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Author : J. Griffith Rollefson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054872
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Critical Excess written by J. Griffith Rollefson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay-Z and Kanye West's death dance for capitalism
Author : Mark A. Kleiman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Against Excess written by Mark A. Kleiman and published by . This book was released on 1993-07-06 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug-taking and drug control are alike; both are often done to excess. Against Excess shows how we can limit the damage done by drugs and the damage done by drug policies.
Author : Alphonso Lingis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410964
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Excesses written by Alphonso Lingis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1984-06-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excesses is a very successful attempt to break out of the closets in which we conceptualize our identity and our eros. Lingis has travelled to, and participated in, some of the last remaining oases of "primitive" cultures. He combines an obvious poet's eye with a not-so-obvious philosophical ability to discriminate systematically and to generalize. We are helped to see the shape—and limitations—of one of our own cultural identity through the amazing contrasts which Lingis sets up like screens for our inspection.
Author : Robert Torsten Petersson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9788887700831
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Bernini and the Excesses of Art written by Robert Torsten Petersson and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The vitality of Petersson's book is drawn directly from the sculpture of Bernini, an artist now regarded as the true successor of Michelangelo. It differs from others by bringing the reader inside the sculptural process, from genesis to completed form. Frequently Bernini had to solve uniquely interesting problems and his innovative talents never faltered." "As well as presenting the brilliant, flamboyant Bernini, the book simultaneously displays Rome in the throes of its Counter-Reformation renewal, the second birth of the city with the full panoply of its arts, culture, and aberrant activities during Bernini's years in the service of eight popes. In later life he expanded his fame by spending an eventful half year in Paris at the invitation of Louis XIV. The proud and touchy Bernini, then the most celebrated artist in Europe, was in a pitched battle with the arrogant and aggressive French. Yet in Paris as in Rome it is the artistic works that have lasted and are widely known as having redirected the course of European sculpture."--BOOK JACKET. Book jacket.
Author : Robert Paarlberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199922632
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The United States of Excess written by Robert Paarlberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for Europe. Still worse, the policy steps taken by America in response to obesity and climate change have so far been the weakest in the industrial world. These aspects of America's exceptionalism are nothing to be proud of. Is it possible that America is hard-wired to consume too much food and fuel? Unfortunately, yes, says Robert Paarlberg in The United States of Excess. America's excess is driven in each case by its distinct endowment of material and demographic resources, its unusually weak national political institutions, and a unique political culture that celebrates both individual freedoms over social responsibility, and free markets over governmental authority. America's over-consumption is shown to be over-determined. Because of these powerful underlying circumstances, America's strongest policy response, both to climate change and obesity, will be adaptation rather than mitigation. As the damaging consequences of climate change become manifest, America will not impose adequate measures to reduce fossil fuel consumption, attempting instead to protect itself from storms and sea-level rise through costly infrastructure upgrades. In response to the damaging health consequences of obesity, America will opt for medical interventions and physical accommodations, rather than the policy measures that would be needed to induce better diets or more exercise. These adaptation responses will generate serious equity problems, both at home and abroad. Responding to obesity with medical interventions will fall short for those in America most prone to obesity - racial minorities and the poor - since these groups have never enjoyed adequate access to quality health care. Responding to climate change by building more resilient infrastructures at home, while allowing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to continue their increase, will impose greater climate disruption on poor tropical countries, which are far less capable of self-protection. Awareness of these inequities must be the starting point toward altering America's current path.
Author : Marcus Boon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674262182
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
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.
Author : Claudio Milano
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1786399822
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Overtourism written by Claudio Milano and published by CABI. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the evolution of the phenomenon and explores the genesis of overtourism and the system dynamics underlining it. The 'overtourism' phenomenon is defined as the excessive growth of visitors leading to overcrowding and the consequential suffering of residents, due to temporary and often seasonal tourism peaks, that lead to permanent changes in lifestyles, amenities and well- being. Enormous tensions in overtourism affected destinations have driven the intensification of policy making and scholarly attention toward seeking antidotes to an issue that is considered paradoxical and problematic. Moving beyond the 'top 10 things you can do about overtourism', this book examines the evolution of the phenomenon and explores the genesis of overtourism as well as the system dynamics underpinning it. With a rigorous scientific approach, the book uses systems-thinking and contemporary paradigms around sustainable development, resilience planning and degrowth; while considering global economic, socio-political, environmental discourses. Researchers, analysts, policy makers and industry stakeholders working within tourism as well as those within the private sector, community groups, civil society groups and NGOs will find this book an essential source of information.
Author : Michael Zagaris
Publisher : Reel Art Press
ISBN 13 : 9781909526402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Total Excess written by Michael Zagaris and published by Reel Art Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographer Michael Zagaris' work capturing rock musicians and rock groups on film, both on stage and off during the late 20th century, accompanied by Zagaris' own perspective and recollections of the photo shoots and their contexts.
Author : Tracey Carisch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631524127
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Excess Baggage written by Tracey Carisch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracey Carisch thought she had it all. As a wife, mother, and successful executive, she seemed to be living the modern American dream. But one night, a panic attack sent her tumbling into an existential crisis and questioning everything about her life. That’s when she and her husband made a decision that shocked their family and friends: they sold everything they owned, pulled their three young daughters out of school, and became a family of wandering globetrotters. Loaded with hilarious mishaps as well as deeply meaningful revelations, Excess Baggage chronicles the Carisch family’s extraordinary, eighteen-month adventure across six continents. As they navigate the trials and tribulations of international travel, the family encounters unique people and bizarre situations that teach them about the world—and themselves. Carisch’s candid and insightful account of her family’s journey will have you laughing out loud, shedding a few tears, and bringing the lessons of family travel into your own life . . . without ever having to leave home.
Author : Amber Jamilla Musser
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479886513
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Sensual Excess written by Amber Jamilla Musser and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics. Each chapter draws our attention to particular aspects of pornotropic capture that black and brown bodies must always negotiate. Though these technologies differ according to the nature of their encounters with white supremacy, together they add to our understanding of the ways that structures of domination produce violence and work to contain bodies and pleasures within certain legible parameters. To do so, Sensual Excess analyzes moments of brown jouissance that exceed these constraints. These ruptures illuminate multiple epistemologies of selfhood and sensuality that offer frameworks for minoritarian knowledge production which is designed to enable one to sit with uncertainty. Through examinations of installations and performances like Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, Patty Chang’s In Love and Nao Bustamante’s Neapolitan, Musser unpacks the relationships between racialized sexuality and consumption to interrogate foundational concepts in psychoanalytic theory, critical race studies, feminism, and queer theory. In so doing, Sensual Excess offers a project of knowledge production focused not on mastery, but on sensing and imagining otherwise, whatever and wherever that might be.
Author : Faltin Karlsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317186214
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book A World of Excesses written by Faltin Karlsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores gaming culture, focusing on competent players and excessive use. Addressing the contested question of whether addiction is possible in relation to computer games - specifically online gaming - A World of Excesses demonstrates that excessive playing does not necessarily have detrimental effects, and that there are important contextual elements that influence what consequences playing has for the players. Based on new empirical studies, including in-depth interviews and virtual ethnography, and drawing on material from international game related sites, this book examines the reasons for which gaming can occupy such a central place in people's lives, to the point of excess. As such, it will be of interest to sociologists and psychologists working in the fields of cultural and media studies, the sociology of leisure, information technology and addiction.
Author : Laura C. Nelson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231529139
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Measured Excess written by Laura C. Nelson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Elise Mellinger, University of Hawaii--Manoa, Korean Studies
Author : Jonah Siegel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691049144
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Desire and Excess written by Jonah Siegel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating look at the creative power of institutions, Jonah Siegel explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the nineteenth century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Treating these developments as interrelated, he analyzes both visual material and literary texts to portray a culture in which art came to be thought of in powerful new ways. Ultimately, Siegel shows that artistic controversies commonly associated with the self-consciously radical movements of modernism and postmodernism have their roots in a dynamic era unfairly characterized as staid, self-satisfied, and stable. The nineteenth century has been called the Age of the Museum, and yet critics, art theorists, and poets during this period grappled with the question of whether the proliferation of museums might lead to the death of Art itself. Did the assembly and display of works of art help the viewer to understand them or did it numb the senses? How was the contemporary artist to respond to the vast storehouses of art from disparate nations and periods that came to proliferate in this era? Siegel presents a lively discussion of the shock experienced by neoclassical artists troubled by remains of antiquity that were trivial or even obscene, as well as the anxious aesthetic reveries of nineteenth-century art lovers overwhelmed by the quantity of objects quickly crowding museums and exhibition halls. In so doing, he illuminates the fruitful crises provoked when the longing for admired art is suddenly satisfied. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, biographies of early nineteenth-century writers including Keats and Scott, and the writings of art critics such as Hazlitt, Ruskin, and Wilde, this book reproduces a cultural matrix that brings to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era.
Author : Carole Spitzack
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438420803
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Confessing Excess written by Carole Spitzack and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-07-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the discourse on female weight reduction in American culture, Confessing Excess analyzes contemporary dieting and the weight loss literature by taking up the themes of confession and surveillance. Spitzack argues that dieting is characterized by confession (of "excess") which women internalize and which necessitates ongoing surveillance or monitoring of the body. Informal conversations and in-depth interviews also juxtapose women's everyday dieting experiences with the discourse of dieting texts. By evaluating the cultural construction of women in this manner, the author illuminates the power strategies that offer self-acceptance at the price of self-condemnation.
Author : Lidia Yuknavitch
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573660846
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Liberty's Excess written by Lidia Yuknavitch and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In interconnected and mutually enfolding texts protagonists face off with some deformation of being: psychological, sexual, political, philosophical. Plots play out across the body, as if formed, deformed, reformed by culture. Drugs, violence, and sex inscribe the literal flesh of "figures" standing in for what formerly passed for character. In these fictions a woman is more likely to appear with a needle in her arm than a baby. Sometimes a woman cannot be distinguished from a man at all. Cutting from subject to object, severing the eye/I from skin, these fictions bring America back to its body. In Liberty's Excess, capitalism and individualism lose their cover stories, releasing desire all over culture's deadening hum. Yuknavitch is both master and mistress of this dis-formed beauty, creating a landscape neither Waste Land nor Kansas nor Pomo Glitter.
Author : Glynn Lunney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107181674
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Copyright's Excess written by Glynn Lunney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tests copyright's fundamental premise that more money will increase creative output using the US recording industry from 1962-2015.
Author : Jen Hatmaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692928080
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)
Download or read book 7 Experiment written by Jen Hatmaker and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7 Experiment Workbook. A guided journey through the 7 major areas of excess and clutter that we need to minimize and fight against. American life can be excessive, to say the least. And I was living it. In fact, all I wanted was more. Was there even such a thing as enough? My family finally decided that we wanted to do something about it, and that's where 7 came in. SEVEN was an experiment. We decided that we were going to try - just try - to address 7 places in our lives where we were overdoing it: Food, Clothes, Possessions, Media, Waste, Spending, and Stress. Simply put - SEVEN changed our lives. I think it can change yours, too. Learn How to be Free
