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Seeing Double

Author : Françoise Meltzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226519872
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Double written by Françoise Meltzer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. In doing so, it revises some of our most common assumptions about the unresolved tensions that emerged in Baudelaire’s writing during a time of political and social upheaval. Françoise Meltzer argues that Baudelaire did not simply describe the contradictions of modernity; instead, his work embodied and recorded them, leaving them unresolved and often less than comprehensible. Baudelaire’s penchant for looking simultaneously backward to an idealized past and forward to an anxious future, while suspending the tension between them, is part of what Meltzer calls his “double vision”—a way of seeing that produces encounters that are doomed to fail, poems that can’t advance, and communications that always seem to falter. In looking again at the poet and his work, Seeing Double helps to us to understand the prodigious transformations at stake in the writing of modern life.

Seeing Double

Author : Peter Pesic
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262661737
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Double written by Peter Pesic and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the relationship between quantum theory and concepts of individuality and identity from ancient Greece to the present.

Seeing Double

Author : Susan A. Stephens
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520927389
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Double written by Susan A. Stephens and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-01-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic rule. Her work successfully positions Alexandrian poetry as part of the dynamic in which Greek and Egyptian worlds were bound to interact socially, politically, and imaginatively. The Alexandrian poets were image-makers for the Ptolemaic court, Seeing Double suggests; their poems were political in the broadest sense, serving neither to support nor to subvert the status quo, but to open up a space in which social and political values could be imaginatively re-created, examined, and critiqued. Seeing Double depicts Alexandrian poetry in its proper context—within the writing of foundation stories and within the imaginative redefinition of Egypt as "Two Lands"—no longer the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt, but of a shared Greek and Egyptian culture.

Blackness and Value

Author : Lindon Barrett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521109956
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Blackness and Value written by Lindon Barrett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackness and Value investigates the principles by which "value" operates, and asks if it is useful to imagine that the concepts of racial blackness and whiteness in the United States operate in terms of these principles. Testing these concepts by exploring various theoretical approaches and their shortcomings, Lindon Barrett finds that the gulf between "the street" (where race is acknowledged as a powerful enigma) and the literary academy (where until recently it has not been) can be understood as a symptom of racial violence. While commonly approaches to race and value are examined historically or sociologically, this intriguing study provides a new critical approach that speaks to theorists of race as well as gender and queer studies.

Seeing Double

Author : J Block Richard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136760768
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Double written by J Block Richard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychologist and collector, Block has put his life's work, his enthusiasm, and his knowledge into this treasure trove of puzzles, illusions, and double diversions. Each page is guaranteed to surprise and delight, while celebrating the amazing flexibility and creativity of the human mind. and mind-bending illustrations that trick the eye into seeing two different images-and never both at the same time. Double illusions, upside-downs, ambiguous images and ambigrams are smartly organized by technique and illusory effect, with vivid descriptions of the psychological impact of each image as well as current scientific explanations for each stunning effect. Psychologist and collector J. Richard Block has put his life's work, his enthusiasm, and his knowledge into this wonderfully fun, informative treasure trove of classic and contemporary puzzles, illusions and double diversions.

Seeing Redd

Author : Frank Beddor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101200685
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Redd written by Frank Beddor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderland finally seems as if it’s getting back to normal. Queen Alyss is back on the throne, and reunited with her childhood sweetheart, Dodge. But the fight for Wonderland is far from over. King Arch, in nearby Boarderland, is conniving to overthrow everything for which Alyss and her friends have fought so hard. Even worse, King Arch has found an ally in the recently returned Redd, who has been biding her time and gathering new and evil assassins in the Catacombs of Paris. With enemies circling and danger looming, someone close to Alyss lets her down—and threatens the future of Wonderland forever.

One Or Two

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974689524
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book One Or Two written by Peter Jones and published by . This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One or Two describes as 'One-ism' and 'Two-ism,' the two ways of being spiritual. One-ism believes that everything that exists is of one substance and that the goal of theology, spirituality and even sexuality is to destroy all distinctions, and bring all things together. Two-ism believes that there is a God outside creation who made all that is not God and has structured creation for the good of humanity. Two-ism has implications in our theology, spirituality and sexuality. The book is based on the argumentation of the apostle Paul in Romans 1. Peter Jones analyzes the current cultural expressions of spirituality in light of these two approaches" -- Amazon.com.

Seeing Double

Author : J Block Richard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136760776
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Double written by J Block Richard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a collection of more than 175 mind-bending illustrations that trick the eye into seeing two different images, and never both at the same time.

Seeing

Author : John P. Frisby
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Seeing written by John P. Frisby and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seeing Double

Author : Raymond Geuss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509560890
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Double written by Raymond Geuss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of meaning? This is the theme that runs through this collection of essays by Raymond Geuss. Drawing on a characteristically wide range of insights from moral and political philosophy, history, and aesthetics, he addresses topics such as knowledge (of self, the world, and others), language, the visual and the auditory, authority, hope, and the success and failure of life projects. He argues that, to get by in our bewildering world, we must embrace the virtue of ‘double vision’: that is, immersing ourselves in and learning the ways of the culture surrounding us, even as we feel alienated from it. Together the essays explore some of the consequences of abandoning the idea of a unitary view of the world, while at the same time trying to avoid quietism. Seeing Double is a compelling collection of work by one of the world’s most versatile and creative philosophers.

