Catastrophe Imagination

Author : I. Saloul
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137001382

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Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination by I. Saloul Pdf

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul addresses central concepts to debates over identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, and geopolitical continuity of loss of place. Through an integrated method of close narrative and discursive analysis of diverse literary texts, films, and personal narratives, this study offers an analytical account of the preservation of cultural optimism in the face of the ongoing catastrophe, as well as the ways in which aesthetics and politics intersect in contemporary Palestinian culture.

Author : John McCormick
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1412819172

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Catastrophe and Imagination by John McCormick Pdf

Catastrophe and Imagination explores fiction in America and England from 1870 to 1950, measuring the impact of the twentieth century's wars on the literary imagination. McCormick holds that the novel has a unique relationship to society, and defines this in relation to the many catastrophes of his era - wars, revolutions, and other outrages on the social order. After an initial survey of society in the novels of Jane Austen, Dickens, and Thackeray, to name only a few, he analyzes what the novel is not, with reference to the work of Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, and D. H. Lawrence.

Author : Lee Clarke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226108605

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Worst Cases by Lee Clarke Pdf

Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails on the outskirts of Los Angeles, spilling its contents and killing seven million. An asteroid ten kilometers wide slams into the Atlantic Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that renders life on the planet as we know it extinct. We consider the few who live in fear of such scenarios to be alarmist or even paranoid. But Worst Cases shows that such individuals—like Cassandra foreseeing the fall of Troy—are more reasonable and prescient than you might think. In this book, Lee Clarke surveys the full range of possible catastrophes that animate and dominate the popular imagination, from toxic spills and terrorism to plane crashes and pandemics. Along the way, he explores how the ubiquity of worst cases in everyday life has rendered them ordinary and mundane. Fear and dread, Clarke argues, have actually become too rare: only when the public has more substantial information and more credible warnings will it take worst cases as seriously as it should. A timely and necessary look into how we think about the unthinkable, Worst Cases will be must reading for anyone attuned to our current climate of threat and fear.

Author : John McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : American fiction
ISBN : LCCN:a57004416

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Catastrophe and Imagination by John McCormick Pdf

Author : Amy Kind
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317329442

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination by Amy Kind Pdf

Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind and cognition, aesthetics and ethics, as well as epistemology, science and mathematics. This outstanding Handbook contains over thirty specially commissioned chapters by leading philosophers organised into six clear sections examining the most important aspects of the philosophy of imagination, including: Imagination in historical context: Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Husserl, and Sartre What is imagination? The relation between imagination and mental imagery; imagination contrasted with perception, memory, and dreaming Imagination in aesthetics: imagination and our engagement with music, art, and fiction; the problems of fictional emotions and ‘imaginative resistance’ Imagination in philosophy of mind and cognitive science: imagination and creativity, the self, action, child development, and animal cognition Imagination in ethics and political philosophy, including the concept of 'moral imagination' and empathy Imagination in epistemology and philosophy of science, including learning, thought experiments, scientific modelling, and mathematics. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and ethics. It will also be a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology and art.

Author : Eva Horn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Disaster films
ISBN : 0231188625

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The Future as Catastrophe by Eva Horn Pdf

The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned.

Author : Ned O'Gorman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226310374

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The Iconoclastic Imagination by Ned O'Gorman Pdf

Bloody, fiery spectacles—the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK’s assassination—have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the “where were you when” question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these spectacles so packed with meaning? In The Iconoclastic Imagination, Ned O’Gorman approaches each of these moments as an image of icon-destruction that give us distinct ways to imagine social existence in American life. He argues that the Cold War gave rise to crises in political, aesthetic, and political-aesthetic representations. Locating all of these crises within a “neoliberal imaginary,” O’Gorman explains that since the Kennedy assassination, the most powerful way to see “America” has been in the destruction of representative American symbols or icons. This, in turn, has profound implications for a neoliberal economy, social philosophy, and public policy. Richly interwoven with philosophical, theological, and rhetorical traditions, the book offers a new foundation for a complex and innovative approach to studying Cold War America, political theory, and visual culture.

