...Until recently, little was known about the Canton junk trade to Southeast Asia. It has been long known that Hong merchants were involved with the junks, but with few specific details. It was thought that the junk trade in Canton had declined by the late eighteenth century...

... houses in the trade. By sending their own agents into China's interior, the Yans gained better control over quality and quantities; by maintaining their own fleet of junks, they were able to ensure that adequate supplies of input goods arrived each year to keep the foreign trade moving forward...

...Market rises after stimulus package from Washington. Mergers trend begins in 1982 with corporate raiding. Stock market rout in 1987 and S&L crisis a year later. Junk bond trend emerges. Michael Milken found guilty and sentenced. Bull market resumes during Clinton years and bubble reaches...

...) are then examined. Finally, parallel to questions about a null object, atomism, and ‘atomless gunk’, the existence of a universal object and the ideas of ‘worldless junk’, and coatomism are considered. Aristotle Goodman N Leonard H S Leśniewski S van Inwagen P bound Calculus of Individuals composition...

... to protect people from choices that do not advance their ends. Coercion is not bad when it keeps people from making choices that would promote obesity and heart disease, since most people value health more than they value the availability of large portions of junk food. Paternalists recognize that people...

...This section focuses on Lawrence Alloway's life as an art critic in the period 1961–1971, beginning with his travel to the United States in 1961 and his dispute with Clement Greenberg with regards to art criticism, particularly of junk art. It also considers Alloway's writings on American Pop art...

..., this chapter discusses the emergent importance of an aesthetics of trash within the computer-animated film, and situate their formal and narrative preoccupation with rubbish, scrap and cultural detritus within wider traditions of junk art. Several computer-animated films redeem waste products as plentiful...

...This introductory chapter provides a background to the connection between junk and late-modern humans. It talks about the contemporary art of Vik Muniz, who plays the history of art and re-creates past masterpieces in heteroclite media. Photographs of Mona Lisa in peanut butter or Sisyphus in junk...

...This chapter begins by discussing Richard Dawkins and Jeremy Narby’s take on junk DNA, followed by a review of the 1980 journal Nature to demonstrate how and why Dawkins’s notion of “the selfish gene” was incorrectly presented to found a theory of selfish DNA. It relates Dawkins’s...

...This chapter provides contemporary alternative and pseudoscientific accounts of junk DNA, offering different metaphors to distinguish the noncoding parts of DNA from a semiotic regime where DNA is seen as a multi-medium and life is cast as an interface problem. It traces references and characters...

... with an analysis of cyberculture in the capacity of junk culture, and the central metaphysical notions of “common nature” and individuation. gene activity autogeddon clone code in antescience computer in molecular biology crime against the species DNA as an ecology genetic capitalism capitalism becoming...

...This chapter summarizes the meaning of the word “junk”, which is both described as an unknown part of DNA or the binding principle that holds the world together. Junk is the cement of cultural experience and the fractal principle that unifies DNA to the cosmos and everything in between, and can...

...This chapter talks about false promises of the molecular revolution, the persistence of junk, and the victory of stasis over entropy. It reviews the cinematographic presence of junk in cyberfictions, such as Alfred Elton van Vogt’s Voyage of the Space Beagle, Philip K. Dick’s...

... of the commercialization of useless things that is implicit in the text. In these two poems are images of clutter and mess, the mixture of domesticity and worldliness in the junk. The chapter then lists several other examples that help in creating this sense of disorder present in these literary texts, a disorder which...

... and as articulated by Susan Nipper as evidence of the widespread engagement with racial difference, a discourse which knits together the fabric of the narrative. The chapter explores the arrival of the Chinese Junk and the shows of London as evidence of the diversity present within. The Review: The Expedition...

... of school meals policy. The chapter focuses in particular on the consequences for those that transgress the school boundary, both the physically and symbolically, with an analysis of the press reaction to the ‘junk food mums’ during a parent/school standoff that became known as ‘The Battle of Rawmarsh...

... on “chromatin diminution” (CD), known in Cyclopoids since 1894. All embryo cells divide again (mitosis) when there are about 16 (species vary) and chromosomes of all, save one, eliminate up to 95% of the cell chromatin content (presumably mostly “junk” DNA) transferred to daughter cells. The remaining cell also...

... ecological genetic drift eukariotes evolvability information novelty evolutionary extinction speciation genome transposable elements multilevel selection selfish DNA junk DNA The iconic image of a human karyotype may suggest otherwise, but in fact, chromosomes do not align themselves neatly...

... race between spam-zapping programs and junk-mail programmers by making use of a statistical method called a Bayesian filter to rank words according to their likelihood of turning up in a piece of junk e-mail. Spambots countered via camouflage whereby they inserted random words or letters into headers...

... amok. The novel not only visualizes a welter of “literal garbage” decomposing in a dumpsite, which Burroughs names the “junk world,” but also assumes the formal structure of a landfill, a site governed by the logic of putrefaction. In other words, rather than simply representing the dump, Burroughs...