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The Art of Shrinking Heads

Author : Dany-Robert Dufour
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 074563690X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Shrinking Heads written by Dany-Robert Dufour and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the hell of the Nazis and the terror of Communism, it is possible that a new catastrophe has appeared on the horizon: this time it is neoliberalism that wants to create its own ‘new man’. For two centuries, Kant’s critical subject and Freud’s neurotic subject provided us with philosophical templates for modernity, but today modern capitalism is systematically destroying these two subjects and replacing them with something new. The two subjects of modernity both presupposed some reference to a higher value or power (like Reason) which provided a symbolic guarantor, but neoliberalism, by emphasizing the exchange of commodities in the marketplace, destroys all transcendental references of this kind. Now human beings no longer look beyond themselves and no longer have to agree about symbolic values: they only have to get on with the circulation and consumption of goods. Deprived of his faculty of judgement and urged to enjoy himself without restraint, the ‘new man’ of neoliberalism takes centre stage in the era of global capitalism. In this biting critique of our contemporary condition Dufour shows that the radical transformation of the subject brought about by neoliberalism – what he calls ‘the art of shrinking heads’ – contains a new kind of violence which has far-reaching consequences for our ways of living together.

Ripley's Believe it Or Not!

Author : Robert Ripley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741787573
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Ripley's Believe it Or Not! written by Robert Ripley and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fascinating facsimile diary offers a first-hand account of Robert Ripley's travels to far-flung exotic corners of the globe in search of the weird and the wonderful during the 1930s. Inside, Ripley's own drawings, cartoons, and memorabilia evoke the strange and bizarre world that unfolded before his eyes ..."--P. [4] of cover.

My Private Property

Author : Mary Ruefle
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 195026825X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book My Private Property written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of Madness, Rack, and Honey ("One of the wisest books I've read in years," according to the New York Times) and Trances of the Blast, Mary Ruefle continues to be one of the most dazzling poets in America. My Private Property, comprised of short prose pieces, is a brilliant and charming display of her humor, deep imagination, mindfulness, and play in a finely crafted edition. Personalia When I was young, a fortune-teller told me that an old woman who wanted to die had accidentally become lodged in my body. Slowly, over time, and taking great care in following esoteric instructions, including lavender baths and the ritual burial of keys in the backyard, I rid myself of her presence. Now I am an old woman who wants to die and lodged inside me is a young woman dying to live; I work on her. Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast; Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism; and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!; she is also an erasure artist whose treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries as well as published in the book A Little White Shadow. Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.

The Art of Shrinking Heads

Author : Dany-Robert Dufour
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745636896
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Shrinking Heads written by Dany-Robert Dufour and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the hell of the Nazis and the terror of Communism, it is possible that a new catastrophe has appeared on the horizon: this time it is neoliberalism that wants to create its own 'new man'. Dufour shows that radical transformation of the subject brought about by neoliberalism contains a new kind of violence.

Severed

Author : Frances Larson
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847088015
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Severed written by Frances Larson and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.

How I Got My Shrunken Head (Classic Goosebumps #10)

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545283655
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book How I Got My Shrunken Head (Classic Goosebumps #10) written by R. L. Stine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goosebumps now on Disney+! What has two eyes, a mouth, and wrinkly green skin? Mark's shrunken head! It's a present from his Aunt Benna. A gift from the jungle island of Baladora.And Mark can't wait to show the kids at school!But late one night the head starts to glow. Because it's actually no ordinary head. It gives Mark a strange power. A magical power. A dangerous power...Now with all-new bonuses including an author interview, gross-out facts, and more!

Design After Decline

Author : Brent D. Ryan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206584
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Design After Decline written by Brent D. Ryan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, the future of neighborhoods in these places is precarious. How we will rebuild shrinking cities and what urban design vision will guide their future remain contentious and unknown. In Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan reveals the fraught and intermittently successful efforts of architects, planners, and city officials to rebuild shrinking cities following mid-century urban renewal. With modern architecture in disrepute, federal funds scarce, and architects and planners disengaged, politicians and developers were left to pick up the pieces. In twin narratives, Ryan describes how America's two largest shrinking cities, Detroit and Philadelphia, faced the challenge of design after decline in dramatically different ways. While Detroit allowed developers to carve up the cityscape into suburban enclaves, Philadelphia brought back 1960s-style land condemnation for benevolent social purposes. Both Detroit and Philadelphia "succeeded" in rebuilding but at the cost of innovative urban design and planning. Ryan proposes that the unprecedented crisis facing these cities today requires a revival of the visionary thinking found in the best modernist urban design, tempered with the lessons gained from post-1960s community planning. Depicting the ideal shrinking city as a shifting patchwork of open and settled areas, Ryan concludes that accepting the inevitable decline and abandonment of some neighborhoods, while rebuilding others as new neighborhoods with innovative design and planning, can reignite modernism's spirit of optimism and shape a brighter future for shrinking cities and their residents.

A Responsive Rhetorical Art

Author : Elenore Long
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822965503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book A Responsive Rhetorical Art written by Elenore Long and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Responsive Rhetorical Art explores the risk-ridden realm of wise if always also fallible rhetorical action—the productive knowledge building required to compose and to leverage texts, broadly construed, for the purposes of public life marked by shrinking public resources, cultural conflict, and deferred hope. Here, composition and literacy learning hold an important and distinctive cultural promise: the capacity to invent with other people new ways forward in light of their own interests and values and in the face of obstacles that could not have otherwise been predicted. Distributed across publicly situated strangers, including citizen-educators, this work engages a persistent challenge of early rhetorical uptake in public life: that what might become public and shared is often tacit and contested. The book’s approach combines attention to local cases (with a transnational student organization, the Nipmuck Chaubunagungamaug, and the South Sudanese diaspora in Phoenix) with a revisable guide for taking up wise action and methods for uncovering elusive institutional logics.

How to Make Shrunken Heads

Author : Marla Buchanan
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500433123
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book How to Make Shrunken Heads written by Marla Buchanan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short non-fiction book, written by an author with a B.A. in Anthropology, explains the traditional step-by-step process involved in making a shrunken head. This isn't an instruction in crafting a "shrunken head" out of a carved and dried apple, but a real, honest-to-goodness description of the creation of a REAL shrunken head.

Buffalo Heads

Author : Woody Vasulka
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262720507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Heads written by Woody Vasulka and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images and texts document the legendary Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo when it set the world standard; a history of the program and examples of work by “Buffalo heads” James Blue, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, Gerald O'Grady, Paul Sharits, Steina, Woody Vasulka, and Peter Weibel. Twentieth-century art history is not just a history of individuals, but of collectives, groups. Universities and colleges have had much to do with this through their support of artistic communities and creative interactions. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Bauhaus was known for this. In the 1940s, Black Mountain College became a leader in community-based visual art practice and education. And in the 1970s and 1980s, the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo was the place to be. It was there, in 1973, well before any other university had a program explicitly devoted to media art, that Gerald O'Grady founded a media study program that is now legendary. Artists—including avant-garde filmmakers Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad, and Paul Sharits, documentary maker James Blue, video artists Woody Vasulka and Steina, and Viennese action artist Peter Weibel—investigated, taught, and made media art in all forms, and founded the first Digital Arts Laboratory. These Buffalo faculty members were not just practicing artists, but also theorists who wrote and spoke on issues raised by their work. They set the terms for the development of media art and paved the way for the triumph of video installation art in the 1990s. The images and texts in Buffalo Heads bear witness to the groundbreaking events at the Buffalo Center for Media Study. The book presents not just a tribute to a famous media department finally receiving its due; it is a rich inventory of primary texts (many never before published), works that will improve our understanding of media, amplify our cultural memory, and offer a perspective on contemporary issues.

