The Expanded Subject - 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 Expanded Subject write by Joshua I. Cohen. This book was released on 2016. The Expanded Subject available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From 19th-century studio practice through the independence era, African photography has best been known for modes of portraiture that crystallize the sitter's identity and social milieu. Even portraits by contemporary artists are often interpreted as windows into African realities. This exhibition reconsiders African contemporary photographic portraiture by presenting four practitioners whose concerns range well beyond questions of social identity. Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Saïdou Dicko, and George Osodi expand their subjects' interpretive possibilities, exemplifying a new creativity and versatility in portrait-making. While each artist employs different strategies, they all challenge the assumption that photographic portraits serve as mirrors of the "self." Baloji's montages dislocate the subject historically, Camara probes the boundaries of the portrait genre, Dicko expresses uncertainty at the possibility of representation, and Osodi engages his subjects as platforms for political commentary. The four artists enlist portraiture as a point of departure for exploring subjectivity, history, and photographic form. The Expanded Subject offers new insights into the expressive and conceptual range of African photo-portraiture today.
Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity
Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity - 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 Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity write by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa’s subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author’s sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.
The Harvard Graduates' Magazine
The Harvard Graduates' Magazine - 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 Harvard Graduates' Magazine write by William Roscoe Thayer. This book was released on 1898. The Harvard Graduates' Magazine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Geometrical Deduction of Semiregular from Regular Polytopes and Space Fillings
Geometrical Deduction of Semiregular from Regular Polytopes and Space Fillings - 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 Geometrical Deduction of Semiregular from Regular Polytopes and Space Fillings write by Alicia Boole Stott. This book was released on 1913. Geometrical Deduction of Semiregular from Regular Polytopes and Space Fillings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Vanishing Subject
The Vanishing Subject - 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 Vanishing Subject write by Judith Ryan. This book was released on 1991-10-08. The Vanishing Subject available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is thinking personal? Or should we not rather say, "it thinks," just as we say, "it rains"? In the late nineteenth century a number of psychologies emerged that began to divorce consciousness from the notion of a personal self. They asked whether subject and object are truly distinct, whether consciousness is unified or composed of disparate elements, what grounds exist for regarding today's "self" as continuous with yesterday's. If the American pragmatist William James declared himself, on balance, in favor of a "real and verifiable personal identity which we feel," his Austrian counterpart, the empiricist Ernst Mach, propounded the view that "the self is unsalvageable." The Vanishing Subject is the first comprehensive study of the impact of these pre-Freudian debates on modernist literature. In lucid and engaging prose, Ryan traces a complex set of filiations between writers and thinkers over a sixty-year period and restores a lost element in the genesis and development of modernism. From writers who see the "self" as nothing more or less than a bundle of sensory impressions, Ryan moves to others who hesitate between empiricist and Freudian views of subjectivity and consciousness, and to those who wish to salvage the self from its apparent disintegration. Finally, she looks at a group of writers who abandon not only the dualisms of subject and object, but dualistic thinking altogether. Literary impressionism, stream-of-consciousness and point-of-view narration, and the question of epiphany in literature acquire a new aspect when seen in the context of the "psychologies without the self." Rilke's development of a position akin to phenomenology, Henry and Alice James's relation to their psychologist brother, Kafka's place in the modernist movements, Joyce's rewriting of Pater, Proust's engagement with contemporary thought, Woolf's presentation of consciousness, and Musil's projection of a utopian counter-reality are problems familiar to readers and critics: The Vanishing Subject radically revises the way we see them.
