The Predicament of Minnesota
Author : Paul Latzke
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Paul Latzke
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Agriculture
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Author : William Watts Folwell
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Minnesota
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Author : University of Minnesota
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Social sciences
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Author : Matthew T. Huber
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Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781452947402
"If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don't we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits--Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of empire--Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Those practices, Matthew T. Huber suggests, have in fact been instrumental in shaping the broader cultural politics of American capitalism. How did gasoline and countless other petroleum products become so central to our notions of the American way of life? Huber traces the answer from the 1930s through the oil shocks of the 1970s to our present predicament, revealing that oil's role in defining popular culture extends far beyond material connections between oil, suburbia, and automobility. He shows how oil powered a cultural politics of entrepreneurial life--the very American idea that life itself is a product of individual entrepreneurial capacities. In so doing he uses oil to retell American political history from the triumph of New Deal liberalism to the rise of the New Right, from oil's celebration as the lifeblood of postwar capitalism to increasing anxieties over oil addiction. Lifeblood rethinks debates surrounding energy and capitalism, neoliberalism and nature, and the importance of suburbanization in the rightward shift in American politics. Today, Huber tells us, as crises attributable to oil intensify, a populist clamoring for cheap energy has less to do with American excess than with the eroding conditions of life under neoliberalism"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Edward Van Dyke Robinson
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Minnesota Bankers Association
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Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Banks and banking
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Author : William Cheng
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199970009
Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. William Cheng shows how video games empower their designers, composers, players, critics, and scholars to tinker (often transgressively) with practices and discourses of music, noise, speech, and silence. Faced with collisions between utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, philosophy, and additional disciplines. With case studies spanning Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there-in the safe, sound spaces of games-can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here. Foreword by Richard Leppert Video Games Live cover image printed with permission from Tommy Tallarico
Author : University of Minnesota. Dept. of University Relations
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Gabriele Schwab
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 023115948X
Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal, the child, the alien, and the posthuman, Gabriele Schwab analyzes literary explorations at the boundaries of the human. Treating literature as a dynamic medium that "writes culture"--one that makes the abstract particular and local, and situates us within the world--Schwab pioneers a compelling approach to reading literary texts as "anthropologies of the future" that challenge habitual productions of meaning and knowledge. Schwab's study draws on anthropology, philosophy, critical theory, and psychoanalysis to trace literature's profound impact on the cultural imaginary. Following a new interpretation of Derrida's and Lévi-Strauss's famous controversy over the indigenous Nambikwara, Schwab explores the vicissitudes of "traveling literature" through novels and films that fashion a cross-cultural imaginary. She also examines the intricate links between colonialism, cannibalism, melancholia, the fate of disenfranchised children under the forces of globalization, and the intertwinement of property and personhood in the neoliberal imaginary. Schwab concludes with an exploration of discourses on the posthuman, using Samuel Beckett's "The Lost Ones" and its depiction of a future lived under the conditions of minimal life. Drawing on a wide range of theories, Schwab engages the productive intersections between literary studies and anthropology, underscoring the power of literature to shape culture, subjectivity, and life.
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2002
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