Author: Paul Virilio File Type: pdf The genetic bomb marks a turn in the history of humanity. The accident is a new form of warfare. It is replacing revolution and war. Sarajevo triggered the First World War. New York is what Sarajevo was. September 11th opened Pandoras box. The first war of globalization will be the global accident, the total accident, including the accident of science. And it is on the way. In 1968, Virilio abandoned his work in oblique architecture, believing that time had replaced space as the most important point of reflection because of the dominance of speed. We were basically on the verge of converting space time into space speed... Speed facilitates the decoding of the human genome, and the possibility of another humanity a humanity which is no longer extra-territorial, but extra-human. Crespuscular Dawn expands Virilios vision of the implosion of physical time and space, onto the micro-level of bioengineering and biotechnology. In this cat-and-mouse dialogue between Sylvere Lotringer and Paul Virilio, Lotringer pushes Virilio to uncover the historical foundations of his biotech theories. Citing various medical experiments conducted during World War II, Lotringer asks whether biotechnology isnt the heir to eugenics and the science for racial improvement that the Nazis enthusiastically embraced. Will the endocolonizataion of the body come to replace the colonization of ones own population by the military? Both biographical and thematic, the book explores the development of Virilios investigation of space (architecture, urbanism) and time (speed and simultanaeity) that would ultimately lay the foundation for his theories on biotechnology and his startling declaration that after the colonization of space begins the colonization of the body. **

Author: Tucker, Thomas Deane; Kendall, Stuart; File Type: pdf Terrence Malicks four feature films have been celebrated by critics and adored as instant classics among film aficionados, but the body of critical literature devoted to them has remained surprisingly small in comparison to Malicks stature in the world of contemporary film. Each of the essays in Terrence Malick Film and Philosophy is grounded in film studies, philosophical inquiry, and the emerging field of scholarship that combines the two disciplines. Malicks films are also open to other angles, notably phenomenological, deconstructive, and Deleuzian approaches to film, all of which are evidenced in this collection. Terrence Malick Film and Philosophy engages with Malicks body of work in distinct and independently significant ways by looking at the tradition within which Malick works, the creative orientation of the filmmaker, and by discussing the ways in which criticism can illuminate these remarkable films. **Review Terrence Malick Film and Philosophy provides a wonderfully stimulating range of approaches to Malicks films, unlocking the philosophical depths of the most thoughtful auteur of recent decades. The collection engages Malicks cinematic oeuvre with the works of Heidegger and Cavell as might be expected, but also provocatively deploys Deleuze, Hegel, Marx, Schiller, Derrida and Merleau-Ponty alongside esteemed film theorists like Sobchack and Branigan. As such, this book is at the cutting edge of recent developments in film-philosophy, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. It is also a superb exploration of Malicks most important films as writer and director, from Badlands to The New World. Dr David Martin-Jones, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of St Andrews, UK About the Author Thomas Deane Tucker is a professor of Humanities at Chadron State College. He is the author of Derridada Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction (Lexington Books). Stuart Kendall teaches Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts. He is the author of Georges Bataille (Reaktion Books, Critical Lives) and The Ends of Art and Design (Infrathin Press).

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Author: Andreas Marneros File Type: pdf This book is written by international specialists on bipolar disorders. All fields of this topic are covered the history and the evolution of concepts of bipolar disorders from ancient Greece to modern times. Original quotations of Hippocrates and Aretaeus of Cappadocia, the views of the European founders of modern psychiatry, and modern operational and biological data are considered. The role of personality, temperament, interactions, as well as of neurotransmitter, endocrinological factors and other biological parameters are extensively discussed together with genetic and epidemiological findings. Topics such as soft spectrum disorders, mixed states, schizoaffective bipolars, and long-term prognosis are extensively considered, and the role of modern antipsychotics, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers is another main point of the book. Special aspects of children, adults, and womens disorders are also discussed. The costs of treatment of bipolar disorders are described in their own chapter. In this book can be found a combination of the classical use in literature of bipolar disorders with modern data-oriented use.