Nostalgia for the Future - 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 Nostalgia for the Future write by Charles Piot. This book was released on 2010-07-15. Nostalgia for the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that a new biopolitics after state sovereignty is remaking the face of one of the world’s poorest regions. In a country where playing the U.S. Department of State’s green card lottery is a national pastime and the preponderance of cybercafés and Western Union branches signals a widespread desire to connect to the rest of the world, Nostalgia for the Future makes clear that the cultural and political terrain that underlies postcolonial theory has shifted. In order to map out this new terrain, Piot enters into critical dialogue with a host of important theorists, including Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Deleuze, and Mbembe. The result is a deft interweaving of rich observations of Togolese life with profound insights into the new, globalized world in which that life takes place.
Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany
Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany - 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 Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany write by Gregory Maertz. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first chapter on the German military’s unlikely function as an incubator of modernist art and in the second chapter on Adolf Hitler’s advocacy for “eugenic” figurative representation embodying nostalgia for lost Aryan racial perfection and the aspiration for the future perfection of the German Volk, Maertz conclusively proves that the Nazi attack on modernism was inconsistent. In further chapters, on the appropriation of Christian iconography in constructing symbols of a Nazi racial utopia and on Baldur von Schirach’s heretical patronage of modernist art as the supreme Nazi Party authority in Vienna, Maertz reveals that sponsorship of modernist artists continued until the collapse of the regime. Also based on previously unexamined evidence, including 10,000 works of art and documents confiscated by the U.S. Army, Maertz’s final chapter reconstructs the anarchic denazification and rehabilitation of German artists during the Allied occupation, which had unforeseen consequences for the postwar art world.
The Future of Nostalgia
The Future of Nostalgia - 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 Future of Nostalgia write by Svetlana Boym. This book was released on 2008-08-05. The Future of Nostalgia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors believed that opium, leeches, and a trek through the Alps would cure nostalgia. In 1733 a Russian commander, disgusted with the debilitating homesickness rampant among his troops, buried a soldier alive as a deterrent to nostalgia. In her new book, Svetlana Boym develops a comprehensive approach to this elusive ailment. Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities -- St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstam, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, from love letters on Kafka's grave to conversations with Hitler's impersonator, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes.
Nostalgia for the Future
Nostalgia for the Future - 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 Nostalgia for the Future write by Luigi Nono. This book was released on 2018-10-23. Nostalgia for the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924–1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his utopian views. His many essays and lectures reveal an artist at the center of the analytical, theoretical, critical, and political debates of the time. This selection of Nono’s most significant essays, articles, and interviews covers his entire career (1948–1989), faithfully mirroring the interests, orientations, continuities, and fractures of a complex and unique personality. His writings illuminate his intensive involvements with theatre, painting, literature, politics, science, and even mysticism. Nono’s words make vividly evident his restless quest for the transformative possibilities of a radical musical experience, one that is at the same time profoundly engaged with its performers and spaces, its audiences, and its human and social motivations and ramifications.
Media and Nostalgia
Media and Nostalgia - 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 Nostalgia write by K. Niemeyer. This book was released on 2014-05-20. Media and Nostalgia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter, studying also the recent nostalgia boom by analysing, among others, digital photography, television series and home videos.