Seeing Double

Author : Peter Pesic
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026233898X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Double written by Peter Pesic and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unknown history of surveillance in relation to changing systems of representation and visual arts practice. The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human life: What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is it unique? To what degree can it be shared, and how? To the many philosophical and literary speculations about these topics over time, modern science has added the curious twist of quantum theory, which requires that the elementary particles of which everything consists have no individuality at all. All aspects of chemistry depend on this lack of individuality, as do many branches of physics. From where, then, does our individuality come? In Seeing Double, Peter Pesic invites readers to explore this intriguing set of questions. He draws on literary and historical examples that open the mind (from Homer to Martin Guerre to Kafka), philosophical analyses that have helped to make our thinking and speech more precise, and scientific work that has enabled us to characterize the phenomena of nature. Though he does not try to be all-inclusive, Pesic presents a broad range of ideas, building toward a specific point of view: that the crux of modern quantum theory is its clash with our ordinary concept of individuality. This represents a departure from the usual understanding of quantum theory. Pesic argues that what is bizarre about quantum theory becomes more intelligible as we reconsider what we mean by individuality and identity in ordinary experience. In turn, quantum identity opens a new perspective on us.

Seeing Double

Author : Françoise Meltzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226519880
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Double written by Françoise Meltzer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. In doing so, it revises some of our most common assumptions about the unresolved tensions that emerged in Baudelaire’s writing during a time of political and social upheaval. Françoise Meltzer argues that Baudelaire did not simply describe the contradictions of modernity; instead, his work embodied and recorded them, leaving them unresolved and often less than comprehensible. Baudelaire’s penchant for looking simultaneously backward to an idealized past and forward to an anxious future, while suspending the tension between them, is part of what Meltzer calls his “double vision”—a way of seeing that produces encounters that are doomed to fail, poems that can’t advance, and communications that always seem to falter. In looking again at the poet and his work, Seeing Double helps to us to understand the prodigious transformations at stake in the writing of modern life.

Double Dexter

Author : Jeff Lindsay
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307474933
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Double Dexter written by Jeff Lindsay and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Dexter series continues with a deadly duel with a copycat. • The Killer Character That Inspired the Hit Showtime Series Dexter Dexter is displeased. Like any self-respecting, totally decent, soundly homicidal guy, Dexter Morgan takes great pride in his work and is careful to remain anonymous. So he is, naturally, upset to discover that someone has identified him and—worst of all—is now turning his own methods against him. The situation soon becomes more complicated when a brutal cop-killer begins targeting Miami’s police detectives—leaving behind bodies that are battered beyond recognition—and stoking the department’s worst fears. As his colleagues grow more paranoid of the psychotic killer in their midst, Dexter’s position is increasingly perilous. He is running out of time to track down this copycat and deliver his usual special justice, before his dark hobby is revealed to the world.

The Looking Glass Wars

Author : Frank Beddor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101221461
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Looking Glass Wars written by Frank Beddor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myth: Alice was an ordinary girl who stepped through the looking glass and entered a fairy-tale world invented by Lewis Carroll in his famous storybook. The Truth: Wonderland is real. Alyss Heart is the heir to the throne, until her murderous aunt Redd steals the crown and kills Alyss? parents. To escape Redd, Alyss and her bodyguard, Hatter Madigan, must flee to our world through the Pool of Tears. But in the pool Alyss and Hatter are separated. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Yet he gets the story all wrong. Hatter Madigan knows the truth only too well, and he is searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland so she may battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.

Double Whammy

Author : Carl Hiaasen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101436646
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Double Whammy written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife” (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen. R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman’s scam that’s anything but sportsmanlike, there’s a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida—and a lot that’s rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments. Here Decker will team up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit with an appetite for road kill; dare to kiss his ex-wife while she’s in bed with her new husband; and face deadly TV evangelists, dangerously seductive women, and a pistol-toting redneck with a pit bull on his arm. And here his own life becomes part of the stakes. For while the “double whammy” is the lure, first prize is for the most ingenious murder.

3D

Author : Britt Salvesen
Publisher : Prestel
ISBN 13 : 9783791356686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book 3D written by Britt Salvesen and published by Prestel. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Surveying more than 175 years of innovation and experimentation, this volume evokes the wonder and excitement of 3D media with over 200 illustrations of artworks, photographs, pop culture ephemera, and more. Each book includes a pair of anaglyph glasses and a stereo card viewer, allowing the reader to conjure amazing virtual images."--Publisher's description.

The Double

Author : James Meyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Double written by James Meyer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking examination of the “double” in modern and contemporary art From ancient mythology to contemporary cinema, the motif of the double—which repeats, duplicates, mirrors, inverts, splits, and reenacts—has captured our imaginations, both attracting and repelling us. The Double examines this essential concept through the lens of art, from modernism to contemporary practice—from the paired paintings of Henri Matisse and Arshile Gorky, to the double line works of Piet Mondrian and Marlow Moss, to Eva Hesse’s One More Than One, Lorna Simpson’s Two Necklines, Roni Horn’s Pair Objects, and Rashid Johnson’s The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Emmett). James Meyer’s survey text explores four modes of doubling: Seeing Double through repetition; Reversal, the inversion or mirroring of an image or form; Dilemma, the staging of an absurd or impossible choice; and the Divided and Doubled Self (split and shadowed selves, personae, fraternal doubles, and pairs). Thought-provoking essays by leading scholars Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tom Gunning, W.J.T. Mitchell, Hillel Schwartz, Shawn Michelle Smith, and Andrew Solomon discuss a host of topics, including the ontology and ethics of the double, the double and psychoanalysis, double consciousness, the doppelgänger in silent cinema, and the queer double. Richly illustrated throughout, The Double is a multifaceted exploration of an enduring theme in art, from painting and sculpture to photography, film, video, and performance. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC July 10–October 31, 2022