9 11 Culture Catastrophe And The Critique Of Singularity

Author : Diana Gonçalves
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110477689

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9/11: Culture, Catastrophe and the Critique of Singularity by Diana Gonçalves Pdf

Departing from 9/11’s spectacularity and aesthetical appeal, its eskatastrophic dimension, this book takes up the task of studying 9/11 as a mnemonic singularity, i.e. a catastrophic event that evokes or mimics, albeit in a renewed situation, the structure of past catastrophes. It investigates how 9/11 has been represented/remediated and how it has reintroduced catastrophic thinking into our conceptual framework.

Author : Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262043922

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Tower to Tower by Henriette Steiner,Kristin Veel Pdf

A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture—the convergence of tall buildings and networked infrastructures—from the Eiffel Tower to One World Trade Center. They show how these two forms of gigantism intersect in the figure of the skyscraper with a transmitting antenna on its roof, a gigantic building that is also a nodal point in a gigantic digital infrastructure. Steiner and Veel focus on two paradigmatic tower sites: the Eiffel Tower and the Twin Towers of the destroyed World Trade Center (as well as their replacement, the One World Trade Center tower). They consider, among other things, philosophical interpretations of the Eiffel Tower; the design and destruction of the Twin Towers; the architectural debates surrounding the erection of One World Trade Center on the Ground Zero site; and such recent examples of gigantism across architecture and digital culture as Rem Koolhaas's headquarters for China Central TV and the phenomenon of the “tech giant.” Examining the cultural, architectural, and media history of these towers, they analyze the changing conceptions of the gigantism that they represent, not just as physical structures but as sites for the projection of cultural ideas and ideals.

Author : Sarah Léonard,Christian Kaunert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429652097

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Refugees, Security and the European Union by Sarah Léonard,Christian Kaunert Pdf

This book analyses the extent and the modalities of the securitization of asylum-seekers and refugees in the EU. It argues that the development of the EU asylum policy, far from 'securitizing' asylum-seekers and refugees, has led to the strengthening and codification of several rights for these two categories of persons. However, the securitization of terrorism and the links that have been constructed between asylum, irregular migration and terrorism in the wake of the various terrorist attacks that have taken place in Europe in the last few years have had a significant impact on the ability of asylum-seekers to gain access to asylum systems in the EU. From a theoretical point of view, the book develops an original analytical framework that draws upon and further develops security studies – more precisely securitization theory – by connecting it to the literature on policy venues and venue-shopping. It therefore makes a significant contribution to the debates on both securitization and migration. Empirically examining the entire development of the EU’s policy towards asylum-seekers and refugees, from its origins in 1993, this book will be of great interest to students of European and EU politics, refugees, migration, security, terrorism and counter-terrorism, security studies and International Relations.

Author : Sonia Lucarelli,James Sperling,Mark Webber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000753035

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Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union by Sonia Lucarelli,James Sperling,Mark Webber Pdf

Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union presents an integrated theory of collective securitisation – a theoretical foundation for explaining how the process of collective securitisation sustains and makes effective an identifiable system of regional security governance. The volume demonstrates the empirical utility of collective securitisation in the EU security space through a set of structured case studies focusing on the collective securitisation of terrorism, cyberspace, migration, energy, health and climate change. The contributions to this collection address three questions: Under what conditions does collective securitisation occur? How does collective securitisation affect the scope and domains of EU security governance? And how does collective securitisation explain the emergence of the EU system of security governance? This volume breaks new ground in the field of EU security studies and provides a theoretical orientation that contributes to our understanding of how and why the EU has developed as a security actor in the 21st century. Developing and testing the theory of collective securitisation with reference to some of the most pressing contemporary security issues, Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union will be of great interest to scholars of the European Union and Security Studies. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

Author : Kaunert, Christian,MacKenzie, Alex,Léonard, Sarah
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782548287

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The European Union as a Global Counter-Terrorism Actor by Kaunert, Christian,MacKenzie, Alex,Léonard, Sarah Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. After the death of Osama Bin Laden and the demise of Al Qaeda, the EU is increasingly threatened by new jihadi terrorist groups such as ISIS, as exemplified by recent terror attacks on Paris, Brussels, Nice, Berlin and Manchester. This book investigates the role of the EU in dealing with such groups as part of its counter-terrorism efforts, by outlining the increasing role of the EU as an external counter-terrorism actor.

Author : Luísa Santos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000807691

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Cultures of Silence by Luísa Santos Pdf

This book investigates the notion of silence as both an oppressing instrument and a powerful tool of resistance under the lenses and practices of cultural production. Taking a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach to the study of creative and cultural practices, the chapters ask how cultural production is dealing with surges of oppressive regimes, censorship, and fake news, and which cultural processes are implied in silencing as well in giving voice to, in erasing, and in producing small and grand narratives. The book reaches beyond dominant instrumental views of contemporary cultural practice to understand culture not only as an expedient to conduct social policy but also as a diagnostic tool and a vernacular space of giving voice to the many small narratives that make the world we live in. Offering an introduction to an underrepresented area of cultural studies, this truly interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, cultural history, media studies, politics, visual studies, communication studies, history, and literature.

