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This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships. Far more than a timeline of events, Lighter Than Air focuses on the people -- flamboyant and daring, heroes and scoundrels -- who made history in the sky. Here are the eighteenth-century(...)
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This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships. Far more than a timeline of events, Lighter Than Air focuses on the people -- flamboyant and daring, heroes and scoundrels -- who made history in the sky. Here are the eighteenth-century(...)
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avril 2009, Baltimore, Washington
avril 2009, Baltimore, Washington
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Lighter than air: an illustrated history of balloons and airships
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This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships. Far more than a timeline of events, Lighter Than Air focuses on the people -- flamboyant and daring, heroes and scoundrels -- who made history in the sky. Here are the eighteenth-century pioneers who first took to the skies, the peripatetic aeronauts who criss-crossed two continents a century later, the airmen who manned the great rigid airships, and the intrepid balloonists who flew their craft across oceans and continents in the years following World War II. Tom D. Crouch, senior curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, has written and edited over a dozen books, including The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. He has won several major awards for historical writing, including prizes offered by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Aviation/Space Writers Association.
Lighter than air: an illustrated history of balloons and airships
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This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships. Far more than a timeline of events, Lighter Than Air focuses on the people -- flamboyant and daring, heroes and scoundrels -- who made history in the sky. Here are the eighteenth-century pioneers who first took to the skies, the peripatetic aeronauts who criss-crossed two continents a century later, the airmen who manned the great rigid airships, and the intrepid balloonists who flew their craft across oceans and continents in the years following World War II. Tom D. Crouch, senior curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, has written and edited over a dozen books, including The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. He has won several major awards for historical writing, including prizes offered by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Aviation/Space Writers Association.
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avril 2009, Baltimore, Washington
avril 2009, Baltimore, Washington
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A fresh look at an important but frequently contentious topic, how to accommodate cars in the built environment, this groundbreaking book will transform your perception of the often-maligned parking garage.
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A fresh look at an important but frequently contentious topic, how to accommodate cars in the built environment, this groundbreaking book will transform your perception of the often-maligned parking garage.
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janvier 2008, Washington
janvier 2008, Washington
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The parking garage: design and evolution of a modern urban form
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A fresh look at an important but frequently contentious topic, how to accommodate cars in the built environment, this groundbreaking book will transform your perception of the often-maligned parking garage.
The parking garage: design and evolution of a modern urban form
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A fresh look at an important but frequently contentious topic, how to accommodate cars in the built environment, this groundbreaking book will transform your perception of the often-maligned parking garage.
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janvier 2008, Washington
janvier 2008, Washington
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In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the(...)
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In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the(...)
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Inventing autopia: dreams and visions of the modern metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles
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In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the metropolis during its formative years. In a deft mix of cultural and intellectual history that brilliantly illuminates the profound relationship between imagination and place, Inventing Autopia shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of an unforeseen new form of urbanism--sprawling, illegible, fractured--that would reshape not only Southern California but much of the nation in the years to come.
Inventing autopia: dreams and visions of the modern metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles
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In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the metropolis during its formative years. In a deft mix of cultural and intellectual history that brilliantly illuminates the profound relationship between imagination and place, Inventing Autopia shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of an unforeseen new form of urbanism--sprawling, illegible, fractured--that would reshape not only Southern California but much of the nation in the years to come.
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mai 2009
mai 2009
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Enriching
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The workshop was an initiative of the Design & Emotion Society and was organized in collaboration with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Since its foundation in 1999, the Design & E motion Society has arranged a series of workshops in the Netherlands, Germany, England and Portugal, among other places. The society successfully organized energizing workshop events, and(...)
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The workshop was an initiative of the Design & Emotion Society and was organized in collaboration with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Since its foundation in 1999, the Design & E motion Society has arranged a series of workshops in the Netherlands, Germany, England and Portugal, among other places. The society successfully organized energizing workshop events, and(...)
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Enriching
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The workshop was an initiative of the Design & Emotion Society and was organized in collaboration with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Since its foundation in 1999, the Design & E motion Society has arranged a series of workshops in the Netherlands, Germany, England and Portugal, among other places. The society successfully organized energizing workshop events, and the idea arose of finding a way to register the process and results of future workshops in order to inspire the three core strands of the society: researchers, industry & the design community.
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The workshop was an initiative of the Design & Emotion Society and was organized in collaboration with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Since its foundation in 1999, the Design & E motion Society has arranged a series of workshops in the Netherlands, Germany, England and Portugal, among other places. The society successfully organized energizing workshop events, and the idea arose of finding a way to register the process and results of future workshops in order to inspire the three core strands of the society: researchers, industry & the design community.
