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In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological states, this volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching across five continents and in observation of earthly practices of making, knowing, living and dying.Through theoretically reflecting on time spent with Aymara and Mapuche Andean cultures; the Malagasy people of Madagascar; craftspeople and designers across Europe and Oceania; amongst the architectures of Australia and South Korea and within the folds of books, screens, landscape and the sea, the anthropologists in this volume communicate diverse ways of considering, working with and knowing surfaces. Together, these writings advance a knowledge of the world which resists any definitive settlement of existential categories and rather seeks to know the world in its emergence and transformation, as entities grow, cohere, shift, dissolve, decay and are reborn through the contact and exchange of surfaces, persisting with varying time, power and effect.The book principally invites readers from anthropology, the creative arts and environmental studies, but also across the wider humanities and social sciences as well as those in neighbouring scientific fields of archaeology, biology, geography, geoscience, material science, neurology and psychology interested in the intersections of mind, body, materials and world.

Surfaces (Philosophy)

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"Explores a significant but overlooked aspect of early twentieth-century modernism, one that focuses on surface appearance rather than interiority or psychological depth. Looks at the writers Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy, the artists Balthus and Hans Bellmer, and the fashion designer Coco Chanel"--Provided by publisher.

Modernism (Art) --- Surfaces (Philosophy) --- Arts, Modern

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Die Literatur Adalbert Stifters (1805–1868) ist durch das ästhetische Phänomen der Oberfläche geprägt. Dieser Begriff gewinnt durch die in diesem Band vorgenommenen Konstellationen zwischen Malerei, Visualität und Literatur an Kontur. Während im Epochenkontext des Realismus um 1850,Oberfläche‘ sich vor allem als Kategorie der Mimesis von Wirklichkeit behauptet, werden bei Stifter vornehmlich gestaltlose Oberflächenphänomene wie Fleck, Glanz und Finsternis aufgerufen. In dem Maße, wie diese Phänomene im Sinne einer Verschränkung von Erscheinen/Sichtbarmachen und Verlöschen/Verschwinden literarisch verarbeitet werden, trägt sich, wie sich im Kontext der Beiträge abzeichnet, ein moderner Zug in Stifters Prosa des 19. Jahrhunderts ein.

Visual perception in literature --- Realism in literature --- Landscapes in literature --- Surfaces (Philosophy) --- Texture (Art) --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Philosophy --- Technique --- Stifter, Adalbert, --- Stifter, Adalbert --- Shṭifṭer, A., --- Stifter, A. --- שטיפטר, א., --- アーダルベルト・シュティフター --- Criticism and interpretation --- Aesthetics

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The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing investigation of postmodern worlds by critically examining a wide range of contemporary cultural practices.

Nothing defines postmodernism so well as its refusal of depth, its emphasis on appearance and spectacle, its tendency to collapse a three-dimensional world in which image and reality are distinct into a two-dimensional world in which they merge. The postmodern world, Taylor argues, is a world of surfaces, and the postmodern condition is one of profound superficiality.

For many cultural commentators, postmodernisms inescapable play of surfaces is cause for despair. Taylor, on the other hand, shows that the disappearance of depth in postmodern culture is actually a liberation repleat with creative possibilities. Taylor introduces readers to a popular culture in which detectives - the postmodern heroes of Paul Auster and Dennis Potter - lift surfaces only to find more surfaces, and in which fashion advertising plays transparency against hiding. Taylor looks at the contemporary preoccupation with body piercing and tattooing, and asks whether these practices actually reveal or conceal. Phrenology and skin diseases, the "religious" architecture of Las Vegas, the limitless spread of computer networks - all are brought within the scope of Taylor's brilliant analysis. Postmodernism, he shows, has given us a new sense of the superficial, one in which the issue is not the absence of meaning but its uncontrollable, ecstatic proliferation.

Embodying the very tendencies it analyzes, Hiding is unique. Conceived and developed with well-known designers Michael Rock and Susan Sellars, this work transgresses the boundary that customarily separates graphic design from the story within a text. The product of nearly three decades of reflection and writing, Hiding opens a window on contemporary culture. To follow the remarkable course Taylor charts is to see both our present and past differently and to encounter a future as disorienting as it is alluring.

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