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Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media
This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it. Beginning with a philosophy of expenditure after Georges Bataille, each chapter maps different operations of destruction in media and culture. These operations are expressed and located in representations of human extinction and explosive architecture, in execution and in eroticism, and in media and digital archives, which constitute a further destabilization of the notion of destruction in the dynamic between aspirational immortality and material volatility embedded in the archival systems of digital cultures.
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Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media
This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation, arguing that all cultural and aesthetic value is fundamentally predicated on its own fragility, as well as the living transience of those who make and encounter it. Beginning with a philosophy of expenditure after Georges Bataille, each chapter maps different operations of destruction in media and culture. These operations are expressed and located in representations of human extinction and explosive architecture, in execution and in eroticism, and in media and digital archives, which constitute a further destabilization of the notion of destruction in the dynamic between aspirational immortality and material volatility embedded in the archival systems of digital cultures.
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Englishness and the Study of Politics
The definition of 'Englishness' has become the subject of considerable debate, and in this important contribution to Ideas in Context, Julia Stapleton looks at the work of one of the most wide-ranging and influential theorists of the English nation, Ernest Barker. The first holder of the Chair of Political Science at Cambridge, Barker wrote prolifically on the history of political thought and contemporary political theory, and his writings are notable for fusing three of the dominant strands of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century political thought, Whiggism, Idealism and Pluralism. Infused with a strong cultural sense of nationhood, Barker's writings influenced a broad non academic audience, and their subsequent neglect graphically demonstrates the fate of a certain vision of Liberal England in the generation after World War One. With, however, the erosion of a particular sense of Englishness, Barker's ideas have begun to assume renewed resonance.
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Travels of a TEFL Teacher
Learning through teaching in China, Hungary, Vietnam, Palestine and France. Pat Stapleton describes her experiences travelling to teach English. It wasn't planned that way, but it turned out to be a series of fascinating encounters with people in countries at times of transition and crisis: From France in 1947 to Vienna under Allied occupation and Nigeria immediately pre-Independence; A year in China after the Cultural revolution, when English teachers were scarce; Vietnam where she was entertained by General Giap who had fought the French at Dien Bien Phu, immediately after the visit from Francois Mitterand, the first Western leader to visit Vietnam since the war; Hungary just as the first election took place after years of rule from Moscow; Palestine at a time of increasing tension and danger with life dominated by checkpoints and the dividing wall; Based in France, where she acquired French citizenship and continues to take every opportunity to teach.
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