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Contingent Encounters

Author : Dan DiPiero
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047290311X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Contingent Encounters written by Dan DiPiero and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contingent Encounters offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and critical improvisation studies, as well as his own performing experience, Dan DiPiero argues that comparing improvisation across domains calls into question how improvisation is typically recognized. By comparing the music of Eric Dolphy, Norwegian free improvisers, Mr. K, and the Ingrid Laubrock/Kris Davis duo with improvised activities in everyday life (such as walking, baking, working, and listening), DiPiero concludes that improvisation appears as a function of any encounter between subjects, objects, and environments. Bringing contingency into conversation with the utopian strain of critical improvisation studies, DiPiero shows how particular social investments cause improvisation to be associated with relative freedom, risk-taking, and unpredictability in both scholarship and public discourse. Taking seriously the claim that improvisation is the same thing as living, Contingent Encounters overturns long-standing assumptions about the aesthetic and political implications of this notoriously slippery term.

Ethics at the Beginning of Life

Author : James Mumford
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Theological
ISBN 13 : 0199673969
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Ethics at the Beginning of Life written by James Mumford and published by Oxford Studies in Theological. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many declare the debate about abortion to be hopelessly polarised, between conservatives and liberals, between forces religious and secular. In this book Mumford upends this received wisdom and challenges consensus, arguing that many dominant attitudes and argument fail to take into account the particular way human beings 'emerge' in the world.

Gendered Encounters

Author : Maria Luise Grosz-Ngaté
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415916424
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Encounters written by Maria Luise Grosz-Ngaté and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Enjoying What We Don't Have

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803245114
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Enjoying What We Don't Have written by Todd McGowan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis

Against Continuity

Author : Arjen Kleinherenbrink
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474447805
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Against Continuity written by Arjen Kleinherenbrink and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against Continuity is the first book to demonstrate that the beating heart of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy is a systematic ontology of irreducible, singular entities. This requires a radical break with decades of Deleuzian orthodoxy, according to which Deleuze's metaphysics revolves around the dissolution of discrete entities into a continuous world of flows and events.With reference to all of Deleuze's work, including published and untranslated seminars, as well as the recently published 'Lettres et autres textes', Arjen Kleinherenbrink critically compares Deleuze's ontology to seven related contemporary thinkers: Levi Bryant, Maurizio Ferraris, Markus Gabriel, Manuel DeLanda, Graham Harman, Tristan Garcia and Bruno Latour. These comparisons establish Deleuze as an important precursor to object-oriented speculative realism and open up exciting new avenues of thought for critics and supporters of Deleuze alike.

The Time is Always Now

Author : Nick Bromell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199973458
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Time is Always Now written by Nick Bromell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why," asks Nick Bromell, "should the political thought of white Americans remain the only theory to which Americans of all ethnicities turn when constructing and reconstructing their understanding of democracy? Must Americans remain locked in an apartheid of experience and perception even after whites have become a minority population in this nation? Hasn't the 2012 presidential election made clear that the time has come to build not just on the votes of citizens of color, but on the varieties of democratic thought their experience has engendered?" In his answers to these questions, Bromell brings to light an underappreciated stream of democratic reflection by black writers and activists from David Walker to Malcolm X. Bromell argues that these thinkers urge Americans to fundamentally re-imagine the nature of their democracy and recognize that indignation can be a powerful and productive democratic emotion; that dignity is just as important to democracy as equality and liberty; that national citizenship can be infused with a sense of responsibility to the world; and that faith can actually promote rather than threaten democratic pluralism. A literary critic and intellectual historian, Bromell draws on a wide range of fiction, essays, speeches, and oral histories, deftly synthesizing recent work in U.S. history, literary and cultural studies, and political theory. Like the figures he discusses, he puts this thought to work in the present moment, this "now." Black democratic insights, he shows, are strikingly relevant to the challenges facing US democracy today, and they provide the basis for a new, post-liberal public philosophy with which to turn back the rise of radical conservatism. Historian Robin D.G. Kelley writes: "In this work of enormous breadth, depth, and imagination, Nick Bromell makes what may be the most original contribution to political theory in the past decade. In this age of alleged color blindness, Bromell has the vision and the chutzpah to turn to African American thought-ideas born of struggle, anchored in questions of dignity, human relationships, and faith-in order to revitalize American democracy. "

Encounters of Mind

Author : Douglas L. Berger
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438454732
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Encounters of Mind written by Douglas L. Berger and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China. Encounters of Mind explores a crucial step in the philosophical journey of Buddhism from India to China, and what influence this step, once taken, had on Chinese thought in a broader scope. The relationship of concepts of mind, or awareness, to the constitution of personhood in Chinese traditions of reflection was to change profoundly after the Cognition School of Buddhism made its way to China during the sixth century. Indias Buddhist philosophers had formulated the idea that, in order for human beings to achieve perfect enlightenment, they had to produce a state of awareness through practice that they described as luminous. However, once introduced to the Chinese tradition, the concept of the luminous mind was to become a condition already found within human nature for the possibility of achieving human ideals. This notion of the luminous mind was to have far-reaching significance both for Chinese Buddhism and for medieval Confucianism. Douglas L. Berger follows the transforming path of conceptions of the luminosity of consciousness and the perfectibility of personhood in order to bring into clearer relief the history of Indian and Chinese philosophical dialogue, as well as in the hope that such dialogue will be reignited.

