The world set free
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German artist and visual essayist Fabian Reimann (born 1975) has taken on Stewart Brand and the'' Whole Earth Catalog'' in extended research projects that blend history and science, fact and fiction- resulting in such books as 2012's ''Another Earth Catalog''' and 2017's ''Space Colonies.'' With this publication, Reimann turns his attention to concepts of the world put(...)
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German artist and visual essayist Fabian Reimann (born 1975) has taken on Stewart Brand and the'' Whole Earth Catalog'' in extended research projects that blend history and science, fact and fiction- resulting in such books as 2012's ''Another Earth Catalog''' and 2017's ''Space Colonies.'' With this publication, Reimann turns his attention to concepts of the world put forward by the ever-popular British science fiction writer H.G. Wells (1866–1946).
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Being and neonness
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For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. For Luis de Miranda, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. ''Being and Neonness'' is a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from early twentieth-century Paris to the electric, perpetually switched-on present day Manhattan. It is an(...)
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For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. For Luis de Miranda, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. ''Being and Neonness'' is a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from early twentieth-century Paris to the electric, perpetually switched-on present day Manhattan. It is an inspired journey through a century of night, deciphering the halos of the past and the reflections of the present to shed light on the future.
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Economic science fictions
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From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley’s consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In "Economic Science Fictions", editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian imagination to revitalise economic thinking. Rooted in the sense that our current(...)
Economic science fictions
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From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley’s consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In "Economic Science Fictions", editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian imagination to revitalise economic thinking. Rooted in the sense that our current economic reality is no longer credible or viable, this collection treats our economy as a series of fictions and science fiction as a means of anticipating different economic futures. It asks how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics and provides surprising new syntheses, merging social science with fiction, design with politics, scholarship with experimental forms.
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Inferno: the trash project
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Why do we find ourselves so attracted to the cheap and vulgar, the discarded, the misshapen and the abject? What do we really mean when we say that something is “so bad it's good,” and what finally does it say about us? Part personal confession and part historical roadmap of tales from the underground and exploitation movie scene in America during the 1960s, ''Inferno''(...)
Inferno: the trash project
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Why do we find ourselves so attracted to the cheap and vulgar, the discarded, the misshapen and the abject? What do we really mean when we say that something is “so bad it's good,” and what finally does it say about us? Part personal confession and part historical roadmap of tales from the underground and exploitation movie scene in America during the 1960s, ''Inferno'' takes the reader on a journey deep into the heart of the trash experience. With this publication, Hollings offers a complex and intricate timeline of connections, coincidences, and resonances that have mostly gone unnoticed. He traces the transmission of “the Purple Death,” a deadly and exotic virus first depicted in an old episode of a Flash Gordon movie serial, through the films of Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, and Kenneth Anger and into the output of such exploitation pioneers as Ray Dennis Steckler, Hershel Gordon Lewis, and Russ Meyer. Hollings also turns his idiosyncratic gaze upon key aspects of teenage culture during the 1960s, including hot rods, “Rat Fink,” surfers, bikers, and beach parties, uncovering a secretive and hidden universe of masks, fake identities, and secret desires. Even Dante would think twice about taking this trip into Hell.
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The hundreds
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In ''The Hundreds'' Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint- each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long- amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the(...)
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In ''The Hundreds'' Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint- each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long- amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What's an encounter with anything once it's seen as an incitement to composition? What's a concept or a theory if they're no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? ''The Hundreds'' includes four indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.
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On freedom
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In this book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein asks us to rethink freedom. He shows that freedom of choice isn't nearly enough. To be free, we must also be able to navigate life. People often need something like a GPS device to help them get where they want to go- whether the issue involves health, money, jobs, children, or relationships. In both rich and(...)
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In this book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein asks us to rethink freedom. He shows that freedom of choice isn't nearly enough. To be free, we must also be able to navigate life. People often need something like a GPS device to help them get where they want to go- whether the issue involves health, money, jobs, children, or relationships. In both rich and poor countries, citizens often have no idea how to get to their desired destination. That is why they are unfree. People also face serious problems of self-control, as many of them make decisions today that can make their lives worse tomorrow. And in some cases, we would be just as happy with other choices, whether a different partner, career, or place to live- which raises the difficult question of which outcome best promotes our well-being.
The power of cute
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Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokémon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum and E.T.—all reflect its gathering power. But what does ''cute'' mean, as a sensibility and style? Why is it so pervasive? Is it all infantile fluff, or is there something more uncanny and even menacing going(...)
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Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokémon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum and E.T.—all reflect its gathering power. But what does ''cute'' mean, as a sensibility and style? Why is it so pervasive? Is it all infantile fluff, or is there something more uncanny and even menacing going on—in a lighthearted way? In ''The Power of Cute,'' Simon May provides nuanced and surprising answers.
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Post-histoire
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Cette pulbication rassemble une vingtaine d’essais qui ont été initialement des conférences données par le philosophe Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) dans des universités de Marseille, Jérusalem et Sao Paulo. Initialement écrit en anglais, puis traduit en allemand et en portugais, Post-Histoire a été édité pour la première fois au Brésil en 1983. Cette version française n’a(...)
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Cette pulbication rassemble une vingtaine d’essais qui ont été initialement des conférences données par le philosophe Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) dans des universités de Marseille, Jérusalem et Sao Paulo. Initialement écrit en anglais, puis traduit en allemand et en portugais, Post-Histoire a été édité pour la première fois au Brésil en 1983. Cette version française n’a encore jamais été publiée. Ce texte se veut être, pour l’auteur, le « miroir de la condition humaine aujourd’hui », et offre au lecteur une critique féroce de la société tout en posant la question de la place laissée à la liberté dans un monde programmé.
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Amateurs de luxe, critiques sans goût, femme cruelle, mari inconstant... Dans ces textes brefs, Diderot dépeint moeurs et travers de ses contemporains d'une plume qui, si elle est infiniment acérée, ne cède pourtant jamais au jugement.
Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre
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Amateurs de luxe, critiques sans goût, femme cruelle, mari inconstant... Dans ces textes brefs, Diderot dépeint moeurs et travers de ses contemporains d'une plume qui, si elle est infiniment acérée, ne cède pourtant jamais au jugement.
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The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.” The quality of a human life cannot be measured simply in terms of resources, options, and moments of happiness; instead, we(...)
Resonance: a sociology of the relationship to the world
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The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.” The quality of a human life cannot be measured simply in terms of resources, options, and moments of happiness; instead, we must consider our relationship to, or resonance with, the world. Applying his theory of resonance to many domains of human activity, Rosa describesthe full spectrum of ways in which we establish our relationship to the world, from the act of breathing to the adoption of culturally distinct worldviews. He then turns to therealms of concrete experience and action – family and politics, work and sports, religion and art – in which we as late modern subjects seek out resonance.
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