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Theory of the Gimmick

Author : Sianne Ngai
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674984544
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Theory of the Gimmick written by Sianne Ngai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism. Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and as working too hard (a strained effort to get our attention). Focusing on this connection to work, Ngai draws a line from gimmicks to political economy. When we call something a gimmick, we are registering uncertainties about value bound to labor and time—misgivings that indicate broader anxieties about the measurement of wealth in capitalism. With wit and critical precision, Ngai explores the extravagantly impoverished gimmick across a range of examples: the fiction of Thomas Mann, Helen DeWitt, and Henry James; photographs by Torbjørn Rødland; the video art of Stan Douglas; the theoretical writings of Stanley Cavell and Theodor Adorno. Despite its status as cheap and compromised, the gimmick emerges as a surprisingly powerful tool in this formidable contribution to aesthetic theory.

The Gimmicks

Author : Chris McCormick
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006290857X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Gimmicks written by Chris McCormick and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Gimmicks is a gorgeous epic that astounds with its scope and beauty. With empathy and humor, McCormick unravels the ties between brotherhood and betrayal, love and abandonment, and the fictions we create to live with the pain of the past. This novel will blow you away.” —Brit Bennett, New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers Set in the waning years of the Cold War, a stunning debut novel about a trio of young Armenians that moves from the Soviet Union, across Europe, to Southern California, and at its center, one of the most tragic cataclysms in twentieth-century history—the Armenian Genocide—whose traumatic reverberations will have unexpected consequences on all three lives. This exuberant, wholly original novel begins in Kirovakan, Armenia, in 1971. Ruben Petrosian is a serious, solitary young man who cares about two things: mastering the game of backgammon to beat his archrival, Mina, and studying the history of his ancestors. Ruben grieves the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, a crime still denied by the descendants of its perpetrators, and dreams of vengeance. When his orphaned cousin, Avo, comes to live with his family, Ruben’s life is transformed. Gregarious and physically enormous, with a distinct unibrow that becomes his signature, Avo is instantly beloved. He is everything Ruben is not, yet the two form a bond they swear never to break. But their paths diverge when Ruben vanishes—drafted into an extremist group that will stop at nothing to make Turkey acknowledge the genocide. Unmoored by Ruben’s disappearance, Avo and Mina grow close in his absence. But fate brings the cousins together once more, when Ruben secretly contacts Avo, convincing him to leave Mina and join the extremists—a choice that will dramatically alter the course of their lives. Left to unravel the threads of this story is Terry “Angel Hair” Krill, a veteran of both the US Navy and the funhouse world of professional wrestling, whose life intersects with Avo, Ruben, and Mina’s in surprising and devastating ways. Told through alternating perspectives, The Gimmicks is a masterpiece of storytelling. Chris McCormick brilliantly illuminates the impact of history and injustice on ordinary lives and challenges us to confront the spectacle of violence and the specter of its aftermath.

Gimmick I

Author : Adrienne
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393044744
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Gimmick I written by Adrienne and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I wish I had a book such as the Gimmick when I was living in France."--Henry Miller

The Gimmick

Author : Dael Orlandersmith
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822218838
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book The Gimmick written by Dael Orlandersmith and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: BEAUTY'S DAUGHTER. One woman's journey with many obstacles stacked against her. The heroine or anti-heroine can choose to be a victim of the violent cards life has dealt her or she can use her poetry and music as a creative means to de

Trivium 21c

Author : Martin Robinson
Publisher : Crown House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178135085X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Trivium 21c written by Martin Robinson and published by Crown House Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ancient Greece to the present day, Trivium 21c explores whether a contemporary trivium (Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric) can unite progressive and traditionalist institutions, teachers, politicians and parents in the common pursuit of providing a great education for our children in the 21st century. Education policy and practice is a battleground. Traditionalists argue for the teaching of a privileged type of hard knowledge and deride soft skills. Progressives deride learning about great works of the past preferring '21c skills' (21st century skills) such as creativity and critical thinking. Whilst looking for a school for his daughter, the author became frustrated by schools' inability to value knowledge, as well as creativity, foster discipline alongside free-thinking, and value citizenship alongside independent learning. Drawing from his work as a creative teacher, Robinson finds inspiration in the Arts and the need to nurture learners with the ability to deal with the uncertainties of our age. Named one of Book Authority's best education books of all time.

Hot Gimmick, Vol. 10

Author : Miki Aihara
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781421501093
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hot Gimmick, Vol. 10 written by Miki Aihara and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All-out warfare between their families has Hatsumi and Ryoki wondering about their future, forcing Hatsumi to choose between Ryoki and her brother.

