Download or read book Co Illusion written by David Levi Strauss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports from America's political crisis, exposing a new “iconopolitics,” in which words and images lose their connection to reality. The political crisis that sneaked up on America—the rise of Trump and Trumpism—has revealed the rot at the core of American exceptionalism. Recent changes in the way words and images are produced and received have made the current surreality possible; communication through social media, by design, maximizes attention and minimizes scrutiny. In Co-Illusion, the noted writer on art, photography, and politics David Levi Strauss bears witness to the new “iconopolitics” in which words and images lose their connection to reality. The collusion that fueled Trump's rise was the secret agreement of voters and media consumers—their “co-illusion”—to set aside the social contract. Strauss offers dispatches from the epicenter of our constitutional earthquake, writing first from the 2016 Democratic and Republican conventions and then from the campaign. After the election, he switches gears, writing in the voices of the regime and of those complicit in its actions—from the thoughts of the President himself (“I am not a mistake. I am not a fluke, or a bug in the system. I am the System”) to the reflections of a nameless billionaire tech CEO whose initials may or may not be M. Z. Finally, Strauss shows us how we might repair the damage to the public imaginary after Trump exits the scene. Photographs by celebrated documentary photographers Susan Meiselas and Peter van Agtmael accompany the texts.
Download or read book The Optical Journal and Review of Optometry written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gold Standard Illusion written by Kenneth Mouré and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic historians have established a new orthodoxy attributing the onset and severity of the Great Depression to the flawed workings of the international gold standard. This interpretation returns French gold policy to centre stage in understanding the origins of the Depression, its rapid spread, its severity and its duration. The Gold Standard Illusion exploits new archival resources to test how well this gold standard interpretation of the Great Depression is sustained by historical records in France, the country most often criticized for hoarding gold and failure to play by the rules of the gold standard game. The study follows four lines of inquiry, providing a history of French gold policy in its national and international contexts from 1914 to 1939, an analysis of the evolution of the Bank of France during this period and the degree to which gold standard belief retarded the adoption of modern central banking practice, a re-examination of interwar central bank cooperation in the period and its role in the breakdown of the gold standard, and a study of how gold standard rhetoric fostered misperceptions of financial and monetary problems. The French case was exceptional, marked by absolute and tenacious faith in the gold standard, by the import and accumulation of a vast hoard of gold desperately needed as reserves to prevent monetary contraction abroad, and by adamant claims for the need to return to gold after most countries had left the gold standard, which had become, in the words of John Maynard Keynes, 'a curse laid upon the economic life of the world'. The Gold Standard Illusion explains French gold standard belief and policy, the impact of French policy at home and abroad, and reassesses the gold standard interpretation of the Great Depression in the light of French experience.
Download or read book Corporations of New Jersey written by New Jersey. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report of the Board of Regents to the Governor written by University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report of the Board of Regents to the Governor written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Optical and General Scientific Instruments written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brands and Their Companies written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ideal Illusions written by James Peck and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement The United States has long been hailed as a powerful force for global human rights. Now, drawing on thousands of documents from the CIA, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and development agencies, James Peck shows in blunt detail how Washington has shaped human rights into a potent ideological weapon for purposes having little to do with rights—and everything to do with furthering America's global reach. Using the words of Washington's leaders when they are speaking among themselves, Peck tracks the rise of human rights from its dismissal in the cold war years as "fuzzy minded" to its calculated adoption, after the Vietnam War, as a rationale for American foreign engagement. He considers such milestones as the fight for Soviet dissidents, Tiananmen Square, and today's war on terror, exposing in the process how the human rights movement has too often failed to challenge Washington's strategies. A gripping and elegant work of analysis, Ideal Illusions argues that the movement must break free from Washington if it is to develop a truly uncompromising critique of power in all its forms.
Download or read book Optical Illusion Play Pack written by Martin Gardner and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives kids the opportunity to play with the images. This pack also includes punch-out cards that enhance every illusion, plus a vinyl pouch for safely storing the cards afterwards. It helps children figure out if the two differently shaped tables in a picture are actually the same size, by laying a checkered tablecloth over them both.
Download or read book A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion written by Albert Einstein and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and physicist Stephen Hawking assembles the most groundbreaking works by Albert Einstein together into one volume and provides introductions to each work.
Download or read book Masters of Deception written by Al Seckel and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rings of seahorses seem to rotate and butterflies seems to transform into warriors right on the page. Astonishing creations of visual trickery by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo make this breathtaking collection the definitive book of optical illusions. Includes an illuminating Foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hofstadter.
Download or read book Life written by John Ames Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lifting the Veils of Illusion written by Narina Riskowitz and published by Practical Inspiration Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book facilitates an all-encompassing journey of personal empowerment and spiritual growth in 7 essential steps. Taking a peek into the subtle realms, sharing ancient wisdom and consulting ground-breaking science, it offers fascinating new insights and readers will experience powerful transformational shifts, emerging from stress and fear to empowerment. The 7 Steps process is designed to serve as a guide on your path toward your own development, growth and enlightenment. Buddha taught that this world is an illusion. As we awaken and grow in consciousness, we begin to see through the illusions. This book explores the nature of these illusions. With each of the 7 Steps, we will be lifting another veil of illusion. When a veil of illusion is lifted, you will find yourself in a whole new plane of existence, perceiving everything very differently than before. This 7 Steps process is unique in that not only is it informative, interactive and experiential, it is also hugely transformational. Narina Riskowitz is an experienced Transformational Therapist and Soul Coach. She runs spiritual development courses, embraces energy healing and works holistically with groups and individual clients. She has developed her own healing modality, combining regression journeys with energy healing for complete results. A firm believer in the mind-body link, most of her work is aimed at releasing negative emotions and limiting beliefs and so restore her clients' natural health and inherent confidence. Her ground-breaking course material resulted in her signature soul coaching tool: Lifting the Veils of Illusion, now captured as this enriching 7 Steps book.
Download or read book The Knowledge Illusion written by Steven Sloman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom.” —Steven Pinker We all think we know more than we actually do. Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even know how a pen or a toilet works. How have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue that we survive and thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in a rich community of knowledge. The key to our intelligence lies in the people and things around us. We’re constantly drawing on information and expertise stored outside our heads: in our bodies, our environment, our possessions, and the community with which we interact—and usually we don’t even realize we’re doing it. The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire, created democratic institutions, stood on the moon, and sequenced our genome. And yet each of us is error prone, sometimes irrational, and often ignorant. The fundamentally communal nature of intelligence and knowledge explains why we often assume we know more than we really do, why political opinions and false beliefs are so hard to change, and why individual-oriented approaches to education and management frequently fail. But our collaborative minds also enable us to do amazing things. The Knowledge Illusion contends that true genius can be found in the ways we create intelligence using the community around us.
Download or read book You Can t Possibly Color This written by Gianni Sarcone and published by MoonDance Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interactive activity and coloring book featuring 50-plus "impossible" optical illusions to color along with, and activities that show kids how to create their own optical illusions.
Download or read book Optical Illusion Experiments written by Michael A. Dispezio and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids can be both scientists and magicians--all at once! With just a little practice, and these 50 super experiments, they’ll amaze people with fool-the-eye illusions that also illustrate basic principles of visual perception. They’re amazingly cool, too, featuring tricks of motion; distortions of length and size; tilts, twists, and topsy-turvies that give a new slant on things; and fantastic flat-screen phantoms that play with illusions of depth.
