Myth of Sisyphus
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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
Nature
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Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson's writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the idea of going for a walk as a new way of looking at the world.
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Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson's writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the idea of going for a walk as a new way of looking at the world.
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Les États-Unis du vent
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Fin 2010. De l'automne tardif au début de l'hiver, Daniel Canty devient chercheur de vent. À bord de la Blue Rider, un vénérable camion d'un bleu de minuit coiffé d'une girouette, il s'abandonne à une dérive entièrement dictée par la fluidité des courants aériens. L'aventure l'emporte des plaines herbeuses du Midwest à Chicago la venteuse, il s'engouffre dans le wind(...)
Les États-Unis du vent
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Fin 2010. De l'automne tardif au début de l'hiver, Daniel Canty devient chercheur de vent. À bord de la Blue Rider, un vénérable camion d'un bleu de minuit coiffé d'une girouette, il s'abandonne à une dérive entièrement dictée par la fluidité des courants aériens. L'aventure l'emporte des plaines herbeuses du Midwest à Chicago la venteuse, il s'engouffre dans le wind tunnel des Grands Lacs, découvre les cités d'industrie perdue de la rust belt, bifurque par les pastoraux territoires amish vers les forêts de Pennsylvanie, terres d'or noir et de guerre civile. Entre travelogue et fabulation, Les États-Unis du vent est un livre aux pieds ailés, où transparaît la carte d'une Amérique invisible, nappée par la lumière des révélations.
Littérature et poésie
Pourquoi Bologne
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Un écrivain dédoublé entre deux époques ne se sent bien dans aucune. Nous sommes à McGill en 1962 et en 2012, en même temps. Mais le problème est ailleurs : sur le campus, un psychiatre se livre à des expériences de déprogrammation sur ses patients. Nab Safi, l’oncle de l’écrivain, en sait quelque chose, mais il n’est bientôt plus là pour en témoigner. Commence alors une(...)
Pourquoi Bologne
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Un écrivain dédoublé entre deux époques ne se sent bien dans aucune. Nous sommes à McGill en 1962 et en 2012, en même temps. Mais le problème est ailleurs : sur le campus, un psychiatre se livre à des expériences de déprogrammation sur ses patients. Nab Safi, l’oncle de l’écrivain, en sait quelque chose, mais il n’est bientôt plus là pour en témoigner. Commence alors une enquête où se télescopent les lieux, les objets, les souvenirs et les gens. À la fois roman de S. F. rétro et autofiction, Pourquoi Bologne est un livre sur la résilience et la littérature comme remède, sur la nécessité de raconter des histoires pour s’en sortir.
Littérature et poésie
The fountainhead
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This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special afterword by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand’s own notes on the making of The Fountainhead.
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This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special afterword by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand’s own notes on the making of The Fountainhead.
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Les villes invisibles
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À travers un dialogue imaginaire entre Marco Polo et l'empereur Kublai Khan, Italo Calvino nous offre un "dernier poème d'amour aux villes" et une subtile réflexion sur le langage, l'utopie et notre monde moderne.
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À travers un dialogue imaginaire entre Marco Polo et l'empereur Kublai Khan, Italo Calvino nous offre un "dernier poème d'amour aux villes" et une subtile réflexion sur le langage, l'utopie et notre monde moderne.
Littérature et poésie
Mercury station
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Published by Semiotext(e) in 2005, Mark von Schlegell’s debut novel Venusia was hailed in the sci-fi and literary worlds as a “breathtaking excursion” and “heady kaleidoscopic trip,” establishing him as an important practitioner of vanguard science fiction. Mercury Station, the second book in Von Schlegell’s System Series, continues the journey into a dystopian literary future.
Mercury station
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Published by Semiotext(e) in 2005, Mark von Schlegell’s debut novel Venusia was hailed in the sci-fi and literary worlds as a “breathtaking excursion” and “heady kaleidoscopic trip,” establishing him as an important practitioner of vanguard science fiction. Mercury Station, the second book in Von Schlegell’s System Series, continues the journey into a dystopian literary future.
Littérature et poésie
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After Kathy Acker met McKenzie Wark on a trip to Australia in 1995, they had a brief fling and immediately began a heated two-week email correspondence. Their emails shimmer with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary. They write in a frenzy, several times a day; their emails cross somewhere over the International Date Line, and themselves become a site of(...)
I'm very into you, correspondence, 1995-1996
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After Kathy Acker met McKenzie Wark on a trip to Australia in 1995, they had a brief fling and immediately began a heated two-week email correspondence. Their emails shimmer with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary. They write in a frenzy, several times a day; their emails cross somewhere over the International Date Line, and themselves become a site of analysis. What results is an index of how two idiosyncratic writers might go about a courtship across 7,500 miles of airspace—by pulling in Alfred Hitchcock, stuffed animals, Georges Bataille, Elvis Presley, phenomenology, Marxism, The X-files, psychoanalysis, and the I Ching.
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Why are books, in all their forms, so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives--our own personal libraries--make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection, ''The Library and Other Stories'', are about what we do with books and what they(...)
Public library and other stories
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Why are books, in all their forms, so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives--our own personal libraries--make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection, ''The Library and Other Stories'', are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us, friends for life; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser, and ageless all at once; how they coax us endlessly to unexpected blossom; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic(...)
Fairy tales: when architecture tells a story
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic array of forms - from stories, to poems, memoirs, and comics - these entries bring new meaning to architecture, its value, and its place in society.
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