Author: Levi Bryant
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Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze, which has in turn evolved into a new situation still difficult to define. However, one common thread running through the new brand of continental positions is a renewed attention to materialist and realist options in philosophy. Among the leaders of the established generation, this new focus takes numerous forms. It might be hard to find many shared positions in the writings of Badiou, DeLanda, Laruelle, Latour, Stengers, and Zizek, but what is missing from their positions is an obsession with the critique of written texts. All of them elaborate a positive ontology, despite the incompatibility of their results. Meanwhile, the new generation of continental thinkers is pushing these trends still further, as seen in currents ranging from transcendental materialism to the London-based speculative realism movement to new revivals of Derrida. As indicated by the title The Speculative Turn, the new currents of continental philosophy depart from the text-centered hermeneutic models of the past and engage in daring speculations about the nature of reality itself. This anthology assembles authors, of several generations and numerous nationalities, who will be at the centre of debate in continental philosophy for decades to come.**About the Author Graham Harman is Distinguished University Professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Author: Lesley Lee Francis
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Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live a life that goes rather poetically. The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In You Come Too, Frosts granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines priceless personal memories and rigorous research to create a portrait of Frost and the women, including herself, whose lives he touched. Francis provides a vivid picture of Frost the family man, revealing him to be intensely engaged rather than the aloof artist that is commonly portrayed. She shares with us the devastation Frost and Elinor experienced when faced with tragic illnesses, both physical and mental, and the untimely death of family members. Elinors own death added to the poets despair and unleashed complex feelings throughout the family. (Franciss mother would lament the toll taken on Elinor by what she perceived as Frosts selfishness in the life he had chosen.) This is also the story of Lesley Frost, Franciss remarkable mother, who struggled to emerge from her celebrated fathers shadow, while, as one of the people closest to him, sharing his intuitive impulse to write and to indulge their mutual love of books and poetry. Francis would herself become yet another writer and, like her grandfather and mother before her, a teacher--despite sharing Frosts sense of being imperfectly academic. In addition, Francis explores Frosts professional relationships with women outside the family, such as the poets Harriet Monroe, Amy Lowell, and Susan Hayes Ward. Franciss invaluable insights into Frosts poetry and her inclusion of previously unpublished family writings and photographs make this book essential to Frost scholarship. But You Come Too will appeal to anyone interested in this great poets life and work. It also reveals unforgettable stories of strong, independent women and their passion to create and share poetry. **
Author: Alexandre Skirda
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Drawing on decades of research, Skirda traces anarchism as a major political movement and ideology across the 19th and 20th centuries. Critical and engaging, he offers biting and incisive portraits of the major thinkers, and more crucially, the organizations they inspired, influenced, came out of, and were spurned by.Bakuninist secret societies the Internationals and the clash with Marx the Illegalists, bombers and assassins the mass trade unions and of course, the Russian and Spanish Revolutions are all discussed through the prism of working people battling fiercely for a new world free of the shackles of Capital and the State.Alexandre Skirda is the foremost anarchist theorist and activist writing in Europe today.Also Available from AK PressNo Gods, No Masters, Books One & TwoBook One TP 16.95, 1-873176-64-3 CUSABook Two TP 16.95, 1-873176-69-4 CUSAAbout the AuthorPaul Sharkey is an accomplished translator. He has single-handedly made available a vast body of non-English language anarchist writings.
