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A celebration of the acclaimed African American modern sculptor
Author : Margaret Rose Vendryes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781604730920
A celebration of the acclaimed African American modern sculptor
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0809071940
"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0374521344
"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind."--Alibris.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231136153
Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a unique pedagogical experiment: he combined teaching and writing to "simulate" the trial of novel-writing, exploring every step of the creative process along the way. Barthes's lectures move from the desire to write to the actual decision making, planning, and material act of producing a novel. He meets the difficulty of transitioning from short, concise notations (exemplified by his favorite literary form, haiku) to longer, uninterrupted flows of narrative, and he encounters a number of setbacks. Barthes takes solace in a diverse group of writers, including Dante, whose La Vita Nuova was similarly inspired by the death of a loved one, and he turns to classical philosophy, Taoism, and the works of François-René Chateaubriand, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust. This book uniquely includes eight elliptical plans for Barthes's unwritten novel, which he titled Vita Nova, and lecture notes that sketch the critic's views on photography. Following on The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1977-1978) and a third forthcoming collection of Barthes lectures, this volume provides an intensely personal account of the labor and love of writing.
Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780374521462
"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification . . . The Elements here presented have as their sole aim the extraction from linguistics of analytical concepts which we think a priori to be sufficiently general to start semiological research on its way. In assembling them, it is not presupposed that they will remain intact during the course of research; nor that semiology will always be forced to follow the linguistic model closely. We are merely suggesting and elucidating a terminology in the hope that it may enable an initial (albeit provisional) order to be introduced into the heterogeneous mass of significant facts. In fact what we purport to do is furnish a principle of classification of the questions. These elements of semiology will therefore be grouped under four main headings borrowed from structural linguistics: I. Language and Speech; II. Signified and Signifier; III. Syntagm and System; IV. Denotation and Connotation."--Roland Barthes, from his Introduction
Author : Michel Callon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262515962
A call for a new form of democracy in which “hybrid forums” composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology. Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientific and technological advances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseen concerns. The authors of Acting in an Uncertain World argue that political institutions must be expanded and improved to manage these controversies, to transform them into productive conversations, and to bring about “technical democracy.” They show how “hybrid forums”—in which experts, non-experts, ordinary citizens, and politicians come together—reveal the limits of traditional delegative democracies, in which decisions are made by quasi-professional politicians and techno-scientific information is the domain of specialists in laboratories. The division between professionals and laypeople, the authors claim, is simply outmoded. The authors argue that laboratory research should be complemented by everyday experimentation pursued in the real world, and they describe various modes of cooperation between the two. They explore a range of concrete examples of hybrid forums that have dealt with sociotechnical controversies including nuclear waste disposal in France, industrial waste and birth defects in Japan, a childhood leukemia cluster in Woburn, Massachusetts, and mad cow disease in the United Kingdom. The authors discuss the implications for political decision making in general and describe a “dialogic” democracy that enriches traditional representative democracy. To invent new procedures for consultation and representation, they suggest, is to contribute to an endless process that is necessary for the ongoing democratization of democracy.
Author : Canada. Parliament
Publisher :
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Canada
ISBN :
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Author : Canada. Royal Commission on Quebec Bridge Inquiry
Publisher :
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Pont de Québec (Québec)
ISBN :
Author : Canada. Royal Commission Quebec Bridge Inquiry
Publisher :
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Bridges
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 1870
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