The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy - 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 Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy write by Charles Fourier. This book was released on 2011. The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Admired by Marx and Engels, the Surrealists, the Situationists, Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes, the great utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) has been many things to many people: a proto-feminist, a Surrealist ancestor, a cantankerous cosmologist, a social critic and humorist and to this day one of France's truest visionary thinkers. He was also, as this volume demonstrates, a maniacal taxonomist. In this zoological guidebook to cuckoldry and commerce, Fourier offers a caustic critique of the bankruptcy of marriage and the prostitution of the economy, and the hypocrisies of a civilization that over-regulates sexual congress while allowing the financial sector to screw over the public. Gathered together here for the first time are Fourier's two "Hierarchies" --humorously regimented parades of civilization's cheaters and cheated-on in the domestic sphere of sex and the economic sphere of buying and selling commodities. "The Hierarchy of Cuckoldry" --translated into English for the first time--presents 72 species of the male cuckold, ranging from such "common class" cases as the Health-Conscious Cuckolds, to the short-horned Sympathetic, Optimist and Mystical Cuckolds, and the Long-horned varieties of the Irate, Disgraced and Posthumous Cuckolds. For Fourier, these amount to 72 manifestations of women's "secret insurrection" against the institution of marriage. "The Hierarchy of Bankruptcy" presents 36 species of the fraudulent bankrupt: a range of Light, Grandiose, and Contemptible shades of financial manipulators who force creditors, cities and even nations to bail them out of ultimately profitable bankruptcies. In these attacks on the morality of monogamy and the perils of laissez-faire capitalism, Fourier's "Hierarchies" resonate uncannily with our contemporary world.
Walking and Mapping
Walking and Mapping - 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 Walking and Mapping write by Karen O'Rourke. This book was released on 2016-02-12. Walking and Mapping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of walking and mapping as both form and content in art projects using old and new technologies, shoe leather and GPS. From Guy Debord in the early 1950s to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff, and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again and again to the walking motif. Today, the convergence of global networks, online databases, and new tools for mobile mapping coincides with a resurgence of interest in walking as an art form. In Walking and Mapping, Karen O'Rourke explores a series of walking/mapping projects by contemporary artists. She offers close readings of these projects—many of which she was able to experience firsthand—and situates them in relation to landmark works from the past half-century. Together, they form a new entity, a dynamic whole greater than the sum of its parts. By alternating close study of selected projects with a broader view of their place in a bigger picture, Walking and Mapping itself maps a complex phenomenon.
The Mating Mind
The Mating Mind - 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 Mating Mind write by Geoffrey Miller. This book was released on 2011-12-21. The Mating Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At once a pioneering study of evolution and an accessible and lively reading experience, a book that offers the most convincing—and radical—explanation for how and why the human mind evolved. Consciousness, morality, creativity, language, and art: these are the traits that make us human. Scientists have traditionally explained these qualities as merely a side effect of surplus brain size, but Miller argues that they were sexual attractors, not side effects. He bases his argument on Darwin’ s theory of sexual selection, which until now has played second fiddle to Darwin’ s theory of natural selection, and draws on ideas and research from a wide range of fields, including psychology, economics, history, and pop culture. Witty, powerfully argued, and continually thought-provoking, The Mating Mind is a landmark in our understanding of our own species.
Woman Under Socialism
Woman Under Socialism - 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 Woman Under Socialism write by August Bebel. This book was released on 1904. Woman Under Socialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier
The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier - 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 Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier write by Charles Fourier. This book was released on 1972. The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
