The Mediality Of Sugar

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004513686

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The Mediality of Sugar by Anonim Pdf

The Mediality of Sugar probes the potential of reading sugar as a mediator across some of the disciplinary distinctions in early twenty-first century research in the arts, literature, architecture, and popular culture. Selected artistic practices and material cultures of sugar across Europe and the Americas from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century are investigated and connected to the transcontinental and transoceanic history of the sugar plants cane and beet, their botanical and cultural dissemination, and global sugar capital and trade under colonialism and in decoloniality. The collection contributes to the vision of a Transnational and Postdisciplinary Sugar Studies.

Author : Ehler Voss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110416466

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Mediality on Trial by Ehler Voss Pdf

This volume addresses controversies connected to the testing of the capacities and potentials of mediums. Today we commonly associate the term "medium" with the technical communication between transmitters and receivers. Yet this term likewise applies to those who cooperate with agencies that exceed the presumed domain of the material world. Insofar as one presumes a division between distinctly opposed categories of religion and the secular, technical media tend to be associated with the secular and human (trance) mediums tend to be associated with religion after 1900. This volume concerns the ways in which the term medium still marks an overlapping of – and thus problematizes – the aforementioned division between religion and the secular, the personal and the technological. The term medium carries with it a seed of doubt that is itself inseparable from investment in the medium's power: insofar as they communicate with an "other" realm, mediums offer the hope and promise of new possibilities and improved efficiency, and thus of a better life; yet they have simultaneously been under suspicion of altering (or even inventing) the messages they communicate. It is due to this combination of promise and suspicion that "mediumism" has tended to evoke scientific, religious, and moral controversies. Thus, we can speak of a "mediumistic trial" – that is, a process in which a medium is put to the test concerning its potentials and trustworthiness. Around 1800, experts were asked if a modern secular institution would be capable of inspiring, domesticating or excluding trance mediumship. This question has stayed with us ever since, and the answers have remained inconclusive. That is why the past and present of mediumship may be asked to elucidate each other.

Author : Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1986-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101666647

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Sweetness and Power by Sidney W. Mintz Pdf

A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Ilka Saal
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781609387785

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Collusions of Fact and Fiction by Ilka Saal Pdf

Fictions of history and historiopoetic performances of the past -- Digging, rep & rev-ing, faking: Suzan-Lori Parks's historiopoetic praxis -- A sidelong glance at history: unreliable narration and the silhouette as blickmaschine in Kara Walker -- Stereotypes and theatricality: (Re)staging Black Venus -- Coda: wither historiopoiesis?

Author : S. Crocker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137324504

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Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media by S. Crocker Pdf

What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on the 'media philosophies' of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres.

Author : Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Diabetes
ISBN : 8771241108

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Sugar and Modernity in Latin America by Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho Pdf

Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other diseases related to modern lifestyles have spread with frightening speed all over the globe, a development that is often correlated with an increase in the consumption of sugar. Latin America - the cradle of the worlds sugar production - is no exception; it has witnessed an explosion of cases of diabetes, especially in Brazil and Mexico. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the problem, this book asks two questions. First, what are the relationships between diabetes, sugar intake, and dangerous modern lifestyles? And second, how can research into the material, symbolic, and historical functions of sugar redefine the concept of modernity? Experts in medical science, agriculture, sociology, food science and anthropology, as well as in Latin American, Brazilian, and literary studies use sugar as a prism for understanding the complicated relations between disease and cultural and social habits, between past and present, and between symbolic meanings and material effect. Through this truly interdisciplinary perspective, both traditional approaches to lifestyle diseases and current understandings of modernity are questioned. Sugar and Modernity in Latin America serves as an example of and a call for interdisciplinary dialogue in response to the grand challenges of modern society.

Author : Michael Klipphahn-Karge,Ann-Kathrin Koster,Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000923582

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Queer Reflections on AI by Michael Klipphahn-Karge,Ann-Kathrin Koster,Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss Pdf

This volume offers a socio-technical exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it reflects and reproduces certain normative representations of gender and sexuality, to ultimately guide more diverse and radical discussions of life with digital technologies. Moving beyond the examination of empirical examples and technical solutions, the book approaches the relationship between queerness and AI from a theoretical perspective that posits queer theory as central to understanding AI differently. The chapters pose questions about the politics and ethics of machine embodiments and data imaginaries on the one hand, and about technical possibilities for a production of social identities characterised by shifting diversity and multiplicity on the other, as they are mediated by and through digital technologies. Transgressing disciplinary boundaries to engage a diversity of conceptual tools, critical approaches, and theoretical traditions, this book will be an important resource for students and researchers of gender and sexuality, new media and digital cultures, cultural theory, art and visual culture, and AI. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Author : Brian L. McLaren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004456181

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Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy by Brian L. McLaren Pdf

In Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy, Brian L. McLaren examines the architecture of the late-Fascist era in relation to the various racial constructs that emerged following the occupation of Ethiopia in 1936 and intensified during the wartime.

