Graffiti

Abstract: With an eye toward the architecture, art, literature and technology of urban life one of America's observers of society gives us an incisive study of the search for shelter and the fear of exposure to strangers and new experience in Western culture - and how these two concerns have shaped the physical fabric of the city. The author examines the development of urban society and structure from the ancient world to the present. His discussion takes the reader from the assembly hall of Athens to the Palladium Club, from Augustine's "City of Gold" to the Turkish baths of the lower east side, from 18th century English gardens to the housing projects of east Harlem and from Nietzsche's "Birth of Tragedy" to subway graffiti. By the author of "The Hidden Injuries of Class", "The Fall of Public Man" and "Authority".

Abstract: Jeff Ferrell draws on his own extensive field research to thoroughly examine the practices of graffiti artists. Focusing on the city of Denver, he takes a close look at the war against graffiti and the interplay between cultural innovation and institutionalized intolerance, arguing that coordinated corporate and political campaigns to suppress and criminalize graffiti writers further disenfranchises the young, the poor, and people of color.

Abstract: Publisher Summary Graffiti is a computer program that makes graph-theoretical conjectures. The basic idea of Graffiti is that it “knows” certain graphs and it is capable of evaluating certain formulas formed from graph-theoretical invariants. If none of the graphs with which Graffiti is familiar is a counterexample to a formula then the formula is considered to be a conjecture. The number of conjectures, particularly those that are completely trivial, is the main problem and more than half of the program consists of various heuristics whose purpose is deletion of trivial and otherwise noninteresting but true conjectures. All conclusions that Graffiti draws are based exclusively on graphs it knows, so “follows” means of course “follows as far as the graphs in the library of program are concerned.” CNCL deletes those conjectures of the second and third type in which one of the invariants on the left is always smaller than an invariant on the right. This procedure may undoubtedly remove a number of interesting conjectures but it is the only one that seems to operate completely independently from IRIN.

Abstract: "Stalking" is defined as repeated and persistent unwanted communications and/or approaches that produce fear in the victim. The stalker may use such means as telephone calls, letters, e-mail, graffiti and placing notices in the media. A stalker may approach or follow the victim, or keep their residence under surveillance.

Abstract: From the Publisher: Flame Wars, in comp-slang, are vitriolic on-line exchanges. Often they are conducted publicly, in discussion groups clustered under thematic headings on electronic bulletin boards. Like public bathroom graffiti, their authors are sometimes anonymous, often pseudonymous, and almost always strangers.