A highly entertaining A-to-Z guide to the unique dialect of the city of Glasgow. Do you have a baldy clue as to who the bears and junglies are? Puzzled by the thought of some cheekywatter from your cargo? Fancy a day out at Fort Weetabix? Or would you rather settle down with some swedgers? After all, you don't want to be a stank dodger. Confused? You need this book! Michael Munro has won the eternal gratitude of Glaswegians for his efforts in popularizing their city’s dialect, universally known as the “patter.” This book is the most extensive collection of this rich and expressive language ever made. Often hilarious, sometimes coarse (but never dull!), the patter is the key to understanding this Scottish city and its inhabitants.
The Communism of Thought takes as its point of departure a passage in a letter from Dionys Mascolo to Gilles Deleuze: "I have called this communism of thought in the past. And I placed it under the auspices of Hölderlin, who may have only fled thought because he was unable to live it: 'The life of the spirit between friends, the thoughts that form in the exchange of words, by writing or in person, are necessary to those who seek. Without that, we are by our own hands outside thought.'"What, in light of that imperative, is a correspondence? What is given to be understood by the word, let alone the phenomenon? What constitutes a correspondence? What occasions it? On what terms and according to what conditions may one enter into that exchange "necessary," in Hölderlin's words, "to those who seek"? Pursuant to what vicissitudes may it be conducted? And what end(s) might a correspondence come to have beyond the ostensible end that, to all appearances, it (inevitably) will be said to have had?
Hear about the guy whose nickname was 'Heid Furst'? His real name was R. Slater Hear about the stupit skindiver? He didny have a scuba. Glaswegians have always enjoyed a good laugh, and the home-grown variety best of all. This new and expanded edition of Michael Munro's best-selling book is a hilarious compendium of Glasgow humour.
These pieces give me more to think about than most of the long theory books I read. ~Craig Dworkin, author of No MediumIn a 1917 letter to Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin writes, "Theory is like a surging sea." This small book takes more than its title from that line-it takes that line as a point of departure in Erich Auerbach's sense, an Ansatzpunkt, as a compositional principle so that what follows can be read in its entirety as a gloss on the remainder of Benjamin's sentence: "Theory is like a surging sea, but the only thing that matters to the wave [...] is to surrender itself to its motion in such a way that it crests and breaks." That motion, in the pages to follow, takes up in its sweep two threads: it folds an episodic meditation on the negative and the problematic into a series of singular interrogations exemplary of the positive being of the problematic, the objective being of problems and questions, in a movement of implication and explication between poetry and philosophy in the tradition of what's come to be known as theory. Theory is like a surging sea because it's as part of a revolutionary tradition that it crests and breaks.Table of Contents // I: Dichtung und Wahrheit - II: 'Without this nothing thinks': The Enigma of the Active Intellect - III: Nearer to You than the Sea - IV: Vertigo, Beatitudo: Spinoza and Philosophy - V: The Idea of Prose - Appendix A: Theses on Aesthetics as First Philosophy - Appendix B: On Exactitude in Non-Library Science - Coda: On The Riddle of History Solved
What is a problem? What's asked in that question, and how does one even begin to take its measure? How else could one begin, except as one does with any other problem-by way of its impulsion. Of Learned Ignorance: Idea of a Treatise in Philosophy is about philosophy because philosophy is about problems: philosophy, in a word, is where problems become a problem.Of Learned Ignorance is a dead letter because it is, cautiously, a love letter. It's a dead letter because it lovingly stages an experiment in whimsy, and perhaps above all, because it is problematic (in the Kantian sense): It is a (sober) attempt at exemplifying what it talks about - and what eludes it: A series of footnotes, with blank (transcriptive) pages above, effects something like the integration of a differential, the reciprocal determination where the sources enter into in relation to one another in order to produce a paper, essay, or (inexistent) (chap)book. Of Learned Ignorance, in facing down a problem, makes a wager; it courts failure; it puts it all on the line. All, yes, for love - a kind of love ... (of wisdom?).
No longer imminent, the End is immanent." "Ends are ends," Frank Kermode goes on to clarify, "only when they are not negative but frankly transfigure the events in which they were immanent." From its imminence to its immanence, not "negative," "no longer," but transformative, how is "the End" in turn "transfigured"? In what may ending be said then to consist? To "the end times" of apocalypse and eschatology Giorgio Agamben, following Gianni Carchia, opposes messianism and "messianic time"--to the end of time, in a formula, the time of the end. To the writings of those for whom to philosophize is to learn how to die--from Plato to Montaigne and beyond--one may oppose, in like manner, the writings of Spinoza, who "thinks of death least of all things"--"for nature is Messianic by reason of its eternal and total passing away," as Benjamin writes--and so in whose pages "wisdom," transfigured, "is a meditation on life.
