Beautiful Mutants

Author : Deborah Levy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241146637

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Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy Pdf

The stunning debut novel from the two-time Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything, Deborah Levy. _________________________________ Levy's surreal and artful first novel, Beautiful Mutants, introduces Lapinski -- the manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth a number of urban pilgrims in a shimmering contemporary allegory about broken dreams and desires . . . _________________________________ 'A stunningly original writer' Kirsty Gunn 'It throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missiles it decries' Observer 'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression' Jeanette Winterson

Author : Mark Mothersbaugh,Cristina Bodinger-DeUriarte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123350907

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Beautiful Mutants by Mark Mothersbaugh,Cristina Bodinger-DeUriarte Pdf

Author : Deborah Levy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 009974810X

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Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy Pdf

Author : Adam Pottle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1894759591

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Beautiful Mutants by Adam Pottle Pdf

In this jarring collection, Adam Pottle cracks open the world of disability, illuminating it with an idiom that is both unsettling and exhilarating. His subjects are gritty and multifarious: amputee sex swingers; drug-related shootings; institutionalized adolescents coerced into sterilization. Difficult as their circumstances may seem, Pottle's denizens learn to navigate the world with creative resolve, even defiance, searching for an identity that includes their disabilities rather than spites them. His poems scrape our nerves; they test and undermine poetic forms, challenging our own sensibilities in the process.

Author : Adam Lerner
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781616894085

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Mark Mothersbaugh by Adam Lerner Pdf

Mark Mothersbaugh is a legendary figure for fans of both street art and music culture. Cofounder of the seminal New Wave band DEVO, he was a prolific visual artist before the band's inception moving seamlessly between multiple mediums creating bold, cartoonish, strangely disturbed works of pop surrealism that playfully explore the relationship between technology and individuality. In the most comprehensive presentation of his work to date, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia features a lifetime of his creative inventions from the beginning of his artistic career in the 1970s to his most recent work, including early postcards, screen prints, decals, and DEVO ephemera as well as later paintings, photographs (such as the celebrated Beautiful Mutants series), sculpture, and rugs. Accompanied by a major six city traveling exhibition, this richly illustrated catalog positions Mothersbaugh as a pivitol figure in the history of both contemporary art and indie culture.

Author : Deborah Levy,Lauren Elkin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620406755

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Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy,Lauren Elkin Pdf

"This collection first published with the title 'Early Levy' by Penguin Books 2014"--Title page verso.

Author : Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226453835

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Mutants and Mystics by Jeffrey J. Kripal Pdf

"Account of how comic book heroes have helped their creators and fans alike explore and express a wealth of paranormal experiences ignored by mainstream science. Delving deeply into the work of major figures in the field - from Jack Kirby's cosmic superhero sagas and Philip K. Dick's futuristic head-trips to Alan Moore's sex magic and Whitley Strieber's communion with visitors - Kripal shows how creators turned to science fiction to convey the reality of the inexplicable and the paranormal they experienced in their lives. Expanded consciousness found its language in the metaphors of sci-fi - incredible powers, unprecedented mutations, time-loops and vast intergalactic intelligences - and the deeper influences of mythology and religion that these in turn drew from ; the wildly creative work that followed caught the imaginations of millions. Moving deftly from Cold War science and Fredric Wertham's anticomics crusade to gnostic revelation and alien abduction, Kripal spins out a hidden history of American culture, rich with mythical themes and shot through with an awareness that there are other realities far beyond our everyday understanding."--Jacket.

Author : Armand Marie Leroi
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-25
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106019706206

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Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi Pdf

Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, "Mutants" gives a brilliant narrative account of man's genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it.

Author : Duncan McDuie-Ra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811656996

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Skateboard Video by Duncan McDuie-Ra Pdf

This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here ‘below’ has a dual meaning. First, below refers to an unofficial archive, a subaltern history of urban space. Second, below refers to the angle from which skateboarders and filmers gaze upon, capture, and consume the city—from the ground up. Since taking to the streets in the early 1980s, skateboarding has been captured on film, video tape and digital memory cards, edited into consumable forms and circulated around the world. Videos are objects amenable to ethnographic analysis while also archiving exercises in urban ethnography by their creators. I advocate for taking skate video seriously as a (fragile) archive of the urban backstage, collective memory across time and space, creative urban practice, urban encounters (people-to-people and people-to-object/s), and the globalization of a subculture at once delinquent and magnificent.

Author : Deborah Levy
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241400201

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Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy Pdf

Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.

