Author: David Fancy File Type: epub How can we imagine a future not driven by capitalist assumptions about humans and the wider world? How are a range of contemporary artistic and popular cultural practices already providing pathways to post-capitalist futures? Authors from a variety of disciplines answer these questions through writings on blues and hip hop, virtual reality, post-colonial science fiction, virtual gaming, riot grrrls and punk, raku pottery, post-pornography fanzines, zombie films, and role playing. The essays in Art as Revolt are clustered around themes such as technology and the future, aesthetics and resistance, and ethnographies of the self beyond traditional understandings of identity. Using philosophies of immanence describing a system that gives rise to itself, independent of outside forces drawn from a rich and evolving tradition that includes Spinoza, Nietzsche, Deleuze, and Braidotti, the authors and editors provide an engrossing range of analysis and speculation. Together the essays, written by experts in their fields, stage an important collective, transdisciplinary conversation about how best to talk about art and politics today. Sophisticated in its theoretical and philosophical premises, and engaging some of the most pressing questions in cultural studies and artistic practice today, Art as Revolt does not provide comfortable closure. Instead, it is understood by its authors to be a Dionysian machine, a generator of open-ended possibility and potential that challenges readers to affirm their own belief in the futures of this world. Contributors include Timothy J. Beck (University of West Georgia) Mark Bishop (Independent Scholar), Dave Collins (University of West Georgia), David Fancy (Brock University), Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (University of Western Ontario), Malisa Kurtz (Independent Scholar), Nicole Land (Ryerson University), Eric Lochhead (Youth Author Calgary Alberta) , Douglas Ord (Doctoral Student University of Western Ontario), Peter Rehberg (Institute for Cultural InquiryBerlin), Chris Richardson (Young Harris College), Hans Skott-Myhre (Kennesaw State University), Kathleen Skott-Myhre (University of West Georgia), and Joanna Wasiak (Independent Scholar). About the Author David Fancy is associate professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts at Brock University. Hans Skott-Myhre is professor in the Social Work and Human Services Department at Kennesaw State University.

Author: Isaac Taylor File Type: pdf CONTENTSI. Enthusiasm Secular and ReligiousII. Enthusiasm in DevotionIII. Enthusiastic erversions of the Doctrine of Divine InfluenceIV. Enthusiasm the Source of HeresyV. Enthusiasm of Prophetical InterpretationVI. Enthusiastic abuses of the Doctrine of a Particular ProvidenceVII. Enthusiasm of PhilanthropyVIII. Sketch of the Enthusiasm of the Ancient ChurchIX. The same subject -- Ingredients of the Ancient MonachismX. Hints on the probable spread of Christianity, submitted to those who misuse the term -- Enthusiasm

Author: Gina Arnold File Type: pdf From baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature, films, journalism, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, Wattstax, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds thatfar from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light. **Review At a moment when music festivals proliferate as both music and marketing phenomena, Gina Arnold deftly explores their fascinating history in this compulsively readable book. Arnold, as always, writes conversationally, as if shes actively thinking on the pagegenerating fresh ideas as they occur to her and following them in previously unexplored directions. That excites the readers own thinkingand makes this book inspiring and a great, welcome pleasure. (Anthony DeCurtis, author, Lou Reed A Life) A much-needed, well-observed reevaluation of rock-and-roll audiences from a writer with decades in the trenches. An illuminating, historically informed conversation-starter for anyone with a stake in a live music community. (Jesse Jarnow, author, Heads A Biography of Psychedelic America) From audience reactions to Dylan going electric at Newport in 1965 to Wattstax in Los Angeles in 1972 to the lost U.S. Festival in the 1980s and beyond, Gina Arnolds wonderful individual take on what being at a rock festival means offers new insights by focusing not on the stage, but on us, the festival-going crowd. (George McKay, University of East Anglia) About the Author Gina Arnold is a former rock journalist and the author of Liz Phairs Exile in Guyville, Kiss This Punk in the Present Tense, and Route 666 On the Road to Nirvana. She is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock. Arnold teaches rhetoric and media studies at the University of San Francisco.

Author: John V. Tolan File Type: pdf In September, 1219, as the armies of the Fifth Crusade besieged the Egyptian city of Damietta, Francis of Assisi went to Egypt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil. Although we in fact know very little about this event, this has not prevented artists and writers from the thirteenth century to the twentieth, unencumbered by mere facts, from portraying Francis alternatively as a new apostle preaching to the infidels, a scholastic theologian proving the truth of Christianity, a champion of the crusading ideal, a naive and quixotic wanderer, a crazed religious fanatic, or a medieval Gandhi preaching peace, love, and understanding. Al-Kamil, on the other hand, is variously presented as an enlightened pagan monarch hungry for evangelical teaching, a cruel oriental despot, or a worldly libertine. Saint Francis and the Sultan takes a detailed look at these richly varied artistic responses to this brief but highly symbolic meeting. Throwing into relief the changing fears and hopes that Muslim-Christian encounters have inspired in European artists and writers in the centuries since, it gives a uniquely broad but precise vision of the evolution of Western attitudes towards Islam and the Arab world over the last eight hundred years.Review[A] richly documented and attractively illustrated study. --Catholic News ServiceA brilliant study on a timely topic... The entire book shows impeccable scholarship, precise writing, and keen cultural insights that speak with unparalleled authoirty and ecumenical diplomacy. ...Highly recommended for all academic libraries. --Catholic Library WorldA welcome and useful survey of the changing European perspectives on Francis and al-Kamil, and will be a welcome addition for scholars and readers interested in Francis, his changing image, and European perspective on Islam.--The Catholic Historical Review...Tolan provides fascinating insights into the historical context in which the trestises and images under discussion came into being.--Bret Roset, Radboud UniversityJohn Tolan has produced a richly detailed metahistory of an intriguing encounter between East and West, Islam and Christianity. The modest lesson we can draw from it, it seems, is that every encounter is pregnant with multiple meanings and interpretations. This, in turn, should move us to consider the best possible meaning and interpretation so as to better allow for mutual learning and understanding.--The American Journal of Islamic Social SciencesNo single individual would have the scholarly competence to cover this much material, and its authors list reads like a whos who of contemporary ecumenical critically orthodox theology...How well does the book accomplish its task? It is written and organized well, and the articles are uniformly of high quality. The writers are some of the best orthodox theologians today...It is an excellent starting point for further research and, to the best of my knowledge, there is nothing else like it. Some of the articles are gems, and all are worth reading.--The Living ChurchAbout the AuthorJohn V. Tolan was educated at Yale and Chicago. He has taught at universities in North America and Europe and is currently Professor of Medieval History at the University of Nantes. He has published widely in both French and English, including most recently Saracens Islam in the Medieval European Imagination (2002).