An investigative cinema : politics and modernization in Italian, French, and American film / by Cilento, Fabrizio

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New ecological realisms : post-apocalyptic fiction and contemporary theory / by Kaup, Monika

Table of Contents: “…New ecological realisms and post-apocalyptic fiction -- The new realism of the factish and the political ecology of humans and non-humans : Bruno Latour and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy -- The ontology of knowledge as the enaction of mind and world : Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's autopoietic theory and José Saramago's Blindness -- Apocalypse as field of sense : Markus Gabriel's ontology of fields of sense and Octavia Butler's Parable Series -- New phenomenologies after poststructuralism (Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.…”
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Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel / by Hume, Kathryn, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The author-reader contract -- Narrative speed in contemporary fiction -- Modalities of complaint -- Conjugations of the grotesque -- Violence -- Attacking the reader's ontological assumptions -- Why read aggressive fictions?…”
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Chromatic algorithms : synthetic color, computer art, and aesthetics after code / by Kane, Carolyn L.

Table of Contents: “….-1969) -- Colors sacred and synthetic -- Classical and modern color: Plato through Goethe -- Industrial color: synthetics through day-glo psychedelics -- Synthetic color in video synthesis -- Disciplining color: encounters with number and code (1965-1984) -- Informatic color and aesthetic transformations in early computer art -- Collaborative computer art and experimental color systems -- From chromakey to the alpha channel -- "Transparent" screens for opaque ontology (1984-2007) -- Digital infrared as algorithmic lifeworld -- The photoshop cinema -- Postscript: a new dark age.…”

Signposts of self-realization : evolution, ethics, and sociality in modern chinese literature and film / by Liu, Xinmin

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Part One An Introduction to Self-Realization in Modern China; Chapter 1 Sociality in Early Modern China: An Ontological Approach; Chapter2 Historicizing Social Development and Self-Realization; Part Two Ethical Imperative and Social Progress; Chapter3 Fountainheads of Change: Yan Fu's Tussle with Evolution; Chapter4 Empathetic Vision in Yu Dafu's Fiction; Chapter5 An Exile of Self-Disinheritance: Revisiting Qu Qiubai; Chapter6 Non-Epiphany in Ye Shaojun's Lyrical Vision; Part Three Post-Revolutionary Self-Remaking and Global Development.…”
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Tomorrow is the question : new directions in experimental music studies /

Table of Contents: “…Chernosky -- Materialism, ontology, and experimental music aesthetics / Joanna Demers.…”
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The meanings of work : essay on the affirmation and negation of work / by Antunes, Ricardo, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Labour and freedomHabermas's critique of the 'paradigm of labour'; The paradigm of communicative action and the sphere of intersubjectivity; The uncoupling of system and lifeworld; The colonisation of the lifeworld and Habermas's critique of the theory of value; A critical sketch of Habermas's critique; Authentic and inauthentic subjectivity; Chapter Nine Elements towards an Ontology of Everyday Life; Chapter Ten Working Time and Free Time: towards a Meaningful Life Inside and Outside of Work; Chapter Eleven Foundations of a New Social-Metabolic Order; Appendices.…”
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Beyond Shariati : modernity, cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian political thought / by Saffari, Siavash

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Following His Own Path : Li Zehou and Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. by Rosker, Jana S.

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the Beauty of Humanity; Aesthetics: The Unity of Contradictions, Fusion of Being, and Belonging; Two Wise Old Men and Two Passionate Youngsters; The Duality of Aesthetic Feeling and the Primary Role of Its Objective Sociality; Beauty and Image; Aesthetic Fever of the 1980s; Refinement, Systematization, and Development of Concepts; The Meaning of Life and the Highest Domain of Human Existence; The Dynamic Nature of Life and Reality: God Is Dead, but People Are Alive; Anthropo-historical Ontology; Epistemology; Ethics and Political Philosophy…”
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Who do you think we are? / by Linden, Sonja

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STULECIE POETEK POLSKICH. PRZEKROJE - TEMATYINTERPRETACJE. by PRACA ZBIOROWA

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The Participator in Contemporary Art : Art and Social Relationships. by Kaitavuori, Kaija

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Health Insurance Politics in Japan: Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association. by Yamagishi, Takakazu

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Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature. by Gunning, Dave

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Rolling thunder : a century of tank warfare / by Kaplan, Philip

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Travesía en el viento : poesía, 1978-2005 / by Navales, Ana María

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Goldfinger and me : bullets, byllion and betrayal : John Palmer trye story / by Palmer, Marnie, Morgan, Tom

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ROMANTIK UM 2000 : zur reaktualisierung eines modells in deutschsprachigen romanen der gegenwart. by BARTSCH, ANNIKA

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Poetische Berge : Alpinismus und Literatur nach 2000. by Silber, Leonie

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