Science - 6 November 2020
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Science - 27 November 2020
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Science - 20 November 2020
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Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image: Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film by Sam B. Girgus
2018 | ISBN: 1474436234, 1474436242 | English | 200 pages | True PDF | 1 MB
In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of "delayed cinema" to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas and Julia Kristeva, among others. The sustained tension in film between, in Mulvey's phrase, "stillness and the moving image" enacts a drama of existential emergence. The stillness of the framed image in relation to the moving image opens "free" cinematic time and space for a fresh engagement with crucial ethical and cultural issues. With close readings of films such as The Bicycle Thieves, Two Days, One Night, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Revenant and The Age of Innocence, this book proposes a fresh approach to reading film in the context of emerging existential presence and the ethical imperative.

The Suffering Body in Sport : Shifting Thresholds of Pain, Risk and Injury
by Kevin Young
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1787560694 | 215 Pages | PDF | 1.86 MB

The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria (Cambridge Middle East Studies) by Salwa Ismail
2018 | ISBN: 1107032180, 110769860X | English | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Over much of its rule, the regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor Bashar al-Asad deployed violence on a massive scale to maintain its grip on political power. In this book, Salwa Ismail examines the rationalities and mechanisms of governing through violence. In a detailed and compelling account, Ismail shows how the political prison and the massacre, in particular, developed as apparatuses of government, shaping Syrians' political subjectivities, defining their understanding of the terms of rule and structuring their relations and interactions with the regime and with one another. Examining ordinary citizens' everyday life experiences and memories of violence across diverse sites, from the internment camp and the massacre to the family and school, The Rule of Violence demonstrates how practices of violence, both in their routine and spectacular forms, fashioned Syrians' affective life, inciting in them feelings of humiliation and abjection, and infusing their lived environment with dread and horror. This form of rule is revealed to be constraining of citizens' political engagement, while also demanding of their action.

The Politics of Spatial Transgressions in the Arts by Gregory Blair
English | PDF | 2021 | 193 Pages | ISBN : 3030553884 | 6.9 MB
This book is an anthology of the varied strategies of spatial transgressions and how they have been implemented through the arts as a means to resist, rejuvenate, reclaim, critique or cohabitate. The book is divided into two sections - Displacements and Disruptions. The first section discusses the ramifications of the spatial displacements of bodies, organizations, groups of people and ethnicities, and explores how artists, theorists and arts organizations have an attentive history of revealing and reacting to the displacement of peoples and how their presence or absence radically reconfigures the value, identity, and uses of place.

The Eight Zulu Kings: From Shaka to Goodwill Zwelithini by John Laband
English | ISBN: 1868428389 | 442 pages | EPUB | 2018 | 3.44 Mb
Through the institution of the Zulu monarchy, the distinguished historian John Laband has written a riveting account of the whole sweep of Zulu history. Shaka, Africa's most famous warrior-king, was the formidable, conquering founder of the Zulu kingdom. Two hundred years later, Goodwill Zwelithini, the current king, is a constitutional monarch with only informal political influence.