Impossible Horizon

Author : Jacques Arnould
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781925309959

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Impossible Horizon by Jacques Arnould Pdf

For a long time what we now know as space was inaccessible to humans, not because it was at a height which was unattainable without the least astronautical technology or principles, but because of the cosmic and dualistic representation of reality. Humans were relegated to the centre, to a sort of ecesspiti of imperfection, alteration, incompleteness and finally death. Around them were crystal spheres which held the planets and starsoimmutable, eternal and perfectoa domain which was completely off-limits to humans, unless they had discarded their carnal envelope, either through a mystical experience or after death. It took a revolution, the Copernican Revolution, to shatter the celestial spheres and make them no longer forbidden territory. Galileo was one of the first revolutionaries: through his astronomical observations, he showed the Earth and the Sky were in fact made of the same fabric, the same material, and therefore belonged to the same world. Then followed Kepler and others. Centuries passed, and human conquered the air, and then space. Their feet touched the surface of the Moon and their wheels the surface of Mars. The Earth and the entire universe somehow became flat again with no folds, no curves, at least in appearance, to hide any dark corners. The horizon once again retreated out of reach taking with it perhaps the last dreams of exploration. The human imagination does not like horizons which are too flat, too clear; humanity needs to meet resistance, brakes, constraints to stop them in their tracks, to cross them and lead them, to new unknown territories. An impossible Horizon, writes Jacques Arnould in this work, but a horizon without which our adventures, our explorations would lose their savor and especially their meaning. We will then understand that even if the goal is never fully achieved, it is the quest that enriches us.i Bertrand Piccard. (Balloonist, aviator and psychiatrist, Bertrand Piccard is the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3. With Andre Borschberg, he is the initiator, chairman, and pilot of Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar powered flight)

Author : Bruce Clarke,Manuela Rossini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136950421

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science by Bruce Clarke,Manuela Rossini Pdf

With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume: links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamics surveys current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies to Semiotics traces the history and culture of literature and science from Greece and Rome to Postmodernism. Ranging from classical origins and modern revolutions to current developments in cultural science studies and the posthumanities, this indispensible volume offers a comprehensive resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers. With authoritative, accessible, and succinct treatments of the sciences in their literary dimensions and cultural frameworks, here is the essential guide to this vibrant area of study.

Author : Jacob Copeman,Dwaipayan Banerjee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781501745102

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Hematologies by Jacob Copeman,Dwaipayan Banerjee Pdf

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a "bloodscape of difference": different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalities. These entryways allow the authors to explore the relation between blood's utopic flows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a reflexive relation to norms that guide its proper flow.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Photography
ISBN : SRLF:D0001759521

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Photography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard D. Zakia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780240824536

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Perception and Imaging by Richard D. Zakia Pdf

'Perception and Imaging' explains how we see and what we don't see. Relevant psychological principles will help you predict the emotional reaction of photographic images, giving you more power, control, and tools for communicating your desired message.

Author : Frederick R. Kobrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Finance, Personal
ISBN : 9780743258708

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The Big Money by Frederick R. Kobrick Pdf

It takes only a few high-quality stocks for a stock portfolio to make the big money. Finding winning stocks is a skill that any serious investor can learn, says Fred Kobrick, veteran stock picker and legendary mutual-fund manager. In The Big Money, Kobrick draws on a lifetime of investing experience to show how he identified four qualities that reliably predict which companies will thrive and grow, producing outsize stock returns.

Author : Colby Chamberlain
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226831374

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Fluxus Administration by Colby Chamberlain Pdf

"George Maciunas is typically associated with the famous art collective Fluxus, of which he is often thought to have been the leader. In this book, critic and art historian Colby Chamberlain wants us to question two things: first, the idea that Fluxus was a "group" in any conventional sense, and second, that Maciunas was its "leader." Instead, Chamberlain shows us how Maciunas used the paper materials of bureaucracy in his art-cards, certificates, charts, files, and plans, among others-to subvert his own status as a "figurehead" of this collective and even as a biographical entity. Each of the book's chapters situates Maciunas's artistic practice in relation to a different domain: education, communication, production, housing, and health. We learn about his use of the postal service to make Fluxus into an international network; his manipulation of US copyright law to pursue a "Soviet" ideal of collective authorship; his intervention in Manhattan's zoning restrictions as founder and manager of the "Fluxhouse" artists' lofts in SoHo; and his performances protesting against normative ideals of health and family, focusing on his own, ultimately failed medical self-management. Fluxus Administration is not a biography, but it does delve more deeply than any other book into Maciunas's life and work, showing the lengths to which the artist himself went to disrupt any easy account of himself"--

Author : Hugo Letiche,Jean-Luc Moriceau
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004390126

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Turn to Film by Hugo Letiche,Jean-Luc Moriceau Pdf

Turn to Film: Film in the Business School offers creative and powerful uses of film in the business school classroom and surveys the pedagogical and performative value of watching films with students.

