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Millennial movements do not always go boom and bust. As innovative
responses to worlds in crisis or projections of possibilities for a
world in the doldrums, millennialism has been a prime mover for
many an artistic and scientific vision of the world reconfigured.
Flourishing well beyond the life of any prophet, bearing fruit well
beyond the waning of any redemptive scheme, these visions merit a
history of their own. The End that Does tracks the interplay of the
arts, the sciences, and millennial imagination across 3000 years of
surprising conclusions.
Millennial movements do not always go boom and bust. As innovative
responses to worlds in crisis or projections of possibilities for a
world in the doldrums, millennialism has been a prime mover for
many an artistic and scientific vision of the world reconfigured.
Flourishing well beyond the life of any prophet, bearing fruit well
beyond the waning of any redemptive scheme, these visions merit a
history of their own. The End that Does tracks the interplay of the
arts, the sciences, and millennial imagination across 3000 years of
surprising conclusions.
A groundbreaking examination of the "double" in modern and
contemporary art From ancient mythology to contemporary cinema, the
motif of the double-which repeats, duplicates, mirrors, inverts,
splits, and reenacts-has captured our imaginations, both attracting
and repelling us. The Double examines this essential concept
through the lens of art, from modernism to contemporary
practice-from the paired paintings of Henri Matisse and Arshile
Gorky, to the double line works of Piet Mondrian and Marlow Moss,
to Eva Hesse's One More Than One, Lorna Simpson's Two Necklines,
Roni Horn's Pair Objects, and Rashid Johnson's The New Negro
Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Emmett). James Meyer's survey
text explores four modes of doubling: Seeing Double through
repetition; Reversal, the inversion or mirroring of an image or
form; Dilemma, the staging of an absurd or impossible choice; and
the Divided and Doubled Self (split and shadowed selves, personae,
fraternal doubles, and pairs). Thought-provoking essays by leading
scholars Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tom Gunning, W.J.T. Mitchell, Hillel
Schwartz, Shawn Michelle Smith, and Andrew Solomon discuss a host
of topics, including the ontology and ethics of the double, the
double and psychoanalysis, double consciousness, the doppelganger
in silent cinema, and the queer double. Richly illustrated
throughout, The Double is a multifaceted exploration of an enduring
theme in art, from painting and sculpture to photography, film,
video, and performance. Published in association with the National
Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule National Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC July 10-October 31, 2022
Listening across millennia, a cultural historian explores the
process by which noise today has become as powerfully
metaphorical-and intriguing-as the original Babel. When did the
"silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a
sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and
that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who?
Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and
political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in
the Western experience and understanding of noise. From the
uproarious junior gods of Babylonian epics to crying infants heard
over baby monitors, from doubly mythic Echo to amplifier feedback,
from shouts frozen in Rabelaisian air to the squawk of loudspeakers
and the static of shortwave radio, Making Noise follows "unwanted
sound" on its surprisingly revealing path through terrains domestic
and industrial, urban and rural, legal and religious, musical and
medical, poetic and scientific. At every stage, readers can hear
the cultural reverberations of the historical soundwork of
actresses, admen, anthropologists, astronomers, builders,
composers, dentists, economists, engineers, filmmakers, firemen,
grammar school teachers, jailers, nurses, oceanographers, pastors,
philosophers, poets, psychologists, and the writers of children's
books. Drawing upon such diverse sources as the archives of
antinoise activists and radio advertisers, catalogs of fireworks
and dental drills, letters and daybooks of physicists and
physicians, military manuals and training films, travel diaries and
civil defense pamphlets, as well as museum collections of bells,
ear trumpets, megaphones, sirens, stethoscopes, and street organs,
Schwartz traces the process by which noise today has become as
powerfully metaphorical as the original Babel. Endnotes and
bibliography are not included in the physical book but are
available online at the MIT Press Web site.
A novel attempt to make sense of our preoccupation with copies of
all kinds-from counterfeits to instant replay, from parrots to
photocopies. The Culture of the Copy is a novel attempt to make
sense of the Western fascination with replicas, duplicates, and
twins. In a work that is breathtaking in its synthetic and critical
achievements, Hillel Schwartz charts the repercussions of our
entanglement with copies of all kinds, whose presence alternately
sustains and overwhelms us. This updated edition takes notice of
recent shifts in thought with regard to such issues as biological
cloning, conjoined twins, copyright, digital reproduction, and
multiple personality disorder. At once abbreviated and refined, it
will be of interest to anyone concerned with problems of
authenticity, identity, and originality. Through intriguing, and at
times humorous, historical analysis and case studies in
contemporary culture, Schwartz investigates a stunning array of
simulacra: counterfeits, decoys, mannequins, and portraits; ditto
marks, genetic cloning, war games, and camouflage; instant replays,
digital imaging, parrots, and photocopies; wax museums, apes, and
art forgeries-not to mention the very notion of the Real McCoy.
Working through a range of theories on biological, mechanical, and
electronic reproduction, Schwartz questions the modern esteem for
authenticity and uniqueness. The Culture of the Copy shows how the
ethical dilemmas central to so many fields of endeavor have become
inseparable from our pursuit of copies-of the natural world, of our
own creations, indeed of our very selves. The book is an innovative
blend of microsociology, cultural history, and philosophical
reflection, of interest to anyone concerned with problems of
authenticity, identity, and originality. Praise for the first
edition "[T]he author... brings his considerable synthetic powers
to bear on our uneasy preoccupation with doubles, likenesses,
facsimiles, replicas and re-enactments. I doubt that these cultural
phenomena have ever been more comprehensively or more creatively
chronicled.... [A] book that gets you to see the world anew,
again." -The New York Times "A sprightly and disconcerting piece of
cultural history" -Terence Hawkes, London Review of Books "In The
Culture of the Copy, [Schwartz] has written the perfect book:
original and repetitive at once." -Todd Gitlin, Los Angeles Times
Book Review
Called to the bedside of someone critically or chronically ill,
what should you bring, what can you do, what must you know, what
will you say? Likely you've already sat with a grandparent, parent,
brother, sister, lover, or friend in a hospital or nursing home and
found yourself disturbed by certain medical protocols, mystified by
lab reports, frustrated by insurance forms, benumbed by
pharmocracy, thinking taboo thoughts about life or loss, and
yourself on the verge of falling sick. LONG DAYS, LAST DAYS is for
all of us who sooner or later will be sitting for hours with
someone we love, senses heightened in the moment but all the while
trying to imagine what lies ahead. Arranged alphabetically, this
guide offers astute, practical, single-page entries on 200 topics
including Advocacy, Checklists, Directives, Gatekeeping, Hospice,
Intensive Care, Laughter, Medicine Cabinets, Mutual Peril,
Overnight Bags, Pain relief, Sadness, Sex, Waiting, Wills, Young
People, and Zero Visibility. You can learn to distinguish Acuteness
from Emergency from Urgency, what to do with Blankets and Pillows,
where to seek Help, how to hire caregivers, and what questions to
ask Agencies, Nurses, Physicians, Social Workers. You may be
curious as to why Keys, Nails, Teeth, and Tubes take on such
significance. And you may be anxious to know how best, meanwhile,
to attend to your own needs. As a case manager, Hillel Schwartz has
worked with clients, families, and friends confronting brain
injury, breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin
lymphoma, heart disease, kidney failure, paralysis, stroke, and
Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, as well as with households coping
with dialysis, colostomies, paraplegia, memory loss. As an
historian of medicine and technology, he can put in social and
cultural context the language, traditions, and expectations that
are often at odds among patients, nurses, internists, specialists,
surgeons, and caregivers. All of this is reflected in the rich text
of LONG DAYS, LAST DAYS, which has an extensive index and links to
online resources and further reading/viewing. It is also thoroughly
internally hyperlinked so that readers may move easily across
associated topics, as from Noise to Snoring to Roommates to
Respite. Unlike books on death and dying, spiritual communion or
grief and bereavement, this guide takes into account the entire
environment of the bedside, its shifting calendar and climate, its
terrain and geography, its sense of presence and absence, its
contests and compromises, its physical and ethical demands, and the
relationships forged or strained, assumed or resumed. Long Days may
not necessarily move through Last Months to Last Breaths, but for
days, weeks, or months the bedside has its own ecology, for which
few of us are ever fully prepared. Read in draft versions by dozens
of laypeople as well as family physicians and neurologists, hospice
nurses and psychologists, psychiatric social workers, sociologists,
and social philosophers, LONG DAYS, LAST DAYS has been found to be
equally useful for friends, families, and professionals, for those
new to the bedside as for those returning yet again. Open it to a
topic of immediate concern and follow the links. . . or look for
subjects that have puzzled you in the past . . . or read it from
start to finish in anticipation of what you may need to know in a
not-so-distant future. Some entries are meditative, some sheerly
informative; some are forthright, some celebratory; some ask for
boldness, some for reflection. All told, they help ground and
empower each of us in our times at the bedside, helping those we
love, palm resting lightly, warmly, on the Breastbone.
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