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Fabricando corpos: ficção e tecnologia

Fabricando corpos: ficção e tecnologia

by:

I Tucherman

RESUMO Desdobramento dos extensos estudos da autora sobre a ficção científica
no cinema como narrativa representativa do mundo contemporâneo, o artigo enfoca
especificamente as questões re- lacionadas ao corpo humano e à tecnologia  ...

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The Paul Virilio reader

The Paul Virilio reader

by:

S Redhead

The Paul Virilio reader. Redhead, S (2004) The Paul Virilio reader. Edinburgh
University Press, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 0748620036. Full ...

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Life on the Screen

Life on the Screen

by:

S Turkle

Teaching writing has never been more exciting as Internet-based computer
classrooms enable us to change the faces of our pedagogies, while at the same
time casting our students' and our own identities headfirst into the fluid  ...

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Identity in the globalising world

Identity in the globalising world

by:

Z Bauman

‘There has been a veritable discursive explosion in recent years around the
concept of “identity”’ – observed Stuart Hall in the introduction to a
volume of studies published in 1996. 1 A few years have passed since that  ...

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Community

Community

by:

Z Bauman

The Community CRD 1 is the introductory course to the Community and Regional
Development major in Community and Human Development. It also satisfies
university general education requirements in the social sciences. The  ...

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Liquid fear

Liquid fear

by:

Z Bauman

The right of Zygmunt Bauman to be identified as Author of this Work has been
asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  ...
Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK 

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Globalization: The human consequences

Globalization: The human consequences

by:

Z Bauman

Contents Introduction 1 1 Time and Class 6 Absentee landlords, mark II Freedom
of movement and the self-constitution of societies New speed, new polarization 2
Space Wars: a Career Report 27 The battle of the maps From mapping space to  ...

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The postmodern condition

The postmodern condition

by:

JF Lyotard

Page 169. 79 The Postmodern Condition* Jean-Frangois Lyotard * Source: J.-F.
Lyotard (l984) The Postmodern Condition (trans. G. Bennington ...

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A sociedade de consumo

A sociedade de consumo

by:

J Baudrillard

SIDALC - Sistema de Informacion y Documentacion Agropecuaria de las Americas.

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The system of objects

The system of objects

by:

J Benedict, J Baudrillard

First published by Verso 1996 This edition published by Verso 2005 Translation
© James Benedict 1996, 2005 First published as Le systeme ties objets ©
Editions Gallimard 1968 All rights reserved Published with the financial  ...

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Simulacra and simulation

Simulacra and simulation

by:

J Baudrillard

THE BODY, IN THEORY HISTORIES OF CULTURAL MATERIALISM The Subject as Action:
Transformation and Totality in Narrative Aesthetics by Alan Singer Power and
Knowledge: Astrology, Physiognomies, and Medicine under the Roman Empire by  ...

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Media culture: Cultural studies, identity and politics between the modern and the postmodern

Media culture: Cultural studies, identity and politics between the modern and the postmodern

by:

D Kellner

Media Culture develops methods and analyses of contemporary film, television,
music, and other artifacts to discern their nature and effects. The book argues
that media culture is now the dominant form of culture which socializes us  ...

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The language of new media

The language of new media

by:

L Manovich

LEONARDO Roger F. Aialina, series editor Designing Information Technology,
Richard Coyne, 1995 Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the
Romance of the Real, Richard Coyne, 1999 The Visual Mind, edited by Michele  ...

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A poetics of postmodernism: history, theory, fiction

A poetics of postmodernism: history, theory, fiction

by:

L Hutcheon

Page 1. POETICSOF HISTORY THEORY FICTION HU Page 2. A POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM
'T hls O ne C04C-ENF-31XZ Page 3. A POETICS OF POSTMODERNISM HISTORY, THEORY FICTION
LINDA HUTCHEON 11 Routledge B m Ta y (or & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK ...

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Postscript on the Societies of Control

Postscript on the Societies of Control

by:

G Deleuze

Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth 
... ("you are no longer at school"); then the factory; from time to time the
hospital;  ... But what Foucault recognized as well was the transience of  ...

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Homo ludens: A study of the play-element in culture

Homo ludens: A study of the play-element in culture

by:

J Huizinga

Page 1. HOMO LUDENS Page 2. Thi s O ne TFGO-DHK-E3LR Page 3. The International
Library of Sociology HOMO LUDENS Founded by KARL MANNHEIM Page 4. The International
Library ofSociology THE SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE In 9 Volumes ...

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Rhetoric of the Image

Rhetoric of the Image

by:

R Barthes

According to an ancient etymology, the word image should be linked to the root
imitari. Thus we find ourselves immediately at the heart of the most important
problem facing the semiology of images: can analogical representation (the  ...

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From work to text

From work to text

by:

R Barthes

From Work to Text Roland Barthes Roland Barthes (1915-1980) Born in Cherbourg,
France, Roland Barthes died at the age of 64 after being hit by a laundry truck.
He earned degrees in classical literature (1939) and grammar and philosophy  ...

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Elements of semiology

Elements of semiology

by:

C Smith, A Lavers, R Barthes

Page 1. Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes http://www.marxists.org/reference/
subject/philosophy/works/fr/barthes.htm 1 of 23 12/8/2004 3:59 PM Roland Barthes
(1964) Elements of Semiology Source: Elements of Semiology, 1964, publ. ...

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The death of the author

The death of the author

by:

R Barthes

The Death of the Author Roland Barthes In his story Sarrasine Balzac, describing
a castrato disguised as a woman, writes the following sentence:'This was woman
herself, with her sudden fears, her irrational whims, her instinctive  ...

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Image, music, text

Image, music, text

by:

S Heath, R Barthes

The Photographic Message The press photograph is a message. Considered overall
this message is formed by a source of emission, a channel of transmission and a
point of reception. The source of emission is the staff of the newspaper,  ...

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Mythologies

Mythologies

by:

R Barthes

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Apocalittici e integrati

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Opera aperta

Opera aperta

by:

U Eco

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Interpretation and overinterpretation

Interpretation and overinterpretation

by:

U Eco

... of interpretation. Thi s On * W LKB - 4 L2 - 1 D9J Page 3. INTERPRETATION
AND OVERINTERPRETATION Page 4. Cambridge University Press ...

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