Visualising Worlds - 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 Visualising Worlds write by Martyn Hudson. This book was released on 2021-08-19. Visualising Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical sociology, including social change, transformation, individuation, collectivisation and human imagination and practice, it draws lessons from the collapse of Graeco-Roman antiquity for our own world of virus and ecological disasters, considers the genesis of capitalism and intimates its ending. Rooted in classical sociology yet challenging its traditions and objects of study, Visualising Worlds: World-Making and Social Theory adopts new ways of thinking about visuality, aesthetics and how we ‘see’ social worlds, and how we then begin to build them. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory, historical sociology, cultural studies, critical theory, archaeology, and the emergence, change and collapse of civilisations.
Visualising Worlds
Visualising Worlds - 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 Visualising Worlds write by Martyn Hudson. This book was released on 2023-05-31. Visualising Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the social production of social worlds - present, past and yet-to-come - employing central concepts in sociology to draw lessons from the collapse of Graeco-Roman antiquity for our own world of virus and ecological disasters, exploring both the emergence of capitalism and its possible end.
Visual Representations of the Arctic
Visual Representations of the Arctic - 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 Visual Representations of the Arctic write by Markku Lehtimäki. This book was released on 2021-03-30. Visual Representations of the Arctic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region
Visualising the Empire of Capital
Visualising the Empire of Capital - 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 Visualising the Empire of Capital write by Martyn Hudson. This book was released on 2019-08-21. Visualising the Empire of Capital available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Methods of visualising modernity and capitalism have been central to classical social science. Those methods of seeing, specifically in the work of Marx, were attempts to capture visually the fragmenting edifice of capital in its death throes and were part of a project to hasten its demise - yet capitalism persisted and perpetuated itself in new forms, such that its demise now looks less likely than it did 150 years ago. This book argues for a new way of understanding Marx and a new way of approaching both capitalist modernity and Marx’s Capital by rethinking the nature of vision. Through studies of visualisation in relation to machines and the monstrous, memory, mirrors and optics, and the invisible, Visualising the Empire of Capital offers a new way of thinking about what capital is and its future. A new reading of - and against - Marx, this volume argues for new forms of sensual utopia while initiating antagonism to the empire of capital itself. As such, it will appeal to social theorists, social anthropologists and sociologists with interests in critical theory, visual culture and aesthetics.
Visualising Skyscapes
Visualising Skyscapes - 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 Visualising Skyscapes write by Liz Henty. This book was released on 2019-08-19. Visualising Skyscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Above the land and its horizon lies the celestial sphere, that great dome of the sky which governs light and darkness, critical to life itself, yet its influence is often neglected in the archaeological narrative. Visualising Skyscapes captures a growing interest in the emerging field of skyscape archaeology. This powerful and innovative book returns the sky to its rightful place as a central consideration in archaeological thought and can be regarded as a handbook for further research. Bookended by a foreword by archaeologist Gabriel Cooney and an afterword by astronomer Andrew Newsam, its contents have a wide-reaching relevance for the fields of archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, archaeoastronomy, astronomy, heritage and cultural studies. The volume balances six chapters on theory and methodology which elaborate on the history and practice of the field with six other chapters focused on case studies from around the world. Visualising Skyscapes captures the growing interest in the multidisciplinary study of skyscapes and will be of interest to academics, students and the general public, as well as having international appeal. It is topical, timely and relevant to current debates and will hopefully stimulate further interest in this exciting and relatively new area of investigation. The contributions showcase the work of distinguished academics in the field and the chapters are all enhanced by numerous photographs and images.
