Pandaemonium 1660 1886

Author : Humphrey Jennings
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848315860

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Pandaemonium 1660–1886 by Humphrey Jennings Pdf

Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain. Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, Utopian communities, the desecration of the natural world, ground-breaking scientific experiments, and the coming of the railways. Humphrey Jennings, co-founder of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s and acclaimed documentary film-maker, assembled an enthralling narrative of this key period in Britain's national consciousness. The result is a highly original artistic achievement in its own right. Thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Marie-Louise Jennings, Pandæmonium was originally published in 1985, and in 2012 it was the inspiration behind Danny Boyle's electrifying Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the scenario for the ceremony, contributes a revealing new foreword for this edition.

Author : Humphrey Jennings,Mary-Lou Jennings,Charles Madge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015009817860

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Pandaemonium by Humphrey Jennings,Mary-Lou Jennings,Charles Madge Pdf

Documents the public reaction to the industrial revolution.

Author : Mary-Lou Jennings,Charles Madge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:59869886

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Pandaemonium 1660-1886 by Mary-Lou Jennings,Charles Madge Pdf

Author : Humphrey Jennings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : English literature
ISBN : 033029508X

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Pandaemonium, 1660-1886 by Humphrey Jennings Pdf

Author : Olivia Sudjic
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544836624

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Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic Pdf

“Packed with tension, pathos, and vitality . . . This is a potent first novel from a formidable talent.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune “The best fictional account I’ve read of the way the internet has shaped our inner lives.” — Guardian (UK) At twenty-three Alice Hare, a loner, arrives in New York with only the vaguest of plans: to find a city to call home. Instead she discovers the online profile of a Japanese writer called Mizuko Himura, whose stories blur the line between autobiography and fiction. Alice becomes infatuated with Mizuko from afar, convinced this stranger’s life holds a mirror to her own. Realities multiply as Alice closes in on her “internet twin,” staging a chance encounter and inserting herself into his orbit. When Mizuko disappears, Alice is alone and adrift again. Tortured by her silence, Alice uses the only tool at her disposal, writing herself back into Mizuko’s story, with disastrous consequences. “A smart and lyrical evocation of that murky emotional terrain between our online and offline selves.” — Vice (UK) “At once a riveting mystery and a literary tour de force, Sympathy had me spellbound from the first page to the last.” — Emily Gould, author of Friendship

Author : Diana Athill
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847081582

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Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill Pdf

What is it like to be old? Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs - her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth'. Now in her nineties, and freed from any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: the people and experiences that have taught her to regret very little, to resist despondency and to question the beliefs and customs of her own generation.

Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106015868760

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In Frankenstein's Shadow by Chris Baldick Pdf

This book surveys the early history of one of our most important modern myths: the story of Frankenstein and the monster he created from dismembered corpses, as it appeared in fictional and other writings before its translation to the cinema screen. It examines the range of meanings whichMary Shelley's Frankenstein offers in the light of the political images of `monstrosity' generated by the French Revolution. Later chapters trace the myth's analogues and protean transformations in subsequent writings, from the tales of Hoffmann and Hawthorne to the novels of Dickens, Melville,Conrad, and Lawrence, taking in the historical and political writings of Carlyle and Marx as well as the science fiction of Stevenson and Wells. The author shows that while the myth did come to be applied metaphorically to technological development, its most powerful associations have centred onrelationships between people, in the family, in work, and in politics.

Author : LucyD. Curzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351558990

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Mass-Observation and Visual Culture by LucyD. Curzon Pdf

Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain critically analyses the role that visual culture played in the early development of Mass-Observation, the innovative British anthropological research group founded in 1937. The group?s production and use of painting, collage, photography, and other media illustrates not only the broad scope of Mass-Observation?s efforts to document everyday life, but also, more specifically, the centrality of visual elements to its efforts at understanding national identity in the 1930s. Although much interest has previously focused on Mass-Observation?s use of written reports and opinion surveys, as well as diaries that were kept by hundreds of volunteer observers, this book is the first full-length study of the group?s engagement with visual culture. Exploring the paintings of Graham Bell and William Coldstream; the photographs of Humphrey Spender; the paintings, collages, and photographs of Julian Trevelyan; and Humphrey Spender?s photographs and widely recognized ?Mass-Observation film?, Spare Time, among other sources, Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain positions these works as key sources of information with regard to illuminating the complex character of British identity during the Depression era.

Author : Michael Adas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0801497604

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Machines as the Measure of Men by Michael Adas Pdf

This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.

Author : McKenzie Wark
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253113482

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Virtual Geography by McKenzie Wark Pdf

"The author's capacity to grasp and interpret these [world media] events is astounding, and her ability to provide insights into a world where unbounded information is circling the earth with the speed of light is startling." -- Choice "... a wide-ranging, quirky and dextrous mix of description, theory and analysis, that documents the perils of the global telecommunications network... " -- Times Literary Supplement "... this is a stimulating, even moving, book, dense with ideas and with many quotable lines." -- The New Statesman "Wark is one of the most original and interesting cultural critics writing today." -- Lawrence Grossberg McKenzie Wark writes about the experience of everyday life under the impact of increasingly global media vectors. We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals.