Gimmick

Author : Kenji Siratori
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595348181
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Gimmick written by Kenji Siratori and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutation-love in 2040:: the DNA=channels of the biocapturism nerve cells to the insanity medium of the human body pill cruel emulator that compressed the acidHUMANIX infection of the soul/gram made of retro-ADAM nightmare-script of a chemical=anthropoid murder-gimmick vital to the modem=heart of the hybrid cadaver mechanism@technojunkies' gene-dub different of her digital=vamp cold-blooded disease animals-genomics strategy circuit that was controlled the mass of flesh-module of the cadaver city FUCKNAMLOAD the cadaver feti=streaming_brain universe that clone-dives a trash sensor drug embryo is debugged in the surrender-sites of the hyperreal HIV=scanners hunting for the grotesque WEB vital browser of the terror fear=cytoplasm technojunkies' murder game to the cadaver feti=streaming_brain universe that compressed the acidHUMANIX infection of a trash sensor drug embryo=joints:: the soul/gram made of retro-ADAM different vital-controllers of the hyperreal HIV=scanners to the insanity medium of the human body pill cruel emulator that was biocaptured the DNA=channel of the artificial sun nightmare-script being covered the reptilian=HUB_modem=heart gene-dub of a chemical=anthropoid to the acid suck-cable murder-gimmick of her abolition world-codemaniacs emotional replicant genomics strategy circuit is output

Hot Gimmick S

Author : Megumi Nishizaki
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781421511429
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Hot Gimmick S written by Megumi Nishizaki and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know everything about Hot Gimmick? Well, think again! Hot Gimmick S, an original novelization inspired by the super-popular shojo series Hot Gimmick, boasts an ending that is completely different than how the manga series concludes. Hatsumi Narita, a somewhat indecisive coed, must navigate the choppy waters of company housing life and try to keep her love life on track too. She starts dating her extremely bossy neighbor Ryoki, but how will her dreamy older brother Shinogu feel about this? It¿s the ending that manga fans are dying to read and are bound to be talking about for a long time to come! Plus, a bonus, heart-pounding manga episode that¿s all about Hatsumi and Shinogu!

Living the Gimmick

Author : Ben Peller
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780759520011
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Living the Gimmick written by Ben Peller and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time he was able to body slam a pillow, Michael dreamed of becoming a professional wrestler, vanquishing imaginary enemies and nagging self-doubt with every drop kick he landed. As his buddies hit the books, Michael got hit. When they left for college, he enrolled in Shane Stratford's Wrestling Academy, where cash -- and a particularly punishing "audition" -- afforded him a first look into a world part circus, part sport, and all spectacle. From penny-ante matches to national notoriety, Michael rises through the ranks of professional wrestling. Hopped up on speed, pumped up on steroids, and fueled by a frustration he can't quite name, he adopts and discards identities in a bid to find the "gimmick" that will make him complete. His search will bring him in contact with people weird and wonderful: athletes and actors, crazy fans and crooked managers, the full rich range of folks who revel in the ring. Combining elements of sports narrative a la "North Dallas 40, " the behind-the-scenes authenticity of "Pumping Iron, " and a flair for the bizarre that recalls John Irving, "Living the Gimmick" is a novel not soon forgotten.

Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick

Author : Dael Orlandersmith
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307482057
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick written by Dael Orlandersmith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sheer exuberance of language that pours forth in Dael Orlandersmith's plays has dazzled critics and audiences alike. In these three pieces, the award-winning writer and performer celebrates the power of words to rescue the young black women she portrays from their constricted worlds. In the Obie Award-winning play "Beauty's Daughter," Diane yearns to free herself from her soul-deadening surroundings, where people drown their unfulfilled aspirations in drugs and alcohol. In "Monster," Theresa imagines a life in the rock-'n'-roll poetry bohemia of Manhattan's Lower East Side and away from her home in East Harlem, where she is scorned as a misfit. And in "The Gimmick," Alexis escapes her brutal reality among the library bookshelves, where she dreams of becoming a writer in Paris. Charged with fearless wisdom, these three electrifying plays transform rage-filled ghetto experience into a triumph of rhapsodic expression.

Ugly Feelings

Author : Sianne Ngai
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041526
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Ugly Feelings written by Sianne Ngai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing the character of late modernity. Along with her inquiry into the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called “animatedness,” and a paradoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called “stuplimity.” She explores the politically equivocal work of these affective concepts in the cultural contexts where they seem most at stake, from academic feminist debates to the Harlem Renaissance, from late-twentieth-century American poetry to Hollywood film and network television. Through readings of Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock, Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, John Yau, and Bruce Andrews, among others, Ngai shows how art turns to ugly feelings as a site for interrogating its own suspended agency in the affirmative culture of a market society, where art is tolerated as essentially unthreatening. Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of ugly feelings to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature—with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race—but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory.

The Linking Rings

Author : John Gaspard
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359978797
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book The Linking Rings written by John Gaspard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eli's trip to London with his uncle Harry quickly turns homicidal when the older magician finds himself accused of murder. A second slaying does little to take the spotlight off Harry. Instead it's clear someone is knocking off Harry's elderly peers in bizarrely effective ways. But who? The odd gets odder when the prime suspect appears to be a bitter performer with a grudge...who committed suicide over thirty years before. While Eli struggles to prove his uncle's innocence--and keep them both alive--he finds himself embroiled in a battle of his own: a favorite magic routine of his has been ripped off by another hugely popular magician. What began as a whirlwind vacation to London with girlfriend Megan turns into a fatal and larcenous trip into the dark heart of magic within the city's oldest magic society, The Magic Circle. No one does intriguing magic and page-turning humor like John Gaspard. Pick it up and see if you can be the first to figure out the trick!

