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Book Suspended Animation

Download or read book Suspended Animation written by Nathalie Op de Beeck and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative analysis of children's picture books from the interwar period in America.

Book Sadie Benning

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  • Author : Sadie Benning
  • Publisher : Wexner Center
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Sadie Benning written by Sadie Benning and published by Wexner Center. This book was released on 2007 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Sherri Geldin. Introduction by Jennifer Lange. Text by Eileen Myles, Helen Molesworth, Aleksandar Hemon, Amy Sillman.

Book Suspended Animation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Mills
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2006-02-01
  • ISBN : 1861895534
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Suspended Animation written by Robert Mills and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Marsellus in the film PulpFiction asserts, "I'm gonna git medieval on your ass," we know that he is about to bring down a fierce and exacting punishment. Yet is the violence of the Middle Ages that far removed from our modern society? Suspended Animation argues that not only is the stereotype of uncontrolled violence in the Middle Ages historically misleading, the gulf between modern society and the medieval era is not as immense as we might think. In fact, both medievals and moderns live within a social tension of "suspended animation" engendered by images and acts of violence. Just as in medieval times, Robert Mills argues, it is the threat of violence—not the reality—that continues to structure our lives. To illustrate this "aesthetics of suspense," Mills draws on extensive and disturbing examples from medieval iconography, contemporary philosophy, and even pornography, ranging from the vivid depictions of Hell in Tuscan frescoes to Billie Holiday's famously wrenching song "Strange Fruit". Mills reveals how these uncomfortable images and texts expose a modern self-deception, and he further explores how medieval images evoked a pleasure revealingly close to that found in modern depictions of sexuality. Suspended Animation also makes a fresh contribution to theoretical debates on pre-modern gender and sexuality. Mills's comprehensive analysis demonstrates that—as wartime prisoner abuse incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay have recently indicated—our notions of ourselves as not-medieval (that is, civilized) not only fail to prepare us for modern torture and warfare but also lead us into complicity with self-proclaimed moral and civic leaders. Whether considering a medieval painting of a Christian martyr or the immense popularity of grotesque historical tourist attractions such as the London Dungeons, Suspended Animation argues that images of death and violence are as pervasive today as they were in the Middle Ages, serving as potent reminders of the link between the modern and the medieval era.

Book Suspended Animation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fouad Sabry
  • Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
  • Release : 2022-10-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Suspended Animation written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is Suspended Animation The temporary slowing or halting of biological activity in order to maintain physiological capacities is the definition of suspended animation. The nature of this condition might be either hypometabolic or ametabolic. It may be brought on by endogenous, natural, or artificial biological, chemical, or physical methods. It may also be brought on by physical means. When it occurs in its natural state, it may be capable of self-reversal, as is the case with certain species that go into hypometabolic states during hibernation. However, when it is used for therapeutic purposes in a medical setting, such as in the case of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest, it must be technologically mediated in order to be brought back to life (DHCA). How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Suspended animation Chapter 2: Clinical death Chapter 3: Hibernation Chapter 4: Hypothermia Chapter 5: Drowning Chapter 6: Thermoregulation Chapter 7: Reperfusion injury Chapter 8: Hypovolemic shock Chapter 9: Brain ischemia Chapter 10: Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest Chapter 11: Erika Nordby Chapter 12: Targeted temperature management Chapter 13: Arctic Sun medical device Chapter 14: Hypothermia therapy for neonatal encephalopathy Chapter 15: Anna B?genholm Chapter 16: Hypothermia cap Chapter 17: Biological functions of hydrogen sulfide Chapter 18: Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation Chapter 19: Lance Becker Chapter 20: Skin temperature Chapter 21: Post-cardiac arrest syndrome (II) Answering the public top questions about suspended animation. (III) Real world examples for the usage of suspended animation in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of suspended animation' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of suspended animation.

Book Suspended Animation

Download or read book Suspended Animation written by Peter Cole and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Suspended Animation

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  • Author : Robert Mills
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Suspended Animation written by Robert Mills and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspended Animation argues that not only is the stereotype of uncontrolled violence in the Middle Ages historically misleading, the gulf between modern society and the medieval era is not as immense as we might think.

Book Liberty and Coercion

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  • Author : Gary Gerstle
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2017-10-24
  • ISBN : 0691178216
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Liberty and Coercion written by Gary Gerstle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the conflict between federal and state power has shaped American history American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion, and schooling on their neighbors. These contradictory stances on the role of public power have paralyzed policymaking and generated rancorous disputes about government’s legitimate scope. How did we reach this political impasse? Historian Gary Gerstle, looking at two hundred years of U.S. history, argues that the roots of the current crisis lie in two contrasting theories of power that the Framers inscribed in the Constitution. One theory shaped the federal government, setting limits on its power in order to protect personal liberty. Another theory molded the states, authorizing them to go to extraordinary lengths, even to the point of violating individual rights, to advance the "good and welfare of the commonwealth." The Framers believed these theories could coexist comfortably, but conflict between the two has largely defined American history. Gerstle shows how national political leaders improvised brilliantly to stretch the power of the federal government beyond where it was meant to go—but at the cost of giving private interests and state governments too much sway over public policy. The states could be innovative, too. More impressive was their staying power. Only in the 1960s did the federal government, impelled by the Cold War and civil rights movement, definitively assert its primacy. But as the power of the central state expanded, its constitutional authority did not keep pace. Conservatives rebelled, making the battle over government’s proper dominion the defining issue of our time. From the Revolution to the Tea Party, and the Bill of Rights to the national security state, Liberty and Coercion is a revelatory account of the making and unmaking of government in America.

Book Freezing a Mother in Law  or  Suspended Animation  A farce in one act

Download or read book Freezing a Mother in Law or Suspended Animation A farce in one act written by T. Edgar Pemberton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freezing a Mother-in-Law" is a 19th-century comedy about a man named Walter Litherland trying to save his mother-in-law, Mrs. Watmuff, from a dangerous experiment. A relative has discovered a fluid that, if injected into the ear, can freeze or suspend the subject's animation, and it is to be tested on Mrs. Watmuff. When Walter learns about this plot and that even his father-in-law is an accomplice, he does everything to save his mother-in-law from the danger.

Book Premature Burial and how it May be Prevented

Download or read book Premature Burial and how it May be Prevented written by William Tebb and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preincarnate

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  • Author : Shaun Micallef
  • Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
  • Release : 2010-11-01
  • ISBN : 1742735517
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book Preincarnate written by Shaun Micallef and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s pre-eminent comic Renaissance man turns his genius to novel writing. Having conquered television, radio, theatre and film, Shaun Micallef smashes his mighty fist onto the keyboard of his soul and produces a novel of such breathtaking brilliance that if Patrick White were alive today he’d hurl his own typewriter into the sea and start a lawn-mowing business. Suppose you were murdered and woke up 300 years earlier in someone else’s body. Wouldn’t you put yourself in suspended animation and be re-awoken in time to prevent yourself being murdered in the first place? This is the extraordinary tale of an ordinary man in a race against and across time. Join Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells, Queen Victoria, Jack the Ripper and Tom Cruise as they unravel a Masonic plot to restore James II to the throne – and in the process, perhaps destroy the Universe itself. Soul transference, time travel, cloning, space ships, Hollywood and the Loch Ness Monster all come together for the first time in one action-packed and beautifully typeset novel. Preincarnate, Micallef’s first – and very probably only – novel, shows not only that he is the rightful heir to the mantle of White but also the unruly bastard son of Barry Humphries, Clive James and Miles Franklin (obviously they’d all been very drunk that night).

Book Suspended Animation

Download or read book Suspended Animation written by F. Gonzalez-Crussi and published by Kaplan Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Six beautifully wrought meditations on the art of embalming and related matters…. Dr. Gonzalez–Crussi’s tone is measured, grave, and curiously formal … [with] a mordant sense of humor … and [a] courtliness and peculiar charm of his rococo style … muscular dandyism as well as his sly and faintly risqué humor….” “[He] is learned, compassionate, genuinely witty and, at the most unexpected moments, strangely moving…. His learning, his diligence, his lively curiosity, together make a formidable lens that he brings to bear upon the enigma of what we are and how we cease to be…” “[He] has delivered a missive that, though the envelope may give off a whiff of formalin, is in its essence a love letter to life, in all its strangeness, beauty, and mystery.” —John Banville, The New York Times Book Review “More graceful, erudite, and mind–expanding essays from Gonzalez–Crussi, this time accompanied by haunting, beautiful color photographs of skeletons, skulls, medical specimens, and anatomical models. In writing that smoothly integrates medical science, history, philosophy, literature, and the arts, Gonzalez–Crussi ponders the human condition…. The opening of a Gonzalez–Crussi essay gives few hints as to where it may wander, but the journey is always rewarding.” —Kirkus Reviews “Gonzalez–Crussi … weaves and bobs around monstrosity and death like a python about its victim—and he is nearly as mesmerizing.” —Publishers Weekly

