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Quasi-Things

2017-03-15 Philosophy
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Release : 2017-03-15
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Book Synopsis Quasi-Things by : Tonino Griffero

Download or read book Quasi-Things written by Tonino Griffero. This book was released on 2017-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aesthetic and phenomenological account of feelings. 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. Tonino Griffero is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the author of many books, including Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces, translated by Sarah De Sanctis. Sarah De Sanctis is General Manager of the UK branch of Labont (Laboratory for Ontology). She is the translator of Manifesto of New Realism, by Maurizio Ferraris, also published by SUNY Press.

Aesthetic Collectives

2022-03-13 Philosophy
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Release : 2022-03-13
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Aesthetic Collectives by : Andrew Wiskowski

Download or read book Aesthetic Collectives written by Andrew Wiskowski. This book was released on 2022-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Critique of Information

2002-01-21 Social Science
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Release : 2002-01-21
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Critique of Information by : Scott Lash

Download or read book Critique of Information written by Scott Lash. This book was released on 2002-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Thought and Things

1906 Logic
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Release : 1906
Genre : Logic
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Book Synopsis Thought and Things by : James Mark Baldwin

Download or read book Thought and Things written by James Mark Baldwin. This book was released on 1906. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of American and English Law

1883 Law
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Release : 1883
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of American and English Law by : Stewart Rapalje

Download or read book A Dictionary of American and English Law written by Stewart Rapalje. This book was released on 1883. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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