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janvier 1900, Hong Kong
janvier 1900, Hong Kong
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Auto-stop
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Auto-Stop is a project that attempts to examine and test the institution, the institutional role and exhibition making. The projest investigates how curators and institutions present artists' works and ideas, and how can exhibitions are prepared, created and presented. With: Slater Bradley, Nina Canell, Leif Holmstrand, Sture Johannesson, John Koner, Runo Lagomarsino,(...)
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Auto-Stop is a project that attempts to examine and test the institution, the institutional role and exhibition making. The projest investigates how curators and institutions present artists' works and ideas, and how can exhibitions are prepared, created and presented. With: Slater Bradley, Nina Canell, Leif Holmstrand, Sture Johannesson, John Koner, Runo Lagomarsino,(...)
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Auto-Stop is a project that attempts to examine and test the institution, the institutional role and exhibition making. The projest investigates how curators and institutions present artists' works and ideas, and how can exhibitions are prepared, created and presented. With: Slater Bradley, Nina Canell, Leif Holmstrand, Sture Johannesson, John Koner, Runo Lagomarsino, Ariane Müller, Stina Östberg, Ahmet Ögüt, Mia Joo Rosasco, Frida Yngström and Franz West.
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Auto-Stop is a project that attempts to examine and test the institution, the institutional role and exhibition making. The projest investigates how curators and institutions present artists' works and ideas, and how can exhibitions are prepared, created and presented. With: Slater Bradley, Nina Canell, Leif Holmstrand, Sture Johannesson, John Koner, Runo Lagomarsino, Ariane Müller, Stina Östberg, Ahmet Ögüt, Mia Joo Rosasco, Frida Yngström and Franz West.
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octobre 2008, Malmö
octobre 2008, Malmö
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Against automobility
Against automobility
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Despite its promise of freedom and autonomy, the ubiquity of the automobile has influenced unforeseen ecological, social, and political change. In "Against automobility", a panel of distinguished scholars take a critical look at the contradiction of the automobile : a critical account of the impact of the car on society, which is both liberated by and reliant upon(...)
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Despite its promise of freedom and autonomy, the ubiquity of the automobile has influenced unforeseen ecological, social, and political change. In "Against automobility", a panel of distinguished scholars take a critical look at the contradiction of the automobile : a critical account of the impact of the car on society, which is both liberated by and reliant upon(...)
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octobre 2006, Malden / Oxford / Carlton
octobre 2006, Malden / Oxford / Carlton
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Against automobility
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Despite its promise of freedom and autonomy, the ubiquity of the automobile has influenced unforeseen ecological, social, and political change. In "Against automobility", a panel of distinguished scholars take a critical look at the contradiction of the automobile : a critical account of the impact of the car on society, which is both liberated by and reliant upon motor vehicles, written by a panel of distinguished scholars from varying disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, examines automobility's effect on environmental, social, and political issues, will be of interest to those whose research focuses on geography, politics, consumption and cultural studies, critical theory, and the sociology of objects and everyday life.
Against automobility
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Despite its promise of freedom and autonomy, the ubiquity of the automobile has influenced unforeseen ecological, social, and political change. In "Against automobility", a panel of distinguished scholars take a critical look at the contradiction of the automobile : a critical account of the impact of the car on society, which is both liberated by and reliant upon motor vehicles, written by a panel of distinguished scholars from varying disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, examines automobility's effect on environmental, social, and political issues, will be of interest to those whose research focuses on geography, politics, consumption and cultural studies, critical theory, and the sociology of objects and everyday life.
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octobre 2006, Malden / Oxford / Carlton
octobre 2006, Malden / Oxford / Carlton
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In this book the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America’s innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious,(...)
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In this book the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America’s innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious,(...)
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Tourists of History: memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
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In this book the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America’s innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious, ongoing debates about memorials and celebrity-architect designed buildings at Ground Zero; and two outcomes of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City: the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Sturken contends that a consumer culture of comfort objects such as World Trade Center snow globes, FDNY teddy bears, and Oklahoma City Memorial t-shirts and branded water, as well as reenactments of traumatic events in memorial and architectural designs, enables a national tendency to see U.S. culture as distant from both history and world politics. A kitsch comfort culture contributes to a “tourist” relationship to history: Americans can feel good about visiting and buying souvenirs at sites of national mourning without having to engage with the economic, social, and political causes of the violent events. While arguing for the importance of remembering tragic losses of life, Sturken is urging attention to a dangerous confluence—of memory, tourism, consumerism, paranoia, security, and kitsch—that promulgates fear to sell safety, offers prepackaged emotion at the expense of critical thought, contains alternative politics, and facilitates public acquiescence in the federal government’s repressive measures at home and its aggressive political and military policies abroad.
