The Capitalist Economy And Its Prosthetics

Author : Gerhard H. Wächter
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839472781

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The Capitalist Economy and its Prosthetics by Gerhard H. Wächter Pdf

Notwithstanding its ruthless dynamics, the capitalist economy has the flaw of deficient employment-generating spending. This leads to unemployment of non-owners, individual suffering, social unrest and it undermines military strength. To deal with these issues, states use prosthetic policies, artificial transfers to the productive economy and to non-owners. But the funding of such prosthetic policies - through violent wealth appropriation abroad, protectionism, war, domestic expropriation and taxation, debt and money creation - is caught in dilemmas, while politicians are caught between non-solutions. According to Gerhard H. Wächter, the history of capitalist society is largely the history of this dilemmatic brotherhood.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3837672786

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The Capitalist Economy and Its Prosthetics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Dixon
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 070223270X

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Prosthetic Gods by Robert Dixon Pdf

Author : Alison Landsberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Community life
ISBN : 9780231129275

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Prosthetic Memory by Alison Landsberg Pdf

Prosthetic Memory argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the still-unrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender, to share collective memories--to assimilate as deeply felt personal experiences historical events through which they themselves did not live.

Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108836487

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The Prosthetic Imagination by Peter Boxall Pdf

This book develops a new theoretical account of the historical role of the novel in fashioning our bodies and environments.

Author : Rachel A. Bowser,Brian Croxall
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452952536

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Like Clockwork by Rachel A. Bowser,Brian Croxall Pdf

Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years of the twenty-first century, its influence and prominence increasing ever since. From its Victorian and literary roots to film and television, video games, music, and even fashion, this subgenre of science fiction reaches far and wide within current culture. Here Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall present cutting-edge essays on steampunk: its rise in popularity, its many manifestations, and why we should pay attention. Like Clockwork offers wide-ranging perspectives on steampunk’s history and its place in contemporary culture, all while speaking to the “why” and “why now” of the genre. In her essay, Catherine Siemann draws on authors such as William Gibson and China Miéville to analyze steampunk cities; Kathryn Crowther turns to disability studies to examine the role of prosthetics within steampunk as well as the contemporary culture of access; and Diana M. Pho reviews the racial and national identities of steampunk, bringing in discussions of British chap-hop artists, African American steamfunk practitioners, and multicultural steampunk fan cultures. From disability and queerness to ethos and digital humanities, Like Clockwork explores the intriguing history of steampunk to evaluate the influence of the genre from the 1970s through the twenty-first century. Contributors: Kathryn Crowther, Perimeter College at Georgia State University; Shaun Duke, University of Florida; Stefania Forlini, University of Calgary (Canada); Lisa Hager, University of Wisconsin–Waukesha; Mike Perschon, MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta; Diana M. Pho; David Pike, American University; Catherine Siemann, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Joseph Weakland, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roger Whitson, Washington State University.

Author : Ryan Sweet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030785895

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Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by Ryan Sweet Pdf

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical wholeness. Revealing how representations of the prostheticized body were inflected significantly by factors such as social class, gender, and age, Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture argues that nineteenth-century prosthesis narratives, though presented in a predominantly ableist and sometimes disablist manner, challenged the dominance of physical completeness as they questioned the logic of prostheticization or presented non-normative subjects in threateningly powerful ways. Considering texts by authors including Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle alongside various cultural, medical, and commercial materials, this book provides an important reappraisal of historical attitudes to not only prostheses but also concepts of physical normalcy and difference.

Author : K. Kitsi-Mitakou,Z. Detsi-Diamanti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780230620858

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The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body by K. Kitsi-Mitakou,Z. Detsi-Diamanti Pdf

Encompassing some of the most recent academic research on mainstream issues of body image, weight and representation of the body, this collection addresses the body in areas such as ancient Greek poetry, new media art, comic book culture and biotechnology.

Author : Chloe Porter,Katie L. Walter,Margaret Healy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351602037

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Prosthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by Chloe Porter,Katie L. Walter,Margaret Healy Pdf

‘Prosthesis’ denotes a rhetorical ‘addition’ to a pre-existing ‘beginning’, a ‘replacement’ for that which is ‘defective or absent’, a technological mode of ‘correction’ that reveals a history of corporeal and psychic discontent. Recent scholarship has given weight to these multiple meanings of ‘prosthesis’ as tools of analysis for literary and cultural criticism. The study of pre-modern prosthesis, however, often registers as an absence in contemporary critical discourse. This collection seeks to redress this omission, reconsidering the history of prosthesis and its implications for contemporary critical responses to, and uses of, it. The book demonstrates the significance of notions of prosthesis in medieval and early modern theological debate, Reformation controversy, and medical discourse and practice. It also tracks its importance for imaginings of community and of the relationship of self and other, as performed on the stage, expressed in poetry, charms, exemplary and devotional literature, and as fought over in the documents of religious and cultural change. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book engages with contemporary critical and cultural theory and philosophy, genre theory, literary history, disability studies, and medical humanities, establishing prosthesis as a richly productive analytical tool in the pre-modern, as well as the modern, context. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Textual Practice journal.

