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Download or read book Stuff Theory written by Maurizia Boscagli and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking theory of materialism which reconsiders the role of stuff, the small objects that clutter our lives, as they crowd the pages of modern literature.
Download or read book Stuff Theory written by Maurizia Boscagli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined. Stuff is modern materiality out of bounds that refuses to be contained by the western semiotic system. It declines its role as the eternal sidekick of the subject, and is thus the ideal basis for a counter-narrative of materiality in flux. Can such a narrative, developed by the new materialism, reinvigorate the classical materialist account of human alienation from commodities under capital? By shifting the discussion of materiality toward the aesthetic and the everyday, the book both embraces and challenges the project of new materialism. It argues that matter has a politics, and that its new plasticity offers a continued possibility of critique. Stuff Theory's five chapters illustrate the intermittent flashes of modern 'minor' materiality in twentieth-century modernity as fashion, memory object, clutter, home décor, and waste in a wide range of texts: Benjamin's essays, Virginia Woolf's and Elfriede Jelinek's fiction, Rem Koolhaas' criticism, 1920s German photography and the cinema of Tati, Bertolucci, and Mendes. To call the commodified, ebullient materiality the book tracks stuff, is to foreground its plastic and transformative power, its fluidity and its capacity to generate events. Stuff Theory interrogates the political value of stuff's instability. It investigates the potential of stuff to revitalize the oppositional power of the object. Stuff Theory traces a genealogy of materiality: flashpoints of one kind of minor matter in a succession of cultural moments. It asserts that in culture, stuff becomes a rallying point for a new critique of capital, which always works to reassign stuff to a subaltern position. Stuff is not merely unruly: it becomes the terrain on which a new relation between people and matter might be built.
Book Synopsis The Principles of Psychology by : William James
Download or read book The Principles of Psychology written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Meaningful Stuff by : Jonathan Chapman
Download or read book Meaningful Stuff written by Jonathan Chapman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more. Never have we wanted, owned, and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through modern life leaves a wake of social and ecological destruction--sneakers worn only once, bicycles barely even ridden, and forgotten smartphones languishing in drawers. By what perverse alchemy do our newest, coolest things so readily transform into meaningless junk? In Meaningful Stuff, Jonathan Chapman investigates why we throw away things that still work, and shows how we can design products, services, and systems that last. Obsolescence is an economically driven design decision--a plan to hasten a product's functional or psychological undesirability. Many electronic devices, for example, are intentionally impossible to dismantle for repair or recycling, their brief use-career proceeding inexorably to a landfill. A sustainable design specialist who serves as a consultant to global businesses and governmental organizations, Chapman calls for the decoupling of economic activity from mindless material consumption and shows how to do it. Chapman shares his vision for an "experience heavy, material light" design sensibility. This vital and timely new design philosophy reveals how meaning emerges from designed encounters between people and things, explores ways to increase the quality and longevity of our relationships with objects and the systems behind them, and ultimately demonstrates why design can--and must--lead the transition to a sustainable future.
Book Synopsis The Jazz Theory Book by : Mark Levine
Download or read book The Jazz Theory Book written by Mark Levine and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Émile Durkheim's Contributions to Sociological Theory by : Charles Elmer Gehlke
Download or read book Émile Durkheim's Contributions to Sociological Theory written by Charles Elmer Gehlke and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seeing Things as They are by : John R. Searle
Download or read book Seeing Things as They are written by John R. Searle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the objective field is either perceived or can be perceived. Nothing in the subjective field is perceived nor can be perceived precisely because the events in the subjective field consist of the perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in the objective field. Searle begins by criticizing the classical theories of perception and identifies a single fallacy, what he calls the Bad Argument, as the source of nearly all of the confusions in the history of the philosophy of perception. He next justifies the claim that perceptual experiences have presentational intentionality and shows how this justifies the direct realism of his account. In the central theoretical chapters, he shows how it is possible that the raw phenomenology must necessarily determine certain form of intentionality. Searle introduces, in detail, the distinction between different levels of perception from the basic level to the higher levels and shows the internal relation between the features of the experience and the states of affairs presented by the experience. The account applies not just to language possessing human beings but to infants and conscious animals. He also discusses how the account relates to certain traditional puzzles about spectrum inversion, color and size constancy and the brain-in-the-vat thought experiments. In the final chapters he explains and refutes Disjunctivist theories of perception, explains the role of unconscious perception, and concludes by discussing traditional problems of perception such as skepticism.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by : American Society for Psychical Research
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research written by American Society for Psychical Research and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Victorian City by : Judith Flanders
Download or read book The Victorian City written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.
Book Synopsis Studies in the History of Ideas by : Columbia University. Department of Philosophy
Download or read book Studies in the History of Ideas written by Columbia University. Department of Philosophy and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Quest by : George Robert Stow Mead
Download or read book The Quest written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How We Inherit written by Edgar Altenburg and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oriental Wisdom written by C. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Swift & Co. v. McMullen, 169 MICH 1 (1912) written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16
Book Synopsis A Course in Philosophy by : George Perrigo Conger
Download or read book A Course in Philosophy written by George Perrigo Conger and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
