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The Panoptikon

Author : Steven P. Pody
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452072035
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Panoptikon written by Steven P. Pody and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fool on the hill, the prison-keeper in the central spindle, and other iterations of cosmocentrism... Each of us is a universe, and each distinct set of id perception rules and abides within the very center. Daily and lifetime events swirl about us. Sometimes we dispassionately observe, sometimes we interact, and sometimes we are acted upon, whether we are willing participants or not. Billions of universes come into existence and wink out of the random void like some great humanistic exercise in quantum physics. Within these pages lie the occasionally offbeat threads of perception and musing of one, single, universe. Sitting within the observation booth of my body (which itself is not always sitting, thank goodness, but lately tends towards rust and entropy), and trapped within its limits: I think, therefore I write poetry. ...More or less. We live within boundaries (not sold in stores; sizes may vary). There exist the often inconvenient limits of governing physical law and, further, a total lack of freedom within the 4th dimension. Many other boundaries are carefully crafted and self-imposed to enclose the known and the safe. Any universe is a holistic and limited construct. "Limitlessness" exists as potential, but we can't process the information: Super-agoraphobia, implanted in the primal psyche. So the walls come up. All of these facets, in sum, amount to prison aplenty to occupy a lifetime of thought and emotion. However, what truly makes a universe distinctly ours when so many others inhabit it, and so many immutable laws govern it, is that it is seen through our perceptions, and evaluated on a basis of perpetual personal appraisal. And thus, as an issue of perspective, are we each a warden of The Panoptikon.

The Panopticon

Author : Jenni Fagan
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0385347871
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Panopticon written by Jenni Fagan and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car. She is headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember what’s happened, but across town a policewoman lies in a coma and Anais is covered in blood. Raised in foster care from birth and moved through twenty-three placements before she even turned seven, Anais has been let down by just about every adult she has ever met. Now a counterculture outlaw, she knows that she can only rely on herself. And yet despite the parade of horrors visited upon her early life, she greets the world with the witty, fierce insight of a survivor. Anais finds a sense of belonging among the residents of the Panopticon—they form intense bonds, and she soon becomes part of an ad-hoc family. Together, they struggle against the adults that keep them confined. But when she looks up at the watchtower that looms over the residents, Anais realizes her fate: She is an anonymous part of an experiment, and she always was. Now it seems that the experiment is closing in. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content

The Panopticon Writings

Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789600138
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Panopticon Writings written by Jeremy Bentham and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best exemplification of Bentham's own theory of fictions, according to which non-existent fictitious entities can have all too real effects. There is probably no building that has stirred more philosophical controversy than Bentham's Panopticon. The Panopticon is not merely, as Foucault thought, "a cruel, ingenious cage", in which subjects collaborate in their own subjection, but much more-constructing the Panopticon produces not only a prison, but also a god within it. The Panopticon is a machine which on assembly is already inhabited by a ghost. It is through the Panopticon and the closely related theory of fictions that Bentham has made his greatest impact on modern thought; above all, on the theory of power. The Panopticon writings are frequently cited, rarely read. This edition contains the complete "Panopticon Letters", together with selections from "Panopticon Postscript I" and "Fragment on Ontology", Bentham's fullest account of fictions. A comprehensive introduction by Miran Bozovic explores the place of Panopticon in contemporary theoretical debate.

Living Pictures, Missing Persons

Author : Mark B. Sandberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691238278
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Living Pictures, Missing Persons written by Mark B. Sandberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, Scandinavian urban dwellers developed a passion for a new, utterly modern sort of visual spectacle: objects and effigies brought to life in astonishingly detailed, realistic scenes. The period 1880-1910 was the popular high point of mannequin display in Europe. Living Pictures, Missing Persons explores this phenomenon as it unfolded with the rise of wax museums and folk museums in the largest cities of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Mark Sandberg asks: Why did modernity generate a cultural fascination with the idea of effigy? He shows that the idea of effigy is also a portal to understanding other aspects of visual entertainment in that period, including the widespread interest in illusionistic scenes and tableaux, in the "portability" of sights, spaces, and entire milieus. Sandberg investigates this transformation of visual culture outside the usual test cases of the largest European metropolises. He argues that Scandinavian spectators desired an unusual degree of authenticity--a cultural preference for naturalism that made its way beyond theater to popular forms of museum display. The Scandinavian wax museums and folk-ethnographic displays of the era helped pre-cinematic spectators work out the social implications of both voyeuristic and immersive display techniques. This careful study thus anticipates some of the central paradoxes of twentieth-century visual culture--but in a time when the mannequin and the physical relic reigned supreme, and in a place where the contrast between tradition and modernity was a high-stakes game.

Some People

Author : Harold Nicolson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some People written by Harold Nicolson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discipline and Punish

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307819299
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Discipline and Punish written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906–1924

Author : Isak Thorsen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0861969308
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906–1924 written by Isak Thorsen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study of the Danish film company demonstrates how it became one of the most important innovators of the silent era. Established in 1906, Nordisk Films Kompagni’s rise and fall is one of the most dramatic stories of the early film industry. Based on archival research, primarily in the company’s surviving business archives, this volume describes and analyzes how Nordisk Films became one of the leading players in the world market—and why the company failed to maintain this position. Isak Thorsen examines Nordisk Film as a business and organization, from its establishment in 1906 until 1924 when founder Ole Olsen stepped back. He covers a wide range of topics, including the competitive advantages Nordisk Film gained in reorganizing the production to multiple-reel films around 1910; the company’s highly efficient film production which anticipated the departmentalized organization of Hollywood; Nordisk Film’s aggressive expansion strategy in Germany, Central-Europe and Russia during the First World War; and the grand plans for taking control of UFA in association with the American Famous Players in the post-war years.

Screening Statues

Author : Steven Jacobs
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147441091X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Screening Statues written by Steven Jacobs and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic, scholarly engagement with Susanne Bier's work

Missing Persons

Author : Mark Bennion Sandberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Missing Persons written by Mark Bennion Sandberg and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Power/Knowledge

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 039473954X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Power/Knowledge written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1980-11-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them. Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling. For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives" Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds.

Copenhagen and Its Environs

Author : Lucy Andersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Copenhagen and Its Environs written by Lucy Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Swedish Element in Illinois

Author : Ernst Wilhelm Olson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Swedish Element in Illinois written by Ernst Wilhelm Olson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark

Author : Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norway, Sweden, and Denmark written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook to Norway and Denmark

Author : Thomas Cook Ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Handbook to Norway and Denmark written by Thomas Cook Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cook's Handbook to Norway

Author : Thomas Cook (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Cook's Handbook to Norway written by Thomas Cook (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Again in Sweden

Author : Carl Aaron Swensson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Again in Sweden written by Carl Aaron Swensson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Architecture and Building

Author : Russell Sturgis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Architecture and Building written by Russell Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: