Author: Lawrence S. Wittner A longtime agitator against war and social injustice, Lawrence Wittner has been tear-gassed, threatened by police with drawn guns, charged by soldiers with fixed bayonets, spied upon by the U.S. government, arrested, and purged from his job for political -reasons. To say that this teacher-historian-activist has led an interesting life is a considerable understatement. In this absorbing memoir, Wittner traces the dramatic course of a life and career that took him from a Brooklyn boyhood in the 1940s and 50s to an education at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin to the front lines of peace activism, the fight for racial equality, and the struggles of the labor movement. He details his family background, which included the bloody anti-Semitic pogroms of late-nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, and chronicles his long teaching career, which comprised positions at a small black college in Virginia, an elite womens liberal arts college north of New York City, and finally a permanent home at the Albany campus of the State University of New York. Throughout, he packs the narrative with colorful vignettes describing such activities as fighting racism in Louisiana and Mississippi during the early 1960s, collaborating with peace-oriented intellectuals in Gorbachevs Soviet Union, and leading thousands of antinuclear demonstrators through the streets of Hiroshima. As the book also reveals, Wittners work as an activist was matched by scholarly achievements that made him one of the worlds foremost authorities on the history of the peace and nuclear disarmament movementsa research specialty that led to revealing encounters with such diverse figures as Norman Thomas, the Unabomber, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Caspar Weinberger, and David Horowitz. A tenured professor and renowned author who has nevertheless lived in tension with the broader currents of his society, Lawrence Wittner tells an engaging personal story that includes some of the most turbulent and significant events of recent history.

Author: Sous la direction de Jean Klucinskas et Walter Moser De nos jours, artistes et createurs de toutes orientations, et dans differents champs de production culturelle, ont de plus en plus recours a des procedes impliquant le traitement de materiaux qui sont deja disponibles dans lespace culturel : ils creent en recyclant. Grace aux nouvelles technologies de reproduction des uvres et de traitement de donnees, cette modalite de production saffirme comme une dominante de la culture contemporaine. Comment en rendre compte esthetiquement ? Quel est son impact sur notre experience esthetique ? En quoi nous oblige-t-elle a repenser concepts et comprehension dans le domaine de lesthetique. Dans ce livre, un groupe international de dix-huit chercheurs se penche sur cette interface entre esthetique et recyclage culturel et propose des elements de reponse a ces questions. Ce livre est issu dun colloque international qui eut lieu en 2001 a Montreal.