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Other Things

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022628316X
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Other Things written by Bill Brown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature, criticism and theory, Other Things provides a new way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean by materiality itself.

A Sense of Things

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226076318
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book A Sense of Things written by Bill Brown and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and accumulate things, we do not possess them as much as they possess us. For Bill Brown, the tale of that possession is something stranger than the history of a culture of consumption. It is the story of Americans using things to think about themselves. Brown's captivating new study explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at the turn of the century. This was an era when the invention, production, distribution, and consumption of things suddenly came to define a national culture. Brown shows how crucial novels of the time made things not a solution to problems, but problems in their own right. Writers such as Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Henry James ask why and how we use objects to make meaning, to make or remake ourselves, to organize our anxieties and affections, to sublimate our fears, and to shape our wildest dreams. Offering a remarkably new way to think about materialism, A Sense of Things will be essential reading for anyone interested in American literature and culture.

The Material Unconscious

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674553811
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book The Material Unconscious written by Bill Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the ephemera of the everyday--old photographs, circus posters, iron toys--lies a challenge to America's dominant cultural memory. What this memory has left behind, Bill Brown recovers in the "material unconscious" of Stephen Crane's work, the textual residues of daily sensations that add up to a new history of the American 1890s. As revealed in Crane's disavowing appropriation of an emerging mass culture--from football games and freak shows to roller coasters and early cinema--the decade reappears as an underexposed moment in the genealogy of modernism and modernity. Brown's story begins on the Jersey Shore, in Asbury Park, where Crane became a writer in the shadow of his father, a grimly serious Methodist minister who vilified the popular amusements his son adored. The coastal resorts became the stage for debates about technology, about the body's visibility, about a black service class and the new mass access to leisure. From this snapshot of a recreational scene that would continue to inspire Crane's sensational modernism, Brown takes us to New York's Bowery. There, in the visual culture established by dime museums, minstrel shows, and the Kodak craze, he exhibits Crane dramatically obscuring the typology of race. Along the way, Brown demonstrates how attitudes toward play transformed the image of war, the idea of childhood and nationhood, and the concept of culture itself. And by developing a new conceptual apparatus (with such notions as "recreational time," "abstract leisure," and the "amusement/knowledge system"), he provides the groundwork for a new politics of pleasure. A crucial theorization of how cultural studies can and should proceed, The Material Unconscious insists that in the very conjuncture of canonical literature and mass culture, we can best understand how proliferating and competing economies of play disrupt the so-called "logic" and "work" of culture.

Things

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226076119
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Things written by Bill Brown and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; what has been described as bourgeois longing. It is an invitation to think about the fetishism of daily life in different times and in different cultures. It is an invitation to rethink several topics of critical inquiry—camp, collage, primitivism, consumer culture, museum culture, the aesthetic object, still life, "things as they are," Renaissance wonders, "the thing itself"—within the rubric of "things," not in an effort to foreclose the question of what sort of things these seem to be, but rather to suggest new questions about how objects produce subjects, about the phenomenology of the material everyday, about the secret life of things. Based on an award-winning special issue of the journal Critical Inquiry, Things features eighteen thought-evoking essays by contributors including Bill Brown, Matthew L. Jones, Bruno Latour, W. J. T. Mitchell, Jessica Riskin, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Peter Schwenger, Charity Scribner, and Alan Trachtenberg.

The Private Journals of William C. Brown

Author : William Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781631834387
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Private Journals of William C. Brown written by William Brown and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Bill Brown, one of the twentieth century's premier engineers, in this astonishing and intimate autobiography as he invents, demonstrates and pioneers practical Microwave Power Transmission(MPT). Bill's rectenna provides Space Solar Power's key enabling technology, to continuously, gently and wirelessly beam terawatts of our sun's immense power from GEO to our groaning electric power grids. SSP can provide unlimited clean reliable energy to Earth, now 85% provided by fossil fuels. On this 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, volume one's cover celebrates another of Bill's 50+ landmark patents, his Amplitron, which provided television coverage from the Moon to the world of all the Apollo missions. Share Bill's family, career and technical ups and downs with this gentle, soft-spoken man, tremendously respected by his peers, with a powerful vision and deep insight into what could be and the technical capability, courageous risk taking, and personal discipline to realize that goal.

