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Representing the City
Classic representations of the city have focused on simplistic urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and vice or vigor. We are left with the question of what actually constitutes a city and what makes it and its people succeed or fail. Recent writing on the city, however, has begun to question the images, metaphors, and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented. Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major world cities in relation to the themes of ethnicity, capital, and culture, Re-Presenting the City moves between interpretive representations of the newly emerging metropolis and the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the task of such representations. Contributors with backgrounds in urban planning, sociology, cultural studies, architecture, art history, geography, and philosophy reflect on the construction of both the real and the unreal city, the images, metaphors and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented, and the texts which both mediate our experience of, as well as contribute to producing, the city of the future.
National Security Agency Surveillance: Reflections and Revelations 2001-2013
A recent history, from the archives of WayneMadsenReport.com, of the super-secret National Security Agency from an insider's vantage point. The history begins prior to the 9/11 attack and continues to the present. NSA's government payroll Internet commentators are already attacking this book and its author. The NSA clearly doesn't want anyone to read this book.
Catalonia's Human Towers
The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old traditional sport where hundreds of men, women, and children gather in Catalan squares to create breathtaking edifices through a feat of collective athleticism. The result is a great spectacle of effort and overcoming, tension and release. Catalonia's Human Towers is an ethnographic look at the thriving castells practice—a symbol of Catalan cultural heritage and identity amid debates around national autonomy and secession from Spain. While the main function of building castells is to grow community through a low-cost, intergenerational, and inclusive leisure activity, Mariann Vaczi reveals how this unique sport also provides a social base, image, and vocabulary for the independence movement. Highlighting the intersection of folklore, performance, and sport, Catalonia's Human Towers captures the subtle processes by which the body becomes politicized and ideology becomes embodied, with all the desires, risks and precarities of collective constructions.
The Laundromat
Now a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit, aided by bankers, lawyers, and auditors who get paid to look the other way. In The Laundromat, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative repor...
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Tài liệu Panama (Panama Papers) là một bộ 11,5 triệu tài liệu mật được tạo ra bởi nhà cung cấp dịch vụ của công ty Panama. Mossack Fonseca cung cấp thông tin chi tiết về hơn 214.000 công ty hộp thư, bao gồm cả danh sách của các cổ đông và các giám đốc. Những người và các cơ quan bị nhận diện bao gồm nhiều nhà chính trị và các tổ chức giàu có và nhiều thế lực của nhiều quốc gia. 11,5 triệu tài liệu được tạo từ những năm 1970, tổng cộng 2,6 terabyte đã được trao cho tờ báo Đức Süddeutsche Zeitung vào năm 2015 và sau đó đưa đến Liên đoàn nhà b...
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