Representation And The Imagination

Author : Shani Orgad
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745680852
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media Representation and the Global Imagination written by Shani Orgad and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration. The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing ‘mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation – the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others. Media Representations and the Global Imagination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.

Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608094380
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representation and the Imagination written by Daniel Albright and published by . This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Eldridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521480796
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Representation written by Richard Eldridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore the ways in which traditional philosophical problems about self-knowledge, self-identity, and value have migrated into literature since the Romantic and Idealist periods. How do so-called literary works take up these problems in a new way? What conception of the subject is involved in this literary practice? How are the lines of demarcation between philosophy and literature problematized. The contributors examine these issues with reference both to Romantic and Idealist writers and to some of their subsequent literary and philosophical inheritors and revisers. Their essays offer a philosophical understanding of the roots and nature of contemporary literary and philosophical practice, and elaborate powerful and influential, but rarely decisively articulated, conceptions of the human subject and of value.

Author : Marco Frascari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134719558
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Models to Drawings written by Marco Frascari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection addresses the vital role of the imagination in the critical interpretation of architectural representations. By challenging the contemporary tendency for computer-aided drawings to become mere ‘models’ for imitation in the construction of buildings, the articles explore the broader range of methods and meanings at stake in the creation and interpretation of architectural drawings, models, images and artefacts. These critical – and often practice-led – investigations are placed alongside a range of historical studies considering the development of representational techniques such as perspective, orthography and diagramming. By also addressing the use of visual representation in a number of related disciplines such as visual arts, film, performance and literature, the book opens up debates in architecture to important developments in other fields. This book is key reading for all students of architecture and architectural theory.

Author : Brooke L. Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848881266
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space and Place: Diversity in Reality, Imagination, and Representation written by Brooke L. Rogers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cesare Cornoldi
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195099486
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stretching the Imagination written by Cesare Cornoldi and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1996 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in the "Counterpoints" series. This text examines the relationships between perception and mental imagery, which have given rise to one of the most vigorously debated areas in psychology.

Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : McDonald Institute Monographs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image and Imagination written by Colin Renfrew and published by McDonald Institute Monographs. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dawn of art is sometimes equated with the birth of the human spirit. But when and how did figuration - sculpture, painting, drawing - actually begin? And did these first figurative creations coincide with the emergence of our own species, Homo sapiens ? Is figuration a general and fundamental feature of the human condition? In this challenging volume leading experts review the evidence now available from the worldwide practice of prehistoric archaeology, and go on to formulate some important conclusions. The scope of this work is global. It sets out to explore the first stirrings of artistic endeavour and of figurative imagery on each continent, and to consider the social context in which they arose. It will be a fundamental resource for all those seeking to understand the origins of art and the beginnings of human spirituality.

Author : Adam Toon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137292237
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Models as Make-Believe written by Adam Toon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific models by comparing them to the dolls and toy trucks of children's imaginative games, and offers a unified framework to solve difficult metaphysical problems and help to make sense of scientific practice.

Author : Tania Zittoun
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135103208
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagination in Human and Cultural Development written by Tania Zittoun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book positions imagination as a central concept which increases the understanding of daily life, personal life choices, and the way in which culture and society changes. Case studies from micro instances of reverie and daydreaming, to utopian projects, are included and analysed. The theoretical focus is on imagination as a force free from immediate constraints, forming the basis of our individual and collective agency. In each chapter, the authors review and integrate a wide range of classic and contemporary literature culminating in the proposal of a sociocultural model of imagination. The book takes into account the triggers of imagination, the content of imagination, and the outcomes of imagination. At the heart of the model is the interplay between the individual and culture; an exploration of how the imagination, as something very personal and subjective, grows out of our shared culture, and how our shared culture can be transformed by acts of imagination. Imagination in Human and Cultural Development offers new perspectives on the study of psychological learning, change, innovation and creativity throughout the lifespan. The book will appeal to academics and scholars in the fields of psychology and the social sciences, especially those with an interest in development, social change, cultural psychology, imagination and creativity.

Author : Avishek Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000412407
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination written by Avishek Ray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the epistemic foundation of the heuristic construct ‘vagabond’ and the convergence between the politics of itinerancy and that of dissent in the context of South Asia. It describes the fraught relationship between ‘native’ itinerant practices and techniques of governmentality which have furnished different categorizations and taxonomies of mobility. The book demonstrates the historical seismic breaks – from the Orientalist to the post-Orientalist, from the premodern to the modern, and from the colonial to the post-colonial – in the representation of the vagabond in the juridico-political imagination, in historiography and cultural articulation. For instance, the drunk European sailor, the quasi-religious mendicant, and the helpless famine refugee have all been referred to as ‘vagabonds’ in the colonial archive. This book examines the histories and conditions behind these conceptual overlaps, as well as the uncanny associations among categories that uneasily coexist and mirror each other as subsets of a vast range of phenomena, which may loosely be called ‘vagabond(age)’. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, history, migration studies, sociology, and South Asia studies.