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Taylor & Francis Digital Russia
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Taylor & Francis Rituals and Traditional Events in the Modern World
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Taylor & Francis Heritage Conservation and Japans Cultural Diplomacy Heritage National Identity and National Interest 53 Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
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Taylor & Francis Reading Lacans Écrits
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Taylor & Francis Reading Lacans Écrits
Book SynopsisThe Écrits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading Lacan's Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's Écrits to be published in English. An invaluable document in the history of psychoanalysis, and one of the most challenging intellectual works of the twentieth century, Lacan's Écrits still today begs the interpretative engagement of clinicians, scholars, philosophers and cultural theorists. The three volumes of Reading Lacan's Écrits offer just this: a series of systematic paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries by some of the world's most renowned Lacanian analysts and scholars on the complete edition of the Écrits, inclusive of lesser known articles such as Kant with Sade', The Youth of Gide', Science and Truth', Presentation on Transference' and BTrade Review"It all began with an improbable wager: ask 35 scholars to each write something intelligible about every single paragraph in one of the texts included in Jacques Lacan's magnum opus, Écrits, so as to generate a commentary on the entire 800-page volume. And yet, after years of preparation, the wager has paid off: we have here useful and at times brilliant examples of textual explication! Cryptic formulations are lucidly unpacked, and mysterious references are provided, giving the serious reader myriad keys to fascinating texts"-Bruce Fink, translator of Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English"Let’s face it: Lacan’s Écrits, one of the classical texts of modern thought are unreadable - they remain impenetrable if we just pick the thick volume up and start to read it. Neill, Vanheule and Hook provide what we were all waiting for: a detailed commentary which does not aim to replace reading ECRITS but to render it possible. The three volumes do wonder, their effect is no less than magic: when, after getting stuck at a particularly dense page of Écrits, we turn to the corresponding pages in the commentary and then return to the page of Écrits which pushed us to madness, the same lines appear in all the clarity of their line of thought. It is thus a safe prediction that Neill, Vanheule and Hook’s commentary will become a kind of permanent companion of the English translation of Écrits, indispensable for everyone who wants to find her or his way in its complex texture."-Slavoj Zizek"Lacan’s teaching is notoriously hard to access and comprehend. But this is done on purpose: to understanding the psyche, the subject and its interaction with socio-political reality cannot be a piecemeal operation. One needs to take into account the paradoxical and often counterintuitive effects of unconscious mechanisms, and of the extimate operation of the real within and beyond the symbolic and the imaginary. Coupling exegesis with multi-level interpretations, the numerous texts in this volume advance a commentary, both informative and suggestive, that will immensely help readers navigate the archipelago of the Lacanian Écrits, without reducing in the least their complexity and inspirational value, without sacrificing their ability to surprise, provoke and jolt us out of our complacency."-Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki"These essays will be an invaluable resource not only for those approaching the Écrits for the first time but also for seasoned readers. Broad in scope yet following the detail of the text, they help guide us through Lacan's difficult prose, elucidating, contextualising and clarifying, and reminding us time and time again of the precision, power and originality of his rethinking of psychoanalysis".-Darian Leader"It all began with an improbable wager: ask 35 scholars to each write something intelligible about every single paragraph in one of the texts included in Jacques Lacan's magnum opus, Écrits, so as to generate a commentary on the entire 800-page volume. And yet, after years of preparation, the wager has paid off: we have here useful and at times brilliant examples of textual explication! Cryptic formulations are lucidly unpacked, and mysterious references are provided, giving the serious reader myriad keys to fascinating texts"-Bruce Fink, translator of Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English"Let’s face it: Lacan’s Écrits, one of the classical texts of modern thought are unreadable - they remain impenetrable if we just pick the thick volume up and start to read it. Vanheule, Hook and Neill provide what we were all waiting for: a detailed commentary which does not aim to replace reading Écrits but to render it possible. The three volumes do wonder, their effect is no less than magic: when, after getting stuck at a particularly dense page of Écrits, we turn to the corresponding pages in the commentary and then return to the page of Écrits which pushed us to madness, the same lines appear in all the clarity of their line of thought. It is thus a safe prediction that Vanheule, Hook and Neill's commentary will become a kind of permanent companion of the English translation of Écrits, indispensable for everyone who wants to find her or his way in its complex texture."-Slavoj Zizek"Lacan’s teaching is notoriously hard to access and comprehend. But this is done on purpose: to understanding the psyche, the subject and its interaction with socio-political reality cannot be a piecemeal operation. One needs to take into account the paradoxical and often counterintuitive effects of unconscious mechanisms, and of the extimate operation of the real within and beyond the symbolic and the imaginary. Coupling exegesis with multi-level interpretations, the numerous texts in this volume advance a commentary, both informative and suggestive, that will immensely help readers navigate the archipelago of the Lacanian Écrits, without reducing in the least their complexity and inspirational value, without sacrificing their ability to surprise, provoke and jolt us out of our complacency."-Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki"These essays will be an invaluable resource not only for those approaching the Écrits for the first time but also for seasoned readers. Broad in scope yet following the detail of the text, they help guide us through Lacan's difficult prose, elucidating, contextualising and clarifying, and reminding us time and time again of the precision, power and originality of his rethinking of psychoanalysis".-Darian LeaderTable of ContentsIntroduction to ‘Reading Lacan's Écrits’: La trahison de l'écriture - Derek Hook, Calum Neill & Stijn Vanheule The Signification of the Phallus –Todd McGowan In Memory of Ernest Jones: On His Theory of Symbolism – Filip Geerardyn and Alain Pringels On An Ex Post Facto Syllabary –Yael Goldman Baldwin Some Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality – Eve Watson The Youth of Gide, or the Letter and Desire – Jean-Michel Rabaté Kant with Sade – Dany Nobus The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious – Fabio Vighi Position of the Unconscious – Paul Verhaeghe On Freud’s "Trieb" and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire – Theo Reeves-Evison Science and Truth – Ed Pluth Metaphor of the Subject – Stephanie Swales
