At The Edge Of Existence

Author : Brandon West
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476644196

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Few scary stories begin with a disclaimer that they are fictional. Instead, they claim to be true even when they are not. Such stories blur the line between fiction and reality, pushing audiences to consider where fiction ends and reality begins. These kinds of horror stories comprise the understudied subgenre of liminal horror. As the first book on this subject, this volume surveys a variety of liminal horror films. It discusses the different variations within liminal horror's sub-genres and considers why horror films are obsessed with the natures of, and borders between, fiction and reality. After first laying out the basic traits of the horror genre in the context of liminality, this book then dives into film more specifically and how the medium is uniquely situated to explore the movement between the fictional and the real. Through lenses such as dreaming, memory, and perception, the following chapters explore the role liminal horror plays in the the human psyche's subconscious/unconscious, and the various functions of the human mind in perceiving, or misperceiving, reality.

Author : Cressida J. Heyes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781478009320

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Anaesthetics of Existence by Cressida J. Heyes Pdf

“Experience” is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, “the personal is political,” and one's own lived experience is an important epistemic resource. In Anaesthetics of Existence Cressida J. Heyes reconciles these two positions, drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience. If for Foucault an “aesthetics of existence” was a project of making one's life a work of art, Heyes's “anaesthetics of existence” describes antiprojects that are tacitly excluded from life—but should be brought back in. Drawing on critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and she analyzes phenomena that press against those edges. Essays on sexual violence against unconscious victims, the temporality of drug use, and childbirth as a limit-experience build a politics of experience while showcasing Heyes's much-needed new philosophical method.

Author : Jessica Boucher,Thomas (Thomas M.) Brooks,Nigel Dudley,Annabelle Cuttelod,Penny F. Langhammer
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9782831716886

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Applications of key biodiversity areas by Jessica Boucher,Thomas (Thomas M.) Brooks,Nigel Dudley,Annabelle Cuttelod,Penny F. Langhammer Pdf

A large number of approaches have been developed over the last four decades for identifying places of significance for biodiversity, but unfortunately this requires looking at multiple, disconnected databases and other information sources to understand the sites of importance in a particular area. To address this issue and provide a coherent, global approach, IUCN was asked to convene a worldwide consultative process to agree on an overarching methodology to identify Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) -- sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity. A Joint Task Force on Biodiversity and Protected Areas was established to finalise a standard methodology for KBA identification. This report summarises findings from a two-year survey of existing and potential end-users of the KBA standard and, in particular, of the resulting KBA data generated under it. Implications for the development of the KBA standard are then outlined.

Author : Kimberly A. Crumpler
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781463459338

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Edge of Existence by Kimberly A. Crumpler Pdf

Have you ever questioned your existence? Who you are, why you’re here? What’s to become of you? Do you or your children constantly struggle just to co-exist in society today? This book is a collection of poems that will challenge your perception by taking you into the realm of the unknown. These stories accompanied with illustrations, will give you a new perspective. If you have the willingness to be and are willing to see then envision with me, through poetry.

Author : Kimberly A. Crumpler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1418498947

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Edge of Existence by Kimberly A. Crumpler Pdf

Have you ever questioned your existence? Who you are, why you're here? What's to become of you? Do you or your children constantly struggle just to co-exist in society today? This book is a collection of poems that will challenge your perception by taking you into the realm of the unknown. These stories accompanied with illustrations, will give you a new perspective. If you have the willingness to be and are willing to see then envision with me, through poetry.

Author : Pablo Lerner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000913224

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Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis by Pablo Lerner Pdf

Introduces original and radical ideas which amount to a revision of some important aspects of psychoanalytic metapsychology, and extensions of several others. Considers concepts including the void, exile and nothingness and considers how development of these ideas can impact many of the “extreme” problems and phenomena with which psychoanalysis struggles. Interdisciplinary study which includes discussion of poetry, philosophy and language.

