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Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as found in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to(...)
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Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as found in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to(...)
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Bill Bryson : at home, a short history of private life (paperback)
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Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as found in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to "write a history of the world without leaving home." The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demostrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.
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Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as found in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to "write a history of the world without leaving home." The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demostrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.
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A walk in the woods
A walk in the woods
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The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America – majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaing guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of(...)
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The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America – majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaing guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of(...)
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A walk in the woods
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The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America – majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaing guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way – and a couple of bears.
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The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America – majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaing guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way – and a couple of bears.
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"Democracy is the worst form of government-except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Challenging Democracy tries to get to the bottom of the dilemma expressed in this world-famous quote from Winston Churchill. Designed as a visual reader that makes targeted use of the communicative power of the image, the book constitutes a comprehensive(...)
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"Democracy is the worst form of government-except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Challenging Democracy tries to get to the bottom of the dilemma expressed in this world-famous quote from Winston Churchill. Designed as a visual reader that makes targeted use of the communicative power of the image, the book constitutes a comprehensive(...)
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Democracy : an ongoing challenge
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"Democracy is the worst form of government-except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Challenging Democracy tries to get to the bottom of the dilemma expressed in this world-famous quote from Winston Churchill. Designed as a visual reader that makes targeted use of the communicative power of the image, the book constitutes a comprehensive compendium on the history, development, and current debates on democracy. Are democracies more capable than other forms of government?
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"Democracy is the worst form of government-except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Challenging Democracy tries to get to the bottom of the dilemma expressed in this world-famous quote from Winston Churchill. Designed as a visual reader that makes targeted use of the communicative power of the image, the book constitutes a comprehensive compendium on the history, development, and current debates on democracy. Are democracies more capable than other forms of government?
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Théorie du drone
Théorie du drone
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Ce livre montre la gravité des questions éthiques, psychologiques, juridiques que pose cette nouvelle merveille de la technologie militaire.
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Ce livre montre la gravité des questions éthiques, psychologiques, juridiques que pose cette nouvelle merveille de la technologie militaire.
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Théorie du drone
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Ce livre montre la gravité des questions éthiques, psychologiques, juridiques que pose cette nouvelle merveille de la technologie militaire.
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Ce livre montre la gravité des questions éthiques, psychologiques, juridiques que pose cette nouvelle merveille de la technologie militaire.
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Martha Rosler, Culture class
Martha Rosler, Culture class
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In this collection of essays Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today’s soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural movements, the organic translation of the gritty into the quaint, and the(...)
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In this collection of essays Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today’s soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural movements, the organic translation of the gritty into the quaint, and the(...)
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September 2013
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Martha Rosler, Culture class
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In this collection of essays Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today’s soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural movements, the organic translation of the gritty into the quaint, and the professionalization of the artist combine with armies of eager freelancers and interns to constitute a new social sphere in which an elaborate retooling of traditional markers of difference has allowed class distinctions to be dissolved or willfully suppressed. The result is a handful of cities selected for revitalization rather than desertion, where artists in search of cheap rent become the avant-garde pioneers of gentrification. And it may be for this reason that, for Rosler, it becomes all the more necessary to locate the functioning of power within this new urban paradigm, to find a position from which to make it accountable to something other than its own logic.
Martha Rosler, Culture class
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In this collection of essays Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today’s soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural movements, the organic translation of the gritty into the quaint, and the professionalization of the artist combine with armies of eager freelancers and interns to constitute a new social sphere in which an elaborate retooling of traditional markers of difference has allowed class distinctions to be dissolved or willfully suppressed. The result is a handful of cities selected for revitalization rather than desertion, where artists in search of cheap rent become the avant-garde pioneers of gentrification. And it may be for this reason that, for Rosler, it becomes all the more necessary to locate the functioning of power within this new urban paradigm, to find a position from which to make it accountable to something other than its own logic.
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Biopolitics: a reader
Biopolitics: a reader
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This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics that has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical - the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body - is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the(...)
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This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics that has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical - the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body - is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the(...)
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Biopolitics: a reader
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This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics that has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical - the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body - is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the global distribution of essential medicines and medical technologies. By focusing on the concept of biopolitics, rather than applying it to specific events and phenomena, this reader provides an enduring framework for assessing the central problematics of modern political thought.
