Author: Paul Roland File Type: epub More than a century after he stalked the streets of Londons East End, Jack the Ripper continues to exert a macabre fascination on the popular imagination. After scrupulously re-examining official documents of the time, investigative journalist Paul Roland strips away decades of myth and misconceptions to reveal the identity of a brand-new suspect who has never been seriously considered until now. If you are expecting a finger to be pointed at one of the usual suspects, be prepared to have your assumptions turned on their head. More than a century after he stalked the streets of Londons East End, Jack the Ripper continues to exert a macabre fascination on the popular imagination. After scrupulously re-examining official documents of the time, investigative journalist Paul Roland strips away decades of myth and misconceptions to reveal the identity of a brand-new suspect who has never been seriously considered until now. If you are expecting a finger to be pointed at one of the usual suspects, be prepared to have your assumptions turned on their head. Roland provides a well-balanced overview ... extensively illustrated and with timely coverage of some of the latest theories and research.Stephen P. Ryder, Editor of Casebook Jack the Ripper**

Author: Emanuele Coccia File Type: pdf Objects are all around usand images of objects, advertisements for objects. Things are no longer merely purely physical or economic entities within the visual economy of advertising, they are inescapably moral. Any object, regardless of its nature, can for at least a moment aspire to be good, can become not just an object of value but a complex of possible happiness, a moral source of perfection for any one of us. This provocative book, already available in Italian, French, and German, and written by a major new figure in European thought, argues that our relation to things is what makes us human. For Coccia, the object world must be conceived as the site of what the philosophical tradition has considered the good, and the flat surfaces of billboards and posters become the first form of any object-oriented ontology. Positing a radical political praxis against a facile materialist critique of things, Coccia shows how objects become the medium through which a city enunciates its ethos, making an ethical life available to those who live among them. When we acknowledge that our notion of the good resides within a world of things, we must grant that in advertising, humans have revealed themselves as organisms that are ethically inseparable from the very things they produce, exchange, and desire. In the advertising imagination, to be human is to be a moral cyborg whose existence attains ethical perfection only via the universe of things. The alienation commodities cause and express is moral rather than economic or social we need our own products not just to survive biologically or to improve the physical conditions of our existence, but to live morally. Ultimately, Goods offers a radically political rethinking of the power of images. The problem of contemporary politics is not the anesthetization of words but the excess power we invest in them. Through images, we already live another form of political life, which has very little to do with the one invented and formalized by the legal tradition. All we need to do is to recognize it. Advertising and fashion are just the primitive, sometimes grotesque, but ultimately irrepressible prefiguration of the new politics to come. **