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Italian futurism and the machine
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ISBN: 152614669X 1526121212 9781526121219 0719097096 9780719097096 1526121220 Year: 2019 Publisher: Manchester

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This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War. The machine was a primary concern for the futuristi. As well as being a material tool in the factory it was a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem, a metonymy of modernity and international circulation and a living symbol of past crafts and technologies. Exploring literature, the visual and performing arts, photography, music and film, the book uses the lens of European machine culture to elucidate the work of a broad set of artists and practitioners, including Censi, Depero, Marinetti, Munari and Prampolini. The machine emerges here as an archaeology of technology in modernity: the time machine of futurism.


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La Città del Sole/City of the Sun : Dialogo Poetico/A Poetical Dialogue
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ISBN: 0520906438 Year: 1981 Publisher: University of California Press

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Among Renaissance utopias, The City of the Sun is perhaps second in importance only to More's more famous work. There are striking similarities between Campanella's utopia and More's, but also striking differences which reflect both changed historical circumstances and the highly original nature of Campanella's thought. La città del sole is one of many books written by Tommaso Campanella--philosopher, scientist, astrologer, and poet--while imprisoned in Naples for his part in rebellion against the Spanish and ecclesiastical authorities who ruled his native Calabria. This first faithful and complete English translation by Daniel J. Donno is presented opposite the critically established Itaion text, with essential explanatory notes and an introductory essay. Students of Italian culture, of the history of science, and of political, philosophical, and religious thought will welcome the publication of this authoritative edition of Campanella's best-known work.


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Playing Dystopia : Nightmarish Worlds in Video Games and the Player's Aesthetic Response
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ISBN: 3839445973 9783839445976 9783837645972 3837645975 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events. Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dystopia and their own ›offline‹ environment, thus learning to stay wary of social and political developments. In his analysis, Farca draws from a variety of research fields, such as literary theory and game studies, combining them into a coherent theory of aesthetic response to dystopian games. »Farca ist ein Grundlagenwerk des Computerspiel(en)s gelungen, das Strukturen des Spiels mit den Aktivitäten der Spieler verbindet.« Lothar Mikos, tv diskurs, 1 (2020) Besprochen in: gmk-Newsletter, 9 (2019)


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Co-Parenting und die Zukunft der Liebe : Über post-romantische Elternschaft
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ISBN: 3839455030 3837655032 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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»Co-Parenting« als Familienkonzept breitet sich aus und stellt die Versprechen des romantischen Liebesideals mitsamt seinem geschlechterungleichen Normalfamilienmodell in Frage. Doch was bedeutet das für die Liebe selbst? Wird sie zerstört oder transformiert und öffnet sie sich für neue Familien- und Beziehungsformen? Entfaltet sich in der post-romantischen Elternschaft gar ein utopisch-emanzipatives Potenzial, das Frauen und LGBTIQ*s aus patriarchalen, hetero- und paarnormativen Herrschaftsverhältnissen befreit? Neben Gegenwarts- und Zukunftsszenarien erkundet Christine Wimbauer auch die gesellschaftspolitischen Herausforderungen dieser Entwicklungen. O-Ton: »Befreiung oder bekannte Ungleichheiten?« - Christine Wimbauer auf dem Genderblog der HU Berlin am 12.02.2021. O-Ton: »Alle Familien sind richtig« - Christine Wimbauer im Interview bei der taz am 09.02.2021. O-Ton: »Mehr als romantische Liebe zwischen zwei Menschen« - Christine Wimbauer im Gespräch bei Deutschlandfunk Kultur am 06.02.2021. Besprochen in: https://jochenkoenig.net, 17.01.2021

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