Tourists of History: memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
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In this book the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America’s innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious, ongoing debates about memorials and celebrity-architect designed buildings at Ground Zero; and two outcomes of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City: the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Sturken contends that a consumer culture of comfort objects such as World Trade Center snow globes, FDNY teddy bears, and Oklahoma City Memorial t-shirts and branded water, as well as reenactments of traumatic events in memorial and architectural designs, enables a national tendency to see U.S. culture as distant from both history and world politics. A kitsch comfort culture contributes to a “tourist” relationship to history: Americans can feel good about visiting and buying souvenirs at sites of national mourning without having to engage with the economic, social, and political causes of the violent events. While arguing for the importance of remembering tragic losses of life, Sturken is urging attention to a dangerous confluence—of memory, tourism, consumerism, paranoia, security, and kitsch—that promulgates fear to sell safety, offers prepackaged emotion at the expense of critical thought, contains alternative politics, and facilitates public acquiescence in the federal government’s repressive measures at home and its aggressive political and military policies abroad.
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novembre 2007, Durham
novembre 2007, Durham
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The Architecture of Parking
The Architecture of Parking
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Since the invention of the car, the buildings that house them have been a source of inspiration and consternation to architects. Although many dreary car parks and garages do exist, the challenge of efficiently housing a maximum number of cars in a well-designed space has attracted a stellar array of contemporary architects. From the classic circular Marina City tower in(...)
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Since the invention of the car, the buildings that house them have been a source of inspiration and consternation to architects. Although many dreary car parks and garages do exist, the challenge of efficiently housing a maximum number of cars in a well-designed space has attracted a stellar array of contemporary architects. From the classic circular Marina City tower in(...)
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The Architecture of Parking
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Since the invention of the car, the buildings that house them have been a source of inspiration and consternation to architects. Although many dreary car parks and garages do exist, the challenge of efficiently housing a maximum number of cars in a well-designed space has attracted a stellar array of contemporary architects. From the classic circular Marina City tower in Chicago to the Parcheggio Nuovo Salario under construction in Rome, from Frank Gehry to Rem Koolhaas to Zaha Hadid, the form and function of the parking garage have been hugely influential not only on contemporary architects but also on popular culture. This book is at once a survey of the finest examples of parking garages and a presentation of exciting and innovative design. An introduction covers the history and architectural significance of these buildings and their relevance today, and is followed by chapters that define the most influential aspects of parking design: elevations, materials, the use of light, and innovation and experimentation. Featuring detailed plans plus case studies of iconic buildings, this is an indispensable and inspirational resource for professional architects, engineers, urban planners, and developers. 300 illustrations and photographs, 150 in color.
The Architecture of Parking
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Since the invention of the car, the buildings that house them have been a source of inspiration and consternation to architects. Although many dreary car parks and garages do exist, the challenge of efficiently housing a maximum number of cars in a well-designed space has attracted a stellar array of contemporary architects. From the classic circular Marina City tower in Chicago to the Parcheggio Nuovo Salario under construction in Rome, from Frank Gehry to Rem Koolhaas to Zaha Hadid, the form and function of the parking garage have been hugely influential not only on contemporary architects but also on popular culture. This book is at once a survey of the finest examples of parking garages and a presentation of exciting and innovative design. An introduction covers the history and architectural significance of these buildings and their relevance today, and is followed by chapters that define the most influential aspects of parking design: elevations, materials, the use of light, and innovation and experimentation. Featuring detailed plans plus case studies of iconic buildings, this is an indispensable and inspirational resource for professional architects, engineers, urban planners, and developers. 300 illustrations and photographs, 150 in color.
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octobre 2007, New York
octobre 2007, New York
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Les frontières font débat en Europe : frontières extérieures de l'Union, frontières entre pays, parfois même frontières à l'intérieur de certains pays. Aussi, les discours sur les frontières abondent, pour en décrier l'archaïsme général ou en demander de plus efficaces, ou sur les frontières pertinentes à instaurer ; voire sur les liens entre travail de couture réalisé(...)
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Les frontières font débat en Europe : frontières extérieures de l'Union, frontières entre pays, parfois même frontières à l'intérieur de certains pays. Aussi, les discours sur les frontières abondent, pour en décrier l'archaïsme général ou en demander de plus efficaces, ou sur les frontières pertinentes à instaurer ; voire sur les liens entre travail de couture réalisé(...)
