Canonical Concept Research Articles

Kanoniczna koncepcja czynności prawnej. Wprowadzenie dla prawników świeckich

Autor przedstawia ogólnie koncepcję kanoniczną czynności prawnej (por. kan. 124–127 CIC). Wskazuje na jej teologiczny i antropologiczny fundament (osoba i actus humanus) oraz korzenie w europejskiej tradycji prawnej. Według autora czynność kanonicznoprawna to taki czyn ludzki (actus humanus), który jest czynnością konwencjonalną (aktem formalnym) oraz wywołuje określone i chciane skutki prawne. Koncepcją kanonicznej czynności prawnej rządzą trzy zasady: personalizmu (podkreślenie osobowego charakteru), uniwersalizmu (szeroki zakres zastosowania pojęcia, również na czynności o charakterze publicznym) i trwałości (zachowania czynności prawnej).

The rule of law: beyond contestedness

In assessing compliance with the Rule of Law, the contested nature of the concept renders the use of a single theorist’s conception or, alternatively, the adoption of a hybrid conception open to criticism. There is no settled and practical way to determine Rule of Law non-compliance. It is argued that by looking behind the concept’s contestedness, Rule of Law non-compliance can be identified. The fundamental needs undergirding canonical conceptions are used to identify common elements of the Rule of Law. By taking this approach, two necessary Rule of Law elements are distilled: Comprehension; and, Procedural Pellucidity. As a result of their elemental nature, an inability to comply with the elements reflects a total inability to satisfy the Rule of Law regardless of the canonical conception preferred. The methodology suggested provides a practical – theory agnostic – way to identify Rule of Law non-compliance beyond the concept’s inherent contestedness.

The Accretion of Canons in and around Qumran

There is no evidence for a closed OT canon before A.D. 70. Our various sources indicate a high degree of fluidity and gradual accretion, closely related to politico-historical developments and the exigencies of new religious communities. The text collection of one such community, near Qumran, can be investigated for the comparative rating of biblical books, including those in the Tanakh as we know it, others which may have had ambiguous status, and a number of different types of Scripture-based works. This picture may serve to relativize modern Christian conceptions of canon where they have been based on accidents of history such as the language in which texts have been available or the media in which they have been transmitted. As a result, the Bible Societies may need to engage with a wider range of concepts of canon.

Naïve Bayesian Classification of Uncertain Objects Based on the Theory of Interval Probability

The potential applications and challenges of uncertain data mining have recently attracted interests from researchers. Most uncertain data mining algorithms consider aleatory (random) uncertainty of data, i.e. these algorithms require that exact probability distributions or confidence values are attached to uncertain data. However, knowledge about uncertainty may be incomplete in the case of epistemic (incomplete) uncertainty of data, i.e. probabilities of uncertain data may be imprecise, coarse, or missing in some applications. The paper focuses on uncertain data which miss probabilities, specially, value-uncertain discrete objects which miss probabilities (for short uncertain objects). On the other hand, classification is one of the most important tasks in data mining. But, to the best of our knowledge, there is no method to learn Naïve Bayesian classifier from uncertain objects. So the paper studies Naïve Bayesian classification of uncertain objects. Firstly, the paper defines interval probabilities of uncertain objects from probabilistic cardinality point of view, and bridges the gap between uncertain objects and the theory of interval probability by proving that interval probabilities are F-probabilities. Secondly, based on the theory of interval probability, the paper defines conditional interval probabilities including the intuitive concept and the canonical concept, and the conditional independence of the intuitive concept. Further, the paper gives a formula to effectively compute the intuitive concept. Thirdly, the paper presents a Naïve Bayesian classifier with interval probability parameters which can handle both uncertain objects and certain objects. Finally, experiments with uncertain objects based on UCI data show satisfactory performances.

