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Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World

Author : Martyn Hudson
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1947447408
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World written by Martyn Hudson and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treads new paths through the labyrinths of our human thought. It meanders through the darkness to encounter the monsters at the heart of the maze: Minotaurs, Centaurs, Automata, Makers, Humans. One part of our human thought emerges from classical Ionia and Greek civilisation more generally. We obsessively return to that thought, tread again its pathways, re-enact its stories, repeat its motifs and gestures. We return time and time again to construct and re-construct the beings which were part of its cosmology and mythology - stories enacted from a classical world which is itself at once imaginary and material. The "Never Never Lands" of the ancient world contain fabulous beasts and humans and landscapes of desire and violence. We encounter the rioting Centaurs there and never again cease to conjure them up time and time again through our history. The Centaur mythologies display a fascination with animals and what binds and divides human beings from them. The Centaur hints ultimately at the idea of the genesis of civilisation itself. The Labyrinth, constructed by Daedalus, is itself a prison and a way of thinking about making, designing, and human aspiration. Designed by humans it offers mysteries that would be repeated time and time again - a motif which is replicated through human history. Daedalus himself is an archetype for creation and mastery, the designer of artefacts and machines which would be the beginning of forays into the total domination of nature. Centaurs, Labyrinths, Automata offer clues to the origins and ultimately the futures of humanity and what might come after it. Martyn Hudson is the coordinator of the Co-Curate North East digital archives and machines project at Newcastle University in the School of Arts and Cultures, as well as a Lecturer in Art and Design History. He has published widely in landscape, history, music, and archives. His book The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origin of Modernity was published by Routledge in 2016, and he has two other books forthcoming from Routledge: Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory and Species and Machines: The Human Subjugation of Nature.

Visualising Worlds

Author : Martyn Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000428303
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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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.

Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

Author : Martyn Hudson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315306662
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory written by Martyn Hudson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorising ‘social haunting’: the ways in which the social forms, figures, phantasms and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again. Examining the relationship between historical practices such as archaeology and archival work in order to think about how the social landscape is reinvented with reference to the ghosts of the past, the author explores the literary and historical status and accounts of the ghost, not for what they might tell us about these figures, but for their significance for our, constantly re-invented, re-vivified, re-ghosted social world. With chapters on haunted houses and castles, slave ghosts, the haunting airs of music, the prehistoric origin of spirits, Marxist spectres, Freudian revenants, and the ghosts in the machine, Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory adopts multi-disciplinary methods for understanding the past, the dead and social ghosts and the landscapes they appear in. A sociology of haunting that illustrates how social landscapes have their genesis and perpetuation in haunting and the past, this volume will appeal to sociologists and social theorists with interests in memory, haunting and culture.

Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History

Author : Martyn Hudson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000867412
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History written by Martyn Hudson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History looks at the global phenomena of the dead in world history, examining the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy. From Hegel’s ‘World-Spirit’ to Max Weber’s ‘Verstehen’ and Marx’s phantasms, there is a recurring obsession with the ‘spirits’ of modernity. This book explores the relationships and interactions between those spirits and materiality in five broad areas: the nature of the dead in modernity, shape-shifting and mobile souls, the spirit in accounts of prehistory and archaeology, the phenomenology of spirits and the relation to statues and stone, and the nature of spirit as it is manifested in wooden artefacts and folklore. It offers a counter-modernity to that of classical social science and philosophy and new ways of thinking about our crises and catastrophes in social theory and the world and the worlds beyond this world. Building on the author’s previous work on the sociology of haunted houses and landscapes, it examines the body and the individual as the locus of haunting. The book will appeal to academics in philosophy, history, social theory, anthropology and cultural studies in its omni-disciplinarity and in its import for rethinking the histories of social thought.

The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies

Author : Michael Bull
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131752425X
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies written by Michael Bull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies is an extensive volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture, while also mapping potential future directions for research in the field. Experts from a variety of disciplines within sound studies cover such diverse topics as politics, gender, media, race, literature and sport. Individual sections that consider the importance of sound in an increasingly mediated world; the role that sound media play in the construction of experience; and the ways in which sound has been theorized to produce a distinctive sensory contribution to knowledge. This wide-ranging and vibrant collection provides a rich resource for scholars and students of media and culture.

Messy Ethnographies in Action

Author : Alexandra Plows
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622733290
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Messy Ethnographies in Action written by Alexandra Plows and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection of chapters showcases original and interdisciplinary ethnographic fieldwork in a range of international settings; including studies of underground pub life in North East England; Finnish hotels; and bio-scientific institutions in the Amazonian rainforest. Informed by John Law’s concept of ethnographic “mess,” this book makes a unique, empirically-informed, contribution to an understanding of the social construction of knowledge and the role that ethnography can and does play (Law, 2004). It provides a range of colourful snapshots from the field, showing how different researchers from multiple research environments and disciplines are negotiating the practicalities, and epistemological and ethical implications, of “messy” ethnographic practice as a means of researching “messy” social realities. Law notes that “social…science investigations interfere with the world…things change as a result. The issue, then, is not to seek disengagement but rather with how to engage” (ibid p14). Drawing on their own situated experiences, the book’s contributors address the “messy” implications of this and also explore the (equally messy) issue of why engage. They reflect on the process of undertaking research, and their role in the research process as they negotiate their own position in the field. What is ethnography “for”? What impact should, or do, we have in the field and after we leave the research site? What about unintended consequences? When (if ever) are we “off duty?” What does “informed consent” mean in a constantly shifting, dynamic ethnographic context? Is ethnography by its very nature a form of “action research?” By providing a wide range of situated explorations of “messy ethnographies,” the book presents a unique, hands-on guide to the challenges of negotiating ethnography in practice, which will be of use to all researchers and practitioners who use ethnography as a method.

Visualising the Empire of Capital

Author : Martyn Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042951638X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Visualising the Empire of Capital written by Martyn Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods of visualising modernity and capitalism have been central to classical social science. Those methods of seeing, specifically in the work of Marx, were attempts to capture visually the fragmenting edifice of capital in its death throes and were part of a project to hasten its demise - yet capitalism persisted and perpetuated itself in new forms, such that its demise now looks less likely than it did 150 years ago. This book argues for a new way of understanding Marx and a new way of approaching both capitalist modernity and Marx’s Capital by rethinking the nature of vision. Through studies of visualisation in relation to machines and the monstrous, memory, mirrors and optics, and the invisible, Visualising the Empire of Capital offers a new way of thinking about what capital is and its future. A new reading of - and against - Marx, this volume argues for new forms of sensual utopia while initiating antagonism to the empire of capital itself. As such, it will appeal to social theorists, social anthropologists and sociologists with interests in critical theory, visual culture and aesthetics.

Pedagogy of the Clown

Author : Sean McCusker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031392213
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Pedagogy of the Clown written by Sean McCusker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the tradition of clowning from an educational perspective, highlighting the resonant philosophies between the two professions and asking what one can learn from the other. Modern day clowning follows an age-old tradition, with a set of principles and beliefs expounded by proponents of the profession. Throughout the principles of clowning, themes of subversion, inversion, play and challenge recur. These same ideas have a place in the classroom, not as everyday practice but perhaps as a leitmotif. The book is therefore a call for educators to consider their position within the learning environment and to embody the clown spirit. By looking outside of traditional pedagogical thinking and training, this book demonstrates ideas and techniques from which educators can borrow or learn, allowing them to enhance their own methods and practices. It offers an opportunity to revisit the dynamics of the classroom through the recognition of the important role that the clown can play in society.

Species and Machines

Author : Martyn Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351615246
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Species and Machines written by Martyn Hudson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a re-examination of the relationship between humans and nature with a new methodology: by examining our entanglement with machines. Using central ideas of critical theory, it uncovers the suppression of nature through technology, tools and engines. It focuses on the ways in which human social forms have actively subjugated and destroyed other species in order to enhance their own social power and accumulation, leading to a new Anthropocene epoch in which human intervention is signalled in the geological record. Beginning with an account of the interactions between humans and other species, the book moves on to explore the hidden history of Marx and his obsession with machines, as well as new attempts to rethink a Marxist ecology, before proceeding to examine the manner in which technologies were used to suppress and destroy one particular species - the Whale of what we call the Cetacean Holocaust. Following this, there are analyses of the emergence of the ‘human encampments’ of the cities and the rise of mobile, locomotive cultures, and consideration of the relationship between machines of memory, and the ‘capturing’ of nature. A radical rethinking of classical social theory that develops new ways of thinking about ecological catastrophe and nature, this book will appeal to scholars of social theory and environmental sociology.