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This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics that has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical - the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body - is not surprising given its centrality to matters such as healthcare, abortion, immigration, and the global distribution of essential medicines and medical technologies. By focusing on the concept of biopolitics, rather than applying it to specific events and phenomena, this reader provides an enduring framework for assessing the central problematics of modern political thought.
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Sarah Sharma conducted ethnographic research among individuals whose jobs or avocations involve a persistent focus on time: taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, corporate yoga instructors, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements. Based on that research, she develops the concept of "power-chronography" to make visible the entangled and uneven(...)
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Sarah Sharma conducted ethnographic research among individuals whose jobs or avocations involve a persistent focus on time: taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, corporate yoga instructors, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements. Based on that research, she develops the concept of "power-chronography" to make visible the entangled and uneven(...)
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In the meantime: temporality and cultural politics
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Sarah Sharma conducted ethnographic research among individuals whose jobs or avocations involve a persistent focus on time: taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, corporate yoga instructors, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements. Based on that research, she develops the concept of "power-chronography" to make visible the entangled and uneven politics of temporality. Focusing on how people's different relationships to labor configures their experience of time, she argues that both "speed-up" and "slow-down" often function as a form of biopolitical social control necessary to contemporary global capitalism.
In the meantime: temporality and cultural politics
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Sarah Sharma conducted ethnographic research among individuals whose jobs or avocations involve a persistent focus on time: taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, corporate yoga instructors, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements. Based on that research, she develops the concept of "power-chronography" to make visible the entangled and uneven politics of temporality. Focusing on how people's different relationships to labor configures their experience of time, she argues that both "speed-up" and "slow-down" often function as a form of biopolitical social control necessary to contemporary global capitalism.
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L'esprit de révolte
L'esprit de révolte
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Géographe d’envergure proprement planétaire, familier des phénomènes de glaciations et des immenses espaces sibériens, Pierre Kropotkine (1842-1921) mériterait d’être qualifié, souverainement, de «Prince de l’anarchie». L’Esprit de Révolte, courte analyse d’une clarté exemplaire, vaut aussi par sa manière originale d’aborder l’histoire, en focalisant l’intérêt sur sa face(...)
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Géographe d’envergure proprement planétaire, familier des phénomènes de glaciations et des immenses espaces sibériens, Pierre Kropotkine (1842-1921) mériterait d’être qualifié, souverainement, de «Prince de l’anarchie». L’Esprit de Révolte, courte analyse d’une clarté exemplaire, vaut aussi par sa manière originale d’aborder l’histoire, en focalisant l’intérêt sur sa face(...)
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L'esprit de révolte
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Géographe d’envergure proprement planétaire, familier des phénomènes de glaciations et des immenses espaces sibériens, Pierre Kropotkine (1842-1921) mériterait d’être qualifié, souverainement, de «Prince de l’anarchie». L’Esprit de Révolte, courte analyse d’une clarté exemplaire, vaut aussi par sa manière originale d’aborder l’histoire, en focalisant l’intérêt sur sa face d’ombre, sur l’action, singulière, matricielle, de ces «sentinelles perdues», «individus héroïques» et presque toujours anonymes, qui mirent, littéralement parlant, le feu aux poudres, et symboliquement parlant, suscitèrent l’éveil à la lutte et l’entrée volontaire dans l’organisation économique, politique, sociale et culturelle des masses exploitées, manipulées, hallucinées, dupées.
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Géographe d’envergure proprement planétaire, familier des phénomènes de glaciations et des immenses espaces sibériens, Pierre Kropotkine (1842-1921) mériterait d’être qualifié, souverainement, de «Prince de l’anarchie». L’Esprit de Révolte, courte analyse d’une clarté exemplaire, vaut aussi par sa manière originale d’aborder l’histoire, en focalisant l’intérêt sur sa face d’ombre, sur l’action, singulière, matricielle, de ces «sentinelles perdues», «individus héroïques» et presque toujours anonymes, qui mirent, littéralement parlant, le feu aux poudres, et symboliquement parlant, suscitèrent l’éveil à la lutte et l’entrée volontaire dans l’organisation économique, politique, sociale et culturelle des masses exploitées, manipulées, hallucinées, dupées.
