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Nonhuman Witnessing

Author : Michael Richardson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027789
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Nonhuman Witnessing written by Michael Richardson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nonhuman Witnessing Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building frameworks for justice in an era of endless war, ecological catastrophe, and technological capture. Dismantling the primacy and notion of traditional human-based forms of witnessing, Richardson shows how ecological, machinic, and algorithmic forms of witnessing can help us better understand contemporary crises. He examines the media-specificity of nonhuman witnessing across an array of sites, from nuclear testing on First Nations land and autonomous drone warfare to deepfakes, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic investigative tools. Throughout, he illuminates the ethical and political implications of witnessing in an age of profound instability. By challenging readers to rethink their understanding of witnessing, testimony, and trauma in the context of interconnected crises, Richardson reveals the complex entanglements between witnessing and violence and the human and the nonhuman.

Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman

Author : Matthias Stephan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666903779
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman written by Matthias Stephan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanity’s path forward in the company of nonhuman others.

A Sense of Urgency

Author : Debra Hawhee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826775
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book A Sense of Urgency written by Debra Hawhee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician. Why is it difficult to talk about climate change? Debra Hawhee argues that contemporary rhetoric relies on classical assumptions about humanity and history that cannot conceive of the present crisis. How do we talk about an unprecedented future or represent planetary interests without privileging our own species? A Sense of Urgency explores four emerging answers, their sheer novelty a record of both the devastation and possible futures of climate change. In developing the arts of magnitude, presence, witness, and feeling, A Sense of Urgency invites us to imagine new ways of thinking with our imperiled planet.

Handbook of Curriculum Theory, Research, and Practice

Author : Peter Pericles Trifonas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031211553
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Curriculum Theory, Research, and Practice written by Peter Pericles Trifonas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imagining Afghanistan

Author : Alla Ivanchikova
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 161249580X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Afghanistan written by Alla Ivanchikova and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion—the era that propelled Afghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening “Afghanistan” has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11 condition. “Afghanistan” serves as a lens through which contemporary cultural producers contend with the moral ambiguities of twenty-first-century humanitarianism, interpret the legacy of the Cold War, debate the role of the U.S. in the rise of transnational terror, and grapple with the long-term impact of war on both human and nonhuman ecologies. Post-9/11 global Afghanistan literary production remains largely NATO-centric insofar as it is marked by an uncritical investment in humanitarianism as an approach to Third World suffering and in anti-communism as an unquestioned premise. The book’s first half exposes how persisting anti-socialist biases—including anti-statist bias—not only shaped recent literary and visual texts on Afghanistan, resulting in a distorted portrayal of its tragic history, but also informed these texts’ reception by critics. In the book’s second half, the author examines cultural texts that challenge this limited horizon and forge alternative ways of representing traumatic histories. Captured by the author through the concepts of deep time, nonhuman witness, and war as a multispecies ecology, these new aesthetics bring readers a sophisticated portrait of Afghanistan as a rich multispecies habitat affected in dramatic ways by decades of war but not annihilated.

Animots

Author : Matthew Senior
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206658
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Animots written by Matthew Senior and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume of Yale French Studies addresses French-inspired theoretical and philosophical concerns centered on animals and animality. Contributors from France, the United Kingdom, and North America discuss animal-related topics in the French philosophical and literary tradition, offering a wide range of perspectives on animals, ethics, and the future of animal studies. Essays question the reducibility of animal lives to rights discourse on the one hand and scientific empiricisms on the other, and examine whether and how the advent of the posthuman will affect the standing and the future of the nonhuman animal.