Author : Declan Kiberd,Enrico Terrinoni,Catherine Wilsdon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781801104401

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The Book About Everything by Declan Kiberd,Enrico Terrinoni,Catherine Wilsdon Pdf

To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common love of Ulysses. Joseph O'Connor considers the music-saturated Sirens episode and David McWilliams writes about the bigotry and violence of nationalism on display in Cyclops. Irish obstetrician Rhona Mahony responds to Oxen and the Sun, set in a maternity hospital, journalist Lara Marlowe examines the Aeolus episode, which takes place in a newspaper office, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney reflects on the erudite musings of Stephen Dedalus as he walks along Sandymount strand. The Book About Everything counters the perception of Ulysses as the sole preserve of academics and instead showcases readers' responses to the book. It is a vivid, even eccentric collection, filled with life and Joycean spirit.

Author : John McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0841459118

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Catastrophe and Imagination by John McCormick Pdf

Author : John McCormick
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1560009756

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Catastrophe & Imagination by John McCormick Pdf

Catastrophe and Imagination explores fiction in America and England from 1870 to 1950, measuring the impact of the twentieth century's wars on the literary imagination. McCormick holds that the novel has a unique relationship to society, and defines this in relation to the many catastrophes of his era - wars, revolutions, and other outrages on the social order. After an initial survey of society in the novels of Jane Austen, Dickens, and Thackeray, to name only a few, he analyzes what the novel is not, with reference to the work of Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, and D. H. Lawrence.

Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0195346394

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Catastrophe by Richard A. Posner Pdf

Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the possible extinction events that are sufficiently likely to warrant careful study. How should we respond to events that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, we find it hard to wrap our minds around? Posner argues that realism about science and scientists, innovative applications of cost-benefit analysis, a scientifically literate legal profession, unprecedented international cooperation, and a pragmatic attitude toward civil liberties are among the keys to coping effectively with the catastrophic risks.

Author : Simon R. Troon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9798765101513

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Cinematic Encounters with Disaster by Simon R. Troon Pdf

Cinematic Encounters with Disaster takes Hollywood's disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory that works toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe. It examines a range of films from distinct regional and industrial contexts: Hollywood, indie movies, different kinds of documentaries from the US and elsewhere, and auteurist-realist cinema from Europe and Asia. Moving across and beyond critical and industrial categories that often inform thinking about cinema, this book contends that different approaches to film style can push us to imagine disaster in distinct ways, with distinct ethical connotations. Framed by contemporary concerns around the global climate crisis and the advent of the Anthropocene, questions about how films can best offer responses to historical exigency guide the book's explorations of spectacular 2010s blockbusters like Gravity (2013) and San Andreas (2015), environmental documentaries including the paradigmatic An Inconvenient Truth (2006), post-disaster films by auteurs including Abbas Kiarostami and Lav Diaz, and more. Conceiving of disaster as intersubjective ethics between humans and nonhuman alterity – forces of nature, errant technology, monsters, ghosts, and other entities – it analyses how formal techniques and narrative strategies render encounters in which human protagonists are confronted with the threat of death and respond in ways that can be instructive for our planet's present juncture.

Author : William M. Taylor,Michael P. Levine,Oenone Rooksby,Joely-Kym Sobott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472595195

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The "Katrina Effect" by William M. Taylor,Michael P. Levine,Oenone Rooksby,Joely-Kym Sobott Pdf

On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated. Perhaps no other disaster of the 21st century has so captured the global media's attention and featured in the 'imagination of disaster' like Katrina. The Katrina Effect charts the important ethical territory that underscores thinking about disaster and the built environment globally. Given the unfolding of recent events, disasters are acquiring original and complex meanings. This is partly because of the global expansion and technological interaction of urban societies in which the multiple and varied impacts of disasters are recognized. These meanings pose significant new problems for civil society: what becomes of public accountability, egalitarianism and other democratic ideals in the face of catastrophe? This collection of critical essays assesses the storm's global impact on overlapping urban, social and political imaginaries. Given the coincidence and 'perfect storm' of environmental, geo-political and economic challenges facing liberal democratic societies, communities will come under increasing strain to preserve and restore social fabric while affording all citizens equal opportunity in determining the forms that future cities and communities will take. Today, 21st century economic neo-liberalism, global warming or recent theories of 'urban vulnerability' and resilience provide key new contexts for understanding the meaning and legacy of Katrina.

Author : Thomas Henry Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Science
ISBN : ONB:+Z31212200X

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Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley Pdf

Author : Frederik Le Roy
Publisher : Academia Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789038217222

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Tickle Your Catastrophe! by Frederik Le Roy Pdf

A collection of essays that takes stock of the current impact of the image and imagination of the catastrophe in art, science and philosophy