"This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the w…
This book addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, the author explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditati…
This book addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, the author explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditati…
In what is sure to become a critical classic, this book challenges Sergei Eisenstein's influential account of Dickens and early American film by tracing the unexpected history and intricate strategies of the sentimental mode and showing how it has been reimagined over the past t…
"In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture -- a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people's very structures of feeling, the…
"Complexity theory holds that at the root of all complex systems, from the behavior of molecules to the actions of nation-states to the balance of nature, lies a set of rules that when identified will yield a grand unification of the life sciences"--Back cover.
Investigates the set of rules that lie at the root of all complex systems.
"What is the value of memory in human culture? More specifically, what role should remembering - and forgetting - play in our daily lives? These are the central questions that David Gross addresses in this book."--Jacket.
"What is the value of memory in human culture? More specifically, what role should remembering - and forgetting - play in our daily lives? These are the central questions that David Gross addresses in this book."--Jacket.
"Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this pa…
"The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory of the aesthetic categor…
Het Arabische culturele erfgoed ten tijde van de globalisering tussen regressie en verval. - Kritische heroriëntatie op de Arabische cultuurgeschiedenis vanaf 1900 tot heden.