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects

Author : Thomas Houlton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429588828
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects written by Thomas Houlton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social, and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument-culture. Tracing historical developments in monuments alongside contemporary movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter, Houlton provides an in-depth critique of monument sites, as well as new critical and conceptual methodologies for thinking across the field. Alongside analysis of monuments to the Holocaust, colonial figures, and LGBTQIA+ subjects, this book provides new critical engagements with the work of D.W. Winnicott, Marion Milner, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, and others. Houlton traces the potential for monuments to exert great influence over our sense of self, nation, community, sexuality, and place in the world. Exploring the psychic and physical spaces these objects occupy—their aesthetics, affects, politics, and powers—this book considers how monuments can challenge our identities, beliefs, and our very notions of remembrance. The interdisciplinary nature of Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects means that it is ideally placed to intervene across several critical fields, particularly museum and heritage studies. It will also prove invaluable to those engaged in the study of monuments, psychoanalytic object relations, decolonization, queer ecology, radical death studies, and affect theory.

Listening After Nature

Author : Mark Peter Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501354531
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Listening After Nature written by Mark Peter Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature; expands site-specificity; and unearths hidden technocultures. What exists beyond the signal? How is agency performed and negotiated between humans and nonhumans? What exactly is a field recording and what are its pedagogical potentials? These questions are operated by a methodology of listening that incorporates the spaces of audition, as well as Wright's own practice-based reflections. In doing so, Listening After Nature posits a range of novel interventions. One example is the “Noisy-Nonself,” a conceptual figuration with which to comprehend the presence of reticent recordists. “Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields” offers another unique contribution by reimagining the relationship between the field and studio. In the final chapter, Wright explores the microphone by tracing its critical and creative connections to natural resource extraction and contemporary practice. Listening After Nature auditions water and waste, infrastructures and animals, technologies and recordists, data and stars. It grapples with the thresholds of sensory perception and anchors itself to the question: what am I not hearing? In doing so, it challenges Western universalisms that code the field whilst offering vibrant practice-based possibilities.

Photography, Bearing Witness and the Yugoslav Wars, 1988-2021

Author : Paul Lowe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000181839
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Photography, Bearing Witness and the Yugoslav Wars, 1988-2021 written by Paul Lowe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining case studies with theoretical and philosophical insights, this book explores the role of photography in representing conflict and genocide, both during and after the break-up of Yugoslavia. Concentrating on the photographer, this book considers the practice of photojournalism rather than simply in terms of its consumption and use by the media. The experiences and working methods of photographers in the field are analysed, showing how practitioners conceptualised their work and responded to larger questions about neutrality and moral responsibility. Presenting this ‘active’ form of witness, author Paul Lowe investigates a crucial ethical paradox faced by photojournalists. Moving beyond the end of the Yugoslav Wars in 2001, this book also considers the therapeutic and validating potential of photography for survivors, featuring photographers whose work centres on memory and reconciliation. Based on archival research, close reading and discourse analyses of photographs, and interviews with a range of international photographers, this book explores how photography from this period has been used and remediated in editorial photojournalism, fine art documentary and advocacy photography. This book will be of interest to scholars in the history of photography, art and visual culture, and photojournalism.

Image Testimonies

Author : Kerstin Schankweiler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429786239
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Image Testimonies written by Kerstin Schankweiler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent political conflicts signal an increased proliferation of image testimonies shared widely via social media. Although witnessing with and through images is not a phenomenon of the internet era, contemporary digital image practices and politics have significantly intensified the affective economies of image testimonies. This volume traces the contours of these conditions and develops a conception of image testimony along four areas of focus. The first and second section of this volume reflects the discussion of image testimonies as an interplay of evidential qualities and their potential to express affective relationalities and emotional involvement. The third section focuses on the question of how social media technologies shape and subsequently are shaped by image testimonies. To further complicate the ethical position of the witness, the final section looks at image testimony at the intersection of creation and destruction, taking into account the perspectives of different actors and their opposed moral positions. With an emphasis on the affectivity of these images, Image Testimonies provides new and so far overlooked insights in the field. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Sociology and Social Policy, Media and Communications, Visual Arts and Culture and Middle East Studies.

