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Beyond Sinology

Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture

By: Andrea Bachner

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Beyond Sinology

Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture

By: Andrea Bachner

New communication and information technologies remain challenging for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, film, visual and performance art, and design and architecture, both within China and different parts of the West. Approaching this history from alternative theoretical perspectives, this volume pinpoints the phenomena binding languages, scripts, and medial expressions to cultural and national identity. Through a complex study of intercultural representations, exchanges, and tensions, the text focuses on the concrete “scripting” of identity and alterity, advancing a new understanding of the links between identity and medium and a new critique of articulations that rely on single, monolithic, and univocal definitions of writing.

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Columbia University Press

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0231164521

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9780231164528

The Mark of Theory

Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories

By: Andrea Bachner

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The Mark of Theory

Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories

By: Andrea Bachner

What imaginaries, tropes, and media have shaped how we theorize? The Mark of Theory argues that inscription constitutes one of the master metaphors of contemporary theory. As a trope that draws on a wide array of practices of marking, from tattooing to circumcision, from photographic imprints and phonographic grooves to marks on a page, inscription provides an imaginary that orients and irritates theoretical thought. Tracing inscriptive imaginaries from the late nineteenth century to today, The Mark of Theory offers a wide-ranging conceptual genealogy of contemporary thought. Navigating poststructuralism’s attention to figurative language as well as media theory’s attention to objects, phenomena, and practices of mediation, the book works through core questions for how we theorize. Across a range of disciplines and scholarly conversations—from literature and media to anthropology, race and gender, art, psychoanalysis, sound, and ultimately ethics—sites of inscription come to constitute the past legacy of a thought to come, a prehistory of our current moment. In focusing on materiality and mediation The Mark of Theory shows how inscriptive practices shape conceptual thought, as well as political and ethical choices. By contextualizing the fraught relationship between materiality and signification, The Mark of Theory lays the ground for a politics of theory that begins there where theory and politics are no longer conflated.

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386

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823277496

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9780823277490

Cartesian Poetics

The Art of Thinking

By: Andrea Gadberry

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Cartesian Poetics

The Art of Thinking

By: Andrea Gadberry

What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of René Descartes and finds them in the philosopher’s implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes’s thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how markers of poetic genres from love lyric and elegy to the puzzling forms of the riddle and the anagram betray an impassioned negotiation with the difficulties of thought and its limits. Where others have seen Cartesian philosophy as a triumph of reason, Gadberry reveals that the philosopher accused of having “slashed poetry’s throat” instead enlisted poetic form to contain thought’s frustrations. Gadberry’s approach to seventeenth-century writings poses questions urgent for the twenty-first. Bringing literature and philosophy into rich dialogue, Gadberry centers close reading as a method uniquely equipped to manage skepticism, tolerate critical ambivalence, and detect feeling in philosophy. Helping us read classic moments of philosophical argumentation in a new light, this elegant study also expands outward to redefine thinking in light of its poetic formations.

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206

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University of Chicago Press

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022672316X

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9780226723167

Social Media and Political Accountability

Bridging the Gap between Citizens and Politicians

By: Andrea Ceron

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Social Media and Political Accountability

Bridging the Gap between Citizens and Politicians

By: Andrea Ceron

This book illustrates how social media platforms enable us to understand everyday politics and evaluates the extent to which they can foster accountability, transparency and responsiveness. The first part focuses on accountability and tests whether the offline behavior of politicians is consistent with their online declarations, showing that textual analysis of politicians’ messages is useful to explain phenomena such as endorsements, party splits and appointments to cabinet. The second part concerns responsiveness. By means of sentiment analysis, it investigates the shape of the interaction between citizens and politicians determining whether politicians’ behavior is influenced by the pressure exerted on social media both on policy and non-policy issues. Finally, the book evaluates whether a responsive behavior is successful in restoring online political trust, narrowing the gap between voters and political elites. The book will be of use to students, scholars and practitioners interested in party organization, intra-party politics, legislative politics, social media analysis and political communication, as well as politicians themselves.

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Springer

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3319526278

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Beyond Sinology

Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture

By: Andrea Bachner

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Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture

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Columbia University Press

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Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology E-Book

Principles and Practice

By: Kenneth F. Swaiman,Stephen Ashwal,Donna M Ferriero,Nina F Schor,Richard S. Finkel,Andrea L. Gropman,Phillip L Pearl

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Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology E-Book

Principles and Practice

By: Kenneth F. Swaiman,Stephen Ashwal,Donna M Ferriero,Nina F Schor,Richard S. Finkel,Andrea L. Gropman,Phillip L Pearl

Since 1975, Dr. Kenneth Swaiman's classic text has been the reference of choice for authoritative guidance in pediatric neurology, and the 6th Edition continues this tradition of excellence with thorough revisions that bring you fully up to date with all that's new in the field. Five new sections, 62 new chapters, 4 new editors, and a reconfigured format make this a comprehensive and clearly-written resource for the experienced clinician as well as the physician-in-training. - Nearly 3,000 line drawings, photographs, tables, and boxes highlight the text, clarify key concepts, and make it easy to find information quickly.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323374816

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9780323374811

The Mark of Theory

Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories

By: Andrea Bachner

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The Mark of Theory

Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories

By: Andrea Bachner

Cover"--"Title Page"--"Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction: At the Scene of Inscription" -- "1. Savage Marks: Subjection and the Specters of Anthropology" -- "2. Impact Erasure: Psychoanalysis and the Multiplication of Trauma" -- "3. Stings of Visibility: Picture Theories and Visual Contact" -- "4. Out of the Groove: Aural Traces and the Mediation of Sound" -- "Conclusion: Against Inscription?" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Notes" -- "Works Cited

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082327747X

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9780823277476

P. S.

By: Andrea White

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P. S.

By: Andrea White

P.S. is Andrea White's collection of personal stories about her time as political spouse and passionate supporter of her husband, Houston Mayor Bill White. Her engaging anecdotes about life both behind the scenes as a mother and a wife as well as out in front as a passionate supporter will leave you touched and inspired by her experiences.

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0615283594

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