Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Bibliographie de L'histoire Du Québec Et Du Canada, 1981-1985
Author: Paul AubinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Liste signalétique des documents parus entre 1981 et 1985: livres, articles, thèses. L'organisation de la bibliographie est en trois sections: systématique (par ordre des grands sujets), analytique (par ordre des sujets particuliers), auteur (par ordre des noms avec renvois à la section systématique). Les auteurs ont intégré à l'instrument des documents non recensés dans les ouvrages couvrant les périodes antérieures: 1948-1965, 1966-1975, 1976-1980.
Cultural Techniques
Author: Bernhard SiegertPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823263770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the process of becoming. The result is to turn ontology into a domain of all that is meant in German by the word Kultur. Cultural techniques comprise not only self-referential symbolic practices like reading, writing, counting, or image-making. The analysis of artifacts as cultural techniques emphasizes their ontological status as “in-betweens,” shifting from firstorder to second-order techniques, from the technical to the artistic, from object to sign, from the natural to the cultural, from the operational to the representational. Cultural Techniques ranges from seafaring, drafting, and eating to the production of the sign-signaldistinction in old and new media, to the reproduction of anthropological difference, to the study of trompe-l’oeils, grids, registers, and doors. Throughout, Siegert addresses fundamental questions of how ontological distinctions can be replaced by chains of operations that process those alleged ontological distinctions within the ontic. Grounding posthumanist theory both historically and technically, this book opens up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.
Art in History/History in Art
Author: David FreedbergPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362014
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.
Street Addressing and the Management of Cities
Author: Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovi?Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821358154
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
There has been a dramatic demographic shift from rural areas to cities in sub-Saharan African countries over the last few decades. This continuing urbanisation trend has created new challenges for local governments in terms of managing urban services, since over half of the city streets in these countries have no names or addresses, and the problem is particularly acute in the poorest neighbourhoods. This publication examines the use of street addressing initiatives to address this problem, giving information on current and future applications, considering examples of use in many African countries, and setting out a methodological guide for implementing such initiatives.
Sexuality & Space
Author: Beatriz ColominaPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781878271082
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"Both timely and well worth the time."-Thomas Keenan, Newsline. aia Award Winner & Oculus Bestseller.
CIM Bulletin
Author: Canadian Institute of Mining and MetallurgyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
The Discovery of the Great West
Author: Francis ParkmanPublisher: Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Concerns Robert La Salle's explorations in North America.
Great Moments in Social Climbing
Author: Meaghan MorrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780949793232
Category : Architectural criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge
Author: Jean-Pierre ChupinPublisher: Potential Architecture Books
ISBN: 0992131707
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
[Winner of the 2016 Bronze medal in Architecture, Independent Publisher Book Awards] This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. In 2015, it constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organization, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape and urban design competitions in the world. These richly documented contributions revolve around a few questions that can be summarized in a two-fold critical interrogation: How can design competitions - these historical democratic devices, both praised and dreaded by designers - be considered laboratories for the production of environmental design quality, and, ultimately, for the renewing of culture and knowledge? Includes 340 illustrations, bibliographical references and index of over 200 cited competitions. Keywords: Architecture / International competitions / Architectural judgment / Design thinking / Digital archiving (databases) / Architectural publications / Architectural experimentation / Landscape architecture / Urban studies