Avatar bodies : a tantra for posthumanism / / Ann Weinstone

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784114703321
• Autore: Weinstone Ann
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 0-8166-9479-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages)
• Collana: Electronic mediations ; ; v. 10
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetti: Philosophical anthropology; Human body (Philosophy); Humanism; philosophical anthropology; humanism; PHILOSOPHY - Movements - Humanism; RELIGION - Buddhism - General; Philosophische Anthropologie
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227).
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Pleasure Ψ; Ψ Every Relation but One: Part I; Ψ (Post)Humanism Ψ; Suspension; Ψ Deconstruction and Posthumanism? Ψ; Nonphilosophy Ψ; Ψ Tidal Kneeplay Ψ; Deleuze and Derrida: You Are Other Ψ; Ψ To Have; To Belong; Fiora Raggi Kneeplay; Tantra for Posthumanism Ψ; Ψ Speaking of Assimilation Ψ; Avatar Bodies Ψ; Ψ First City Kneeplay; Insect Threads Ψ; Case Ψ; Ψ Insects and Buddhists Ψ; Ψ The Insect Self; The Insect Yogi Ψ; Ψ Knowing, Caring; Second City Kneeplay; Ψ Sorcerer Series I: The Island Sorcerer (An Introduction) Ψ; Ψ Some Celibate Erotics; Ψ Vira Action Ψ; Ψ The Wasp and the OrchidΨ Sorcerer Series II: The Yogi Sorcerer Ψ; Ψ Sex Scene; Becoming Woman, Becoming Yogini; Ψ English Tantra or the Imperceptible Man; ΨΨ Vira Bhava Kneeplay; Sorcerer Series III: Rheya; Ψ Sorcerer Series IV: The Miracle of the Rogue; Ψ Heroes of Difference; Third City Kneeplay: The Wasp and the Orchid Cross a Letter Ψ; Emanation/Expression Ψ; Three Bodies Ψ; Three Bodies: Exposition in ; Preparation for the Avatar Body Ψ; Ψ Avatar and Expression; Ψ The Difference Difference; Ψ Avatar Bodies, an Invitation Ψ; Ψ Itara and Avatāra; Tantric Bodies; Fourth City Kneeplay; Eating, Well . . .ΨΨ Eating Animals; Vegetarians, Brahmins Ψ; Tantra's Third Way; The Responsibility of the (Postdeconstructive) Subject Ψ; Love and Justice; Experience; Intuition, Perhaps; A Tantra for Posthumanism Ψ; Ψ Fifth City Kneeplay: Solaris in Your Eyes; Ψ Epistlirium; Every Relation but One: Part II Ψ; Ψ Hard to Say; Ψ The Postal Age ΨΨ; Ψ (Post) Heroism Ψ; Ψ Post Heroism Ψ; Post Ψ Post; Ψ The Sacrificial Structure of the Post; Fire; ))) Water; Flesh; Who?; E-Mail Madra Ψ; Chance; Ψ Postscript; Works Cited
• Sommario/riassunto: Avatar Bodies develops a posthumanist vocabulary for human-to-human relationships that turns our capacities for devotion, personality, and pleasure. Drawing on both the philosophies and practices of Indian Tantra, Weinstone argues for the impossibility of absolute otherness; we are all avatar bodies, and she proposes that only when we stop ordering the other to be other will we truly become posthuman.

Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, October 8, 2002

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910689703203321
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iii, 91 p.)
• Soggetti: Water - Pollution - Law and legislation - United States; Water quality management - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

A Course in Topological Combinatorics / / by Mark de Longueville

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910437865703321
• Autore: Longueville Mark de
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-4419-7910-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Collana: Universitext, , 0172-5939
• Disciplina: 514.2
• Soggetti: Combinatorial analysis; Convex geometry; Discrete geometry; Graph theory; Game theory; Algorithms; Combinatorics; Convex and Discrete Geometry; Graph Theory; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences; Mathematics of Algorithmic Complexity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- List of Symbols and Typical Notation -- 1 Fair-Division Problems -- 2 Graph-Coloring Problems -- 3 Evasiveness of Graph Properties -- 4 Embedding and Mapping Problems -- A Basic Concepts from Graph Theory -- B Crash Course in Topology -- C Partially Ordered Sets, Order Complexes, and Their Topology -- D Groups and Group Actions -- E Some Results and Applications from Smith Theory -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: A Course in Topological Combinatorics is the first undergraduate textbook on the field of topological combinatorics, a subject that has become an active and innovative research area in mathematics over the last thirty years with growing applications in math, computer science, and other applied areas. Topological combinatorics is concerned with solutions to combinatorial problems by applying topological tools. In ; most cases these solutions are very elegant and the connection between combinatorics and topology often arises as an unexpected surprise. The textbook covers topics such as fair division, graph coloring problems, evasiveness of graph properties, and embedding problems from discrete geometry. The text contains a large number of figures that support the understanding of concepts and proofs. In many cases several alternative proofs for the same result are given, and each chapter ends with a series of exercises. The extensive appendix makes the book completely self-contained. The textbook is well suited for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate mathematics students. Previous knowledge in topology or graph theory is helpful but not necessary. The text may be used as a basis for a one- or two-semester course as well as a supplementary text for a topology or combinatorics class.