Monster Revolt!

Monster Revolt!
Title Monster Revolt! PDF eBook
Author Dirty Donny
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Graphic artists
ISBN 9781584234272

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The art of Dirty Donny (aka Donny Gillies).

Student Revolt in 1968

Student Revolt in 1968
Title Student Revolt in 1968 PDF eBook
Author Ben Mercer
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 313
Release 2020
Genre Education
ISBN 1108484484

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This comparative analysis of student protests in France, Italy and West Germany in 1968 explores their origins, course and dissolution.

Revolt, Revolution, Critique

Revolt, Revolution, Critique
Title Revolt, Revolution, Critique PDF eBook
Author Bulent Diken
Publisher Routledge
Pages 210
Release 2012-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 1134005644

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In contemporary society the idea of ‘revolution’ seems to have become obsolete. What is more untimely than the idea of revolution today? At the same time, however, the idea of radical change no longer refers to exceptional circumstances but has become normalized as part of daily life. Ours is a ‘culture’ of permanent revolution in which constant systemic disembedding demands a meta-stable subjectivity in continuous transformation. In this sense, the idea of revolution is painfully timely. This paradoxical coincidence, the simultaneous absence and presence of the desire for radical change in contemporary society, is the point of departure for the symptomatic reading this book offers. The book addresses the social, political and cultural significance of revolt and revolution in three dimensions. First, it analyzes revolt and revolution as ‘events’ which are of history but not reducible to it. Second, it elaborates on theories that grant revolt and revolution a central place in their structure. Thirdly, it discusses revolutionary or emancipatory theories that seek to participate in radical change. Further, since both revolt and revolution involve the critique of what exists, of actual reality, the implications of the intimate relationship between revolt, revolution and critique are explicated.

Lives of the Monster Dogs

Lives of the Monster Dogs
Title Lives of the Monster Dogs PDF eBook
Author Kirsten Bakis
Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages 321
Release 2017-05-09
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0374537143

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When a race of elegant, superintelligent dogs arrives in twenty-first-century New York, they become instant celebrities, but, unable to adjust to the modern world and confronted with an incurable disease, they construct a fantastic castle and barricade themselves inside.

The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Title The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium PDF eBook
Author Martin Gurri
Publisher Stripe Press
Pages 465
Release 2018-12-04
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1953953344

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How insurgencies—enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere—have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, the media. The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. Originally published in 2014, The Revolt of the Public is now available in an updated edition, which includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit. The book concludes with a speculative look forward, pondering whether the current elite class can bring about a reformation of the democratic process and whether new organizing principles, adapted to a digital world, can arise out of the present political turbulence.

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture
Title Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture PDF eBook
Author Helena Feder
Publisher Routledge
Pages 212
Release 2016-04-29
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317146409

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Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman draws on work by Kinji Imanishi, Frans de Waal, and other biologists to create an interdisciplinary, materialist notion of culture for ecocritical analysis. In this timely intervention, Feder examines the humanist idea of culture by taking a fresh look at the stories it explicitly tells about itself. These stories fall into the genre of the Bildungsroman, the tale of individual acculturation that participates in the myth of its complete separation from and opposition to nature which, Feder argues, is culture’s own origin story. Moving from Voltaire’s Candide to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy, the book dramatizes humanism’s own awareness of the fallacy of this foundational binary. In the final chapters, Feder examines the discourse of animality at work in this narrative as a humanist fantasy about empathy, one that paradoxically excludes other animals from the ethical community to justify the continued domination of both human and nonhuman others.

The Evolution of Pragmatism in India

The Evolution of Pragmatism in India
Title The Evolution of Pragmatism in India PDF eBook
Author Scott R. Stroud
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 311
Release 2023-03-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 022682389X

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The story of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey’s pragmatism. In The Evolution of Pragmatism in India, Scott R. Stroud delivers a comprehensive exploration of the influence of John Dewey’s pragmatism on Bhimrao Ambedkar, architect of the Republic of India’s constitution. Stroud traces Ambedkar’s development in Dewey’s Columbia University classes in 1913–1916 through his final years in 1950s India when he rewrote the story of Buddhism. Stroud examines pragmatism’s influence not only on the philosophical ideas underpinning Ambedkar’s fight against caste oppression but also how his persuasive techniques drew on pragmatism’s commitment to reconstruction and meliorism. At the same time, Stroud is careful to point out the ways that Ambedkar pushed back against Dewey’s paradigm and developed his own approach to challenges in India. The result is a nuanced study of one of the most important figures in Indian history.