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Unworking

Author : Jeremy Myerson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789146674
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Unworking written by Jeremy Myerson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we look toward a future of hybrid or virtual offices, a timely call to rethink the very nature and design of the workplace. Over the past one hundred years, the office has been integral to the development of modern society. It has shaped the architecture of our cities, the behavior of our organizations, and the everyday movements of millions of people. In 2020, however, the global pandemic brought our attendance in the office to an abrupt halt and triggered a complete reevaluation of the purpose of the workplace. This book offers a panoramic view of the office and explores what happens next. The authors advance a manifesto for “unworking”—unlearning old habits and rituals established for an outdated office and crafting and creating new ones fit for an age of digital technology, design innovation, and diverse workforces.

Unworking Choreography

Author : Frédéric Pouillaude
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199314640
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Unworking Choreography written by Frédéric Pouillaude and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philosophers, dance refers to a space other than art, considered both more frivolous and more fundamental than the artwork without ever quite attaining the status of a work. Unworking Choreography develops this idea and postulates an unworking as evidenced by a conspicuous absence of references to actual choreographic works within philosophical accounts of dance; the late development and partial dominance of the notion of the work in dance in contrast to other art forms such as painting, music, and theatre; the difficulties in identifying dance works given a lack of scores and an apparent resistance within the art form to the possibility of notation; and the questioning of ends of dance in contemporary practice and the relativisation of the very idea that dance artistic or choreographic processes aim at work production.

Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language

Author : John T Hamilton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231142218
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language written by John T Hamilton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John T. Hamilton investigates how literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation, thereby creating a crisis of language. He particularly focuses on the decidedly autobiographical impulse of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, where musical experience and mental disturbance disrupt the expression of referential thought, illuminating the irreducible aspects of the self before language can work them back into a discursive system. The study begins in the 1750s with Diderot's "Neveu de Rameau," and situates that text in relation to Rousseau's reflections on the voice and the burgeoning discipline of musical aesthetics. Hamilton then traces the linkage of music and madness that courses through the work of Herder, Hegel, Wackenroder, and Kleist before turning his attention to E. T. A. Hoffmann, whose writings of the first decades of the nineteenth century accumulate and qualify preceding traditions. Throughout his analysis, Hamilton considers the particular representations that link music and madness, exploring underlying motives, preconceptions, and ideological premises that facilitate the association of these two experiences.

Perpetual Motion

Author : Harmony Bench
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452962499
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Perpetual Motion written by Harmony Bench and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world How has the Internet changed dance? Dance performances can now be seen anywhere, can be looped endlessly at user whim, and can integrate crowds in unprecedented ways. Dance practices are evolving to explore these new possibilities. In Perpetual Motion, Harmony Bench argues that dance is a vital part of civil society and a means for building participation and community. She looks at how, after 9/11, it became a crucial way of recuperating the common character of public spaces. She explores how crowdsourcing dance contributes to the project of performing a common world, as well as the social relationships forged when we look at dance as a gift in the era of globalization. Throughout, she asks how dance brings people together in digital spaces and what dance’s digital travels might mean for how we experience and express community. From original research on dance today to political economies of digital media to the philosophy of dance, Perpetual Motion provides an ambitious, invigorating look at a commonly shared practice.

The Inoperative Community

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816619245
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Inoperative Community written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of five essays of French philosopher Nancy, originally published in 1985-86: The Inoperative Community, Myth Interpreted, Literary Communism, Shattered Love, and Of Divine Places. A paper edition (1924-7) is available for $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism

Author : Cosmin Toma
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501370146
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism written by Cosmin Toma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past three decades, Jean-Luc Nancy has become one of the most celebrated contemporary philosophers. His remarkably diverse body of work, which deals with such topics as post-Heideggerian ontology, Christian painting, the experience of drunkenness, heart transplants, contemporary cinema and the problem of freedom, is entirely "immersed" in modernity, as he puts it. Within this plural framework, art – which he explicitly defines as a modern construct – plays a singular role in that it is the very prism through which he explores the problems of sense and feeling in general, particularly as they relate to “our” experience of modernity. The contributors to Understanding Nancy, Understanding Modernism fully delve into the heretofore under-acknowledged and under-explored modernism of Nancy's writings on philosophy and the arts through close readings of his key works as well as broader essays on the relationship between his thought and aesthetic modernity. In addition to an interview with Nancy himself, a final section consists of an extended glossary of Nancy's signature terms, which will be a valuable resource for students and experts alike.

Strange Wonder

Author : Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231518595
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Strange Wonder written by Mary-Jane Rubenstein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be extinguished as swiftly as possible. By endeavoring to resolve wonder's indeterminacy into certainty and calculability, philosophy paradoxically secures itself at the expense of its own condition of possibility. Strange Wonder locates a reopening of wonder's primordial uncertainty in the work of Martin Heidegger, for whom wonder is first experienced as the shock at the groundlessness of things and then as an astonishment that things nevertheless are. Mary-Jane Rubenstein traces this double movement through the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Derrida, ultimately thematizing wonder as the awesome, awful opening that exposes thinking to devastation as well as transformation. Rubenstein's study shows that wonder reveals the extraordinary in and through the ordinary, and is therefore crucial to the task of reimagining political, religious, and ethical terrain.

