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A World of Excesses

Author : Faltin Karlsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317186214
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book A World of Excesses written by Faltin Karlsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores gaming culture, focusing on competent players and excessive use. Addressing the contested question of whether addiction is possible in relation to computer games - specifically online gaming - A World of Excesses demonstrates that excessive playing does not necessarily have detrimental effects, and that there are important contextual elements that influence what consequences playing has for the players. Based on new empirical studies, including in-depth interviews and virtual ethnography, and drawing on material from international game related sites, this book examines the reasons for which gaming can occupy such a central place in people's lives, to the point of excess. As such, it will be of interest to sociologists and psychologists working in the fields of cultural and media studies, the sociology of leisure, information technology and addiction.

Curation

Author : Michael Bhaskar
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 034940870X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Curation written by Michael Bhaskar and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A terrific and important book . . . it's a great, fresh take on how the 21st century is transforming the way we select everything from food to music' David Bodanis, author of E=MC2 In the past two years humanity has produced more data than the rest of human history combined. We carry a library of data in our pockets, accessible at any second. We have more information and more goods at our disposal than we know what to do with. There is no longer any competitive advantage in creating more information. Today, value lies in curation: selecting, finding and cutting down to show what really matters. Curation reveals how a little-used word from the world of museums became a crucial and at times controversial strategy for the twenty-first century. Today's most successful companies - Apple, Netflix, Amazon - have used curation to power their growth, by offering customers more tailored and appropriate choices. Curation answers the question of how we can live and prosper in an age of information overload. In the context of excess, it is not only a sound business strategy, but a way to make sense of the world.

The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600–2010

Author : Ms Julia Skelly
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409442373
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600–2010 written by Ms Julia Skelly and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the idea of excess has often been used to degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-fashioning and empowerment, particularly by women and queer subjects. This volume examines a range of material - including ceramics, paintings, caricatures, interior design and theatrical performances - in various global contexts. Each case study sheds new light on how excess has been perceived and constructed, revealing how beliefs about excess have changed over time.

The Theatre of Civilized Excess

Author : Anja Müller-Wood
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401204306
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Civilized Excess written by Anja Müller-Wood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobean tragedy is typically seen as translating a general dissatisfaction with the first Stuart monarch and his court into acts of calculated recklessness and cynical brutality. Drawing on theoretical influences from social history, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, this innovative book proposes an alternative perspective: Jacobean tragedy should be seen in the light of the institutional and social concerns of the early modern stage and the ambiguities which they engendered. Although the stage’s professionalization opened up hitherto unknown possibilities of economic success and social advancement for its middle-class practitioners, the imaginative, linguistic and material conditions of their work undermined the very ambitions they generated and furthered. The close reading of play texts and other, non-dramatic sources suggests that playwrights knew that they were dealing with hazardous materials prone to turn against them: whether the language they used or the audiences for whom they wrote and upon whose money and benevolence their success depended. The notorious features of the tragedies under discussion – their bloody murders, intricately planned revenges and psychologically refined terror – testify not only to the anxiety resulting from this multifaceted professional uncertainty but also to theatre practitioners’ attempts to civilize the excesses they were staging.

Desire and Excess

Author : Jonah Siegel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849829
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Desire and Excess written by Jonah Siegel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating look at the creative power of institutions, Jonah Siegel explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the nineteenth century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Treating these developments as interrelated, he analyzes both visual material and literary texts to portray a culture in which art came to be thought of in powerful new ways. Ultimately, Siegel shows that artistic controversies commonly associated with the self-consciously radical movements of modernism and postmodernism have their roots in a dynamic era unfairly characterized as staid, self-satisfied, and stable. The nineteenth century has been called the Age of the Museum, and yet critics, art theorists, and poets during this period grappled with the question of whether the proliferation of museums might lead to the death of Art itself. Did the assembly and display of works of art help the viewer to understand them or did it numb the senses? How was the contemporary artist to respond to the vast storehouses of art from disparate nations and periods that came to proliferate in this era? Siegel presents a lively discussion of the shock experienced by neoclassical artists troubled by remains of antiquity that were trivial or even obscene, as well as the anxious aesthetic reveries of nineteenth-century art lovers overwhelmed by the quantity of objects quickly crowding museums and exhibition halls. In so doing, he illuminates the fruitful crises provoked when the longing for admired art is suddenly satisfied. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, biographies of early nineteenth-century writers including Keats and Scott, and the writings of art critics such as Hazlitt, Ruskin, and Wilde, this book reproduces a cultural matrix that brings to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era.

