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Download or read book Atopian Limits written by Salah El Moncef and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study of postmodern subjectivity explores some of the most significant challenges confronting the individual in the third millennium - from the role of ethnic difference and immigration in the public sphere, to questions of sexual politics in the work- and market-place, to the effects of technological interference with human and animal bodies, to the increasing unpredictability of global economics. What emerges from the analysis of these issues is a work of unique foresight, clarity, and scholarly integrity - a relentlessly meticulous scrutiny of our complex and uncertain world. In its treatment of the most pressing questions of our times, Atopian Limits is a gripping attempt to anticipate and understand the different forces of evolution looming on the horizon of our socioeconomic destiny, the future waves of change coming upon us fraught with their catastrophic as well as their emancipatory possibilities. « Through the analysis of a series of American fictions which burst the reassuring limits of modern rationality to open upon the paroxystic, the catastrophic, the chaotic, Moncef gives an original, cutting-edge approach of postmodern imagination.... It is an extremely sharp and enlightening interdisciplinary approach of some fractured and destabilizing narratives that situate themselves at the edge of the abyss of madness, cruelty and death. A highly important contribution to the exegesis of most troubled fantasies of the postmodern condition. (Jean-Joseph Goux) « Very interesting. (Julia Kristeva) « A remarkable piece of historiography. (Paul Maltby) « Few critics have managed to read Auster's metafiction in the same context as Updike'ssuburban realism, and fewer still would have thought to look for Acker's nomadic subjects in Vidal's 'Duluth'. If Kesey's 'Combine' runs on bio-power and Harris's 'Silence of the Lambs' exposes a society that is no less species-centered than it is sexist, then perhaps the time has come to re-read fictions we thought we knew well. Salah el Moncef's systems-based approach has the potential to dislodge American literature from provincial moorings toward a more global context, whether or not American authors want to go there. This un-placed, atopian literature emerges as both a cognitive resource and a counternarrative, an imaginary alternative to the narrative of the industrial system with its national boundaries, representational structures, and linear spaces of « straight reproduction. Postmodern theory may have reached its atopian limits, but in Moncef's hands theory can still open out into the wider field of contemporary fiction rather than closing in on a few canonical works. (Joe Tabbi) « This is the best study of subjectivity, postmodernity and American fiction I have read. My understanding of all three has been enriched by Moncef's very sophisticated work. (Stephen Watt)
Download or read book The Matrix in Theory written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Matrix trilogy continues to split opinions widely, polarising the downright dismissive and the wildly enthusiastic. Nevertheless, it has been fully embraced as a rich source of theoretical and cultural references. The contributions in this volume probe the effects the Matrix trilogy continues to provoke and evaluate how or to what extent they coincide with certain developments within critical and cultural theory. Is the enthusiastic philosophising and theorising spurred by the Matrix a sign of the desperate state theory is in, in the sense of “see how low theory (or ‘post-theory’) has sunk”? Or could the Matrix be one of the “master texts” for something like a renewal for theory as now being mainly concerned with new and changing relations between science, technology, posthumanist culture, art, politics, ethics and the media? The present volume is unashamedly but not dogmatically theoretical even though there is not much agreement about what kind of theory is best suited to confront “post-theoretical” times. But it is probably fair to say that there is agreement about one thing, namely that if theory appears to be “like” the Matrix today it does so because the culture around it and which “made” it itself seems to be captured in some kind of Matrix. The only way out of this is through more and renewed, refreshed theorising, not less.
Download or read book Law on the Screen written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-mediated images are as powerful, pervasive, and important as are other early twenty-first-century social forces--e.g. globalization, neo-colonialism, and human rights--in shaping and transforming legal life. Yet scholars have only recently begun to examine how law works in this new arena and to explore the consequences of the representation of law in the moving image. Law on the Screen advances our understanding of the connection between law and film by analyzing them as narrative forms, examining film for its jurisprudential content--that is, its ways of critiquing the present legal world and imagining an alternative one--and expanding studies of the representation of law in film to include questions of reception.
Book Synopsis Time: Limits and Constraints by : Jo Alyson Parker
Download or read book Time: Limits and Constraints written by Jo Alyson Parker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thirteenth volume in the interdisciplinary Study of Time series explores the way in which limits and constraints impact upon our understanding of time.
Download or read book Atopias written by Frédéric Neyrat and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside “atopia”: not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect, but atopia, the internal outside that is at the core of every being. Atopia is neither an object that an “object-oriented ontology” would be able to formalize, nor the matter that “new materialisms” could identify. Atopia is what constitutes the existence of any object or subject, its singularity or more precisely its “eccentricity.” Etymologically, to exist means “to be outside” and the book argues that every entity is outside, thrown in the world, wandering without any ontological anchor. In this regard, a radicalized existentialism does not privilege human beings (as Sartre and Heidegger did), but considers existence as a universal condition that concerns every being. It is important to offer a radical existentialism because the current denial of the outside is politically, and aesthetically, damaging. Only an atopian philosophy—a bizarre, extravagant, heretic philosophy—can care for our fear of the outside. For therapeutic element, a radical existentialism favors everything that challenges the compact immanence in which we are trapped, losing capacity to imagine political alternatives. To sustain these alternatives, the book identifies the atopia as a condition of the possibility to break immanence and analyze these breaks in human and animal subjectivity, language, politics and metaphysics.
