Work, Body, Leisure

Work, Body, Leisure
Author: Marina Otero Verzier
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783775744256

This catalog documents the Dutch Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, which gathers contributions from architects, designers, historians and theorists exploring the emerging technologies of automation. Contributors include Amal Alhaag, Beatriz Colomina, Marten Kuijpers, Victor Muñoz Sanz, Simone C. Niquelle and Mark Wigley.

The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Theory of the Leisure Class
Author: Thorstein Veblen
Publisher: Aakar Books
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788187879299

In The Theory Of The Leisure Class, His First And Best-Known Work, Thorstein Veblen Challenges Some Of Man S Most Cherished Standards Of Behavior And With Devastating Wit And Satire Exposes The Hollowness Of Many Of Our Canons Of Taste, Education, Dress And Culture. Veblen Uses The Leisure Class As His Example Because It Is This Class That Sets The Standards Followed By Every Level Of Society.The Sign Of Membership In The Leisure Class Is Exemption From Industrial Toil And The Mark Of Success Is Lavish Expenditure Conspicuous Consumption Is The Famous Term He Invented To Describe Spending Which Satisfies No Real Need But Is A Mark Of Prestige.The Process Veblen Criticized Continues Today The Same Worship Of An Empty Scale Of Values, The Same Urge To Prove Oneself Better Than One S Neighbor By The Conspicuous Accumulation Of Useless Objects And By Time And Money-Wasting Activities.

Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure

Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure
Author: Bernard Andrieu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2018-01-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 135133705X

The emerging field of body ecology offers fresh insights into how the body engages with its surrounding environment through consciousness, perception, knowledge and emotion. In this groundbreaking collection, leading scholars of sport, leisure and philosophy draw on research on topics as diverse as surfing, freediving, slacklining, parkour, bodybuilding, dance and circus arts to flesh out the concept of body ecology and its potential for helping us understand our connection with the world around us. Touching on theories of subjectivity, embodiment, pleasure and play, this book explores different approaches to studying body ecology as a way of conceptualising the experience of being immersed in nature, in the elements and in one’s own body through the power of awareness. An experience becomes emersive when it involves the production of new emotions in the body: emersion is the activation of what is living within the body itself. Shedding new light on the possibilities of physical cultural studies, Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure is fascinating reading for all students and scholars with an interest in sport, leisure, philosophy and the body.

Work That Body

Work That Body
Author: Jamie Hakim
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786604434

Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture explores the recent rise in different types of men using digital media to sexualise their bodies. It argues that the male body has become a key site in contemporary culture where neoliberalism’s hegemony has been both secured and contested since 2008. It does this by looking at four different case studies: the celebrity male nude leak; the rise of young men sharing images of their muscular bodies on social media; RuPaul's Drag Race body transformational tutorial, and the rise of chemsex. It finds that on the one hand digital media has enabled men to transform their bodies into tools of value-creation in economic contexts where the historical means they have relied on to create value have diminished. On the other it has also allowed them to use their bodies to form intimate collective bonds during a moment when competitive individualism continued to be the privileged mode of being in the world. It therefore offers a unique contribution not only to the field of digital cultural studies but also to the growing cultural studies literature attempting to map the historical contradictions of the austerity moment.

The Joy of Not Working

The Joy of Not Working
Author: Ernie John Zelinski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780969419419

Advice on achieving success and satisfaction in life away from the work place.

Holy Leisure

Holy Leisure
Author: Troy Messenger
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781566398411

The beach has always been the place to shake off the stresses of urban life, and to relax with friends and family. And yet, as Troy Messenger shows, the beach has been a site for religious revival for as long as it's been a haven from the workday world. In this history of Ocean Grove, New Jersey, the first permanent camp meeting ground for religious revival, Messenger examines how the emergence of the beach appeared hand in hand with America's need to escape the secular world of work through leisure and religious renewal. Author note: Troy Messenger is director of worship and a lecturer at Union Theological Seminary.

Gabriel's Body

Gabriel's Body
Author: Curt Siodmak
Publisher: Leisure Books
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780843933468

The biochemist thought a brain-dead but physically flawless young man was a perfect subject. But soon Cory learns that Gabriel's body had a will of its own, and it needed his mind to live again. . .

The Discipline of Leisure

The Discipline of Leisure
Author: Simon Coleman
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857450395

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control.

Leisure and Spirituality (Engaging Culture)

Leisure and Spirituality (Engaging Culture)
Author: Paul Heintzman
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441245499

This addition to the award-winning Engaging Culture series explores the link between leisure and spirituality, offering a Christian perspective on leisure concepts and issues in contemporary society. Paul Heintzman, a respected scholar and experienced recreation practitioner, interacts with biblical, historical, and contemporary leisure studies sources to provide a comprehensive understanding of leisure. He also explains the importance of leisure for spiritual growth and development. This work will appeal to professors and students as well as practitioners in the recreation and leisure services field, youth and college pastors, and camp ministries.

Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture

Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture
Author: C. White
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-06-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1137373075

In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.