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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A collection of influential pieces originally published in the popular "New York Times" column explores subjects ranging from consciousness and morality to the gender divide and gun control, with an introduction about the column's founding and editorial process.--
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed "atheists" continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the "eternal and divine." For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their modern ideals, a new theology is required. This is what Anthony Kronman offers here, in a book that leads its readers away from the inscrutable Creator of the Abrahamic religions...
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The gimmick lies latent in every made thing in capitalism, from the banana slicer to the cryptocurrency derivative to the readymade artwork that interprets itself. It includes both the painstakingly devised and the gratuitously disposable. It is what we call things when uncertain if they are over- or underperforming, if they are historically backward or just as problematically advanced, if they are wonders or tricks. With its promises about the saving...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara/Santillana
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
"La creciente banalización del arte y la literatura, el triunfo del amarillismo en la prensa y la frivolidad de la política son síntomas de un mal mayor que aqueja a la sociedad contemporánea: la suicida idea de que el único fin en la vida es pasárselo bien. Como buen espíritu incómodo, Vargas Llosa nos entrega una durísima radiografía de nuestro tiempo." --Publisher's website
The author puts forth a hard and somber interpretation of our...
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
'You Are an Artist' is for everyone who wants to be an artist, but has been too afraid to take the plunge. It combines a thought-provoking meditation on art practice with a series of practical exercises and creative provocations that encourage everyone to fulfil their potential as an artist. The book is itself a kind of art school, helping the reader to work out what kind of artist they are, and what they can achieve. Drawing on the author's experience...
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of conceptual art since the 1960s. Strongly inflected by her longstanding involvement with philosophy and yoga, her pioneering investigations into the political, social, psychological and spiritual potential of conceptual art have had an incalculable influence on artists working today. Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition...
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always better? Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art, technology, fashion, and finance, Mark C. Taylor presents an original and rich account of a great paradox of our times: how the very forces and technologies that were...
