Polity press sep 2012 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I get up every day with one day more,' says Eve, the writer s 97-year-old mother. She is escaping into the New Life and the writer must race to catch up. As things slip away and fall into oblivion, as her mother s world and thus her own relentlessly shrinks, the writer is stunned to see for the first time the vestiges of a prison scene in her beloved Tower of Montaigne, which she has been visiting for fifty years. It represents the story of Cimon and Pero, a daughter s act of charity that saved her father from certain death. How extraordinary that it should only now appear to this other daughter who dreams of nothing less for her parent and thus for herself. A different prison scene draws the writer to reflect on Freud s remark 'that the dream of a prisoner can have nothing other than escape as content,' a comment he illustrates with Moritz von Schwind s painting The Prisoner s Dream . But it is Freud s own dreams of escape from the prison of declining powers in his old age that the writer channels through her telepathic connection to the one she calls her 'nuncle.' She knows that the worst, worse even than the effects of the disease eating through his body, would have been the obliteration of his dreams upon waking, a sensation of theft that is 'like a rug one pulls from beneath the head s feet, bam, bam! like a tapestry of life folded up in a flash.' And yet life s tapestry has never seemed more richly colored, more elaborately woven, more abundantly endowed with the gifts of Eve, the mother, the midwife, the irrepressible story-teller, the great escape artist, and the indomitable heroine of this book.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The telegraph, telephone, and television, not to mention the Internet and mobile telephony, are all forms of communication that move information faster than the speed at which objects move. Both labor and capital and armies and commodities once moved at the same speed as the information organizing them. Over the last two centuries, social space has developed a strange folded quality, where physical space comes more and more to be doubled by a space of the movement of information. Telesthesia, or perception at a distance, comes increasingly to characterize how we see and hear and know the world.How does the evolution of different communication forms affect how we can perceive and act How can the underlying infrastructure of communication forms be detected in the events of everyday life These are the central questions animating this book. McKenzie Wark first explores relations between metropolitan and peripheral cultures - or postcolonial relations - with close attention to the texture of events that can happen when perception is mediated. He then examines what were once called postmodern experiences, and how relations of communication create new kinds of class relations and experiences of everyday life, from 9/11 to Occupy Wall Street.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a prism to understand key issues in contemporary society, where reality is open source, identities are - like websites - always under construction, and where private life is lived in public forever more.Ultimately, media are to us as water is to fish. The question is: how can we live a good life in media like fish in water Media Life offers a compass for the way ahead.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paul Ricoeur's Freud and Philosophy was a major reinterpretation of psychoanalysis and its philosophical significance, but Ricoeur also wrote many important articles on similar themes. This volume makes available some of his key writings on Freud and psychoanalysis: together with Freud and Philosophy, they form a major part of his philosophical legacy.What kind of science is psychoanalysis What kind of truth does it offer and what kind of proof does it provide What does the concrete practice of psychoanalysis consist of What can it tell us about creativity and the work of art What is its place within our culture and how can it transform culture What is the role of narrative in psychoanalysis Ricoeur reading Freud: this could have been the title of this volume, in which the focus is on the actual work of Freud and not on subsequent commentaries. An open reading of intellectual integrity. A critical reading which shuns definitive positions. A reading to understand Freud.This book - the first volume of Ricoeur's writings and lectures - brings together texts which appeared between 1966 and 1988. It is published under the auspices of Le Fonds Ricoeur.…