Author : Alfred Oswald,Jens Köhler,Roland Schmitt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662482612

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Project Management at the Edge of Chaos by Alfred Oswald,Jens Köhler,Roland Schmitt Pdf

Complexity is a gift that can be made available for the successful implementation of projects, and used to create a new order or to change an existing one. Based on scientific facts, the authors present a systematic approach, which integrates complexity and its multitude of facets and gives practical recommendations for dealing with complexity in projects. The methods paradigm in project management is currently undergoing a massive upheaval. Projects are complex entities that cannot be tackled using traditional methods, such as classical cause and effect approaches. Complexity, and the associated phenomenon of self-organization, is a natural, but hidden designer. It offers a great opportunity in its use as a key driver for the implementation of projects. This requires identification of the principles of complexity and then using these for project management. In this book, the latest findings from natural sciences and brain research are used and transferred within a practice-oriented framework. The authors describe the methods of complexity regulation in projects and how self-organization for the management of projects can be applied.

Author : Shaun David Hutchinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481449687

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At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson Pdf

From the author of We Are the Ants comes “another winner” (Booklist, starred review) about a boy who believes the universe is slowly shrinking as the things he remembers are being erased from others’ memories. Tommy and Ozzie have been best friends since the second grade, and boyfriends since eighth. They spent countless days dreaming of escaping their small town—and then Tommy vanished. More accurately, he ceased to exist, erased from the minds and memories of everyone who knew him. Everyone except Ozzie. Ozzie doesn’t know how to navigate life without Tommy, and soon he suspects that something else is going on: that the universe is shrinking. When Ozzie is paired up with the reclusive and secretive Calvin for a physics project, it’s hard for him to deny the feelings developing between them, even if he still loves Tommy. But Ozzie knows there isn’t much time left to find Tommy—that once the door closes, it can’t be opened again. And he’s determined to keep it open as long as possible.

Author : Rosario Forlenza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192549587

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On the Edge of Democracy by Rosario Forlenza Pdf

On the Edge of Democracy examines the emergence of democracy in Italy in the wake of World War Two. It examines the nature of the democracy forged in the liminal period after Benito Mussolini, the Duce of Fascism, was removed from government in the summer of 1943. Instead of pouring through institutional accounts, which root the origins of democracy in the establishment of parties and in electoral outcomes, Forlenza focuses on the lived experiences of ordinary people and elites in extraordinary times. Meanings of democracy are not variations of a universal model but emerge as contingent interpretative acts and a symbolization following political and existential crisis under condition of violence and war. On the Edge of Democracy captures a series of key events which saw people torn between going home or staying at the front, between clinging to a disrespected but habitual monarchy or engaging with a republican experiment. Becoming a democracy was also a kind of politically spiritual act: the power of the myth of America and the struggle for order as a function of the cosmic fight between communism and ant-communism in the incipient Cold War had a formative power on the origins, meanings, and characters of post-fascist democracy in Italy.

Author : Samuel Turvey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191580192

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Witness to Extinction by Samuel Turvey Pdf

The tragic recognition of the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin or baiji in 2007 became a major news story and sent shockwaves around the world. It made a romantic story, for the baiji was a unique and beautiful creature that features in many Chinese legends and folk tales. The Goddess of the Yangtze, as it was known, was also the lone representative of an entire and ancient branch of the Tree of Life. But perhaps the greater tragedy is that its status as one of the world's most threatened mammals had been widely recognized, yet despite wide publicity virtually no international funds became available. A compelling read by a young naturalist, Samuel Turvey tells the story of the plight of the Yangtze River Dolphin from his unique perspective as a conservation biologist deeply involved in the struggle to save the dolphin. This is both a celebration of a beautiful and remarkable animal that once graced one of China's greatest rivers, its natural history and its role as a cultural symbol; and also a personal, eyewitness account of the failures of policy and the struggle to get funds that led to its tragic demise. It is a true cautionary tale that we must learn from, for there are countless other threatened species that will suffer from the same human mistakes, and whose loss we shall not know until it is too late.

