The National Road: Dispatches from a Changing America, Zoellner Tom
Автор: Strauss David Levi Название: Co-Illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication ISBN: 0262043548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262043540 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 6763.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Reports from America's political crisis, exposing a new "iconopolitics," in which words and images lose their connection to reality.
The political crisis that sneaked up on America--the rise of Trump and Trumpism--has revealed the rot at the core of American exceptionalism. Recent changes in the way words and images are produced and received have made the current surreality possible; communication through social media, by design, maximizes attention and minimizes scrutiny. In Co-Illusion, the noted writer on art, photography, and politics David Levi Strauss bears witness to the new "iconopolitics" in which words and images lose their connection to reality. The collusion that fueled Trump's rise was the secret agreement of voters and media consumers--their "co-illusion"--to set aside the social contract.
Strauss offers dispatches from the epicenter of our constitutional earthquake, writing first from the 2016 Democratic and Republican conventions and then from the campaign. After the election, he switches gears, writing in the voices of the regime and of those complicit in its actions--from the thoughts of the President himself ("I am not a mistake. I am not a fluke, or a bug in the system. I am the System") to the reflections of a nameless billionaire tech CEO whose initials may or may not be M. Z. Finally, Strauss shows us how we might repair the damage to the public imaginary after Trump exits the scene. Photographs by celebrated documentary photographers Susan Meiselas and Peter van Agtmael accompany the texts.
Описание: A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry--and the communities left behind--in the midst of economic and environmental crisis. Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioid epidemic, and environmental crises often at greater rates than anywhere else in the country. But what if Appalachia's troubles are just a taste of what the future holds for all of us? Appalachian Fall tells the captivating true story of coal communities on the leading edge of change. A group of local reporters known as the Ohio Valley ReSource shares the real-world impact these changes have had on what was once the heart and soul of America. Including stories like: -The miners' strike in Harlan County after their company suddenly went bankrupt, bouncing their paychecks -The farmers tilling former mining ground for new cash crops like hemp -The activists working to fight mountaintop removal and bring clean energy jobs to the region -And the mothers mourning the loss of their children to overdose and despair In the wake of the controversial bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, Appalachian Fall addresses what our country owes to a region that provided fuel for a century and what it risks if it stands by watching as the region, and its people, collapse.
Описание: How much would you be willing to spend on a doghouse? Is $350,000.00 too much? Not for this adventurous couple. Why? Because when you plan to spend 3 years travelling full-time throughout North America with a dog, everyone has to be comfortable. Especially the dog. An RV was the only practical solution.
Equal parts diary, memoir, travel guide and social commentary, Dispatches from the Doghouse is full of engaging descriptions, amusing anecdotes, wry observations and practical insights, as two RV neophytes decide to "leave it all behind" and embark on an unforgettable journey - from the tip of the Gasp Peninsula in Quebec to San Diego California, from Homer Alaska to Key West Florida, and pretty much every place in between. Driving, hiking, biking, kayaking, snorkeling and flying. Flora, fauna, geology and history. National, provincial, state and county parks. Cities, villages, hamlets and one-horse towns. Solitude and fellowship. Excitement and relaxation. Fulfillment and frustration. Happiness and sorrow. Dispatches from the Doghouse documents the ride of a lifetime. If you have ever wondered about "hitting the open road," with or without a dog, this book is for you....
