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Invective Gaze - Das digitale Bild und die Kultur der Beschämung
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ISBN: 3839457491 Year: 2022 Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag,

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Der schaulüsterne Blick: Bilder adressieren affektive Register, fördern somit voyeuristische Tendenzen wie Glotzen, Gaffen und den Drang, sich oder andere im Bild zu exponieren. Digitale Medien ermöglichen direkte Beteiligung und Bewertung, wodurch sich das intrikate Verhältnis zwischen Bildern und gesellschaftlichen Anerkennungsprozessen nachhaltig verschiebt. Dabei hat ein abwertender, entblößender Blick Konjunktur, der neue Bildgenres hervorbringt und das Affektive, Politische und Ökonomische neu verknüpft. Die Beiträger*innen folgen der Karriere des invective gaze vom Analogen zum Digitalen, vom Katastrophenbild bis zum Terror im Livestream.


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Swoon
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ISBN: 1526101254 9781526101266 9781526101259 1526101262 1526101181 9781526101181 Year: 2021 Publisher: Manchester

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Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swooning's rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. It offers an exciting new approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response.


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Mood and trope : the rhetoric and poetics of affect
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ISBN: 022667343X Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect because it resides there not in speaking about feelings, but in the way of speaking itself. Engaging a quartet of modern philosophers—Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Deleuze—Brenkman explores how they all approach the question of affect primarily through literature and art. He draws on the differences and dialogues among them, arguing that the vocation of criticism is incapable of systematicity and instead must be attuned to the singularity and plurality of literary and artistic creations. In addition, he confronts these four philosophers and their essential concepts with a wide array of authors and artists, including Pinter and Poe, Baudelaire, Jorie Graham and Li-Young Lee, Shakespeare, Tino Sehgal, and Francis Bacon. Filled with surprising insights, Mood and Trope provides a rich archive for rethinking the nature of affect and its aesthetic and rhetorical stakes.


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Light without Heat
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ISBN: 1501723421 9781501723421 9781501723414 1501723413 9781501723407 1501723405 9781501723407 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists of the new science. In straying from the work of self-possession and the duty to sift fact from fiction, early modern intellectuals discovered the cognitive advantages of the undisciplined mind. Exploring the influence of what he calls the "observational mood" on both poetry and prose, Simon offers new readings of Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Izaak Walton, Henry Power, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. He also extends his inquiry beyond the boundaries of early modernity, arguing for a literary theory that trades strict methodological commitment for an openness to lawless drift.


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Trials of Arab modernity
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ISBN: 0823252353 0823252361 0823252809 082325173X 0823251713 0823251721 9780823251735 9780823251711 9780823251728 9780823252367 9780823251711 9780823251728 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York

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Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity—which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation—this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy. In dialogue with affect theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, the book reveals these trials to be a violent and ongoing confrontation with and within modernity. In pointed and witty prose, El-Ariss bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction.


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In the hands of God : how Evangelical belonging transforms migrant experience in the United States
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ISBN: 0691230757 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press,

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"How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotionWhy do migrants become more deeply evangelical in the United States and how does this religious identity alter their self-understanding? In the Hands of God examines this question through a unique lens, foregrounding the ways that churches transform what migrants feel. Drawing from her extensive fieldwork among Brazilian migrants in the Washington, DC, area, Johanna Bard Richlin shows that affective experience is key to comprehending migrants' turn toward intense religiosity, and their resulting evangelical commitment.The conditions of migrant life-family separation, geographic isolation, legal precariousness, workplace vulnerability, and deep uncertainty about the future-shape specific affective maladies, including loneliness, despair, and feeling stuck. These feelings in turn trigger novel religious yearnings. Evangelical churches deliberately and deftly articulate, manage, and reinterpret migrant distress through affective therapeutics, the strategic "healing" of migrants' psychological pain. Richlin offers insights into the affective dimensions of migration, the strategies pursued by evangelical churches to attract migrants, and the ways in which evangelical belonging enables migrants to feel better, emboldening them to improve their lives.Looking at the ways evangelical churches help migrants navigate negative emotions, In the Hands of God sheds light on the versatility and durability of evangelical Christianity"-- "How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotionWhy do migrants become more deeply evangelical in the United States and how does this religious identity alter their self-understanding? In the Hands of God examines this question through a unique lens, foregrounding the ways that churches transform what migrants feel. Drawing from her extensive fieldwork among Brazilian migrants in the Washington D.C. area, Johanna Bard Richlin shows that affective experience is key to comprehending migrants' turn toward intense religiosity, and their resulting evangelical commitment.The conditions of migrant life-family separation, geographic isolation, legal precariousness, workplace vulnerability, and deep uncertainty about the future-shape specific affective maladies, including loneliness, despair, and feeling stuck. These feelings in turn trigger novel religious yearnings. Evangelical churches deliberately and deftly articulate, manage, and reinterpret migrant distress through affective therapeutics, the strategic "healing" of migrants' psychological pain. Richlin offers insights into the affective dimensions of migration, the strategies pursued by evangelical churches to attract migrants, and the ways in which evangelical belonging enables migrants to feel better, emboldening them to improve their lives.Looking at the ways evangelical churches help migrants navigate negative emotions, In the Hands of God sheds light on the versatility and durability of evangelical Christianity"--


