Alginates : Recent Uses of This Natural Polymer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557403903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: IntechOpen
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The use of bodies : Homo sacer IV, 2 / / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813871603321
• Autore: Agamben Giorgio <1942->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-8047-9861-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Collana: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• Disciplina: 195
• Soggetti: Human body (Philosophy); Philosophical anthropology
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Translator's Note; Prefatory Note; Prologue; I. The Use of Bodies; 1. The Human Being without Work; 2. Chresis; 3. Use and Care; 4. The Use of the World; 5. Use-of-Oneself; 6. Habitual Use; 7. The Animate Instrument and Technology; 8. The Inappropriable; Intermezzo I; II. The Archeology of Ontology; 1. Ontological Apparatus; 2. Theory of Hypostases; 3. Toward a Modal Ontology; Intermezzo II; III. Form-of-Life; 1. Life Divided; 2. A Life Inseparable from Its Form; 3. Living Contemplation; 4. Life Is a Form Generated by Living; 5. Toward an Ontology of Style; 6. Exile of One Alone with One Alone7. "That's How We Do It"; 8. Work and Inoperativity; 9. The Myth of Er; Epilogue: Toward a Theory of ; Destituent Potential; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents the ninth and final volume in this twenty-year undertaking, breaking considerable new ground while clarifying the stakes and implications of the project as a whole. It comprises three major sections. The first uses Aristotle's discussion of slavery as a starting point for radically rethinking notions of selfhood; the second calls for a complete reworking of Western ontology; and the third explores the enigmatic concept of "form-of-life," which is in many ways the motivating force behind the entire Homo Sacer project. Interwoven between these major sections are shorter reflections on individual thinkers (Debord, Foucault, and Heidegger), while the epilogue pushes toward a new approach to political life that breaks with the destructive deadlocks of Western thought. The Use of Bodies represents a true masterwork by one of our greatest living philosophers.

Screens / Dominique Chateau, José Moure

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911033667503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2025
• ISBN: 1-04-079892-6; 1-003-70340-2
• Edizione: [1 ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Soggetti: Art / Film & Video; Arts
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: We live in an era of screens. No longer just the place where we view movies, or watch TV at night, screens are now ubiquitous, the source of the majority of information we consume daily, and a crucial component of our basic interactions with colleagues, friends, and family. This transformation has happened almost without us realizing it-and certainly without the full theoretical and intellectual analysis it deserves. Screens brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to analyse the growing presence and place of screens in our lives today. They tackle such topics as the archaeology of screens, film and media theories about our interactions with them, their use in contemporary art, and the new avenues they open up for showing films and other media in non-traditional venues.