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Modernism and the Materiality of Texts

By: Eyal Amiran

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Modernism and the Materiality of Texts

By: Eyal Amiran

This book argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107136075

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9781107136076

The Disenchantment of the Orient

Expertise in Arab Affairs and the Israeli State

By: Gil Eyal

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The Disenchantment of the Orient

Expertise in Arab Affairs and the Israeli State

By: Gil Eyal

A historical narrative of how Israeli expertise in Arab affairs has contributed to the creation of cultural separatism between Jews and Arabs, a separatism that exacerbates the conflict between the two peoples.

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334

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Stanford University Press

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0804754039

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9780804754033

The Political Philosophy of Zionism

Trading Jewish Words for a Hebraic Land

By: Eyal Chowers

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The Political Philosophy of Zionism

Trading Jewish Words for a Hebraic Land

By: Eyal Chowers

Zionism emerged at the end of the nineteenth century in response to a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe and to the crisis of modern Jewish identity. This novel, national revolution aimed to unite a scattered community defined mainly by shared texts and literary tradition, into a vibrant political entity destined for the Holy Land. As this remarkable book demonstrates, however, Zionism was about much more than a national political ideology and practice. By tracing its origins in the context of a European history of ideas, and by considering the writings of key Jewish and Hebrew writers and thinkers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book offers an entirely new philosophical perspective on Zionism as a unique movement based on intellectual boldness and belief in human action. In counter-distinction to the studies of history and ideology that dominate the field, this book also offers a new way of reflecting upon contemporary Israeli politics.

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287

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Cambridge University Press

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1107005949

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9781107005945

Forensic Architecture

Violence at the Threshold of Detectability

By: Eyal Weizman

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Forensic Architecture

Violence at the Threshold of Detectability

By: Eyal Weizman

A new form of investigative practice that uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction. In recent years, the group Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN. Forensic Architecture has not only shed new light on human rights violations and state crimes across the globe, but has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media, remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and crowd-sourcing. In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group's founder, provides, for the first time, an in-depthintroduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this practice. The book includes an extensive array of images, maps, and detailed documentation that records the intricate work the group has performed. Traversing multiple scales and durations, the case studies in this volume include the analysis of the shrapnel fragments in a room struck by drones in Pakistan, the reconstruction of a contested shooting in the West Bank, the architectural recreation of a secret Syrian detention center from the memory of its survivors, a blow-by-blow account of a day-long battle in Gaza, and an investigation of environmental violence and climate change in the Guatemalan highlands and elsewhere. Weizman's Forensic Architecture,stunning and shocking in its critical narrative, powerful images,and daring investigations, presents a new form of public truth, technologically, architecturally, and aesthetically produced. The practice calls for a transformative politics in which architecture as a field of knowledge and a mode of interpretation exposes and confronts ever-new forms of state violence and secrecy.

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MIT Press

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1942130023

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9781942130024

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts

By: Eyal Amiran

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Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that interest modernist writers, such as sound patterns and anagrams, cannot be dissociated from abstraction or made a refuge from social crisis; instead, they reflect colonial and racial anxieties of the period. Rudyard Kipling's fear that he is indistinguishable from empire subjects, J. M. Barrie's object-relations theater of infantile separation, and Virginia Woolf's dismembered anagram self are performed by the physical text and produce a new understanding of textuality. In readings that also include diverse works by Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, P. G. Wodehouse and Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie, George Herriman, and Sigmund Freud, this study produces a new reading of modernism's psychological text and of literary constructions of materiality in the period.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316710378

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Book's by Eyal Amiran

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts

The Disenchantment of the Orient

The Disenchantment of the Orient

The Political Philosophy of Zionism

The Political Philosophy of Zionism

Forensic Architecture

Forensic Architecture

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts

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