Beyond Rhetoric

The chapter starts with the discussion of the aesthetic category of “humorous music,” which emerged in the last decade of the eighteenth century, and links it to the theory of multiple agency, proposed by Edward Klorman (2016). There follow two case studies of hypermetric manipulations in the first movements of Haydn’s string quartets Op. 50 No. 3 and Op. 64 No. 1. These analyses reveal how such manipulations act in concert with ingenious deployment of musical topics and contrapuntal-harmonic schemata, and how they affect musical form. The chapter closes with remarks about the role of the first violinist in Haydn’s string quartets.

Philosophic Money. The Contemporary Art System as a Market and Cultural Agent

Within the contemporary art system complex, constantly-changing cultural features coexist with stratified acts of dealing. The art market operates as a collective mediation structure, developing a multiple agency: financial and economic, educational, political and social. In this article, we offer the result of an empirical test dedicated to the identification of unseen changes in the informal organizational pattern of the market. Observing the behavior of selected samples, we focused, firstly, on the networks of artists and commercial galleries at the Art Basel fair; and, secondly, on the group and solo shows organized by a relevant sample of international contemporary art museums and exhibitions spaces. These analyses offer an insight into the changes that occurred from 2005 to 2013, encompassing the quantitative growth of the art system infrastructure and the effects of the crisis of 2008.

Keamanan Pangan Sebagai Salah Satu Upaya Perlindungan Hak Masyarakat Sebagai Konsumen

Consuming unsafe food can endanger the health and lives of consumers. But until now, the circulation of unsafe food is still a problem for Indonesia. Even though the provisions regarding food safety have been regulated in the Law on Food and the Law on Health. This paper uses a literature study. The analysis uses theories and concepts in the literature as the main object to answer questions related to the conditions of the implementation of food safety in Indonesia and various factors that need to be considered in the implementation of food security so that the rights of the community as consumers can be protected. The findings show that at this time Indonesia adheres to multiple agency systems where the application of this system involves a long bureaucratic path and prone to the occurrence of sector egos in the implementation of food security. There are five technical factors recommended by the WHO in providing safe food, namely: maintaining cleanliness, preventing pollution, storing food at safe temperatures, heating food at the right temperature, and using water and raw materials that are safe for consumption. Guaranteed implementation of protection for the community from unsafe food is a major factor that must always be sought by all parties concerned.AbstrakMengonsumsi pangan yang tidak aman dapat membahayakan kesehatan dan jiwa konsumen. Namun, hingga saat ini peredaran pangan yang tidak aman masih menjadi permasalahan bagi Indonesia. Meskipun ketentuan mengenai keamanan pangan sudah diatur dalam Undang- Undang (UU) tentang Pangan dan UU tentang Kesehatan. Tulisan ini menggunakan studi pustaka. Analisis menggunakan teori dan konsep pada literatur sebagai objek utama untuk menjawab pertanyaan terkait bagaimana kondisi penyelenggaraan keamanan pangan di Indonesia dan berbagai faktor yang perlu diperhatikan dalam penyelenggaraan keamanan pangan agar hak masyarakat sebagai konsumen dapat terlindungi. Hasil temuan menunjukkan bahwa saat ini Indonesia menganut multiple agency system di mana penerapan sistem ini melibatkan jalur birokrasi yang panjang dan rawan terjadinya ego sektoral dalam penyelenggaraan keamanan pangan. Ada lima faktor teknis yang direkomendasikan oleh WHO dalam penyediaan pangan yang aman, yaitu: menjaga kebersihan, mencegah terjadinya pencemaran, menyimpan makanan pada suhu yang aman, memanaskan makanan pada suhu yang tepat, serta menggunakan air dan bahan baku yang aman dikonsumsi. Jaminan terselenggaranya perlindungan bagi masyarakat dari pangan yang tidak aman merupakan faktor utama yang harus selalu diupayakan oleh semua pihak terkait.

Reducing Safeguards Accounting and Verification Efforts on Retained Wastes

ABSTRACTThe global expansion of nuclear energy will generate increasing quantities of waste with low levels of plutonium or other nuclear materials (NM) potentially subject to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards. Reducing requirements on retained wastes has the potential to reduce future demands on already strained IAEA resources. We describe an effort to help the IAEA and Member States better estimate projected waste loads and associated safeguards obligations by developing a reporting tool to estimate types and sizes of future waste-storage and -disposal facilities. States can use such information to plan waste facilities, including size and type. The IAEA can use these data for inclusion in multiple agency reports and products for the benefit of Member States.

Gatekeeping and our moral fabric: Has social capital deterioration vanquished professional oversight?

Social capital deterioration in the USA, and indeed throughout the world, has had considerable impact on professional service firms (PSFs). Governmental entities at various levels have enacted new laws and regulations (e.g. the Sarbanes Oxley and Dodd-Frank Acts in the USA) to help ameliorate this situation, but to relatively little avail. Traditional gatekeeping functions of PSFs seem to be deteriorating. Is there hope for the future? This article addresses that issue in the context of work by drawing on the insight and research of Robert Putnam and John Coffee and encouraging advancement of multiple agency theory and governance for today’s world.

The Dark Side of Venture Capital Syndication and IPO Firm Performance

This chapter integrates agency research with an institutional perspective and investigates multiple agency conflicts in venture capital (VC) syndicates and their effect on stock-market performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States and the United Kingdom. Using a matched sample of 402 IPOs, the authors show that the size and diversity of a VC syndicate have a negative impact on performance, but this impact is higher in the United States. Ownership concentration within a syndicate improves performance, but this effect is stronger in the United Kingdom. Results indicate that the extent of multiple agency conflicts and their potential remedies are not universal and depend on formal and informal institutions.

Koch, Carpani, and Momigny

This study examines historical writings about the “Classical” string quartet, a genre often compared to artful conversation. The conversation metaphor implicitly suggests “multiple agency” (Klorman 2016), whereby the four parts (or players) are interpreted as representing independent characters or personas. This paradigm contrasts sharply with the more monological musical personifications advanced in many recent writings on musical agency, such as Cone’s influential The Composer’s Voice (1974), which posit a “central intelligence” representing the “mind” of the composition, its fictional protagonist, or its composer. Focusing principally on discussions of Haydn’s and Mozart’s quartets in H. C. Koch’s Versuch (1793), J. J. de Momigny’s Cours complet (1806), and G. Carpani’s Le Haydine (1812), I examine whether instrumental personas postulated by each author constitute genuine agents, according to criteria developed in Monahan 2013. At issue is whether personas are described as possessing (1) such anthropomorphic qualities as sentience, volition, and emotion; and (2) a capacity for independent action or utterance.