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Author: Robert Seth McCallen
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Seth McCallen
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 327
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 936
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 592
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lewis Mumford
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-10-30
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 0226550273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTechnics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture
Author: Arthur Mangin
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 644
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Irwin Chusid
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1556523726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIrwin Chusid profiles a number of "outsider" musicians - those who started as "outside" and eventually came "in" when the listening public caught up with their radical ideas. Included are The Shaggs, Tiny Tim, Syd Barrett, Joe Meek, Captain Beefheart, The Cherry Sisters, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, Wesley Wilis, and others.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Published: 2020-12-21
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.
Author: David Lavery
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 0813181496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television. The essays explore a wide range of cult programs, from early shows such as Star Trek, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, and The Twilight Zone to popular contemporary shows such as Lost, Dexter, and 24, addressing the cultural context that allowed the development of the phenomenon. The contributors investigate the obligations of cult series to their fans, the relationship of camp and cult, the effects of DVD releases and the Internet, and the globalization of cult TV. The Essential Cult TV Reader answers many of the questions surrounding the form while revealing emerging debates on its future.
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-10-20
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1474299962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology. Data has replaced sensory pleasure, we are less interested in the taste of a fine wine than in the description on the bottle's label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could? The book won the inaugural Prix Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.
