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Author: Orlando Patterson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-02-09
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 0674728750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel an American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. This interdisciplinary work explains how a complex matrix of cultures influences black youth.
Author: Vivek Chibber
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2022-02-08
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 067424513X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClass structure -- Class formation -- Consent, coercion, and resignation -- Agency, contingency, and all that -- How capitalism endures.
Author: Craig Detweiler
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 080102417X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA candid, often humorous look at how to find truth in music, movies, television, and other aspects of pop culture. Includes photos, artwork, and sidebars.
Author: Jan Ll Harris
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780415251853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzing the complex interaction between aspects of new digital technologies, this book draws upon a mix of theoretical approaches to give fresh insight into the roots of the social matrix behind the digital 'Matrix' of popular imagination.
Author: Matthew Kapell
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780826415875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere have already been several very successful books devoted to the original film in the Matrix trilogy. This entirely new collection of essays is the first book to examine the trilogy as a whole - as well as related products such as The Animatrix and the computer game. Contributors tackle these subjects from a range of perspectives: religion, philosophy, gender, race, film studies, and science, providing a comprehensive view of everything Matrix-related.Reviewing the cultural and religious implications of the trilogy, authors look at:* American Religion, Community and Revitilization: Why The Matrix Resonates* Religion and Salvation, the Optiate of The Matrix Franchise* Gimme that Bullet Time Religion, or, The Dream of Spiritually Perfect Violence* Ultimate Reality: Buddhist and Gnostic Constructions of BlissAlso covered are theories of cyberworlds, issues of gender and race and the games and ethics of simulation.
Author: Patricia Pisters
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0804740283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are Strange Days, Fight Club, and Dancer in the Dark.
Author: Mirjana Roksandic
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0826354572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe excavation of shell middens and mounds is an important source of information regarding past human diet, settlement, technology, and paleoenvironments. The contributors to this book introduce new ways to study shell-matrix sites, ranging from the geochemical analysis of shellfish to the interpretation of human remains buried within. Drawing upon examples from around the world, this is one of the only books to offer a global perspective on the archaeology of shell-matrix sites. “A substantial contribution to the literature on the subject and . . . essential reading for archaeologists and others who work on this type of site.”—Barbara Voorhies, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Coastal Collectors in the Holocene: The Chantuto People of Southwest Mexico
Author: Irina Aristarkhova
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0231159285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes the question "where do we come from?" by discussing the matrix. The author then applies this to the science technology, and art of ectogenesis, and proves the question "can the machine nurse?"
Author: Elena G. Popkova
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 763
ISBN-13: 3319753835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book features contributions from various spheres of socio-humanitarian sciences presented at the scientific and practical conference on “Humans as an Object of Study by Modern Science,” which took place in Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Federation) on November 23–24, 2017. The conference was organized by Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University and the non-profit organization “Institute of Scientific Communications.” Presenting the results of multidisciplinary studies as well as new approaches, the target audience of the book includes postgraduates, lecturers at higher educational establishments, and researchers studying socio-humanitarian sciences. The complex study of humans by representatives of various socio-humanitarian sciences (philosophy, pedagogics, jurisprudence, social sciences, and economics) allows a comprehensive concept of the field to be developed. Selecting humans as an object of research opens wide possibilities for studying various issues related to their activities, while considering humans within multiple sciences means that the methods of induction and deduction can be combined to achieve precise results. This book includes the results of leading scientific studies on the following key issues: establishment of an information economy under the influence of scientific and technical progress: new challenges and opportunities; information and communication technologies as a new vector of development of the modern world economy; specifics and experience of using new information and communication technologies in developed and developing countries; problems of implementing new information and communication technologies in the modern economy; and priorities of using new information and communication technologies in the modern economy.
Author: Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1997-02-22
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0253116317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book demonstrates Case's continued dominance of the field of lesbian performance studies. . . . Case's dense, rich, and complex work very likely will be a central text for anyone interested in debating the changing theoretical landscape for performance studies and queer theory. All readers interested in what the future might hold for scholarship in the humanities should study Case's thought-provoking work, which is an essential addition to any college or university's collection." —Choice ". . . this is a book that is enormously provocative, that will make you think and feel connected with the latest speculation on the implications of the electronic age we inhabit." —Lesbian Review of Books ". . . definitely required reading for any future-thinking lesbian." —Lambda Book Report The Domain-Matrix is about the passage from print culture to electronic screen culture and how this passage affects the reader or computer user. Sections are organized to emulate, in a printed book, the reader's experience of computer windows. Case traces the portrait of virtual identities within queer and lesbian critical practice and virtual technologies.
