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Author : Erin Vander Wall
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 9789004370531
Author : Erin Vander Wall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848884818
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. We are captivated by the monstrous. The monstrous encapsulates a variety of emotions, actions, behaviors, and re-sponses. In general usage it draws attention to the physicality of bodies, the fear and repulsion that have so often driven societal response, and the marginal status of those defined by such terms. Monstrous geographies draw on the unease and uncanniness at the core of the monstrous while shifting the consideration from bodies to places and spaces, away from corporeality and toward the sites or landscapes within which bodies move; away from the mon-strous form of a creature like the Yeti and toward the environment in which the Yeti thrives, an environment that must be monstrous to produce and sustain such a being. Considering such geographies allows for a nuanced under-standing of the places, both real and imagined, subtle and fantastic, that make up our world.
Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1501378783
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Tarot. He is also an auteur filmmaker who garnered attention with his breakthrough film El Topo in 1970. He has been called a “cult” filmmaker, whose films are surreal, hallucinatory, and provocative. The Transformative Cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky explores the ways in which Jodorowsky's films are transformative in a psychologically therapeutic way. It also examines his signature style, which includes the symbolic meaning of various colors in which he clothes his actors, the use of his own family members in the films, and his casting of himself in leading roles. This total involvement of himself and his family in his auteur films led to his psycho-therapeutic theories and practices: metagenealogy and psychomagic. This book is the only the second book in the English language in print that deals with all of Jodorowsky's films, beginning with his earliest mime film in 1957 and ending with his 2019 film on psychomagic. It also connects his work as a writer and therapist to his films, which themselves attempt to obliterate the line between fantasy and reality.
Author : Sarah Montin
Publisher :
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Atrocities
ISBN : 9781848882218
Monsters fascinate. But the place where monsters dwell, or monstrous acts grow or are carried out, also evokes our profound curiosity. Set apart from humanity while holding up a mirror to it, the monster always lurks in the margins, be they geographical, political, social, or metaphorical. This book explores spatial monstrosities - especially around the boundaries. From portrayals of hostile nature that bear witness to the ways in which history and conflict haunt the imaginations and memory of nations, to the disturbing idea of the monster within, burrowed deep inside houses, secretly dwelling in gardens and miscroscopic places, and most terrifyingly, in our own bodies and souls. Each chapter contributes a distinct voice to notions of politics of space, aesthetics of space, intimacies of space and ethics of space. These are the places where the first shadow of darkness is cast among us, and it is indeed monstrous.
Author : Jacky Bowring
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2016-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781843446231
Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human, yet everything from Prozac to self-help books seems intent on removing it from existence. A Field Guide to Melancholy surveys this ambivalent concept. Melancholy is found in historic traditions, and in contemporary society it becomes a fashion statement in the subculture of the Emo. Still, shelves are full of books claiming to help us overcome it. By drawing on a range of disciplines from psychology to design, this book provides a deeper look at one of the most elusive and enigmatic of human conditions.
Author : Phil Smith
Publisher : Triarchy Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1911193198
A book about despair, climate change, zombie films, multiple apocalypses, the everyday, city-dwelling, zombies, walking and walk-performance, imperialism, sex, zombie literature, refugees, popular culture and zombies.
Author : Jacky Bowring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0429835337
Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques, perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture, a field very different from the more well-known domains of art and architectural criticism. Throughout the book, Bowring delves into questions such as, how do we know if built or unbuilt works of landscape architecture are successful? What strategies are used to measure the success or failure, and by whom? Does design criticism only come in written form? It brings together diverse perspectives on criticism in landscape architecture, establishing a substantial point of reference for approaching design critique, exploring how criticism developed within the discipline. Beginning with an introductory overview to set the framework, the book then moves on to historical perspectives, the purpose of critique, theoretical positions ranging from aesthetics, to politics and experience, unbuilt projects, techniques, and communication. Written for professionals and academics, as well as for students and instructors in landscape architecture, it includes strategies, diagrams, matrices, and full colour illustrations to prompt discussion and provide a basis for exploring design critique.
Author : Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 042980699X
An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific material processes. It reflects on the theory and practice of the archaeology of the contemporary past from epistemological, political, ethical and aesthetic viewpoints, and characterises the present based on archaeological traces from the spatial, temporal and material excesses that define it. The materiality of our era, the book argues, and particularly its ruins and rubbish, reveals something profound, original and disturbing about humanity. This is the first attempt at describing the contemporary era from an archaeological point of view. Global in scope, the book brings together case studies from every continent and considers sources from peripheral and rarely considered traditions, meanwhile engaging in an interdisciplinary dialogue with philosophy, anthropology, history and geography. An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era will be essential reading for students and practitioners of the archaeology of the contemporary past, historical archaeology and archaeological theory. It will also be of interest to anybody concerned with globalisation, modernity and the Anthropocene.
Author : Ian Angus
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 2016-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1583676090
Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun—the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical, social, and economic environment. Large parts of Earth will become uninhabitable, and civilization itself will be threatened. Facing the Anthropocene shows what has caused this planetary emergency, and what we must do to meet the challenge. Bridging the gap between Earth System science and ecological Marxism, Ian Angus examines not only the latest scientific findings about the physical causes and consequences of the Anthropocene transition, but also the social and economic trends that underlie the crisis. Cogent and compellingly written, Facing the Anthropocene offers a unique synthesis of natural and social science that illustrates how capitalism's inexorable drive for growth, powered by the rapid burning of fossil fuels that took millions of years to form, has driven our world to the brink of disaster. Survival in the Anthropocene, Angus argues, requires radical social change, replacing fossil capitalism with a new, ecosocialist civilization.
Author : Charles Forsdick
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1787354415
Georges Perec, novelist, filmmaker and essayist, was one of the most inventive and original writers of the twentieth century. A fascinating aspect of his work is its intrinsically geographical nature. With major projects on space and place, Perec’s writing speaks to a variety of geographical, urban and architectural concerns, both in a substantive way, including a focus on cities, streets, homes and apartments, and in a methodological way, experimenting with methods of urban exploration and observation, classification, enumeration and taxonomy.