Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Dialectical Materialism
"Originally published in French as Le materialisme dialectique."
Politically Red
How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence. “Reading is class struggle,” writes Bertolt Brecht. Politically Red contextualizes contemporary demands for social and racial justice by exploring the shifting relations between politics and literacy. Through a series of creative readings of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fredric Jameson, and others, it casts light on history as an accumulation of violence and, in doing so, suggests that it can become a crucial resource for confronting the present insurgence of inequality, racism, and fascism. Reading between the lines,...
Locating Gender in Modernism
This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-world authors have reshaped received notions of the modern and revised orthodox ideas on the modern aesthetic. Authors such as Bessie Head, Josiane Racine, T.Obinkaram Echewa, Raja Rao, Gabriel Garc...
Europe and the Wolf
How the work of several contemporary artists illuminates and challenges the policing of European borders and identity In this stunningly original book, Sara Nadal-Melsió explores how the work of several contemporary artists illuminates the current crisis of European universalist values amid the brutal realities of exclusion and policing of borders. The “wolf” is the name Baroque musicians gave to the dissonant sound produced in any attempt to temper and harmonize an instrument. Europe and the Wolf brings this musical figure to bear on contemporary aesthetic practices that respond to Europe’s ongoing social and political contradictions. Throughout, Nadal-Melsió understands Europe as a...
Surplus-Enjoyment
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy, what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount. Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, Žižek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of 'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?
Mais-gozar
Neste livro, Slavoj Žižek nos leva a refletir sobre a sociedade contemporânea, caracterizada pelo excesso. Ele explora a ideia de que precisamos de um excedente em relação às nossas necessidades para verdadeiramente desfrutar do que temos, conduzindo-nos por um caminho filosófico. Žižek argumenta que o excedente, por ser insubstancial e desnecessário, paradoxalmente nos permite desfrutar do essencial e do necessário. Ele questiona se podemos escapar do ciclo vicioso do excesso ou se estamos condenados a sempre querer mais. Esta obra desafia nossas concepções tradicionais, convidando-nos a repensar nossa relação com o consumo, a felicidade e a própria essência da vida contemporânea. Uma leitura instigante e essencial para aqueles que buscam compreender melhor os dilemas e impasses da sociedade atual.
Public Trust
Public Trust explores the interactive artwork of the same name by Brooklyn-based artist Paul Ramirez Jonas (born 1965), delving into Ramirez Jonas' interest in public spaces, language as contract and the liminal space between fiction, lies and truth.
Glenn Ligon
An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)—a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact. The iconic work Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988) by the important contemporary American artist Glenn Ligon is a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact. The National Gallery of Art in Washington presents the work as a “representation—a signifier—of the actual signs carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis, made famous by Ernest Withers' 1968 photographs.” In this illustrated study of the work, Gregg Bordowitz takes the National Gallery's presentation as his starting point, considering the museum's juxt...
2006/2007
Die seit 1971 wieder erscheinende, interdisziplinäre, internationale Rezensionsbibliographie IBR ist eine einmalige Informationsquelle. Die Datenbank weist über 1,1 Millionen vornehmlich die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften berücksichtigende Buchrezensionen in 6.000 vorwiegend europäischen wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften nach. 60.000 Eintragungen kommen jedes Jahr hinzu, bieten dem Benutzer Daten zum rezensierten Werk und zur Rezension.
트랜스내셔널 문학
언어는 내셔널한 근대체제 안에 너무도 깊이 내면화되고 도구화되어서, 내셔널이 아닌 다른 방식으로 논의된다는 것을 상상하기도 힘들다. 언어의 단일성은 불변의 신화와도 같다. 단일어가 아닌 소통은 불통이고, 단일어로 쓰이지 않은 문학텍스트란 변종이다. 이 책이 트랜스내셔널이란 용어를 언어와 문학의 층위에서 논의하고자 하는 것은, 바로 내셔널한 체제의 언어적 구성에 대해 먼저 문제화를 해야 한다는 절박성 때문이다. 우리의 언어는, 그 안에 전제된 단일성은, 해체되어야 한다.
