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Cavalli Farfalle Prismi e Vita

Author : Sara Albanese
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471659925
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Cavalli Farfalle Prismi e Vita written by Sara Albanese and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quando ci si accosta ad una lettura si cerca spesso la rassicurazione di una categoria in cui iscrivere il testo che stringiamo tra le mani o decifriamo attraverso uno schermo. Talora però non dobbiamo cedere alla tentazione troppo razionale di scegliere se quello che si dipana davanti a noi sia un racconto, una trattazione o qualcosa di diverso. Dobbiamo accontentarci di pensare che si tratti di un percorso. Il percorso che vivrete attraverso questa manciata di pagine presenta senza dubbio forti tratti autobiografici e riflessioni personali che tuttavia, senza la presunzione di voler insegnare la vita a nessuno, hanno l'ambizione di sollevarsi dalla propria realtà per accendere qualche luce laddove le candele restano ancora spente.

An Orchid Shining in the Hand

Author : Lorenzo Calogero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986106125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book An Orchid Shining in the Hand written by Lorenzo Calogero and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation and translator's preface A2015 by John Taylor.

No Evil Star

Author : Anne Sexton
Publisher : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472063666
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book No Evil Star written by Anne Sexton and published by Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poet

The Philosophers' Madonna

Author : Carlo Emilio Gadda
Publisher : Atlas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophers' Madonna written by Carlo Emilio Gadda and published by Atlas. This book was released on 2008 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short novel weaves together the lives of Maria Ripamonti, daughter of impoverished aristocrats shivering in a castle, and Engineer Baronfo, a dyspeptic salesman stressed out by years of getting on and off trains, who has turned to collecting antiquarian tomes of philosophy.

Pictures of Nothing

Author : Kirk Varnedoe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069112678X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Pictures of Nothing written by Kirk Varnedoe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction--showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop.

Narcocapitalism

Author : Laurent de Sutter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509506853
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Narcocapitalism written by Laurent de Sutter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: 'the age of anaesthesia'. Laurent de Sutter shows how large aspects of our lives are now characterised by the management of our emotions through drugs, ranging from the everyday use of sleeping pills to hard narcotics. Chemistry has become so much a part of us that we can’t even see how much it has changed us. In this era, being a subject doesn't simply mean being subjected to powers that decide our lives: it means that our very emotions have been outsourced to chemical stimulation. Yet we don't understand why the drugs that we take are unable to free us from fatigue and depression, and from the absence of desire that now characterizes our psychopolitical condition. We have forgotten what it means to be excited because our only excitement has become drug-induced. We have to abandon the narcotic stimulation that we’ve come to rely on and find a way back to the collective excitement that is narcocapitalism’s greatest fear.

High Culture

Author : Anna Alexander
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791455531
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book High Culture written by Anna Alexander and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural survey of addiction explores the theme in modern literature, art, philosophy, and psychology, revealing its affects on Heidegger, Nietzsche, Breton, and Burroughs, among others. (Philosophy)

Samuel Richardson, Printer and Novelist

Author : Alan Dugald 1892- McKillop
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015087484
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Richardson, Printer and Novelist written by Alan Dugald 1892- McKillop and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Taking Care of Youth and the Generations

Author : Bernard Stiegler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804762724
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Taking Care of Youth and the Generations written by Bernard Stiegler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a powerful reminder of adults' responsibility for the development of long-term attention (and thus of maturity) in children, particularly in the face of the techniques of attention-destruction practiced by the programming industries.

Shooting Up

Author : Łukasz Kamieński
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190263474
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Shooting Up written by Łukasz Kamieński and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmacologically enhanced militaries -- Alcohol -- From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Pre-modern times: opium, hashish, mushrooms and coca -- Napoleon in Egypt and the adventures of Europeans with hashish -- The Opium Wars -- The American Civil War, opium, morphine and the "soldiers' disease"--The colonial wars and the terrifying "barbarians"--coca to cocaine: the First World War -- The Second World War -- The Cold War -- From the Korean War to the war over mind control -- In search of wonderful new techniques and weapons -- Vietnam: the first true pharmacological war -- The Red Army in Afghanistan and the problem of drug addiction -- Towards the present -- Contemporary irregular armies empowered by drugs -- Intoxicated child soldiers -- Drugs in the contemporary American Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: war as a drug

The Road of Excess

Author : Marcus Boon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674262182
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Road of Excess written by Marcus Boon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Marcus Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and reveals how different sets of connections between disciplines configure each drug's unique history. In chapters on opiates, anesthetics, cannabis, stimulants, and psychedelics, Boon traces the history of the relationship between writers and specific drugs, and between these drugs and literary and philosophical traditions. With reference to the usual suspects from De Quincey to Freud to Irvine Welsh and with revelations about others such as Milton, Voltaire, Thoreau, and Sartre, The Road of Excess provides a novel and persuasive characterization of the "effects" of each class of drug--linking narcotic addiction to Gnostic spirituality, stimulant use to writing machines, anesthesia to transcendental philosophy, and psychedelics to the problem of the imaginary itself. Creating a vast network of texts, personalities, and chemicals, the book reveals the ways in which minute shifts among these elements have resulted in "drugs" and "literature" as we conceive of them today.