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La technique, fait social, ne s’inscrit pas dans une histoire déterminée par la recherche de l’efficacité, l’ouvrage le démontre en évoquant les voies choisies par diverses civilisations. Mais la chaleur comme puissance motrice ouvre, de manière inattendue, au XIXe siècle une nouvelle trajectoire thermo-industrielle. L’innovation technique se fige dès lors dans une(...)
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La technique, fait social, ne s’inscrit pas dans une histoire déterminée par la recherche de l’efficacité, l’ouvrage le démontre en évoquant les voies choisies par diverses civilisations. Mais la chaleur comme puissance motrice ouvre, de manière inattendue, au XIXe siècle une nouvelle trajectoire thermo-industrielle. L’innovation technique se fige dès lors dans une(...)
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Les imaginaires de l'innovation technique
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La technique, fait social, ne s’inscrit pas dans une histoire déterminée par la recherche de l’efficacité, l’ouvrage le démontre en évoquant les voies choisies par diverses civilisations. Mais la chaleur comme puissance motrice ouvre, de manière inattendue, au XIXe siècle une nouvelle trajectoire thermo-industrielle. L’innovation technique se fige dès lors dans une prédation accentuée de la nature, qui aujourd’hui concerne même les énergies renouvelables. Une nouvelle trajectoire de rupture s’avère nécessaire dans le cadre d’une pacification de nos rapports avec la nature.
Les imaginaires de l'innovation technique
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La technique, fait social, ne s’inscrit pas dans une histoire déterminée par la recherche de l’efficacité, l’ouvrage le démontre en évoquant les voies choisies par diverses civilisations. Mais la chaleur comme puissance motrice ouvre, de manière inattendue, au XIXe siècle une nouvelle trajectoire thermo-industrielle. L’innovation technique se fige dès lors dans une prédation accentuée de la nature, qui aujourd’hui concerne même les énergies renouvelables. Une nouvelle trajectoire de rupture s’avère nécessaire dans le cadre d’une pacification de nos rapports avec la nature.
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Les punks des années 70 ont désormais fait place aux cyberpunks. Eux aussi proclament un "No Future" mais inversé : "Nous avons déjà demain, c'est aujourd'hui que nous voulons." Loin de n'être qu'un sous-genre de la science-fiction, le Cyberpunk est un véritable phénomène culturel. Il essaime dans tous les modes d'expression, de la musique à la bande dessinée en passant(...)
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Les punks des années 70 ont désormais fait place aux cyberpunks. Eux aussi proclament un "No Future" mais inversé : "Nous avons déjà demain, c'est aujourd'hui que nous voulons." Loin de n'être qu'un sous-genre de la science-fiction, le Cyberpunk est un véritable phénomène culturel. Il essaime dans tous les modes d'expression, de la musique à la bande dessinée en passant(...)
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Cyberpunk
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Les punks des années 70 ont désormais fait place aux cyberpunks. Eux aussi proclament un "No Future" mais inversé : "Nous avons déjà demain, c'est aujourd'hui que nous voulons." Loin de n'être qu'un sous-genre de la science-fiction, le Cyberpunk est un véritable phénomène culturel. Il essaime dans tous les modes d'expression, de la musique à la bande dessinée en passant par le jeu vidéo ou mieux encore le cinéma, où il excelle. Dans cet univers, "le dingue d'informatique et le rocker se rejoignent". Mark Downham cartographie cette nébuleuse en effervescence. Il en dessine l'esthétique et dissèque la genèse du phénomène, en le rapportant à la critique du spectacle de Debord, ici étendue à l'emprise de la technologie sur la vie quotidienne.
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Les punks des années 70 ont désormais fait place aux cyberpunks. Eux aussi proclament un "No Future" mais inversé : "Nous avons déjà demain, c'est aujourd'hui que nous voulons." Loin de n'être qu'un sous-genre de la science-fiction, le Cyberpunk est un véritable phénomène culturel. Il essaime dans tous les modes d'expression, de la musique à la bande dessinée en passant par le jeu vidéo ou mieux encore le cinéma, où il excelle. Dans cet univers, "le dingue d'informatique et le rocker se rejoignent". Mark Downham cartographie cette nébuleuse en effervescence. Il en dessine l'esthétique et dissèque la genèse du phénomène, en le rapportant à la critique du spectacle de Debord, ici étendue à l'emprise de la technologie sur la vie quotidienne.
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