Impossible Presence

Author : Terry E. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226763854

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Impossible Presence by Terry E. Smith Pdf

Impossible Presence brings together new work in film studies, critical theory, art history, and anthropology for a multifaceted exploration of the continuing proliferation of visual images in the modern era. It also asks what this proliferation—and the changing technologies that support it—mean for the ways in which images are read today and how they communicate with viewers and spectators. Framed by Terry Smith's introduction, the essays focus on two kinds of strangeness involved in experiencing visual images in the modern era. The first, explored in the book's first half, involves the appearance of oddities or phantasmagoria in early photographs and cinema. The second type of strangeness involves art from marginalized groups and indigenous peoples, and the communicative formations that result from the trafficking of images between people from vastly different cultures. With a stellar list of contributors, Impossible Presence offers a wide-ranging look at the fate of the visual image in modernity, modern art, and popular culture. Contributors: Jean Baudrillard Marshall Berman Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Elizabeth Grosz Tom Gunning Peter Hutchings Fred R. Myers Javier Sanjines Richard Shiff Hugh J. Silverman Terry Smith

Author : Fred Botting,Scott Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137077134

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Bataille by Fred Botting,Scott Wilson Pdf

One of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century, Georges Bataille has only recently come to prominence in the Anglophone academy, partly through the influence of post-structuralism. Once seen as no more than a philosopher of eroticism and a writer of avant-garde pornography, Bataille is emerging as an absolutely central figure to discussions of culture, economy, subjectivity and difference. Batailleis the first volume of its kind to offer lucid, diverse and relevant examples of the ways of reading literary and cultural texts in the light of Bataille's work. The essays explore the significance of Bataillean notions like heterology, general economy, transgression and eroticism, through detailed readings of Shakespearean, Elizabethan and Jacobean literature; in analyses of Gothic and postmodern fiction; and in critiques of popular culture, rock music and Hollywood movies. In order to make Bataillean notions more comprehensible to contemporary readers, his concepts are situated in relation to the ideas of renowned critical and cultural theorists like Baudrillard, Deleuze, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, as well as Hegel, Freud, Nietzsche and Marx. Here the influence of Bataille is outlined in intellectual and historical terms and the significance of his work can be seen for both contemporary and futural modes of cultural analysis.

Author : Katie Kilroy-Marac
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520300200

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An Impossible Inheritance by Katie Kilroy-Marac Pdf

Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal during the 1960s and 1970s. Today’s clinic remains haunted by its past and Katie Kilroy-Marac brilliantly examines the complex forms of memory work undertaken by its affiliates over a sixty year period. Through stories such as that of the the ghost said to roam the clinic’s halls, the mysterious death of a young doctor sometimes attributed to witchcraft, and the spirit possession ceremonies that may have taken place in Fann’s courtyard, Kilroy-Marac argues that memory work is always an act of the imagination and a moral practice with unexpected temporal, affective, and political dimensions. By exploring how accounts about the Fann Psychiatric Clinic and its past speak to larger narratives of postcolonial and neoliberal transformation, An Impossible Inheritance examines the complex relationship between memory, history, and power within the institution and beyond.

Author : Bruno Miguel Clara
Publisher : Mário Brito Publicaçoes
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789897827945

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The bridge that takes us to what it is by Bruno Miguel Clara Pdf

How can we see what’s on the other side of a river too deep to be crossed over? And if our condition, our limits and capacities make our crossing difficult? We know that only a bridge can lead us to the other river bank! And where is that bridge? Who’s that bridge? Who can show us that path and take us to it? It’s by reading this book, by making this walk together, that I invite you to discover the path, through meditation and acceptance of this true challenge, that’s the way for us to walk and make the pilgrimage to what will take us to that bridge. Maran atâ.