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septembre 2006, La Tour d'Aigues
septembre 2006, La Tour d'Aigues
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Après les frontières, avec la frontière : nouvelles dynamiques transfrontalières en Europe
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Les frontières font débat en Europe : frontières extérieures de l'Union, frontières entre pays, parfois même frontières à l'intérieur de certains pays. Aussi, les discours sur les frontières abondent, pour en décrier l'archaïsme général ou en demander de plus efficaces, ou sur les frontières pertinentes à instaurer ; voire sur les liens entre travail de couture réalisé par les coopérations transfrontalières et besoin de barrières à renforcer sur les bordures externes... Pour les auteurs de ce livre, plutôt que de vivre l'après des frontières politiques, nous sommes face à un gigantesque chantier territorial. Des dynamiques fines et complexes se mettent en place à différents niveaux, retravaillant les échelles territoriales, bousculant des espaces frontaliers, questionnant les identités locales et nationales. Cet ouvrage examine ces processus de recomposition frontalière. Les diverses contributions analysent la morphologie, les acteurs de ces espaces, les définitions identitaires ainsi que les mobilités qui les fondent. Elles révèlent que les frontières internes de l'Europe sont aujourd'hui des laboratoires où s'inventent de nouvelles territorialités. Territorialités hybrides, mobiles et complexes, où se redéfinissent les fondements de l'unité, les identités et les différences. Des territorialités européennes actuelles qui font - aussi et nécessairement - avec les frontières.
Après les frontières, avec la frontière : nouvelles dynamiques transfrontalières en Europe
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Les frontières font débat en Europe : frontières extérieures de l'Union, frontières entre pays, parfois même frontières à l'intérieur de certains pays. Aussi, les discours sur les frontières abondent, pour en décrier l'archaïsme général ou en demander de plus efficaces, ou sur les frontières pertinentes à instaurer ; voire sur les liens entre travail de couture réalisé par les coopérations transfrontalières et besoin de barrières à renforcer sur les bordures externes... Pour les auteurs de ce livre, plutôt que de vivre l'après des frontières politiques, nous sommes face à un gigantesque chantier territorial. Des dynamiques fines et complexes se mettent en place à différents niveaux, retravaillant les échelles territoriales, bousculant des espaces frontaliers, questionnant les identités locales et nationales. Cet ouvrage examine ces processus de recomposition frontalière. Les diverses contributions analysent la morphologie, les acteurs de ces espaces, les définitions identitaires ainsi que les mobilités qui les fondent. Elles révèlent que les frontières internes de l'Europe sont aujourd'hui des laboratoires où s'inventent de nouvelles territorialités. Territorialités hybrides, mobiles et complexes, où se redéfinissent les fondements de l'unité, les identités et les différences. Des territorialités européennes actuelles qui font - aussi et nécessairement - avec les frontières.
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septembre 2006, La Tour d'Aigues
septembre 2006, La Tour d'Aigues
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In the first book devoted to Rimbaud's lost voyage to Asia; novelist and critic Jamie James reviews everything that is known about the episode; from there, he imaginatively spirals into a reconstruction of what the poet must have seen, and informed speculation about what he might have done, vividly recreating life in nineteenth-century Java along the way. Rimbaud in Java(...)
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In the first book devoted to Rimbaud's lost voyage to Asia; novelist and critic Jamie James reviews everything that is known about the episode; from there, he imaginatively spirals into a reconstruction of what the poet must have seen, and informed speculation about what he might have done, vividly recreating life in nineteenth-century Java along the way. Rimbaud in Java(...)
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Rimbaud in Java: the lost voyage
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In the first book devoted to Rimbaud's lost voyage to Asia; novelist and critic Jamie James reviews everything that is known about the episode; from there, he imaginatively spirals into a reconstruction of what the poet must have seen, and informed speculation about what he might have done, vividly recreating life in nineteenth-century Java along the way. Rimbaud in Java concludes with an inquiry into what the Orient represented in the poet's imagination, with a scandalous, amusing history of French orientalism. James surprising book is a richly concentrated blend of biography, criticism and thought-travel, which brings into sharp focus this brief encounter between a great writer and a vanished world.
Rimbaud in Java: the lost voyage
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In the first book devoted to Rimbaud's lost voyage to Asia; novelist and critic Jamie James reviews everything that is known about the episode; from there, he imaginatively spirals into a reconstruction of what the poet must have seen, and informed speculation about what he might have done, vividly recreating life in nineteenth-century Java along the way. Rimbaud in Java concludes with an inquiry into what the Orient represented in the poet's imagination, with a scandalous, amusing history of French orientalism. James surprising book is a richly concentrated blend of biography, criticism and thought-travel, which brings into sharp focus this brief encounter between a great writer and a vanished world.
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octobre 2011
octobre 2011