Author : Andrew Calcutt,Philip Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136831461

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Journalism Studies by Andrew Calcutt,Philip Hammond Pdf

As the world of politics and public affairs has gradually changed beyond recognition over the past two decades, journalism too has been transformed... yet the study of news and journalism often seems stuck with ideas and debates which have lost much of their critical purchase. Journalism is at a crossroads: it needs to reaffirm core values and rediscover key activities, almost certainly in new forms, or it risks losing its distinctive character as well as its commercial basis. Journalism Studies is a polemical textbook that rethinks the field of journalism studies for the contemporary era. Organised around three central themes – ownership, objectivity and the public – Journalism Studies addresses the contexts in which journalism is produced, practised and disseminated. It outlines key issues and debates, reviewing established lines of critique in relation to the state of contemporary journalism, then offering alternative ways of approaching these issues, seeking to reconceptualise them in order to suggest an agenda for change and development in both journalism studies and journalism itself. Journalism Studies is a concise and accessible introduction to contemporary journalism studies, and will be highly useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Journalism, Media and Communications courses.

Author : George Saunders
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9781408859346

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Congratulations, by the Way by George Saunders Pdf

An inspiring message from the inaugural Folio Prize winner, George Saunders, one of today's most influential and original writers

Author : Jennifer Tucker
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421413211

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Nature Exposed by Jennifer Tucker Pdf

Recovering the controversies and commentary surrounding the early creation of scientific photography and drawing on a wide range of new sources and critical theories, Tucker establishes a greater understanding of the rich visual culture of Victorian science and alternative forms of knowledge, including psychical research.

Author : John Hodgman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781101653616

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The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman Pdf

In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although bestsellers such as Poor Richard’s Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly valuable, they also were largely true. Here is a different kind of handy desk reference, one in which all of the historical oddities and amazing true facts are sifted through the singular, illuminating imagination of John Hodgman—which is the nice way of saying: He made it all up. John Hodgman brings his considerable expertise to bear in answering all of the questions book buyers have been asking: -What are the mottoes of the 51 United States? THE ANSWER IS PROVIDED -Who were the U.S. presidents who had hooks for hands? THE ANSWER IS PROVIDED -What role does the Yale secret society “Skull and Bones” play in the secret world government? THERE IS NO SECRET WORLD GOVERNMENT -What was the menu at the first Thanksgiving, and did it include eels? Technically, that is two questions, but do not apologize, for John Hodgman shall answer them both . . . LATER. -Aside from a compendium of fake trivia, what is the best kind of book to write? A SIMPLE TABLE OF THE 55 MOST DRAMATIC LITERARY SITUATIONS PROVIDES THE ANSWER, and John Hodgman is the author of that table. Imagine if The Book of Lists had been rewritten by Peter Cook and Jorge Luis Borges under the pseudonym of “John Hodgman” and then renamed The Areas of My Expertise, and you will only begin to have a sense of the dizzying, uproarious, sublimely weird, and strangely wise journey that is contained within this book (along with all the pages and words). Perfect for anyone who thirsts for knowledge, and especially for collectors of books of fake trivia, The Areas of My Expertise offers through absurdity a better understanding of the world we share—and recognizes that while the truth may be stranger than fiction, it is never as strange as lies . . . or as true. Look out for John Hodgman's latest book, Vacationland, available from Viking in Fall 2017.

Author : Jonathan Sawday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134267927

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Engines of the Imagination by Jonathan Sawday Pdf

At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through the art and literature of the time? Was technology a sign of the fall of humanity from its original state of innocence or a sign of human progress and mastery over the natural world? In his characteristically lucid and captivating style, Jonathan Sawday investigates these questions and more by engaging with the poetry, philosophy, art, and engineering of the period to find the lost world of the machine in the pre-industrial culture of the European Renaissance. The aesthetic and intellectual dimension of these machines appealed to familiar figures such as Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Montaigne, and Leonardo da Vinci as well as to a host of lesser known writers and artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This intellectual engagement with machines in the European Renaissance gave rise to new attitudes towards gender, work and labour, and even fostered the new sciences of artificial life and reason which would be pursued by figures such as Descartes, Hobbes, and Leibniz in the seventeenth century. Writers, philosophers and artists had mixed and often conflicting reactions to technology, reflecting a paradoxical attitude between modern progress and traditional values. Underpinning the enthusiastic creation of a machine-driven world, then, were stories of loss and catastrophe. These contradictory attitudes are part of the legacy of the European Renaissance, just as much as the plays of Shakespeare or the poetry of John Milton. And this historical legacy helps to explain many of our own attitudes towards the technology that surrounds us, sustains us, and sometimes perplexes us in the modern world.