Book Synopsis The American Epic Novel in the Late Twentieth Century by : W. Gilbert Adair
Download or read book The American Epic Novel in the Late Twentieth Century written by W. Gilbert Adair and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Post Gibran written by Munīr ʻAkash and published by Jusoor. This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of poetry, fiction, essays and drama confronting issues in Arab American writing.
Book Synopsis Work-Life Balance in Architecture by : Igea Troiani
Download or read book Work-Life Balance in Architecture written by Igea Troiani and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to improve the work lives of architects of diverse demographics who do not fit, or want to replicate, the traditional ‘24/7’ white-male architect lifestyle. Aimed at a workforce whose life and career expectations have changed drastically in recent years, it helps readers of different generations to make informed choices about their careers – enabling students, educators, and professionals to prioritise wellbeing and offer their design and practice voice to enhance a built environment for all. Work-Life Balance in Architecture examines what it means to play the ‘game of architecture’ – to choose to study and pursue a career in architecture rather than another profession. The book shows the economic, social, and professional structures within which architectural education and practice operate and reveals the impact of a corporate, neoliberal ‘big business’ mentality on wellbeing. After setting out the context exacerbating work-life imbalance, the book discusses the paths an architect may take – whether this leads to a career in practice or not in architecture at all – and how alternative gameplay moves can advantage or disadvantage those of different gender, class, ethnicity, race, or age at different career stages. It concludes by examining how the places in which an architect works, the time available to work and critiques of perpetual neoliberal economic growth can enhance the lives of all architects today.
Book Synopsis An Empire of Air and Water by : Siobhan Carroll
Download or read book An Empire of Air and Water written by Siobhan Carroll and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new possibilities to know and control them. This development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales. Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee, Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times, vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the British global and environmental imagination that linger in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Gates of Atopia by : Colin Litten-Brown
Download or read book The Gates of Atopia written by Colin Litten-Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic is not dead, it is merely hidden. For a millennia and a half the Nemetonum society, descendents of the ancient druids of England have protected an incredible power, carefully writing history to eradicate all memory of it. Now, from the forgotten darkness of the past, an old enemy returns, hungry to wield the might of the fabled Gwydion Stones. Are the stones truly magic, or is there more to them than anyone has suspected, an explanation that science can reveal? Manoeuvring herself onto what appears to be a simple research project, Hannah Chappel-Jones uncovers a sinister plot by a powerful industrialist to wrest the power from the Nemetonum society at any cost. Who can she trust and can the paltry band of scholars and academics help her defend against the ruthless might of the forces that amass against them? Beneath all of this, what is the deeper secret that lurks in the heart of the moors of Devon that threatens to tear reality itself apart? From the dark ages to the present day the story unfolds to its dramatic climax as the two sides prepare for the final battle that will determine the fate of all mankind. Colin Litten-Browns debut book, The Gates of Atopia, is a science-fiction thriller set in the backdrop of present-day England and the first in the Atopia trilogy. For more information visit www.colinlittenbrown.com.
Book Synopsis The Warriors of Atopia by : Colin Litten-Brown
Download or read book The Warriors of Atopia written by Colin Litten-Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nemetonum Society faces an even greater threat than before and once again the secret of the Gwydion Stones is challenged by foes that strive to possess their awesome power. From across the barrier of the inter-dimensional void the survivors of Atlantis strive to return to Earth while in England the remnants of Marcus Wolffs operation regroup and return to the attack. In the midst of these new threats, Hannah Chappel-Jones discovers an even more incredible secret, one her family have kept for over a century that sheds light on the very origin of the stones themselves. With assailants on all sides, the Society struggles to defend the stones against the most powerful threat they have ever faced. In their darkest hour of need, can they find help in the most unlikely of places and can they stand up to the Warriors of Atopia? The Warriors of Atopia: the sequel to The Gates of Atopia.
Book Synopsis The Sovereignty of Joy by : Alex McIntyre
Download or read book The Sovereignty of Joy written by Alex McIntyre and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McIntyre characterizes 'atopia' as the double position of the Nietzschean philosopher at both the centre and the periphery of a political culture through the revaluation of all values.
Author :Université de Nantes. Centre de recherche sur les conflits d'interpretation. Colloque Publisher :Peter Lang ISBN 13 :9783906770949 Total Pages :404 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (79 download)
Book Synopsis Presence Et Representation by : Université de Nantes. Centre de recherche sur les conflits d'interpretation. Colloque
Download or read book Presence Et Representation written by Université de Nantes. Centre de recherche sur les conflits d'interpretation. Colloque and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Présence et représentation relèvent chacune d'une appréhension différente dont les choses se donnent. Leur relation est dès le départ problématique et c'est autour de ce débat que se sont construits certains des conflits les plus vifs de la période moderne. Cet ouvrage propose plusieurs analyses de la question dans des champs aussi divers que la littérature, le théâtre, la peinture, et la philosophie.
