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Futurism by Lawrence Rainey & Christine Poggi & Laura Wittman
epub |eng | 2009-03-12 | Author:Lawrence Rainey & Christine Poggi & Laura Wittman

TACTILISM F. T. MARINETTI 16 January 1921 Period. And once again from the top. Futurism, launched by us in 1909 in Milan, has given the world a hatred of Museums, ...
( Category: Essays March 13,2016 )
Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

Under the Sign of Saturn In most of the portrait photographs he is looking down, his right hand to his face. The earliest one I know shows him in 1927—he ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

3 Because of countless metaphoric flourishes that have made cancer synonymous with evil, having cancer has been experienced by many as shameful, therefore something to conceal, and also unjust, a ...
( Category: Pathology March 8,2016 )
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Susan Sontag [Sontag, Susan]

Godard “It may be true that one has to choose between ethics and aesthetics, but it is no less true that whichever one chooses, one will always find the other ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Susan Sontag

PRESENCE/ABSENCE. Dance, most present, incarnate of arts, is used by Childs in the service of an aesthetic of absence. This principle was first acknowledged in a Dadaist way, in the ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Norman Mailer

Yet as the film progresses with every skill in evidence, while Brando gives a performance that is unforgettable (and Schneider shows every promise of becoming a major star), as the ...
( Category: General March 7,2016 )
Mind of an Outlaw by Norman Mailer
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]

Yet as the film progresses with every skill in evidence, while Brando gives a performance that is unforgettable (and Schneider shows every promise of becoming a major star), as the ...
( Category: General March 7,2016 )
Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage (Kurt Vonnegut Series) by Kurt Vonnegut
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SAVED OURSELVES, BUT WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO TRY VERY HARD. “We might well add this: AND TOO DAMN CHEAP. “So it’s curtains not just for ...
( Category: Anthologies March 6,2016 )
The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Franzen, Jonathan & Kraus, Karl [Franzen, Jonathan]

it’s like the bitter irony of my picking up Gravity’s Rainbow when I can’t write these days, oh what a mess, I find Bloom’s style revolting in hindsight, his Manifesto ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2016 )
Between Past and Future (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt
epub |eng | 2006-09-26 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

5 THE CRISIS IN EDUCATION I The general crisis that has overtaken the modern world everywhere and in almost every sphere of life manifests itself differently in each country, involving ...
( Category: History & Theory February 29,2016 )
A Notable Woman by Jean Lucey Pratt
epub |eng | 2016-02-24 | Author:Jean Lucey Pratt

Saturday, 8 September Saw another hag this evening. She was much more precise. Told me more by what she didn’t say. The whole affair seems so sordid. She saw me ...
( Category: Letters February 29,2016 )
Serendipities by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Umberto Eco

Since we began by speaking of China, let us see what Kircher, insatiable in his lunatic curiosity, did with China. Egyptian was an original language, certainly more perfect than Hebrew ...
( Category: European February 22,2016 )
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Whereas newspapers once had to send their spies into the corridors of power in Rome to wrangle cautious admissions out of people in the know, today if anything they have ...
( Category: European February 22,2016 )
Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

4.2 Files and Directories Let us try therefore to compare our cognitive processes, from the first perceptions to the constitution of any knowledge, not necessarily scientific, to the organization of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 22,2016 )
Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco

1983 Culture as Show Business The years 1979 and 1980 were a time when, as some ripened novelties were already being theorized, the first puzzled questions were beginning to be ...
( Category: Essays February 22,2016 )

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