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English | ISBN: 1350384135 | 2024 | 336 pages | EPUB, PDF | 750 KB + 2 MB
In her groundbreaking ethnography The Asian Gang, published in 2000, Claire Alexander explored the creation of Asian Muslim masculinities in South London. Set against the backdrop of the moral panic over 'Asian gangs' in the mid-1990s, and based on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explored the idea of 'the gang', friendships, and the role of 'brothers' in the formation, performance and negotiation of ethnic, religious and gendered identities.

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English | ISBN: 1789940354 | 2021 | 144 pages | PDF | 206 MB
An inspiring and intimate look at the work of a generation of British artists across all disciplines.

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English | ISBN: 1350379018 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 91 MB
Artists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others.

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English | ISBN: 1350379018 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Artists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others.

Free Download Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, "The Artificial and the Natural: An Evolving Polarity "
English | ISBN: 0262026201 | 2007 | 331 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Genetically modified food, art in the form of a phosphorescent rabbit implanted with jellyfish DNA, and robots that simulate human emotion would seem to be evidence for the blurring boundary between the natural and the artificial. Yet because the deeply rooted concept of nature functions as a cultural value, a social norm, and a moral authority, we cannot simply dismiss the distinction between art and nature as a nostalgic relic. Disentangling the cultural roots of many current debates about new technologies, the essays in this volume examine notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers' ideas of physis and techne and Aristotle's designation of mimetic arts to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first century biomimetics. These essays - by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassessed in Western thought. In antiquity, for example, mechanical devices were seen as working "against nature"; centuries later, Descartes not only claimed the opposite but argued that nature itself was mechanical. Nature and art, the essays show, are mutually constructed, defining and redefining themselves, partners in a continuous dance over the centuries.

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English | 2015 | ISBN: 1443876534 | PDF | pages: 196 | 0.8 mb
Art of the Real is devoted to registering the materialist turn of contemporary theory in visual studies. For many years, visual studies was dominated by post-structuralist theory and its attendant nominalism. More recently, however, the materialism of Slavoj iek, the realism of Gilles Deleuze, especially as imputed by Manuel de Landa, and Alain Badiou has disrupted this status quo. Today, we are more likely to take for granted the relevance of biology and the natural sciences, while the return of Marx has been more serious than countenanced by Derrida or Foucault. This book considers visual studies and the questions that have led to the new materialism, its ontology and its relation to contemporary politics. While a good deal of work has promoted a materialist agenda at the same time that scholars in art history and visual studies have felt liberated by the call to attend to objects, materials and materiality, no publication has yet treated this move for its meta-theoretical commitments. This volume does this by addressing the conditions that have brought about the turn to materiality, the ontological commitments that follow on from new materialist metaphysics, and the political implications wrought by these commitments.

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English | 2009 | ISBN: 1423606434 | EPUB | pages: 96 | 7.6 mb
A celebration of bookselling in paintings and with independent voices.

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English | February 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 1649631464 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 6.60 MB
"The Art of You offers great insights and steps on how to cultivate creativity. This is essential reading for anyone looking to share their unique experience, to foster deep connections, and to inspire others." -Yung Pueblo, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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English | October 15, 2023 | ISBN: 1529146194 | 320 pages | PDF | 1.25 Mb
Dan Carter is a widely hailed as one of the most elite and successful professional rugby players in the world. After retiring from a sport he played for 32 years, he set out to inspire the next generation of leaders to create purposeful impact, joining the Oxford Foundry - Oxford University's Entrepreneurial Institute, founded by LinkedIn co-found Reid Hoffman - as its first ever Leader in Practice. Now, in a follow-up to his bestselling 2015 autobiography, he answers timeless questions for aspiring leaders everywhere. Why is the team more important than the individual? How do you navigate the transition from player to leader? How should we respond when confidence is eclipsed by doubt, when circumstances get the better of us, when setbacks derail us? How can we remain humble and grounded when we're winning - and how can we keep on winning, even when a loss may be just around the corner?

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English | October 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1804613649 | 234 pages | EPUB | 15 Mb
Understand psychology-driven social engineering, arm yourself with potent strategies, and mitigate threats to your organization and personal data with this all-encompassing guide