Author: Richard Adelman File Type: pdf This edited collection, Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, aims to address the genealogy and formation of political economy as a knowledge project from 1720 to 1850. Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the formative moves, both epistemological and representational, which proved foundational to the emergence of political economy as a dominant discourse of modernity. The collection also explores political economys relation to other discourses and knowledge practices in this period representation in and of political economy abstraction and political economy fictional mediations and interrogations of political economy and political economy and its others, including political economy and affect, and political economy and the aesthetic. Essays presented in this text are at once historical and conceptual in focus, and manifest literary critical disciplinary expertise whilst being of genuinely broad and interdisciplinary interest. Amongst the writers whose work is addressed are Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, Jane Marcet, J. S. Mill, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith. The introduction, by the editors, sets up the conceptual, theoretical and analytical framework explored by each of the essays. The final essay and response bring the concerns of the volume up to date by engaging with current economic and financial realities, by, respectively, showing how an informed and critical history of political economy could transform current economic practices, and by exploring the abundance of recent conceptual art addressing representation and the unpresentable in economic practice. **About the Author Dr Richard Adelman is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. He received his PhD in English from the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh and Freiburg. He is the author of Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Idleness & Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), as well as of a number of essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. Dr. Catherine Packham holds a PhD in English Literature from University of Cambridge (2002). Since 2013 she has been Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, and is also Head of English Literature there. She is author of Eighteenth-Century Vitalism Bodies, Culture, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), as well as many articles on eighteenth-century literature, philosophy and political economy. Her current monograph project, for which she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2012-13, is Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy.

Author: Tanya Melich File Type: epub In 1980, Republicans used appeals to sexist and racist bigotry to win the Presidency. The party adopted an electoral strategy that included getting votes by playing on the fear and uncertainty engendered by the civil rights and womens political movements, and continued to use this strategy in the campaigns of 1984, 1988, and 1992. Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, this strategy became a crucial part of the partys governing policies. This book is not a political science treatise nor a description of political campaigns it is a documented account of a grab for power that, as the years pass, continues to intensify antagonism between the sexes and to sow unnecessary division among the American people. As a longtime Republican activist and a delegate to the 1992 convention, Tanya Melich has observed these actions from within and documents this takeover and the Partys ongoing practices (such as embracing the Christian right) in a devastating, factual, and often hair-raising report. A combination of history, exposA, reasoned polemic, and call to arms, this book has now been enriched by two completely new chapters that assesses the outcome of the 1996 election in terms of the books thesis and realistically lays out the future both in terms of what it will be if the right-wing elements of the Republican party continue to set the agenda, and how it can be changed if centrist women (and men) take charge of that agenda. The heart of such change lies with Independents, who now constitute a startling 39 percent of Americans (31 percent identify themselves as Democrats and 30 percent as Republicans). We are not a country of strong party loyalties, and the enormous growth of independents is the signal that change is not only possible but achievable. As a superb political pro, the author offers hardheaded strategies for such change. From the Trade Paperback edition.**

Author: Patricia R. Zimmermann File Type: pdf This is the inspiring story of The Flaherty, one of the oldest continuously running nonprofit media arts institutions in the world, which has shaped the development of independent film, video, and emerging forms in the United States over the past 60 years. Combining the words of legendary independent filmmakers with a detailed history of The Flaherty, Patricia R. Zimmermann and Scott MacDonald showcase its history and legacy, amply demonstrating how the relationships created at the annual Flaherty seminar have been instrumental in transforming American media history. Moving through the decades, each chapter opens with a detailed history of the organization by Zimmermann, who traces the evolution of The Flaherty from a private gathering of filmmakers to a small annual convening, to todays ever-growing nexus of filmmakers, scholars, librarians, producers, funders, distributors, and others associated with international independent cinema. MacDonald expands each chapter by giving voice to the major figures in the evolution of independent media through transcriptions of key discussions galvanized by films shown at The Flaherty. The discussions feature Frances Flaherty, Robert Gardner, Fred Wiseman, Willard Van Dyke, Jim McBride, Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, Erik Barnouw, Barbara Kopple, Ed Pincus, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Bruce Conner, Peter Watkins, Su Friedrich, Marlon Riggs, William Greaves, Ken Jacobs, Kazuo Hara, Mani Kaul, Craig Baldwin, Bahman Ghobadi, Eyal Sivan, and many others.

Author: Tao Jiang File Type: pdf About the AuthorYing Xu is a Senior Staff Scientist and Leader of the Computational Protein Structure Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Michael Q. Zhang is Associate Professor in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.Tao Jiang is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside.