Abandoned Futures

Author : Tong Lam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 190821113X

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Abandoned Futures by Tong Lam Pdf

Photographer Tong Lam explores answers to the question what would the end of the world look like? From Hashima Island off the coast of Japan to the despair of a crumbling industrial Detroit, his photographs deliver myriad answers. It's not all bad news though, and the photographs are far more inspiring than one might expect. As human industry fails and decay takes over, nature starts to move in. Trees miraculously thrive amidst the rubble as various flora springs from industrial waste. Yes, the ghostly asylums and decaying sanatoriums will delight post-apocalyptic impulses, but entropy's low ebb often has an upshot in Lam s bright open photographs. Nothing is spared from ruin, as the military industrial complexes and medieval castles are given the same treatment by the indomitable, grinding forces of the universe.

Author : Tom Gauld
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770463554

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Mooncop by Tom Gauld Pdf

The Guardian cartoonist relates the daily deadpan adventures of the last policeman living on the moon "Living on the moon...Whatever were we thinking? ...It seems so silly now.” The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Each day that the Mooncop goes to work, life gets a little quieter and a little lonelier. As in Goliath, Tom Gauld’s retelling of the Bible story, the focus in Gauld's science fiction is personal—no big explosions or grand reveals, just the incremental dissolution of an abandoned project and a person’s slow awakening to his own uselessness. Depicted in the distinctive, matter-of-fact style of his beloved Guardian strips, Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. Gauld captures essential truths about humanity, making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one.

Author : Matthew Harle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501339448

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Afterlives of Abandoned Work by Matthew Harle Pdf

Afterlives of Abandoned Work considers the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking beyond famous posthumous work to investigate the abandoned everyday, from scrapped plans and rejected ideas to half-written novels or unfinished artistic works. It traces how the reading of abandoned creative endeavor-whether arriving in the form of a rejection letter, a disagreement with a collaborator, or the simple act of walking away from one's desk-can change the way we think about cultural production, the creative process, and the intellectual construction of everyday life. Over five distinct journeys through a variety of archives, from major research libraries to the unique collections of individual enthusiasts, Matthew Harle draws surprising connections between literary studies, media studies, and visual arts, exploring unfinished projects from Thomas Pynchon, Muriel Spark, B.S. Johnson, Harold Pinter, and others. Rooted in literary criticism, Afterlives of Abandoned Work reads unbuilt buildings, unfilmed screenplays, and unpublished novels and radio sketches as forms of text that can help us consider the enduring fragmentation and anecdotal construction of cultural form, as well as expand literary criticism's approach to the archive.

Author : United States. Department of Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Railroads
ISBN : NWU:35556021135850

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Availability and Use of Abandoned Railroad Rights-of-way by United States. Department of Transportation Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Abandonment (Maritime law)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029336257

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Abandoned Barges by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation Pdf

Author : Steven P. Dandaneau
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 079142877X

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A Town Abandoned by Steven P. Dandaneau Pdf

A cultural study of the Flint community's response to its own deindustrialization, within the framework of the state, national, and international forces that produced it.

Author : John D. Robins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Mine drainage
ISBN : UOM:39015041333124

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Criteria for Developing Pollution Abatement Programs for Inactive and Abandoned Mine Sites by John D. Robins Pdf

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000010543431

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Criteria for Developing Pollution Abatement Programs for Incentive and Abandoned Mine Sites by United States. Environmental Protection Agency Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Abandonment of automobiles
ISBN : UIUC:30112101557848

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Disposal of Junked and Abandoned Motor Vehicles by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119664170

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Disposal of Junked and Abandoned Motor Vehicles, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution ... 91-2, on S. 4197 and 4204, August 19,26, 1970 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works Pdf

Author : Stephen Barber
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781861897206

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Abandoned Images by Stephen Barber Pdf

Broadway Avenue in downtown Los Angeles contains an extraordinary collection of twelve abandoned film palaces, all built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide such a concentration of original cinema houses would have been demolished long ago—but in a city whose identity is inseparable from the film industry, the buildings have survived mainly intact, some of their interiors dilapidated and gutted and others transformed and re-imagined as churches and nightclubs. Stephen Barber’s Abandoned Images takes us inside these remarkable structures in order to understand the birth and death of film as both a medium and a social event. Due to the rise of digital filmmaking and straight-to-DVD and on-demand distribution, the film industry is presently undergoing a process of profound transformation in both how movies are made and how they are watched. Barber explores what this means for the cinematic experience: Are movies losing some essential element of their identity and purpose, and can the distinctive aura of film survive when the specialized venues required to display movies have been comprehensively overhauled or erased? Barber also forecasts the future of film, revealing how its distinctive and flexible nature will be vital to its survival. Featuring many evocative images alongside insightful reflections on the role of film and its viewing in the global culture, Abandoned Images will be of interest to all those engaged in contemporary developments in film, visual media, and digital arts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Mine drainage
ISBN : UVA:X001273329

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Mine Drainage and Surface Mine Reclamation: Mine reclamation, abandoned mine lands, and policy issues by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jesus Christ,Virgin Mary
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781326621551

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Locutions to the World 2014 - Messages from Heaven about the near Future of our World by Jesus Christ,Virgin Mary Pdf

Messages from Heaven about the near Future of our World. By our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and our Mother of Salvation Holy Virgin Mary. Virgin Mary is God's Final Preacher. God is always trying to lead man away from self-destruction. He sends his preachers. He sends his teachers. But these are snuffed out. Their words are not listened to and their invitations are rejected. So, finally, he has sent me. I am his final teacher, his final prophet. I am his last opportunity to change the course of history. There is no one behind me, no other message, no other signs than the ones that I will give. When I tell the world that it must listen to me, I am not speaking from a selfish and arrogant spirit. I am speaking as one who sees the destruction, the hopelessness of mankind if my words are not heeded. The fourth of five books from 2011 until 2015.

Author : Stuart Oliver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780755602803

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Land Abandoned to the Sea by Stuart Oliver Pdf

Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping with these changes. With a specific focus on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and social implications of managed retreat and proposes managed realignment as a practical way in which society can rethink itself, addressing the new realities of the environment and a move towards developing a more sustainable relationship with it.

Author : Tetsukazu Yahara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789811586323

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Decision Science for Future Earth by Tetsukazu Yahara Pdf

This open access book provides a theoretical framework and case studies on decision science for regional sustainability by integrating the natural and social sciences. The cases discussed include solution-oriented transdisciplinary studies on the environment, disasters, health, governance and human cooperation. Based on these case studies and comprehensive reviews of relevant works, including lessons learned from past failures for predictable surprises and successes in adaptive co-management, the book provides the reader with new perspectives on how we can co-design collaborative projects with various conflicts of interest and how we can transform our society for a sustainable future. The book makes a valuable contribution to the global research initiative Future Earth, promoting transdisciplinary studies to bridge the gap between science and society in knowledge generation processes and supporting efforts to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Compared to other publications on transdisciplinary studies, this book is unique in that evolutionary biology is used as an integrator for various areas related to human decision-making, and approaches social changes as processes of adaptive learning and evolution. Given its scope, the book is highly recommended to all readers seeking an integrated overview of human decision-making in the context of social transformation.