Author : Christian Berger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004404649

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Conceptualism and Materiality by Christian Berger Pdf

Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics underscores the significance of materials and materiality within Conceptual art and conceptualism more broadly. It challenges the notion of conceptualism as an idea-centered, anti-materialist enterprise, and highlights the political implications thereof.

Author : Johannes Riquet,Martin Heusser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783030217747

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Imaging Identity by Johannes Riquet,Martin Heusser Pdf

This volume explores the many facets and ongoing transformations of our visual identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its chapters engage with the constitution of personal, national and cultural identities at the intersection of the verbal and the visual across a range of media. They are attentive to how the medialities and (im)materialities of modern image culture inflect our conceptions of identity, examining the cultural and political force of literature, films, online video messages, rap songs, selfies, digital algorithms, social media, computer-generated images, photojournalism and branding, among others. They also reflect on the image theories that emerged in the same time span—from early theorists such as Charles S. Peirce to twentieth-century models like those proposed by Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida as well as more recent theories by Jacques Rancière, W. J. T. Mitchell and others. The contributors of Imaging Identity come from a wide range of disciplines including literary studies, media studies, art history, tourism studies and semiotics. The book will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership interested in contemporary visual culture and image theory.

Author : Erin Drew
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813945811

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The Usufructuary Ethos by Erin Drew Pdf

Who has the right to decide how nature is used, and in what ways? Recovering an overlooked thread of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century environmental thought, Erin Drew shows that English writers of the period commonly believed that human beings had only the "usufruct" of the earth—the "right of temporary possession, use, or enjoyment of the advantages of property belonging to another, so far as may be had without causing damage or prejudice." The belief that human beings had only temporary and accountable possession of the world, which Drew labels the "usufructuary ethos," had profound ethical implications for the ways in which the English conceived of the ethics of power and use. Drew’s book traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial commerce, attending to the particular political, economic, and environmental pressures that shaped, transformed, and ultimately sidelined it. Although a study of past ideas, The Usufructuary Ethos resonates with contemporary debates about our human responsibilities to the natural world in the face of climate change and mass extinction.

Author : Tobias Kunz,Lukas R.A. Wilde
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000860382

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Transmedia Character Studies by Tobias Kunz,Lukas R.A. Wilde Pdf

Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media. This highly innovative work offers new perspectives on how to interrelate production discourses, media texts, and reception discourses, and how to select a suitable research corpus for the discussion of characters whose serial appearances stretch across years, decades, or even centuries. Each chapter starts from a different notion of how fictional characters can be considered, tracing character theories and models to approach character representations from perspectives developed in various disciplines and fields. This book will enable graduate students and scholars of transmedia studies, film, television, comics studies, video game studies, popular culture studies, fandom studies, narratology, and creative industries to conduct comprehensive, media-conscious analyses of characters across a variety of media.

Author : Joseph M. H. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009180313

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Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century by Joseph M. H. Clark Pdf

Explores how Veracruz's Afro-Mexican residents drew on Caribbean relationships to define a distinctive social and cultural community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Geology
ISBN : UOM:39015035495889

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian Verstegen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030029708

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Arnheim, Gestalt and Media by Ian Verstegen Pdf

This monograph presents a synthesis and reconstruction of Rudolf Arnheim’s theory of media. Combining both Arnheim’s well-known writings on film and radio with his later work on the psychology of art, the author presents a coherent approach to the problem of the nature of a medium, space and time, and the differentia between different media. The latent ontological commitments of Arnheim’s theories is drawn out by affirming Arnheim’s membership in the Brentano school of Austrian philosophy, which allows his theories to be clarified and strengthened, particularly with the metaphysical writings of Roman Ingarden. The resulting theory is relational, portraying essential medial differences with neutral criteria and allowing for a rigorous definition of a medium. The way in which a medium is based on the inherent dispositions of medial materials creates a highly appealing theory that is determinate without being deterministic. The theory is thus highly timely as people in media studies seek to address the determinate nature of media after the post-medium condition. The book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in cultural and media studies as well as architecture and design.