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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “henning schmidgen”
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  • Horn, or The Counterside of Media

    by Henning Schmidgen ...
    Translated by Nils F. Schott ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    We regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time, media devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and smart phones scan and touch us. In Horn, Henning Schmidgen reflects on the bidirectional nature of touch and the ways in which surfaces constitute sites of mediation between interior and exterior. Schmidgen uses the concept of "horn"—whether manifested as a rhinoceros ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Bruno Latour in Pieces

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Henning Schmidgen ...
    Translated by Gloria Custance ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity that had “never been modern.” In the meantime he is regarded not just as one of the most intelligent—and also popular—exponents of science studies but also as a major innovator of the social sciences, an exemplary wanderer who walks the line between ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Helmholtz Curves

    Tracing Lost Time

    by Henning Schmidgen ...
    Translated by Nils F. Schott ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of “lost time” by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust.Its starting point is the archival discovery of curve images that Helmholtz produced in the context of pathbreaking experiments on the temporality of the nervous ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Content, Form, Meaning

    by Robert Tubbs ...
    The author of What Is a Number? examines the relationship between mathematics and art and literature of the 20th century.During the twentieth century, many artists and writers turned to abstract mathematical ideas to help them realize their aesthetic ambitions. Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and, perhaps most famously, Piet Mondrian used principles of mathematics in their work. Was it coincidence, or ... Read more

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  • Fashionable Nonsense

    Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

    by Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont ...
    In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy.Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Miracle of Analogy

    or The History of Photography, Part 1

    by Kaja Silverman ...
    The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have it, the photographic image is an analogy. This principle ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Meanings of Abstract Art

    Between Nature and Theory

    Edited by Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (taking nature in the broadest sense—the world of recognisable objects, creatures, organisms, processes, ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Art and Mourning

    The role of creativity in healing trauma and loss

    by Esther Dreifuss-Kattan ...
    Art and Mourning explores the relationship between creativity and the work of self-mourning in the lives of 20th century artists and thinkers. The role of artistic and creative endeavours is well-known within psychoanalytic circles in helping to heal in the face of personal loss, trauma, and mourning.In this book, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, a psychoanalyst, art therapist and artist - analyses the ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Roland Barthes

    by Graham Allen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Roland Barthes is a central figure in the study of language, literature, culture and the media. This book prepares readers for their first encounter with his crucial writings on some of the most important theoretical debates, including: *existentialism and Marxism *semiology, or the 'language of signs' *structuralism and narrative analysis *post-structuralism, deconstruction and 'the death of the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Digital Memory and the Archive

    by Wolfgang Ernst ...
    Series Book 39 - Electronic Mediations
    In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for the instantaneous ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Bruno Latour

    by Gerard de Vries ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science. His ethnographic studies have revolutionized our understanding of areas as diverse as science, law, politics and religion. To facilitate a more realistic understanding of the world, Latour has introduced a radically fresh philosophical terminology and a new approach to social science, ‘Actor-Network ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • A Short History of the Shadow

    by Victor I. Stoichita ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thrown onto a wall was ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD