Media and Utopia - 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 Media and Utopia write by Arvind Rajagopal. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Media and Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in present times. Media and Utopia responds to the resulting crisis of the social by investigating the links between mediation and political imagination. This volume addresses those utopian spaces historically constituted through media, and analyses the conditions that made them possible. Individual essays deal with non-Western histories of technopolitics through distinctive perspectives on how to conceive the relationship between social form, everyday life, and utopian possibility, and by examining a range of media formats and genres from print, sound, and film to new media. With contributions from major scholars in the field, this book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of media studies, culture studies, sociology, modern South Asian history, and politics.
Groundlessness and Utopia
Groundlessness and Utopia - 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 Groundlessness and Utopia write by . This book was released on 1994. Groundlessness and Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition
Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition - 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 Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition write by Patricia J. Huntington. This book was released on 1998-07-23. Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition is a study in critical postmodern social theory. By engaging a dialogue with Heidegger, Kristeva, and Irigaray, it offers unique insights into Heidegger's heroic embrace of the manly ethos of National Socialism. Against certain poststructuralist feminist tendencies to throw the baby of intentionality out with the bath water of voluntarism, Huntington interweaves elements of Kristevan and Heideggerian thought in order to reconstruct a linguistically embedded, existentially and affectively rich, dialectical model of willed self-regulation. Pressing Heideggerian ontology into the service of a viable social theory, she argues that this ontology accounts for the utopian impulse in Irigaray's search for a critical poetic reenchantment of the lifeworld and supplies Irigaray with the philosophical foundation for a model of ethical recognition based upon asymmetrical reciprocity.
Existential Utopia
Existential Utopia - 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 Existential Utopia write by Michael Marder. This book was released on 2011-11-24. Existential Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Radical political thought of the 20th century was dominated by utopia, but the failure of communism in Eastern Europe and its disavowal in China has brought on the need for a new model of utopian thought. This book thus seeks to redefine the concept of utopia and bring it to bear on today's politics. The original essays, contributed by key thinkers such as Gianni Vattimo and Jean-Luc Nancy, highlight the connection between utopian theory and practice. The book reassesses the legacy of utopia and conceptualizes alternatives to the neo-liberal, technocratic regimes prevalent in today's world. It argues that only utopia in its existential sense, grounded in the lived time and space of politics, can distance itself from mainstream ideology and not be at the service of technocratic regimes, while paying attention to the material conditions of human life. Existential Utopia offers a new and exciting interpretation of utopia in contemporary culture and a much-needed intervention into the philosophical and political discussion of utopian thinking that is both accessible to students and comprehensive.
Pacific Crossing
Pacific Crossing - 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 Pacific Crossing write by Elizabeth Sinn. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Pacific Crossing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the gold rush, they took with them skills and goods and a view of the world which, though still Chinese, was transformed by their long journeys back and forth. They in turn transformed Hong Kong, their main point of embarkation, from a struggling infant colony into a prosperous international port and the cultural center of a far-ranging Chinese diaspora. Making use of extensive research in archives around the world, Pacific Crossing charts the rise of Chinese Gold Mountain firms engaged in all kinds of transpacific trade, especially the lucrative export of prepared opium and other luxury goods. Challenging the traditional view that the migration was primarily a "coolie trade," Elizabeth Sinn uncovers leadership and agency among the many Chinese who made the crossing. In presenting Hong Kong as an "in-between place" of repeated journeys and continuous movement, Sinn also offers a fresh view of the British colony and a new paradigm for migration studies.
