Arts of Impoverishment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arts of Impoverishment write by Leo Bersani. This book was released on 1993. Arts of Impoverishment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why taunt and flout us, as Beckett's writing does? Why discourage us from seeing, as Mark Rothko's paintings often can? Why immobilize and daze us, as Alain Resnais' films sometimes will? Why, Leo Bersnai and Ulysse Dutoit ask, would three acknowledged masters of their media make work deliberately opaque and inhospitable to an audience? This book shows how such crippling moves may signal a profoundly original - and profoundly anti-modernist - renunciation of art's authority.
Untimely Beggar
Untimely Beggar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Untimely Beggar write by Patrick Greaney. This book was released on . Untimely Beggar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This highly original book takes as its starting point a central question for nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and philosophy: how to represent the poor? Covering the period from the publication of Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857 to the composition of Benjamin’s final texts in the 1930s, Untimely Beggar investigates the coincidence of two modern literary and philosophical interests: representing the poor and representing potential. To take account of literature’s relation to the poor, Patrick Greaney proposes the concept of impoverished writing, which withdraws from representing objects and registers the existence of power. By reducing itself to the indication of its own potential, by impoverishing itself, literary language attempts to engage and participate in the power of the poor. This focus on impoverished language offers new perspectives on major French and German authors, including Marx, Nietzsche, Mallarm, Rilke, and Brecht; and makes significant contributions to recent debates about power and potential in thinkers such as Agamben, Deleuze, Foucault, Hardt, and Negri. In doing so, Greaney offers significant insights into modernity’s intense philosophical and literary interest in socioeconomic poverty. Patrick Greaney is assistant professor of German studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
World Spectators
World Spectators - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Spectators write by Kaja Silverman. This book was released on 2000. World Spectators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Platos parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called world love, the possibility and necessity for psychic survival of a profound and vital erotic investment by a human being in the cosmic surround. Here, the author takes her cue from Freuds assertion that the loss of reality associated with psychosis is a function of a disturbance not in the capacity to reason or perceive, but rather in the capacity for world love, the libidinal and semiotic circuity by means of which such love actualizes itself. In an implicit challenge to poststructuralist thought, the author claims that this love is always in response to a call issued by the worldthat the world has, as it were, a vocation: its beauty ought to be seen. We must think of our own being-in-the world as a response to a primordial calling out to respond to this beauty. We are, the author suggests, at the very core of our being, summoned to what she terms world spectatorship. Drawing on Heideggers phenomenological elaboration of care as the being distinctive of human being and the primarily Lacanian conceptualization of the language of desire specific to each human subject, this metapsychology of love attempts to integrate issues in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, visual culture, art history, and literary and film studies.
Conversation Pieces
Conversation Pieces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversation Pieces write by Grant H. Kester. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Conversation Pieces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grant Kester discusses the disparate network of artists & collectives united by a desire to create new forms of understanding through creative dialogue that crosses boundaries of race, religion, & culture.
The Impoverishment of American Culture
The Impoverishment of American Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impoverishment of American Culture write by Dana Gioia. This book was released on 2007. The Impoverishment of American Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
