Intellect imprint: 532 books
Swedish Cops
From Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Michael Tapper considers Swedish culture and ideas from the period 1965 to 2012 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Believing the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture, Tapper argues...
Nanoart
The Immateriality of Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Nano is Greek for dwarf and the word nanotechnology ‘was first proposed in the early seventies by a Japanese engineer, Norio Taniguchi, implying a new technology that went beyond controlling materials and engineering on the micrometer scale that dominated the 20th Century’. The content for this...
by Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
All we know for certain is that both art and science have probability and uncertainty at their core. However, these two worlds have been tenuously entangled for decades. On the one hand, artists continue to ask complex questions that align with a scientific fascination of new discoveries, and on the...
With Nature
Nature Philosophy as Poetics through Schelling, Heidegger, Benjamin and Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
With Nature provides new ways to think about our relationship with nature in today’s technologically mediated culture. Warwick Mules makes original connections with German critical philosophy and French poststructuralism in order to examine the effects of technology on our interactions with the...
Context Provider
Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Blurring boundaries between many disciplines, Context Providers supplies a context and a rationale for discussing how technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are disseminated. It also explores how technologically networked environments...
Reframing Consciousness
Art, mind and technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
We are in the middle of a process of complex cultural transformation, but to what extent is this matched by the transformation in the way we see ourselves? This book covers a wide-ranging discussion on the interaction between Art, Science and Technology, and goes on to challenge assumptions about...
Finding the Right Place on the Map
Central and Eastern European Media Change in a Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Finding the Right Place on the Map is a crosscutting, international comparison of the media systems and the democratic performance of the media in post-Communist countries. It explores issues of commercial media, social exclusion, and consumer capitalism in a comparative East-West perspective. Each...
Phenomenology's Material Presence
Video, Vision and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Phenomenology’s Material Presence: Video, Vision and Experience is an exploration of phenomenology and the aesthetics of the moving image. Drawing on the insights of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this seminal work addresses key questions related to the notion of encounter...
Karaoke Idols
Popular Music and the Performance of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Most ethnographers don’t achieve what Kevin Brown did while conducting their research: in his two years spent at a karaoke bar near Denver, Colorado, he went from barely able to carry a tune to someone whom other karaoke patrons requested to sing. Along the way, he learned everything you might ever...
Women in Contemporary Culture
Roles and identities in France and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This is the only comparative study of its kind, investigating how women construct their roles within the public sphere and highlighting the ways in which traditional versus modern values impact on female identity in France and Spain. Which female figures are proposed for our admiration? Who proposes...
Aestheticizing Public Space
Street Visual Politics in East Asian Cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
A photo collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional, and global nexus of East Asian cities through theirgraffiti, street art and other visual forms in public space. Attempting to unfold the complex positions of these images in the...
Surface
land/water and the visual arts symposium 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
This book is a collection of six papers from the 2004 Land/Water and Surface symposium. These works contribute both to contemporary academic debates within artist and curatorial practices, and to understanding within related areas of experience and knowledge. Central themes include: sustainability;...
Artist Scholar
Reflections on Writing and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research is part history, introduction, and discussion for artists and designers entering, graduating, and employed by the contemporary art academy in the United States. The evolution of art education in the university continues to expand in the 21st century...
Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World explores how architectural traditions and practices were shared and exchanged across national borders throughout the world, departing from a narrative that casts European actors as the importers and exporters of Islamic designs and skills. Looking...