Some Structures of Desire
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Page : 114 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 1992
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Page : 114 pages
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Release : 1992
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Author : Tony Williams
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780791446447
Examines the cultural, historical, and ideological factors influencing British cinema during World War II and the postwar years, with attention to male-female relationships as well as to utopian desires for a better postwar world.
Author : Shiow-Shya A. Jeng
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Timothy Schroeder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190291508
To desire something is a condition familiar to everyone. It is uncontroversial that desiring has something to do with motivation, something to do with pleasure, and something to do with reward. Call these "the three faces of desire." The standard philosophical theory at present holds that the motivational face of desire presents its unique essence--to desire a state of affairs is to be disposed to act so as to bring it about. A familiar but less standard account holds the hedonic face of desire to reveal to true nature of desire. In this view, to desire something is to tend to pleasure if it seems that the desired state of affairs has been achieved, or displeasure if it seems otherwise, thus tying desire to feelings instead of actions. In Three Faces of Desire, Schroeder goes beyond actions and feelings to advance a novel and controversial theory of desire that puts the focus on desire's neglected face, reward. Informed by contemporary science as much as by the philosophical tradition, Three Faces of Desire discusses recent scientific discoveries that tell us much about the way that actions and feelings are produced in the brain. In particular, recent experiments reveal that a distinctive system is responsible for promoting action, on the one hand, and causing feelings of pleasure and displeasure, on the other. This system, the brain's reward system, is the causal origin of both action and feeling, and is the key to understanding the nature of desire.
Author : Lauren Gail Berlant
Publisher : Dead Letter Office, BABEL Working Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780615686875
"There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. Yet the ways in which we live sexuality and intimacy have been profoundly shaped by theories - especially psychoanalytic ones, which have helped to place sexuality and desire at the center of the modern story about what a person is and how her history should be read. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by popular and mass culture. In these domains, sexual desire is not deemed the core story of life; it is mixed up with romance, a particular version of the story of love. In this small theoretical novella-cum-dictionary entry, Lauren Berlant engages love and desire in separate entries. In the first entry, Desire mainly describes the feeling one person has for something else: it is organized by psychoanalytic accounts of attachment, and tells briefly the history of their importance in critical theory and practice. The second entry, on Love, begins with an excursion into fantasy, moving away from the parent-child structure so central to psychoanalysis and looking instead at the centrality of context, environment, and history. The entry on Love describes some workings of romance across personal life and commodity culture, the place where subjects start to think about fantasy on behalf of their actual lives. Whether viewed psychoanalytically, institutionally, or ideologically, love is deemed always an outcome of fantasy. Without fantasy, there would be no love. Desire/Love takes us on a tour of all of the things that sentence might mean.
Author : Jessica Helfand
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0300205090
A compelling defense for the importance of design and how it shapes our behavior, our emotions, and our lives Design has always prided itself on being relevant to the world it serves, but interest in design was once limited to a small community of design professionals. Today, books on "design thinking" are best sellers, and computer and Web-based tools have expanded the definition of who practices design. Looking at objects, letterforms, experiences, and even theatrical performances, award-winning author Jessica Helfand asserts that understanding design's purpose is more crucial than ever. Design is meaningful not because it is pretty but because it is an intrinsically humanist discipline, tethered to the very core of why we exist. For example, as designers collaborate with developing nations on everything from more affordable lawn mowers to cleaner drinking water, they must take into consideration the full range of a given community's complex social needs. Advancing a conversation that is unfolding around the globe, Helfand offers an eye-opening look at how designed things make us feel as well as how--and why--they motivate our behavior.
Author : Heikki Ikaheimo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004207503
This unique collection examines the connections between two complementary approaches to philosophical social theory: Hegel-inspired theories of recognition (Anerkennung), and analytical social ontology. The chapters investigate the social constitution of persons and the nature of social and institutional reality.
Author : Philip Sheldrake
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0814647170
Befriending Our Desires portrays the intimate connection between desire and the spiritual journey. Philip Sheldrake explores the role of desire in relation to God, prayer, sexuality, making choices, and responding to change.
Author : Samuel R. Delany
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0819567140
The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.
Author : Linda Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520078963
"An important contribution to film theory. . . . Williams has a fluid, assured style. She is clearly in command of the subject. She's made a strong and original argument for the psychoanalytic basis of Surrealism."--James Monaco, author of The New Wave