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Badiou and Cinema
AvAlex Ling
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
338 kr
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Alex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship: 'can cinema be thought?' Treating this question on three levels, the author first asks if we can really think what cinema is, at an ontological level. Secondly, he investigates whether cinema can actually think for itself; that is, whether it is truly 'artistic'. Finally, he explores how we can rethink the consequences of a 'thinking' cinema. In addressing these questions, Ling uses well-known films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo and The Matrix to illustrate Badiou's philosophy and to consider the ways in which his work can be extended, critiqued and reframed with respect to the medium of cinema.
Scandalous Times
Contemporary Creativity and the Rise of State-Sanctioned Controversy
AvAlex Ling
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2020
347 kr
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We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in ''revelatory'' terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes disturbing, ''truth''. Otherswill be recognized as calculated marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of contemporary capitalism. Yet these ''ordinary'' scandals can themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether more fundamental-and fundamentally rare-form of disruption. Such is the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic creation. Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous Times not only argues the case for such ''real scandal'', but also shows how it is today being abrogated and substituted through the increasing production of novel forms of state-sanctioned controversy. From Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times explores the ways in which areas from art and advertising to politics and social media have come to actively contribute to this ''static'' fabrication of controversy, all the while arguing for the need to rethink creativity as a radical exception to the state, and not its proxy.
Scandalous Times
Contemporary Creativity and the Rise of State-Sanctioned Controversy
AvAlex Ling
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 533 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in ‘revelatory’ terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes disturbing, ‘truth’. Otherswill be recognized as calculated marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of contemporary capitalism. Yet these ‘ordinary’ scandals can themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether more fundamental—and fundamentally rare—form of disruption. Such is the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic creation. Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous Times not only argues the case for such ‘real scandal’, but also shows how it is today being abrogated and substituted through the increasing production of novel forms of state-sanctioned controversy. From Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times explores the ways in which areas from art and advertising to politics and social media have come to actively contribute to this ‘static’ fabrication of controversy, all the while arguing for the need to rethink creativity as a radical exception to the state, and not its proxy.
Scandalous Times
Contemporary Creativity and the Rise of State-Sanctioned Controversy
AvAlex Ling
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
326 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in ‘revelatory’ terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes disturbing, ‘truth’. Otherswill be recognized as calculated marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of contemporary capitalism. Yet these ‘ordinary’ scandals can themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether more fundamental—and fundamentally rare—form of disruption. Such is the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic creation. Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous Times not only argues the case for such ‘real scandal’, but also shows how it is today being abrogated and substituted through the increasing production of novel forms of state-sanctioned controversy. From Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times explores the ways in which areas from art and advertising to politics and social media have come to actively contribute to this ‘static’ fabrication of controversy, all the while arguing for the need to rethink creativity as a radical exception to the state, and not its proxy.
Scandalous Times
Contemporary Creativity and the Rise of State-Sanctioned Controversy
AvAlex Ling
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
347 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in ''revelatory'' terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes disturbing, ''truth''. Otherswill be recognized as calculated marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of contemporary capitalism. Yet these ''ordinary'' scandals can themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether more fundamental-and fundamentally rare-form of disruption. Such is the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic creation. Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous Times not only argues the case for such ''real scandal'', but also shows how it is today being abrogated and substituted through the increasing production of novel forms of state-sanctioned controversy. From Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times explores the ways in which areas from art and advertising to politics and social media have come to actively contribute to this ''static'' fabrication of controversy, all the while arguing for the need to rethink creativity as a radical exception to the state, and not its proxy.
Twilight of the White Rajahs
AvAlex Ling
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
244 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Twilight of the White Rajahs
AvAlex Ling
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
395 kr
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Twilight of the White Rajahs
AvAlex Ling
