Author: Jesse Prinz File Type: pdf The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of the psychological and neurophysiological correlates of conscious experience. Prinzs account of consciousness makes two main claims first consciousness always arises at a particular stage of perceptual processing, the intermediate level, and, second, consciousness depends on attention. Attention changes the flow of information allowing perceptual information to access memory systems. Neurobiologically, this change in flow depends on synchronized neural firing. Neural synchrony is also implicated in the unity of consciousness and in the temporal duration of experience. Prinz also explores the limits of consciousness. We have no direct experience of our thoughts, no experience of motor commands, and no experience of a conscious self. All consciousness is perceptual, and it functions to make perceptual information available to systems that allows for flexible behavior. Prinz concludes by discussing prevailing philosophical puzzles. He provides a neuroscientifically grounded response to the leading argument for dualism, and argues that materialists need not choose between functional and neurobiological approaches, but can instead combine these into neurofunctional response to the mind-body problem. The Conscious Brain brings neuroscientific evidence to bear on enduring philosophical questions, while also surveying, challenging, and extending philosophical and scientific theories of consciousness. All readers interested in the nature of consciousness will find Prinzs work of great interest. **

Author: Joshua Clover File Type: epub Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an age of riots as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history. Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the strike in the early nineteenth century. It returned to prominence in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race and class. From early wage demands to recent social justice campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in a state of moral collapse. Historical events such as the global economic crisis of 1973 and the decline of organized labor, viewed from the perspective of vast social transformations, are the proper context for understanding these eruptions of discontent. As social unrest against an unsustainable order continues to grow, this valuable history will help guide future antagonists in their struggles toward a revolutionary horizon.**ReviewRiot, in this absolutely necessary book, is considered as differential procedure and rigorous improvisational method, as essential repertoire on the way from general malaise to general strike. But then this conception folds tightly yet disorderly into a new and open set of questions. Its not that the raging, ragged entrance to the new golden age is the new golden age. Its not that theory cant bear a riot. Its just that riot makes new ways of seeing what theory can and cant do and imposes upon us a kind of knowledge of our own embarrassing and already given resources of enjoyment. Joshua Clover says riot deserves a proper theory but heresly, stone coldhe gives us more than that. Now we have some guidelines for the new and ongoing impropriety that fleshes forth and fleshes out our optimal condition. Fred Moten, scholar, activist, poet and author of In the Break The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Traditionand *The Undercommons Fugitive Planning and Black Study* In its sweep, rigor, and elegance, Riot. Strike. Riot. is pleasurable and provocative, worthy of the urgent debates it should inspire. Jeff Chang, author of Cant Stop Wont Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and *Who We Be The Colorization of America* Riot. Strike. Riot. is the crystalline analysis of this fraught momentbetween communism and anarchism, between street protest and economic strike. Clovers text is clear without being simple, contemporary yet historical, and affectionate without being mawkishmuch like a riot, in fact, it opens up the future while remembering that the past is comprised of little other than exploitation, exclusion and the kinds of violence that deliberately are attributed to the very people who suffer most from it. Nina Power, senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University and author of *One-Dimensional Woman* Frisky, audacious Riot. Strike. Riotscreams across the sky of our electoral theater. Michael Robbins, *Chicago Tribune* Praise for Joshua Clovers 1989 [A] dense, provocative, wonderfully written little book Masterful. *The Progressive* [An] extraordinary work of political aesthetics Clover is a gifted music writer, and his descriptions are vivid, surprising and politically sharp without ever being moralistic. *Owen Hatherley* Music and politics, drugs and society prove to be eerily congruent, and Clovers tough analysis dismantles prevailing myths while revealing even stranger truths. Luc Sante, author of *Low Life Mother Jones* Offers a powerful framework through which pop history can be explored. *Times Higher Education Supplement* Rewardingly ambitious. [Clover] writes with precision and loads of personality, weaving between global politics and musical genres (rave, hip-hop, grunge) with a fans intensity. *Time Out New York*About the Author Joshua Clover is a communist. He is also a professor of literature and critical theory at the University of California Davis. A widely published essayist, poet, and cultural theorist, his most recent books areRed Epic and 1989 Bob Dylan Didnt Have This to Sing About.

Author: Rachel Stenner File Type: pdf The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern English literature engages imaginatively with printing and this book both characterizes that engagement and proposes the typographic imaginary as a framework for its analysis. Certain texts, Rachel Stenner states, describe the people, places, concerns, and processes of printing in ways that, over time, generate their own figurative authority. The typographic imaginary is posited as a literary phenomenon shared by different writers, a wider cultural understanding of printing, and a critical concept for unpicking the particular imaginative otherness that printing introduced to literature. Authors use the typographic imaginary to interrogate their place in an evolving media environment, to assess the value of the printed text, and to analyse the roles of other text-producing agents. This book treats a broad array of authors and forms printers manuals William Caxtons paratexts the pamphlet dialogues of Robert Copland and Ned Ward poetic miscellanies the prose fictions of William Baldwin, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Nashe the poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser writings by John Taylor and Alexander Pope. At its broadest, this study contributes to an understanding of how technology changes cultures. Located at the crossroads between literary, material, and book historical research, the particular intervention that this work makes is threefold. In describing the typographic imaginary, it proposes a new framework for analysis of print culture. It aims to focus critical engagement on symbolic representations of material forms. Finally, it describes a lineage of late medieval and early modern authors, stretching from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, that are linked by their engagement of a particular aesthetic. **

Author: Neil Faulkner File Type: pdf This magisterial analysis of human history - from Lucy, the first hominid, to the current Great Recession - combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process. Reading history against the grain, Neil Faulkner reveals that what happened in the past was not predetermined. Choices were frequent and numerous. Different outcomes - liberation or barbarism - were often possible. Rejecting the top-down approach of conventional history, Faulkner contends that it is the mass action of ordinary people that drives great events. At the beginning of the 21st century - with economic disaster, war, climate catastrophe and deep class divisions - humans face perhaps the greatest crisis in the long history of our species. The lesson of A Marxist History of the World is that, since we created our past, we can also create a better future. **Review Enlightening and apocalyptic in equal measure -- Guardian Who needs objective history? Not Neil Faulkner, for whom the history of the world is a relentless and disgraceful parade of shame from the brazenly wasteful tribes of the Bronze Age to Maoist Chinas sell-out state capitalism. If nothing else this book will make you stop and think and give you a taste of what it must have felt like to be a firebrand buoyed up by righteous revolutionary zeal in October 1917. If you like your blood boiled, this is the history for you. I can guarantee youll be outraged - either because you agree with him or because you dont! -- Guy de la Bedoyere, historian and author of Roman Britain A New History (2006). About the Author Neil Faulkner is a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, co-director of several archaeological field-projects, and author of numerous books, including A Visitors Guide to the Ancient Olympics (2012) and Rome Empire of the Eagles (2008). He is a leading member of Counterfire and publicity officer for the Coalition of Resistance.