En-counterings of Time

There are words that leap of the circle of conceptual determinations.1 However old they might be, they give, however they are taken up, something to be thought which cannot be properly grasped through traditional concepts or, for that matter, by taking into account new ones. Whoever wishes to disclose the play-space of their meaning would do well not to rely on their lexical definition but rather to track their leaping-motions. Only thus can the opportunity not be lost in advance to catch them in the leap. In the leap- because the movement of these words is anything but gentle: every such leap, and anyone that would reflect upon it, follows another law. Therefore it is not only this movement to which attention should be paid, but also equally the movement of its description. No description dispenses with translation, and often enough it is a matter of the translation into a word in another language; the description is thus dependent upon a domain between these words, between their languages, one that lies in the leap of their translation and withdraws from the understanding almost all content of a linguistically secure kind. Thus it is with the word Unzeit, and with its translation into or from the French contre-temps. Unzeit- contretemps-considered over against canonical conceptions of is hardly a 'philosophical' word. What it says, minimally, is this: that something 'untimely' can arise-that something can occur, transpire, eventuate, which interrupts the 'natural,' 'normal' or 'normative' course of of a history or of 'history itself,' or that supplements this course without already having been anticipated in it. But that which interrupts, supplements or eventuates, and does so in a manner that does not correspond to the form of a course of time-or of 'time itself ' at all; in a manner, that is to say, that does not itself have the form of or of this but rather that of its interruption, of a pause, of a displacement or dispersal: what eventuates in this manner must nonetheless have a relation to one time whilst it belongs to another, and even as it belongs to something other than time. That which occurs in 'the untimely' is subject to the regime of another or else is subject to the regime of something other than time and its immobilization in sempiternitas or aeternitas-or is, indeed, perhaps subject to no regime at all. These two meanings of Unzeit-as another time or as something other than time-do not allow themselves to be assimilated to the traditional concept of time; both are more or less explicitly excluded, as nonsensical, from this concept such as it been thought from Plato to Heidegger: the word Unzeit-or contretemps or out of time2-would barely find a place in the lexicon of philosophy. Because if there is an out of time, then- something other, namely, than time proper, and one that cannot be reduced to this-there would be, thus-at the very least-a 'time' that is still outside of a second 'time' whose form does not correspond to the first; one that neither follows, nor precedes, nor is yet simply simultaneous with it; and so, there is a field of time whose extent is not determinable according to the measure of time-and thus not simply as nor even as a second time. Time, as Kant says with strict universality and apodictic certainty has only one dimension; different times are not simultaneous but sequential (just as different spaces are not sequential but simultaneous).3 If there is, thus, an Unzeit, an un-time-and it is not at all certain that there is, as such: for just as soon as an un-time is determined as such, according to whatever measure, it is already determined as a moment of one that belongs to the time of anticipation and programming, to the time of calculation and control, and ceased to be an 'un-time'-; if, then, something can come about as 'untime' it can do so only in a way that, as something that is simultaneous (zugleich) with time (and too similar [zu gleich] for its un-time simply to come about as time), it intervenes in the passage of time as a fragment of another or as something other than something that is interlaced with and intersects it and in such a way is in an over-simultaneity (zu-gleich) with it. …

Uma nova luz sobre o conceito de fóton: Para além de imagens esquizofrênicas

Nesse artigo celebraremos o Ano Internacional da Luz contando uma história sobre o conceito de fóton ao longo do Século XX. Pode-se pensar que o conceito de fóton tornou-se bem estabelecido na física logo após da década de 1930. Contudo, destacaremos que desenvolvimentos teóricos e experimentais culminaram, após a década de 1950, na revisão do conceito canônico de fóton da velha teoria quântica. Na óptica quântica, o fóton não é mais representado pela imagem de partícula individual, mas por uma ferramenta matemática que descreve uma excitação de um estado quântico. Esse artigo dedica-se a revelar os caminhos que levaram a um conceito de fóton mais sofisticado, passando pelo efeito HBT, os estados coerentes de Glauber, e os experimentos que trouxeram à tona a natureza quântica da luz.

Have the human geographical can(n)ons fallen silent; or were they never primed?

A disciplinary canon comprises a body of work – almost invariably textual – that is represented as highly influential in its development, laying the foundations on which contemporary practices have been built. Such works, most often books, are sources that all students should address to appreciate the disciplinary fundamentals – where it has come from and whose shoulders it rests on. This implies progress, of the discipline advancing on those foundations. This is not the case with Anglophone human geography, however; whereas until c.1960 the discipline's practices could be traced back to the writings of a small number of key scholars, many German or French, those works are now very rarely the subject of close study. The discipline has fissured into many constituent strands each of which has had core figures and classic works that have guided practices but without the stability expected of a canonical tract. Arguably, Anglophone geography has been defined less by its canonical works but rather by its canonical concepts – space, place (region, milieu, and locale), and environment. These build on earlier advances in geographical vocabulary and visualisation. Contestation over their meanings and the diverse sources of influence and inspiration in human geography connects with questions about comparative canonization amongst disciplines and past and present challenges to geography's status and future.

Notes on a geographical canon? Measures, models and scholarly enterprise

This paper provides an introduction to the theme issue by placing recent discussions about the geographical canon within scholarly debates about canonicity. Geographers have been generally silent about canon but, to the contrary, possess a sophisticated grasp of related concepts such as tradition and paradigm. It is argued that there is no clear canonical conception that geographers should adopt, but that further attention towards the canonical is nevertheless merited. Engagement with the geographical canon is not prescriptive. Rather, its construction will be a personal choice that involves engagement with a broader community of scholarship. In doing so, though, productive avenues are created for consideration of the texts, habits and practices that identify geography. It is concluded that debates about canonicity provide much for considerations of historiography and pedagogy by geographers.

The Transformations of the Novelistic Canon: the Comparison of Daniel Defoe’s and Penelope Aubin’s Dedication to Truth and Virtue

Abstract The aim of the article is to discuss the evolution of the concept of the literary canon in the context of eighteenth-century fiction. The concept of the literary canon has been traditionally associated with timeless, universal values which transcend the ideological conditions of the period in which texts are created. In present criticism, which is shaped by cultural studies, the association of a canon with universality has been challenged. A canon has been recognised by cultural critics as an instrument of an ideological power struggle which presents the values of dominant social groups as universal. The analysis of novels written by Penelope Aubin and Daniel Defoe at the beginning of the eighteenth century demonstrates that the study of literature only from an ideological viewpoint does not account for the workings of the literary canon. Both Aubin and Defoe employ the same formula of fiction, adventure story with a moral commentary, but while Defoe's fiction has survived in literary histories, Aubin's stories, after their initial success, fell into oblivion and have been rediscovered only recently by feminist critics. The varying fates of Aubin's and Defoe's fiction point to the insufficiency of the definition of canon which binds literary value too strongly with ideology.

Ética del desarrollo, democracia deliberativa y ciudadanía ambiental: El desafío global de la sustentabilidad

This article explores the notion of from the theoretical context deployed by ecological problems, taking into account the findings and challenges posed to the figure of by the alleged existence of a phenomenon of anthropogenic devastation as it is hold affects the planet in our days. Some considerations about environmental citizenship are outlined in order to allow the progress of this particular reflection, assuming that the contemporary political philosophical literature presents various theoretical scopes that could be addressed in this regard, especially considering that they try to enlarge the canonical concept of initially presented by Marshall.

Abdulrazzak Patel. The Arab Nahḍah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement.

Abdulrazzak Patel's The Arab Nahḍah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement is an important work which will likely continue to gain recognition as a new classic within modern treatises on the Arab nahḍah. The author's main thesis is that the Arab nahḍah can neither be reduced to external forces nor downgraded to a movement that owes its raison d'être to an exclusive group of Westernized Christian scholars. Patel convincingly proves that one cannot simply pinpoint a moment in modern Arab history that marks its commencement. Rather than a European import, the nahḍah is shown to be the result of an accumulation of a complex array of forces at home and abroad. Context and sub-context, whether religious, secular, ideological, or nationalist, is elaborately interlaced in Patel's theoretical discussion of the nahḍah's complex imbrications. But the broader ambition of the book might be seen as a rechanneling of canonical conceptions of the nahḍah and a deconstruction of the so-called paradigm of decline in Arabic literature in the centuries prior to 1798. Quite appropriately, Patel voices serious reservations with major scholars, including Marshall Hodgson, Ehsan Yarshater, and to some extent Albert Hourani, who have either adopted or failed to deconstruct blanket views of the Arab nahḍah as an intellectual “awakening.” Drawing on the writings of Edward Said, Nehemiah Levitzion, Ussama Makdisi, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and Peter Gran, Patel calls for a larger humanistic de-provincialization and emancipation of the term nahḍah; often misrepresented as a proxy child of European modernity or the product of a handful of Arab scholars in ideological harmony with Western secularism. Indeed, Gran becomes Patel's maître à penser in rebuffing what the latter convincingly reveals to be a naïve underestimation of Egypt's thriving intellectual community after 1760. Patel is in agreement with both Gran and Ibrahim Abu-Rabiʾ's criticism of the stereotypical idea that the Arab nahḍah is a movement that primarily emerged at the hands of Levantine Christians who sympathized with and embraced European modernity and who were, because of their Christian dogma, supposedly immune to the ultra-traditional and conservative winds of nineteenth-century Wahhabism. Patel's work might also be seen as a response to the call sounded a decade ago for the study of world Renaissances and the de-centering of Europe as the sole origin of revivalist movements.

The Transformations Of The Novelistic Canon: The Comparison Of Daniel Defoe’s And Penelope Aubin’s Dedication To Truth And Virtue

Abstract The aim of the article is to discuss the evolution of the concept of the literary canon in the context of eighteenth-century fiction. The concept of the literary canon has been traditionally associated with timeless, universal values which transcend the ideological conditions of the period in which texts are created. In present criticism, which is shaped by cultural studies, the association of a canon with universality has been challenged. A canon has been recognised by cultural critics as an instrument of an ideological power struggle which presents the values of dominant social groups as universal. The analysis of novels written by Penelope Aubin and Daniel Defoe at the beginning of the eighteenth century demonstrates that the study of literature only from an ideological viewpoint does not account for the workings of the literary canon. Both Aubin and Defoe employ the same formula of fiction, adventure story with a moral commentary, but while Defoe’s fiction has survived in literary histories, Aubin’s stories, after their initial success, fell into oblivion and have been rediscovered only recently by feminist critics. The varying fates of Aubin’s and Defoe’s fiction point to the insufficiency of the definition of canon which binds literary value too strongly with ideology.

On Reading & Rereading Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

STEVENMARCUS, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1974, is the George Delacorte Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Dickens, from Pickwick to Dombey (1965), The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (1966), Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class (1974), and Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis: Studies in the Transition from Victorian Hu manism to Modernity (1984). I am going at least at 1⁄2rst to write autobiographically. My justi1⁄2cation for doing so is that I regard my experience as relatively typical and hence as bearing some fraction of non-negligible, if perhaps oblique, interest. I 1⁄2rst read Freud sixty-1⁄2ve years ago. I was eighteen years old, and the occasion arose in what was then offered in my intellectually conservative college as a new course. The subject was in the humanities, and it consisted of works selected from some of the many masters of midnineteenthand early-twentieth-century literature and thought. Included among them were such 1⁄2gures as Melville, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Henry and William James, George Bernard Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, Joyce, Proust, and Kafka. Inserted somewhere in the second half of the chronological list was Freud’s Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, which he originally delivered between 1915 and 1917.1 Hence the context in which Freud was presented, and presented himself, to my largely bewildered late-adolescent sensibility was that of Western cultural, intellectual, and literary modernism. It was an advantage, I believe, to have read him for the 1⁄2rst time among other immensely distinguished minds, writers who were in the course of radically departing from what had been generally accepted as canonical forms, conceptions, and conventions of representation–and of norms and values, includ ing the values of civilization and of life itself. Part of this advantage of reading and experiencing Freud as one cultural preeminence among others was

Suggestion to Upgrade the Canonical Concept of Translation

Background: This research was carried out to provide a summary of a series of bioinformatical observations between 2000 and 2014 concerning the structure of nucleic acids and codons, the interaction between codons and amino-acids and the general concept of translation. Methods: Public sequence and structure databases and established methods of bioinformatics resources were utilized during these studies. Results: These studies provided novel insights into the canonical concept of translation and suggest that: 1) codons have structure and the development and function of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd codon residues is different; 2) codon boundaries are physicochemically defined; 3) there is a stereo-chemical compatibility (fitting) between codons and coded amino acids; 4) codon redundancy in the Genetic Code (synonymous codons) provides folding (3D) information to protein syntheses, that is additional to the information requested to determine the sequence of aminoacids (primary or 2D structure); 5) there is a Proteomic Code in the redundant Genetic Code; 6) mRNA-s assist the co-translational folding of their own coded peptides i.e. they function as nucleic acid chaperons; 7) tRNA-s assist even the transfer of folding information from mRNA to proteins (tRNA cycle) in addition to their traditional role as adaptor between codons and amino acids. Conclusions: Computational (statistical) studies, molecular modeling and theoretical biological considerations suggest the possibility and necessity to upgrade the canonical concept of translation. Traditional laboratory confirmation is requested.

