Probably the most prominent living filmmaker, and one of the foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has received astonishingly little critical attention in the United States. With "Speaking about Godard", leading film theorist Kaja Silverman and filmmaker Harun Farocki have made one [...]
"Det var glest mellan lyktorna och deras bleka sken lyste inte upp så värst mycket. Lyftkranarna skymtade som mörka skuggor, en lampa framför porten till ett av lastskjulen kastade sitt sken över en stor vattenpöl, en grå katt strök jamande runt knuten... Hade det som vanligt legat en rad m[...]
"Prick tio nästa förmiddag kom Tobbe och Petter. - De måste vara fasligt angelägna om vårt sällskap, sade Lilian. Jag undrar så väldigt vad de har i kikarn! - Det gällde ju pengar till ett viktigt ändamål. Vad sjutton nu det kan vara för någonting?"[...]
"Avvinkade av Lasse och Tobbe, som hade avstått från sin lunchrast för att komma ner till stationen och säga adjö. Petter var kvar och »höll fästningen», som Lasse sa. Alla kunde ju inte vara lediga på samma gång. - Det var knappt att ni hade fått se oss heller, fortsatte Lasse. Det kom[...]
"Vi hade kommit ut på gläntan nu. Den lilla grå stugan var bebodd fortfarande. Det rök ur skorstenen och jag skymtade någon i fönstret. I nästa ögonblick flög dörren upp och någon rusade ut. Någon som tog snabba kliv för att komma framför oss. Någon med kamera..."[...]
Faith's friend and neighbor Pix Miller takes center stage, heading off to Norway to investigate the sudden disappearance of a family friend. Posing as a member of "Scandie Sights, " a Norwegian tour group, Pix is drawn into intrigue - and murder. She discovers a sinister world of secret histories an[...]
The topic of love is consistantly neglected within literary theory. Here, Silverman argues that love has a political role to play as well as a role within the psychic domain.[...]
"How Soon Is Now" features the work of leading contemporary photographers: Anne Collier, Liz Deschenes, Trisha Donnelly, Shannon Ebner, Roe Ethridge, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Fishli & Weiss, Annette Kelm, Darius Khondji, Elad Lassry, Leigh Ledare, Marlo Pascual, Gilad Ratman, Solmaz Shahbazi, Kazuo Shin[...]
The Industrial Revolution has become all-out war as mad scientists, gifted with the Spark, unleash their insane inventions on an unprepared Europe. For centuries, the Heterodyne family of inventors kept the peace, but the last Heterodyne disappeared twenty years ago, leaving their ally Baron Wulfenb[...]
Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Plato's parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called "world love," the possibility and necessity [...]
What is a woman? What is a man? How do they - and how should they - relate to each other? Does our yearning for 'wholeness' refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and literature have increasingly valorized uniquen[...]
"The Miracle of Analogy" is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor co[...]
In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, "Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle" begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family s ca[...]
In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, "Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle" begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family s ca[...]
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare, Mad Science rules the world? with mixed success. With the help of Krosp, Emperor of All Cats, Agatha has escaped from the massive airship known as Castle Wulfenbach. After crashing their escape dirigible, Agatha and Krosp f[...]
The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. Sixteen years have passed since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over ? and terrorizing ? the h[...]
The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. It has been eighteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over - and terrorizing - the [...]
Intrigue! Subterfuge! Circus Folk! In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare, mad science rules the world...with mixed success. With the help of Krosp, Emperor of All Cats, Agatha has escaped from the massive airship known as Castle Wulfenbach. After crashing their [...]
In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family's cast[...]