Author: Diana Gonçalves
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110477688
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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9 11 Culture Catastrophe And The Critique Of Singularity

by Diana Gonçalves, 9 11 Culture Catastrophe And The Critique Of Singularity Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download 9 11 Culture Catastrophe And The Critique Of Singularity books, Departing from 9/11’s spectacularity and aesthetical appeal, its eskatastrophic dimension, this book takes up the task of studying 9/11 as a mnemonic singularity, i.e. a catastrophic event that evokes or mimics, albeit in a renewed situation, the structure of past catastrophes. It investigates how 9/11 has been represented/remediated and how it has reintroduced catastrophic thinking into our conceptual framework.

Author: Geoff King
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1841509183
Size: 51.59 MB
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The Spectacle Of The Real

by Geoff King, The Spectacle Of The Real Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Spectacle Of The Real books, Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their ‘incredible-seeming reality’. They can appear both ‘incredible’ and ‘real’, their appeal based on their ability to ‘convince’—to appear real in terms such as detail and texture—and on their status as fabricated spectacle, to be admired as such. At a seemingly very different end of the audio-visual media spectrum, ‘reality’ television offers the spectacle of, supposedly, the ‘real’ itself, a ‘reality’ that ranges from the banality of the quotidian to intense interpersonal engagements (two extremes experienced in Big Brother, for example). The two also overlap, however, nowhere more clearly and jarringly than in the ultimate ‘spectacle of the real’, the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, live television coverage of which evoked constant comparison with big-screen fictional images.

Author: Daniela Agostinho
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311028314X
Size: 77.71 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Panic And Mourning

by Daniela Agostinho, Panic And Mourning Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Panic And Mourning books, ‘Panic’ and ‘mourning’ are two pivotal constructs that often emerge and interplay under circumstances of conflict, violence, crisis, and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to crop up during the experience of violent events, mourning, on the other hand, relates to the aftermath of a brutal disruption and to the way humans try to make sense of it retrospectively. Conversely, violent events can leave a thread of panic in their aftermath, while mourning can be unsettled, interrupted or even refuelled by another catastrophic incident. From an international and inter-disciplinary outlook, this volume wishes to address questions at the interface of panic and mourning and their impact on practices in literature, media, and the arts. Since violent events take place within cultures that will draw from their traditions, memories and systems of beliefs in order to process them, the authors of this book aim precisely at discussing the effects of calamity upon the cultural structure and the way literary, artistic and media practices not only reproduce individual and collective anxieties but also generate knowledge and reshape the cultural formation within which they emerge.

Author: Gesine Hindemith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783958081222
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Category : Disasters in art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Catastrophe Spectacle

by Gesine Hindemith, Catastrophe Spectacle Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Catastrophe Spectacle books, From epidemics in the 17th century, through the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, and to Guernica in World War II, the essays of this volume show how a catastrophic imagination, heavily based on pictorial media and forms of staging, has developed since the early modern period. Thus, the catastrophe in its modern sense seems to be inextricably linked to its spectacular appearance, be it on stage, on screen, or in popular amusement parks. But increasingly, the modern relation between catastrophe and spectacle also confronts us with the unimaginable of invisible catastrophes, such as the Holocaust, and as is now seen to a large extent in the daily catastrophe of refugees suffering shipwrecks while trying in vain to reach European coasts. The essays of this volume touch upon the question of how a spectacular imagination of catastrophe is breaking ground with respect to discourse and media history. In their commentary function, these texts elucidate the images of catastrophes that inspire them. The interaction between the catastrophic scene and the text comments makes it possible to reconsider how the spectacular and the catastrophic are inter-related. Furthermore, the articles not only deal with the spectacularisation of the catastrophic, but also try to present themselves as a type of catastrophe criticism that is derived from the philological readings of the corresponding scenes. There is the underlying ambition for a critical philology of the catastrophe which, in a Benjaminian sense, demonstrates 'small leaps' within the catastrophic continuum and in which the catastrophe is confronted by other figures of thought, such as the disaster according to Maurice Blanchot. [Subject: History, Natural Disasters, Cultural Anthropology]

Author: Henriette Steiner
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262358344
Size: 41.95 MB
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Tower To Tower

by Henriette Steiner, Tower To Tower Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Tower To Tower books, A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture—the convergence of tall buildings and networked infrastructures—from the Eiffel Tower to One World Trade Center. They show how these two forms of gigantism intersect in the figure of the skyscraper with a transmitting antenna on its roof, a gigantic building that is also a nodal point in a gigantic digital infrastructure. Steiner and Veel focus on two paradigmatic tower sites: the Eiffel Tower and the Twin Towers of the destroyed World Trade Center (as well as their replacement, the One World Trade Center tower). They consider, among other things, philosophical interpretations of the Eiffel Tower; the design and destruction of the Twin Towers; the architectural debates surrounding the erection of One World Trade Center on the Ground Zero site; and such recent examples of gigantism across architecture and digital culture as Rem Koolhaas's headquarters for China Central TV and the phenomenon of the “tech giant.” Examining the cultural, architectural, and media history of these towers, they analyze the changing conceptions of the gigantism that they represent, not just as physical structures but as sites for the projection of cultural ideas and ideals.

