Misattribution, and Fascist Closure

Contemporary power is often opaque. People may be made vulnerable by arrangements whose sources and mechanisms are difficult to identify. This article argues that opaque power raises a problem of political legibility: agents need some practically usable account of what makes them vulnerable, how that vulnerability is sustained, and where challenge might be directed. Such accounts can be accurate, partial, expressive, or distorted. Fascist politics is a revealing case because it supplies false clarity: it turns diffuse vulnerability into injury to a collective body, identifies enemies as its cause, and presents authoritarian restoration as the remedy. The article argues that this operation depends on perceptual-symbolic framing, the organisation of appearance and affect through which relations of power become politically intelligible. Democratic politics therefore needs forms of legibility vivid enough to orient action while remaining plural, revisable, and accountable to truth.

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Survey Article: Refugees and Location in International Law and Morality

Philosophers of migration claim asylum seekers’ location is normatively arbitrary. They claim it is irrelevant whether asylum seekers are inside or outside their own state, and that it does not matter...

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Debate:  City Spaces and Systems: When Protecting Turf May be Justified

This article responds to an argument in this journal by Monaghan who contends that creating “territory” is a crucial part of a just urban environment but claiming “turf” – claiming and attempting to enforce exclusionary control over urban space – is unjust. This article argues that Monaghan’s argument is a bit too quick. When we understand the way cities, as emergent systems, can produce injustice, it creates the possible justification for the creation of turf as a way for communities to assert themselves against conditions of marginalization or to address gross inequalities.

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Variation in the production of te reo Māori opening vowel sequences

This study examines the production of the  te reo Māori opening vowel sequences /ia/ /ea/ /oa/ and /ua/, which  have been  described as hiatuses. We re-examine this classification through acoustic phonetic analysis, using data from three generations of speakers in the MAONZE corpus. We propose a novel bottom-up approach which reveals that the opening sequences are not uniformly hiatus-like  as described.  Rather, there are structured patterns of variation among duration, formant and intensity trajectories, which form a clear continuum of variation between hiatus- and diphthong-like realisations. All generations of speakers show structured variation in their production of the sequences.  We also find that there are  word position and  morpheme boundary effects on the production of the  sequences, and that there is evidence that they have become decoupled from the monophthongs over time. These findings have several implications for how the phonology of Māori is described. The paper also makes a broader methodological contribution,as the methods used do not require presupposing categories like 'hiatus' and `diphthong'.  Instead, they allow us to examine patterns of variation between trajectories (formants, intensity) and other measures like duration,  without pre-supposing what kind of variation is present in the data.  

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The Hythe Review first issue with OLH

We are thrilled to announce the publications of the first issue of The Hythe Review with the Open Library of Humanities. The Hythe Review joined OLH in 2025, when the …

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Variation in the production of te reo Māori opening vowel sequences

This study examines the production of the  te reo Māori opening vowel sequences /ia/ /ea/ /oa/ and /ua/, which  have been  described as hiatuses. We re-examine this classification through acoustic pho...

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