Maurice Blanchot

Author : Carolyn Bailey Gill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113480041X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Maurice Blanchot written by Carolyn Bailey Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely collection of essays is the first to be written on the work of Maurice Blanchot in English. One of the finest writers of our time, Blanchot is a contemporary of Bataille and Levinas; his writing has influenced the likes of Derrida and Foucault. Eminent commentators featured here include: Simon Critchley, Paul Davies, Cristopher Fynsk, Rodolphe Gasche, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland, Jeffery Mehlman, Roger Laporte, Ian Maclachlan, Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, Gillian Rose and Ann Smock. The essays consider the political implications of Blanchot's questioning the relationship between philosophy and literature. In addition, the provocative issue of Blanchot's politics during the 1930s is clarified by a letter from Blanchot to one of the contributors, published here for the first time. Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing is a crucial selection for all students of philosophy, literature or French studies.

The Logic of the Lure

Author : John Paul Ricco
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226711003
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of the Lure written by John Paul Ricco and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot—such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial or meaningless. With The Logic of the Lure, John Paul Ricco argues that it is precisely such fleeting, erotic, and even perverse experiences that will help us create a truly queer notion of ethics and aesthetics, one that recasts sociality and sexuality, place and finitude in ways suggested by the anonymity and itinerant lures of cruising. Shifting our attention from artworks to the work that art does, from subjectivity to becoming, and from static space to taking place, Ricco considers a variety of issues, including the work of Doug Ischar, Tom Burr, and Derek Jarman and the minor architecture of sex clubs, public restrooms, and alleyways.

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Author : James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Absent Environments

Author : Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135391661
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Absent Environments written by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a novel, transdisciplinary approach to environmental law, its principles, mechanics and context, as tested in its application to the urban environment, this book traces the conceptual and material absence of communication between the human and the natural and controversially includes such an absence within a system of law and a system of geography which effectively remain closed to environmental considerations. The book looks at Niklas Luhmann's theory of autopoiesis. Introducing the key concepts and operations, contextualizing them and opening them up to critical analysis. Indeed, in contrast to most discussions on autopoiesis, it proposes a radically different reading of the theory, in line with critical legal, political, sociological, urban and ecological theories, while drawing from writings by Husserl and Derrida, as well as Latour, Blanchot, Haraway, Agamben and Nancy. It explores a range of topics in the areas of environmental law and urban geography, including: environmental risk, environmental rights, the precautionary principle, intergenerational equity and urban waste discourses on community, nature, science and identity. The author redefines the traditional foundations of environmental law and urban geography and suggests a radical way of dealing with scientific ignorance, cultural differences and environmental degradation within the perceived need for legal delivery of certainty.

Undoing Work, Rethinking Community

Author : James A. Chamberlain
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501714872
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Undoing Work, Rethinking Community written by James A. Chamberlain and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back our time and transform our society, we must abandon the deep-seated view that community is constructed by work, whether paid or not. Chamberlain focuses on the regimes of flexibility and the unconditional basic income, arguing that while both offer prospects for greater freedom and justice, they also incur the risk of shoring up the work society rather than challenging it. To transform the work society, he shows that we must also reconfigure the place of paid work in our lives and rethink the meaning of community at a deeper level. Throughout, he speaks to a broad readership, and his focus on freedom and social justice will interest scholars and activists alike. Chamberlain offers a range of strategies that will allow us to uncouple our deepest human values from the notion that worth is generated only through labor.

On Imposture

Author : Serge Margel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253065305
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book On Imposture written by Serge Margel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imposture is an abuse of power. It is the act of lying for one's own benefit, of disguising the truth in order to mislead. For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, however, imposture is first and foremost power itself. In On Imposture, French philosopher Serge Margel explores imposture within Rousseau's Discourses, Confessions, and Emile. For Rousseau, taking power, using it, or abusing it are ultimately one and the same act. Once there's power, and someone grants themselves the means, the right, and the authority to force another's beliefs or actions, there is imposture. According to Rousseau, imposture can be found through human history, society, and culture. Using a deconstructionist method in the classic manner of Derrida, On Imposture explores Rousseau's thought concerning imposture and offers a unique analysis of its implications for politics, civil society, literature, and existentialist thought.

The Emergence of Literature

Author : Jacob Bittner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501354256
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Literature written by Jacob Bittner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emergence of Literature is an extension and reworking of a series of significant propositions in philosophy and literary theory: Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's examination of the concept of the literary absolute; Martin Heidegger's destruction and Giorgio Agamben's archaeology of the metaphysics of will; Maurice Blanchot's delimitation of the space of literature; and Michel Foucault's archaeology of literature. Its core contribution to the history of theory is to understand the literary absolute not simply as philosophical concept, but as a paradigm that delimits the horizon for currents of literary theory through the course of the 20th century where the literary criteria change from the theme of sincerity to the theme of the death of the author. Stretching from Kant to Hegel, from Hölderlin to the Early German Romantics, from John Stuart Mill to New Criticism, from Benjamin to Barthes, The Emergence of Literature examines the relation between continental philosophy and literature in the post-Kantian era.

A Pathognomy of Performance

Author : S. Bayly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230306934
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book A Pathognomy of Performance written by S. Bayly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday life.

UnWorking

Author : Clark Vandeventer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692459096
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book UnWorking written by Clark Vandeventer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the new world you can write your own ticket, be your own boss, and live on a grand scale, now." -- from the publisher.

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Author : Jared Genser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107034450
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention written by Jared Genser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body's 1,200 jurisprudence cases.