The game of hockey has drastically changed over the past two decades and not for the better. Gone are the days of goal scorers, stick handlers, tough guys and passers. When they left so did the excitement and the unexpected. Now it is a game played by drones in exactly the same fashion by every team. Former hockey reporter Michael Munro examines the impact manufactured hockey players are having on the National Hockey League and its feeder systems. In this Western based critique Munro explains how the NHL ended up eliminating goal scorers and entertainers with a series of rule changes and management decisions. And it is a discussion of how Canada lost its role as the dominant hockey nation and started developing only supporting players and not lead actors. An honest and sometimes disturbing 250 page essay that is a must read for anyone who loves hockey and wants to see it become a global success.
Every written work," Giorgio Agamben opens the preface to Infancy and History, "can be regarded as the prologue (or rather, the broken cast) of a work never penned, and destined to remain so." Although that observation applies to any work of writing, the exemplary case is that of a work of philosophy. While every written work is put to work in its nonexistent successor, a work of philosophy is bereft of even that recourse: philosophy is written in the breakdown of destiny, so that every work of philosophy must first and foremost confront the absolute abandonment of its writing. At work in each and every work of philosophy is the question, "What is a work of philosophy?" More concretely, although well-formed and rigorously structured, What is Philosophy? abstains from work. On even a quick reading that fact must be palpable. A seminar paper? An article, or book chapter? Not in the least. Nor, essentially, may the individual pieces that compose it be so developed. Fragments unrecognizable as at one time a cast, inconceivable at a future time as anything else, the position of each piece with respect to the others thwarts development in order to preserve, in its place, the tension of its absence. As such, the articulations internal to each of the three divisions, and between them, are essential. The first division - What is Philosophy? - takes seriously Deleuze and Guattari's contention in their book of the same title that "The nonphilosophical is perhaps closer to the heart of philosophy than philosophy itself, and this means that philosophy cannot be content to be understood only philosophically or conceptually, but is essentially addressed to nonphilosophers as well" - including the nonphilosopher in every philosopher. The second division - On Argument - interrogates the status and value of evidence, and self-evidence. The third division - On Not Knowing - generalizes a parenthetical observation of Agamben's on Heidegger, "If we may attempt to identify something like the characteristic Stimmung of every thinker, perhaps it is precisely this being delivered over to something that refuses itself that defines the specific emotional tonality of Heidegger's thought": Might not philosophy be defined, the phil of sophia, precisely, as what it is to be delivered over to something that refuses itself?
Shane, a hard pressed theatre owner, holds his cards to his chest, even when awards are due. If his haunted theatre isn't enough, then his daily life, of wine, women and Aces of the old Empire, bring him a smile and a lucky break, and a quest of a lifetime...
This book illuminates Grace as it fills in the inadequacies of the Law restoring our personal relationship with God the Father. Bringing awareness around many contentious issues such as Death, the dynamics of The Kingdom and the accessible to righteousness through God’s unmerited favour of Grace. In October2007, While I lay there I began to talk to God, and my prayer was, “Lord please show me which is the right way?” God spoke to me while I was praying saying in an audible voice, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all its righteousness do not be moved by your own emotions, ideals, or opinions. Then all these things that you seek will be added, I will make your path as smooth as ice, melting all your obstacles before you, and then I will seat you with Priests and Kings for My Glory.” I have spent the last seven years researching and documenting, His will and purpose for my Life. Understanding that the only way I can qualify for His righteousness is under the pure sinless blood covering. In the hope that would become radical Believers, maturing into Spirit-sons.
In the distant Vega system, Perry Rhodan and his crew are trapped on a strange world that is under attack. To have any hope of saving the Ferrons, they must reach the aliens’ leader in the central city, but getting there will be a treacherous road filled with betrayal and self-sacrifice. His crew aren’t faring much better, with teleporter Tako Kakuta leading a group that learns sanctuary in a hospital isn’t as safe as they expected. As one of their number fights for survival, the invaders find them—and reveal curious truths about their way of life. Meanwhile, on Earth, the Fantan are still running rampant, seeking special people, things, and moments they call “Besun.” When Adams catches the attention of one of these otherworldly beings, he stages a desperate attempt to end the invasion...via a tour of the finest that Earth’s culture has to offer. Now that humanity knows it is not alone in the universe, alien threats are coming from all directions and in forms no one could have imagined...
This collection gathers together the wit and wisdom of Glasgow. Wide ranging, no subject is safe from the Glaswegian tongue, no bounds of taste is respected. Michael Munro is the author of The Patter and The Patter: Another Blast.
(six-six-oh) Sometimes things go straight to hell. Set in a present day former coal town on Canada's west coast 6-6-o witnesses the rough lives and deaths of men and women cursed not only by their choices but by their proximity to a simple streetlight. It begins simply enough with the story of Davey and Bert in the 1950's. Two men set with the unfortunate task of installing power poles in the quickly developing farmland known locally as Seven Acres. In modern times a light with an unfortunate mark graces a tired neighbourhood, illuminating some of the worst acts of people living under it and flickering dark when things get really bad. A very dark, gritty and rough ride.
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