Supply Waste and Excesses in the Northeast Air Command

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supply Waste and Excesses in the Northeast Air Command written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art, Excess, and Education

Author : Kevin Tavin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030218287
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Art, Excess, and Education written by Kevin Tavin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concentrates on the deep historical, political, and institutional relationships between art, education, and excess. Going beyond field specific discourses of art history, art criticism, philosophy, and aesthetics, it explores how the concept of excess has been important and enduring from antiquity through contemporary art, and from early film through the newer interactive media. Examples considered throughout the book focus on disgust, grandiosity, sex, violence, horror, disfigurement, endurance, shock, abundance, and emptiness, and frames them all within an educational context. Together they provide theories and classificatory systems, historical and political interpretations of art and excess, examples of popular culture, and suggestions for the future of educational practice.

The United States of Excess

Author : Robert Paarlberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199922632
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The United States of Excess written by Robert Paarlberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for Europe. Still worse, the policy steps taken by America in response to obesity and climate change have so far been the weakest in the industrial world. These aspects of America's exceptionalism are nothing to be proud of. Is it possible that America is hard-wired to consume too much food and fuel? Unfortunately, yes, says Robert Paarlberg in The United States of Excess. America's excess is driven in each case by its distinct endowment of material and demographic resources, its unusually weak national political institutions, and a unique political culture that celebrates both individual freedoms over social responsibility, and free markets over governmental authority. America's over-consumption is shown to be over-determined. Because of these powerful underlying circumstances, America's strongest policy response, both to climate change and obesity, will be adaptation rather than mitigation. As the damaging consequences of climate change become manifest, America will not impose adequate measures to reduce fossil fuel consumption, attempting instead to protect itself from storms and sea-level rise through costly infrastructure upgrades. In response to the damaging health consequences of obesity, America will opt for medical interventions and physical accommodations, rather than the policy measures that would be needed to induce better diets or more exercise. These adaptation responses will generate serious equity problems, both at home and abroad. Responding to obesity with medical interventions will fall short for those in America most prone to obesity - racial minorities and the poor - since these groups have never enjoyed adequate access to quality health care. Responding to climate change by building more resilient infrastructures at home, while allowing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to continue their increase, will impose greater climate disruption on poor tropical countries, which are far less capable of self-protection. Awareness of these inequities must be the starting point toward altering America's current path.

Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

Author : Annette J. Saddik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316240681
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess written by Annette J. Saddik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of Tennessee Williams' post-1961 period have often been misunderstood and dismissed. In light of Williams' centennial in 2011, which was marked internationally by productions and world premieres of his late plays, Annette J. Saddik's new reading of these works illuminates them in the context of what she terms a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Saddik explains why they are now gaining increasing acclaim, and analyzes recent productions that successfully captured elements central to Williams' late aesthetic, particularly a delicate balance of laughter and horror with a self-consciously ironic acting style. Grounding the plays through the work of Bakhtin, Artaud, and Kristeva, as well as through the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik demonstrates how Williams engaged the freedom of exaggeration and excess in celebration of what he called 'the strange, the crazed, the queer'.

The Art of Excess

Author : Tom LeClair
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252061028
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Excess written by Tom LeClair and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Excess Burden of Taxation

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Excess Burden of Taxation written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Excess Burden of Taxation When it comes to economics, one of the economic losses that society endures as a consequence of taxes or subsidies is the weight of taxation that amounts to an excessive amount. According to the theoretical framework of economics, distortions alter the quantity and kind of economic behavior in comparison to what would take place in a free market in the absence of the tax. It is possible to determine the extent of excess burdens by employing either the average cost of funds or the marginal cost of funds (MCF). It was Adam Smith who first brought up the topic of excessive burdens. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Excess burden of taxation Chapter 2: Tax Chapter 3: Deadweight loss Chapter 4: Index of economics articles Chapter 5: Supply-side economics Chapter 6: Tax reform Chapter 7: Pigouvian tax Chapter 8: Sin tax Chapter 9: Tax competition Chapter 10: Proportional tax Chapter 11: Tax incidence Chapter 12: Arnold Harberger Chapter 13: Tax incentive Chapter 14: Tax policy Chapter 15: Market distortion Chapter 16: Optimal tax Chapter 17: Tax efficiency Chapter 18: Marginal cost of public funds Chapter 19: Laffer curve Chapter 20: OneTax Chapter 21: Optimal capital income taxation (II) Answering the public top questions about excess burden of taxation. (III) Real world examples for the usage of excess burden of taxation in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Excess Burden of Taxation.