The Time of the City

Author : Michael Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136977872
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Time of the City written by Michael Shapiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with critical theory, poststructuralist perspectives, cultural studies, film theory and urban studies, the book provides stunning insights into the micropolitics of ethnicity, identity, security, subjectivity and sovereignty.

Divinations

Author : Daniel M. Bell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 149829538X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Divinations written by Daniel M. Bell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As modernity gives way to postmodernity, we are witnessing the emergence of a post-political age. Concepts and realities that anchored modern politics—like nation-states, community, freedom, and law—find themselves under duress from a pluriform terror. Simultaneously, we are witnessing a turn to religion by continental philosophers who seek resources for re-visioning a politics of resistance to this terror. This work engages postmodern philosophers such as Agamben, Badiou, Derrida, Deleuze, Hardt, Negri, and Zizek, seeking to divine both the promise and peril of this pagan plundering of Christianity on the way to articulating a Christian theopolitical vision that holds out the hope of resisting the terror that looms over us.

The Capacity for Ethical Conduct

Author : David P. Levine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041568188X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Capacity for Ethical Conduct written by David P. Levine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the qualities of character and personality either make ethical conduct possible for the individual or foster ethical failure.

Enjoy Your Symptom!

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135300070
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Enjoy Your Symptom! written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-03-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch - a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from the last giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century.

Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism

Author : Ann Vogel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004523960
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism written by Ann Vogel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these non-profit organizations work as they do: by attracting people who work for free, while appealing to businesses and policymakers as a cheap means to illuminate the creative city and draw attention to film art. Ann Vogel’s unprecedented systematic sociological analysis thus provides firm evidence for the ‘festival effect’, which situates the festival as a key intermediary in cinema value chains, yet also demonstrates the impact of such event culture on cultural workers’ lives. By probing the various resources and institutional pillars ensuring that the festivalization of capitalism is here to stay, Vogel urges us to think critically about publicly displayed benevolence in the context of cinema—and beyond.

The New Schelling

Author : Judith Norman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441104135
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The New Schelling written by Judith Norman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling (1775-1854) was a colleague of Hegel, Holderlin, Fichte, Goethe, Schlegel, and Schiller. Always a champion of Romanticism, Schelling advocated a philosophy which emphasized intuition over reason, which maintained aesthetics and the creative imagination to be of the highest value. At the same time, Schelling's concerns for the self and the rational make him a major precursor to existentialism and phenomenology. The New Schelling brings together a wide-ranging set of essays which elaborate the connections between Schelling and other thinkers-such as Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, Deleuze, and Lacan-and argue for the unexpected modernity of Schelling's work. Contributors: Manfred Frank, Jürgen Habermas, Iain Hamilton Grant, Joseph Lawrence, Odo Marquand, Judith Norman, Alberto Toscano, Michael Vater, Alistair Welchman, Slavoj Š ZiŠzek.

Undoing Work, Rethinking Community

Author : James A. Chamberlain
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501714872
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Undoing Work, Rethinking Community written by James A. Chamberlain and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back our time and transform our society, we must abandon the deep-seated view that community is constructed by work, whether paid or not. Chamberlain focuses on the regimes of flexibility and the unconditional basic income, arguing that while both offer prospects for greater freedom and justice, they also incur the risk of shoring up the work society rather than challenging it. To transform the work society, he shows that we must also reconfigure the place of paid work in our lives and rethink the meaning of community at a deeper level. Throughout, he speaks to a broad readership, and his focus on freedom and social justice will interest scholars and activists alike. Chamberlain offers a range of strategies that will allow us to uncouple our deepest human values from the notion that worth is generated only through labor.

Trees Are Shape Shifters

Author : Andrew S. Mathews
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300260377
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Trees Are Shape Shifters written by Andrew S. Mathews and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in.

Heritage Regimes and the State

Author : Bendix, Regina
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN 13 : 3863951220
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Heritage Regimes and the State written by Bendix, Regina and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.

Potential History

Author : Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788735714
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Potential History written by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share, from one of our most compelling political theorists In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums. By practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay argues that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds, from native peoples in the Americas at the moment of conquest to the Congo ruled by Belgium's brutal King Léopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In Potential History, Azoulay travels alongside historical companions—an old Palestinian man who refused to leave his village in 1948, an anonymous woman in war-ravaged Berlin, looted objects and documents torn from their worlds and now housed in archives and museums—to chart the ways imperialism has sought to order time, space, and politics. Rather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history and unlearn our imperial rights, to continue to refuse imperial violence by making present what was invented as “past” and making the repair of torn worlds the substance of politics.