Author: Frederik Le Roy
Publisher: Academia Press
ISBN: 9038217226
Size: 64.34 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Tickle Your Catastrophe

by Frederik Le Roy, Tickle Your Catastrophe Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Tickle Your Catastrophe books, A collection of essays that takes stock of the current impact of the image and imagination of the catastrophe in art, science and philosophy

Author: Kristi Brian
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439901856
Size: 24.80 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Reframing Transracial Adoption

by Kristi Brian, Reframing Transracial Adoption Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Reframing Transracial Adoption books, Until the late twentieth century, the majority of foreign-born children adopted in the United States came from Korea. In the absorbing book Reframing Transracial Adoption, Kristi Brian investigates the power dynamics at work between the white families, the Korean adoptees, and the unknown birth mothers. Brian conducts interviews with adult adopted Koreans, adoptive parents, and adoption agency facilitators in the United States to explore the conflicting interpretations of race, culture, multiculturalism, and family. Brian argues for broad changes as she critiques the so-called "colorblind" adoption policy in the United States. Analyzing the process of kinship formation, the racial aspects of these adoptions, and the experience of adoptees, she reveals the stifling impact of dominant nuclear-family ideologies and the crowded intersections of competing racial discourses. Brian finds a resolution in the efforts of adult adoptees to form coherent identities and launch powerful adoption reform movements.

Author: George C. Verenet
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : fr
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Les On Dit Et Les On Ne Dit Pas Ou Les Plaintes De La Muse Franca Ise

by George C. Verenet, Les On Dit Et Les On Ne Dit Pas Ou Les Plaintes De La Muse Franca Ise Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Les On Dit Et Les On Ne Dit Pas Ou Les Plaintes De La Muse Franca Ise books,

Author: Rolando V. Garcia
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 148318966X
Size: 58.48 MB
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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The Constant Catastrophe

by Rolando V. Garcia, The Constant Catastrophe Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Constant Catastrophe books, The Constant Catastrophe: Malnutrition, Famines, and Drought deals with the 1972 drought, and emphasizes the underlying social conditions that are related to its effects. The book examines the relationship of drought as a meteorological event and the famine that results as a social event. The effects of natural catastrophes become transformed by social structures and political processes in many countries of the world, more than which can be attributable to the physical cause itself. A striking parallelism that emerges in the study is that climatological analysis implies reference to large scale space and time processes. Famine also occurs as anomalies within large-scale processes in society—famine changes nutritional levels in communities. The text proposes a theoretical framework for a methodologically-adequate diagnostic tool that can be used in studying the "factual events" in previous cases of major disasters due to climactic factors. Case studies include those that happened in the Sahel, Ethiopia, India, China, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. Among several recommendations, one which the book proposes in the management of the effects of drought, is to adopt an approach similar to that of the Red Cross. The book is suitable for economists, environmentalists, ecologists, and policy makers involved in crisis management, food production, and rural development.

Author: Jessica Whyte
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438448546
Size: 69.98 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Catastrophe And Redemption

by Jessica Whyte, Catastrophe And Redemption Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Catastrophe And Redemption books, Offers a striking new reading of Agamben’s political thought and its implications for political action in the present. Challenging the prevalent account of Agamben as a pessimistic thinker, Catastrophe and Redemption proposes a reading of his political thought in which the redemptive element of his work is not a curious aside but instead is fundamental to his project. Jessica Whyte considers his critical account of contemporary politics—his argument that Western politics has been “biopolitics” since its inception, his critique of human rights, his argument that the state of exception is now the norm, and the paradigmatic significance he attributes to the concentration camp—and shows that it is in the midst of these catastrophes of the present that Agamben sees the possibility of a form of profane redemption. Whyte outlines the importance of potentiality in his attempt to formulate a new politics, examines his relation to Jewish and Christian strands of messianism, and interrogates the new forms of praxis that he situates within contemporary commodity culture, taking Agamben’s thought as a call for the creation of new political forms.