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UNINA9910695224203321 |
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Background note, Chile [[electronic resource] /] / Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs |
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[Washington, D.C.], : U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, -2011 |
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1 online resource (volumes) |
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Diplomatic relations |
Politics and government |
Travel |
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Chile Description and travel Periodicals |
Chile Foreign relations Periodicals |
Chile Politics and government Periodicals |
Chile |
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UNINA9910548273403321 |
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Ng Jenna |
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The post-screen through virtual reality, holograms and light projections : where screen boundaries lie / / Jenna Ng |
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Amsterdam University Press, 2021 |
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Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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1 online resource (281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Dec 2021). |
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Post-Screen Media: Meshing the Chain Mail -- Eroding Boundaries in the Contemporary Mediascape -- Why Boundaries Matter -- Chapter Outlines -- The Post-what? -- 1. Screen Boundaries as Movement -- Re-placing the Screen: Play and Display, Appearance and Dis-appearance -- Screen Boundaries: Physical and Virtual, and of the Movement Betwixt -- Metaphors for the Screen -- Crossing Screen Boundaries: Love, Pleasure, Information, Transformation -- Interactivity and the Moveable Window -- Screen Boundaries Across Dimensions -- 2. Leaking at the Edges -- Protections and Partitions -- Rupturing Screen Boundaries -- Interplay between Fictional and Factual Threat -- Leaking at the Edges: The Merging of the Amalgamated Real -- Virtual Co-location in Real-time… and in the Era of Covid-19 -- The Screen Boundary Against the Algorithm -- Screen Boundaries in Flux -- 3. Virtual Reality: Confinement and Engulfment -- Replacement and Re-placement -- "Multitudes of Amys" -- On Immersion (Briefly) -- The Affective Surround: The Two Vectors of Immersion -- The Post-Screen Through VR (1): Confinement and Engulfment -- The Post-Screen Through VR (2): Replacement and Re-placement -- The Danger Paradox -- VR as Immersion: Travel, Escape, Fulfilment -- VR as Inversion: Witness, Empathy, Subjectivity -- Defeated by the Ghosts -- 4. Holograms/Holographic Projections : Ghosts Amongst the Living -- |
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Ghosts of the Living -- How We See Ghosts, or, In Love with the Post-Screen -- Ghosts in the Media: Re-inventing the Afterlife -- The Post-Screen Through Holograms/Holographic Projections -- Holographic Projections (1): Ghosts Amongst the Living - Limbo Between Deadness and Aliveness -- Holographic Projections (2): Ghosts of the Living - Vivification of the Virtual Real. |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Substitution -- 4A. (Remix) True Holograms: A Different Kind of Screen -- A Different Kind of Ghost -- Screens and Ghosts, or, the Window and the Guy in the Basement -- True Holograms -- A Different Kind of Screen: Brains, Nerves, Thought -- A Different Kind of Ghost: "A Memory, A Daydream, A Secret," or, Digital Apparitions -- 5. Light Projections: On the Matter of Light and the Lightness of Matter -- The City Rises -- The Light Rises, or, Light as the Matter of Light -- Cities of Screens -- Light Projections (1): Light that Dissolves and Constructs… and of Latency -- Light Projections (2): Walls that Fall Apart… and Re-Form -- Light Projections (3): Particles that Gain a Body… and Transform -- Projection Mapping (1): The Image that Devours Structure -- the Voracity that is a Media History -- Projection Mapping (2): The Exterior that Reveals -- the Permanence that Fades -- The Ground Beneath Our Feet -- Conclusion/Coda -- Postscripts to the Post-Screen: The Holiday and the Global Pandemic -- Twin Obsessions (1): Difference -- Twin Obsessions (2): The Gluttony -- The Post-Screen in the Time of Covid-19 -- Index -- Backcover. |
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Screens are ubiquitous today. They display information; present image worlds; are portable; connect to mobile networks; mesmerize. However, contemporary screen media also seek to eliminate the presence of the screen and the visibilities of its boundaries. As what is image becomes increasingly indistinguishable against the viewer's actual surroundings, this unsettling prompts re-examination about not only what is the screen, but also how the screen demarcates and what it stands for in relation to our understanding of our realities in, outside and against images. Through case studies drawn from three media technologies - Virtual Reality; holograms; and light projections - this book develops new theories of the surfaces on and spaces in which images are displayed today, interrogating critical lines between art and life; virtuality and actuality; truth and lies. What we have today is not just the contestation of the real against illusion or the unreal, but the disappearance itself of difference and a gluttony of the unreal which both connect up to current politics of distorted truth values and corrupted terms of information. <i>The Post-Screen through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie</i> is thus about not only where the image's borders and demarcations are established, but also the screen boundary as the instrumentation of today's intense virtualizations that do not tell the truth. In all this, a new imagination for images emerges, with a new space for cultures of presence and absence, definitions of object and representation, and understandings of dis- and re-placement - the post-screen. |
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UNINA9910476935103321 |
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The Nile: Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt / Harco Willems, Jan-Michael Dahms |
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Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2017 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften ; 36 |
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Egyptology; Fluvial Dynamics; Socio-Economic History; Archaeology; Nile; Ancient Egypt; Cultural Ecology; Society; Natural Landscape; Cultural Landscape; Nature; Cultural History; Environmental History; African History; History |
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Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 Modelling the Nile Agricultural Floodplain in Eleventh and Tenth Century B.C. Middle Egypt 15 Harbours and Coastal Military Bases in Egypt in the Second Millennium B.C. 53 Development of the Memphite Floodplain 71 Karnak's Quaysides 97 Medamud and the Nile 145 The Nile in the Fayum 171 Nilometers - or: Can You Measure Wealth? 193 In Search of a Future Companion 215 The Dynamic Nature of the Transition from the Nile Floodplain to the Desert in Central Egypt since the Mid-Holocene 239 The Analysis of Historical Maps as an Avenue to the Interpretation of Pre-Industrial Irrigation Practices in Egypt 255 Landscapes of the Bashmur 345 Authors 369 |
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Although Herodot's dictum that "Egypt is a gift of the Nile" is proverbial, there has been only scant attention to the way the river impacted on ancient Egyptian society. Egyptologists frequently focus on the textual and iconographic record, whereas archaeologists and earth scientists approach the issue from the perspective of natural sciences. The contributions in this volume bridge this gap by analyzing the river both as a natural and as a cultural phenomenon. Adopting an approach of cultural ecology, it addresses issues like ancient land use, administration and taxation, irrigation, and religious concepts. |
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