Book Synopsis Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema by : Seung-hoon Jeong
Download or read book Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema written by Seung-hoon Jeong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema takes a new approach to world cinema through critical theory. Whereas world cinema often refers to non-American films deemed artistic or peripheral, Seung-hoon Jong examines its mapping frames: the territorial 'national frame,' the deterritorializing 'transnational frame,' and the 'global frame.' If world cinema studies have mostly displayed national cinemas and their transnational mutations, his global frame highlights two conflicting ethical facets of globalization: the 'soft-ethical' inclusion of differences in multicultural, neoliberal systems and their 'hard-ethical' symptoms of fundamentalist exclusion and terror. Reflecting both, global cinema draws attention to new changes in subjectivity and community that Jeong investigates in terms of biopolitical 'abjection' and ethical 'agency.' In this frame, the book explores a vast net of post-1990 films circulating in both the mainstream market and the festival circuit. Jeong comparatively navigates these films, highlighting less essentialist particularities than compatible localities that perform universal aspects of biopolitical ethics by centering the narrative of 'double death': the abject as symbolically dead struggle for lost subjectivity or new agency until physically dying. This narrative pervades global cinema from Hollywood blockbusters and European art films to Middle Eastern dramas and Asian genre films. Ultimately, the book renews critical discourses on global issues--including multiculturalism, catastrophe, sovereignty, abjection, violence, network, nihilism, and atopia--through a core cluster of political, ethical, and psychoanalytic philosophies.
Download or read book Devotion written by Constance M. Furey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What brings religious scholars Constance Furey, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Amy Hollywood together in Devotion is a shared conviction that "reading helps us live with and through the unknown." For them, the nature of reading raises questions fundamental to how we think about our political futures and modes of human relation. Each essay suggests different ways to characterize the object of devotion and the stance of the devout subject before it. Furey writes about devotion in terms of vivification, energy, and artifice; Hammerschlag in terms of commentary, mimicry, and fetishism; and Hollywood in terms of anarchy, antinomianism, and atopia. They are interested in literature not as providing models for ethical, political, or religious life, but as creating the site in which the possible-and the impossible-transport the reader, enabling new forms of thought, habits of mind, and modes of life. Ranging from German theologian Martin Luther to French-Jewish philosopher Sarah Kofman to American poet Susan Howe, this volume is not just a reflection on forms of devotion, it is also an enactment of devotion itself"--
Download or read book Atopia written by Sandra Simonds and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atopia grapples with the political climate of the United States manifested through our everyday lives. Sandra Simonds charts the formations and deformations of the social and political through the observations of the poem's speakers, interspersed with the language of social media, news reports, political speech, and the dialogue of friends, children, strangers, and politicians. The Los Angeles Review of Books characterized Simonds's work as "robust, energetic, fanciful, even baroque" and "a necessary counterforce to the structures of gender, power, and labor that impinge upon contemporary life." These poems reflect on what it means to be human, what it means to build communities within a political structure it also opposes. Tallahassee. Tallahassee. Tallahassee. Your mist today is incredible as it settles on this rose garden! When the largest rose shook off its dew and looked at me like a cartoon, I smiled back and promised not to break his neck. And here we are together again, walking in a park that honors dead children. A tree planted for each child on such a mild day in December. And how the dead children stream through me, scrolls of them: Lily! Rose! Bobby! Kierkegaard says anyone who follows through on an idea becomes unpopular. And also that a person needs a system, otherwise you become mere personality. He must not have known very many poets, so prone to tyrannical shifts in mood. Change in the weather is equal to don't let me go crazy. In the car on the way to school Charlotte says, "I like to be gentle with nature because I like nature." But my mind wouldn't rest, system-less, as I drive through dread: Lily! Rose! Bobby! You're dead, you're dead
Author :Nahum Dimitri Chandler Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :1438484208 Total Pages :181 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (384 download)
Book Synopsis Toward an African Future—Of the Limit of World by : Nahum Dimitri Chandler
Download or read book Toward an African Future—Of the Limit of World written by Nahum Dimitri Chandler and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely known for his probing analysis of W. E. B. Du Bois's early work, in this book Nahum Dimitri Chandler references writing from across the whole of Du Bois's long career, while bringing sharp focus on two later texts issued in the immediate aftermath of World War II—Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace and The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part which Africa Has Played in World History. In these texts, "the problem of the color line," which Du Bois had already characterized as the problem not only of the twentieth century, but of the modern epoch as a whole, is further figured as a global problem, as a horizon linking the contemporary conjuncture of the history of modern systems of enslavement with the ongoing impact of modern colonialism and imperialism on the world's possible futures. On this line of thought, Chandler proposes that the name of "Africa" is a theoretical metaphor that enables a hyperbolic re-narrativization of modern historicity. Du Bois thus emerges as an exemplary thinker of history and hope for the world beyond the limit of the present.