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Taylor & Francis NeoVictorian Literature and Culture
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Taylor & Francis Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web
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Taylor & Francis German Cinema Terror and Trauma
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Taylor & Francis German Cinema Terror and Trauma
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Taylor & Francis Constraints and Adjustments in British Foreign Policy Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Performing Arts and Therapeutic Implications
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Taylor & Francis Law Psychoanalysis Society
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Taylor & Francis The Adaptation Industry
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Taylor & Francis Knowing Differently
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Constraints and Adjustments in British Foreign Policy Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Exploring the Senses
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Other in South Asian Religion Literature and Film Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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Taylor & Francis Global Justice and Desire
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Taylor & Francis A Female Poetics of Empire
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Taylor & Francis A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora
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Taylor & Francis Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance
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Taylor & Francis The Geography of Nostalgia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and Family in East Asia 05 Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
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Taylor & Francis Digital Labour and Karl Marx
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Taylor & Francis Digital Labour and Karl Marx
Book SynopsisHow is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and social media such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT industry. Relying on a range of global case studies--from Chinese workers at Foxconn Shenzhen to miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo--Fuchs sheds light on the labour costs of digital media, examining the way ICT corporations exploit human labour and the impact of this exploitation on the lives, bodies, and minds of workers.Trade Review"The field of cultural studies offers a natural window for looking more closely at the role of labor in digital media. Although some pioneers in cultural studies began important work with respect to labor, Fuchs carefully describes how cultural studies has increasingly distanced itself from questions of class. Fuchs does a remarkable job of using Marxist theory to reinvigorate the world of cultural studies. In short, the book is both encyclopedic and easily accessible. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - M Perelman, California State University, Chico, in CHOICETable of Contents1. Introduction 2. An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory 3. Contemporary Cultural Studies and Karl Marx 4. Dallas Smythe and Audience Labour Today 5. Capitalism or Information Society 6. Digital Slavery: Slave Work in ICT-Related Mineral Extraction 7. Exploitation at Foxconn: Primitive Accumulation and the Formal Subsumption of Labour 8. The Division of Labour of the New Imperialism: Work in the Indian Software Industry 9. The Silicon Valley of Dreams and Nightmares of Exploitation: The Google Labour Aristocracy and its Context 10. Tayloristic, Housewifised Service Labour: The Example of Call Centre Work 11. Theorising Digital Labour on Social Media 12. Digital Labour and Struggles for Digital Work--The Occupy Movement as a New Working Class Movement? Social Media as Working Class Social Media? Glossary
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Taylor & Francis The Oppressive Present
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet
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Taylor & Francis Social Networks and Music Worlds Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Taylor & Francis Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Childrens Literature
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Taylor & Francis The Greening of the City
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Taylor & Francis Phenomenology of Youth Cultures and Globalization
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Taylor & Francis Approaches to American Cultural Studies
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Taylor & Francis Inventive Methods
Book SynopsisSocial and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes.This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the contemporary world. Building on the increasing importance of methodologies that cut across disciplines, more than twenty expert authors explain the utility of 'devices' for social and cultural research â their essays cover such diverse devices as the list, the pattern, the event, the photograph, the tape recorder and the anecdote.This fascinating collection stresses the open-endedness of the social world, and explores the ways in which each device requires the user to reflect critically on the value and status of contemporary ways of making knowledge. With a range of genres and stylTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Perpetual Inventory. Anecdote. Category. Configuration. Experiment: Abstract Experimentalism. Experiment: The Experiment in Living. List. Number. Pattern. Pattern. Photo-Image. Phrase. Population. Probes. Screen. Set. Speculation. Tape Recorder.