My Southern Home

Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book My Southern Home written by William Wells Brown and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elemental

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984792566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Elemental written by Bill Brown and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. In ELEMENTAL, Bill Brown masterfully combines poetry and memoir to explore "how myth invades our private lives," and from the distance of age we become our stories. Through boyhood memories, adult love and loss, and a deep reverence for the natural world, Brown's poems present the myriad seasons of life and the shadow of a man's fate. As the poet writes in his poem, "Driving the Country," "...the circle / of a man's life from birth to now / appears like asters in late fall / vibrant as a brushstroke in purple / to dapple the autumn swell."

The Headless Angel

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604542639
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Headless Angel written by Bill Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Headless Angel is a poetry collection divided into two sections, "The Truest Myth," and "What the Soul Ate." Bill Brown wrote these poems in his mid-sixties to explore aging, and surviving in this "often dark world" by paying attention to moments, solitude and the Creative Spirit of our natural world. Living in the Milky Way with over 300 billion stars, an un-understandable figure, is a true gift beyond our knowing. The poems are grouped seasonally, many are love poems to life, his wife, Suzanne, and the precious struggle to live each day at a time. Other poems reach back into his life's journey with new visions. Come, take this journey with him"--

Houston Astros

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939055088
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Houston Astros written by Bill Brown and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston Astros: Deep in the Heart shares the stories of the plays and the players who have kept Houston returning to the diamond"from the sandlot days, through the birth of indoor baseball, to the state-of-the art experience at Minute Maid Park. By the time the Astros made it to the World Series, they had captured the heart of Houston. This richly illustrated volume chronicles every aspect of the long road they took to face the White Sox in 2005 and provides insights on the legends"Bob Aspromonte, Jose Cruz, Larry Dierker, Nolan Ryan, Joe Niekro, the Killer Bees, and many more. Packed with pictures never released to the public, each chapter increases fans' appreciation of this determined team. Memories and memorabilia from the team's playoff appearances from 1997 to 2001, their close call in 2004, and their triumphant march from tombstones to champagne in 2005 bring back the heyday, reminding readers how important it is to stay in the game.

The Cairns

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999484807
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Cairns written by Bill Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Billy Brown, I'll Tell Your Mother

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher : Seven Dials
ISBN 13 : 1409122778
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Billy Brown, I'll Tell Your Mother written by Bill Brown and published by Seven Dials. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and hugely entertaining memoir of post-war London told through the eyes of a hilariously opportunistic little boy. 'This warm and witty autobiography lovingly evokes the community spirit of a Britain emerging from war and will have you hankering after simpler times' CANDIS By the time he was ten years old, Billy Brown was running a successful little business on the black market: whatever you needed, from bricks and firewood to dress material or machetes, Billy Brown could get it - or knew a man who could. And, for the right price, he would deliver it direct to your door in an old carriage pram. With energy and insight, Billy Brown paints a vivid and lively picture of Britain emerging from the ruins of the war, the hunger for opportunity, the growing pace of modernisation and the pride and optimism that held communities together. Londoners were intent on getting themselves back on their feet, and it provided the perfect opportunity for a boy with ambition and a lively imagination. Born in Brixton, south London, in 1942, Billy Brown was a lovable scamp with a nose for mischief. Left to his own devices while both his parents went out to work, if there was trouble to be had Billy would be in the thick of it. Ignoring the shaking of fists from his neighbours, his mother's scoldings and the regular thwack of the cane on his bottom at school, Billy wheeled and dealed, charmed Woolies' Girls, planned coronation celebrations, ran circles around circus performers and persuaded villains to work on his terms.

Not Bored! Anthology 1983-2010

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578076543
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Not Bored! Anthology 1983-2010 written by Bill Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massive anthology of essays and illustrations published in NOT BORED! between 1983 and 2010.

