Tempered D-modules and Borel–Moore homology vanishing

We characterize the tempered part of the automorphic Langlands category $$\mathfrak {D}({\text {Bun}}_G)$$ D ( Bun G ) using the geometry of the big cell in the affine Grassmannian. We deduce that, for G non-abelian, tempered D-modules have no de Rham cohomology with compact support. The latter fact boils down to a concrete statement, which we prove using the Ran space and some explicit t-structure estimates: for G non-abelian and $$\Sigma $$ Σ a smooth affine curve, the Borel–Moore homology of the indscheme $${\text {Maps}}(\Sigma ,G)$$ Maps ( Σ , G ) vanishes.

Die musikalische Ambivalenz in Kleists Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik: Urteil über den Katholizismus oder Hilfsmittel zur Glaubensfindung?

Heinrich von Kleist’s attitude toward the Catholic Church has produced two major positions in modern German literature. On one hand, there are those who understand Kleist simply as a church critic; on the other hand, there are those who consider Kleist’s attitude – and his alleged Kantian crisis and departure from all scholars – as supportive towards the Church. Die heilige Cäcilie precisely exemplifies this debate, because, depending on the way one reads the narrative, the text can be interpreted as an endorsement or as a criticism of the Church. However, the text can be read quite differently for yet, a third, alternative understanding: the element of music involved in Die heilige Cäcilie undermines a concrete definition of its position as well as a concrete statement regarding Kleist’s religious creed. Thereby, it serves as a tool to help the reader to make decisions in terms of religious beliefs and doctrines.

O Controle da palavra do outro nos dispositivos de busca (The control of the other’s speech on search engines)

Se todo enunciado concreto é um elo na cadeia da comunicação discursiva de um determinado campo” (BAKHTIN, 2003, p. 296), meu enunciado de hoje é também uma resposta a um conjunto de enunciados de outrem, com quem dialoguei ontem. Ao controlar as vozes com quem sou capaz de dialogar na Internet, os dispositivos de busca são capazes de controlar também o meu próprio discurso. Partindo dessa premissa, o presente artigo discute o critério de relevância adotado pelos dispositivos para selecionar o resultado das buscas, em particular o critério do Google, responsável por metade das buscas realizadas na Internet.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Internet. Dispositivos de busca. Controle do discurso. ABSTRACT Any concrete statement is a link in the communication chain of a particular human activity field” (BAKHTIN, 2003, p. 296). If it is true, my discourse is now a response to another discourse with which I interacted yesterday. If search engines can control the voices of whom I am able to talk on the Internet, they are also able to control my own discourse. From this point of view, this article discusses the criteria of relevance adopted by search engines to select theirs outputs, especially Google’s criteria, responsible for half of the Internet searches. KEYWORDS: Internet. Search engines. Discourse control.

The Philosophical Roots of the Bill of Rights: The Federalists' and Anti-Federalists' Conceptions of Rights

The overall aim of the seminar on “The Philosophical Roots of the Bill of Rights” was to gain a better understanding of the basic presuppositions and implications of our Constitutional commitments as expressed in the Bill of Rights, especially as viewed from the perspective of the original debates and compromises that led finally to the enactment of the Bill of Rights. That original perspective was, of course, riven by considerable controversy, above all between the Federalists who supported, and the Anti-Federalists who opposed, the ratification of the original Constitution. The latter were the primary instigators of the movement for a Bill of Rights amending the proposed Constitution, but at the end of the day it was the Federalist outlook, articulated above all by Congressman James Madison, that most fully determined the actual character of the rights that were given Constitutional recognition. Still, this very fact, that an eventual compromise was reached which was at least as satisfying to most leading Federalists as it was to the leading Anti-Federalists who had originally insisted on the amendments—points to the very large measure of agreement on fundamental principles that underlay the debates between Federalists and Anti-Federalists.This agreement on basic moral and political principles becomes most apparent when one contrasts the republicanism of the Americans, the republicanism rooted in a commitment to individual rights, with earlier and alternative forms of republican political theory. This contrast was the theme of the first seminar. I asked the participants to read Plutarch's life of Lycurgus, not only because Plutarch is an author, and this particular short biography is a text, well-known to the American Founders, but even more because the life of Lycurgus contains a vivid and concrete statement of the classical republican ideal that brings out some of the most alien features of that ideal.