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Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be(...)
Glass (Object Lessons series)
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Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding a unique promise for new forms of interaction. Grounded in everyday examples, this book offers a series of surprising insights into how we increasingly find ourselves living in a world made of glass.
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Fake (Object Lessons)
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The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing and improving upon the real thing for millennia – from wooden toes found on Egyptian mummies to the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas. So why do people have such disdain for so-called “fakes”? Kati Stevens's Fake(...)
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The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing and improving upon the real thing for millennia – from wooden toes found on Egyptian mummies to the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas. So why do people have such disdain for so-called “fakes”? Kati Stevens's Fake discusses the strange history of imitations, as well as our ever-changing psychological and socioeconomic relationships with them. After all, fakes aren't going anywhere; they seem to be going everywhere.
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises(...)
Whose story is this? Essays at the intersection
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we(...)
How to do nothing: resisting the attention economy
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, ''How to do nothing'' is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism.
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Mindfulness is now all the rage. From celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have even called it a revolution. But what if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality(...)
Mcmindfulness: how mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality
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Mindfulness is now all the rage. From celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have even called it a revolution. But what if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo? In ''McMindfulness,'' Ronald Purser debunks the so-called 'mindfulness revolution,' exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have co-opted it as technique for social control and self-pacification. Purser busts the myths its salesmen rely on, challenging the narrative that stress is self-imposed and mindfulness is the cure-all.
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Le ciel et la mer
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Cet ouvrage réunit trois conférences d’Alain Corbin, dans lesquelles l’auteur se penche sur notre rapport à la météorologie, à l’eau et à la mer. La sensibilité au temps qu’il fait a une histoire : chaleur et froid polaire, pluie, vent n'ont ni la même signification ni la même réception selon les époques. De même, notre relation avec l’eau, douce ou salée, a évolué :(...)
Le ciel et la mer
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Cet ouvrage réunit trois conférences d’Alain Corbin, dans lesquelles l’auteur se penche sur notre rapport à la météorologie, à l’eau et à la mer. La sensibilité au temps qu’il fait a une histoire : chaleur et froid polaire, pluie, vent n'ont ni la même signification ni la même réception selon les époques. De même, notre relation avec l’eau, douce ou salée, a évolué : bienfaisantes ou malfaisantes pour le corps humain, toutes les eaux ne se valent pas, et leurs qualités, illusoires ou non, changent au fil des siècles. Enfin, si les bords de mer sont déjà convoités à l’époque romaine, ce n’est qu’à partir du XVIIIe siècle que les rivages exercent une véritable attraction. Les angoisses face au ciel, l’eau comme « riche support de croyances, de fantasmes et, surtout, de rêves », la mer « apprivoisée », vue de la terre ferme – ce sont ces matières-là, malléables et fascinantes, qui nourrissent les pages de l’historien.
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The life and work of the outstanding Catalan-Majorcan philosopher, logician, and mystic Ramon Llull continues to fascinate thinkers, artists, and scholars worldwide The primary idea of Ramon Llull’s teachings—to enable rational and therefore trustworthy dialogue between cultures and religions through a universally valid system of symbols—is today still topical and of(...)
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Dia-logos:Ramon Llull's method of thought and artistic practice
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The life and work of the outstanding Catalan-Majorcan philosopher, logician, and mystic Ramon Llull continues to fascinate thinkers, artists, and scholars worldwide The primary idea of Ramon Llull’s teachings—to enable rational and therefore trustworthy dialogue between cultures and religions through a universally valid system of symbols—is today still topical and of great relevance, especially in the tensions prevailing in globalized spaces of possibility. This book addresses Lullism as a remarkable and distinctive method of thinking and experimenting. The origins and impact of Ramon Llull’s oeuvre as a modern thinker are presented, and their interdisciplinary and intercultural implications, which continue to this day, are explored. Ars combinatoria, generative and permutative generation of texts, the epistemic and poetic power of algorithmic systems, plus the principle of unconditional dialogue between cultural groups and their individual members, are the most important coordinates of this combinatorial–dialogical media and communication theory, which appeared very early in the history of science, technology, and art. It was developed in the work of Ramon Llull during the transition from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century when Arab-Islamic, Jewish, and Christian cultures intersected.
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San Francisco, 1967. Le Summer of Love bat son plein et des milliers de jeunes arrivent de tous les États-Unis pour atteindre le quartier de Haight-Ashbury, laboratoire de l’utopie libertaire des sixties. Fruit de l’activisme et de l’idéalisme d’une jeunesse révoltée, elle a pris forme en quelques années sous l’action des beatniks, Diggers, Merry Pranksters, hippies,(...)
San Francisco : l'utopie libertaire des sixties
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San Francisco, 1967. Le Summer of Love bat son plein et des milliers de jeunes arrivent de tous les États-Unis pour atteindre le quartier de Haight-Ashbury, laboratoire de l’utopie libertaire des sixties. Fruit de l’activisme et de l’idéalisme d’une jeunesse révoltée, elle a pris forme en quelques années sous l’action des beatniks, Diggers, Merry Pranksters, hippies, Hell’s Angels, artistes et de toutes les tribus du San Francisco psychédélique qui aspirent à bien plus que le traditionnel peace and love caricaturé par les médias. Ils défendent entre autres la liberté, la gratuité, la spiritualité, l’autonomie et la solidarité, dans la perspective d’un monde plus juste et harmonieux. De leurs imaginations est né un monde qui continue de propager aujourd’hui ses initiatives contre le système dominant, proposant des alternatives, notamment l’écologie, face à l’individualisme forcené.
La révolution féministe
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Le féminisme est révolutionnaire ou il n’est pas : voilà la thèse soutenue par Aurore Koechlin, qui se propose d’abord de guider ses lectrices et lecteurs à travers l’histoire trop méconnue des différentes vagues féministes. Du MLF à l’intersectionnalité, de l’émergence d’un « féminisme d’État » au féminisme de la reproduction sociale, ce petit livre tire le bilan(...)
La révolution féministe
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Le féminisme est révolutionnaire ou il n’est pas : voilà la thèse soutenue par Aurore Koechlin, qui se propose d’abord de guider ses lectrices et lecteurs à travers l’histoire trop méconnue des différentes vagues féministes. Du MLF à l’intersectionnalité, de l’émergence d’un « féminisme d’État » au féminisme de la reproduction sociale, ce petit livre tire le bilan politique et intellectuel d’une quarantaine d’années de combats, repère leurs impasses, souligne leurs forces, pour contribuer aux luttes actuelles et à venir.
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Roland Barthes
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Figure centrale de la pensée française, Roland Barthes (1915-1980) a traversé tous les grands courants intellectuels du XXe siècle. Il en fut même, selon ses dires, la chambre d’échos. Quarante ans après sa mort, on ne cesse de s’y reporter : il appartient à la catégorie restreinte de ceux que Foucault désigne comme des « fondateurs de discursivité », ces écrivains qui(...)
Roland Barthes
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Figure centrale de la pensée française, Roland Barthes (1915-1980) a traversé tous les grands courants intellectuels du XXe siècle. Il en fut même, selon ses dires, la chambre d’échos. Quarante ans après sa mort, on ne cesse de s’y reporter : il appartient à la catégorie restreinte de ceux que Foucault désigne comme des « fondateurs de discursivité », ces écrivains qui donnent à écrire et à penser. Mathieu Messager livre aux lecteurs d’aujourd’hui un portrait revisité de Roland Barthes, où il aborde directement ses travaux, dans leur contexte et dans leur chronologie, en mettant l’accent sur ce qui nous les rend si nécessaires et si actuels.
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