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Book An Intimate Distance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosemary Betterton
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-18
  • ISBN : 1136155627
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book An Intimate Distance written by Rosemary Betterton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, consumption and sex. A feminist reclamation of these images suggests how the permeable boundaries between the female body and technology, nature and culture are being crossed in the work of women artists.

Book Intimate Distance

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  • Author : Michelle Bigenho
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2012-05-07
  • ISBN : 0822352354
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Intimate Distance written by Michelle Bigenho and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about Andean music, its reception in Japan, and the resultant transcultural connection. Michelle Bigenho toured Japan with Bolivian musicians and dancers and describes how the two nationalites connected with each other through song and dance.

Book Intimate Distance

Download or read book Intimate Distance written by David Campany and published by Aperture Foundation. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive monograph charting the career of the acclaimed American photographer. Though he has published many smaller monographs of individual bodies of work, this gathers his most iconic images and brings a fresh perspective to his oeuvre with the inclusion of many unpublished photographs.

Book An Intimate Distance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosemary Betterton
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-18
  • ISBN : 1136155694
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book An Intimate Distance written by Rosemary Betterton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Intimate Distance considers a wide range of visual images of women in the context of current debates which centre around the body, including reproductive science, questions of ageing and death and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, consumption and sex. A feminist reclamation of these images suggests how the permeable boundaries between the female body and technology, nature and culture are being crossed in the work of women artists.

Book Boundary Wars

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  • Author : Katherine Hancock Ragsdale
  • Publisher : Cleveland, Ohio : Pilgrim Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Boundary Wars written by Katherine Hancock Ragsdale and published by Cleveland, Ohio : Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are intimate relations between clergy and those they serve, or between mental health professionals and their patients, ethical? Do such relations represent an abuse of power? This book squarely addresses these questions--and contains surprising answers. While uniformly supporting victims and abhoring abuse, these contriubtors reveal profound differences in interpreting the need for boundries in healing relationships.

Book The Distance Cure

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  • Author : Hannah Zeavin
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2021-08-17
  • ISBN : 0262365782
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book The Distance Cure written by Hannah Zeavin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotherapy across distance and time, from Freud’s treatments by mail to crisis hotlines, radio call-ins, chatbots, and Zoom sessions. Therapy has long understood itself as taking place in a room, with two (or more) people engaged in person-to-person conversation. And yet, starting with Freud’s treatments by mail, psychotherapy has operated through multiple communication technologies and media. These have included advice columns, radio broadcasts, crisis hotlines, video, personal computers, and mobile phones; the therapists (broadly defined) can be professional or untrained, strangers or chatbots. In The Distance Cure, Hannah Zeavin proposes a reconfiguration of the traditional therapeutic dyad of therapist and patient as a triad: therapist, patient, and communication technology. Zeavin tracks the history of teletherapy (understood as a therapeutic interaction over distance) and its metamorphosis from a model of cure to one of contingent help. She describes its initial use in ongoing care, its role in crisis intervention and symptom management, and our pandemic-mandated reliance on regular Zoom sessions. Her account of the “distanced intimacy” of the therapeutic relationship offers a powerful rejoinder to the notion that contact across distance (or screens) is always less useful, or useless, to the person seeking therapeutic treatment or connection. At the same time, these modes of care can quickly become a backdoor for surveillance and disrupt ethical standards important to the therapeutic relationship. The history of the conventional therapeutic scenario cannot be told in isolation from its shadow form, teletherapy. Therapy, Zeavin tells us, was never just a “talking cure”; it has always been a communication cure.

