The Politics of the Impure
Title | The Politics of the Impure PDF eBook |
Author | Joke Brouwer |
Publisher | V2_ publishing |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9056627481 |
Summary: It is crucial to understand that our progression through the twentieth century towards our contemporary global Crystal Palace (Peter Sloterdijk) of purity and transparency has been constantly accompanied by an almost physical desire for the pure, not just Mondrian's crystalline structures, but also the addictive taste of white sugar and white bread. This book investigates this urge for the pure, but also advocates a much deeper need for the impure, not to reinstate a new organicism, one more back-to-nature movement, but to trace that progression to a point where all modernist values reverse, where technology becomes an agent for the impure and the imperfect. Technology, long an agent for homogeneity and purity, is now turning into one for heterogeneity and global contingency.
Impure Science
Title | Impure Science PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Gary Epstein |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 822 |
Release | 1993 |
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Impure Worlds
Title | Impure Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Arac |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 082323178X |
This volume records a critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives. A preference for impurity and a search for how to explain it are threads in this book as its chapters pursue the entanglements of culture, politics, and society from which great literature arises.
Impure Science
Title | Impure Science PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Bell |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1992-04-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
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The author lifts the veil of secrecy from scientific research conducted in this country. He presents a shattering indictment of the scientific community from the halls of government to the research centers at major universities and corporations. Documents case after case of influence peddling, doctored research and outright fraud, and reveals how the twin forces of money and status compromise and corrupt the pursuit of scientific truth.
Impure Acts
Title | Impure Acts PDF eBook |
Author | Henry A. Giroux |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1135958661 |
Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural politics of the Disney empire.
The Creolizing Subject
Title | The Creolizing Subject PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Monahan |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0823234495 |
How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon, and vice versa? This book focuses on the underlying assumptions that inform this view of race and racism, arguing that it is ultimately bound up in a politics of purity-an understanding of human agency, and reality itself, as requiring all-or-nothing categories with clear and unambiguous boundaries. Monahan calls for the emergence of a creolizing subjectivity that would place such ambiguity at the center of our understanding of race.
The Politics of Language Purism
Title | The Politics of Language Purism PDF eBook |
Author | Björn H. Jernudd |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-07-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110868377 |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.