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Critical Terms for Media Studies by W. J. T. Mitchell
epub |eng | | Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

H = –∑pi log pi . Information theory translates the ratios or improbable order to probable disorder in physical systems into a distinction between signal and noise, or “useful” and ...
( Category: Technology November 17,2017 )
The Democratic Surround: Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties by Fred Turner
epub |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Fred Turner [Turner, Fred]

FIGURE 6.1. A poster for the War Veterans’ Art Center at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. At the end of World War II, many saw art as a ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 17,2017 )
Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal by Kripal Jeffrey J
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Kripal, Jeffrey J. [Kripal, Jeffrey J.]

4.5 MIND-REACH (1977) TO “PSI-WAR!” (1978) To take another, more personal example, when I invited both Rusell Targ and Roy Thomas out to Esalen for a 2008 symposium on the ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 17,2017 )
Shylock Is Shakespeare by Kenneth Gross
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kenneth Gross

That Shylock comes into the Venetian court so complexly caught up in recollections of Old Testament figures, human and divine, is one way in which the play dismantles any too ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 17,2017 )
Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel by Bernd Stiegler & Peter Filkins
epub |eng | 2010-11-17 | Author:Bernd Stiegler & Peter Filkins [Stiegler, Bernd]

EXCURSION AND STOPOVER Around the World in 80 Days The surprise and disappointment of traveling. The illusion of having overcome distance, of having erased time. To be far away. Perec, ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 17,2017 )
The History by Herodotus; Grene David
epub |eng | | Author:Herodotus; Grene, David

* * * 1. See 1.15–16 and 103. 2. This is, if a minor difficulty of interpretation as far as importance goes, one of the most insoluble. Clearly, Herodotus is ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 17,2017 )
The Norman Maclean Reader by Norman Maclean O. Alan Weltzien & O. Alan Weltzien
epub |eng | 2008-11-17 | Author:Norman Maclean, O. Alan Weltzien & O. Alan Weltzien

The Woods, Books, and Truant Officers* The title of Maclean’s essay “The Woods, Books, and Truant Officers” reflects his penchant for triadic structures, which is appropriate in an essay that ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 17,2017 )
Is the Rectum a Grave? by Leo Bersani
epub |eng | | Author:Leo Bersani

Distinctions between ideas are perhaps grounded in assumptions of a difference of being between the self and the world. In demonstrating the mind’s resources for erasing that distinction, psychoanalysis understandably ...
( Category: LGBT November 17,2017 )
Zeppo's First Wife by Gail Mazur
epub |eng | | Author:Gail Mazur

Mensch in the Morning He seems glad of the splay of sun and my attention; playful but purposeful. Chasing his tail, he also pretends to ignore it, then spins in ...
( Category: Poetry November 17,2017 )
Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
epub |eng | | Author:Richmond Lattimore [Lattimore, Richmond]

STESÍCHORUS OF HÍMERA The name Stesíchorus, “arranger of chorales,” suggests a family in which choral poetry was a traditional occupation. There were, apparently, several poets so named. An early but ...
( Category: Poetry November 17,2017 )
Columbarium by Susan Stewart
epub |eng | | Author:Susan Stewart

I saw in the diminishment of every living thing the radiance of its end. I heard in the interval, in the intake of your breath, the cell’s pulse, the quick ...
( Category: Poetry November 17,2017 )
Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor by Paulos John Allen
mobi |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:Paulos, John Allen [Paulos, John Allen]

4 Humor, Grammar, and Philosophy Reversal or permutation of the grammar of a sentence often results in humor. I will call this sometimes tiresome type of humor grammatical (or combinatorial) ...
( Category: Humor November 17,2017 )
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff
epub |eng | 1996-11-17 | Author:Marjorie Perloff [Perloff, Marjorie]

—Nothing could be more remarkable than seeing a man who thinks he is unobserved performing some quite simple everyday activity. Let us imagine a theatre; the curtain goes up and ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 17,2017 )
The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany by Donald E. Westlake
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Donald E. Westlake [Westlake, Donald E.]

SIX LUNCH BREAK May’s Famous Tuna Casserole This recipe was Westlake’s contribution to a 1999 collection of recipes by mystery writers, A Taste of Murder. The University of Chicago Press ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 17,2017 )
They Can't Take That Away from Me by Gail Mazur
epub |eng | | Author:Gail Mazur

fact or story, I encourage the grandfather, I want to be treated well myself some day, when I’ll need it even more than I do now. . . . My ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 17,2017 )

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