A dazzling, new translation and notes by Frederick Paul Walter spotlight the libretto, lyrics, and stage directions of Wagner's beloved Twilight for the Gods, getting the most basic ingredient right: the actual story! The translation and notes are accompanied by classic artwork by Rackham, Howard Pyle, Aubrey Beardsley, and others
"A dazzling, new translation and notes by Frederick Paul Walter spotlight the libretto, lyrics, and stage directions of Wagner's beloved Siegfried, getting the most basic ingredient right: the actual story! The translation and notes are accompanied by classic artwork by Rackham, Howard Pyle, Aubrey Beardsley, and others"--
This work presents a dynamic framework for understanding social emergence, addressing the gap in social sciences regarding the origin of novelty. It explores how new alternatives, organizational forms, and types of people develop, integrating biochemical insights about life's origins with innovative social network analyses. The authors propose a theory explaining the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty through the coevolution of multiple social networks, highlighting that novelty results from spillovers across interconnected networks in various domains. While actors form relationships in the short term, these relationships shape actors over time. The theory is grounded in formal deductive modeling and diverse historical case studies. Building on the biochemical concept of autocatalysis, the authors extend this reasoning to social processes of production and communication. They analyze a broad range of emergence cases, including the rise of organizational novelty in early capitalism and state formation, the transformation of communism, and contemporary science-based capitalism, focusing on the biotechnology industry, regional high-tech clusters, and the open-source community.