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Located at the link between man and the nature that surrounds him, food overlaps in the cycle of production, preparation, consumption and excretion of biological necessity, cultural technique and cultural transformation. Against the background of cultural-scientific contexts, food is examined as an "art material", as a material and motif of art, and the material "metabolism" that can be grasped in it between cultural valuations and processes of decay. The anthology brings together questions, discussions and perspectives from the two-day conference "Metabolisms. Food in Art" at the Warburg House and the Dieter Roth Museum Hamburg in November 2017.

Decay --- Transience --- Food --- Eat art --- Object art --- Intermediality --- Cultural technique

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Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French control by forging adaptive economic relationships.

African Urban History. --- Colonial Africa. --- Economic History. --- French Colonial State. --- French West Africa. --- Originaires. --- Socioeconomics. --- Transience. --- Tribunal de Première Instance. --- Urbanization.

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How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms. Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the Christian appropriation of the classical past, myths and rituals of fertility, images of decay in early modern allegory and melancholy, the ruins craze of the eighteenth century, and the creation of “new ruins” for gardens and other structures. Stewart focuses particularly on Renaissance humanism and Romanticism, periods of intense interest in ruins that also offer new frames for their perception. The Ruins Lesson looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing art. Ruins, Stewart concludes, arise at the boundaries of cultures and civilizations. Their very appearance depends upon an act of translation between the past and the present, between those who have vanished and those who emerge. Lively and engaging, The Ruins Lesson ultimately asks what can resist ruination—and finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.

Ruins in literature. --- Ruins in art. --- Antiquities in literature. --- Antiquities in art. --- ruins, art, history, egypt, legend, wordsworth, blake, piranesi, goethe, decay, classicism, christianity, religion, inscriptions, memorials, allegory, original sin, ruination, transformation, antiquities, spolia, women, gender, sexuality, virtue, nymph, whore, virgin, humanism, architecture, trauma, destruction, humanities, renaissance, memory, romanticism, literature, painting, printmaking, iconoclasm, monument, aesthetics, death, nonfiction, preservation, obliteration, parlanti ruine, materiality, endurance, transience.

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This book gives a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the theory of symmetric Markov processes and symmetric quasi-regular Dirichlet forms. In a detailed and accessible manner, Zhen-Qing Chen and Masatoshi Fukushima cover the essential elements and applications of the theory of symmetric Markov processes, including recurrence/transience criteria, probabilistic potential theory, additive functional theory, and time change theory. The authors develop the theory in a general framework of symmetric quasi-regular Dirichlet forms in a unified manner with that of regular Dirichlet forms, emphasizing the role of extended Dirichlet spaces and the rich interplay between the probabilistic and analytic aspects of the theory. Chen and Fukushima then address the latest advances in the theory, presented here for the first time in any book. Topics include the characterization of time-changed Markov processes in terms of Douglas integrals and a systematic account of reflected Dirichlet spaces, and the important roles such advances play in the boundary theory of symmetric Markov processes. This volume is an ideal resource for researchers and practitioners, and can also serve as a textbook for advanced graduate students. It includes examples, appendixes, and exercises with solutions.

Markov processes. --- Boundary value problems. --- Dirichlet problem. --- Beurling-Deny decomposition. --- Beurling-Deny formula. --- Brownian motions. --- Dirichlet forms. --- Dirichlet spaces. --- Douglas integrals. --- Feller measures. --- Hausdorff topological space. --- Markovian symmetric operators. --- Silverstein extension. --- additive functional theory. --- additive functionals. --- analytic concepts. --- analytic potential theory. --- boundary theory. --- countable boundary. --- decompositions. --- energy functional. --- extended Dirichlet spaces. --- fine properties. --- harmonic functions. --- harmonicity. --- hitting distributions. --- irreducibility. --- lateral condition. --- local properties. --- m-tight special Borel. --- many-point extensions. --- one-point extensions. --- part processes. --- path behavior. --- perturbed Dirichlet forms. --- positive continuous additive functionals. --- probabilistic derivation. --- probabilistic potential theory. --- quasi properties. --- quasi-homeomorphism. --- quasi-regular Dirichlet forms. --- recurrence. --- reflected Dirichlet spaces. --- reflecting Brownian motions. --- reflecting extensions. --- regular Dirichlet forms. --- regular recurrent Dirichlet forms. --- smooth measures. --- symmetric Hunt processes. --- symmetric Markov processes. --- symmetric Markovian semigroups. --- terminal random variables. --- time change theory. --- time changes. --- time-changed process. --- transience. --- transient regular Dirichlet forms.