After the Human

Author : Sherryl Vint
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108836666
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book After the Human written by Sherryl Vint and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

Virtual Holocaust Memory

Author : Matthew Boswell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197645399
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Holocaust Memory written by Matthew Boswell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holocaust was the defining cataclysm of modernity. Now, more than three quarters of a century later, the immersive, interactive technologies of the digital age are dramatically refashioning our memory of that genocide. Virtual Holocaust Memory offers the first comprehensive account of a unique historical juncture, as twenty-first century digital culture meets the edge of living Holocaust memory. The book considers a range of projects that are being developed by museums, archives, businesses, and educational organizations in the USA and Europe, including interactive video testimony, Virtual Reality films, Augmented Reality apps, museum installations, and online exhibitions. Drawing on an original conceptual framework that incorporates connective memory, palimpsestic testimony, and a notion of 'truthfulness' first applied to testimonial writing by the survivor Charlotte Delbo, this groundbreaking book argues that the value of virtual Holocaust memory--that is to say its truthfulness--will ultimately come to rest on the connections that it establishes across a complex set of subject positions. These range from 'new bystanders', who encounter Holocaust memory from a position of relative safety, to the traumatized victims whose extreme physical and psychological experiences made communicating so difficult in the first place.

Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony

Author : L. Detwiler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137012145
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony written by L. Detwiler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing twenty-first century contexts, ground-breaking scenarios, and innovative mediums for this highly contested life writing genre, this volume showcases a new generation of testimonio scholarship.

Performance on Behalf of the Environment

Author : Richard D. Besel
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739174991
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Performance on Behalf of the Environment written by Richard D. Besel and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human degradation of the environment has been documented by scholars across a range of disciplines: the global temperature of the planet continues to rise, abandoned industrial sites stain once vibrant communities, and questions about the purity of our water and foods linger. In the shadow of these material conditions, concerned citizens have reacted by issuing critiques against careless consumerism and excessive lifestyles. Their hope is to illustrate and inspire alternative ways of living. As part of such efforts and activism, some have turned to performance as a means to investigate matters further, pose challenges and questions, and enact new ways of being and thinking in a globalized world. Performance on Behalf of the Environment is a collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars that explore critically the strengths, limitations, and processes of what can be termed environmental performances.

Beyond the Human-Animal Divide

Author : Dominik Ohrem
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349934372
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Human-Animal Divide written by Dominik Ohrem and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world. The text explores written work such as Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, video media such as the film "Creature Comforts" and the video game Into the Dead, and photography. With chapters written by an international group of philosophers, literary and cultural studies scholars, historians and others, the volume brings together established experts and forward-thinking early career scholars to provide an interdisciplinary engagement with ways of thinking and writing the creaturely to establish a postanthropocentric sense of human-animal relationality.

Mourning Remains

Author : Isaias Rojas-Perez
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150360263X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Mourning Remains written by Isaias Rojas-Perez and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mourning Remains examines the attempts to find, recover, and identify the bodies of Peruvians who were disappeared during the 1980s and 1990s counterinsurgency campaign in Peru's central southern Andes. Isaias Rojas-Perez explores the lives and political engagement of elderly Quechua mothers as they attempt to mourn and seek recognition for their kin. Of the estimated 16,000 Peruvians disappeared during the conflict, only the bodies of 3,202 victims have been located, and only 1,833 identified. The rest remain unknown or unfound, scattered across the country and often shattered beyond recognition. Rojas-Perez examines how, in the face of the state's failure to account for their missing dead, the mothers rearrange senses of community, belonging, authority, and the human to bring the disappeared back into being through everyday practices of mourning and memorialization. Mourning Remains reveals how collective mourning becomes a political escape from the state's project of governing past death and how the dead can help secure the future of the body politic.

Response Ethics

Author : Kelly Oliver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786608650
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Response Ethics written by Kelly Oliver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for students in philosophy, animal studies and gender studies, this volume explores an important question: what grounds our ethical responsibility? It covers a range of topics including maternal bodies, animal rights, capital punishment, depression and trauma, demonstrating the evolution of Kelly Oliver's seminal work in response ethics.