The Orpheus Machine

Author : Ray Aldridge
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497625303

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The Orpheus Machine by Ray Aldridge Pdf

A bloodthirsty evil threatens humanity—and one man’s war against the slave trade—in the final novel in the classic sci-fi Emancipator trilogy. Slavery is the corporate foundation of the powerful Pangalic Worlds where Ruiz Aw leads a dangerous double life, as an enforcer for the Art League that so brutally controls its slaves and as an Emancipator dedicated to eradicating the cruel business. While Ruiz is still striving to free slaves across the embattled cities of the dangerous world of Sook, the pirate Lords are ruthlessly plotting. A death cult is luring in humans with an unending desire to see them suffer. Even the powers of the Art League have no jurisdiction over this killing machine. The growing domination of the Orpheus Machine will force Ruiz and his fugitives to fight for their lives against a supreme evil unlike anything they've ever witnessed before.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780791076590

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Marcel Proust by Harold Bloom Pdf

A collection of essays written by various scholars critically analyzing the life and works of French author Marcel Proust. Includes analyses of characters, themes, and symbolism in Proust's major works. Also contains an annotated bibliography that can be used for finding further information.

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 0415940788

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Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke Pdf

Presents Rilke's 1922 Sonnets to Orpheus, written in a burst of inspiration, and expressing a vision of a state of being in which all the ordinary human dichotomies are reconciled in an infinite wholeness. Also included is his Letters to a young poet, an influential series of letters written to a young officer cadet on the subject of poetics.

Author : Daniel H. Gower
Publisher : Dell
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0440211433

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Orpheus Process by Daniel H. Gower Pdf

In a university lab is living proof of Dr. Orville Hammond's long-awaited mastery over death: a previously dead monkey who swims in a tank of violet fluid. But the murder of Dr. Hammond's daughter sends him over the boundaries of reason. His daughter will rise again--but she will not come back quite the same.

Author : Bonnie Gordon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226825144

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Voice Machines by Bonnie Gordon Pdf

"The castrato phenomenon stretched from the late sixteenth century, when castrati first appeared in Italian courts and churches, through the eighteenth century, when they occupied a celebrity status on the operatic stage. Throughout this time, the voice of the castrato--hailed as uniquely strong, flexible and expressive--contributed to a dramatic expansion of the musical vocabulary and to finding new ways to embody the poetic text. For us today, the castrato also highlights the porous relationship of voices and instruments/machines and the inherent materiality of sound. In her revealing study, Bonnie Gordon asks what it meant that the early-modern period produced a caste of technologically altered male singers and she uses the castrato as a critical provocation for asking questions about the interrelated histories of music, technology, sound, the limits of the human body, and what counts as human"--

Author : Kaja Silverman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780804773362

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Flesh of My Flesh by Kaja Silverman Pdf

What is a woman? What is a man? How do they—and how should they—relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and literature have increasingly valorized uniqueness and self-sufficiency. The theoreticians who loom so large within contemporary thought also privilege difference over similarity. Silverman reminds us that this is but half the story, and a dangerous half at that, for if we are all individuals, we are doomed to be rivals and enemies. A much older story, one that prevailed through the early modern era, held that likeness or resemblance was what organized the universe, and that everything emerges out of the same flesh. Silverman shows that analogy, so discredited by much of twentieth-century thought, offers a much more promising view of human relations. In the West, the emblematic story of turning away is that of Orpheus and Eurydice, and the heroes of Silverman's sweeping new reading of nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, the modern heirs to the old, analogical view of the world, also gravitate to this myth. They embrace the correspondences that bind Orpheus to Eurydice and acknowledge their kinship with others past and present. The first half of this book assembles a cast of characters not usually brought together: Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Lou-Andréas Salomé, Romain Rolland, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wilhelm Jensen, and Paula Modersohn-Becker. The second half is devoted to three contemporary artists, whose works we see in a moving new light:Terrence Malick, James Coleman, and Gerhard Richter.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN : UCAL:B3339283

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Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Enigneering, Agricultural Machinery, Manufacturing, and Shipbuilding by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Potts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429516559

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Sonic Encounters with Blanchot by Adam Potts Pdf

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume brings together scholars from a range of disciplines who listen closely to the sounds and resonances emanating from within Blanchot’s work and who consider their significance both within his work and beyond. The latent and explicit sonic content of Blanchot’s writing is explored, as is his treatment of music and the possibilities of thinking about contemporary music and sound art through his work. Although Blanchot is best known for his engagement with literature, an engagement that often relies on visual references and experiences, this collection takes a sonic route into one of the most exciting and demanding thinkers of the twentieth century. As an interdisciplinary exploration of sound and Blanchot’s work, this book will be interest to those studying sound in literature and music, as well as students of Blanchot’s work in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Author : Glenn P. Gravlee,Richard F. Davis,John Hammon,Barry Kussman
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781496330031

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Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Mechanical Support by Glenn P. Gravlee,Richard F. Davis,John Hammon,Barry Kussman Pdf

Offering a unique, multidisciplinary approach to the complexities of CPB, the 4th Edition of Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Mechanical Support: Principles & Practice remains the gold standard in the field. This edition brings you fully up to date with every aspect of cardiopulmonary bypass, including new information on management of pediatric patients, CPB’s role with minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgery, mechanical circulatory support, miniaturized circuits and CPB, sickle cell disease and CPB management, and much more. A newly expanded title reflects the rapidly evolving nature of extracorporeal technology, encompassing both short-term and long-term forms of cardiac and pulmonary support.

Author : Simon Goodman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781451697643

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The Orpheus Clock by Simon Goodman Pdf

The passionate, true story of one man's quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family--their beloved art collection--and to restore their legacy. Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps. And that's almost all he knew--his father rarely spoke of their family history or heritage. But when he passed away, and Simon received his father's papers, a story began to emerge. The Gutmanns, as they were known then, rose from a small Bohemian hamlet to become one of Germany's most powerful banking families. They also amassed a world-class art collection that included works by Degas, Renoir, Botticelli, and many others, including a Renaissance clock engraved with scenes from the legend of Orpheus. The Nazi regime snatched everything the Gutmanns had labored to build: their art, their wealth, their social standing, and their very lives. Simon grew up in London with little knowledge of his father's efforts to recover their family's possessions. It was only after his father's death that Simon began to piece together the clues about the stolen legacy and the Nazi looting machine. He learned much of the collection had gone to Hitler and Goring; other works had been smuggled through Switzerland, sold and resold, with many pieces now in famous museums. More still had been recovered by Allied forces only to be stolen again by bureaucrats-- European governments quietly absorbed thousands of works of art into their own collections. Through painstaking detective work across two continents, Simon proved that many pieces belonged to his family, and successfully secured their return-- the first Nazi looting case to be settled in the United States. Goodman's dramatic story reveals a rich family history almost obliterated by the Nazis. It is not only the account of a twenty-year long detective hunt for family treasure, but an unforgettable tale of redemption and restoration.

Author : Julieanna Preston
Publisher : AADR – Art Architecture Design Research
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783887788209

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idea journal: interior technicity: unplugged and/or switched on by Julieanna Preston Pdf

Interior Technicity: Unplugged and/ or Switched On invites reflection on how interiors have always been augmenting entities and how they continue to be so—in other words, extending, facilitating and consolidating bodies within socio-cultural environments. Rather than seeing an interior as an 'inside' in opposition to a world beyond, it asks what modes of 'folding inward' have equipped and enabled the spatial environment? Technicity—the world of tools and technical objects that extend and mediate memory, as Bernard Steigler (1998) describes it—has never been what inside-ness, in its sheltering of life, keeps at bay; mediation is from the start technical, indexed to inscribing practices rich in temporal and embodied implications. By this reading, interiors have always been augmented and augmenting (in the sense of the Latin"augmentare": to increase, enlarge, or enrich). This IDEA Journal issue considers this mode of 'folding inward' as a condition of an interior'sspecificity. Whether it be a small structure such as a tramping hut or a tiny house, a large complex interior environment such as an airport or shopping mall, handmade with local materials such as Samoan fale, or the result of manufacturing processes assembling artificial and prefabricated elements as in the case of a spacecraft, boat or train, interiors are augmented, mediated, generated or embellished by technologies. The effect of these technologies is not neutral; one's experience of an interior is significantly influenced by the affective resonance of its technologies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015316438

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Air Pictorial by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0192810146

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Orpheus by Jean Cocteau Pdf

Author : David Beard,Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107093744

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Harrison Birtwistle Studies by David Beard,Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones Pdf

This collection represents current research on Birtwistle's music, reflecting the diversity of his work through a wide range of perspectives.

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811200221

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The Infernal Machine, and Other Plays by Jean Cocteau Pdf

Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced.