Ecstatic Worlds

Author : Janine Marchessault
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262549745

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Ecstatic Worlds by Janine Marchessault Pdf

When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's “Family of Man,” Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope. Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement—to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators and participants. Marchessault shows that Edward Steichen’s 1955 “Family of Man” photography exhibition, for example, and Jacques Cousteau’s 1956 underwater film Le monde du silence (The Silent World) both gave viewers a sense of the earth as a shared ecology. The Festival of Britain (1951)—in particular its Telekinema (a combination of 3D film and television) and its Live Architecture exhibition—along with Expo 67’s cinema experiments and media city created an awareness of multiple worlds. Toronto’s alternative microcinema CineCycle, Agnès Varda’s 2000 film Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, and Buckminster Fuller’s World Game (geoscope), representing ecologies of images and resources, encouraged planetary thinking. The transspecies communication platform the Dolphin Embassy, devised by the Ant Farm architecture collaborative, extends this planetary perspective toward other species; and Finnish artist Erkki Kurenniemi’s “Death of the Planet” projects a postanthropocentric future. Drawing on sources that range from the Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes to the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marchessault argues that each of these media experiments represents an engagement with connectivity and collectivity through media that will help us imagine a new form of global humanism.

Author : Harald William Fawkner
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838632491

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The Ecstatic World of John Cowper Powys by Harald William Fawkner Pdf

Author : Diana Stein,Sarah Kielt Costello,Karen Polinger Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000464733

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The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World by Diana Stein,Sarah Kielt Costello,Karen Polinger Foster Pdf

For millennia, people have universally engaged in ecstatic experience as an essential element in ritual practice, spiritual belief and cultural identification. This volume offers the first systematic investigation of its myriad roles and manifestations in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. The twenty-nine contributors represent a broad range of scholarly disciplines, seeking answers to fundamental questions regarding the patterns and commonalities of this vital aspect of the past. How was the experience construed and by what means was it achieved? Who was involved? Where and when were rites carried out? How was it reflected in pictorial arts and written records? What was its relation to other components of the sociocultural compact? In proposing responses, the authors draw upon a wealth of original research in many fields, generating new perspectives and thought-provoking, often surprising, conclusions. With their abundant cross-cultural and cross-temporal references, the chapters mutually enrich each other and collectively deepen our understanding of ecstatic phenomena thousands of years ago. Another noteworthy feature of the book is its illustrative content, including commissioned reconstructions of ecstatic scenarios and pairings of works of Bronze Age and modern psychedelic art. Scholars, students and other readers interested in antiquity, comparative religion and the social and cognitive sciences will find much to explore in the fascinating realm of ecstatic experience in the ancient world.

Author : Walking Worlds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542595622

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Ecstatic Practices by Walking Worlds Pdf

"Ecstatic Practices" is Volume 3, Number 1 (Winter 2016) of the Walking the Worlds journal.

Author : Margaret De Wys
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620551714

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Ecstatic Healing by Margaret De Wys Pdf

Understanding ecstatic spirit possession for physical and spiritual healing • Details the author’s direct experiences working with Brazilian miracle healer John of God (João de Deus) and African high shaman Credo Mutwa • Includes stories of psychic surgery, spirit possession, and shamanic healing rituals • Explains how each of us is capable of miraculous healing Margaret De Wys first became aware of ecstatic trance healing when she was a young girl fascinated by the rapture of the Holy Rollers. However, it would be decades before she would be called to explore that early fascination. At a gathering in Upstate New York thirty years later she was spontaneously possessed by a sacred Zulu necklace--a gift from one of the most powerful shamans in Africa, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa. Frightening yet exhilarating, the experience set her on a search to understand the depths of ecstatic healing. Margaret journeys to Brazil to work with famous healer John of God (João de Deus), where she witnesses hundreds of miraculous healings through psychic surgery. During her years of spiritual service at John’s Casa, she experiences ecstatic visions, which increase her hunger for more knowledge. She begins to attend possession rituals held by Pai Lazaro, an Umbanda priest, and finds she is a natural medium to the African gods. Called through her dreams to work with Credo Mutwa, she travels to Credo’s Healing Village in Africa, where she discovers her gift as an ecstatic healer and the meaning of true faith. In sharing her journey to reach a profound understanding of ecstatic states and shamanic healing, Margaret De Wys not only gives the reader a direct experience of holiness but also reveals the potential each of us has for miraculous healing.

Author : Mattijs van de Port
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089642981

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Ecstatic Encounters by Mattijs van de Port Pdf

"Reality does not comply with our narrations of it. And that is most certainly the case with the narrations produced in academia. An anthropologist in Bahia, Brazil, fears to become possessed by the spirits he had come to study; falls madly in love withan 'informant'; finds himself baffled by the sayings of a clairvoyant; and has to come to grips with the murder of one of his best friends. Unsettling events that do not belong to the orderly world of scientific research, yet leave their imprint on the way the anthropologist comes to understand the world. REflecting on his long research experience with the spirit possession cult Candomblâe, the author shows, in a probing manner, how definitions of reality always require the exclusion of certain perceptions, experiences and insights. And yet, this 'rest-of-what-is' turns out to be an inexhaustible source of amazement, seduction and renewal." --P [4] of cover.

