Constellations Of Ruin

Author : Andrew S. Fuller
Publisher : Trepidatio Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781685100834

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Constellations of Ruin by Andrew S. Fuller Pdf

An octopus chosen for a secret mission; generations march through a mycelial tunnel in space; spirits visit a post-apocalyptic fishing village; houses revel when no one is home; a lifetime of seeing invisible monsters; the world begins granting unspoken wishes—these are only a few of the encounters in Constellations of Ruin. In this short story collection, Andrew S. Fuller explores growth and loss, survival and resistance, on a tour from lost neighborhoods to cursed cities to strange futures. Each tale contains wonder and horror, crafted in a stirring and unforgettable manner. “The 26 diverting speculative shorts of Fuller’s collection prove entirely transporting.” —Publishers Weekly “These strange and heady tales will take you into worlds of dreams and nightmares, carrying you along with vivid and immersive prose that will take hold of you and not let you go. Put this collection at the top of your reading list.” —Gwendolyn Kiste, three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals

Author : Pola Oloixarac
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616959241

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Dark Constellations by Pola Oloixarac Pdf

Argentinian literary star Pola Oloixarac’s visionary new novel races from the world of 19th-century science to an ultra-surveilled near future, exploring humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, and leaping forward to the next steps in human evolution. Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century mania for scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruun researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another. Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet and becomes a prominent hacker, riding the wave of transformations brought about by distributed networks, mass surveillance, and new flows of globalized capital. The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: A research group works on a project that will allow the Ministry of Genetics to track every movement of the country’s citizens without their knowledge or consent, using sensors that identify DNA at a distance. But the new technology contains within it the seeds of a far more radical transformation of human life and civilization. In a novel of towering ambition, Oloixarac’s complexly intertwining stories reveal the power that resides in the world’s most deeply shadowed spaces.

Author : Vivian Robson
Publisher : Astrology Center of America
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Astrology
ISBN : 1933303131

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The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology by Vivian Robson Pdf

Ancient astrologers declared stars "fixed" to distinguish them from wandering stars, which they called planets. This book is the distillation of two thousand years of astrological research. It is a comprehensive survey of fixed stars in natal & mundane astrology, the stars & constellations of medieval magic, and fixed stars in astrometeorology. Robson gives their traditional meanings & their effects when combined with planets & angles. Convenient tables & a comprehensive index make this volume easy to use. Included are some 110 named stars, as well as 48 ancient constellations & 60 modern ones. Arabic, Chinese & Hindu lunar mansions are also discussed. Since its first publication in 1923, this book has been the classic on fixed stars, the one to which everyone since has referred. About the author: Vivian Erwood Robson, 1890 - 1942, was a librarian by trade. Like many librarians he had a natural bent for research, and, in his particular case, astrology. He studied ancient astrologers closely, including Ptolemy & William Lilly. His books on fixed stars, electional astrology & relationships are 20th century classics. ar

Author : Jonathan Poppele
Publisher : Adventure Publications
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781591936145

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Night Sky by Jonathan Poppele Pdf

Stargazing is among the most peaceful and inspiring outdoor activities. Night Sky, the award-winning book by Jonathan Poppele, makes it more fun than ever! Take a simple approach to finding 62 constellations by focusing on one constellation at a time, instead of attempting to study dizzying charts. Start with the easy-to-find constellations during each season and work toward the more difficult ones. Better yet, you'll learn how to locate any constellation in relation to the Big Dipper, the North Star and the top of the sky. With two ways to locate each constellation, you'll know where in the sky to look and what to look for! Along the way, you'll be introduced to mythology, facts and tidbits, as well as details about the planets, solar system and more! As an added bonus, the book comes with a red-light flashlight for night reading.

Author : Alfredo González-Ruibal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135083533

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Reclaiming Archaeology by Alfredo González-Ruibal Pdf

Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with perfunctorily as a mere provider of metaphors that other intellectuals have exploited. Scholars from different fields continue to explore areas in which archaeologists have been working for over two centuries, with little or no reference to the discipline. It seems that excavation, stratigraphy or ruins only become important at a trans-disciplinary level when people from outside archaeology pay attention to them and somehow dematerialize them. Meanwhile, archaeologists have been usually more interested in borrowing theories from other fields, rather than in developing the theoretical potential of the same concepts that other thinkers find so useful. The time is ripe for archaeologists to address a wider audience and engage in theoretical debates from a position of equality, not of subalternity. Reclaiming Archaeology explores how archaeology can be useful to rethink modernity’s big issues, and more specifically late modernity (broadly understood as the 20th and 21st centuries). The book contains a series of original essays, not necessarily following the conventional academic rules of archaeological writing or thinking, allowing rhetoric to have its place in disclosing the archaeological. In each of the four sections that constitute this book (method, time, heritage and materiality), the contributors deal with different archaeological tropes, such as excavation, surface/depth, genealogy, ruins, fragments, repressed memories and traces. They criticize their modernist implications and rework them in creative ways, in order to show the power of archaeology not just to understand the past, but also the present. Reclaiming Archaeology includes essays from a diverse array of archaeologists who have dealt in one way or another with modernity, including scholars from non-Anglophone countries who have approached the issue in original ways during recent years, as well as contributors from other fields who engage in a creative dialogue with archaeology and the work of archaeologists.

Author : Julia Hell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226588223

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The Conquest of Ruins by Julia Hell Pdf

The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.

