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{"title":"Measuring the Impact of Mathematics: Towards a Critical Mathematical Studies","authors":"Anne Brubaker, Jennifer L. Lieberman","doi":"10.1353/con.2023.a912111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.a912111","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mathematics has been called “the queen of the sciences,” yet studies of mathematics and literature have been comparatively rare in <i>Configurations</i>. While Project Muse reports over 500 hits for <i>technology</i> in <i>Configurations</i>, math appears in only 26 articles, not counting reviews or bibliographies. In order to identify how mathematics has figured into the field of science, literature, and the arts, this paper reviews all <i>Configurations</i> articles about mathematics and identifies vibrant themes and issues within that archive. Blending historiographical review with bibliographic analysis, we explore whether math and literature can be considered a subfield of science and literature, and what areas have been the most fruitful for inquiry thus far. We also look to discussions of mathematics and literature outside <i>Configurations</i> to determine where there might be opportunities to develop more trans-disciplinary conversations about mathematics and literature. By tracing the history of mathematics in <i>Configurations</i>, the paper chronicles a history of critical thinking about mathematics that helps illuminate our own discipline and its intersections with other forms of science studies. This disciplinary history can serve as an important interlocutor for science and literature scholars. By contextualizing Configurations articles about mathematics within this broader intellectual tradition, we identify areas for future research that could bring math more into alignment with other disciplines that have been better represented within the field of science, literature, and the arts. </p></p>","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"78 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138495533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interrater reliability of Brain Tumor Reporting and Data System (BT-RADS) in the follow up of adult primary brain tumors: a single institution experience in Italy.","authors":"Marco Parillo, Carlo Augusto Mallio, Matteo Pileri, Diab Dirawe, Andrea Romano, Alessandro Bozzao, Brent Weinberg, Carlo Cosimo Quattrocchi","doi":"10.21037/qims-22-850","DOIUrl":"10.21037/qims-22-850","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In 2018, a new system was proposed for classifying and reporting post-treatment adult brain tumor on magnetic resonance imaging, named as Brain Tumor Reporting and Data System (BT-RADS), that needs a validation by means of agreement studies.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A retrospective study was designed with the aim of identifying contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of adult patients on follow-up for primary brain tumor at Fondazione Policlinico Campus Bio-Medico. Four radiologists (2 radiology residents, 1 general radiologist, 1 neuroradiologist) read and scored each study using the BT-RADS scoring tool, blinded to the MRI original report. Interobserver agreement and Fleiss' k were calculated to assess the level of diagnostic agreement. It was assessed how many times the assignment of different scoring of BT-RADS would have led to a different patient management.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The total number of patients included in the study was 23 with 147 MRIs and a total of 588 BT-RADS scores retrospectively evaluated. The two most frequent tumor types were astrocytoma grade 4 (62%) and oligodendroglioma grade 3 (21%). The overall agreement rate for all 4 radiologists was 82% with a Fleiss' k of 0.70. The overall agreement rate between general radiologist and neuroradiologist was 91% with a Fleiss' k of 0.86. The overall agreement rate between 2 radiology residents and neuroradiologist was 80% with a Fleiss' k of 0.66. Astrocytoma grade 3 (k: 0.51) and oligodendroglioma grade 2 (k: 0.32) showed a poor agreement while higher values of agreement were found for astrocytoma grade 4 (k: 0.70), astrocytoma grade 2 (k: 0.78) and oligodendroglioma grade 3 (k: 0.78). All the radiologists agreed on BT-RADS assignment in 70% patients, three radiologists agreed in 17% and two radiologists agree in 13%. In no cases there was a complete disagreement among the readers. In 18% of cases the discrepancy in the estimated BT-RADS would have led to a different follow-up management.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>BT-RADS can be considered a valid tool for neuroradiologists and radiologists even with little experience in the interpretation of patients' images during follow-up for adult primary brain tumors supporting standardized interpretation, reporting and clinical management.</p>","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"2 1","pages":"7423-7431"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10644140/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88978174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/con.2023.a912119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.a912119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135783223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seas of Data; or, The Oceanographer in the Archive","authors":"Felix Lüttge","doi":"10.1353/con.2023.a904488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.a904488","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper examines the network of media, institutions, and actors that helped create the sea as an epistemic object in nineteenth-century US naval administration. Based on paper technologies such as lists, tables, and logbooks, early oceanography was essentially an archival practice and data processing. In contrast to pelagic histories of the “oceanic turn,” this paper argues that oceanography developed as a science of the archive. It challenges a focus on geographic features