Author : Sj Whitby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0473528649

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Cute Mutants Vol 1 by Sj Whitby Pdf

My name is Dylan Taylor, human incarnation of the burning dumpster gif, and this is my life. I always wanted to be an X-Man. Except people and me never got along, and apparently you need social skills to run a successful team. Cue Emma Hall's party. One hot make out session with the host herself, and I can talk to objects like my pillow (who's far too invested in my love life) and my baseball bat (who was a pacifist before I got hold of him). Now there's a whole group of us with strange abilities, including super hot ice queen Dani Kim who doesn't approve of how reckless I can be. The bigger problem is a mysterious mutant causing unnatural disasters, and we're the ones who have to stop him. Except trying to make a difference makes things blow up in my face and the team's on the verge of falling apart. Can I bring them back together in time to stop the villain from taking revenge? Have I mentioned I'm not a people person? Magneto help us.

Author : Deborah Levy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620406786

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The Unloved by Deborah Levy Pdf

The image is instant. It whirs out of the camera and they all watch it develop in silence. "Here." He gives the photograph to the perfect flawless woman without looking at it, by way of apology. When everyone gathers around Luciana to admire it, Gustav clicks again. The unloved look brave. The unloved look heavier than the loved. Their eyes are sadder but their thoughts are clearer. They are not concerned with pleasing or affirming their loved one's point of view. The unloved look preoccupied. The unloved look impatient. A group of hedonistic tourists--from Algeria, England, Poland, Germany, Italy, France, and America--gathers to celebrate the holidays in a remote French chateau. Then a woman is brutally murdered, and the sad, eerie child Tatiana declares she knows who did it. The subsequent inquiry into the death, however, proves to be more of an investigation into the nature of identity, love, insatiable rage, and sadistic desire. The Unloved offers a bold and revealing look at some of the events that shaped European and African history, and the perils of a future founded on concealed truth.

Author : Karen-Sue Taussig
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822391036

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Ordinary Genomes by Karen-Sue Taussig Pdf

Ordinary Genomes is an ethnography of genomics, a global scientific enterprise, as it is understood and practiced in the Netherlands. Karen-Sue Taussig’s analysis of the Dutch case illustrates how scientific knowledge and culture are entwined: Genetics may transform society, but society also transforms genetics. Taussig traces the experiences of Dutch people as they encounter genetics in research labs, clinics, the media, and everyday life. Through vivid descriptions of specific diagnostic processes, she illuminates the open and evolving nature of genetic categories, the ways that abnormal genetic diagnoses are normalized, and the ways that race, ethnicity, gender, and religion inform diagnoses. Taussig contends that in the Netherlands ideas about genetics are shaped by the desire for ordinariness and the commitment to tolerance, two highly-valued yet sometimes contradictory Dutch social ideals, as well as by Dutch history and concerns about immigration and European unification. She argues that the Dutch enable a social ideal of tolerance by demarcating and containing difference so as to minimize its social threat. It is within this particular construction of tolerance that the Dutch manage the meaning of genetic difference.

Author : Deborah Levy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632869098

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The Early Novels by Deborah Levy Pdf

Beautiful Mutants, Deborah Levy's feverish allegory of a first novel, introduces a manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth a series of grotesques--among them the Poet, the Banker, and the Anorexic Anarchist. Levy explores the anxieties that pervaded the 1980s: exile and emigration, broken dreams, crazed greed and the first seeds of the global financial crisis, self-destructive desires, and the disintegration of culture. In Swallowing Geography, J. K., like her namesake Jack Kerouac, is always on the road, traveling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. She wanders, meeting friends and strangers, battling her raging mother, and taking in the world through her uniquely irreverent, ironic perspective. Levy blends fairytale with biting satire, pushing at the edges of reality and marveling at where the world collapses in on itself. In The Unloved, a group of hedonistic tourists--from Algeria, England, Poland, Germany, Italy, France, and America--gathers to celebrate the holidays in a remote French château. Then a woman is brutally murdered, and the sad, eerie child Tatiana declares she knows who did it. The subsequent inquiry into the death, however, proves to be more of an investigation into the nature of identity, love, insatiable rage, and sadistic desire.

Author : Jillian Tamaki
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1770461981

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SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki Pdf

Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches The New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This One Summer—moody and atmospheric bestsellers. SuperMutant Magic Academy, which she has been serializing online for the past four years, paints a teenaged world filled with just as much ennui and uncertainty, but also with a sharp dose of humor and irreverence. Tamaki deftly plays superhero and high-school Hollywood tropes against what adolescence is really like: The SuperMutant Magic Academy is a prep school for mutants and witches, but their paranormal abilities take a backseat to everyday teen concerns. Science experiments go awry, bake sales are upstaged, and the new kid at school is a cat who will determine the course of human destiny. In one strip, lizard-headed Trixie frets about her nonexistent modeling career; in another, the immortal Everlasting Boy tries to escape this mortal coil to no avail. Throughout it all, closeted Marsha obsesses about her unrequited crush, the cat-eared Wendy. Whether the magic is mundane or miraculous, Tamaki's jokes are precise and devastating. SuperMutant Magic Academy has won two Ignatz Awards. This volume combines the most popular content from the webcomic with a selection of all-new, never-before-seen strips that conclude Tamaki's account of life at the academy.