Centaurs in Ancient Art, the Archaic Period

Author : Paul V. C. (Paul Victor Christophe Baur
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290136365
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Centaurs in Ancient Art, the Archaic Period written by Paul V. C. (Paul Victor Christophe Baur and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Centaurs in the Twilight

Author : P. Th. M. G. Liebregts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centaurs in the Twilight written by P. Th. M. G. Liebregts and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Object Oriented Environs

Author : Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 069264203X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Object Oriented Environs written by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Oriented Environs is the lively archive of a critical confluence between the environmental turn so vigorous within early modern studies, and thing theory (object oriented ontology, vibrant materialism, the new materialism and speculative realism). The book unfolds a conversation that attempts to move beyond anthropocentrism and examine nonhumans at every scale, their relations to each other, and the ethics of human enmeshment within an agentic material world. The diverse essays, reflections, images and ephemera collected here offer a laboratory for probing the mystery and potential autonomy of objects, in their alliances and in performance. The book is the trace of an event-space crafted over a day of conversation in two seminars at the Shakespeare Association of America meeting in 2014 in St. Louis and offers its nineteen essays as the end to the work-cycle of the collective we crafted that day. It is a noisy collation, full of bees, bushes, laundry, crutches, lists, poems, plague vectors, planks, chairs, rain, shoes, meat, body parts, books, and assorted humans (living and dead), and also a repertoire of dance steps, ways of configuring the relations between subject and object, actors or actants (human and otherwise). It is also a book that asks readers to ponder their environs, to consider the particularities of their world, of their reading experiences, and to consider what orders of meaning we might be able to derive from attending closely to all the very many things we come into being with. Contributors include: Lizz Angello, Sallie Anglin, Keith M. Botelho, Patricia A. Cahill, Jeffrey Cohen, Drew Daniel, Christine Hoffmann, Neal Klomp, Julia Lupton, Vin Nardizzi, Tara Pedersen, Tripthi Pillai, Karen Raber, Pauline Reid, Emily Rendek, Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Debapriya Sarkar, Rob Wakeman, Jennifer Waldron, Luke Wilson, and Julian Yates.

Hephaestus Reloaded

Author : Adam Berg
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1950192350
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Hephaestus Reloaded written by Adam Berg and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the contributions in this book addresses - through its own peculiar perspective, method and experimental style - a new way to approach the role of transcendence in socio-cultural life.In the Occidental history of ideas, the notion of transcendence has received at least three canonical articulations that are challenged by this book: religious (Judeo-Christian traditions), philosophical (Platonic-intellectual universality of ideas), and scientific (the objective and technological turn of knowledge). Nonetheless, it is with the rise of cybernetics, with its digital and virtual modalities of systems, networks, and knowledge, that our human environment emerges as a source of knowledge in itself --.

Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods, and Illustrious Heroes

Author : François Pomey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods, and Illustrious Heroes written by François Pomey and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Grandeur That Was Rome

Author : J. C. Stobart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3752432640
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Grandeur That Was Rome written by J. C. Stobart and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Grandeur That Was Rome by J.C. Stobart

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

Author : E. M. s Beren
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781726231794
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome written by E. M. s Beren and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Greek and Roman mythology book that's suitable for young readers and is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. Learn the mythology behind books like those in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series with this handbook of ancient Greek and Roman mythology! You' will also find descriptions of the public worship of the deities, the oracles (such as the Oracle of Delphi), soothsayers, augurs, and festivals. Also includes a description of Greek and Roman legends, such as those of Perseus, Theseus, Daedalus (creator of the famous labyrinth), Jason and the Argonauts, Hercules, and the siege of Troy.

Messy Ethnographies in Action

Author : Alexandra Plows
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 162273551X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Messy Ethnographies in Action written by Alexandra Plows and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection of chapters showcases original and interdisciplinary ethnographic fieldwork in a range of international settings; including studies of underground pub life in North East England; Finnish hotels; and bio-scientific institutions in the Amazonian rainforest. Informed by John Law’s concept of ethnographic “mess,” this book makes a unique, empirically-informed, contribution to an understanding of the social construction of knowledge and the role that ethnography can and does play (Law, 2004). It provides a range of colourful snapshots from the field, showing how different researchers from multiple research environments and disciplines are negotiating the practicalities, and epistemological and ethical implications, of “messy” ethnographic practice as a means of researching “messy” social realities. Law notes that “social…science investigations interfere with the world…things change as a result. The issue, then, is not to seek disengagement but rather with how to engage” (ibid p14). Drawing on their own situated experiences, the book’s contributors address the “messy” implications of this and also explore the (equally messy) issue of why engage. They reflect on the process of undertaking research, and their role in the research process as they negotiate their own position in the field. What is ethnography “for”? What impact should, or do, we have in the field and after we leave the research site? What about unintended consequences? When (if ever) are we “off duty?” What does “informed consent” mean in a constantly shifting, dynamic ethnographic context? Is ethnography by its very nature a form of “action research?” By providing a wide range of situated explorations of “messy ethnographies,” the book presents a unique, hands-on guide to the challenges of negotiating ethnography in practice, which will be of use to all researchers and practitioners who use ethnography as a method.