Between The Real And The Imagined

Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345777
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spaceships written by Ron Miller and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illustrated guide to real and imagined spaceships, and how popular culture influenced the development of each"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Maurice Godelier
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786637707
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic written by Maurice Godelier and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the close relationship between the real and the symbolic and imaginary What you imagined is not always imaginary, but everything that is imaginary is imagined. It is by imagining that people make the impossible become possible. In mythology or religion, however, those things that are imagined are never experienced as being imaginary by believers. The realm of the imagined is even more real than the real; it is super-real, surreal. Lévi-Strauss held that "the real, the symbolic and the imaginary" are three separate orders. Maurice Godelier demonstrates the contrary: that the real is not separate from the symbolic and the imaginary. For instance, for a portion of humanity, rituals and sacred objects and places attest to the reality and therefore the truth that God, gods or spirits exist. The symbolic enables people to signify what they think and do, encompassing thought, spilling over into the whole body, but also pervading temples, palaces, tools, foods, mountains, the sea, the sky and the earth. It is real. Godelier's book goes to the strategic heart of the social sciences, for to examine the nature and role of the imaginary and the symbolic is also to attempt to account for the basic components of all societies and ultimately of human existence. And these aspects in turn shape our social and personal identity.

Author : Benedict Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168359X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagined Communities written by Benedict Anderson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2006-11-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.

Author : Caitriona Dhuill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351549006
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex in Imagined Spaces written by Caitriona Dhuill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Thomas More onwards, writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social orders. In the utopian alternative, the sex-gender system of the contemporary society may be either reproduced or radically re-organised. Reading utopian writing as a dialogue between reality and possibility, this study examines the relationship between historical sex-gender systems and those envisioned by utopian texts. Surveying a broad range of utopian writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Huxley, Zamyatin, Wedekind, Hauptmann, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book reveals the variety and complexity of approaches to re-arranging gender, and locates these 're-arrangements' within contemporary debates on sex and reproduction, masculinity and femininity, desire, taboo and family structure. These issues occupy a position of central importance in the dialogue between utopian imagination and anti-utopian thought which culminates in the great dystopias of the twentieth century and the postmodern re-invention of utopia.

Author : Anthony S Markellis
Publisher : Shirespress
ISBN 13 : 9781605715032
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Real & Imagined written by Anthony S Markellis and published by Shirespress. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life...Real & Imagined is a collection of fourteen short stories by acclaimed bassist Tony Markellis, one of whose favorite pastimes is the observation and appreciation of his fellow humans wherever his many travels may take him. An eternal student of anthropology, he is fascinated by people and their languages, their customs, their cuisines, their origins, and their aspirations. In the preface to the book he says, "We are all alike in so many ways, but that's not what makes life interesting, is it? It's the differences between us that make life worth living. These stories deal with people of many ages, races, nationalities, religions and walks of life, and are one man's attempt to understand them. Some of these tales are eyewitness accounts of actual events (if perhaps embellished a bit); and some of them are pure fiction. I'll leave it to you to decide which ones are which."

Author : Sarah Cooper
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474452809
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film and the Imagined Image written by Sarah Cooper and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From documentary to art-house cinema - and from an abundance of onscreen images to their complete absence - films that experiment variously with narration, voice-over and soundscapes do not only engage viewers' thoughts and senses. They also make an appeal to visualise more than is perceptible on screen. This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination. Bringing together an international range of films with debates in philosophy, film theory, literary scholarship and cognitive psychology, author Sarah Cooper charts the key processes that serve the imagining of images in the light of the mind. Through its navigation of a labile and vivid mental terrain, this innovative work makes a profound contribution to the study of spectatorship.

Author : Kavita Singh
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065181
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Birds in Imagined Gardens written by Kavita Singh and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of paintings produced during the Mughal dynasty (1526–1857) tend to trace a linear, “evolutionary” path and assert that, as European Renaissance prints reached and influenced Mughal artists, these artists abandoned a Persianate style in favor of a European one. Kavita Singh counters these accounts by demonstrating that Mughal painting did not follow a single arc of stylistic evolution. Instead, during the reigns of the emperors Akbar and Jahangir, Mughal painting underwent repeated cycles of adoption, rejection, and revival of both Persian and European styles. Singh’s subtle and original analysis suggests that the adoption and rejection of these styles was motivated as much by aesthetic interest as by court politics. She contends that Mughal painters were purposely selective in their use of European elements. Stylistic influences from Europe informed some aspects of the paintings, including the depiction of clothing and faces, but the symbolism, allusive practices, and overall composition remained inspired by Persian poetic and painterly conventions. Closely examining magnificent paintings from the period, Singh unravels this entangled history of politics and style and proposes new ways to understand the significance of naturalism and stylization in Mughal art.

Author : Priscilla Alderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317363949
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Childhoods Real and Imagined written by Priscilla Alderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Priscilla Alderson’s popular and renowned book Childhoods Real and Imagined relates dialectical critical realism to childhood. By demonstrating their relevance and value to each other, Alderson presents a practical introductory guide for applying critical realism to research about children and young people. Each chapter summarises key themes from several academic disciplines and policy areas, ranging from climate change and social justice between generations, to neoliberalism, social reform and imagining utopias. Children’s and adults’ views and experiences are reviewed, and whereas the first volume deals with more personal and local aspects of childhood, this volume widens the scope into debates about global politics, which so seldom mention children. Each chapter demonstrates how children and young people are an integral part of the whole of society and are often especially affected by policies and events. This book is written for everyone who is researching, studying or teaching about childhood, or who cares for and works with children and young people, as well as those interested in critical realist approaches.

Author : Jeroen Goudeau
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900427085X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture written by Jeroen Goudeau and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, which question the visualization of Jerusalem.

Author : Jens Beckert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674545893
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagined Futures written by Jens Beckert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How do these actors assess uncertainty? Jens Beckert adds a new chapter to the theory of capitalism by showing how fictional expectations drive modern economies—or throw them into crisis when imagined futures fail to materialize.