The Intoxication Of Destruction In Theory Culture And Media

Author : Erin Stapleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463724532

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The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media by Erin Stapleton Pdf

This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with, destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it. Beginning with a philosophy of expenditure after Georges Bataille, each chapter maps different operations of destruction in media and culture. These operations are expressed and located in representations of human extinction and explosive architecture, in the body and in sexuality, and in media and digital archives, which constitute a further destabilisation of the notion of destruction in the dynamic between aspirational immortality and material volatility embedded in the archival systems of digital cultures.

Author : Paul Taylor,Jan Harris
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335235285

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EBOOK: Critical Theories of Mass Media: Then and Now by Paul Taylor,Jan Harris Pdf

"This is a welcome critical corrective to complacent mainstream accounts of the media's cultural impact". Prof. Slavoj Zizek, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London "A powerful and highly engaging re-assessment of past critical thinkers (including those not normally thought of as critical) in the light of today's mediascape". Jorge Reina Schement, Distinguished Professor of Communications, Penn State University With the exception of occasional moral panics about the coarsening of public discourse, and the impact of advertising and television violence upon children, mass media tend to be viewed as a largely neutral or benign part of contemporary life. Even when criticisms are voiced, the media chooses how and when to discuss its own inadequacies. More radical external critiques are often excluded and media theorists are frequently more optimistic than realistic about the negative aspects of mass culture. This book reassesses this situation in the light of both early and contemporary critical scholarship and explores the intimate relationship between the mass media and the dis-empowering nature of commodity culture. The authors cast a fresh perspective on contemporary mass culture by comparing past and present critiques. They: Outline the key criticisms of mass culture from past critical thinkers Reassess past critical thought in the changed circumstances of today Evaluate the significance of new critical thinkers for today's mass culture The book begins by introducing the critical insights from major theorists from the past - Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor Adorno, Marshall McLuhan and Guy Debord. Paul Taylor and Jan Harris then apply these insights to recent provocative writers such as Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Žižek, and discuss the links between such otherwise apparently unrelated contemporary events as the Iraqi Abu Ghraib controversy and the rise of reality television. Critical Theories of Mass Media is a key text for students of cultural studies, communications and media studies, and sociology.

Author : Kriston R. Rennie
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048552122

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The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529-1964 by Kriston R. Rennie Pdf

Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and represented from the Middle Ages to the present day. It uses this singular and pivotal case to analyse the historical process of remembering and its impact on modern representations of the past. Exactly how Monte Cassino is remembered is distinctive and diagnostic. The abbey is recognizable today as a beacon of western civilization, culture, and learning precisely because of its 'destruction tradition' over fourteen centuries. This book asks how the abbey's fragmented past has been ideologically, politically, and culturally constituted and preserved; how its experience with destruction and suffering - and recovery and rebirth - has become incorporated into a modern narrative of progress and triumph.

Author : Daniel J. Czitrom
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807899205

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Media and the American Mind by Daniel J. Czitrom Pdf

In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.

Author : George Frederick Shrady,Thomas Lathrop Stedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015020069582

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Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady,Thomas Lathrop Stedman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11506663

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Medical record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Veterinary medicine
ISBN : UCD:31175024411830

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American Veterinary Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julia Kursell,Sven Dupré,Patricia Lulof,Anna Harris,Maartje Stols-Witlox
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048543854

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Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences by Julia Kursell,Sven Dupré,Patricia Lulof,Anna Harris,Maartje Stols-Witlox Pdf

Performative methods are playing an increasingly prominent role in research into historical production processes, materials, and bodily knowledge and sensory skills, and in forms of education and public engagement in classrooms and museums. This book offers, for the first time, sustained, interdisciplinary reflections on performative methods, variously known as Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Replication, Reproduction and Reworking (RRR) practices across the fields of history of science, archaeology, art history, conservation, musicology and anthropology. Each of these fields has distinct histories, approaches, tools and research questions. Researchers in the historical disciplines have used reconstructions to learn about the materials and practices of the past, while anthropologists and ethnographers have more often studied the re-enactments themselves, participating in these performances as engaged observers. In this book, an interdisciplinary group of authors bring their experiences of RRR practices within their discipline into conversation with RRR practices in other disciplines, providing a basis for interdisciplinary cross-fertilization.

Author : Edward Swift Dunster,James Bradbridge Hunter,Frank Pierce Foster,Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous,Gregory Stragnell,Henry J. Klaunberg,Félix Martí-Ibáñez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32436001234481

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International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics by Edward Swift Dunster,James Bradbridge Hunter,Frank Pierce Foster,Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous,Gregory Stragnell,Henry J. Klaunberg,Félix Martí-Ibáñez Pdf

Author : W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226565842

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Image Science by W. J. T. Mitchell Pdf

Almost thirty years ago, W.J.T. Mitchell's 'Iconology' helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image/picture distinction, the metapicture, and the biopicture. These key concepts imply an approach to images as true objects of investigation-an 'image science.' Continuing with this influential line of thought, 'Image Science' gathers Mitchell's most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topics as the physics and biology of images, digital photography and realism, architecture and new media, and the occupation of space in contemporary popular uprisings.

Author : George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684837383

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Fixing Broken Windows by George L. Kelling,Catherine M. Coles Pdf

Cites successful examples of community-based policing.

Author : Christopher B.R. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317634386

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Addiction, Modernity, and the City by Christopher B.R. Smith Pdf

Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section – Drug/Culture – demonstrates how the body of the addict and the social body of the city are both inscribed by "controlled" substance. Positing addiction as a "pathology (out) of place" that is specific to the (late-)capitalist urban landscape, the second section – Dope/Sick – conducts a critique of the prevailing pathology paradigm of addiction, proposing in its place a theoretical reconceptualization of drug dependence in the terms of "p/re/in-scription." Remapping the successive stages or phases of our narcotic modernity, the third section – Narco/State – delineates three primary eras of narcotic modernity, including the contemporary city of "safe"/"supervised" consumption. Employing an experimental, "intra-textual" format, the fourth section – Brain/Disease – mimics the sense, state or scape of intoxication accompanying each permutation of narcotic modernity in the interchangeable terms of drug, dream and/or disease. Tracing the parallel evolution of "addiction," the (late-)capitalist cityscape, and the pathological project of modernity, the four parts of this book thus together constitute a users’ guide to urban space.

Author : Clare Finburgh Delijani,Peter M. Boenisch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474259941

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6 by Clare Finburgh Delijani,Peter M. Boenisch Pdf

This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these 3 directors take up key aesthetic prompts from earlier innovators – Stanislavski, the modernist avant-garde and not least Brecht – and thereby prepare the ground for contemporary, politically-engaged 'directors' theatre'. It argues that, in creating their major productions in the prosperous 'glorious decades' that followed the devastation of the Second World War, they represent a first expressly 'European' generation of theatre directors. Revisiting works from the classical dramatic canon by drawing on popular theatre traditions, and reaching out to spectators beyond the educated middle-class elite, they put theatre in the service of uniting a traumatized continent. This study posits that for Littlewood, Strehler and Planchon, theatre has the capacity to create communities.

Author : Marko Ampuja
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004229617

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Theorizing Globalization by Marko Ampuja Pdf

In this work, Marko Ampuja offers a critical reassessment of mainstream perspectives on globalization, challenging their media-centrism and their lack of historical materialist analysis of global capitalism and the power of neoliberalism.

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153743005X

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Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan Pdf

When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.