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Mapping the Moving Image
In Mapping the Moving Image, Pasi Valiaho offers a compelling study of how the medium of film came to shape our experience and thinking of the world and ourselves. By locating the moving image in new ways of seeing and saying as manifest in the arts, science and philosophy at the turn of the twentieth century, the book redefines the cinema as one of the most important anthropological processes of modernity. Moving beyond the typical understanding of cinema based on optical and linguistic models, Mapping the Moving Image takes the notion of rhythm as its cue in conceptualizing the medium's morphogenetic potentialities to generate affectivity, behaviour, and logics of sense. It provides a clear picture of how the forms of early film, while mobilizing bodily gestures and demanding intimate, affective engagement from the viewer, emerged in relation to bio-political investments in the body. The book also charts from a fresh perspective how the new gestural dynamics and visuality of the moving image fed into our thinking of time, memory and the unconscious.
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Íconos y mitos culturales en la invención de la nación en Colombia
A punto de que Colombia fuera un Estado fallido, ¿cómo llegaron a ser los colombianos normativamente pluriculturales? Vistas en un marco global, ¿qué características sellaron sus experiencias básicas a lo largo de dos siglos de existencia independentista? La solución de esos interrogantes sirve de excusa al autor de este libro para el escrutinio detallado de los íconos culturales unidos al mito originario de los colombianos, cuya ley de circulación circular coartó el surgimiento de lo nuevo, y del mito cultural de la Atenas suramericana, con que se intentó compensar el fracaso en la instauración de un estadonación moderno. Concebido como reconstrucción de la elaboración de esos mitos en el discurso de la memoria cultural impuesta a los colombianos, y realizado a partir de las relaciones entre las diferencias reprimidas en sus procesos, este libro se cierra con un análisis de la fotografía oficial del acto en que se comunicó al país la sentencia del Tribunal de la Haya sobre el diferendo con Nicaragua en el 2013.
Biologics, A History of Agents Made From Living Organisms in the Twentieth Century
The use of biologics – drugs made from living organisms – has raised specific scientific, industrial, medical and legal issues. The essays contained in this collection each deal with a case study of a biologic substance, or group of biologics, and its use during the twentieth century.
Szenarien der Energie
Die Frage nach der Energie zielt in den Kern der Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften. Sie gibt Anlass, Szenarien in den Blick zu nehmen, die das Flüchtige und Immaterielle rahmen und ausstellen. Ausgehend von interdisziplinären Perspektiven auf den Begriff der Energie analysieren die Beiträge in diesem Band Diskurse und Praktiken des Energetischen an der Schnittstelle von Technikgeschichte, Körperpolitik und Kunst. Das Energetische - so die These - ist nicht nur Bedingung, sondern auch Effekt von Inszenierungen, die es entlang der Perspektiven Wahrnehmung, Umwandlung und Übertragung aufzuschlüsseln gilt.
The Amateur and the Professional
This book highlights the growing divide in nineteenth-century intellectual circles between amateur and professional interest, and explores the institutional means whereby professional ascendancy was achieved in the broad field of studies of the past. It is concerned with how antiquarian 'gentlemen of leisure', pursuing their interests through local archaeological societies, were, by the end of the century, relegated to the sidelines of the now university-based discipline of history. At the same time it explores the theological as well as technical barriers which arrested the development of archaeology in this period. This is a notable contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England, attending not simply to the ideas perpetrated by these communities of scholarship but to their social status, relating such social consideration to a more traditional intellectual history to create a new social history of ideas.
Geometric Calculus
Calcolo Geometrico, G. Peano's first publication in mathematical logic, is a model of expository writing, with a significant impact on 20th century mathematics. Kannenberg's lucid and crisp translation, Geometric Calculus, will appeal to historians of mathematics, researchers, graduate students, and general readers interested in the foundations of mathematics and the development of a formal logical language. The book has never been reprinted in its entirety, and only two chapters have ever been translated into English. Readers of this valuable translation will gain insight into the work of a distinguished mathematician and founder of mathematical logic.
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The Second Generation
Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain, and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously researched biobibliographic guide that provides a systematic overview of the lives and works of this “second generation.”
Ethnopsychiatry
What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a groundbreaking series of articles written by the psychiatrist Henri Ellenberger, who would go on to publish The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry in 1970. Fifty years later they are presented for the first time in English translation, introduced by historian of science Emmanuel Delille. Ethnopsychiatry explores one of the most controversial subjects in psychiatric research: the role of culture in mental health. In his articles Ellenberger addressed ...
