Modernity – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 4

Elizabeth Wilson
Adorned in Dreams

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none.'From haute couture to haberdashery, and 'deviant' dress to Dior, Eli…

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Sound and Silence - Four Pioneering Modernist Italian Composers

Severino Gazzelloni, Frans Brüggen, Ilse Hollweg, Eva Bornemann, Friedrich Lenz, Swingle Singers, Chor des Westdeutschen Rundfunks Köln, Orchestre Philharmonique de la RTF, English Chamber Orchestra, Orch…

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A Snapshot In Time: Society, Scandal And The First String Of Modernism 1960 - 1963

In den Jahren 1960, 1961 und 1962 wurden viele großartige Platten veröffentlicht. Man musste einfach die Perlen finden. Der Sampler hält einige krachende Juwelen wie den R&B-Swagger von Blue Flames »Orang…

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Lorenzo Casini
Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists . Beginning with the writings of Muh…

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Elisa Randazzo, Hannah Richter
Challenging Anthropocene Ontology

Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous Studies, in which awareness of the necessity for sus…

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Ksenia Gusarova,
The Art of Beauty

Examines 19th century make-up practices in the context of visual and performance arts of western modernity, arguing that make-up played an important role in defining modernist art.

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Alexei Penzin,
Insomnia

Contemporary theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, have identified that an essential feature of capitalism is an uninterrupted or permanently wakeful continuity of pro…

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Peter Thompson
The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany

"Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of World War II, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies such as the gas mask produced new relati…

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Alexei Penzin,
Insomnia

Contemporary theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, have identified that an essential feature of capitalism is an uninterrupted or permanently wakeful continuity of pro…

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Knowledge Shaping

How can we portray the history of Renaissance knowledge production through the eyes of the students? Their university notebooks contained a variety of works, fragments of them, sentences, or simple words.…

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Ana Teixeira Pinto
Death Wall

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.From the eighteenth century onwards, Western science began to tap a large, yet non-renewable, capital s…

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Nana Ariel, Dana Riesenfeld
Clichés We Live by

clichés We Live By shows how clichés - those everyday phrases we love to hate - shape our world. It traces their trajectory from modernity to the contemporary digital and artificial intelligence eras, rev…

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W. Ian Bourland
Black and Gold

AFRICANAS

For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empi…

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W. Ian Bourland
Black and Gold

AFRICANAS

For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empi…

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Lora Walsh
Lady Church in the Christian Imagination

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts? In this study, Lora Walsh recovers a feminine figure whose historical prominence has bee…

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Matthew Costa
Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

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Wendy Brown
States of Injury

A landmark work from one of our leading political theorists

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Lora Walsh
Lady Church in the Christian Imagination

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts? In this study, Lora Walsh recovers a feminine figure whose historical prominence has bee…

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Nana Ariel, Dana Riesenfeld
Clichés We Live by

Clichés We Live By shows how clichés - those everyday phrases we love to hate - shape our world. It traces their trajectory from modernity to the contemporary digital and artificial intelligence eras, rev…

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Chiara Formichi
Domestic Nationalism

Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activit…

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