[PDF] Reign Of Appearances eBook

Author : Ari Adut
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1316853241

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The public sphere, be it the Greek agora or the New York Times op-ed page, is the realm of appearances - not citizenship. Its central event is spectacle - not dialogue. Public dialogue, the mantra of many intellectuals and political commentators, is but a contradiction in terms. Marked by an asymmetry between the few who act and the many who watch, the public sphere can undermine liberal democracy, law, and morality. Inauthenticity, superficiality, and objectification are the very essence of the public sphere. But the public sphere also liberates us from the bondages of private life and fosters an existentially vital aesthetic experience. Reign of Appearances uses a variety of cases to reveal the logic of the public sphere, including homosexuality in Victorian England, the 2008 crash, antisemitism in Europe, confidence in American presidents, communications in social media, special prosecutor investigations, the visibility of African-Americans, violence during the French Revolution, the Islamic veil, and contemporary sexual politics. This unconventional account of the public sphere is critical reading for anyone who wants to understand the effects of visibility in urban life, politics, and the media.

Author : Dianne Duvall
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1420118625

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When Ami saves an immortal protector from a vicious vampire attack, she finds herself attracted to him, but Marcus, while admiring her bravery, does not want to take her on as a partner.

Author : William M. Reddy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520324498

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Author : Daniel de Vise
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802158072

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The first full and authoritative biography of an American—indeed a world-wide—musical and cultural legend “No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.”—President Barack Obama “He is without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced.”—Eric Clapton Riley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister’s guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka White, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark. In turn, generations of artists claimed him as inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Carlos Santana and the Edge. King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in 90 countries over nearly 60 years)—in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his landmark gig at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of color. Daniel de Visé has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King’s inner circle—family, band members, retainers, managers, and more—and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby “Blue” Bland simply called “the man.”

Author : Mortimer Arias
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2001-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579105637

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In 'Announcing the Reign of God' Mortimer Arias proposes that the time has come to recover in its fullness the biblical perspective of the kingdom for the mission of the church today and particularly for our evangelistic witness.

Author : David Starkey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0099445107

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In this text, David Starkey examines the personalities and politics of Henry VIII in Great Britain during the years 1509-1547.