From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking

From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking

Developing an Understanding of Chemistry: A case study of one Swedish student's rich conceptualisation for making sense of upper secondary school chemistry

In this paper, we report a case study of a 16-year-old Swedish upper secondary student's developing understanding of key concept areas studied in his upper secondary school chemistry course. This study illustrates how the thinking of an individual learner, Jesper, evolves over a school year in response to formal instruction in a particular educational context. Jesper presented a range of ideas, some of which matched intended teaching whilst others were quite inconsistent with canonical chemistry. Of particular interest, research data suggest that his initial alternative conceptions influenced his thinking about subsequent teaching of chemistry subject matter, illustrating how students' alternative conceptions interact with formal instruction. Our findings support the claims of some researchers that alternative conceptions may be stable and tenacious in the context of instruction. Jesper's rich conceptualisation of matter at submicroscopic scales drew upon intuitions about the world that led to teaching being misinterpreted to develop further alternative conceptions. Yet his intuitive thinking also offered clear potential links with canonical scientific concepts that could have been harnessed to channel his developing thinking. These findings support the argument that identifying students' intuitive thinking and how it develops in different instructional contexts can support the development of more effective science pedagogy.

Constraint analysis for variational discrete systems

A canonical formalism and constraint analysis for discrete systems subject to a variational action principle are devised. The formalism is equivalent to the covariant formulation, encompasses global and local discrete time evolution moves and naturally incorporates both constant and evolving phase spaces, the latter of which is necessary for a time varying discretization. The different roles of constraints in the discrete and the conditions under which they are first or second class and/or symmetry generators are clarified. The (non-) preservation of constraints and the symplectic structure is discussed; on evolving phase spaces the number of constraints at a fixed time step depends on the initial and final time step of evolution. Moreover, the definition of observables and a reduced phase space is provided; again, on evolving phase spaces the notion of an observable as a propagating degree of freedom requires specification of an initial and final step and crucially depends on this choice, in contrast to the continuum. However, upon restriction to translation invariant systems, one regains the usual time step independence of canonical concepts. This analysis applies, e.g., to discrete mechanics, lattice field theory, quantum gravity models, and numerical analysis.

From Classical to Chic: Reconsidering the Prints from Varie acconciature di teste usate da nobilissime dame in diverse città d'Italia by Giovanni Guerra, c. 1589

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsI would like to express my great gratitude to the HERA Project »Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500–1800«, for offering bursaries to support my participation in the workshops of the project in Stockholm and London. The university fund for my field trip and this journal publication by National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan is also gratefully acknowledged. Additionally, my special thanks go to Professor Evelyn Welch, who brought this material to my attention, and to Dr. Patrik Steorn, who kindly offered his photography of Giovanni Guerra's prints taken from the collection at NMS, while the collection is closed to the public due to a major renovation project of the museum. The comments by two anonymous reviewers on an earlier draft of this article were also very helpful and very much appreciated.SummaryThis article focuses on a series of prints from a costume book titled Varie acconciature di teste usate da nobilissime dame in diverse città d'Italia by Giovanni Guerra, published in Rome c.1589. The images are rich in their gender connotation and various stylistic references to both conventional and contemporary concepts of ideal beauty in terms of hairstyle. Through analysing the design and visual elements of images, such as braids of hair, the article considers the unique circumstance of production and motivation, and argues whether the fashionability of hair emerged by artists’ challenging of rules about the canonical concept of female beauty.

Kambal na Disyerto: Ang Kolonyal na Kanon at Komersyalismo at ang Panimulang Pagpapaagos ng Mga Agos sa Disyerto

Twin Deserts: Colonial Canon and Commercialism and the First Streams of Mga Agos sa Disyerto In tracing the beginnings of the overemphasis on canon in Filipino literature, Jose Garcia Villa is undoubtedly one of the first names that come to mind. To Filipino writers in English, he and his annual “Honor and Horror Lists” of poetry and short stories represented ideal standards to strive for. Inclusion in his annual selections was a legitimate seal of approval that signified one’s entry into the canon, more than the numerous literary contests existing at the time. As Villa upheld Western standards in selecting what he considered the best of Filipino literature in English, he paved the way for a concept of canon that, according to critic Jonathan Chua, silenced the “Filipino” while highlighting “Literature” and weakened the dichotomies of American/Filipino, center/margin, civilized/savage, and colonizer/colonized. It served as an opiate that blotted out the memory of Filipinos’ “sour” acceptance of their American colonizers. Filipino writers were put at a disadvantage by Villa’s canon, which placed the English language and Western standards at the center. Writers were confined to these western standards in the American colonial state. This was reinforced by the American curriculum, which positioned their “canon” as a major influence on Filipinos’ literary tastes. As a result, the production of Tagalog literature was limited to commercial magazines. By 1943, two decades after Villa’s work, very little had changed. The rush toward a cosmopolitan American lifestyle drew attention away from a thorough understanding of the nation’s experiences and created an obsession with making money. This was also the case for Filipino writers in Tagalog. Publication in commercial magazines brought income and popularity which, together with the colonial concept of canon, dried up the landscape of Tagalog literature, especially the Tagalog short story. Neither the contributions of wellknown writers such as Lope K. Santos, Valeriano Hernandez Pena, and Patricio Mariano, nor the publication of collections such as Clodualdo del Mundo’s Parolang Ginto or Alejandro Abadilla’s Talaang Bughaw – works that first challenged the existing culture of Kritika Kultura 21/22 (2013/2014): –117 © Ateneo de Manila University commercialism and its emphasis on income and popularity – could address this. The arrival of Japanese colonizers did not change these circumstances, either, as writers during this period were motivated mainly by the need to survive in those tight times. The formulaic writing (entertainment and didacticism) of Tagalog writers for Liwayway magazine thrived under the management of Agustin C. Fabian. Readers’ patronage of this style of writing kept the magazine afloat and ensured its success. It is in this context, with the English language laying the foundation for Western standards and commercialized creation, that young writers such as Rogelio Sikat, Efren Abueg, Edgardo M. Reyes, Eduardo B. Reyes, Rogelio Ordonez, and Dominador Mirasol would create new streams for what they considered the “desert” of the Tagalog short story. All former writers for commercial magazines, these young men, the “New Blood”, found a venue for fighting against western canon and commercialism in The Quezonian, the campus publication of Manuel L. Quezon University. The same education used by the colonizers to blind the people was used by the young writers to create streams that flowed into the desert like state of the Tagalog short story thus the term “Agos” was conceived. Exposure to the works of Hemingway and other writers opened the doors for creating stories that went beyond overused themes, erratic points of view, and idealization of subjects. Their stories expressed their opposition to the status quo and led to the publication of the 1965 anthology Mga Agos sa Disyerto, which revealed the new standards of these young writers. Mga Agos sa Disyerto formally declared a new direction for the Tagalog short story and would be recognized by critics as a pioneer, a herald of a new way of looking at the world, of turning a critical eye toward established traditions, with the intention of changing the way of life.

Electric Feel

Electric Feel: Transduction, Errantry and the Refrain assesses what certain logics gleaned from selected popular music songs might offer to ongoing efforts to renegotiate bonds, institutions and political possibilities shaped by the violences characteristic of capitalism, cisgender and white supremacy, neoliberal multiculturalism and contemporary geopolitics. Making Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concepts of ‘the Refrain’, and ‘music’ available as heuristics and technologies to contribute to ongoing explorations of the role that sound plays and yet might play in contemporary Euro-American feminist cultural studies, this essay is animated by what might be called, following Édouard Glissant, a mode of ‘scholarly errantry’. If feminism was music and feminists musicians, it could be said that feminism's histories, its preoccupations, its shifting and fluid subjects and debates, its styles, its canonical texts and concepts, are its refrains, the things to which it returns, its territory, the aspects of feminism that exert a force in the world. These have political indices as well as scholarly, creative ones. Insofar as academic feminism traverses disciplines and constitutes itself as such through reference to those narratives and intellectual lineages that it claims as its own, it has carved out a terrain, a ‘field’, and a set of constituents, but nonetheless contested, organizations and their stated priorities, interests and common senses. The present essay asks, what music might contemporary feminisms make when their existing refrains are placed under pressure? How might sound and music offer insightful support for generating and relating concepts to the rapidly changing present circumstances that queer anti-racist feminisms actively participate in shaping? What tales of errantry might such feminisms tell today?