Museum of Accidents
Author: Rachel Zucker
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
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Virilio Now
Author: John Armitage
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2011-09-06
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0745648789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCutting-edge introduction to and extension of the work of Paul Virilio and it's current directions. Contains contributions by the world's leading Virilio scholars, as well as a newly-translated text by Virilio.
Virilio and the Media
Author: John Armitage
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-26
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0745661319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally changed how we think about contemporary media culture. Virilio’s examinations of the connections between perception, logistics, the city, and new media technologies comprise some of the most powerful texts within his hypermodern philosophy. Virilio and the Media presents an introduction to Virilio’s important media related ideas, from polar inertia and the accident to the landscape of events, cities of panic, and the instrumental image loop of television. John Armitage positions Virilio’s essential media texts in their theoretical contexts whilst outlining their substantial influence on recent cultural thinking. Consequently, Armitage renders Virilio’s media texts accessible, priming his readers to create individual critical evaluations of Virilio’s writings. The book closes with an annotated and user-friendly Guide to Further Reading and a non-technical Glossary of Virilio’s significant concepts. Virilio’s texts on the media are vital for everyone concerned with contemporary media culture, and Virilio and the Media offers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to the ever expanding range of his critical media and cultural works.
Writing and the Image Today
Author: Jan Baetens
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 030011821X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTable of Contents Patrick Bray: Aesthetics in the Shadow of No Towers: Reading Virilio in the Twenty-First Century Jean-Jacques Thomas: Photographic Memories of French Poetry: Denis Roche, Jean-Marie Gleize Sjef Houppermans: Tanguy Viel: From Word to Image Nina Parish: From Book to Page to Screen: Poetry and New Media Jean Duffy: Closed up and close(-)up: Jean Rouaud’s Books of Revelation Liesbeth Kortals Altes: Traces: Writing the Visual in Daewoo by François Bon Jan Baetens: Of Graphic Novels and Minor Cultures: The Fréon Collective Hugo Frey: “For All To See”: Yvan Alagbé’s Nègres jaunes and the Representation of the Contemporary Social Crisis in the Banlieue Vinay Swamy: The Telereal Republic: Nation, Narration, and Popular Culture in Benmiloud’s Allah Superstar Ari J. Blatt: The Revolution will be Televised, or Didier Daeninckx’s Cathode Fictions
The Paul Virilio Reader
Author: Paul Virilio
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780231134835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than fifty years Virilio has offered incisive and provocative criticism on technology and its moral, political, and cultural implications. The Paul Virilio Reader collects for the first time English extracts reflecting the entire range of Virilio's diverse career. The book's introduction demonstrates that Virilio has produced an important--if controversial--"theory at the speed of light" that uncannily illuminates the impact of new information and communications technologies in a world that collapses time and distance as never before.
The Pedestrians
Author: Rachel Zucker
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1933517891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA tense and personal account of a life as a woman, wife, and mother, in and out of New York.
Design by Accident
Author: Alexandra Midal
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2019-09-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 3956791436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA counterhistory and new historiography of design. In Design by Accident, Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design, in and on its own terms. This meticulously researched work proposes not only a counterhistory but a new historiography of design, shedding light on overlooked historical landmarks and figures while reevaluating the legacies of design's established luminaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Midal rejects both linear narratives of progress and the long-held perception of design as a footnote to the histories of fine art and architecture. By weaving critical analysis of the canon of design history and theory together, with special attention to the writings of designers themselves, she draws out the nuances and radical potentials of the discipline—from William Morris's ambivalence toward industry, to Catharine Beecher's proto-feminist household appliances, to the Bauhaus's Expressionist origins, and the influence of Herbert Marcuse on Joe Colombo.
Flight Accidents in the 21st Century U.S. Air Force
Author: Henry Bond
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2019-01-03
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1476674027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMid-flight noncombat mishaps and blunders occur frequently in the USAF during training and utility flights--sometimes with the loss of life and regularly with the destruction of expensive aircraft. In one extreme case, a $2.2 billion B-2 Spirit bomber crashed soon after takeoff and was destroyed. The events surrounding such accidents are gathered by USAF investigators and a report is published for each case. The author has collected these reports, including some made available following FOI (Freedom of Information) requests to U.S. air bases, and rewritten them in language accessible to the general public. The causes--bird-strikes, joy-riding, unauthorized maneuvers, pilot disorientation, an unseen binoculars-case blocking the plane's joystick, unexpected moisture in an air-pressure gauge--are often surprising and, at times, horrifying.
Paul Virilio
Author: John Armitage
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2000-05-24
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1446265390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul Virilio is one of the most significant and stimulating French cultural theorists writing today. Increasingly hailed as the ′archaeologist of the future′, Virilio is noted for his proclamation that the logic of ever increasing acceleration lies at the heart of the organization and transformation of the contemporary world. The first book to afford a properly critical evaluation of Virilio′s cultural theory, it includes an interview with Virilio; a recently translated example of his work; and a select bibliography of his writings. The commissioned contributions by leading cultural and social theorists examine Virilio′s work from his early speculations on military and urban space to his current writings on dromology, politics, new communications technologies, disappearance, and the fallout from `the information bomb′.
Railway Accidents
Author: Greg Morse
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-10-10
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1784420301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritain's rail network is now among the safest in the world, but the journey that brought it to that point has been long and eventful. Early incidents like the felling of William Huskisson MP by Stephenson's Rocket (1830) showed how new ideas could bring new dangers; yet from disaster came new safety measures, and within fifty years better signalling and braking methods had been made mandatory. The twentieth century saw accident repeatedly lead to action and further advances in rolling stock, track design and train protection systems. Greg Morse charts these changes through the events that helped to prompt them, including the Armagh collision (1889) and the Harrow & Wealdstone disaster (1952). He ends with a railway approaching a new 'golden age' in the 1980s – yet with the tragedy at Clapham Junction (1988) offering a solemn reminder against complacency.
