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Book Lyotard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoffrey Bennington
  • Publisher : Bennington Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0975499645
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Lyotard written by Geoffrey Bennington and published by Bennington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Driftworks

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  • Author : Jean-Francois Lyotard
  • Publisher : Semiotext(e)
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Driftworks written by Jean-Francois Lyotard and published by Semiotext(e). This book was released on 1984 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays and interviews from 1970-72, Jean-François Lyotard explores and drifts, as we drift, between art and politics, the "figural" and representation, silence and libidinal energy.

Book Rereading the New

Download or read book Rereading the New written by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars speculate on the postmodern aspects of modernist literature

Book Libidinal Economy

Download or read book Libidinal Economy written by Jean-Francois Lyotard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is regarded as the most important response to the philosophies of desire, as expounded by thinkers such as de Sade, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari. It is a major work not only of philosophy, but of sexual politics, semiotics and literary theory, that signals the passage to postmodern philosophy.

Book Sociology and Visual Representation

Download or read book Sociology and Visual Representation written by Elizabeth Chaplin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book How to Drift

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Morton
  • Publisher : CarTech Inc
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 1932494235
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book How to Drift written by Paul Morton and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drifting is the newest, most exciting motorsport we have seen in the United States since the invention of the limited slip differential - it may be the most exhilarating contest of man and machine ever devised! From the winding mountain passes and desolate industrial roads of Japan, this unique sport of sliding a car sideways through a series of corners has become a huge hit in America. Drifting, or dorifto as they call it in Japan, extracts the most exciting aspect auto racing, extreme oversteer, and makes it the focus of an intense and visually intoxicating new motor sport. How to Drift: The Art of Oversteer is a comprehensive guide to both the driving technique and car setup required for drifting. The author defines various precision driving techniques used in drifting and explains them from a racecar driver’ s point of view. How to Drift illustrates the finer elements of car control required in drifting with technical descriptions, detailed line art and intense photography. This book even includes a budget drift car build-up with detailed suspension, chassis, and engine modifications that will help you turn your economy car into a drift machine— on top of that, there’ s a chapter detailing the finer aspects of an SR20DET swap!

Book Dante   the Unorthodox

Download or read book Dante the Unorthodox written by James Miller and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain of death. But in 1329, eight years after his death, he was again viciously condemned—this time as a heretic and false prophet—by Friar Guido Vernani. From Vernani’s inquisitorial viewpoint, the author of the Commedia “seduced” his readers by offering them “a vessel of demonic poison” mixed with poetic fantasies designed to destroy the “healthful truth” of Catholicism. Thanks to such pious vituperations, a sulphurous fume of unorthodoxy has persistently clung to the mantle of Dante’s poetic fame. The primary critical purpose of Dante & the Unorthodox is to examine the aesthetic impulses behind the theological and political reasons for Dante’s allegory of mid-life divergence from the papally prescribed “way of salvation.” Marking the septicentennial of his exile, the book’s eighteen critical essays, three excerpts from an allegorical drama, and a portfolio of fourteen contemporary artworks address the issue of the poet’s conflicted relation to orthodoxy. By bringing the unorthodox out of the realm of “secret things,” by uncensoring them at every turn, Dante dared to oppose the censorious regime of Latin Christianity with a transgressive zeal more threatening to papal authority than the demonic hostility feared by Friar Vernani.

Book The Turning Word

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  • Author : Joseph N. Riddel
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 1996-09
  • ISBN : 9780812216004
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Turning Word written by Joseph N. Riddel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on literary theory and modern American literature, developing the theme of the relation of philosophy to literature and of conceptual thought to poetic form. After a chapter on Heidegger and Derrida and poetic language, essays focus on four philosopher-poet relationships: Freud and analysand/poet H.D., Hegel and Hart Crane, Bergson and Gertrude Stein, and poststructuralism and modernist-postmodern poetry, mainly Charles Olson. Paper edition (unseen), $16.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Resources of Rationality

Download or read book The Resources of Rationality written by Calvin O. Schrag and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒSchrag has addressed the important problems put forth by thinkers ranging from Habermas to Lyotard and Deleuze and has confronted them openly and honestly. . . . This work will be useful to all who wonder what to do about the largely negative results of postmodern thought.Ó ÑJoseph C. Flay The Resources of Rationality addresses the postmodernist assault on the claim of reason and develops a refigured notion of rationality to meet the charges and challenges of postmodern thought. Calvin O. Schrag responds to the postmodernist indictment of the claims of reason by working out a fresh approach, which he calls Òthe transversal rationality of praxis.Ó With the concept of transversality as a binding theme, Schrag identifies and delineates the function of three powerful resources of reasonÑcritique, articulation, and disclosure. Cutting across multiple and changing discursive and social practices, transversal thinking, as delineated by Schrag, charts a new course between the classical and modern overdetermination of rationality and the dissolution of the rational subject in postmodern philosophy.

