After Authority: War, Peace, and Global Politics in the 21st Century
Author: Ronnie D. Lipschutz File Type: pdf About the AuthorRonnie D. Lipschutz is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coauthor, with Judith Mayer, of Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance The Politics of Nature from Place to Planet, also published by SUNY Press.
Author: Graham Harman
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Quentin Meillassouxs entry into the philosophical scene marks the beginning of a new epoch the end of the transcendental approach and the return to realist ontology. Harmans beautifully written and argued book provides not just an introduction to Meillassoux, but much more one authentic philosopher writing about another - a rare true encounter. It is not only for those who want to understand Meillassoux, but also for those who want to witness a radical shift in the entire field of philosophy. It is a book that will shake the very foundations of your world! Slavoj aeiaeek, philosopher and psychoanalyst An in-depth study of the emerging French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux Quentin Meillassoux has been described as the most rapidly prominent French philosopher in the Anglophone world since Jacques Derrida in the 1960s. With the publication of After Finitude (2006), this daring protege of Alain Badiou became one of the worlds most visible younger thinkers. In this book, his fellow Speculative Realist, Graham Harman, assesses Meillassouxs publications in English so far. Also included are an insightful interview with Meillassoux and first-time translations of excerpts from LInexistence divine (The Divine Inexistence), his famous but still unpublished major book.
Author: Stefan Larsson
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Stefan Larssons Conceptions in the Code makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis, representing a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that metaphor plays when the law is dealing with technological change, displaying both conceptual path-dependence as well as what is called non-legislative developments in the law. The overall analysis draws from conceptual studies of property in intellectual property. By using Karl Renners account of property, Larsson demonstrates how the property regime of copyright is the projection of an older regime of control onto a new set of digital social relations. Further, through an analysis of the concept of copy in copyright as well as the metaphorical battle of defining the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay in the Swedish court case with its founders, Larsson shows the historical and embodied dependence of digital phenomena in law, and thereby how normative aspects of the source concept also stains the target domain. The book also draws from empirical studies on file sharing and historical expressions of the conceptualisation of law, revealing both the cultural bias of both file sharing and law. Also law is thereby shown to be largely depending on metaphors and embodiment to be reified and understood. The contribution is relevant for the conceptual and regulatory struggles of a multitude of contemporary socio-digital phenomena in addition to copyright and file sharing, including big data and the oft-praised openness of digital innovation.
Author: Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
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Over the past two decades, independent director Gregg Araki has emerged as one of the most intriguing auteurs of contemporary U.S. cinema. A leading figure of the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s, Araki is known for his innovative, eye-opening, and at-times-controversial films aimed primarily at queer audiences. Images for a Generation Doomed The Films and Career of Gregg Araki explores the films and career trajectory to date of this New Queer Cinema pioneer. Offering in-depth analyses of films such as The Living End, Totally Fed Up, The Doom Generation, Nowhere, and Splendor, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart demonstrates how, over the course of the 1990s, the directors cinematic offerings became increasingly devoid of their early subversive potential. Hart goes on to argue that as the 1990s progressed, Arakis films were largely irrelevant to the cultural project of providing groundbreaking on-screen representations of non-heterosexual individuals living in the age of A.I.D.S. . However, Hart sees Mysterious Skin as evidence of Arakis successful attempt at reestablishing his cinematic and cultural relevancy in relation to the approaches and subject matter of contemporary queer cinema in the new millennium.**
Author: Hermann Gunkel
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Gunkels classic work of 1917 is a systematic investigation of the Old Testament in the light of the then emerging principles of folktale scholarship he makes use, for example, not only of the contributions of the Grimm brothers but is aware of the research into classifications of tale types represented by the ground-breaking work of A. Aarne in 1910 and subsequently. **
Author: Dudley Cecil Creagh
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In Chapter 1 Dudley Creagh writes on synchrotron radiation and its use in art, archaeometry, and cultural heritage studies. Loic Bertrand has written in Chapter 2 on synchrotron imaging for archaeology and art history, conservation, and palaeontology. Dr. Bertrand is Archaeology and cultural heritage officer at the new French synchrotron, Synchrotron Soleil (Orme les Mesuriers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France). He is charged with the task of raising the awareness of cultural heritage scientists to the use of synchrotron radiation for their research. Chapter 3 has been written by Ivan Cole and his associates Dr David Paterson and Deborah Lau. This is concerned with the holistic modelling of gas and aerosol deposition and the degradation of cultural objects. Dr. Cole is Deputy Chief of the Novel Materials and Processes Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Melbourne, Australia). He has over twenty years experience in involvement in projects concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage. Ivan is an internationally recognized leader in the field of the life cycle of materials and the development of protective coatings for metals. In Chapter 4, Giovanna Di Pietro describes two different types of experiments she has undertaken in the study of the mechanisms underlying the degradation of photographic media. In the first Dr. Di Pietro describes the degradation of old back-and-white plate. In the second she outlines her attempts to understand the mechanisms by which comparatively modern motion picture film degrades. A significant part of this project involved trying to ascertain exactly what dyes were used by Kodak in their motion picture film from about 1980 onwards. An entirely new technique for the remote investigation of the pigments in paintings is presented by Maria Kubik in Chapter 5. This technique will significantly enhance the ability of conservators to study the palette of pigments used by artists, check for repairs by others, and detect fraudulent paintings. Demonstrates the amazing efforts being made in using physical techniques for the study of art, archaeology and cultural heritage Provides succinct accounts of how cultural heritage is being preserved. Looks at how science is being used to enrich our knowledge of the creative artsAbout the AuthorProfessor Dudley Creagh, Professor and Director of Cultural Heritage Research, is an expert in the design and development of new analytical equipment, especially equipment using synchrotron radiation, for the study of materials, especially cultural heritage artefacts. He had led research on such topics as valuable medals (e.g., Victoria Cross), the protection of objects against corrosion, Australian aboriginal bark paintings, and the degradation ofiron-gall inks on parchments, movie film, and painted surfaces.David Bradley is a Reader at the University of Surrey, Secretary of the International Radiation Physics Society and edits the journal Applied Radiation and Isotopes. His research interests concern photon scattering, radioanalytical techniques for determination of trace element concentrations and the development of synchrotron techniques for the characterisation of media.
Author: Marilyn Monroe
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Fragments is an eventan unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroes humanity. Marilyns image is so universal that we cant help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notorietyand by the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her. Beyond the headlinesand the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolationwas a woman far more curious, searching, witty, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Now, for the first time, readers can meet the private Marilyn and understand her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifactsnotes to herself, letters, even poemsin Marilyns own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. Jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, these texts reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny, and impossibly charming. The easy grace and deceptive lightness that made her performances indelible emerge on the page, as does the simmering tragedy that made her last appearances so affecting. **
Author: Elizabeth Lunbeck
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American social critics in the 1970s seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. But they missed the psychoanalytic breakthrough that championed it as the wellspring of ambition, creativity, and empathy. Elizabeth Lunbecks history opens a new view on the central questions faced by the self struggling amid the crosscurrents of modernity. **Review A tour de force. Lunbeck brilliantly tracks the decades-long transformation of narcissism from a complex Freudian concept to a master term of 1970s social critique. Along the way, she masterfully delineates the ways narcissism has been used to explain such culturally freighted phenomena as homosexuality, womens fashion, consumer culture, and youth revolt. This is social criticism at its best. (George Chauncey, Yale University) A penetrating intellectual history of perhaps the most important decade of American psychoanalysis. Lunbeck reveals the basic machinery of psychoanalytic discourse in the context of historical and cultural movements of the fin de siecle. It is a highly entertaining and deeply edifying read. (Peter Fonagy, University College London) Lunbeck brilliantly conveys the ins and outs of narcissism in the past century. With a historians insight, she marshals sources from the popular press to the academic and psychoanalytic literature to produce a highly readable book that will be of very great interest to a broad range of readers. (Anton O. Kris, Harvard Medical School) Offers a fascinating, in-depth intellectual history of narcissism and how it has informed the public discussion of what Americans have valuedFor the reader who reads in order to develop their own insights into American culture, this resource is an indispensable treasure. Like all the best histories there is enough material here to keep anyone who finds herself wondering how America became associated with concepts like identity politics, counterculture, self-esteem and gratification--or anyone curious about the ubiquitous and slippery concept of narcissism--busy for days. (Anita Felicelli PopMatters 2014-03-20) Lunbecks primary interest here is the intellectual history of narcissism and, as such, her book is mainly devoted to a taxonomy of its various definitional twists and turns among psychoanalysts through the decades since Freud first addressed the subject in 1914. But for this reader it is her rehearsal of the use and misuse of the term in the 1970s that is the richest part of her book. Not only is it immensely evocative of the times themselves, but it also traces beautifully the way a valuable concept that includes a necessary stage of human development became permanently identified as a personality disorder that swallowed whole the larger, far more generous idea of the self that had been developing in the West for fifty years and more, into which narcissism should only have been enfoldedA time, like a human being, can never be the sum of its disabilities, and the business of the historian is to place those disabilities in illuminating perspective. Elizabeth Lunbecks book does this beautifully. (Vivian Gornick Boston Review 2014-05-05) [Lunbeck] has written an impressively researched history of the idea of narcissism in U.S. intellectual and cultural life and found the concept unfairly maligned. (Robert Reynolds Times Higher Education 2014-06-05) [A] prodigiously researched reconstruction of the story of narcissismLunbeck is exceptionally good at disentangling these often arcane psychoanalytic arguments and their reverberations in postwar social theory shes also very good on the intersections of saving, spending, and desiring in both psychoanalysis and consumer culture. What [Christopher] Lasch got wrong, she says, was imagining that [psychoanalyst Heinz] Kohut, who invariably sided with gratification over renunciation, was a compatriot he was anything but. The consequence, she thinks, has been the popularization of the malignant narcissist and the overall neglect of the positive aspects of narcissism in our current conceptions. (Laura Kipnis Harpers 2014-08-01) Energetic and rigorously researched. (Helen Tyson Literary Review 2014-07-01) About the Author Elizabeth Lunbeck is Professor of the History of Science in Residence at Harvard University.