Author: Lea Saskia Laasner
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p itemprop=description Lea Saskia Laasner heeft een gelukkige jeugd, tot haar moeder via de yogacursussen die ze volgt interesse krijgt in haar geestelijke ontwikkeling. Zij en haar man verkopen hun huis en maken het geld, bijna een miljoen euro, over op de bankrekening van de Lichtoase, een sekte onder leiding van goeroe Benno, die vanaf dat moment het gezin in zijn macht heeft. De goeroe blijkt seks te zien als de manier om de persoonlijkheid te ontwikkelen. Al snel laat hij zijn oog op de dertienjarige Lea vallen. Terwijl hij haar verkracht komt haar vader per ongeluk binnen. Die protesteert zwakjes, maar laat Benno uiteindelijk zijn gang gaan. Jarenlang leven Lea en haar familie in de sekte. Lea is inmiddels de persoonlijke seksslavin van de goeroe geworden. Protesteren heeft geen zin, want wie dat durft wordt door de hele groep afgestraft.Op haar 21e - Lea is inmiddels zo wanhopig dat ze overweegt zelfmoord te plegen - dient haar redding zich aan. Een politieagent die de ranch van de sekte af en toe bezoekt biedt aan om haar te helpen vluchten. Uiteindelijk maakt ze de moedige keuze om haar familie achter te laten en de sprong naar de vrijheid te wagen. Recencie(s) De Zwitsere Lea Laasner beschrijft hoe haar moeder onder de invloed raakt van een Nieuwe Tijds-goeroe die zich wil losmaken van het materiele en zijn leerlingen op een Hoger Vlak wil brengen. Zelf redt hij zich aardig op dat materiele vlak vretend ligt hij op zijn bed naar porno te kijken, terwijl de vrouwelijke leerlingen erom vechten zijn voeten te mogen masseren. Al snel wordt de jonge Lea uitverkoren zijn bed te delen. Pas wanneer zij verliefd wordt op een man van buiten, is zij in staat zich los te maken uit deze sekte. Als die relatie eindigt, vertrekt zij naar familie in Zwitserland, waar zij eindelijk kan beginnen aan een gewoon leven school, baan, vriendinnen. Gedetailleerd wordt beschreven hoe het web wordt gesponnen om deze zoekende mensen isolatie van de buitenwereld en emotionele chantage maken hen afhankelijk van hun leider. Het blijft onbegrijpelijk hoe deze mensen zichzelf en hun kinderen met huid en haar overleveren aan zon charlatan. Lea zocht voor het schrijven van haar boek contact met journalist Hugo Stamm, van wie in 1996 bij Ten Have In de ban van een sekte verscheen.M.C. Brak (source Bol.com)
Author: Gregory Betts
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Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-nine of the best writers and critics in the field. The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production Concrete Poetics, which accentuates the visual and material aspects of language Language Writing, which challenges the interconnection between words and things Identity Writing, which interrogates the self and its sociopolitical position and Copyleft Poetics, which undermines our habitual assumptions about the ownership of expression. A fifth section commemorates the importance of the Centennial in the 1960s at a time when avant-garde cultures in Canada began to emerge. Readers of this book will become familiar with some of the most challenging works of literatureand their creatorsthat this country has ever produced. From Concrete Poetry in the 1960s through to Indigenous Literature in the 2010s, Avant Canada offers the most sweeping study of the literary avant-garde in Canada to date. **
Author: Barbara Oomen
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Cities increasingly base their local policies on human rights. Human rights cities promise to forge new alliances between urban actors and international organizations, to enable the translation of the abstract language of human rights to the local level, and to develop new practices designed to bring about global urban justice. This book brings together academics and practitioners at the forefront of human rights cities and the right to the city movement to critically discuss their history and also the potential that human rights cities hold for global urban justice. **Review Global Urban Justice provides a timely window into the theory and practice of human rights in the city. Although the volume helpfully collects many examples of success, its authors are careful not to generalize or romanticize the experience of local implementation. As a result, the collection offers a new lens through which to understand the issues that arise when efforts are made to take the broad set of rights articulated in the UDHR and UN treaties and turn them into real policies and programs that shape how people live. ... Global Urban Justice should be understood as a clear-eyed call to action, highlighting the potential of human rights, not its inevitability. Johanna Kalb, Columbia Human Rights Law Review Book Description Written by leading scholars and practitioners, this fascinating account of the rise of human rights cities around the world is relevant to all those interested in either the future of cities or the future of human rights.
Author: Arthur Ransome
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This is the first publication of a remarkable book by Arthur Ransome, originally commissioned in 1910. The manuscript, nearly complete, was sequestered by Ransomes wife in 1914, and he never saw it again. It came to light only by chance, long after his death. Arthur Ransome here gives an exceptionally personal and perceptive account of the strengths and weaknesses of Stevenson as man and writer. Writing when most books on Stevenson were biographical or merely adulatory, he intended his to be the first critical study. The result is a fascinating and eager exposition by a yet-to-become-novelist of the writer who was to remain a lifelong inspiration. Here he wrestles to identify techniques that later underpin his Swallows and Amazons. Moreover, this is the only manuscript first draft of a work by Ransome to survive, and as such provides a unique insight into his working methods. The appendices include all other extant material relating to Stevenson by Ransome, from his very first story (written at the age of eight, and hitherto published only privately) to working notes and articles in literary periodicals. The editors substantial introduction gives a full account of the extraordinary history of the manuscripts development, disappearance, and rediscovery, and adds a new and enlightening chapter to the tumultuous story of Ransomes first marriage, early career, and escape to Russia. KIRSTY NICHOL FINDLAY taught at the University of Waikato, and since retiring has been a Moderator in Drama for Trinity College London. Her publications relate to her special interests Renaissance, Commonwealth, and childrens literature.