Romanticism of Numbers: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the Sublime

Hewitt, Elizabeth

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“…The main motivation for megaproject investments in the developed world has been construed in terms of technological, political, economic and aesthetic motivations [10,66]. Under the technological motivation, megaproject investment has been influenced by the excitement and satisfaction that engineers, designers and architects derive from delivering iconic and innovative projects such as the Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai, the Channel Tunnel which links the United Kingdom to France, and the Boston's Big Dig projects [67]. The political motivation is premised on the satisfaction, attention, exposure, and visibility that politicians derive from building huge and complex monuments [54].…”

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“…In addition to these different motivations, some other world megaproject investments, such as Tokyo's Metropolitan Expressway, Hong Kong Airport, the Milau Viaduct in France and the Oresund Link between Sweden and Denmark, have been designed to meet other spatial and aesthetic objectives such as contributing towards urban renewal and macroeconomic efficiency [70]. Other megaproject investments serve as a direct public sector intervention to counter macro-economic depressions, as was the case in USA where projects such as highways and stadia have formed part of the government's interventions to ameliorate the impacts of the Great Depression in the 1950s and 1960s [67].…”

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Megaproject complexity attributes and competences: lessons from IT and construction projects

Nyarirangwe

Babatunde

2021

IJISPM

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Megaprojects have been associated with persistent underperformance technically, financially, socially and environmentally. This underperformance has been attributed to the inherent complexity attributes and the gaps in the form of the mismatch in the project management competences and processes used by the project management teams to deal with the complexity attributes. This study seeks to investigate the performance implications of these complexity attributes to recommend suitable management competences for the successful delivery of megaprojects. This conceptual study used an integrative literature review to analyze and synthesize findings from existing scientific articles related to the complexity constructs based on a comparative assessment of Information Technology (IT) and construction megaprojects. The Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Theory was also used to highlight some of the factors that influence megaproject performance towards identifying suitable management processes and competences, which are required to deal with megaprojects complexity. The key findings include a nomenclature of the main complexity attributes, their implications on the performance of IT and construction megaprojects, and, lastly, the managementcompetences and processes that are required to deal with the complexity attributes for improved megaproject performance.

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Megaproject complexity attributes and competences: lessons from IT and construction projects

Nyarirangwe

Babatunde

2021

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Commentary: Economics and American Literary Studies in the New Gilded Age

Eby¹

2019

American Literary History

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The marginalization of the humanities, while depressing, has at least provoked literary scholars into rethinking what they do and foregrounding the relevance of their research. The spike of interest in the economic humanities illustrates one path for making literary study more legible. To that end, several trends emerge in recent economic-themed literary scholarship. One trend of establishing the salience of humanistic scholarship proceeds by locating the origins of present concerns, such as the corporate takeover of democracy, in the past. While that approach is exciting and engaging, care must be taken not to flatten out differences between historical periods. A second salutary trend of making the humanities more intelligible develops interventionist and activist modes of scholarship—for instance, in the interest of making the economy more equitable, and by suggesting alternatives to current impasses. Through such approaches, the economic humanities can help demystify the epistemology of capitalism, the mental barrier determining what is and is not thinkable.

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War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century

Kopec¹

2021

American Literature

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This essay considers the politico-aesthetics of infrastructure by focusing on poems that anticipate, justify, and critique internal improvements, from Joel Barlow’s early Republican vision of the Erie and Panama Canals to texts that document the ruin caused by the works Barlow imagined as glorious. Historical scholarship has long assessed the mania for cutting roads and canals into the landscape. But engaging an emerging infrastructuralism—and turning to imaginative texts that exist underneath the ground typically trod by US literary studies, from Philip Freneau’s celebratory ode to the Erie Canal to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ironic canal travel sketches to Margarita Engle’s recent historical verse-novel tallying the devastations of the Panama Canal—this essay identifies an infrastructural dialectic in which writers view infrastructure, initially, as awesome so as to justify its ecological and social violence and, subsequently, as banal so as to render it invisible within the settler state. Oscillating between awe and irritation, the sublime and the stuplime, then, these texts both expose the rhythm of infrastructure’s long—that is, low—relation to the structure of coloniality and, in Engle’s case, model how to disrupt it so as to imagine a more just life “after” infrastructure.

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Romanticism of Numbers: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the Sublime

Cited by 3 publications

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Megaproject complexity attributes and competences: lessons from IT and construction projects

Megaproject complexity attributes and competences: lessons from IT and construction projects

Commentary: Economics and American Literary Studies in the New Gilded Age

War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century

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