Slime Dynamics
Title | Slime Dynamics PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Woodard |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1780992483 |
Through speculative philosophy and lurid cultural objects, Slime Dynamics explores the muck of life as a darkly vitalistic substance.
The Dynamic of Play and Horror in Adorno's Philosophy
Title | The Dynamic of Play and Horror in Adorno's Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Bence Józsua Kun |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2023-10-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3111267946 |
Long before Wittgenstein drew attention to its complexities, the concept of play had captured the interest of theorists for millennia. How do games contribute to our knowledge of the world? Wherein lies their universal appeal? Play is usually associated with a certain blitheness and buoyancy - could it nevertheless be argued that playfulness is not quite as innocent as it might seem? Bence Kun draws on Adorno's writings to explore the relation between philosophical play (understood here as imaginative thought as well as experimental expression) and an experience of dread Adorno links to children's first encounter with death. By investigating his less familiar works, some of which have not yet been translated, Kun challenges the received view on Adorno's approach to metaphysics, the role of systematic inquiry and the modern condition. As he has Adorno say, the originary impression of shock at the heart of philosophical reflection can only be fully apprehended through an open-ended and defiantly creative intellectual practice.
Materializing Digital Futures
Title | Materializing Digital Futures PDF eBook |
Author | Toija Cinque |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2022-01-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1501361279 |
Digital, visual media are found in most aspects of everyday life, from workplaces to household devices - computer and digital television screens, appliances such as refrigerators and home assistants, and applications for social media and gaming. Each technologically enabled opportunity brings an increasingly sophisticated language with the act of pursuing the intrasensorial ways of perceiving the world around us - through touch, movement, sound and vision - that is the heart of screen media use and audience engagement with digital artifacts. Drawing on digital media's currently evolving transformation and transforming capacity this book builds a story of the multiple processes in robotics and AI, virtual reality, creative image and sound production, the representation of data and creative practice. Issues around commodification, identity, identification, and political economy are critically examined for the emerging and affecting encounters and perceptions that are brought to bear.
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface
Title | Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface PDF eBook |
Author | Liz Oakley-Brown |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2024-01-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1003828930 |
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary performance and ecocriticism. Each section looks, in turn, at the 'surfaces' of slick, smoke, sky, steam, soil, slime, snail, silk, skin and stage to build connections between ecocriticism, activism, critical theory, Shakespeare and performance. While the word ‘surface’ was never used in Shakespeare’s works, Liz Oakley-Brown shows how thinking about Shakespearean surfaces helps readers explore the politics of Elizabethan and Jacobean culture. She also draws surprising parallels with our current political and ecological concerns. The book explores how Shakespeare uses ecological surfaces to help understand other types of surfaces in his plays and poems: characters’ public-facing selves; contact zones between characters and the natural world; surfaces upon which words are written; and physical surfaces upon which plays are staged. This book will be an illuminating read for anyone studying Shakespeare, early modern culture, ecocriticism, performance and activism.
Horrors of a Voice (object a)
Title | Horrors of a Voice (object a) PDF eBook |
Author | Tristam Adams |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 290 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 303162050X |
Intelligent Autonomous Systems 15
Title | Intelligent Autonomous Systems 15 PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus Strand |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 985 |
Release | 2018-12-31 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 3030013707 |
This book presents the latest advances and research achievements in the fields of autonomous robots and intelligent systems, presented at the IAS-15 conference, held in Baden-Baden, Germany, in June 2018. It brings together contributions from researchers, engineers and practitioners from all over the world on the main trends of robotics: navigation, path planning, robot vision, human detection, and robot design – as well as a wide range of applications. This installment of the conference reflects the rise of machine learning and deep learning in the robotics field, as employed in a variety of applications and systems. All contributions were selected using a rigorous peer-review process to ensure their scientific quality. The series of biennial IAS conferences was started in 1986: since then, it has become an essential venue for the robotics community.
Body Genre
Title | Body Genre PDF eBook |
Author | David Scott Diffrient |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2023-11-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1496847989 |
In this groundbreaking work, author David Scott Diffrient explores largely understudied facets of cinematic horror, from the various odors permeating classic and contemporary films to the wetness, sliminess, and stickiness of these productions, which, he argues, practically scream out for a tactile mode of textural analysis as much as they call for more traditional forms of textual analysis. Dating back to Carol Clover’s and Linda Williams’s pioneering work on horror cinema, film scholars have long conceptualized this once-disreputable category of cultural production as a “body genre.” However, despite the growing recognition that horror serves important biological and social functions in our lives, scholars have only scratched the surface of this genre with regard to its affective, corporeal, and sensorial appeals. Diffrient anatomizes horror films in much the same way that a mad scientist might handle the body, separating and recombining constitutive parts into a new analytical whole. Further, he challenges the tendency of scholars to privilege human over nonhuman beings and calls into question ableist assumptions about the centrality to horror films of sight and sound to the near exclusion of other forms of sense experience. In addition to examining the role that animals—living or dead, real or fake—play in human-centered fictions, this volume asks what it means for audiences to consume motion pictures in which actors, stunt performers, and other creative personnel have put their own bodies and lives at risk for our amusement. Historically grounded and theoretically expansive, Body Genre: Anatomy of the Horror Film moves the study of cinematic horror into previously unchartered waters and breathes life into a subject that, not coincidentally, is intimately connected to breathing as our most cherished dividing line between life and death.