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Author : Angela Krewani
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Artefacts, artefictions written by Angela Krewani and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Nordmann
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822977508
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Science Transformed? written by Alfred Nordmann and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-08-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancements in computing, instrumentation, robotics, digital imaging, and simulation modeling have changed science into a technology-driven institution. Government, industry, and society increasingly exert their influence over science, raising questions of values and objectivity. These and other profound changes have led many to speculate that we are in the midst of an epochal break in scientific history. This edited volume presents an in-depth examination of these issues from philosophical, historical, social, and cultural perspectives. It offers arguments both for and against the epochal break thesis in light of historical antecedents. Contributors discuss topics such as: science as a continuing epistemological enterprise; the decline of the individual scientist and the rise of communities; the intertwining of scientific and technological needs; links to prior practices and ways of thinking; the alleged divide between mode-1 and mode-2 research methods; the commodification of university science; and the shift from the scientific to a technological enterprise. Additionally, they examine the epochal break thesis using specific examples, including the transition from laboratory to real world experiments; the increased reliance on computer imaging; how analog and digital technologies condition behaviors that shape the object and beholder; the cultural significance of humanoid robots; the erosion of scientific quality in experimentation; and the effect of computers on prediction at the expense of explanation. Whether these events represent a historic break in scientific theory, practice, and methodology is disputed. What they do offer is an important occasion for philosophical analysis of the epistemic, institutional and moral questions affecting current and future scientific pursuits.
Author : Kerstin Mey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857732781
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Art and Obscenity written by Kerstin Mey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of 'obscenity' remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is 'obscene' shift with societies' shifting mores, and our responses to explicit or disturbing material can be highly subjective. In this intelligent and sensitive book, Kerstin Mey grapples with the work of twentieth-century artists practising at the edges of acceptability, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Mey refuses sweeping statements and 'knee-jerk' responses, arguing with dexterity that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating.
Author : Katherine A. Hermes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443804266
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World written by Katherine A. Hermes and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex and sexuality are topics that have defined feminism since its inception. What has changed is that there is now a generation of feminists and scholars who are comfortable not only to write in their own disciplines but who incorporate feminist ideas in their research. This book assembles a variety of essays, most of which were written especially for this collection, that negotiate sex and sexuality in historical contexts as well as in contemporary times. There is a common ground of history and (popular) culture among the articles. While different theories of feminism operate in these essays, feminist lenses have allowed the reevaluation of familiar topics from early religious practices to medieval literature to current films and advertising. The authors represented in this collection range from established feminist and gender scholars to those who employ feminist theoretical frameworks in their respective disciplines.
Author : Juergen Kamm
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137552956
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book British TV Comedies written by Juergen Kamm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'. It provides in-depth analyses of major comedies, systematically addressing their generic properties, filmic history, humour politics and cultural impact.
Author : Julia Eckel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319579495
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Exploring the Selfie written by Julia Eckel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the selfie not only as a specific photographic practice that is deeply rooted in digital culture, but also how it is understood in relation to other media of self-portrayal. Unlike the public debate about the dangers of 'selfie-narcissism', this anthology discusses what the practice of taking and sharing selfies can tell us about media culture today: can the selfie be critiqued as an image or rather as a social practice? What are the technological conditions of this form of vernacular photography? By gathering articles from the fields of media studies; art history; cultural studies; visual studies; philosophy; sociology and ethnography, this book provides a media archaeological perspective that highlights the relevance of the selfie as a stereotypical as well as creative practice of dealing with ourselves in relation to technology.
Author : Eckart Voigts
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839469228
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Art? written by Eckart Voigts and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As algorithmic data processing increasingly pervades everyday life, it is also making its way into the worlds of art, literature and music. In doing so, it shifts notions of creativity and evokes non-anthropocentric perspectives on artistic practice. This volume brings together contributions from the fields of cultural studies, literary studies, musicology and sound studies as well as media studies, sociology of technology, and beyond, presenting a truly interdisciplinary, state-of-the-art picture of the transformation of creative practice brought about by various forms of AI.
Author : Gunter Berghaus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137093587
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Avant-garde Performance written by Gunter Berghaus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the concept of the avant-garde come into existence? How did it impact on the performing arts? How did the avant-garde challenge the artistic establishment and avoid the pull of commercial theatre, gallery and concert-hall circuits? How did performance artists respond to new technological developments? Placing key figures and performances in their historical, social and aesthetic context, Günter Berghaus offers an accessible introduction to post-war avant-garde performance. Written in a clear, engaging style, and supported by text boxes and illustrations throughout, this volume explains the complex ideas behind avant-garde art and evocatively brings to life the work of some of its most influential performance artists. Covering hot topics such as multi-media and body art performances, this text is essential reading for students of theatre studies and performance.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book English and American studies in German written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summaries of theses and monographs.
