Disformations

Author : TomᚠJirsa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501362321
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disformations written by TomᚠJirsa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when forms fall apart? And how do affects such as fear, shock, fascination, and desire drive and shape formal disturbances in modern literature, cinema, and contemporary art? Opening an interdisciplinary dialogue between cultural affect theory, media philosophy, and literary studies, TomᚠJirsa explores how specific affective operations disrupt form only to generate new formations. To demonstrate the importance of the structural work of mutually interacting affects, Disformations provides close readings of four intermedia figures stretched out across modernist fictions, contemporary video art, and posthuman visual experiments-the faceless face, the wallpaper pattern, the garbage dump, and the empty chair. Analyzing a wide range of texts, images, and audiovisual works, from Vincent van Gogh and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Rainer Maria Rilke, Gaston Leroux, and Richard Weiner, to Francis Bacon, Michel Tournier, Ingmar Bergman, Eugène Ionesco, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Kosuth, and Jan Šerých, this book opens up a new avenue for addressing how aesthetic forms desubjectify affects to mobilize their mediality and performative qualities. Jirsa's innovative theoretical framework and incisive readings offer a fresh inquiry into how artistic media produce their own figural thinking and in so doing compel us to think with them anew.

Author : Tomáš Jirsa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501362316
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disformations written by Tomáš Jirsa and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the theoretically fertile concept of the formless as articulated by modern literature and visual arts, and argues that instead of an elimination of form the formless stands for an affective operation based on both aesthetically and speculative generative deformation of forms"--

Author : Francesco Bajardi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009208748
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noether Symmetries in Theories of Gravity written by Francesco Bajardi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume summarizes the many modified theories of gravity and shows how to select physically viable models using symmetry principles.

Author : Marcus Rothkirch
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889454312
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transitions Between Consciousness and Unconsciousness written by Marcus Rothkirch and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last years, a large body of experimental data have been generated in the attempt to understand consciousness and its neural underpinnings. In this respect, particular interest has been paid to the attempt to distinguish between conscious experience and unconscious states which however may still be considered as mental states (e.g., in virtue of their representational nature). This is of course not without reason. A deep understanding of that which specifically characterizes conscious states, including neural correlates and cognitive functions, may crucially inform the ambition of understanding the relation between experience and the physical world. Nevertheless, the question has historically been challenged by the fact that consciousness is available in the first person only – not to other people, including scientists. Different methodological traditions and choices have led to quite different understandings of how conscious and unconscious states relate, and diverse empirical work has been inspired and guided by various cognitive and neurobiological theories of consciousness. The very diverse viewpoints include such different positions as the idea that unconscious states are associated with the very same functional characteristics as conscious states, and the idea that no informational state that is available for action can be completely unconscious. The Research Topic “Transitions between consciousness and unconsciousness” is therefore devoted to this particular question, how to understand the relation and transition between consciousness and unconsciousness. We hope that the reader will find the collected articles both informative and thought-provoking, and that this Research Topic will stimulate the scientific debate.

Author : Songül Gündoğdu
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
ISBN 13 : 386309686X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current issues in Kurdish linguistics written by Songül Gündoğdu and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Issues in Kurdish Linguistics contains ten contributions which span the field of Kurdish linguistics, both in terms of geography and in terms of the range of topics. Along with several works on Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) and Sorani (Central Kurdish), two chapters shed light on the lesser-known Southern Kurdish language area. Other studies are comparative, and treat the Kurdish language area in its entirety. The linguistic approaches of the authors are a mix of formal and typological perspectives, and cover topics ranging from geographical distribution and variation to phonology, morphosyntax, discourse structure, historical morphology, and sociolinguistics. The present volume is the first of its kind in bringing together contributions from a relatively large number of linguists, working in a diverse range of frameworks and on different aspects and varieties of Kurdish. As such, it attests to the increasing breadth and sophistication now evident in Kurdish linguistics, and is a worthy launch for the new series Bamberg Studies in Kurdish Linguistics (BSKL).

Author : W. Lance Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108843050
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disinformation Age written by W. Lance Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how disinformation spread by partisan organizations and media platforms undermines institutional legitimacy on which authoritative information depends.

Author : Jiri Anger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Film Theory from Below written by Jiri Anger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating between film theory, media philosophy, archival practice, and audiovisual research, Jiri Anger focuses on the relationship between figuration and materiality in early films, experimental found footage cinema, and video essays. Would it be possible to do film theory from below, through the perspective of moving-image objects, of their multifarious details and facets, however marginal, unintentional, or aleatory they might be? Could we treat scratches, stains, and shakes in archival footage as speculatively and aesthetically generative features? Do these material actors have the capacity to create “weird shapes” within the figurative image that decenter, distort, and transform the existing conceptual and methodological frameworks? Building on his theoretical as well as practical experience with the recently digitized corpus of the first Czech films, created by Jan Kríženecký between 1898 and 1911, the author demonstrates how technological defects and accidents in archival films shape their aesthetic function and our understanding of the materiality of film in the digital age. The specific clashes between the figurative and material spheres are understood through the concept of a “crack-up.” This term, developed by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and theoretically reimagined by Gilles Deleuze, allows us to capture the convoluted relationship between figuration and materiality as inherent to the medium of film, containing negativity and productivity, difference and simultaneity, contingency and fate, at the same time, even within the tiniest cinematic units.

Author : Dieter Kastovsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110810301
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of English in a Social Context written by Dieter Kastovsky and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Gabriele Siegert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110416794
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commercial Communication in the Digital Age written by Gabriele Siegert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s digital age, online and mobile advertising are of growing importance, with advertising no longer bound to the traditional media industry. Although the advertising industry still has broader access to the different measures and channels, users and consumers today have more possibilities topublish, get informed or communicate – to “co-create” –, and toreach a bigger audience. There is a good chance thus that users and consumers are better informed about the objectives and persuasive tricks of the advertising industry than ever before. At the same time, advertisers can inform about products and services without the limitations of time and place faced by traditional mass media. But will there really be a time when advertisers and consumers have equal power, or does tracking users online and offline lead to a situation where advertisers have more information about the consumers than ever before? The volume discusses these questionsand related issues.

Author : International Institute of Refrigeration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Bulletin of Information on Refrigeration written by International Institute of Refrigeration and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: