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Author | : Tonino Griffero |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017-03-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 143846407X |
In this book, Tonino Griffero introduces and analyzes an ontological category he terms "quasi-things." These do not exist fully in the traditional sense as substances or events, yet they powerfully act on us and on our states of mind. He offers an original approach to the study of emotions, regarding them not as inner states of the subject, but as atmospheres, that is as powers poured out into the lived space we inhabit. Griffero first outlines the general and atmospheric characters of quasi-things, and then considers examples such as pain, shame, the gaze, and twilight—which he argues is responsible for penetrating and suggestive moods precisely because of its vagueness. With frequent examples from literature and everyday life, Quasi-Things provides an accessible aesthetic and phenomenological account of feelings based on the paradigm of atmospheres.
Author | : James Mark Baldwin |
Publisher | : London : S. Sonnenschein ; New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Logic |
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Author | : Andrew Wiskowski |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2022-03-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000553620 |
This book focuses attention on groups of performing people that are unique aesthetic objects, the focus of an artist’s vision, but at the same time a collective being; a singular, whole mass that exists and behaves like an individual entity. This text explores this unique experience, which is far from rare or special. Indeed, it is pervasive, ubiquitous and has, since the dawn of performance, been with us. Surveying installation art from Vanessa Beecroft & Kanye West, Greek tragedy, back-up dancing groups and even the mass dance of clubbing crowds, this text examines and names this phenomenon: Aesthetic Collectives. Drawing on a range of methods of investigation spanning performance studies, acting theory, studies of atmosphere and affect and sociology it presents an intervention in the literature for something that has long deserved its own attention. This book will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners in performance studies, theatre, live art, sociology (particularly of groups and subcultures), cultural studies and cultural geography.
Author | : Bill Brown |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2016-01-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022628316X |
From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature, criticism and theory, Other Things provides a new way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean by materiality itself.
Author | : Scott Lash |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2002-01-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1847876528 |
This penetrating book raises questions about how power operates in contemporary society. It explains how the speed of information flows has eroded the separate space needed for critical reflection. It argues that there is no longer an ′outside′ to the global flows of communication and that the critique of information must take place within the information itself. The operative unit of the information society is the idea. With the demise of depth reflection, reflexivity through the idea now operates external to the subject in its circulation through networks of humans and intelligent machines. It is these ideas that make the critique of information possible. This book is a major testament to the prospects of culture, politics and theory in the global information society.
Author | : John Austin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Jurisprudence |
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Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1905 |
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Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Christian literature, Early |
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Author | : Saint Augustine (of Hippo) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Theology |
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Author | : Jacob Gould Schurman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
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An international journal of general philosophy.