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The Decision Between Us

Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

By: John Paul Ricco

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The Decision Between Us

Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

By: John Paul Ricco

The Decision Between Us combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension informs our efforts to coexist ethically and politically, an experience of sharing and separation that informs any decision. Using this incongruous relation of intimate separation, Ricco goes on to propose that “decision” is as much an aesthetic as it is an ethical construct, and one that is always defined in terms of our relations to loss, absence, departure, and death. Laying out this theory of “unbecoming community” in modern and contemporary art, literature, and philosophy, and calling our attention to such things as blank sheets of paper, images of unmade beds, and the spaces around bodies, The Decision Between Us opens in 1953, when Robert Rauschenberg famously erased a drawing by Willem de Kooning, and Roland Barthes published Writing Degree Zero, then moves to 1980 and the “neutral mourning” of Barthes’ Camera Lucida, and ends in the early 1990s with installations by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Offering surprising new considerations of these and other seminal works of art and theory by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Catherine Breillat, The Decision Between Us is a highly original and unusually imaginative exploration of the spaces between us, arousing and evoking an infinite and profound sense of sharing in scenes of passionate, erotic pleasure as well as deep loss and mourning.

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University of Chicago Press

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022611337X

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Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

By: John Paul Ricco

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Screen World, 1987

By: John Willis

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Screen World, 1987

By: John Willis

Screen World, volume 38, features outstanding films and performers. Academy Awards Best Picture "Platoon". Academy Award for Best Actor Paul Newman for "The color of money" and Academy Award for Best Actress Marlee Matlin "Children of a lesser God". Also has pictorial and statistical record of the 1986 movie season.

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280

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Crown

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051756615X

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The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

History's Biggest Mysteries, Coverups, and Cabals

By: Jonathan Vankin,John Whalen

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The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

History's Biggest Mysteries, Coverups, and Cabals

By: Jonathan Vankin,John Whalen

Expanded and Updated Because Weird Things Keep On Happening The effects of the Invisible Hand are all around us, machinations to control the world are happening right under our noses-and The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time lists them all. This book presents a feverish feast of the most far-reaching, far-out, and startling conspiracy theories ever. Now this instant classic has been brought up to date with late-breaking mysteries and coverups, including: * Enron-a faked energy crisis that led to a devastatingly real economic one * Anthrax nation-just who sent lethal bacteria through the mail to the U.S. Congress? * Votescam 2000 * 911 and the theories surrounding the terrorist attacks * Echelon, the global electronic spying network-Big Brother made real * Who was the Zodiac Killer? * And more! Whether you believe any of these theories or merely enjoy a walk on the wild side of alternative history, The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time will provide hours of provocative reading. You will never look at the world in quite the same way again.

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0806525312

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