Author : D. O'Gorman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137506184

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Fictions of the War on Terror by D. O'Gorman Pdf

This book argues that there are a number of contemporary novels that challenge the reductive 'us and them' binaries that have been prevalent not only in politics and the global media since 9/11, but also in many works within the emerging genre of '9/11 fiction' itself.

Author : E. Lâle Demirtürk
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498534833

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The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life by E. Lâle Demirtürk Pdf

This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness. It examines not only how instances of racialization are generated through the embodied practices of whiteness in everyday interracial social encounters, but also how whiteness is “undone” by and through the black embodied practices of black people, who find different ways of practicing their agency to work for social change.

Author : Andrew K Coyne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578774518

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Cultural Singularity by Andrew K Coyne Pdf

A radical critique on culture as an idea. The concept of the existing Cultural Singularity. The work covers the implosion of meaning via the structures of media, psychology, economics, etc The book culminates with three poems stressing the key ideas presented in the text. This book, although a critique, ends with solutions for all the problems noted in the culture as an idea today.

Author : Myles Sweeney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000788358

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Unitary Developmental Theory and Psychological Development Across the Lifespan, Volume 1 by Myles Sweeney Pdf

This book introduces Unitary Developmental Theory (UDT) to the field of psychology. The first of two volumes, it introduces the UDT model and examines its application to psychological development and mental-health recovery. The book presents a comprehensive model of UDT using 15 phases, showing how this model can be applied to fields including psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology and humanist psychology. It outlines how UDT was developed and can be used as an overarching model from which different schools of psychology can extrapolate process, thereby offering improved structure for all types of interventions including mental-health recovery. This book is designed to precede Volume 2 which details the model’s equal applicability to organization development. Offering an innovative way of modeling developmental learning, this book will be of great interest to researchers, scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of developmental psychology, applied psychology and mental-health recovery.

Author : Ann Keniston,Jeanne Follansbee Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135024666

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Literature after 9/11 by Ann Keniston,Jeanne Follansbee Quinn Pdf

Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and literature’s attempts to convey 9/11.

Author : Charlotte Heath-Kelly,Christopher Baker-Beall,Lee Jarvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317355229

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Neoliberalism and Terror by Charlotte Heath-Kelly,Christopher Baker-Beall,Lee Jarvis Pdf

Terrorism and neoliberalism are connected in multiple, complex, and often camouflaged ways. This book offers a critical exploration of some of the intersections between the two, drawing on a wide range of case studies from the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, and the European Union. Contributors to the book investigate the impact of neoliberal technologies and intellectual paradigms upon contemporary counterterrorism – where the neoliberal era frames counter-terrorism within an endless war against political uncertainty. Others resist the notion that a separation ever existed between neoliberalism and counter-terrorism. These contributions explore how counterterrorism is already itself an exercise of neoliberalism which practices a form of ‘Class War on Terror’. Finally, other contributors investigate the representation of terrorism within contemporary cultural products such as video games, in order to explore the perpetuation of neoliberal and statist agendas. In doing all of this, the book situates post-9/11 counter-terrorism discourse and practice within much-needed historical contexts, including the evolution of capitalism and the state. Neoliberalism and Terror will be of great interest to readers within the fields of International Relations, Security Studies, Terrorism Studies, and beyond. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies on Terrorism.

Author : Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134493951

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Media Spectacle by Douglas Kellner Pdf

During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trial dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal drama. According to this fascinating new book, the Simpson case was just one example of what the author calls 'media spectacle' - a form of media culture that puts contemporary dreams, nightmares, fantasies and values on display. Through the analysis of several such media spectacles - including Elvis, The X Files, Michael Jordan, and the Bill Clinton sex scandals - Doug Kellner draws out important insights into media, journalism, the public sphere and politics in an era of new technologies. In this excellent follow up to his best selling Media Culture, Kellner's fascinating new volume delivers an informative read for students of sociology, culture and media.

Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101218884

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The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil Pdf

“Startling in scope and bravado.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.” —Los Angeles Times “Elaborate, smart and persuasive.” —The Boston Globe “A pleasure to read.” —The Wall Street Journal One of CBS News’s Best Fall Books of 2005 • Among St Louis Post-Dispatch’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2005 • One of Amazon.com’s Best Science Books of 2005 A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity is Nearer who Bill Gates calls “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence” For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Radicalism
ISBN : UOM:39015056001160

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Alternative Press Index by Anonim Pdf