Fragments Futures Absence And The Past

Author : Silke Helmerdig
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783839436240

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Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past by Silke Helmerdig Pdf

According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping the depicted moment actual at every present moment. Instead of counting on the documentary quality of photography that speaks in the past tense of "what has been", Silke Helmerdig suggests a different approach to photography: an extension of a future subjunctive (photographic) tense speaking of "what could be, if", allowing one to think possible futures instead of harking back to the past.

Author : Silke Helmerdig
Publisher : Transcript Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 3837636240

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Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past by Silke Helmerdig Pdf

According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping the depicted moment actual at every present moment. Instead of counting on the documentary quality of photography that speaks in the past tense of "what has been", Silke Helmerdig suggests a different approach to photography: an extension of a future subjunctive (photographic) tense speaking of "what could be, if", allowing one to think possible futures instead of harking back to the past.

Author : Nicholas Chare,Dominic Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030114916

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The Auschwitz Sonderkommando by Nicholas Chare,Dominic Williams Pdf

This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando were slave labourers in the gas chambers and crematoria, forced to process and dispose of the bodies of those who were murdered. They have been central to a number of key topics in post-war debates about the Shoah: collaboration, moral compromise and survival, resistance, representation, and the possibility of bearing witness. Their testimony however has mostly met with a reluctance to engage in depth with it. Moving from testimonies produced within the event, the Scrolls of Auschwitz and the Sonderkommando photographs, to testimonies given at trials and for video archives, and to the paintings of David Olère and the film Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, this book demonstrates the importance of their witnessing in the post-war memory of the Holocaust, and provides vital new insights into the questions of representation, memory, gender, and the Shoah.

Author : Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271093154

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Fragment, Image, and Absence in 1960s Japan by Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz Pdf

This groundbreaking book examines how the notion of “the object” was transformed in Japanese experimental art during a time of rapid social, economic, and environmental change. Reviving the legacies of the historical avant-garde, Japanese artists and intellectuals of the 1960s formulated an aesthetics of disaffection through which they sought to address the stalemate of political and aesthetic representation. Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz draws from psychoanalytic theories of melancholia to examine the implications of such an approach, tracing a genealogy of disaffection within modernist discourse. By examining the discursive practices of artists working across a wide range of media, and through a close analysis of artwork, philosophical debates, artist theories, and critical accounts, Adriasola Muñoz shows how negativity became an efficacious means of addressing politics as a source for the creative act of undoing. In examining ideas of the object advanced by artists and intellectuals both in writing and as part of their artwork, this book brings discussions in critical art history to bear on the study of art in Japan. It will be of interest to art historians specializing in modernism, the international avant-garde, Japanese art, and the history of photography.

Author : Eugene B. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350176119

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Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power by Eugene B. Young Pdf

Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze's thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art. Examining Blanchot's suggestion that art and dream are “outside” of power, as imagination has neither reality nor truth, and Foucault's theory that power forms knowledge by valuing life, Eugene Brent Young relates these to both Deleuze's philosophy of time and his work with Guattari on art. In doing so, he uses case studies from literature and popular film, including Kafka's Castle, Villeneuve's Arrival, and Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Providing important new insights for those working in literary and cinematic studies, this book advances a new definition of art as that which reverses the realities and truths of power to express obscure ideas and values beyond both our exterior and interior worlds.

Author : Sorin Cerin
Publisher : Sorin Cerin
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460925782

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Bible of the Light by Sorin Cerin Pdf

Some time ago I published The Theory of Universal Genesis in the book The Divine Light; this text became the first chapter in the Bible of the Light. It is a dialogue between myself and the Divine Light that appeared to me in a lucid dream and which inspired me to write all this.Bible of the Light is an anthology composed of several books published along the time as and new books which for the first time will be published. For many years I felt that I will receive these revelations from the Divine Light and that I will publish such a work entitled Bible of the Light.To those wishing to is heal through the holy breath of Divine Light, them I wish to they find the tranquility and peace through these pages. No matter how unhappy would be some, through Bible of the Light will understand that everything is just a passing cloud, and that the true eternal life is alongside the Divine Light that is the true God. Amen.This Bible will make the definitive peace between God and Satan, in the man soul, because Satan is the Evil without which the Good identified through God and would lose any luster. All churches of the world would disappear if would not more existed Satan! The spiritual peace between Satan and God lead for the first time to a healthy society, where the folly, pride, vanity and hypocrisy, alongside with many other evils will disappear and once with these and servants of a Good who can not understand the Evil.Here you will find out to whom and how should you pray if you necessarily want to do it. If is necessary to yourself pray or not. Who is God and what wants Him from us, but and who we are and what we want from God from inside us. Amen.