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Taylor & Francis From Corporate to Social Media
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Taylor & Francis The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures Beyond Postcolonialism 33 Routledge Advances in Theatre Performance Studies
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Taylor & Francis LEGO Studies Examining the Building Blocks of a Transmedial Phenomenon
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Taylor & Francis Music in the Marketplace A social economics approach Routledge Advances in Social Economics
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Taylor & Francis Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Film and the Working Class The Feature Film in British and American Society Routledge Library Editions Cinema
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Taylor & Francis Masters of the Soviet Cinema Crippled Creative Biographies Routledge Library Editions Cinema
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Bourdieus Distinction
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Taylor & Francis Adaptive Rhetoric
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Happiness Illusion How the media sold us a fairytale
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Freuds Outstanding ColleagueJungs Twin Brother The suppressed psychoanalytic and political significance of Otto Gross
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Taylor & Francis Interpreting Japan
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Taylor & Francis Interpreting Japan
Book SynopsisWritten by an experienced teacher and scholar, this book offers university students a handy how to guide for interpreting Japanese society and conducting their own research. Stressing the importance of an interdisciplinary approach, Brian McVeigh lays out practical and understandable research approaches in a systematic fashion to demonstrate how, with the right conceptual tools and enough bibliographical sources, Japanese society can be productively analyzed from a distance.In concise chapters, these approaches are applied to a whole range of topics: from the aesthetics of street culture; the philosophical import of sci-fi anime; how the state distributes wealth; welfare policies; the impact of official policies on gender relations; updated spiritual traditions; why manners are so important; kinship structures; corporate culture; class; schooling; self-presentation; visual culture; to the subtleties of Japanese grammar. Examples from popular culture, daily life, and historicaTrade Review'Leading revisionist scholar Brian McVeigh has written a highly original book, synthesising his critical readings of Japanese society into an easily accessible format. This provocative text will stimulate class discussions, and enable students to gain a ready understanding of the key debates in Japanese studies. I recommend it very highly'. – Duncan McCargo, Professor of Political Science, University of Leeds, UK'Brian McVeigh’s book provides the new paradigm of Japanese Studies. All readers that are interested in Japan, shackled by several stereotypical views to Japan, involved in teaching, etc. will be thrilled with his brilliant insight towards various important issues about Japan.' – Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, Associate Professor, Yokohama National University, Japan'In this crisp introduction to Japan, students are provided with concepts that will help them make sense of a fascinating and complex society. By including in his scope imperial weddings, student uniforms, patterned etiquette, new religions, and manga icons, McVeigh introduces general readers to the breathtaking richness and diversity of contemporary cultural life.' – Laura Miller, Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Endowed Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA'Brian McVeigh distills twenty-five years of research, providing a thorough and fresh approach to viewing Japan through multiple lenses and locations. As much an introduction to classic social-scientific methods as a refreshing case study of Japanese culture and society, this useful book also includes numerous suggestions for further study.' – Debra J Occhi, Professor of Anthropology, Miyazaki International College, JapanTable of ContentsPrologue: To Students and Instructors Part 1: Approaches and Analytics 1. Myths: Images and Realities of Japan 2. Rituals: Understanding Patterned Practices and Behaviors 3. Exchange: Analyzing the Flow and Transfer of Goods and Values 4. Macro–Micro Levels: Linking the Everyday with Political Economic Institutions 5. Symbols: Interpreting Images, Representations, and Meanings 6. Identity: How Collectivities Configure a Sense of Self 7. Popular Culture: Arts, Entertainment, and Leisure as Interpretative Windows 8. Ownership: The Relationship Among Property, Politics, and Personhood 9. Embodiment: The Senses, Aesthetics, and Knowledge Formation 10. Theatrics: Social Life as Dramatization Part 2: Applications, Examples, and Illustrations 11. Schooling as an Exchange with the National State 12. The Rhythms and Organizations of Schooling 13. Social Mobility and Class in Japan 14. Japan’s Corporate Culture and Economic Liberty 15. Political Liberation: Examples from History and Art 16. Liberalist Ideologies and their Practice in Japan 17. Searching for "Authentic" Japanese Identity: Portrayals in Popular Art 18. Delineating the "Mainstream" Identity of the Japanese 19. The Symbolism of Spatial Experience 20. Making Sense of Sound: Japanese Auditory Symbolism 21. Conceptual Basics of the Japanese Language 22. How Japanese Encodes Time as Spatial Relations 23. How Political Economics Shapes Politeness 24. Manners and Morals in Everyday Life 25. Gender Relations in Popular Art: Commentary and Critical Appraisals 26. Cuteness: Daily Aesthetics as Resistance to Social Order 27. Changing Patterns and Perceptions of the Japanese Family 28. Japanese Spirituality: Purification and Festivals 29. The Vitalism of Japan’s New Religions 30. Technology, Time, and the Culture of the Copy 31. The Magic of Technology: Fears and Fantasies in Japanese Science Fiction 32. Royal Weddings: The Self-presentation of the State Epilogue: Lessons from Japan: The "Staginess" of Postmodern Social Life
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