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
74 kr
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Power, passion, politics. The sleepy state of Sarawak is stirred up as never before by the arrival of Gerald McBryan. An unscrupulous adventurer, he soon has the Rajah and Ranee eating out of his hand. The eminence grise of Rajah Vyner, he forces through decisions that have shaped what Sarawak is today.
Twilight of the White Rajahs is set in the Sarawak of the interwar and immediate postwar period. Vyner, like Henry VII of England, has inherited a tightly run ship of state. But his own playboy nature, the antics of his wife and most important his failure to produce a male heir, threaten the dynasty into which he was born. Outside forces also increase the pressure on his regime. War clouds in the Pacific and the South China Sea. The desire for self-determination. The bullying of the British Colonial Office. The turbulent wave of anti-cession created by the Rajah Muda, Peter Brooke.
A war of hot tempers, cunning and deviousness ensued; a war that everyone was determined to win at all costs.
Twilight of the White Rajahs recounts in fascinating detail the lives of the chief actors during this period. Twilight of the White Rajahs continues the saga of Golden Dreams of Borneo as the tough pioneering spirit of the 19th century gives way to the more sophisticated politics of the 20th.
Golden Dreams of Borneo
AvAlex Ling
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
651 kr
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Golden Dreams of Borneo
AvAlex Ling
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
960 kr
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Golden Dreams of Borneo
AvAlex Ling
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
74 kr
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Dreams of Gold Dreams of Power
These drove men and women to seek their fortune in Sarawak. They came from Britain to carve a future on virgin soil from China - to escape grinding poverty. They fought and traded, lived and died in the struggle to fulfil their dreams. Some lost their lives to bloodthirsty headhunters, or in the disease-ridden swamps and trackless jungles of the interior; some survived to make their fortune.
Chinese, British, Malays rubbed shoulders with fearsome Sea Dayaks, and nomads in the hunter-gatherer stage of evolution. The Steam Age met the Stone Age in this exotic, untouched land. Cultures clashed in a multiracial society.
Charles Brooke, enigmatic White Rajah of Sarawak, was a man of vision, a man with a mission to tame the natives first, then to protect them from exploitation. His dream was to take them gently towards modern civilisation, to bring them the rewards of self-development. He was paternalistic but loving, a truly benevolent despot.
Dreams of Adventure Dreams of Romance
Stephen Young, a young graduate, arrives in Sarawak in 1898. Seduced by its virgin beauty steaming jungle, majestic mountains and noble savages he stays. Erotic intrigue, passion, violence and warfare surround him. His goal is to survive these with his head and his heart intact.
Badiou Reframed
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
AvAlex Ling
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
284 kr
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He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed is an original book about an original thinker which applies - for the first time - Badiou's philosophy to the visual arts. The six central concepts of this philosophy - 'being and appearing', 'event and subject' and 'truth and ethics' - are elucidated through detailed analysis of a range of visual artworks, including Marcel Duchamp's readymades, the abstract paintings of Kazimir Malevich and Mark Rothko, Banksy's contemporary street art, the sculpture of Alberto Giacometti, Stephane Mallarme's visual poetry and Victor Fleming's classic film The Wizard of Oz. In focusing on Badiou's critical relationship with the visual arts, Alex Ling reinterprets and represents not only the man, but art itself.
Badiou Reframed
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
AvAlex Ling
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
303 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed is an original book about an original thinker which applies - for the first time - Badiou's philosophy to the visual arts. The six central concepts of this philosophy - 'being and appearing', 'event and subject' and 'truth and ethics' - are elucidated through detailed analysis of a range of visual artworks, including Marcel Duchamp's readymades, the abstract paintings of Kazimir Malevich and Mark Rothko, Banksy's contemporary street art, the sculpture of Alberto Giacometti, Stephane Mallarme's visual poetry and Victor Fleming's classic film The Wizard of Oz. In focusing on Badiou's critical relationship with the visual arts, Alex Ling reinterprets and represents not only the man, but art itself.
Badiou Reframed
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
AvAlex Ling
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
303 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed is an original book about an original thinker which applies - for the first time - Badiou's philosophy to the visual arts. The six central concepts of this philosophy - 'being and appearing', 'event and subject' and 'truth and ethics' - are elucidated through detailed analysis of a range of visual artworks, including Marcel Duchamp's readymades, the abstract paintings of Kazimir Malevich and Mark Rothko, Banksy's contemporary street art, the sculpture of Alberto Giacometti, Stephane Mallarme's visual poetry and Victor Fleming's classic film The Wizard of Oz. In focusing on Badiou's critical relationship with the visual arts, Alex Ling reinterprets and represents not only the man, but art itself.

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Alex Ling – författare

Badiou and Cinema

Scandalous Times

Scandalous Times

Scandalous Times

Scandalous Times

Twilight of the White Rajahs

Twilight of the White Rajahs

Twilight of the White Rajahs

Golden Dreams of Borneo

Golden Dreams of Borneo

Golden Dreams of Borneo

Badiou Reframed

Badiou Reframed

Badiou Reframed

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