Book Intimate Distance

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  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Intimate Distance written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist

Download or read book The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist written by Adrian Tomine and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine's funniest and most revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of unexpected answers. When a sudden medical incident lands Tomine in the emergency room, he begins to question if it was really all worthwhile: despite the accolades and opportunities of a seemingly charmed career, it's the gaffes, humiliations, slights, and insults he's experienced (or caused) within the industry that loom largest in his memory. Tomine illustrates the amusing absurdities of how we choose to spend our time, all the while mining his conflicted relationship with comics and comics culture. But in between chaotic book tours, disastrous interviews, and cringe-inducing interactions with other artists, life happens: Tomine fumbles his way into marriage, parenthood, and an indisputably fulfilling existence. A richer emotional story emerges as his memories are delineated in excruciatingly hilarious detail. In a bold stylistic departure from his award-winning Killing and Dying, Tomine distills his art to the loose, lively essentials of cartooning, each pen stroke economically imbued with human depth. Designed as a sketchbook complete with place-holder ribbon and an elastic band, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist shows an acclaimed artist at the peak of his career.

Book Close Up at a Distance

Download or read book Close Up at a Distance written by Laura Kurgan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps poised at the intersection of art, architecture, activism, and geography trace a profound shift in our understanding and experience of space. The maps in this book are drawn with satellites, assembled with pixels radioed from outer space, and constructed from statistics; they record situations of intense conflict and express fundamental transformations in our ways of seeing and of experiencing space. These maps are built with Global Positioning Systems (GPS), remote sensing satellites, or Geographic Information Systems (GIS): digital spatial hardware and software designed for such military and governmental uses as reconnaissance, secrecy, monitoring, ballistics, the census, and national security. Rather than shying away from the politics and complexities of their intended uses, in Close Up at a Distance Laura Kurgan attempts to illuminate them. Poised at the intersection of art, architecture, activism, and geography, her analysis uncovers the implicit biases of the new views, the means of recording information they present, and the new spaces they have opened up. Her presentation of these maps reclaims, repurposes, and discovers new and even inadvertent uses for them, including documentary, memorial, preservation, interpretation, political, or simply aesthetic. GPS has been available to both civilians and the military since 1991; the World Wide Web democratized the distribution of data in 1992; Google Earth has captured global bird's-eye views since 2005. Technology has brought about a revolutionary shift in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The traces of interactions, both physical and virtual, charted by the maps in Close Up at a Distance define this shift.

Book Going the Distance

Download or read book Going the Distance written by Lonnie Garfield Barbach and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to enriching and enlivening monogamous relationships employs examples from case studies of happily monogamous couples to explain how to nurture relationships through years of change.

Book Within Walking Distance

Download or read book Within Walking Distance written by Philip Langdon and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Within Walking Distance, journalist and urban critic Philip Langdon looks at why and how Americans are shifting toward a more human-scale way of building and living. He shows how people are creating, improving, and caring for walkable communities. To draw the most important lessons, Langdon spent time in six communities that differ in size, history, wealth, diversity, and education, yet share crucial traits: compactness, a mix of uses and activities, and human scale. To improve conditions and opportunities for everyone, Langdon argues that places where the best of life is within walking distance ought to be at the core of our thinking. This book is for anyone who wants to understand what can be done to build, rebuild, or improve a community while retaining the things that make it distinctive.

Book Distant Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ulrich Beck
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-12-18
  • ISBN : 0745679943
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Distant Love written by Ulrich Beck and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby with the help of an Indian surrogate mother. In their new book, Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim investigate all types of long-distance relationships, marriages and families that stretch across countries, continents and cultures. These long-distance relationships comprise so many different forms of what they call ‘world families’, by which they mean love and intimate relationships between individuals living in, or coming from, different countries or continents. In all their various forms these world families share one feature in common: they are the focal point in which different aspects of the globalized world become embodied in the personal lives of individuals. Whether they like it or not, lovers and relatives in these families find themselves confronting the world in the inner space of their own lives. The conflicts between the developed and developing worlds come to the surface in world families- they acquire faces and names, creating confusion, surprise, anger, joy, pleasure and pain at the heart of everyday life. This path-breaking book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the changing character of love in our times.