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Friendship
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ISBN: 1282764470 9786612764479 0520947886 9780520947887 9780520265462 0520265467 9780520265479 0520265475 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Friends-they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental, and ethnographic data to understand the broad meaning of friendship, how it develops, how it interfaces with kinship and romantic relationships, and how it differs from place to place. Hruschka argues that friendship is a special form of reciprocal altruism based not on tit-for-tat accounting or forward-looking rationality, but rather on mutual goodwill that is built up along the way in human relationships.


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Arte argentino - Ästhetik und Identitätsnarrative in der argentinischen Kunst : Ausgewählte Arbeiten von Marta Minujín und Luis Felipe Noé
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ISBN: 3839460840 Year: 2022 Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag,

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Die künstlerischen Arbeiten von Marta Minujín und Luis Felipe Noé nehmen eine zentrale Position in der argentinischen Kunst von den 1960er Jahren bis heute ein. Lena Geuer widmet sich mit der Frage nach der ¿Arte argentino? kritisch dem Verhältnis von Kunst und Nation und lotet aus einer postkolonialen und sinnlich-materiellen Perspektive das Spannungsfeld zwischen Ästhetik, Identität und Politik aus. Zugleich wird ¡Arte argentino! auch als Feststellung verhandelt, wodurch Genealogie und Kanon einer eurozentrischen Kunstgeschichtsschreibung ins Wanken und die Bildende Kunst in Bewegung geraten.


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Judicial reputation
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ISBN: 022629062X 9780226290621 9780226290591 022629059X Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago London

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Judges are society's elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They must rely almost entirely on their reputations to secure compliance with their decisions, obtain resources, and maintain their political influence. In Judicial Reputation, Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg explain how reputation is not only an essential quality of the judiciary as a whole, but also of individual judges. Perceptions of judicial systems around the world range from widespread admiration to utter contempt, and as judges participate within these institutions some earn respect, while others are scorned. Judicial Reputation explores how judges respond to the reputational incentives provided by the different audiences they interact with-lawyers, politicians, the media, and the public itself-and how institutional structures mediate these interactions. The judicial structure is best understood not through the lens of legal culture or tradition, but through the economics of information and reputation. Transcending those conventional lenses, Garoupa and Ginsburg employ their long-standing research on the latter to examine the fascinating effects that governmental interactions, multicourt systems, extrajudicial work, and the international rule-of-law movement have had on the reputations of judges in this era.


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Spinoza and the politics of renaturalization
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ISBN: 1283250381 9786613250384 0226750752 9780226750750 9781283250382 9780226750743 0226750744 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist. The common thread connecting all of these clashing perspectives is Spinoza's naturalism, the idea that humanity is part of nature, not above it. In this sophisticated new interpretation of Spinoza's iconoclastic philosophy, Hasana Sharp draws on his uncompromising naturalism to rethink human agency, ethics, and political practice. Sharp uses Spinoza to outline a practical wisdom of "renaturalization," showing how ideas, actions, and institutions are never merely products of human intention or design, but outcomes of the complex relationships among natural forces beyond our control. This lack of a metaphysical or moral division between humanity and the rest of nature, Sharp contends, can provide the basis for an ethical and political practice free from the tendency to view ourselves as either gods or beasts. Sharp's groundbreaking argument critically engages with important contemporary thinkers-including deep ecologists, feminists, and race and critical theorists-making Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization vital for a wide range of scholars.

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