Author : Tyron Goldschmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136249228

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The Puzzle of Existence by Tyron Goldschmidt Pdf

This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does everything need an explanation? Or can there be brute, inexplicable facts? Could there have been nothing whatsoever? Or is there any being that could not have failed to exist? Is the question meaningful after all? The volume advances cutting-edge debates in metaphysics, philosophy of cosmology and philosophy of religion, and will intrigue and challenge readers interested in any of these subjects.

Author : Marc Deri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0464339111

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The Edge of Existence by Marc Deri Pdf

Across the globe, humankind and animals alike have an incredible ability to find sanctity and refuge in the most arduous of environments. This is most certainly the case on the Falkland Islands. The furious winds and searing sun, beating through the thin ozone layer that resides above the archipelago make this one of the harshest places on earth. This book shows the risk and the reward of living at the very tip of inhabited land and tries to show the beauty and mystery that it affords every visitor, human or otherwise. Make no bones about it, life out here really is life on the edge of existence.

Author : Cressida J. Heyes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781478009320

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Anaesthetics of Existence by Cressida J. Heyes Pdf

“Experience” is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, “the personal is political,” and one's own lived experience is an important epistemic resource. In Anaesthetics of Existence Cressida J. Heyes reconciles these two positions, drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience. If for Foucault an “aesthetics of existence” was a project of making one's life a work of art, Heyes's “anaesthetics of existence” describes antiprojects that are tacitly excluded from life—but should be brought back in. Drawing on critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and she analyzes phenomena that press against those edges. Essays on sexual violence against unconscious victims, the temporality of drug use, and childbirth as a limit-experience build a politics of experience while showcasing Heyes's much-needed new philosophical method.

Author : Vazīr Āg̲h̲ā
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Urdu literature
ISBN : UOM:39015062494912

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The Symphony of Existence by Vazīr Āg̲h̲ā Pdf

Author : Matthew C. Ally
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739182895

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Ecology and Existence by Matthew C. Ally Pdf

This study explores the increasingly troubled relationship between humankind and the Earth, with the help of a simple example and a complicated interlocutor. The example is a pond, which, it turns out, is not so simple as it seems. The interlocutor is Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, biographer, philosopher, and, despite his several disavowals, doyen of twentieth-century existentialism. Standing with the great humanist at the edge of the pond, the author examines contemporary experience in the light of several familiar conceptual pairs: nature and culture, fact and value, reality and imagination, human and nonhuman, society and ecology, Earth and world. The theoretical challenge is to reveal the critical complementarity and experiential unity of this family of ideas. The practical task is to discern the heuristic implications of this lived unity-in-diversity in these times of social and ecological crisis. Interdisciplinary in its aspirations, the study draws upon recent developments in biology and ecology, complexity science and systems theory, ecological and Marxist economics, and environmental history. Comprehensive in its engagement of Sartre’s oeuvre, the study builds upon his best-known existentialist writings, and also his critique of colonialism, voluminous ethical writings, early studies of the imaginary, and mature dialectical philosophy. In addition to overviews of Sartre’s distinctive inflections of phenomenology and dialectics and his unique theories of praxis and imagination, the study also articulates for the first time Sartre’s incipient philosophical ecology. In keeping with Sartre’s lifelong commitment to freedom and liberation, the study concludes with a programmatic look at the relative merits of pragmatist, prefigurative, and revolutionary activism within the burgeoning global struggle for social and ecological justice. We learn much by thinking with Sartre at the water’s edge: surprising lessons about our changing humanity and how we have come to where we are; timely lessons about the shifting relation between us and the broader community of life to which we belong; difficult lessons about our brutal degradation of the planetary system upon which life depends; and auspicious lessons, too, about a participatory path forward as we work to preserve a habitable planet and build a livable world for all earthlings.