Book The Lyotard Reader and Guide

Download or read book The Lyotard Reader and Guide written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lyotard Reader and Guide is a one-stop companion to Lyotard's thought. It covers the full range of his works, from his three main books (Discours, figure; Libidinal Economy; and The Differend) and up to his influential essays in The Inhuman and Postmodern Fables. The readings are organized into sections on philosophy, politics, art, and literature. Several have never before been translated into English. Detailed introductions to each section by two leading Lyotard scholars explain the philosopher's key ideas and provide crucial social, political, aesthetic, and philosophical context. As a sourcebook and guide, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on Lyotard. It is indispensable to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the arts, and politics.

Book Sounds

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Mowitt
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2015-06-09
  • ISBN : 0520960408
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Sounds written by John Mowitt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about sound. It is a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. John Mowitt seeks to critique existing models in the expanding field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanistic approach encompassing many types of sounds, not just readily classified examples such as speech, music, industrial sounds, or codified signals. Mowitt is particularly interested in the fact that beyond hearing and listening we "audit" sounds and do so by drawing on paradigms of thought not easily accommodated within the concept of "sound studies." To draw attention to the ways in which sounds often are not perceived for the social and political functions they serve, each chapter presents a culturally resonant sound—including a whistle, an echo, a gasp, and silence—to show how sounds enable critical social and political concepts such as dialogue, privacy, memory, social order, and art-making. Sounds: The Ambient Humanities significantly engages, provokes, and contributes to the dynamic field and inquiry of sound studies.

Book Incorporating Cultural Theory

Download or read book Incorporating Cultural Theory written by John O'Neill and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses psychoanalysis to reconsider cultural studies with a focus on wholeness and integration.

Book Lyotard and Critical Practice

Download or read book Lyotard and Critical Practice written by Kiff Bamford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the previous century's most provocative thinkers. Can his work help us address the crisis currently facing the humanities? The dominant economic discourse sees the humanities as “low-value,” an irritation at best. Lyotard helps us to think against this pervasive dismissal of creative activity, not by defending the honor of the humanities, but by inviting critical practices which aggravate this irritation. Critical practices trouble what counts as critique, embrace incertitude, and listen for silenced voices. Twelve essays by artists and researchers take up Lyotard's invitation and begin to develop the idea of critical practice in the contemporary context. Three sections titled “What resists thinking;” “Long views and distances” and “Why art practice?” address contemporary concerns like affectivity, aesthetics, economic imperatives, militarism, pedagogy, posthumanism, and the closure of what in Lyotard's time was called "the West." Four short pieces by Lyotard intervene in and buttress the discussion: “Apathy in Theory” and “Interview with Art Présent,” here published in English for the first time, and “Affect-phrase” and “The Other's Rights” republished here to highlight his prescient concern for that which cannot be articulated.

Book Lyotard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh J. Silverman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-01-20
  • ISBN : 1134720300
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Lyotard written by Hugh J. Silverman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Franois Lyotard, the highly influential twentieth-century philosopher of the postmodern, has had an enormous impact on the course and commitment of contemporary philosophy. Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime is a thoroughgoing reassessment of his extraordinary legacy and contribution to contemporary cultural, political, ethical, and aesthetic theory, and an indispenable guide to key issues in his philosophy. Fifteen distinguished scholars have contributed new, original essays examining the main themes in Lyotard's work with a focus on the special intersections of philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, and the experience of the sublime in art. The volume includes an up-to-date bibliography of works by and about Lyotard, previously unpublished photographs of Lyotard, and an incisive essay by Lyotard himself on the philosophical significance of Freud's case of Emma.

Book Desire and De Scription

Download or read book Desire and De Scription written by Zsófia Bán and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, without negating Williams' strong ties with modernism, intends to dislodge this deeply ingrained critical positioning by presenting him as an overlooked figure in the emerging tradition of postmodernism. The study advances the claim that Williams clearly recognized this nascent discourse and, rather than pursuing his earlier mode of writing, consciously sought a new language for a rapidly changing cultural context. Drawing on wide-ranging, multidisciplinary critical texts, this book will be of interest not only to Williams scholars but to all those who continue to be intrigued by the elusive boundaries between word and image as well as modernism and postmodernism.

Book Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World  Volume 2

Download or read book Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 2 written by John Shepherd and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.

Book Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950  Volume 2

Download or read book Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950 Volume 2 written by Robert von Hallberg and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing. While Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1 explores the pleasures of poetry—its language, forms, and musicality—volume 2 focuses on the public dimensions. In this volume, von Hallberg and Faggen have gathered a diverse selection of poets to explore questions such as: How does poetry instruct a society with a highly evolved knowledge industry? Do poems bear a relation to the disciplined idioms of learning? What do poets think of as intellectual work? What is the importance of recognizable subject matter? What can honestly be said by poets concerning this nation so hungry for learning and so fixated on its own power? To these questions, the literary critics collected here find some answers in the poetry of Robert Pinsky, Susan Howe, Robert Hass, Anthony Hecht, Adrienne Rich, Sharon Olds, Ed Dorn, and August Kleinzahler.