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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From where do we speak This collection of essays questions the processes of globalization in terms of how they have transformed the theoretical tools through which ideas circulate and migrate, and how we invent the Other, while creating several contemporaneous worlds. The concept of the border occupies a central place in social and political arenas today. As the seven authors of this collection of original essays show, it can also be a methodological tool used to inform research in a wide range of artistic and academic fields and create new epistemological tools. From the opening theoretical piece in Thinking from the Border, which explores various definitions of the border to each subsequent chapter that complexifies and illustrates these definitions, often based on a combination of philosophical concepts and artistic practices, this timely collection offers illuminating perspectives on various ways the border functions to create new concepts and artistic tools. From Dis Voir's Visual Art Essays series, this multidisciplinary work brings together a geographer, sociologists, art and architectural historians, and an artist to examine new methodologies that blur the boundaries between the human sciences and artistic practices, in order to open up new paths and invent new protocols for connecting historicized artistic and social experiences from different parts of the world.…

Zustand: Very Good. First English language edition hard back binding in publisher's original decorated blue cloth covers, gilt and red title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 188 [+ 24 page publisher's catalogue dated 1887-1888] printed pages of text with 4 full-page monochrome illustrations as called for. Name to the front free end paper, slight spine slant and in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.…

Four pages, folio, chipped with small loss of text. IN FRENCH. He begins: "Les nombreuses experiences que j'ai fait sur la lumiere electriquee l'appareil que j'ai confectionne me mettant en meme de pouvoir l'appliquer a l'eclairage des villes avec avantage et economie sur tout autre systeme". He discusses the expense of gas and gives a precis of his plan ("L'agende"), giving letters which correspond to a "dessin" which is not present, and listing his points with a little detail: un ballon de gaz; filet ensoie; cordes en soie; Lampe electrique . . .; deux cabines; contre poids; deux meches en charbon (lengthy description); un reflection en coupe parabolique; conducteur en Rubans de cuire; Etablissement au centre d'une ville d'ou eleverait sous les soirs le ball; fourneau; laboratoire; piles en fonction; poulie a tour mort. He mentions "difficultes meteorologique" in some detail, accidents caused by electrical phenomenon. "Je liens du Sieur Lasseigne . . . qui a fait plus de cinq cent ascensions en ballon . . . ." In the final paragraph he says: Je travaille a une regulation qui fonctionant avec un tres petit nombre des elements me permettait d'appliquer la lumiere electrique a l'eclairage des magasins et des coins de rue, j'en dormerai la description . . .[Signed] Charles Dubos. " Note: a Charles Dubos received an award for improvements to electrical lighting (1878) and invented something to improve the bicycle in 1868 (see Net). This may give some idea of when he was operating - and how much of a pioneer he was in street- and domestic lighting, at least in theory. IMage on request.…