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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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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Phenomenology: the basics
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''Phenomenology: The Basics'' is a concise and engaging introduction to one of the dominant philosophical movements of the 20th century. This book provides an introduction to the essential phenomenological concepts that are crucial for understanding great thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Written by a leading expert in the field, Dan Zahavi examines(...)
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''Phenomenology: The Basics'' is a concise and engaging introduction to one of the dominant philosophical movements of the 20th century. This book provides an introduction to the essential phenomenological concepts that are crucial for understanding great thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Written by a leading expert in the field, Dan Zahavi examines and explains key questions.
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'Essential Essays' showcases Adrienne Rich’s singular ability to unite the political, personal, and poetical. The essays selected here by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert range from the 1960s to 2006, emphasizing Rich’s lifelong intellectual engagement and fearless prose exploration of feminism, social justice, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity.
Adrienne Rich: Essential essays. Culture politics and the art of poetry
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'Essential Essays' showcases Adrienne Rich’s singular ability to unite the political, personal, and poetical. The essays selected here by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert range from the 1960s to 2006, emphasizing Rich’s lifelong intellectual engagement and fearless prose exploration of feminism, social justice, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity.
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Ce livre propose un pari audacieux : prendre notre relation avec les chiens au sérieux et apprendre «une éthique et une politique dévolues à la prolifération de relations avec des êtres autres qui comptent». Car la catégorie des espèces compagnes est bien plus vaste que celle des animaux de compagnie, elle inclut en effet le riz, les abeilles, la flore intestinale, les(...)
Manifeste des espèces compagnies
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Ce livre propose un pari audacieux : prendre notre relation avec les chiens au sérieux et apprendre «une éthique et une politique dévolues à la prolifération de relations avec des êtres autres qui comptent». Car la catégorie des espèces compagnes est bien plus vaste que celle des animaux de compagnie, elle inclut en effet le riz, les abeilles, la flore intestinale, les tulipes… «Vivre avec les animaux, investir leurs histoires et les nôtres, essayer de dire la vérité au sujet de ces relations, cohabiter au sein d’une histoire active : voilà la tâche des espèces compagnes.» Pas de grands récits, donc, mais des histoires, dont le but est avant tout, dit Donna Haraway, de mettre des bâtons dans les roues au projet humain d’écrire seuls cette histoire.
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To mark the birthday of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologist, Oxford University Press has reissued the definitive edition of Darwin's classic - a brilliantly entertaining and accessible exploration of human and animal behavior. Psychologist Paul Ekman's edited version of this book is the first to appear the way Darwin ultimately intended, with all of the(...)
The expression of emotions in man and animals, 200th anniversary edition
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To mark the birthday of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologist, Oxford University Press has reissued the definitive edition of Darwin's classic - a brilliantly entertaining and accessible exploration of human and animal behavior. Psychologist Paul Ekman's edited version of this book is the first to appear the way Darwin ultimately intended, with all of the corrections and additions that were in Darwin's notes for a revision that was never published during his lifetime.
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