Visions of Excess

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816612833
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Excess written by Georges Bataille and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of society to the primeval. This collection of prewar writings remains the volume in which Batailles’s positions are most clearly, forcefully, and obsessively put forward.This book challenges the notion of a “closed economy” predicated on utility, production, and rational consumption, and develops an alternative theory that takes into account the human tendency to lose, destroy, and waste. This collection is indispensible for an understanding of the future as well as the past of current critical theory.Georges Bataille (1897-1962), a librarian by profession, was founder of the French review Critique. He is the author of several books, including Story of the Eye, The Accused Share, Erotism, and The Absence of Myth.

Excess

Author : Kim Humphery
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745659039
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Excess written by Kim Humphery and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West - and the more recent impact of recession - a vigorous politics of anti-consumerism has emerged in a range of wealthy nations. This timely and original new book provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of what has come to be called the 'new politics of consumption'; a politics embodied in movements such as culture jamming, simple living, slow food and fair trade. The book offers an examination of anti-consumerism at a time when the idea of 'consumer excess' is being re-framed by a global economic downturn, and crucially explores what this means for the future of political debate. Drawing on interviews with activists across three continents, and offering a refreshingly accessible discussion of contemporary commentary and theory, Kim Humphery sympathetically explores anti-consumerism as cultural interpretation, lifestyle change, and collective action. Whilst analysing the positive advances of the anti-consumerist movement, Excess also challenges contemporary critical thinking on consumption, taking issue with the return to theories of mass culture in contemporary anti-consumerist polemic. Alternatively, Humphery begins to forge a politics of anti-consumerism that addresses the complexity of material acquisition and which avoids treating consumers as mere dupes in the logic of capitalism, viewing them instead as active participants in a culture which is capable of transformation.

Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions

Author : Kwai-Cheung Lo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438432100
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions written by Kwai-Cheung Lo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.

The Joys of Excess

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141966033
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Joys of Excess written by Samuel Pepys and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater and connoisseur of epicurean delights, who indulged in every pleasure seventeenth-century London had to offer. Whether he is feasting on barrels of oysters, braces of carps, larks' tongues and copious amounts of wine, merrymaking in taverns until the early hours, attending formal dinners with lords and ladies or entertaining guests at home with his young wife, these irresistible selections from Pepys's diaries provide a frank, high-spirited and vivid picture of the joys of over-indulgence - and the side-effects afterwards.

Gender and the Poetics of Excess

Author : Karen Jackson Ford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617032204
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Gender and the Poetics of Excess written by Karen Jackson Ford and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess vary with each poet, but by conceiving of poetic excess in relation to literary decorum, this study establishes a shared motivation for such a strategy. Literary decorum is one instrument a culture employs to constrain its writers. Perhaps it is the most effective because it is the least definable. The excesses discussed here, like the criteria of decorum against which they are perceived, cannot be itemized as an immutable set of traits. Though decorum and excess shift over time and in different cultures, their relationship to one another remains strikingly stable. Thus, nineteenth-century standards for women's writing and late twentieth-century standards bear almost no relation. Emily Dickinson's do not anticipate Gertrude Stein's or Sylvia Plath's or Ntozake Shange's. Yet the charges of indecorousness leveled at these women poets repeat a fixed set of abstract grievances. Dickinson, Stein, Plath, Jayne Cortez, and Shange all engage in a poetics of excess as a means of rejecting the limitations and conventions of “female writing” that the larger culture imposes on them. In resisting conventions for feminine writing, these poets developed radical new poetries, yet their work was typically criticized or dismissed as excessive. Thus, Dickinson's form is classified as hysterical, and her figures tortured. Stein's works are called repetitive and nonsensical. Plath's tone is accused of being at once virulent and confessional, Cortez's poems violent and vulgar, Shange's work vengeful and self-righteous. The publishing history of these poets demonstrates both the opposition to such an aesthetic and the necessity for it.

Summary of H.R. 9827, the Excess Profits Tax Act of 1950, as Agreed to by the Conferees

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Summary of H.R. 9827, the Excess Profits Tax Act of 1950, as Agreed to by the Conferees written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: