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The Age of Darwin
We are children of Darwin; his age continues. All of us bear the stamp of our lowly origin, for 99% of our DNA remains identical with that of chimpanzees. That scientific fact cannot be dismissed as mere coincidence. The doctrine that God created man separately from the animal kingdom (and Eve from the rib of Adam) simply does not stand up to such compelling evidence. Some of us have vehemently denied the reality of evolution, even though it has been staring us in the face at least since the observations of Empedocles (494-434 BC), who penned On Nature. Today construction crews continue to discover evidence of extinct species, and our public health authorities battle rapidly evolving viruses...
Vitamin and Mineral Requirements in Human Nutrition
In the past 20 years micronutrients have assumed great public health importance and a considerable amount of research has lead to increasing knowledge of their physiological role. Because it is a rapidly developing field, the WHO and FAO convened an Expert Consultation to evaluate the current state of knowledge. It had three main tasks: to review the full scope of vitamin and minerals requirements; to draft and adopt a report which would provide recommended nutrient intakes for vitamins A, C, D, E, and K; the B vitamins; calcium; iron; magnesium; zinc; selenium; and iodine; to identify key issues for future research and make preliminary recommendations for the handbook. This report contains the outcome of the Consultation, combined with up-to-date evidence that has since become available.
Bringing Political Participation Into the 21st Century
Bringing Political Participation into the 21st Century argues that political participation has lagged behind general developments since 1989 and proposes remedies for that deficiency. The work consists of five parts: the challenge; the big picture; the grassroots; motivations, doubts and objections; and the conclusion. It also introduces a conceptual framework in graphic form to demonstrate the benefits of the Internet, and how it decreases participation costs. Other themes and case studies include: the case for improving political participation; milestones in political participation to date; regional perspectives, including country studies featuring recent developments in e-participation; participation in municipalities; the role of NGOs; contributions by exceptional individuals; the decline in voter turnout in recent decades and ways to address it; differences in political cultures; differences in participation rates between elections for junior vs. senior levels of government; progress in e-government; and a framework for analysis to provide benchmarks for measuring progress in political participation.
Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research
What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial sociotechnical and biopolitical effects.
The Fluxus Reader
Part I. Three histories : Developing a fluxable forum: Early performance & publishing / Owen Smith -- Fluxus, fluxion, flushoe: the 1970's / Simon Anderson -- Fluxus fortuna / Hannah Higgins -- Part II. Theories of Fluxus: Boredom and oblivion / Ina Blon -- Zen vaudeville: a medi(t)ation in the margins of Fluxus / David T. Doris -- Fluxus as a laboratory / Craig Saper -- Part III. Critical and historical perspectives: Fluxus history and trans-history: competing strategies for empowerment / Estera Milman -- Historical design and social purpose: a note on the relationship of Fluxus to modernism / Stephen C. Foster -- A spirit of large goals: fluxus, dada and postmodern cultural theory at two s...
Spaces of Experience
This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the 18th to the late 20th century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created—the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show—and it traces the different scientific, political and commercial influences that lay behind their development. Charlotte Klonk shows that scientists like Hermann von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt advanced theories of perception that played a significant role in justifying new modes of exhibiting. Equally important for the changing modes of exhibition in art galleries was what Michael Baxandall has called “the period eye,” a way of seeing informed by the impact of new fashions in interior decoration and by department store and shop window displays. The history of museum interiors, she argues, should be appreciated as a revealing chapter in the broader history of experience.
In Defiance of Painting
The invention of collage by Picasso and Braque in 1912 proved to be a dramatic turning point in the development of Cubism and Futurism and ultimately one of the most significant innovations in twentieth-century art. Collage has traditionally been viewed as a new expression of modernism, one allied with modernism's search for purity of means, anti-illusionism, unity, and autonomy of form. This book - the first comprehensive study of collage and its relation to modernism - challenges this view. Christine Poggi argues that collage did not become a new language of modernism but a new language with which to critique modernism. She focuses on the ways Cubist collage - and the Futurist multimedia work that was inspired by it - undermined prevailing notions of material and stylistic unity, subverted the role of the frame and pictorial ground, and brought the languages of high and low culture into a new relationship of exchange.
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Said demonstrates that critical discourse has been strengthened by the writings of Derrida and Foucault and by influences like Marxism, structuralism, linguistics, and psychoanalysis. But, he argues, these forces have compelled literature to meet the requirements of a theory or system, ignoring complex affiliations binding the texts to the world.
Selected Writings
The selections that follow have been excerpted from fourteen books published between 2015 and 2022. I placed emphasis on original research, thought and creativity in this process. At the same time, I did not change the wording of the chapters to include updates or recent events. I withdrew my first two books from circulation because I felt that growing political polarization had complicated the issues Political Participation and Values for the 21st Century intended to address. A topic more easily tackled turned out to be A Short History of Switzerland (2018), which has now progressed to its fifth edition. The next publication, Mobilizing the Fringe (2019) had its origins in a collaboration w...
A Short History of Switzerland
Above all the Swiss story remains one of emancipation. Traditionally, oppression by the land-holding gentry has been cited as a catalyst for rebellion. On the other hand, tensions between the merchants of the large towns such as Zurich, Basel and Geneva and the peasants in the countryside were equally important. Revolts against 'foreign' masters did not play as large a part as often assumed. After all, the Habsburg itself was built in today's canton Aargau, and became incorporated into the Confederacy by 1415. In many ways the country's geography has made Switzerland unique. Swiss geologists and engineers have devised a model of a public transportation system, overcoming incredible odds and ...
