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“rob spruijt”

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  • Aesthetics in Present Future

    The Arts and the Technological Horizon

    by Alain Cohen, Rob Spruijt, Erith Jaffe-Berg, Miltos Manetas, Alessandro Lanni, Roberto Diodato, Domenico Parisi, Teresa Iaria, Peter B. Lunenfeld, Ysamur Flores Pena ...
    Aesthetics in Present Future: The Arts and the Technological Horizon is a collection of essays by scholars and a few artists who focus on the issue of how arts either change when conveyed by new media (such as the web, 3D printers, and videos) or are simply diffused by them. The contributors’ analyses describe how both virtual production and virtual communication change our attitudes toward what ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Nature

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Nature is an essay that puts forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature. Chapters include: Nature; Commodity; Beauty; Language; Discipline; Idealism; Spirit; and, Prospects. ... Read more

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  • Magic and Loss

    The Internet as Art

    by Virginia Heffernan ...
    Virginia Heffernan “melds the personal with the increasingly universal in a highly informative analysis of what the Internet is—and can be. A thoroughly engrossing examination of the Internet’s past, present, and future” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from one of the best living writers of English prose.This book makes a bold claim: The Internet is among mankind’s great masterpieces—a massive ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Nonconformity

    Writing on Writing

    by Nelson Algren, Daniel Simon, C.S. O'Brien ...
    The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers."You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-interest

    That Which Will Not Allow Itself to Be Said

    by John Steppling ...
    The collusion of galleries, collectors and curators, following the model of studio film and network TV, has equated popularity with quality. The problem then is to recuperate something of the lost radical conscience of art and culture.Art is a recreation of our own psychic formation (mimesis) as well as being shaped by its ‘otherness’ and by history. All stories are crime stories, all stories are ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Confessions of a Heretic

    Selected Essays

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Hard-hitting essays by acclaimed social commentator and philosopher Roger Scruton, guaranteed to provoke lively debateA wide-ranging selection that includes essays on architecture and modern art, the environment, politics, and culture.Each “confession” reveals aspects of the author’s thinking that his critics would probably have advised him to keep to himself. Roger Scruton challenges popular ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ancient Philosophical Poetics

    by Malcolm Heath ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
    What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave to such questions. An extended discussion of Plato's Republic shows how the two discussions of poetry are integrated with each other and with ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Everyday Aesthetics

    by Yuriko Saito ...
    Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. In a ground-breaking new study, Yuriko ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Current Controversies in Philosophy of Film

    by Katherine Thomson-Jones ...
    Series series Current Controversies in Philosophy
    This volume advances the contemporary debate on five central issues in the philosophy of film. These issues concern the relation between the art and technology of film, the nature of film realism, how narrative fiction films narrate, how we engage emotionally with films, and whether films can philosophize. Two new essays by leading figures in the field present different views on each issue. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

    Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

    by Sam Girgus ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self.In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Walter Benjamin's Archive

    Images, Texts, Signs

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documentsThe work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Art of Comics

    A Philosophical Approach

    by Aaron Meskin, Roy T. Cook ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Aesthetics
    THE ART OF COMICSThe Art of Comics: A Philosophical Introduction is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical questions raised by the art of comics. The volume, which includes a preface by the renowned comics author Warren Ellis, contains ten cutting-edge essays on a range of philosophical topics raised by comics and graphic novels. These include the ... Read more

    $24.00 USD