William "Bill" W. Brown, 1855-1941

Author : Edward Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962260919
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book William "Bill" W. Brown, 1855-1941 written by Edward Gray and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Radio Boys Cronies Or Bill Brown's Radio

Author : S. F. Aaron and Wayne Whipple
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9360460400
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Radio Boys Cronies Or Bill Brown's Radio written by S. F. Aaron and Wayne Whipple and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Radio Boys Cronies," which become written with the aid of S. F. Aaron and Wayne Whipple collectively, is an outstanding literary journey that continues readers interested with its blend of journey, friendship, and technical marvel. The story is ready a set of buddies referred to as the "Radio Boys" who go on exciting adventures in the world of early radio. Each writer, S. F. Aaron and Wayne Whipple, is a master storyteller, and that they give the story their own unique appeal and a willpower to standard assessment. The story now not best continues humans entertained, but it additionally brings people together, spreads records, and creates a feel of shared entertainment. The writers are very smart due to the fact they combine creativity and ardour so nicely in the tale, taking readers thru a wide variety of emotions and landscapes. The characters' journeys, which take region against the heritage of recent radio era, are a fascinating examine friendship, interest, and the spirit of journey. The writings in "Radio Boys Cronies" by means of Aaron and Whipple are modern-day and easy to discover. They integrate to make a literary painting that is not only enjoyable but also academic. As readers dive into the super memories the ones writers have written, they are treated to a tapestry of friendship, new ideas, and the timeless pleasure of discovery in the world of radio conversation.

Packin' in on Mules and Horses

Author : Smoke Elser
Publisher : Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878421275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Packin' in on Mules and Horses written by Smoke Elser and published by Mountain Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who yearn to pack in the wilderness country of the West, either on their own mules and horses or those of a professional packer, here is a book that takes the mystery out of back country packstring travel. By teaching you the tricks of the trade, professional outfitter Smoke Elser show how your trip will be easier and more enjoyable by knowing more about the animals used and why and how they carry their loads as they do. Whether you're an expert of a dude, Smoke's packing system will get you into and out of the back country safely and efficiently. Best of all, you will start to become self-sufficient and resourceful, important aspects of any wilderness travel. The book is laced with instructional photgraphs and sketches, presented in an open, attractive format.

The Lost Years

Author : Billy Brown
Publisher : Booklocker.Com Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781601456564
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Years written by Billy Brown and published by Booklocker.Com Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Radio Boys Cronies; Or, Bill Brown's Radio

Author : Wayne Whipple
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Radio Boys Cronies; Or, Bill Brown's Radio written by Wayne Whipple and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Radio Boys Cronies; Or, Bill Brown's Radio,' editors Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron present an engaging anthology that captures the spirit and imagination fueled by the early days of radio technology. This collection uniquely blends the burgeoning enthusiasm for science and communication with captivating storytelling, offering readers a broad spectrum of narratives that range from adventure and camaraderie to reflections on societal change. The anthology is significant for its historical context, highlighting the transformative impact of radio on society and individual lives, and features standout pieces that cleverly integrate technical innovation with human emotion and ambition. This engaging compilation benefits from the diverse backgrounds of its contributors, Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron, both of whom played pivotal roles in pioneering the inclusion of technological marvels in literary works. Their collective effort aligns with cultural movements that embraced the radio as a symbol of progress and connectivity, enriching the anthology with stories that embody optimism and the universal human quest for knowledge and connection. The varied voices and styles present in this collection offer readers a nuanced understanding of the era, weaving together the excitement of new technological frontiers with the timeless themes of friendship, adventure, and growth. 'Readio Boys Cronies; Or, Bill Brown's Radio' is highly recommended for readers interested in the intersection of technology, history, and literature. The anthology provides a unique opportunity to explore diverse interpretations of radio's impact on early 20th-century society, through a tapestry of tales that celebrate innovation and the unbreakable human spirit. It invites readers to embark on a journey not just through the annals of technological advancement, but through heartwarming adventures and challenges that resonate with universal truths, making it a compelling read for anyone fascinated by the wonder of radio and the stories it inspired.