This Thing Called Life

Author : Neal Karlen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250135257
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book This Thing Called Life written by Neal Karlen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rock’s greatest talents: Prince. Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to when the artist changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Karlen interviewed Prince for three Rolling Stone cover stories, wrote “3 Chains o’ Gold,” Prince’s “rock video opera,” as well as the star’s last testament, which may be buried with Prince’s will underneath Prince’s vast and private compound, Paisley Park. According to Prince's former fiancée Susannah Melvoin, Karlen was “the only reporter who made Prince sound like what he really sounded like.” Karlen quit writing about Prince a quarter-century before the mega-star died, but he never quit Prince, and the two remained friends for the last thirty-one years of the superstar’s life. Well before they met as writer and subject, Prince and Karlen knew each other as two of the gang of kids who biked around Minneapolis’s mostly-segregated Northside. (They played basketball at the Dairy Queen next door to Karlen’s grandparents, two blocks from the budding musician.) He asserts that Prince can’t be understood without first understanding ‘70s Minneapolis, and that even Prince’s best friends knew only 15 percent of him: that was all he was willing and able to give, no matter how much he cared for them. Going back to Prince Rogers Nelson's roots, especially his contradictory, often tortured, and sometimes violent relationship with his father, This Thing Called Life profoundly changes what we know about Prince, and explains him as no biography has: a superstar who calls in the middle of the night to talk, who loved The Wire and could quote from every episode of The Office, who frequented libraries and jammed spontaneously for local crowds (and fed everyone pancakes afterward), who was lonely but craved being alone. Readers will drive around Minneapolis with Prince in a convertible, talk about movies and music and life, and watch as he tries not to curse, instead dishing a healthy dose of “mamma jammas.”

The Budget for 1961: Secretary of the Treasury; Director, Bureau of the Budget

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Budget for 1961: Secretary of the Treasury; Director, Bureau of the Budget written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews President's Budget proposal for FY61.

The Bet

Author : Jay D. Rodgers
Publisher : BrownBooks.ORM
ISBN 13 : 1612546072
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Bet written by Jay D. Rodgers and published by BrownBooks.ORM. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being an entrepreneur means having a specific mindset, thinking outside the box, and taking the risk to bet on yourself. Jay D. Rodgers has been a successful entrepreneur from an early age and an even bigger champion of helping other entrepreneurs succeed. The Bet is a one-of-a-kind roadmap for an entrepreneur's business arc, filled with inspiring-and sometimes funny-anecdotes from Jay's own life that show entrepreneurial endeavors require a certain spirit, drive, and intelligence to make it in the competitive nature that is business. True entrepreneurs like Jay will only become motivated by his life, his lessons, and his passion to help others grow.

Headcode

Author : Kenji Siratori
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595318258
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Headcode written by Kenji Siratori and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sort of new wave hits the post-cyberpunky world, that is the offspring of old-timers initiators. "the nerve cells of the hyperreal HIV=scanner forms gene-dub of the cadaver city to the genomics strategy circuit that compressed the acidHUMANIX infection of her digital=vamp cold-blooded disease animals nightmare-script:: technojunkies' hunting for the grotesque WEB=covered the reptilian=HUB_modem=heart that jointed and the mass of flesh-module in the surrender-site of the cadaver feti=streaming_brain universe murder-protocol rave on the artificial sun outputs to the insanity medium of the human body pill cruel emulator super-genomewarable abolition world-codemaniacs vital browser of a trash sensor drug embryo the murder-gimmick of the soul/gram made of retro-ADAM..."

Wrestlecrap

Author : Randy Baer
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1554905443
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Wrestlecrap written by Randy Baer and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling examines some of the ridiculously horrible characters and storylines that pro wrestling promoters have subjected their fans to over the past twenty years. Why would any sane person think that having two grown men fight over a turkey was actually a reasonable idea' Was George Ringo, the Wrestling Beatle, really the best gimmick that a major promotional organization could come up with' And who would charge fans to watch a wrestler named the Gobbeldy Gooker emerge from an egg' In an attempt to answer such questions and figure out just what the promoters were thinking, authors Randy Baer and R.D. Reynolds go beyond what wrestling fans saw on the screen and delve into the mindset of those in the production booth. In some instances, the motivations driving the spectacle prove even more laughable than what was actually seen in the ring. Covering such entertainment catastrophes as an evil one-eyed midget and a wrestler from the mystical land of Oz, not to mention the utterly comprehensible Turkey-on-a-Pole match (a gimmick which AWA fans might recall), WrestleCrap is hysterically merciless in its evaluation of such organizations as the WCW and the WWF. This retrospective look at the wrestling world's misguided attempts to attract viewers will leave wrestling fans and critics alike in stitches.