Meta Dream A Manifesto Of Contradiction

Author : T. James Vaughan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781483436029

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Meta-Dream: A Manifesto of Contradiction by T. James Vaughan Pdf

Every action is a mistake. Every meal is a waste. Reality is delusion. Life is death. Death by dumb luck, or by dumb choice. The end is nigh, and that's exactly the way it should be. This is A Manifesto of Contradiction, and it's all lies. A record from an alternate universe, Meta-Dream does not exist. Should not exist. And yet, here it is. Suffering with isolation, drudgery and depression, delivery driver James drives himself insane, and his car into a time-warp, trapping him in a nightmare of his own creation. Now he must rebuild the life he destroyed, and face his own worst enemy... Himself. Ride along with a blue-collar philosopher and journey through an all-too-real and present America, where War is Peace, Debt is Wealth, Corporations are People, and God's Money rules over a nation of drunkards, machines, and slaves.

Author : Sean Redmond
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231501842

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Liquid Metal by Sean Redmond Pdf

Liquid Metal brings together 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. Eight distinct sections cover such topics as the cyborg in science fiction; the science fiction city; time travel and the primal scene; science fiction fandom; and the 1950s invasion narratives. Important writings by Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Steve Neale, J.P. Telotte, Peter Biskind and Constance Penley are included.

Author : Derek Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Spanish literature
ISBN : UOM:39015043145187

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Metal Butterflies and Poisonous Lights by Derek Harris Pdf

Author : Kieran James,Susan P. Briggs,Bligh Grant
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244947910

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KISS and the Ideology of the American Dream by Kieran James,Susan P. Briggs,Bligh Grant Pdf

This book is a collective effort on the authors' part to remember KISS, one of the most important hard-rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s. Influenced by the glam-rock movement which preceded its rise, arguably KISS was the first major act in rock music history to present rock music as Entertainment Product firstly and music only secondarily. We discuss the original, democratic concept of the Fab Four - Gene, Paul, Ace, and Peter - as well as Gene Simmons' and Paul Stanley's subsequent American Dream ideology. We go on to analyse the current version of the band in the light of the original line-up and appearance. We find that the KISS fan base is divided with some fans accepting Simmons' current view that the four personas can be utilized by anyone chosen by the band's leadership; a second group which tries to correct the alleged historical injustices committed against Frehley and Criss; and a third group which is cynical about the current version of KISS but finds it fruitless to rehash old debates.

Author : Robert Venturi
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870702823

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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi Pdf

Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.

Author : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Futurism (Art)
ISBN : OCLC:702314398

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Manifesto of Futurism by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Pdf

Author : Jan Lensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000350050

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World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction by Jan Lensen Pdf

World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction: The Generation of Meta-Memory offers a comparative study of the construction of World War II memory in contemporary German, Flemish, and Dutch literature. More specifically, it investigates in what ways the large temporal distance to the historical events has impacted how literary writers from these three literatures have negotiated its meaning and form during the last decades. To that end, this book offers analyses of nine novels that demonstrate a pronounced reflexivity on the conditions of contemporary remembering. Rather than a dig for historical truth or a struggle with historical trauma, these novels reflect on the transmission, the narrative shapes, the formation processes, and the functions of World War II memory today, while asserting a self-conscious and often irreverent approach toward established mnemonic routines, practices, and rules. As the analyses show, this approach is equally articulated through the novels’ poetics, which are marked by a large formal diversity and a playfulness that highlights mnemonic agency, a posttraumatic positioning, and the ascendency of the literary over the historiographical. Based on these findings, this book proposes the emergence of a new paradigm within the postwar cultural assessment of World War II: the generation of meta-memory.

Author : Vanessa Gerrie
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781978834385

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Borderless Fashion Practice by Vanessa Gerrie Pdf

Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context. Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age principally engages the work of four fashion designers -- Virgil Abloh, Aitor Throup, Iris Van Herpen, and Eckhaus Latta -- whose work intersects with other creative disciplines such as art, technology, science, architecture, and graphic design. They do their work in what Vanessa Gerrie calls the metamodern age -- the time and place where the polarization between the modern and the postmodern collapses. Used as a framework to understand the current Western cultural zeitgeist, Gerrie's exploration of the work of contemporary practitioners and theorists finds blurred borders and seeks to blur them further, to the point of erasure.

Author : Werner Haftmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Painters
ISBN : UOM:49015001210112

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An analysis of the artists and their work. Translated by R. Manheim by Werner Haftmann Pdf

Author : Barbara Bush
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134722440

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Imperialism, Race and Resistance by Barbara Bush Pdf

Imperialism, Race and Resistance marks an important new development in the study of British and imperial interwar history. Focusing on Britain, West Africa and South Africa, Imperialism, Race and Resistance charts the growth of anti-colonial resistance and opposition to racism in the prelude to the 'post-colonial' era. The complex nature of imperial power in explored, as well as its impact on the lives and struggles of black men and women in Africa and the African diaspora. Barbara Bush argues that tensions between white dreams of power and black dreams of freedom were seminal in transofrming Britain's relationship with Africa in an era bounded by global war and shaped by ideological conflict.

Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231153829

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Socialism Unbound by Stephen Eric Bronner Pdf

Originally published: Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, c2001.

Author : Werner Haftmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Painters
ISBN : UCSC:32106005397440

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Painting in the Twentieth Century by Werner Haftmann Pdf

Volume 1 has subtitle: An analysis of the artists and their work. Volume 2 has subtitle: A pictorial survey.

Author : Jesús Blanco Hidalga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501319846

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Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community by Jesús Blanco Hidalga Pdf

Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen's fiction, his work has received relatively little scholarly attention. Aiming to fill this conspicuous gap, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community analyzes each of Franzen's five novels in chronological order to reveal an interior logic animating his work. Integrating various formal and ideological perspectives to illuminate Franzen's work, Jesús Blanco Hidalga demonstrates that the concepts of salvation and redemption, typical of romance narratives, run throughout Franzen's fiction. Even as he re-assesses and expands the familiar interpretations of Franzen's work, Blanco Hidalga shows how these salvation narratives are used for self-legitimization not only by the characters, but by the writer himself. Combining critical rigor with interpretative boldness, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community offers a new theoretical approach to a major contemporary author.

Author : Ravi Sundaram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134130528

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Pirate Modernity by Ravi Sundaram Pdf

Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is an illicit form of urban globalization. Poorer urban populations increasingly inhabit non-legal spheres: unauthorized neighborhoods, squatter camps and bypass legal technological infrastructures (media, electricity). This pirate culture produces a significant enabling resource for subaltern populations unable to enter the legal city. Equally, this is an unstable world, bringing subaltern populations into the harsh glare of permanent technological visibility, and attacks by urban elites, courts and visceral media industries. The book examines contemporary Delhi from some of these sites: the unmaking of the citys modernist planning design, new technological urban networks that bypass states and corporations, and the tragic experience of the road accident terrifyingly enhanced by technological culture. Pirate Modernity moves between past and present, along with debates in Asia, Africa and Latin America on urbanism, media culture, and everyday life. This pioneering book suggests cities have to be revisited afresh after proliferating media culture. Pirate Modernity boldly draws from urban and cultural theory to open a new agenda for a world after media urbanism.

Author : Werner Haftmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Painters
ISBN : UVA:X000815839

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An analysis of the artists and their work by Werner Haftmann Pdf