... and temporal compression and dilatation. They can be subsumed under the concept of configuration. Second, it deals with procedures of enforcement, or enhancement. And finally, it discusses procedures of schematization. As a rule, these procedures do not exist in isolation from one another. They rather coexist...

... of human experience, offering countless opportunities for configuration entrepreneurship. aggregation and division charity charitable organizations chunkiness complementarities and cities configuration entrepreneurship entrepreneurship configuration goods indivisibilities lumpy goals lumpy goods...

... through symbols. An analysis of the spatio-temporal and conceptual modes of embodiment of memory through symbols, as they are fit into the larger web of events through which their reality may be ascertained, illustrates that the configurations of collective memory in the public sphere, if they depend...

...This book focuses on a profoundly important but often overlooked concept that shapes how we live, work, play, and govern ourselves: configuration. From “lumpy goods” like bridges and highways that are valuable only when complete, to resources and assets that become more useful when artfully...

... cohesion, this book aims to elaborate a philosophical basis for the concept of collective memory and to delimit its scope in relation to the historical past. Extensive analysis is devoted to the complex modes of symbolic configuration of collective memory in the public sphere. These modes of symbolic...