Ruin and Resilience

2023-04-05 Literary Criticism

Author : Daniel Spoth
Release : 2023-04-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Ruin and Resilience written by Daniel Spoth. This book was released on 2023-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum literature and cinema, Spoth’s analysis winds from John Muir’s walking journey across the war-torn South, through the troubling of southern environmentalism’s modernity by Faulkner and Hurston, past the accounts of its acceleration in Welty and O’Connor, and finally into the present, uncovering how the tragic econarrative is transformed by contemporary food studies, climate fiction, and speculative tales inspired by the region. Phrased as a reaction to the rising temperatures and swelling sea levels in the South, Ruin and Resilience conceptualizes an environmental, ecocritical ethos for the southern United States that takes account of its fundamentally vulnerable status and navigates the space between its reactionary politics and its ecological failures.

Ruin and Resilience

2023-04-05 Literary Criticism

Author : Daniel Spoth
Release : 2023-04-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 033/5 ( reviews)

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Ruins and Resilience

2024-07-23 Performing Arts

Author : Karel Doing
Release : 2024-07-23
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Ruins and Resilience written by Karel Doing. This book was released on 2024-07-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental film practice from an international and transdisciplinary perspective. Karel Doing is an experimental filmmaker and researcher who has worked across the globe with fellow artists and filmmakers, creating a body of work that is difficult to pinpoint with a simple catchphrase. In Ruins and Resilience he weaves autobiographical elements and critical reviews together with his wide ranging interdisciplinary approach, reflecting on his own practice by positioning key works within the context of a vibrant experimental film scene in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Doing demonstrates how experimental filmmakers have continued to renew their practice despite the almost total demise of analog motion picture film and the constant neglect of this art form by institutions and critics. Written in a fluent and accessible style, the book looks into the connections between the work of groundbreaking artists within the field and subjects such as transgression, improvisation, collectivity, materiality, phenomenology, and perception. Specifically, intersections with music and sound are investigated, appealing to the idea of the cross-modal brain, the ability to perceive sounds and images in an integrated way. Instead of looking again at the "golden era" of experimental film, the book starts in the 1980s, showing how this art form has never ceased to surprise and inspire. The author's hands-on engagement with the medium is formational for his more theoretical approach and writing, making the book a highly original contribution in the field that is informative and inspiring for academic and practitioners alike.

Pursepective

2015-11-09

Author : Amy Cannatta
Release : 2015-11-09
Genre :
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Book Rating : 467/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Pursepective written by Amy Cannatta. This book was released on 2015-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique, transformational, and inspirational guidebook using a woman's handbag as the guiding metaphor for the emotional baggage and inner world we carry around with us everyday that no one sees from the outside. This book is very practical and hands-on. The metaphorical handbag (outlined beautifully in the preface) provides an important tool for talking about difficult topics like domestic abuse, depression, and loss. The exercises are relevant and invite the reader to take things further and implement changes in his or her own life. The beginning of each chapter is formatted with an inspirational quote that reflects the theme of the upcoming chapter. The body of the chapter are memoir stories and personal experiences that pertain to the take home message for the reader. At the end of each chapter, there is a mantra followed by practical exercises and applications for the reader to use to transform and rebuild their lives from whatever obstacle they are facing. This book has a strong domestic abuse theme however, the practical applications and stories apply to anyone who has ever faced a struggle or difficult situation. The goal of this book is to impact the world in a positive way by putting a "silver lining" to the issue of domestic violence and abuse, depression, and loss. The author's motivation is to inspire others to break free from whatever is holding them back by implementing simple, yet powerful shifts in perspective and mindset to catapult their lives and change the course of their futures. EXCERPT FROM PURSEPECTIVE: "As your perspective changes from viewing yourself as a powerless victim of circumstances to seeing that you have the power to choose not only how your mindset but also how you react to circumstances that come your way, you open yourself up to new and different options. This is the first step in creating a life you love on your own terms. As a result of shifting your perspective, you can begin living a life that you design and imagine. You begin to shift from victim, to VICTOR!"

Resilience for All

2018-05-24 Architecture

Author : Barbara Brown Wilson
Release : 2018-05-24
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 924/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Resilience for All written by Barbara Brown Wilson. This book was released on 2018-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. In many vulnerable neighborhoods, structural racism and classism prevent residents from having a seat at the table when decisions are made about their community. In an effort to overcome power imbalances and ensure local knowledge informs decision-making, a new approach to community engagement is essential. In Resilience for All, Barbara Brown Wilson looks at less conventional, but often more effective methods to make communities more resilient. She takes an in-depth look at what equitable, positive change through community-driven design looks like in four communities—East Biloxi, Mississippi; the Lower East Side of Manhattan; the Denby neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan; and the Cully neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. These vulnerable communities have prevailed in spite of serious urban stressors such as climate change, gentrification, and disinvestment. Wilson looks at how the lessons in the case studies and other examples might more broadly inform future practice. She shows how community-driven design projects in underserved neighborhoods can not only change the built world, but also provide opportunities for residents to build their own capacities.

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