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Book The Material Unconscious

Download or read book The Material Unconscious written by Bill Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the ephemera of the everyday--old photographs, circus posters, iron toys--lies a challenge to America's dominant cultural memory. What this memory has left behind, Bill Brown recovers in the "material unconscious" of Stephen Crane's work, the textual residues of daily sensations that add up to a new history of the American 1890s. As revealed in Crane's disavowing appropriation of an emerging mass culture--from football games and freak shows to roller coasters and early cinema--the decade reappears as an underexposed moment in the genealogy of modernism and modernity. Brown's story begins on the Jersey Shore, in Asbury Park, where Crane became a writer in the shadow of his father, a grimly serious Methodist minister who vilified the popular amusements his son adored. The coastal resorts became the stage for debates about technology, about the body's visibility, about a black service class and the new mass access to leisure. From this snapshot of a recreational scene that would continue to inspire Crane's sensational modernism, Brown takes us to New York's Bowery. There, in the visual culture established by dime museums, minstrel shows, and the Kodak craze, he exhibits Crane dramatically obscuring the typology of race. Along the way, Brown demonstrates how attitudes toward play transformed the image of war, the idea of childhood and nationhood, and the concept of culture itself. And by developing a new conceptual apparatus (with such notions as "recreational time," "abstract leisure," and the "amusement/knowledge system"), he provides the groundwork for a new politics of pleasure. A crucial theorization of how cultural studies can and should proceed, The Material Unconscious insists that in the very conjuncture of canonical literature and mass culture, we can best understand how proliferating and competing economies of play disrupt the so-called "logic" and "work" of culture.

Book Airplane Photography

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert E. Ives
  • Publisher : Carruthers Press
  • Release : 2008-06
  • ISBN : 1409776298
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Airplane Photography written by Herbert E. Ives and published by Carruthers Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book Small Format Aerial Photography

Download or read book Small Format Aerial Photography written by James S. Aber and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the need for geographical data rapidly expands in the 21st century, so too do applications of small-format aerial photography for a wide range of scientific, commercial and governmental purposes. Small-format Aerial Photography (SFAP) presents basic and advanced principles and techniques with an emphasis on digital cameras. Unmanned platforms are described in considerable detail, including kites, helium and hot-air blimps, model airplanes, and paragliders. Several case studies, primarily drawn from the geosciences, are presented to demonstrate how SFAP is actually used in various applications. Many of these integrate SFAP with ground-based investigations as well as conventional large-format aerial photography, satellite imagery, and other kinds of geographic information. - Full-color photographs throughout - Case studies from around the globe - Techniques presented allow for image resolution impossible to match via traditional aerial photography or satellite datasets - Glossary clarifies key terms

Book Advanced Map and Aerial Photograph Reading

Download or read book Advanced Map and Aerial Photograph Reading written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book U S  Air Services

Download or read book U S Air Services written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Topographic Drafting

Download or read book Topographic Drafting written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geology and Its Military Applications

Download or read book Geology and Its Military Applications written by United States. Dept. of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Military Engineer

Download or read book The Military Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Directory of members, constitution and by-laws of the Society of American Military Engineers, 1935" inserted in v. 27.

Book Books for All

    Book Details:
  • Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 806 pages

Download or read book Books for All written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to American Military History

Download or read book A Companion to American Military History written by James C. Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 60 essays, A Companion to American MilitaryHistory presents a comprehensive analysis of the historiographyof United States military history from the colonial era to thepresent. Covers the entire spectrum of US history from the Indian andimperial conflicts of the seventeenth century to the battles inAfghanistan and Iraq Features an unprecedented breadth of coverage from eminentmilitary historians and emerging scholars, including little studiedtopics such as the military and music, military ethics, care of thedead, and sports Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every importantera and topic Summarizes current debates and identifies areas whereconflicting interpretations are in need of further study

Book Photo era Magazine

Download or read book Photo era Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cavalry Journal

Download or read book The Cavalry Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Aeronautics  Pt  1 50

Download or read book Bibliography of Aeronautics Pt 1 50 written by United States. Work Projects Administration and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Images of Conflict

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Bourgeois
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2008-12-18
  • ISBN : 1443803146
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Images of Conflict written by Jean Bourgeois and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking aerial views of war, and of the scarred landscapes of its aftermath are the focus of this unique and multidisciplinary book. For the first time, the history, significance, and technology of military aerial photography are brought together and explored by military historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. This new approach opens the door to a modern reassessment of military aerial imagery, reveals the concepts and philosophies that guided their production and interpretation, and illustrates the complex interaction between humans and technology in creating and understanding the landscapes of conflict.

Book The Eye of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antoine Bousquet
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2018-10-09
  • ISBN : 145295805X
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Eye of War written by Antoine Bousquet and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present From ubiquitous surveillance to drone strikes that put “warheads onto foreheads,” we live in a world of globalized, individualized targeting. The perils are great. In The Eye of War, Antoine Bousquet provides both a sweeping historical overview of military perception technologies and a disquieting lens on a world that is, increasingly, one in which anything or anyone that can be perceived can be destroyed—in which to see is to destroy. Arguing that modern-day global targeting is dissolving the conventionally bounded spaces of armed conflict, Bousquet shows that over several centuries, a logistical order of militarized perception has come into ascendancy, bringing perception and annihilation into ever-closer alignment. The efforts deployed to evade this deadly visibility have correspondingly intensified, yielding practices of radical concealment that presage a wholesale disappearance of the customary space of the battlefield. Beginning with the Renaissance’s fateful discovery of linear perspective, The Eye of War discloses the entanglement of the sciences and techniques of perception, representation, and localization in the modern era amid the perpetual quest for military superiority. In a survey that ranges from the telescope, aerial photograph, and gridded map to radar, digital imaging, and the geographic information system, Bousquet shows how successive technological systems have profoundly shaped the history of warfare and the experience of soldiering. A work of grand historical sweep and remarkable analytical power, The Eye of War explores the implications of militarized perception for the character of war in the twenty-first century and the place of human subjects within its increasingly technical armature.