Adventures of perception

Over the past twenty-five years, Scott MacDonald's kaleidoscopic explorations of independent cinema have become the most important chronicle of avant-garde and experimental film in the United States. In this collection of thematically related personal essays and conversations with filmmakers, he ...

Adventures of the symbolic

Warren Breckman critically revisits thrilling experiments in the aftermath of Marxism.

Adversary and ally

Connecting international politics with domestic security, Harrison Akins shows how India and Pakistan’s engagement with China has shaped the two governments’ policies toward their strategic frontiers over the past seventy years.

Advertising in new formats and media

The advertising universe is changing rapidly. Communication technologies have given advertisers new platforms to communicate and promote their messages. This book provides conceptual overviews, literature reviews, research work, and developing viewpoints on the key issues, providing a valuable ov...

Advice for lovers

If Philip Sydney had been a third-gender queer poet, he might have written the highly erotic Advice for Lovers.

Advice from 1 disciple of marx to 1 heidegger fanatic

Fierce and visceral, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro's poem is as canonical to Infrarealism as Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" was to the Beats.

Advocacy and organizational engagement

In providing a comprehensive overview on how to design and execute effective advocacy strategies for organizations, this book challenges the way communications used to be managed. Instead it proposes and provides tools for multilateral advocacy, where multiple actors and institutions cooperate, a...

Advocacy in translanguaging education

This book examines diverse aspects of advocacy for translanguaging as a legitimate educational practice. It advances a practical theory of the translanguaging of education that is informed by deliberative advocacy and based in evidence.

Advocacy, inc.

The contemporary movement to fight "modern slavery" has increasingly turned its attention to issues of forced labor, child labor and labor trafficking in a wide variety of industries and supply chains. At the same time, businesses have become more involved with the movement and their leadership h...

Advocating for children in foster and kinship care

This book is the first to provide strategies for effective advocacy and placement within the foster care and kinship care systems. It also takes a rare look at the dynamics of the foster and kinship relationship, not just among children and the agency workers and service providers who intervene o...

Advocating for palestine in canada

This collection brings together activists and engaged scholars to explore the challenges of Palestinian solidarity activism in Canada.

Aeffect

The first book to seriously identify how artistic activism works and how to make it work betterThe past decade has seen an explosion in the hybrid practice of “artistic activism,” as artists have turned toward activism to make their work more socially impactful and activists have adopted techniqu...

Aerial archives of race

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Opening new perspectives in transpacific studies, Etsuko Taketani examines the genealogy and contours of the aerial imaginary an...

Aerial concave without cloud

A collection of poems about starlight, survival, resilience, and acceptance after experiences of profound grief.Steeped in the bluest apocalypse light of solar collapse and the pale, ghostly light of personal devastation and grief, Aerial Concave Without Cloud rests in the light of human mortalit...

Aeropolis

Aeropolis proposes that air is thought of as a city, to center its social, cultural, political, ecological entanglements.

Aeroscopics

In 1900, Paris had no skyscrapers, no tourist helicopters, no drones. Yet well before aviation made aerial views more accessible, those who sought such vantages had countless options available to them. They could take in the vista from an observation ride, see a painting of the view from Notre-Da...

Aeschylus

Aesthetic evaluation and film

This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism and how they apply to film. Suitable for students of films studies and philosophical aesthetics, undergraduates and postgraduates, it also provides a supportive framework for academics researching or teach...

Aesthetic nervousness

Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disa...

Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. Aesthetic Technologies addresses how music (especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and cultural shifts that characterized the ...

Aesthetic temporalities today

Contributions from various disciplines examine the present and its plural conditions and meanings. They provide insights with special emphasis on the global present as well as on art and aesthetics from the eighteenth century until today.

Aesthetic theory and the video game

This book analyses video games like Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil as aesthetic objects. Drawing on philosophical theories of art from Kant to Ranciere, it focuses on what games feel like to players and argues that their appeal can only be adequately understood by relating them to development...

Aesthetics

A collection of Valéry’s writings on the making of “works of the mind”—in art, philosophy, history, and scienceFor Paul Valéry, art consisted of all that the mind makes for its own pleasure and use, not only works of art in the usual sense but also philosophy, history, and the pure sciences—in hi...

Aesthetics after darwin

The book reveals a strong humanist heritage which renders Darwin’s theory of song and poetic language far more nuanced and interesting than a monolithic “singing for sex” hypothesis.

Aesthetics and style in strategy

This book contains an Open Access chapter This volume is the first systematic survey of the interface between the aesthetic and strategic domains. The “aesthetic” turn in strategy encompasses the use of aesthetic features and style to create value, as well as the ways in which the useful and the ...

Aesthetics and the cinematic narrative

‘Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative’ examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the conception, creation and reception of cinematic narrative while placing film, as an art form, in a wider historical and aesthetic context.

Aesthetics, method, and epistemology

Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all...

Affairs

Part of The School of Life's Love series, Affairs delves into the question of affairs and why they happen so oftenOne in four people will be involved in an affair during their lifetime. Rather than condemning affairs as morally corrupt, this book helps us understand them.Society tells us that aff...

Affect and realism in contemporary brazilian fiction

This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.

Affect's engine

Affect’s Engine is an immersive ethnography of queer people of color on the social media platform Tumblr during its “peak” years, 2010–2015. Alexander Cho tells the story of Tumblr users and the hurricane of content that they circulated—and that circulated around them. Chronicling a formative tim...

Affective states

The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.

Affective worldmaking

This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of af...

Affirming identity, advancing belonging, and amplifying voice in sororities and fraternities

This book explores identity development in fraternities and sororities amid calls for racial justice and inclusion. Centered on amplifying voice, affirming identity, and advancing belonging, it highlights diverse student experiences and challenges systemic oppression.

Affliction

Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. It traces the unfolding of illness within families, local communities, neighborhood markets and in occult worlds. Privileging the experience of people li...

Affordable housing for livable cities

The book addresses current housing affordability challenges and presents innovative planning and design strategies for contemporary communities and homes that are both livable and affordable.

Affordable housing in new york

A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to todayA colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the cit...

Affordable housing mediation

Afghanistan

A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political cultureAfghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduc...

Afghanistan

Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 197...

Africa

This masterful synthesis explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished peoples and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of its history, experiencing the world's fastest demographic growth. Weaving together four major the...