Author : Hal Foster
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262062429

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Prosthetic Gods by Hal Foster Pdf

How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster explores this question through the works and writings of such key modernists as Gauguin and Picasso, F. T. Marinetti and Wyndham Lewis, Adolf Loos and Max Ernst. These diverse figures were all fascinated by fictions of origin, either primordial and tribal or futuristic and technological. In this way, Foster argues, two forms came to dominate modernist art above all others: the primitive and the machine. Foster begins with the primitivist fantasies of Gauguin and Picasso, which he examines through the Freudian lens of the primal scene. He then turns to the purist obsessions of the Viennese architect Loos, who abhorred all things primitive. Next Foster considers the technophilic subjects propounded by the futurist Marinetti and the vorticist Lewis. These "new egos" are further contrasted with the "bachelor machines" proposed by the dadaist Ernst. Foster also explores extrapolations from the art of the mentally ill in the aesthetic models of Ernst, Paul Klee, and Jean Dubuffet, as well as manipulations of the female body in the surrealist photography of Brassai, Man Ray, and Hans Bellmer. Finally, he examines the impulse to dissolve the conventions of art altogether in the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, the scatter pieces of Robert Morris, and the earthworks of Robert Smithson, and traces the evocation of lost objects of desire in sculptural work from Marcel Duchamp and Alberto Giacometti to Robert Gober. Although its title is drawn from Freud, Prosthetic Godsdoes not impose psychoanalytic theory on modernist art; rather, it sets the two into critical relation and scans the greater historical field that they share.

Author : Gill Plain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009081610

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Prosthetic Agency by Gill Plain Pdf

Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II examines the social and psychic upheaval of demobilisation. It maps the rapid transition from wartime regimentation to individual responsibility, from intense homosociality to heteronormative expectations, from normativity to disability and from uniformed masculinity to domestic citizenship. This book considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to mediate these difficult transitions, exploring films, popular fiction, memoir and biography. In particular, the book explores how technology was imagined as a new space of masculine becoming and how disability was written, represented and assimilated. Through a focus on popular narrative, this book explores the modes of masculinity promoted as ideally suited to national reconstruction and tries to make sense of a culture of rehabilitation that could not name or know itself as such.

Author : Donald E. Pease
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521378982

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New Essays on The Rise of Silas Lapham by Donald E. Pease Pdf

Argues the renewed importance of Howells's novel for an understanding of literature as a social force as well as a literary form.

Author : Uno Kōzō
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004249578

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Theory of Crisis by Uno Kōzō Pdf

Based on Marx’s Capital, Uno Kōzō’s Theory of Crisis provides a rigorous exposition of the necessity of crisis of the capitalist mode of production from the perspectives of “excess capital alongside surplus populations”.

Author : Ryan Sweet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Biotechnology
ISBN : 8303078585

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Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by Ryan Sweet Pdf

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical wholeness. Revealing how representations of the prostheticized body were inflected significantly by factors such as social class, gender, and age, Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture argues that nineteenth-century prosthesis narratives, though presented in a predominantly ableist and sometimes disablist manner, challenged the dominance of physical completeness as they questioned the logic of prostheticization or presented non-normative subjects in threateningly powerful ways. Considering texts by authors including Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle alongside various cultural, medical, and commercial materials, this book provides an important reappraisal of historical attitudes to not only prostheses but also concepts of physical normalcy and difference.

Author : Carla Bagnoli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191618376

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Morality and the Emotions by Carla Bagnoli Pdf

Emotions shape our mental and social lives. Their relation to morality is, however, problematic. Since ancient times, philosophers have disagreed about the place of emotions in morality. One the one hand, some hold that emotions are disorderly and unpredictable animal drives, which undermine our autonomy and interfere with our reasoning. For them, emotions represent a persistent source of obstacles to morality, as in the case of self-love. Some virtues, such as prudence, temperance, and fortitude, require or simply consist in the capacity to counteract the disruptive effect of emotions. On the other hand, venerable traditions of thought place emotions such as respect, love, and compassion at the very heart of morality. Emotions are sources of moral knowledge, modes of moral recognition, discernment, valuing, and understanding. Emotions such as blame, guilt, and shame are the voice of moral conscience, and are central to the functioning of our social lives and normative practices. New scientific findings about the pervasiveness of emotions posit new challenges to ethical theory. Are we responsible for emotions? What is their relation to practical rationality? Are they roots of our identity or threats to our autonomy? This volume is born out of the conviction that philosophy provides a distinctive approach to these problems. Fourteen original articles, by prominent scholars in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, offer new arguments about the relation between emotions and practical rationality, value, autonomy, and moral identity.