Описание: It's easy to forget there's a war on when the front line is everywhere encrypted in plain sight. Gathered in this book's several chapters are dispatches on the role of photography in a War Universe, a space and time in which photographers such as Hilla Becher, Don McCullin and Eadweard Muybridge exist only insofar as they are a mark of possession, in the sway of larger forces. These photographers are conceptual personae that collectively fabulate a different kind of photography, a paraphotography in which the camera produces negative abyssal flashes or 'endarkenment.' In his Vietnam War memoir, Dispatches, Michael Herr imagines a 'dropped camera' receiving 'jumping and falling' images, images which capture the weird indivisibility of medium and mediated in a time of war. The movies and the war, the photographs and the torn bodies, fused and exchanged. Reporting from the chaos at the middle of things, Herr invokes a kind of writing attuned to this experience. Photography in the Middle, eschewing a high theoretical mode, seeks to exploit the bag of tricks that is the dispatch. The dispatch makes no grand statement about the progress of the war. Cultivating the most perverse implications of its sources, it tries to express what the daily briefing never can. Ports of entry in the script we're given, odd and hasty little glyphs, unhelpful rips in the cover story, dispatches are futile, dark intuitions, an expeditious inefficacy. They are bleak but necessary responses to an indifferent world in which any action whatever has little noticeable effect.As luck would have it, Photography in the Middle begins with some nasty accidents, and extracts from the wreckage a few lessons learned. Dusting itself off, it ships out and puts up with a bunch of battle scarred, big gun photojournalists in the Holiday Inn of a typical world city. Later, it immerses itself within the leaked files of an enigmatic police cabal which detail the surveillance of conceptual photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, an operation that even extends to the duo's dreams. Further back in time, in 1897, we are invited to an inflammatory, yet patchily documented public lecture given by the Titan, Muybridge.More than any other, it is William Burroughs, conceived here as a war photographer, who is our tutelary figure, hovering over all these pages in his attempt to map emergent vectors of mediation, ever more intimate forms of control and accelerants of planetary catastrophe. Burroughs believed that it was necessary to both keep pace with and formulate new vectors, vectors that might act as intersections with a nonhuman outside. Photography has an agency of its own, one that scrambles the patterns and refrains of mediation upon which human life is based, glitching the human and provoking relations with external coordinates. With Burroughs, and other inspirations such as J.G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, Tom McCarthy and Eugene Thacker, our notion of the dispatch does not offer positive knowledge of something that we can reconcile with existing rational explanations, but rather the revelation of a nightside, our redundancy in a photography that suspends all operations in a general blindness.
Автор: , Doty Dennis W., Richards Dusty Название: Saddlebag Dispatches-Winter 2020 ISBN: 1633736768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781633736764 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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If you enjoy stories of the West, you've come to the right place.
Well, folks, here it is, the Winter 2020 issue, and it may well be our best yet. We've got cowboys, lawmen, Native Americans, and mountain men. We offer wild horses, pickup trucks, buckboards, and wagons. Our headliner for this issue is bestselling author Paul Colt, who graces our cover. J.B. Hogan returns with his long-running serial novel, The Last Rider, only this time he's joined by Spur Award-winning author Richard Prosch and his new short story, "Losing Lillian Gish," as well as more great Western fiction from the likes of Anthony Wood, Sharon Frame Gay, Ben Goheen, Neala Ames, John T. Biggs, Dennis Doty, Julie Eger, Michael McLean, and Kyleigh McCloud. We've got Cowboy Poetry from Marleen Bussma and Richard Manly Heiman and nonfiction profiles on the late, great Kirk Douglas, Cherokee outlaw Tom Starr, silver screen heroine Linda Cristal, and Western novelist and screenwriter James Warner Bellah. The only question is which adventure do you want to dive into first?
Автор: Leyland, John Название: Dispatches and Letters relating to the Blockade of Brest ISBN: 1911248227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911248224 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 13014.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published between 1844 and 1846, this seven-volume collection of letters documents the celebrated naval career of Lord Nelson in his own words. Volume 5 covers Nelson`s career from 1802 to 1804, during which, after the Peace of Amiens, Nelson enjoyed nineteen months` leave from the navy.
Описание: First published between 1844 and 1846, this seven-volume collection of letters documents the celebrated naval career of Lord Nelson in his own words. Volume 2 covers Nelson`s career from 1795 to 1797, when he was serving in the Mediterranean, and includes the battles of Genoa and Cape St Vincent.
Описание: First published between 1844 and 1846, this seven-volume collection of letters documents the celebrated naval career of Lord Nelson in his own words. Volume 6 covers May 1804 to July 1805, during which time Nelson was in pursuit of the French fleet, in the Mediterranean and then in the Atlantic.
Описание: First published between 1844 and 1846, this seven-volume collection of the letters of Lord Nelson (1758-1805) was assembled and edited by antiquarian, historian and former naval lieutenant Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1799-1848), using letters supplied to him by many of Nelson's correspondents. Nicolas was better known for his many works on genealogy and heraldry, but his own naval background drew him to this work. In Volume 1 he asserts that 'the life of a man is best described by himself' and Nelson is subsequently revealed to be a skilled and engaging correspondent. The books document Nelson's long and celebrated career in the Royal Navy, from his appointment as a lieutenant in 1777 to his death at Trafalgar in 1805. After 150 years Nicolas' edition is still considered to have been unsurpassed as a source for Nelson's life and career.
Описание: First published between 1844 and 1846, this seven-volume collection of letters documents the celebrated naval career of Lord Nelson in his own words. Volume 3 covers Nelson`s career during 1798 and 1799, including the battle of the Nile in August 1798.
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