in earlier analyses by showing that the ocean of oceanography is not only a body of water between areas of land but also a data space that transcends the boundary between land and sea.","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"31 1","pages":"197 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47386066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Feminist Digital Ecology: Mimesis, Fictocriticism and Altering Technological Space","authors":"Zachary Pearl","doi":"10.1353/con.2023.a904489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.a904489","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper examines the ways authors of fictocriticism—a hybrid form of writing that blurs literature and literary-critical commentary— reenvision the affordances of digital media and the rise of networked technologies in feminist materialist terms. I consider the crucial role of mimesis in fictocriticism to foster “becoming similar with” one’s environment, including its media, and how fictocritical mimesis can serve as a feminist tool for space-making and betweenness. Through close readings of Mauve Desert (1987) by Nicole Brossard, Places Far From Ellesmere (1990) by Aritha van Herk, and Steven Shaviro’s Doom Patrols (1995–97), I make the case that fictocriticism affords an altering and ecological conception of our digital age in which the land and architecture are also understood as networked spaces of nomadic identity and capacious flux.","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"31 1","pages":"229 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42713318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What Do Sex Robots Want? Representation, Materiality, and Queer Use","authors":"A. DeFalco","doi":"10.1353/con.2023.a904490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.a904490","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay addresses its title question by analyzing sex robots, real and imagined, as both representational objects and vital matter. Though frequently treated as perverse by popular media, actual sex robots are in fact remarkably conventional in their reproduction of a heteronormative sexual aesthetic that disavows the vibrancy of the sexualized object. Sex robot art and fictional narratives (both film and literature), including Jordan Wolfson’s installation Female Figure (2014), Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2014), and Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007), employ and interrogate this kind of mimetic design. In these texts, sex robots assert their vibrancy and agency via what Sarah Ahmed terms “queer use,” while at the same time reinscribing the humanist hierarchies that precluded their vitality in the first place.","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"31 1","pages":"257 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46465592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/con.2023.a904491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.a904491","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135046186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Material Foundations of Scientific Metaphors: A New Materialist Metaphor Studies","authors":"David R. Gruber, Victor Monnin, D. Smith, Tita Chico, Kim Adams, X. Chacko, Sushmita Chatterjee, Laura A. Foster, Brian Sabel, Sam Smiley, Banu Subramaniam","doi":"10.1353/con.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Across field areas, studies of metaphor repeatedly emphasize the social and political functioning of metaphors, neglecting the role of materiality in the appearance and circulation of metaphors. This article argues for greater ecological and material engagement when examining metaphors. A material-discursive analysis of the origination of the mirror metaphor as deployed in the cognitive neurosciences demonstrates how metaphors are generated from situated practices and not easily divorced from bodies and affects in a time and place. The case study shows the benefit of rethinking metaphors as always to some extent outside the head; objects in unruly environments have a say in a metaphor's origination and success, making appeals to the overwhelming power of the social field or to the strategic maneuvering of the scientist insufficient. The paper ends with a call for new materialist metaphor studies.","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"31 1","pages":"1 - 100 - 34 - 35 - 59 - 61 - 90 - 91 - 93 - 93 - 96 - 96 - 98 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48235915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Origins of Animal Art","authors":"D. Smith","doi":"10.1353/con.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Do animals other than humans make what some humans call \"art\"? What might other animals' graphic and aesthetic behaviors reveal about art's \"origins\"? In this article, I critically examine the multidisciplinary histories of attempts to answer these questions through two cases: one on nonhuman primate painting and drawing studies, and the other on writing about bowerbirds. Rather than weigh in on the questions myself, I assess the ethical and intellectual stakes and risks the questions pose, particularly given the often cursorily defined significance of \"art\" in the literature, and the anthropocentrism and Eurocentrism that have lurked in its discourses. More than this, I suggest that while these are questions for which humans should not be assured they can find a definitive answer, they are nonetheless revealing about the ontology and epistemology of art.","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"31 1","pages":"61 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42237547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions by Katherine Keyser (review)","authors":"Kim Adams","doi":"10.1353/con.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55630,"journal":{"name":"Configurations","volume":"31 1","pages":"91 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43553779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}