Author : Brian Phillips
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374717704

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Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY. One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar's Best Books of 2018. Named one of the Best Books of October and Fall by Amazon, Buzzfeed, TIME, Vulture, The Millions and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. “Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating.” —Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad A globe-spanning, ambitious book of essays from one of the most enthralling storytellers in narrative nonfiction In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he’s one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels. The eight essays assembled here—five from Phillips’s Grantland and MTV days, and three new pieces—go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world’s most uncanny, unbelievable, and spectacular oddities (though they do that, too). Researched for months and even years on end, they explore the interconnectedness of the globalized world, the consequences of history, the power of myth, and the ways people attempt to find meaning. He searches for tigers in India, and uncovers a multigenerational mystery involving an oil tycoon and his niece turned stepdaughter turned wife in the Oklahoma town where he grew up. Through each adventure, Phillips’s remarkable voice becomes a character itself—full of verve, rich with offhanded humor, and revealing unexpected vulnerability. Dogged, self-aware, and radiating a contagious enthusiasm for his subjects, Phillips is an exhilarating guide to the confusion and wonder of the world today. If John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead was the last great collection of New Journalism from the print era, Impossible Owls is the first of the digital age.

Author : Janine Marchessault,Will Straw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Jeremy Arnold
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438466750

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State Violence and Moral Horror by Jeremy Arnold Pdf

Explores the concept of "moral horror" as the experience of living amidst unjustifiable state violence.

Author : Richard Shiff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135872212

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Doubt by Richard Shiff Pdf

In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential new addition to James Elkins’s series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts, Richard Shiff embraces doubt as a critical tool and asks how particular histories of art have come to be. Shiff’s turn to doubt is not a retreat to relativism, but rather an insistence on clear thinking about art. In particular, Shiff takes issue with the style of self-referential art writing seemingly 'licensed' by Roland Barthes. With an introduction by Rosie Bennett, Doubt is a study of the tension between practicing art and practicing criticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ionospheric radio wave propagation
ISBN : UCBK:C077809733

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Ionospheric Data at Syowa Station (Antarctica) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : OXFORD:555005995

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The Christian Witness and Congregational Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laurie Krieg,Matt Krieg
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830847945

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An Impossible Marriage by Laurie Krieg,Matt Krieg Pdf

"People say our marriage is impossible." Laurie and Matt Krieg are in a mixed-orientation marriage: a marriage in which at least one partner's primary attraction isn't toward the gender of their spouse. In the Kriegs' case, Laurie is primarily attracted to women—and so is Matt. Some find the idea of mixed-orientation marriage bewildering or even offensive. But as the Kriegs have learned, nothing is impossible with God—and that's as true of their marriage as anyone else's. In An Impossible Marriage, the Kriegs tell their story: how they met and got married, the challenges and breakthroughs of their journey, and what they've learned about marriage along the way. Christianity teaches us that marriage is a picture of Jesus’ love for the church—and that's just as true in a mixed-orientation marriage as in a straight one. With vulnerability and wisdom, this book lays out an engaging picture of marriage in all its pain and beauty. It's a picture that points us, over and over again, to the love and grace of Jesus—as marriage was always meant to do.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ionospheric radio wave propagation
ISBN : UOM:39015049124558

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Ionospheric Data in Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Clarence Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Generative organs, Female
ISBN : STANFORD:24503350700

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Diseases of Women by John Clarence Webster Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015054403442

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Essays on (performance) and Cultural Politicization by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter M. Senge,C. Otto Scharmer,Joseph Jaworski,Betty Sue Flowers
Publisher : Currency
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385516303

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Presence by Peter M. Senge,C. Otto Scharmer,Joseph Jaworski,Betty Sue Flowers Pdf

Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of transformational change—how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. The book introduces the idea of “presence”—a concept borrowed from the natural world that the whole is entirely present in any of its parts—to the worlds of business, education, government, and leadership. Too often, the authors found, we remain stuck in old patterns of seeing and acting. By encouraging deeper levels of learning, we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading to actions that can help to shape its evolution and our future. Drawing on the wisdom and experience of 150 scientists, social leaders, and entrepreneurs, including Brian Arthur, Rupert Sheldrake, Buckminster Fuller, Lao Tzu, and Carl Jung, Presence is both revolutionary in its exploration and hopeful in its message. This astonishing and completely original work goes on to define the capabilities that underlie our ability to see, sense, and realize new possibilities—in ourselves, in our institutions and organizations, and in society itself.