Author : Ian Cutler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786420933

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Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert by Ian Cutler Pdf

Cynicism began as a school of philosophy that was largely inspired by Socrates and often decried by popular commentators as a social pathology, a nihilistic rebellion against the foundations of civilization. Modern definitions of the cynic describe an individual who is negative and sarcastic, violently opposed to established authority and social convention, and dedicated to existentialism. This book attempts to vindicate cynicism, arguing that it is both a progressive approach to social dilemmas and an enlightened understanding of the human condition. Chapter One establishes the foundations of classical Greek cynicism, while later chapters illustrate the varied faces of the cynic phenomenon in the persons of such disparate characters as Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Diogenes, the Dadaists, George Bataille, Samuel Beckett, Auberon Waugh, the creators of South Park, and others. Nietzsche is portrayed as the most important representative of both classical and postmodern cynicism, as well as the pivotal link between the two. The book focuses on significant periods of historical change, such as the Renaissance, and the historical cynics responsible for several seminal social ideas, including cosmopolitanism (citizenship of the world), asceticism (personal growth through self-testing), and parrhesia (finding one's voice in the presence of tyrannical forces). The author claims that aspects of Greek cynicism are present in contemporary society, offering a positive strategy for living in a hostile world.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2JNV

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Of general principles and of truth by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z255833305

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Modern Painters by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : J Harvey,R Iengo,K S Narain,S Randjbar-Daemi,H Verlinde
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814553247

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String Theory and Quantum Gravity '92 by J Harvey,R Iengo,K S Narain,S Randjbar-Daemi,H Verlinde Pdf

Contents:Ising Model and N = 2 Supersymmetric Theories (S Cecotti & C Vafa)The Dark Side of String Theory: Black Holes and Black Strings (G T Horowitz)Some Recent Developments in Closed String Field Theory (A Sen) Quantum Aspects of Black Holes (J A Harvey & A Strominger)The One Dimensional Matrix Model and String Theory (S R Das)Gravity and Gauge Theory at High Energies (H Verlinde)Notes on N = 2 σ-Models (J Distler)The W Geometry of Chiral Surfaces in Complex Projective Spaces (J-L Gervals)On Physical States in 2d (Topological) Gravity (P Bouwknegt et al)Dynamics of the Conformal Factor in 4D Gravity (I Antoniadis)Non-Relativistic Fermions, Coadjoint Orbits of W8 and String Field Theory at c = 1 (A Dhar et al)Simplicial Quantum Gravity (J Ambjørn et al)Gravitational Scattering at Planckian Energies: The Eikonal and Beyond (D Amati)A Proposal for D > 1 Strings? (L Alvarez-Gaumé & J L F Barbón)Differential Equations in Special Kähler Geometry (J Louis)N = 2 First Order Systems: Landau-Ginzburg Potentials and Topological Twist (P Fre & P Soriani) Readership: High energy physicists. keywords:

Author : Kenna Lang Archer
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826355881

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Unruly Waters by Kenna Lang Archer Pdf

Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow. The vast majority of projects proposed or constructed in this watershed were failures, undone by the geology of the river as much as the cost of improvement. When developers erected locks, the river changed course. When they built large-scale dams, floodwaters overflowed the concrete rims. When they constructed levees, the soils collapsed. Yet lawmakers and laypeople, boosters and engineers continued to work toward improving the river and harnessing it for various uses. Through the plight of the Brazos River Archer illuminates the broader commentary on the efforts to tame this nation’s rivers as well as its historical perspectives on development and technology. The struggle to overcome nature, Archer notes, reflects a quintessentially American faith in technology.

Author : FU-CHUN PENG
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781631816376

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ON THE WISDOM OF CHINA by FU-CHUN PENG Pdf

Truthfully and accurately, this book attempts to elucidate the nature and forms of China’s ancient wisdom and reinterpret its ideological significance, thereby activating its inherent vitality and promoting the construction of contemporary Chinese thought. The wisdom of China, with its own discourse system, gives unique stipulations to existence, thought and language. Confucianism, Taoism and Chan Buddhism, as the historical manifestations of Chinese wisdom, respectively express the thoughts between man and man, between man and nature, and between man and mind. In fact, these three aspects exactly constitute the whole of man’s life world. The thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and Chan Buddhism are mainly and respectively represented in The Four Books and Five Classics, Lao-Zi and Zhuang-Zi, and Tan-Jing (The Sutra of Hui Neng). The wisdom of China, different from the non-natural wisdom of the West, is fundamentally a natural wisdom, according to which nature is the basis of human existence, thought and language. However, in early modern times, the natural history of China was confronted with an unprecedented crisis. Ever since then, China has entered the post natural era. The coexistence of Heaven and man, as the new wisdom of China, can be created in the age of globalization through preserving the living elements and eliminating the dead parts in the traditional Chinese wisdom.

Author : Lars Brink,Robert Marnelius
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814553056

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Pathways To Fundamental Theories - Proceedings Of The Johns Hopkins Workshop On Current Problems In Particle Theory 16 by Lars Brink,Robert Marnelius Pdf

This workshop focuses on recent developments in string theory and other related low-dimensional models.