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Postat de: mydemand
Posted On: Dec 7, 2007
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Originally, while writing this post, I was going to make a Top 10 gift list that encompassed all sorts of different things for those who love learning differently. However, just the book list became a major list on their own. I may make the others into their own list, but let’s do it in...... [view]
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Postat de: esum
Posted On: Sep 21, 2006
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Media: book, essay
Who: Tanizaki Junichiro
When: 1933
What: A humerous essay considering Japanese culture, values and aesthetics in a period of modernization and hypermilitarism. Tanizaki essentializes and freezes the East-West binary, although not without a sense of facetiousness.
Links:...... [view]
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Postat de: esum
Posted On: Sep 1, 2006
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What: book
Who: British author, Angela Carter
When: 1979
What: Carter's analysis of the Marquis de Sade's Justine and Juliette, the virgin and the whore, is witty, polemical and even playful as she relates those female figures to contemporary sexual politics.
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"Myth deals in false...... [view]
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Postat de: esum
Posted On: Sep 1, 2006
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Media: book
Who: Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben
When: 1995
What: In this text Agamben explores two figures of contradictory exemption: the sovereign who has the power to wield the law, but can be excluded and "homo sacer" who is excluded from law, but is present in legal definition....... [view]
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Postat de: esum
Posted On: Aug 19, 2006
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Media: book
Who: Canadian economist and media theorist, Harold Innis
When: 1951
What: One of Innis' later works, this book describes values and ways of thinking supported by and inherent to different types of media. One of Marshall McLuhan's major influences.
Links: biography and theory...... [view]
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Postat de: esum
Posted On: Jul 18, 2006
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Media: book
Who: Dee Brown, an American novelist, historian, librarian, reporter
When: 1970
What: a history of America's colonization from the point of view of the Native Americans. A powerful story of institutionalized warfare and genocide.
Links: enotes ... [view]
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Postat de: esum
Posted On: Jun 28, 2006
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Media: book and exhibition
Who: Canadian designer Bruce Mau and his institute
When: Toronto exhibition 2005
What: Exploring notions of development through design. Philosophy of the exhibition and book is entirely founded upon the values of modernism and capitalism. Emphasis on "global...... [view]
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