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The Wretched of the Screen
In Hito Steyerl's writing we begin to see how, even if the hopes and desires for coherent collective political projects have been displaced onto images and screens, it is precisely here that we must look frankly at the technology that seals them in. The Wretched of the Screen collects a number of Steyerl's landmark essays from recent years in which she has steadily developed her very own politics of the image. Twisting the politics of representation around the representation of politics, these essays uncover a rich trove of information in the formal shifts and aberrant distortions of accelerated capitalism, of the art system as a vast mine of labor extraction and passionate commitment, of occupation and internship, of structural and literal violence, enchantment and fun, of hysterical, uncontrollable flight through the wreckage of postcolonial and modernist discourses and their unanticipated openings. e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Jornalismo como Missão: Militância e Imprensa nos Subúrbios Cariocas, 1900-1920
Um grupo de jornalistas, atuando em diversos jornais suburbanos e em colunas sobre os subúrbios da grande imprensa, escrevia para os suburbanos e os leitores em geral sobre os subúrbios e pelos subúrbios. Tais homens de letras, que lidavam com a palavra nas folhas dos jornais, nas batalhas travadas na cidade, ajudavam a constituir os subúrbios em locais mais bem conhecidos pelos citadinos. Os subúrbios que surgem dos periódicos são pulsantes na forma de associações diversas e, ao mesmo tempo, repletos de reivindicações por direitos, que passam, dentre outras coisas, pela expansão dos serviços públicos como iluminação, calçamento e abastecimento de água. A militância dos jornalistas em prol dos subúrbios diz muito acerca da luta por direitos de quem vive na cidade. Este livro conta uma outra história da imprensa carioca, dos espaços da cidade e de quem os habita. É um convite para conhecer, sob outro prisma, a cidade do Rio de Janeiro das primeiras décadas do século XX. (fragmento do texto da orelha por Marcelo de Souza Magalhães, Historiador UNIRIO)
Brazilian Railway Culture
Brazilian Railway Culture examines the cultural relationship Brazil has had with its railways since tracks were first laid by British, American and French engineers in the nineteenth century. ‘Railway’ and ‘Brazil’ are words not often found in the same sentence. Yet each year over seven hundred million passengers are carried by train in the major urban centres, and tens of thousands of visitors enjoy heritage steam rides at over a dozen restored lines and museums. Brazilian Railway Culture starts from the premise that Brazilian society and culture is not just samba, football and sex. The book takes a journey through Brazilian cultural output from 1865 to the present day, examining no...
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Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia
In Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, twenty-three international authors examine Galicia’s changing place in Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from late antiquity through the thirteenth century. With articles on art and architecture; religion and the church; law and society; politics and historiography; language and literature; and learning and textual culture, the authors introduce medieval Galicia and current research on the region to medievalists, Hispanists, and students of regional culture and society. The cult of St. James, Santiago Cathedral, and the pilgrimage to Compostela are highlighted and contextualized to show how Galicia’s remoteness became th...
Pablo Neruda and the U.S. Culture Industry
In this compelling collection, Teresa Longo gathers a diverse group of critical and poetic voices to analyze the politics of packaging and marketing Neruda and Latin American poetry in general in the United States.
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Cuban Music from A to Z
Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world’s richest and most influential musical cultures. It is the most extensive compendium of information about the singers, composers, bands, instruments, and dances of Cuba ever assembled. With more than 1,300 entries and 150 illustrations, this volume is an essential reference guide to the music of the island that brought the world the danzón, the son, the mambo, the conga, and the cha-cha-chá. The life’s work of Cuban historian and musician Helio Orovio, Cuban Music from A to Z presents the people, genres, and history of Cuban music. Arranged alphabetically and cross-referenced, ...
