The results of its investigation suggests a continuum between Guantánamo interrogation rooms and Chicago police precincts.
There is, she says, an association for her with the Jetztzeit, the notion of the "now time", or "here and now" laid out by Walter Benjamin – the moment in which an encounter with an image can explode the "continuum of history".
Yet the professor was snapped entering the actress's birthday bash at the Royal Garden Hotel, in London's snazzy Kensington, and his very presence prompted a flurry of speculation that he had himself slipped through some tear in the space-time continuum, and found himself in a world where celebrities are shown more reverence than scientists solving the mysteries of the universe.
Zuley's record suggests a continuum between police abuses in urban America and the wartime detention scandals that continue to do persistent damage to the reputation of the United States.
"It's interesting to me how the vagueness of our statutory environment stands in contrast to the research," Grogan-Kaylor said, "which is unanimous in the view that this is a continuum of violence.
And the ending - well, there isn't really an ending; instead of a definite closure, the reader is left with a sense of a vague and gloomy continuum, as the protagonist Moses Aloetta stands before the Thames contemplating his future, staring into the signature London fog that is the novel's dominant motif.
It's a timely reminder that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are only one part of a continuum of horror and destruction, linking 21st century England to the killing fields of the Somme and Gallipoli, even to its ancient bloody past, marked in fortress walls "shelled by a million bullets".
It suggests a continuum between police abuses in urban America and the wartime detention scandals that continue to do persistent damage to the international reputation of the United States.
Mr Rosenbaum, on the other hand, is in quest of the quality we call "Shakespearean", the thing that makes Shakespeare unique (so he believes), off the continuum of other writers.He readily admits that this is a slippery concept, remade in the image of each age, critic and reader.
That is because the newcomers are at ease in the long tail of content, whereas old-media firms tend to get stuck trying to generate hits.Exchanges become necessary because people need help navigating around this huge continuum of content.
This is a question of domain: they've got all the household words they need, but probably don't know how to say "general relativity" or "space-time continuum" in their language.