Book Eavesdropping

Download or read book Eavesdropping written by John L. Locke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why we can't resist listening in on our neighbours Eavesdropping has a bad name. It is a form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen, and where such words as cheating and spying come into play. But eavesdropping may also be an attempt to understand what goes on in the lives of others so as to know better how to live one's own. John Locke's entertaining and disturbing account explores everything from sixteenth-century voyeurism to Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'; from chimpanzee behaviour to Parisian café society; from private eyes to Facebook and Twitter. He uncovers the biological drive behind the behaviour, and its consequences across history and cultures. In the age of CCTV, phone tapping, and computer hacking, this is uncomfortably important reading.

Book Intimacy and Distance

Download or read book Intimacy and Distance written by Philippa Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean when we talk about intimacy? Rather than approach the concept as an age-old aspect of love, friendship or desire, Intimacy and Distance identifies the nineteenth century as a period in which intimacy and its lexicon came sharply to the fore.

Book Lifesigns

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  • Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • Publisher : Image
  • Release : 2013-11-20
  • ISBN : 0804152098
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book Lifesigns written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Image. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You cannot read Lifesigns and not be moved... This book will undoubtedly find its place among the classics of twentieth-century literature." --Grand Rapids Press The inspirational writings of Henri Nouwen have touched millions of readers all over the world. Much beloved as a lecturer, spiritual guide, and especially as an author, he communicated a profound message of hope that finds great resonance in today's world. In his now classic work Lifesigns, he explores what he saw as three of the most vital aspects of his ministry. The first of these is the Gospel invitation to intimacy, which Nouwen describes as communion with God and relationship with others. The second is the call to fecundity, exhorting us to be open to a fruitful life of change and growth. And the third, the experience of ecstasy, extends the Gospel promise "that your joy may be full." Inspired by L'Arche, the worldwide network of communities where handicapped people and their assistants try to live together in the spirit of the Scriptures, Nouwen shows how these three elements offer the essential key to a life free from the domination of fear and filled instead with hope and love.

Book The Distance Between Lost and Found

Download or read book The Distance Between Lost and Found written by Kathryn Holmes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending elements of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet, this gripping story from Kathryn Holmes was deemed “a page turner” by author Richard Peck and “an intense story of survival” by ALA Booklist in its starred review. Sophomore Hallie Calhoun has just endured the most excruciating six months of her life. Once the rumors about her and the preacher’s son, Luke, made their way around school, her friends abandoned her, and as a result, Hallie has completely withdrawn. Now on a hiking trip in the Smoky Mountains with the same people who have relentlessly taunted her, Hallie is pushed to her limit. Then Hallie, outgoing newcomer Rachel, and Jonah—Hallie’s former friend—get separated from the rest of the group. As days go by without rescue, their struggle for survival turns deadly. Stranded in the wilderness, the three have no choice but to trust one another in order to stay alive…and for Hallie, that means opening up about what really happened that night with Luke. From the catty atmosphere of high school to the unpredictable terrain of the mountains, this novel is a poignant, raw journey about finding yourself after having been lost for so long.

Book Touching Distance

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  • Author : Rebecca Abrams
  • Publisher : Pan
  • Release : 2008-06-24
  • ISBN : 174328375X
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Touching Distance written by Rebecca Abrams and published by Pan. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Alexander Gordon is a passionate and ambitious young obstetrician who is living in the wealthy city of Aberdeen in the 18th century. Since the birth of their first child, his wife has retreated into herself. Gordon, so adept in dealing with the woes and trials of the women he cares for, is unable to do the same for the woman he loves most. He is determined to discover why so many women, easily delivered of healthy babies, then die unexpectedly. As his research moves on, he finds he needs more practical evidence for his theories, and it is here that he finds himself ostracised by his peers. For Gordon thinks he has discovered the cause of the deaths: it is puerperal disease - childbirth fever. If Gordon can make his discovery both accepted and understood, hundreds of lives will be saved...