Search Results - "Subjectivity"

Vital Subjects : Race and Biopolitics in Italy 1860-1920 / by Welch, Rhiannon Noel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: vital subjects -- 1. Colonial (re)productivity -- 2. Immunitary technologies -- 3. …”
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Bloodscripts : Writing the Violent Subject / by Gomel, Elana

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The Self and Its Pleasures : Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject / by Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-

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Postmodern Spiritual Practices : The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault / by Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: remaking the soul : antiquity, postmodernism, and genealogies of the self -- The modernist revolt : history, politics, and allegory, or, Classicism in occupied France -- Historicizing transcendence : antigone, the good, and the ethics of psychoanalysis -- Lacan, the Symposium, and transference -- Writing the subject : Derrida asks Plato to take a letter -- The art of self-fashioning, or, Foucault on the Alcibiades : caring for the self and others -- Searching for a usable past.…”
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Italian Political Cinema : Figures of the Long '68 / by Resmini, Mauro, 1981-

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Feminizing the Fetish : Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France / by Apter, Emily S., 1954-

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Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany / by Tompkins, David G.

Subjects: “…Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects. bicssc 150244…”
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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / by King, Rob, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king.…”
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The Mathematical Imagination : On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory / by Handelman, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Infinitesimal Calculus: Subjectivity, Motion, and Franz Rosenzweig's Messianism; 4. …”
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Re-Forming the Past : History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative / by Spaulding, A. Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart -- The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse -- Re-forming Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.…”
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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / by Orr, Stanley, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Connected guys : the reconstructed subject of 1990s film noir.…”
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Thought Crime : Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan / by Ward, Max M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the ghost in the machine: emperor system ideology and the peace preservation law apparatus -- Kokutai and the aporias of imperial sovereignty : the passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 -- Transcriptions of power : repression and rehabilitation in the early Peace Preservation Law apparatus, 1925-1933 -- Apparatuses of subjection : the rehabilitation of thought criminals in the early 1930s -- Nurturing the ideological avowal : toward the codification of tenkō in 1936 -- The ideology of conversion : tenkō on the eve of total war -- Epilogue: the legacies of the thought rehabilitation system in postwar Japan.…”
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The Question of Ethics : Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger / by Scott, Charles E.

Table of Contents: “…Games Of Truth, The Ethical Subject -- The Question Of Dasein's Most Proper Being -- 1. …”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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Affective Images : Post-apartheid Documentary Perspectives / by Kesting, Marietta

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Visualizing Fascism : The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a portable concept of fascism / Julia Adeney Thomas -- Subjects of a new visual order : fascist Media in 1930s China / Maggie Clinton -- Fascism carved in stone : monuments to loyal spirits in wartime Manchukuo / Paul D. …”
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Disordering the Establishment : Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958–1981 / by Woodruff, Lily, 1981-

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Metroimperial Intimacies : Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913 / by Mendoza, Victor Román, 1976-

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Proletarian Peasants : The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest / by Edelman, Robert, 1945-

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The Vitality of Allegory : Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction / by Johnson, Gary, 1966-

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