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Closet 2018 (Paperback)
Elizabeth Glickfeld, Anna Bates; Designed by Sara De Bondt, Mark El-khatib; Text written by Alice Twemlow, …
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Affinities (Paperback)
Brian Dillon
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What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture,
or say affinities exist between such
things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of
a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has
aspects of all. Approaching this subject via discrete examples,
this book is first of all about images that have stayed with the
author over many years, or grown in significance during months of
pandemic isolation, when the visual field had shrunk. Some are
historical works by artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Dora
Maar, Claude Cahun, Samuel Beckett and Andy Warhol. Others are
scientific or vernacular images: sea creatures, migraine auras,
astronomical illustrations derived from dreams. Also family
photographs, film stills, records of atomic ruin. And contemporary
art by Rinko Kawauchi, Susan Hiller and John Stezaker. Written as a
series of linked essays, interwoven with a reflection on affinity
itself, Affinities is an extraordinary book about the
intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking.
In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the
oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays
prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein,
John Ruskin to Joan Didion - the book explores style, voice, and
language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise
in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges,
Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the
art of the sentence in literature. Whether the sentence in question
is a rigorous expression of a state of vulnerability, extremity,
even madness, or a carefully calibrated arrangement, Dillon
examines not only how it works and why but also, in the course of
the book, what the sentence once was, what it is today, and what it
might become tomorrow.
This title was first published in 2000: A study of the diffusion
and effective use of ICT in industry in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania
and Ukraine. It explores quantitative and qualitative overviews of
the current state of affairs with respect to computer-networking in
industry, and examines prospects and obstacles.
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Essayism (Paperback)
Brian Dillon
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Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a
trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the
future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay
wants above all to wander, but also to arrive at symmetry and
wholeness; it nurses competing urges to integrity and disarray,
perfection and fragmentation, confession and invention. How to
write about essays and essayists while staying true to these
contradictions? Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book
about the genre, its history and contemporary possibilities. It's
an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and
digressive, exacting yet evasive, a form that would instruct,
seduce and mystify in equal measure. Among the essayists to whom he
pays tribute - from Virginia Woolf to Georges Perec, Joan Didion to
Sir Thomas Browne - Brian Dillon discovers a path back into his own
life as a reader, and out of melancholia to a new sense of writing
as adventure.
This title was first published in 2000: A study of the diffusion
and effective use of ICT in industry in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania
and Ukraine. It explores quantitative and qualitative overviews of
the current state of affairs with respect to computer-networking in
industry, and examines prospects and obstacles.
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In the Dark Room (Paperback)
Brian Dillon; Foreword by Frances Wilson
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Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly
scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory
works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism
of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother
when he was sixteen, his father when he was on the cusp of
adulthood and of trying, after a breakdown some years later, to
piece things together. Drawing on the lessons of centuries of
literature, philosophy and visual art, Dillon interprets the relics
of his parents and of his childhood in a singularly original and
arresting piece of writing reissued for the first time since its
original publication in 2005, and including a new foreword from
prize-winning biographer Frances Wilson.
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Gabriel Kuri - sorted, resorted (Hardcover)
Gabriel Kuri; Text written by Cathleen Chaffee, Brian Dillon, Zoe Gray, Dirk Snauwaert; Edited by …
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Charlotte Bronte found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an
escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions
for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his
body was being colonized and transformed at the hands of God and
doctors alike. Andy Warhol was terrified by disease and by the idea
of disease. Glenn Gould claimed a friendly pat on his shoulder had
destroyed his ability to play piano. And we all know someone who
has trawled the Internet in solitude, seeking to pinpoint the
source of his or her fantastical symptoms.
"The Hypochondriacs "is a book about fear and hope, illness and
imagination, despair and creativity. It explores, in the stories of
nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it is
mediated by the experience, or simply the terror, of being ill.
And, in an intimate investigation of those lives, it shows how the
mind can make a prison of the body by distorting our sense of
ourselves as physical beings. Through witty, entertaining, and
often moving examinations of the lives of these eminent
hypochondriacs--James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin,
Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel
Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol--Brian Dillon brilliantly
unravels the tortuous connections between real and imagined
illness, irrational fear and rational concern, the mind's aches and
the body's ideas.
'It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down' - Hilary
Mantel, Guardian Books of the Year Brian Dillon looks at nine
prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles
Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James,
Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives
tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body.
His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he
tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping.
With a new afterword on Michael Jackson. Brian Dillon's first book,
In the Dark Room, won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction in 2006.
He lives in Canterbury.
A masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place:
shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize In
April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the
Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the
Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108
people and injured many more. In a brilliant piece of storytelling,
Brian Dillon recreates the events of that terrible day - and, in so
doing, sheds a fresh and unexpected light on the British home front
in the Great War. He offers a chilling natural history of
explosives and their effects on the earth, on buildings, and on
human and animal bodies. And he evokes with vivid clarity one of
Britain's strangest and most remarkable landscapes - where he has
been a habitual explorer for many years. The Great Explosion is a
profound work of narrative, exploration and inquiry from one of our
most brilliant writers. 'The Great Explosion is exhilarating and
moving and lyrical. It is a quiet evisceration of a landscape
through the discovery of a lost history of destructiveness, a
meditation on Englishness, an autobiography, a mapping of absences.
I loved it.' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
''What a fascinating, unclassifiable, brilliant book, confirming
Brian Dillon's reputation as one of our most innovative and elegant
non-fictioneers. No one else could have written it.' Robert
Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways 'Forensic, fascinating,
endlessly interesting' Philip Hoare, Samuel Johnson Prize-winning
author of Leviathan andThe Sea Inside 'A subtle, human history of
the early twentieth century ... Explosions are a fruitful subject
in Dillon's hands, one that enables him to reflect movingly on the
instant between life and death, on the frailty of human endeavour,
and on the readiness of nations to tear one another apart. The
Great Explosion deftly covers a tumultuous period of history while
centring on the tiniest moments - just punctuation marks in time'
Financial Times '[Dillon's] account of the Faversham explosion is
as bold as it is dramatic, while his descriptive passages about the
marshlands of Kent are so evocative that you can practically feel
the mud sticking at your feet' Evening Standard 'A brilliant
evocation of place grasped in its modernity' Guardian 'Dillon ...
has a WG Sebald-like gift for interrogating the landscape ... a
work of real elegiac seriousness that goes to the heart of a case
of human loss and destruction in England's sinister pastures green'
Ian Thomson, Irish Times 'Exhilarating ... utterly beguiling'
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