Author : Volker Küster
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047428688

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A Protestant Theology of Passion by Volker Küster Pdf

Through biographical sketches of its main representatives and a sample of art works Minjung theology becomes vivid for the reader. As lasting impact in times of globalization and a changing Korean context its corporate theology of the cross is identified.

Author : Arthur Montagu Brookfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:590122172

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Simiocracy, a fragment from future history, by the author of 'Post mortem'. by Arthur Montagu Brookfield Pdf

Author : Rebecca Bryant
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812206661

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The Past in Pieces by Rebecca Bryant Pdf

On April 23, 2003, to the surprise of much of the world, the ceasefire line that divides Cyprus opened. The line had partitioned the island since 1974, and so international media heralded the opening of the checkpoints as a historic event that echoed the fall of the Berlin Wall. As in the moment of the Wall's collapse, cameras captured the rush of Cypriots across the border to visit homes unwillingly abandoned three decades earlier. It was a euphoric moment, and one that led to expectations of reunification. But within a year Greek Cypriots overwhelmingly rejected at referendum a United Nations plan to reunite the island, despite their Turkish compatriots' support for the plan. In The Past in Pieces, anthropologist Rebecca Bryant explores why the momentous event of the opening has not led Cyprus any closer to reunification, and indeed in many ways has driven the two communities of the island further apart. This chronicle of the "new Cyprus" tells the story of the opening through the voices and lives of the people of one town that has experienced conflict. Over the course of two years, Bryant studied a formerly mixed town in northern Cyprus in order to understand both experiences of life together before conflict and the ways in which the dissolution of that shared life is remembered today. Tales of violation and loss return from the past to shape meanings of the opening in daily life, redefining the ways in which Cypriots describe their own senses of belonging and expectations of the political future. By examining the ways the past is rewritten in the present, Bryant shows how even a momentous opening may lead not to reconciliation but instead to the discovery of new borders that may, in fact, be the real ones.

Author : Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223913

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Space and Time in Languages and Cultures by Luna Filipovi?,Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt Pdf

This is an interdisciplinary volume that focuses on the central topic of the representation of events, namely cross-cultural differences in representing time and space, as well as various aspects of the conceptualisation of space and time. It brings together research on space and time from a variety of angles, both theoretical and methodological. Crossing boundaries between and among disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, philosophy, or anthropology forms a creative platform in a bold attempt to reveal the complex interaction of language, culture, and cognition in the context of human communication and interaction. The authors address the nature of spatial and temporal constructs from a number of perspectives, such as cultural specificity in determining time intervals in an Amazonian culture, distinct temporalities in a specific Mongolian hunter community, Russian-specific conceptualisation of temporal relations, Seri and Yucatec frames of spatial reference, memory of events in space and time, and metaphorical meaning stemming from perception and spatial artefacts, to name but a few themes. The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different albeit related point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic Diversity (HCP 36) which focuses on the language-specific vis-à-vis universal aspects of linguistic representation of spatial and temporal reference.

Author : Sarah Nooter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009320351

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Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality by Sarah Nooter Pdf

Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : Edward Hungerford Delaval Elers Napier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : British
ISBN : BL:A0017689945

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Past and Future Emigration; or, the Book of the Cape. [By E. H. D. E. Napier.] Edited by the author of “Five Years in Kafirland” [i.e. Harriet Ward]. by Edward Hungerford Delaval Elers Napier Pdf

Author : Laura K. Marsh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781475737707

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Primates in Fragments by Laura K. Marsh Pdf

This volume was created initially from a symposium of the same name presented at the International Primatological Society's XVIII Congress in Adelaide. South Australia. 6-12 January 2000. Many of the authors who have contributed to this text could not attend the symposium. so this has become another vehicle for the rapidly growing discipline of Fragmentation Science among primatologists. Fragmentation has quickly become a field separate from general ecology. which underscores the severity of the situation since we as a planet are rapidly losing habitat of all types to human disturbance. Getting ecologists. particularly primatologists. to admit that they study in fragments is not easy. In the field of primatology. one studies many things. but rarely do those things (genetics. behavior. population dynamics) get called out as studies in fragmentation. For some reason "fragmentation primatologists" fear that our work is somehow "not as good" as those who study in continuous habitat. We worry that perhaps our subjects are not demonstrating as robust behaviors as they "should" given fragmented or disturbed habitat conditions. I had a colleague openly state that she did not work in fragmented forests. that she merely studied behavior when it was clear that her study sites. everyone of them. was isolated habitat. Our desire to be just another link in the data chain for wild primates is so strong that it makes us deny what kinds of habitats we are working in. However.

Author : Michelle Clayton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520262294

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Poetry in Pieces by Michelle Clayton Pdf

Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings---Peru and Paris---which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo's writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo---and Latin American poetry---to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. Poetry in Pieces sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity.