Tragedy And Farce

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781683774

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First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek Pdf

Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory. The election of Donald Trump only confirms the bankruptcy of a liberal order on its last legs. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.

Author : Hal Foster
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781788738118

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What Comes After Farce? by Hal Foster Pdf

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order that laughs away its own contradictions? How to mock leaders who thrive on the absurd? And why, in any event, offer more outrage to a media economy that feeds on the same? Such questions are grist to the mill of Hal Foster, who, in What Comes after Farce?, delves into recent developments in art, criticism, and fiction under the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. Concerned first with the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, conspiracy, and kitsch, he moves on to consider the neoliberal makeover of aesthetic forms and art institutions during the same period. A final section surveys signal transformations in art, film, and writing. Among the phenomena explored are machine vision (images produced by machines for other machines without a human interface), operational images (images that do not represent the world so much as intervene in it), and the algorithmic scripting of information that pervades our everyday lives. If all this sounds dire, it is. In many respects we look out on a world that has moved, not only politically but also technologically, beyond our control. Yet Foster also sees possibility in the current debacle: the possibility to pressure the cracks in this order, to turn emergency into change.

Author : John Bellamy Foster
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583676806

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Trump in the White House by John Bellamy Foster Pdf

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Author : John Nichols,Robert Waterman McChesney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1595581294

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Tragedy and Farce by John Nichols,Robert Waterman McChesney Pdf

Argues that during the 2004 election and throughout the Iraq war and occupation, Americans were starved of democracy’s oxygen: accurate information. More than anything John Kerry, George Bush, or even Karl Rove did, the media’s miscoverage of the campaign and war decided the election. Nichols and McChesney dissect the media failures of recent years that show the decline in resources and standards for political journalism—as well as the methodical campaign by the political right to control the news cycle. In our highly concentrated media system it has become commercially and politically irrational to do the kind of journalism a self-governing society requires. From publisher information.

Author : Jeremy Kuzmarov,John Marciano
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583676967

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The Russians Are Coming, Again by Jeremy Kuzmarov,John Marciano Pdf

Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce.” The Cold War waged between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 until the latter's dissolution in 1991 was a great tragedy, resulting in millions of civilian deaths in proxy wars, and a destructive arms race that diverted money from social spending and nearly led to nuclear annihilation. The New Cold War between the United States and Russia is playing out as farce – a dangerous one at that. The Russians Are Coming, Again is a red flag to restore our historical consciousness about U.S.-Russian relations, and how denying this consciousness is leading to a repetition of past follies. Kuzmarov and Marciano's book is timely and trenchant. The authors argue that the Democrats’ strategy, backed by the corporate media, of demonizing Russia and Putin in order to challenge Trump is not only dangerous, but also, based on the evidence so far, unjustified, misguided, and a major distraction. Grounding their argument in all-but-forgotten U.S.-Russian history, such as the 1918-20 Allied invasion of Soviet Russia, the book delivers a panoramic narrative of the First Cold War, showing it as an all-too-avoidable catastrophe run by the imperatives of class rule and political witch-hunts. The distortion of public memory surrounding the First Cold War has set the groundwork for the New Cold War, which the book explains is a key feature, skewing the nation’s politics yet again. This is an important, necessary book, one that, by including accounts of the wisdom and courage of the First Cold War's victims and dissidents, will inspire a fresh generation of radicals in today's new, dangerously farcical times.

Author : Mark Lloyd
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252091759

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Prologue to a Farce by Mark Lloyd Pdf

“A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both.”--James Madison, 1822 Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communication and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens’ political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U.S. communications environment has become unfairly dominated by corporate interests. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Lloyd demonstrates that despite the persistent hope that a new technology (from the telegraph to the Internet) will rise to serve the needs of the republic, none has solved the fundamental problems created by corporate domination. After examining failed alternatives to the strong publicly owned communications model, such as antitrust regulation, the public trustee rules of the Federal Communications Commission, and the underfunded public broadcasting service, Lloyd argues that we must re-create a modern version of the Founder’s communications environment, and offers concrete strategies aimed at empowering citizens.

Author : Alex Taek-Gwang Lee,Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784783969

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The Idea of Communism 3 by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee,Slavoj Zizek Pdf

An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communist principles In 2009 Slavoj Žižek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relevance of communism. Unexpectedly the conference attracted an audience of over 1,000 people. The discussion has continued across the world and this book gathers responses from the conference in Seoul. It includes the interventions of regular contributors Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, as well as work from across Asia, notably from Chinese scholar Wang Hui, offering regional perspectives on communism in an era of global economic crisis and political upheaval.

Author : Klaus Gietinger
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788734493

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The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg by Klaus Gietinger Pdf

On the tracks of the killers of Rosa Luxemburg The cold-blooded murder of revolutionary icons Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the pitched political battles of post-WWI Germany marks one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. No other political assassination inflamed popular passions and transformed Germany's political climate as that killing in the night of 15-16 January 1919 in front of the luxurious Hotel Eden. It not only cut short the lives of two of the country's most brilliant political leaders, but also inaugurated a series of further political assassinations designed to snuff out the revolutionary flame and, ultimately, pave the way for the ultra-reactionary forces that would take power in 1933. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of their untimely deaths, Klaus Gietinger has carefully reconstructed the events on that fateful night, digging deep into the archives to identify who exactly was responsible for the murder, and what forces in high-placed positions had a hand in facilitating it and protecting the culprits.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781868147359

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Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844674282

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Žižek Pdf

From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.

Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351520232

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Farce by Jessica Milner Davis Pdf

Farce has always been relegated to the lowest rung of the ladder of dramatic genres. Distinctions between farce and more literary comic forms remain clouded, even in the light of contemporary efforts to rehabilitate this type of comedy. Is farce really nothing more than slapstick-the "putting out of candles, kicking down of tables, falling over joynt-stools," as Thomas Shadwell characterized it in the seventeenth century? Or was his contemporary, Nahum Tate correct when he declared triumphantly that "there are no rules to be prescribed for that sort of wit, no patterns to copy; and 'tis altogether the creature of imagination"? Davis shows farce to be an essential component in both the comedic and tragic traditions. Farce sets out to explore the territory of what makes farce distinct as a comic genre. Its lowly origins date back to the classic Graeco-Roman theatre; but when formal drama was reborn by the process of elaboration of ritual within the mediaeval Church, the French term "farce" became synonymous with a recognizable style of comic performance. Taking a wide range of farces from the briefest and most basic of fair-ground mountebank performances to fully-fledged five-act structures from the late nineteenth century, the book reveals the patterns of comic plot and counter-plot that are common to all. The result is a novel classification of farce-plots, which serves to clarify the differences between farce and more literary comic forms and to show how quickly farce can shade into other styles of humor. The key is a careful balance between a revolt against order and propriety, and a kind of Realpolitik which ultimately restores the social conventions under attack. A complex array of devices in such things as framing, plot, characterization, timing and acting style maintain the delicate balance. Contemporary examples from the London stage bring the discussion u

Author : Richard Halpern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226433790

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Eclipse of Action by Richard Halpern Pdf

According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the notion that tragedy has died, this wide-ranging study argues that it faces an unprecedented challenge in modern times from an unexpected quarter: political economy. Since Aristotle, tragedy has been seen as uniquely exhibiting the importance of action for human happiness. Beginning with Adam Smith, however, political economy has claimed that the source of happiness is primarily production. Eclipse of Action examines the tense relations between action and production, doing and making, in playwrights from Aeschylus, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Milton to Beckett, Arthur Miller, and Sarah Kane. Richard Halpern places these figures in conversation with works by Aristotle, Smith, Hegel, Marx, Hannah Arendt, Georges Bataille, and others in order to trace the long history of the ways in which economic thought and tragic drama interact.

Author : Matthew C. Farmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780190492076

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Tragedy on the Comic Stage by Matthew C. Farmer Pdf

"Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies. Tragedy on the Comic Stage contextualizes this engagement with tragedy within Greek comedy as a genre by examining paratragedy in the fragments of Aristophanes' contemporaries and successors in the fifth and fourth centuries [BC]." --

Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786826923

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Wise Children by Angela Carter Pdf

In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance – twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river – are celebrating their 75th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father and greatest actor of his generation Melchior Hazard turns 100 on the same day. As does his twin brother Peregrine. If, in fact, he's still alive. And if, in truth, Melchior is their real father after all... Wise Children is adapted for the stage from Angela Carter's last novel about a theatrical family living in South London. It centres around twin chorus girls, Nora and Dora Chance, whose lives are brimming with mystery, illegitimacy and scandal. Dora narrates the story as her older self, looking back on a tumultuous life, throughout which she and her sister have loved to sing and dance. A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope. Expect show girls and Shakespeare, sex and scandal, music, mischief and mistaken identity – and butterflies by the thousand.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Mondial
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781595690234

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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx Pdf

One of Karl Marx's most profound and most brilliant monographs, this title may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history. For all serious students, the "Brumaire" is the book for those who wish to deepen their knowledge on Marxian political conceptions.