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The Human Right to Water: Justice . . . or Sham?
Water is a matter of life and death. Advanced technology and engineering enable humans to gain better access to it. Nonetheless, the conditions and effort required to reach this goal remain colossal in many countries. Building a lasting infrastructure for adequate treatment before and after use is costly. Therefore, the author believes that a radical change of thinking among people around the world, from the domestic to the large-scale users, becomes a priority. Even if the United Nations entitles all people to justice for water, more responsible and ethical use of it by all interested parties is more important than the spreading of promises, which, in practice, may turn out to be a sham. Only a better understanding that access to water rests on the efforts of everyone, without exception, will reduce overuse, waste, and pollution of the indispensable resource. This volume, while written from a theological, philosophical, and legal perspective (focusing on John Calvin, John Rawls, and Paul Ricoeur), demonstrates that water cannot be merely understood as a human right, but also has to be dealt with from an economic point of view as well as under the authority of the Golden Rule.
The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Volume 1
Guillaume Dustan' first three novels, published in French between 1996 and 1998, describing the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Paris still haunted by AIDS. This volume collects a suite of three wildly entertaining and trailblazing short novels by the legendary French anti-assimilationist LGBTQ+ writer Guillaume Dustan. Published sequentially in France between 1996 and 1998, the three novels are exuberant and deliberately affectless accounts of the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Parisian club and bath scene still haunted by AIDS. In My Room (1996) takes place almost entirely in the narrator's bedroom. The middle volume, I'm Going Out Tonight (1997) finds him venturing out onto the gay scene in one long night. Finally, in Stronger Than Me (1998) the narrator reflects on his early life, which coincided with the appearance and spread of the AIDS virus in France. A close contemporary of Dennis Cooper, Brett Easton Ellis, Kevin Killian, and Gary Indiana, Guillaume Dustan's deadpan autofiction is at once satirical and intimate, and completely contemporary.
In My Room
Let the good times roll is the motto of this celebration of a way of life unaffected by the demands of safe sex and queer politics. It features a narrator who only wants to have sex, listen to house music and visit London.
Nicolas Pages
An ode to mad love, awarded the Prix de Flore in 1999. Published in 1999 and awarded that year’s Prix de Flore, Nicolas Pages marks a departure from the Sadean preoccupations of Guillaume Dustan’s first three novels; it is, in essence, a love story. Inspired by a failed romance with the Swiss artist-writer Nicolas Pages and collaging texts that Dustan initially produced for a wide variety of other occasions (magazine articles, short stories, project notes, shopping lists, and more), the “auto-/bio-/porno-graphic” prose of Nicolas Pages is by turns trashy and encyclopedic, corporeal and philosophical. Here Dustan inaugurates a “gay literature” that is no longer painful or shameful, but epicurean and cheerful without ever lapsing into idealism. A vibrant plea for gay rights and a tapestried text that is more than the sum of its many styles, Nicolas Pages is a call to explore the body, sexuality, and writing in all their variety; it is a hymn to life, humanity, pleasure, and desire.
Legal Language and the Search for Clarity
This interdisciplinary collection with contributions in English and French explores how the various disciplines of law and linguistics appreciate and work towards improving the nature of clarity and obscurity in legal language. For the first time, it brings together legal academics and practitioners, jurilinguists and linguists from the common law and civil law with the specific aim to understand the complex nature, practice and tools of clarity and obscurity in legal drafting. Topics addressed include how the Clarity framework has been put into practice through the use of plainer language, better comprehensibility, readability and access to legal or administrative texts. In an attempt to re...
Maschinelle Übersetzung
Das Buch enth{lt eine Auseinandersetzung mit Theorie und Praxis von Human- und Maschinen}bersetzung, eine weltweite Dokumentation der Systeme zur Maschinellen]bersetzung, von Softwaretools und Terminologiedatenbanken sowie eine ca. 2000 Titel umfassende Bibliographie der verf}gbaren Fachli- teratur aus den Jahren 1985 bis 1989/90.
Dans ma chambre
Francis Bacon disait : "Je veux simplement peindre un personnage dans sa chambre. Ce qui m'intéresse davantage c'est saisir dans l'apparence des êtres la mort qui travaille en eux". La chambre ici est d'abord celle du narrateur, où tout généralement se résout en étreintes répétées, violentes ou non, heureuses ou pas, nulles, tragiques, qu'importe. C'est aussi le milieu homosexuel, la vie dans le ghetto à suivre les nuits et les petits matins d'un jeune parisien à la recherche désespérée de "la baise du siècle" . De fait le tout est strictement sexuel et d'une violence sanglante. Dans une chambre ou l'alcôve sombre d'un bar, ces noces de sexe et de sang donnent une impression...
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