Author : Peter Ludes
Publisher : Lit Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Visual Hegemonies written by Peter Ludes and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books in this series reconstruct and explain the shifting balances, the complementarity and contradictions, between the potentials of improved intercultural and transcultural visual communication and its strategic exploitation through visual hegemonies. The series will also enhance the cooperation of the computer sciences, humanities, and social sciences and the development of software for modeling key visuals from various genres, media, and cultural zones. This first volume - Visual Hegemonies: An Outline - exemplifies this international research endeavor in a general trans-disciplinary outline as well as case studies from the perspectives of musicology, psychology, and the social sciences.
Author : Rudiger Ahrens
Publisher : AMS Press
ISBN 13 : 9780404635664
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Symbolism written by Rudiger Ahrens and published by AMS Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sixth volume returns to the fundamentals underlying the studies of symbolism in the previous five, with a special section on representation and mimesis. The seven essays consider such aspects as encoded representations in modern drama and fiction, representation and composition in Joyce's Ulysses, and opera and representation. Eight other essa
Author : Nick Groom
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191642398
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction written by Nick Groom and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient tribe who sacked Rome to the alternative subculture of the present day. This unique Very Short Introduction reveals that the Gothic has predominantly been a way of understanding and responding to the past. Time after time, the Gothic has been invoked in order to reveal what lies behind conventional history. It is a way of disclosing secrets, whether in the constitutional politics of seventeenth-century England or the racial politics of the United States. While contexts change, the Gothic perpetually regards the past with fascination, both yearning and horrified. It reminds us that neither societies nor individuals can escape the consequences of their actions. The anatomy of the Gothic is richly complex and perversely contradictory, and so the thirteen chapters here range deliberately widely. This is the first time that the entire story of the Gothic has been written as a continuous history: from the historians of late antiquity to the gardens of Georgian England, from the mediaeval cult of the macabre to German Expressionist cinema, from Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy to American consumer society, from folk ballads to vampires, from the past to the present. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Klaus-Dieter Ertler
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Canada in Grainau written by Klaus-Dieter Ertler and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien in den deutschsprachigen Ländern (GKS: Association for Canadian Studies in the German speaking countries) this collection offers an overview of the state-of-the-arts in various disciplines in Canadian Studies, such as linguistics, musicology and media studies, as well as literature and history. It opens multiple perspectives and paths for the future of our discipline. À l'occasion du 30e anniversaire de la Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien in den deutschsprachigen Ländern (GKS ; Association d'Études canadiennes dans les pays de langue allemande), nous offrons un tour d'horizon de l'état de la recherche dans les différentes disciplines en Études canadiennes, telles que la linguistique, la musicologie, les études sur les médias et les genres ainsi que sur la littérature et l'histoire. Ce volume offre un grand nombre de pistes et de perspectives pour l'avenir de notre discipline.
Author : Ib Bondebjerg
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book European Culture and the Media written by Ib Bondebjerg and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "European Culture and the Media" presents new research and thinking on cultural globalisation, with special focus on and in-depth analysis of a number of cases and dimensions in European media culture and its broader social, political and economic context.The book is written by some of the most prominent European media researchers from both the humanities and social sciences. It offers a provocative and new interdisciplinary look at the modern European media culture, and at the same time introduces new theories, empirical data and analysis of media communciation, genres and media institutions."
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004518037
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Remaking Communities and Adult Learning written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What responses is adult education providing to the great global problems: climate change and the environment, populism and racism, gender inequality, social and economic inequality? The ESREA Research Network between Local and Global – Adult Learning and Communities and the authors collected here argue for socially engaged community-based research which promotes critical democracy and popular education and drives powerful research methodologies: participatory research, feminist research, ecological research activism, posthumanist research, and more. The first part of the book looks back and forwards to the contribution to adult learning and community development played by participatory research in the making and remaking of community and society. In the second part, the focus shifts to pedagogies of possibility and change, knowledge creation and the transformation of pedagogies of inclusion. The third part, on activism and change, turns its attention to the motivations for activism and their individual and collective forms of expression. The final part considers re-making and 'doing' society and community, in particular during the COVID-19 pandemic. For researchers interested in participatory and emancipatory social research, gender and biography research, or community-university research partnerships, Remaking Communities and Adult Learning presents adult learning as a site of resistance for sustainable and creative andragogic practice.
Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2358 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by Modern Language Association of America and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-
Author : Martyn Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000428303
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Visualising Worlds written by Martyn Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical sociology, including social change, transformation, individuation, collectivisation and human imagination and practice, it draws lessons from the collapse of Graeco-Roman antiquity for our own world of virus and ecological disasters, considers the genesis of capitalism and intimates its ending. Rooted in classical sociology yet challenging its traditions and objects of study, Visualising Worlds: World-Making and Social Theory adopts new ways of thinking about visuality, aesthetics and how we ‘see’ social worlds, and how we then begin to build them. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory, historical sociology, cultural studies, critical theory, archaeology, and the emergence, change and collapse of civilisations.
