Papers by Paul R Adams
Australian Folklore, 2008
‘Labor’s Volunteer Army: The Fight Against the 1916 Conscription Referendum in Broken Hill,’ Aust... more ‘Labor’s Volunteer Army: The Fight Against the 1916 Conscription Referendum in Broken Hill,’ Australian Folklore, no. 22.
Labour History, 2013
The Australian Labor Party has long been drawn between the socialist ambitions of some trade unio... more The Australian Labor Party has long been drawn between the socialist ambitions of some trade unions and parliamentary real-politics. During World War I and the years that followed, the will to political change within the political Left was dominated by the "industrialists," many of whom were drawn to the American internationalist syndicalism of the Industrial Workers of the World and/or the Russian soviet model. In New South Wales, three different but related manifestations of this leftist direction titled themselves the "Industrial Labor Party" (ILP). All three ILPs were short lived. Two were breakaways from the ALP but ultimately the existing party prevailed. This paper charts the creation and the dissolution of these three parties, concentrating on the final ILP which was defeated through a combination of the death of its only parliamentary representative, the cynical filling of his vacant seat, insufficient electoral support, and the foibles of NSW's experiment with multi-seat electorates.
Conference Presentations by Paul R Adams
Ferdinand de Saussure's structural linguistics and Claude Elwood Shannon's information theory can... more Ferdinand de Saussure's structural linguistics and Claude Elwood Shannon's information theory can appear to be remote from each other and incommensurate. The former considers the rich interrelationships of signs and meanings, whereas the latter calculates the quantities of signals in bits. When Roman Jakobson considers the communications event, however, structural linguistics is refracted through the technological prism of Shannon's cybernetic theory of communication. Two of Saussure's most important linguistic categories are recast in a way that allows them to be reconciled with, and even advance, information theory. Jakobson's re-interpretation of key Saussurian linguistic categories opens an avenue for the mathematical delineation of meaningful communications as such, and not just signs. Saussure is made to point toward an extension of information theory that would culminate in a logistics of meanings.
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Papers by Paul R Adams
Conference Presentations by Paul R Adams