Book Eternity Brigade

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  • Author : Stephen Goldin
  • Publisher : Parsina Press
  • Release : 2010-05-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Eternity Brigade written by Stephen Goldin and published by Parsina Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawker was a good soldier -- so good, in fact, that the Army asked him and his buddies to sign on for an extended hitch. What they couldn't know was that the extension would last forever. Century after century, war after war, Hawker and his comrades were re-animated over and over to fight on alien planets with ever more advanced weapons. The reasons for the wars were incomprehensible, but that didn't matter. All that counted was the fighting itself. From incarnation through incarnation, one goal remained in Hawker's mind. Somewhere, somehow, there had to be a way out of the loop. And he was determined to find it.

Book Animation Anecdotes

Download or read book Animation Anecdotes written by Jim Korkis and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Cartoons Will Never Be the Same. The history of animation in America is full of colorful characters - and that includes the animators themselves! Jim Korkis shares hundreds of funny, odd, endearing stories about the major animation studios, including Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, and many more.

Book The Popular Compendium of Anatomy     Containing Also an Article on Suspended Animation  Etc

Download or read book The Popular Compendium of Anatomy Containing Also an Article on Suspended Animation Etc written by William BURKE (Surgeon.) and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Basic Animation Stand Techniques

Download or read book Basic Animation Stand Techniques written by Brian G. D. Salt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic Animation Stand Techniques describes the use and importance of the animation stand in making animated films for the screen. The book describes the fundamental operation and construction of the animation stand where the film camera is mounted. The text explains in detail how the animation stand holds the camera, which points vertically straight down on the table containing the artwork. The selection describes the zoom movement, the light box, and the cell punch. Then the book discusses the three kinds of methods of animation, namely, modification, substitution, and mechanical movement. The book teaches some basic techniques of animation as well as the use of superimposition, image replacement, back projection, aerial image, fades, or mixes. The text explains exposures at different sized fields and camera exposure sheets, the latter containing detailed instructions on how to shoot each single frame. The book also notes the settings that can be achieved on a modern animation stand, including the counters and calibration of gears and wheels. For example, a movement can be as precise as a hundredth of an inch, while a rotation can be made in a tenth of a degree. The book also provides a fairing table, different exposures for different films, and a method to approximate the amount of film stock left in a magazine. The text is valuable for artists, animators, animation technicians, film directors, and others working in the film industry.

Book The Art of Philosophy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Sloterdijk
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2012-10-02
  • ISBN : 0231530404
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book The Art of Philosophy written by Peter Sloterdijk and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of sophisticated thought. Infused with humor and provocative insight, The Art of Philosophy further integrates philosophy and human existence, richly detailing the foundations of this relationship and its transformative role in making the postmodern self. Sloterdijk begins with Plato's description of Socrates, whose internal monologues were so absorbing they often rooted the philosopher in place. The original academy, Sloterdijk argues, taught scholars to lose themselves in thought, and today's universities continue this tradition by offering scope for Plato's "accommodations for absences." By training scholars to practice thinking as an occupation transcending daily time and space, universities create the environment in which thought makes wisdom possible. Traversing the history of asceticism, the concept of suspended animation, and the theory of the neutral observer, Sloterdijk traces the evolution of philosophical practice from ancient times to today, showing how scholars can remain true to the tradition of "the examined life" even when the temporal dimension no longer corresponds to the eternal. Building on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Arendt, and other practitioners of the life of theory, Sloterdijk launches a posthumanist defense of philosophical inquiry and its everyday, therapeutic value.

Book Experimental Life

Download or read book Experimental Life written by Robert Mitchell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental Life establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the notion of experimentation from the natural sciences. Winner of the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, BSLS Book Prize of the British Society for Literature and Science If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifically, with regard to Romanticism no study has investigated what it meant for artists to experiment and how those experiments related to their interest in the concept of life. Experimental Life draws on approaches and ideas from contemporary science studies, proposing the concept of experimental vitalism to show both how Romantic authors appropriated the concept of experimentation from the sciences and the impact of their appropriation on post-Romantic concepts of literature and art. Robert Mitchell navigates complex conceptual arenas such as network theory, gift exchange, paranoia, and biomedia and introduces new concepts, such as cryptogamia, chylopoietic discourse, trance-plantation, and the poetics of suspension. As a result, Experimental Life is a wide-ranging summation and extension of the current state of literary studies, the history of science, cultural critique, and theory.