Author : Nassima Sahraoui,Caroline Sauter
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527515673

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Thinking in Constellations by Nassima Sahraoui,Caroline Sauter Pdf

With his powerful thought image of the constellation, Walter Benjamin provides a method for the core practices of the Humanities: reading, writing, and thinking. This collection of provocative essays demonstrates how thinking in constellations with Walter Benjamin leads us towards a new understanding of the critical task of the Humanities today: it goes beyond disciplinary boundaries and challenges assumptions of linearity, coherence, and progression inherent in our scholarly praxis. The volume brings some of the most articulate young voices in international Benjamin scholarship together, and takes an interdisciplinary approach, covering wide-ranging fields of knowledge – quantum physics, postcolonial studies, natural philosophy, psychoanalysis, film theory, literature, and the arts. Benjamin’s texts are re-considered in light of thinkers and poets, such as Theodor W. Adorno, Sigmund Freud, Gottfried E. Leibniz, W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, or Carlos Martínez Rivas. The critical potential of constellations in Benjamin’s work and beyond will be of the highest interest for researchers and students in all areas of the Humanities.

Author : William Magee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Atonement
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5PML

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Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice by William Magee Pdf

Author : William Magee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Atonement
ISBN : UOM:39015062389484

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Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement & Sacrifice by William Magee Pdf

Author : William MAGEE (successively Bishop of Raphoe and Archbishop of Dublin.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027122483

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Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice by William MAGEE (successively Bishop of Raphoe and Archbishop of Dublin.) Pdf

Author : Joey Yap
Publisher : Joey Yap Research Group
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789670794549

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Qi Men Dun Jia: 28 Constellations by Joey Yap Pdf

The First Definitive English Reference to the Chinese 28 Constellations The first book of its kind in English, Qi Men Dun Jia 28 Constellation sheds light on the oldest star- cataloguing systems in the world. Collecting information from associated mythology to Chinese metaphysical significance, this book is the definitive reference for the Chinese Metaphysics enthusiast - especially if you are a Qi Men Dun Jia practitioner.

Author : William Magee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50181190

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The Works of the Most Reverend William Magee, Lord Archbishop of Dublin by William Magee Pdf

Author : Patricia McKee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199333905

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Reading Constellations by Patricia McKee Pdf

The changes wrought by industrialization in the nineteenth century were heralded by many as the inevitable march of progress. Yet a fair share of critics opposed the encroachment of modernity into everyday life. Wedding Walter Benjamin's critique of urban modernity with several canonical works of fiction, Patricia McKee's study challenges the traditional ways we look at Victorian literature and culture. In Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, Jude the Obscure, and "In the Cage," characters struggle to find a place for the parts of the self that do not fit the conventional image of middle-class Victorian success in the rapidly expanding world of metropolitan London. Reading Constellations focuses on this tension, exploring how characters attempt to fit in or adapt to urban society. Throughout, Patricia McKee draws on Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history to examine the aforementioned works of fiction by Dickens, Hardy, and James. The dialectical notion of the "constellation" is deployed in each chapter to read moments in which past and present collide and the ways these writers "open out" the representation of the city to new modes of articulation and-through narrative perception-the reader's perception of the phenomena of the city, its place as the exemplar of modernity, and the ways in which it determines subjectivity. Benjamin's concept of "colportage" is also used as a tool to demonstrate how Victorian fiction distributes and alters various possibilities in time and space. Ultimately, Reading Constellations demonstrates how Victorian fiction imagines a version of urban modernity that compensates for capitalist development, reassembling parts of experience that capitalism typically disintegrates.

Author : Cian Duffy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521854009

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Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime by Cian Duffy Pdf

Offering a genuinely fresh set of perspectives on Shelley's texts and contexts, Cian Duffy argues that Shelley's engagement with the British and French discourse on the sublime had a profound influence on his writing about political change in that age of revolutionary crisis. Examining Shelley's extensive use of sublime imagery and metaphor, Duffy offers not only a substantial reassessment of Shelley's work but also a significant re-appraisal of the sublime's role in the cultural history of Britain during the Romantic period as well as Shelley's fascination with natural phenomena.

Author : Alla Ivanchikova
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781612495804

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Imagining Afghanistan by Alla Ivanchikova Pdf

Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion—the era that propelled Afghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening “Afghanistan” has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11 condition. “Afghanistan” serves as a lens through which contemporary cultural producers contend with the moral ambiguities of twenty-first-century humanitarianism, interpret the legacy of the Cold War, debate the role of the U.S. in the rise of transnational terror, and grapple with the long-term impact of war on both human and nonhuman ecologies. Post-9/11 global Afghanistan literary production remains largely NATO-centric insofar as it is marked by an uncritical investment in humanitarianism as an approach to Third World suffering and in anti-communism as an unquestioned premise. The book’s first half exposes how persisting anti-socialist biases—including anti-statist bias—not only shaped recent literary and visual texts on Afghanistan, resulting in a distorted portrayal of its tragic history, but also informed these texts’ reception by critics. In the book’s second half, the author examines cultural texts that challenge this limited horizon and forge alternative ways of representing traumatic histories. Captured by the author through the concepts of deep time, nonhuman witness, and war as a multispecies ecology, these new aesthetics bring readers a sophisticated portrait of Afghanistan as a rich multispecies habitat affected in dramatic ways by decades of war but not annihilated.