The Future of the Classical

Author : Salvatore Settis
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745635989
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Future of the Classical written by Salvatore Settis and published by Polity. This book was released on 2006-10-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' to create its own identity. Thus the 'classical' does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. In this elegant new book, Salvatore Settis traces the ways in which we have related to our 'classical' past, starting with post-modern American skyscrapers and working his way back through our cultural history to the attitudes of the Greeks and Romans themselves. Settis argues that this obsession with cultural decay, ruins and a 'classical' past is specifically European and the product of a collective cultural trauma following the collapse of the Roman Empire. This situation differed from that of the Aztec and Inca empires whose collapse was more sudden and more complete, and from the Chinese Empire which always enjoyed a high degree of continuity. He demonstrates how the idea of the 'classical' has changed over the centuries through an unrelenting decay of 'classicism' and its equally unrelenting rebirth in an altered form. In the Modern Era this emulation of the 'ancients' by the 'moderns' was accompanied by new trends: the increasing belief that the former had now been surpassed by the latter, and an increasing preference for the Greek over the Roman. These conflicting interpretations were as much about the future as they were about the past. No civilization can invent itself if it does not have other societies in other times and other places to act as benchmarks. Settis argues that we will be better equipped to mould new generations for the future once we understand that the 'classical' is not a dead culture we inherited and for which we can take no credit, but something startling that has to be re-created every day and is a powerful spur to understanding the 'other'.

The Bread and the Rose

Author : Achille Serrao
Publisher : Legas / Gaetano Cipolla
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Bread and the Rose written by Achille Serrao and published by Legas / Gaetano Cipolla. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pleasure Consuming Medicine

Author : Kane Race
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822344889
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book Pleasure Consuming Medicine written by Kane Race and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a summer night in 2007, the Azure Party, part of Sydney’s annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, is underway. Alongside the party outfits, drugs, lights, and DJs is a volunteer care team trained to deal with the drug-related emergencies that occasionally occur. But when police appear at the gates with drug-detecting dogs, mild panic ensues. Some patrons down all their drugs, heightening their risk of overdose. Others try their luck at the gates. After twenty-six attendees are arrested with small quantities of illicit substances, the party is shut down and the remaining partygoers disperse into the city streets. For Kane Race, the Azure Party drug search is emblematic of a broader technology of power that converges on embodiment, consumption, and pleasure in the name of health. In Pleasure Consuming Medicine, he illuminates the symbolic role that the illicit drug user fulfills for the neoliberal state. As he demonstrates, the state’s performance of moral sovereignty around substances designated “illicit” bears little relation to the actual dangers of drug consumption; in fact, it exacerbates those dangers. Race does not suggest that drug use is risk-free, good, or bad, but rather that the regulation of drugs has become a site where ideological lessons about the propriety of consumption are propounded. He argues that official discourses about drug use conjure a space where the neoliberal state can be seen to be policing the “excesses” of the amoral market. He explores this normative investment in drug regimes and some “counterpublic health” measures that have emerged in response. These measures, which Race finds in certain pragmatic gay men’s health and HIV prevention practices, are not cloaked in moralistic language, and they do not cast health as antithetical to pleasure.

Crack Wars

Author : Avital Ronell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071904
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Crack Wars written by Avital Ronell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary takes up the problems of drugs and addiction in numerous ways, which Ronell unpacks and presents as exemplary of the contemporary fascination with extreme danger. For Ronnell, Emma Bovary represents the first addict, embodying a yearning that calls from the bottom of her depleted soul, and which places her in a chronic state of dissatisfaction."--BOOK JACKET.

A Translator's Defense

Author : Giannozzo Manetti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674088658
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book A Translator's Defense written by Giannozzo Manetti and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giannozzo Manetti's Apologeticus was a defense of the study of Hebrew and of the need for a new translation. It constituted the most extensive treatise on the art of translation of the Renaissance. This ITRL edition contains the first complete translation of the work into English.

The Age of Addiction

Author : David T. Courtwright
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 0674737377
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Addiction written by David T. Courtwright and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A mind-blowing tour de force that unwraps the myriad objects of addiction that surround us...Intelligent, incisive, and sometimes grimly entertaining.” —Rod Phillips, author of Alcohol: A History “A fascinating history of corporate America’s efforts to shape our habits and desires.” —Vox We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar can be as habit-forming as cocaine, researchers tell us, and social media apps are deliberately hooking our kids. But what can we do to resist temptations that insidiously rewire our brains? A renowned expert on addiction, David Courtwright reveals how global enterprises have both created and catered to our addictions. The Age of Addiction chronicles the triumph of what he calls “limbic capitalism,” the growing network of competitive businesses targeting the brain pathways responsible for feeling, motivation, and long-term memory. “Compulsively readable...In crisp and playful prose and with plenty of needed humor, Courtwright has written a fascinating history of what we like and why we like it, from the first taste of beer in the ancient Middle East to opioids in West Virginia.” —American Conservative “A sweeping, ambitious account of the evolution of addiction...This bold, thought-provoking synthesis will appeal to fans of ‘big history’ in the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel.” —Publishers Weekly