Historical and Ethnographical Material on the Jivaro Indians

Author : Matthew Williams Stirling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Historical and Ethnographical Material on the Jivaro Indians written by Matthew Williams Stirling and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jivaro

Author : Bertrand Flornoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840681888
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Jivaro written by Bertrand Flornoy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jivaro Indians of the Peru-Ecuador interior have long been renowned for their ferocity and cruelty in warfare; they are also shamanistic, communing with ancient spectres through the ingestion of poisonous hallucinogens. But above all, the Jivaro are known for their unique and macabre brand of death magic -- the severing and shrinking of human heads. JIVARO is the true account of an expedition into the Amazon rain forest to locate and study the Jivaro Indians; their dialects, social structures, methods of survival, and -- above all -- the orgiastic witchcraft rites which culminate in the slaughter, decapitation and spell-binding of their enemies, whose souls are forever imprisoned and silenced by the ritual reduction of their heads. - Illustrated throughout - with a new Introduction - two anthropological Forewords on the Jivaro and the history of human trophy-taking JIVARO is one of the true classics of populist ethnography, a vivid record of a vanishing way of life which retains its power to grip, and sometimes shock, the reader.

Handbook of South American Indians

Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Care of Souls, Care of Polis

Author : Ryan LaMothe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498205216
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Care of Souls, Care of Polis written by Ryan LaMothe and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fields of pastoral care and pastoral theology, there are times when a book signals a paradigm shift. This is one such book. LaMothe develops a political pastoral theology that is used to examine critically political, economic, and societal structures and practices. In the first part of the book, LaMothe argues that care and pastoral care are political concepts, which, along with the notion of justice, can be used as a hermeneutical framework to assess macropolitical and macroeconomic realities. Included in this section is the notion of civil and redemptive discourse, necessary for the survival and flourishing of persons and polis. The last section of the book examines U.S. Empire, capitalism, class, classism, and other pressing political issues using the hermeneutical lens of care.

Subjectivity, the Unconscious and Consumerism

Author : Marlon Xavier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319968246
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity, the Unconscious and Consumerism written by Marlon Xavier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjectivity, the Unconscious and Consumerism is a unique and imaginative psycho-sociological exploration of how postmodern, contemporary consumerism invades and colonises human subjectivity. Investigating especially consumerism’s unconscious aspects such as desires, imagination, and fantasy, it engages with an extensive analysis of dreams. The author frames these using a synthesis of Jungian psychology and the social imaginaries of Baudrillard and Bauman, in a dialogue with the theories of McDonaldization and Disneyization. The aim is to broaden our understanding of consumerism to include the perennial consumption of symbols and signs of identity - a process which is the basis for the fabrication of the commodified self. The book offers a profound, innovative critique of our consumption societies, challenging readers to rethink how we live, and how our identities are impacted by consumerism. As such it will be of interest to students and scholars of critical psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, but is also accessible to anyone interested in the complex psychology of contemporary subjectivity.

A Radical Political Theology for the Anthropocene Era

Author : Ryan LaMothe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725253542
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Radical Political Theology for the Anthropocene Era written by Ryan LaMothe and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the fierce urgency of now, this important book confronts and addresses key problems and questions of political theology with the aim of proposing a radical political theology for the Anthropocene Age. LaMothe invites readers to think and be otherwise in living lives in common with all other human beings and other-than-human beings that dwell on this one earth.

Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era

Author : James G. Carrier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789200458
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era by : James G. Carrier

Download or read book Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era written by James G. Carrier and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate scandals since the 1990s have made it clear that economic wrongdoing is more common in Western societies than might be expected. This volume examines the relationship between such wrong-doing and the neoliberal orientations, policies, and practices that have been influential since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many people would consider wrong. It furthermore asks whether ideas of economic right and wrong have become so fragmented and localized that collective judgement has become almost impossible.