The Purloined Letter

On Lacan and Supervision: A Matter of Super‐Audition

“…He explains that D. knew that the police would assume that the blackmailer would conceal the letter in an elaborate hiding place, and thus hid it in plain sight. As such, Dupin was able to obtain the letter (Poe, ).…”

Presence in the reading of literary narrative: A case for motor enactment

“…With the exception of stories where artifacts themselves are invested with high conceptual significance (Edgar Allan Poe's 1984Poe's [1844 Purloined Letter, Georges Perec's [1965] Les choses), nearly any narrative rendition of objectdirected movement as such constitutes a vehicle of defamiliarization -in the very general sense that it makes explicit the "gapped middle," or "penultimate subevent" (see Talmy 2000), i.e., a typical subgoal in a more complex sequence of actions. Classified as "minor detail" by discourse theorist Catherine Emmott (1997: 243), the sole act of, for example, pushing a door open, would usually not be included in a non-literary narrative if not implying or leading to something rather unusual, the less would it be considered a full-fledged event worth telling in daily conversation.…”

Toward the attribution of Web behavior

“…Because of this selective matching between two sets, the input and output set, structured prediction methods must solve a combinatorial optimization problem. Traditional classification methods make local predictions but (1) what has to be predicted is different from the sum of the parts and (2) the constraints and correlations between the output features themselves can help improve the prediction of the parts. Formally, structured prediction involves learning a mapping from complex inputs x ∈ X to complex outputs y ∈ Y from a training sample of input-output pairs (x i , y i ) drawn from an unknown distribution.…”

“…Rather, it is possible to hide behind pseudonymity and unobservability when interacting on the Web. While pseudonimity is the capability to hide behind a false identity, unobservability is the capability to hide in plain sight [1]. Together, pseudonymity and unobservability make a powerful recipe for quasi-anonymity.…”