Author : Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271045832

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The Ecstatic Quotidian by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei Pdf

Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei examines the ways in which modern art and literature enable a study of how we experience quotidian life. She shows that modernism, while exhibiting many strands of development, can be understood by investigating how its attentions to perception and expectation, to the common quality of things, or to childhood play gives way to experiences of ecstasis&—the stepping outside of the ordinary familiarity of the world. While phenomenology grounds this study (through Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Bachelard), what makes this book more than a treatise on phenomenological aesthetics is the way in which modernity itself is examined in its relation to the quotidian. Through the works of artists and writers such as Benjamin, C&ézanne, Frost, Klee, Newman, Pollock, Ponge, Proust, Rilke, Robbe-Grillet, Rothko, Sartre, and Twombly, the world of quotidian life can be seen to harbor a latent ecstasis. The breakdown of the quotidian through and after modernism then becomes an urgent question for understanding art and literature in its capacity to further human experience, and it points to the limits of phenomenological explications of the everyday.

Author : Robert Lima
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1855660911

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The Dramatic World of Valle-Inclán by Robert Lima Pdf

There follows an up-to-date bibliography of the plays, from editions contemporary with the author through those published posthumously; it includes translations of the dramas into many languages, as well as a selection of critical studies worldwide."--Jacket.

Author : Robert S. Corrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032450192

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Ecstatic Naturalism by Robert S. Corrington Pdf

Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of significations, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the contest of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural and religious. Meanings embodied in nature point beyond nature to the mystery inherent in positioned codes and signs.

Author : Beatriz Caiuby Labate,Clancy Cavnar,Alex K. Gearin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317011583

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The World Ayahuasca Diaspora by Beatriz Caiuby Labate,Clancy Cavnar,Alex K. Gearin Pdf

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive substance that has long been associated with indigenous Amazonian shamanic practices. The recent rise of the drink’s visibility in the media and popular culture, and its rapidly advancing inroads into international awareness, mean that the field of ayahuasca is quickly expanding. This expansion brings with it legal problems, economic inequalities, new forms of ritual and belief, cultural misunderstandings, and other controversies and reinventions. In The World Ayahuasca Diaspora, leading scholars, including established academics and new voices in anthropology, religious studies, and law fuse case-study ethnographies with evaluations of relevant legal and anthropological knowledge. They explore how the substance has impacted indigenous communities, new urban religiosities, ritual healing, international drug policy, religious persecution, and recreational drug milieus. This unique book presents classic and contemporary issues in social science and the humanities, providing rich material on the bourgeoning expansion of ayahuasca use around the globe.

Author : Steven Ernenwein
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257823277

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Two Worlds, One Consciousness: Unifying Lucid Dreaming and Conscious Living by Steven Ernenwein Pdf

Author : Janine Marchessault,Will Straw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190229115

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema by Janine Marchessault,Will Straw Pdf

The chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema present a rich, diverse overview of Canadian cinema. Responding to the latest developments in Canadian film studies, this volume takes into account the variety of artistic voices, media technologies, and places which have marked cinema in Canada throughout its history. Drawing on a range of established and emerging scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume will be useful to teachers, scholars, and to a general readership interested in cinema in Canada. Moving beyond the director-focused approach of much previous scholarship, this book is concerned with communities, institutions, and audiences for Canadian cinema at both national and international levels. The choice of subjects covered ranges from popular, genre cinema to the most experimental of artistic interventions. Canadian cinema is seen in its interaction with other forms of art-making and media production in Canada and at the international level. Particular attention has been paid to the work of Indigenous filmmakers, members of diasporic communities and feminist and LGBTQ artists. The result is a book attentive to the complex social and institutional contexts in which Canadian cinema is made and consumed.

Author : Matteo Ciastellardi,Emanuela Patti
Publisher : Editorial UOC
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788493880255

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Understanding Media, Today by Matteo Ciastellardi,Emanuela Patti Pdf

Understanding Media, Today. McLuhan in the Era of Convergence Culture

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101064463142

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The Literary World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julian Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139487122

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Friedrich Nietzsche by Julian Young Pdf

In this beautifully written account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Young deals with the many puzzles created by the conjunction of Nietzsche's personal history and his work: why the son of a Lutheran pastor developed into the self-styled 'Antichrist'; why this archetypical Prussian came to loath Bismarck's Prussia; and why this enemy of feminism preferred the company of feminist women. Setting Nietzsche's thought in the context of his times - the rise of Prussian militarism, anti-Semitism, Darwinian science, the 'Youth' and emancipationist movements, as well as the 'death of God' - Young emphasises the decisive influence of Plato and of Richard Wagner on Nietzsche's attempted reform of Western culture.