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Attentive observation of art provides an excellent opportunity for better thinking, for the cultivation of the "art of intelligence." The arts are important in an educational setting, therefore, because they can cultivate important thinking strategies in children and adults alike. With
carefully chosen illustrations, Perkins demonstrates how the reflective approach to art can develop broader, more adventurous, and clearer avenues of thought.
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excellent content in a brief package.......2006-10-09
Recently I bought at least 5 books regarding the modern art analysis. May be this one is the book that most cleverly resolved the question on how to approach the complex modern art. It presents a strategy to open up your mind and get the most of every piece of art that you confront in a museum or a gallery. It does not dwell upon art history but emphasize on what to look and how to look. Unfortunately, at the end of its barely 90 pages, you ended asking for more.
Intelligent Eye.......2006-03-14
This book is interesting for artists. It opens up your mind for different ways of thinking.
Learn to use Reflective Thinking while looking at art!.......2000-06-27
The Intelligent Eye is a great way to teach students (or anyone) how to think by looking at artwork! This book has an easy to read, conversational style to it as it shares some very basic truths about thinking.
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English Delftware in the Bristol Collection
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Taking Your Pet to the Vet
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Garfield. Peanuts. The New Yorker. The Far Side. These are just a few of the sources for Taking Your Pet to the Vet, a collection of cartoons from more than 200 strips, panels, and other drawings from the best cartoonists in the world. Included are the eerie art of Playboy cartoonist Gahan Wilson, who puts a werewolf in a vet's waiting room; the homey newspaper comic strips of For Better or For Worse's Lynn Johnston, featuring the effects of a huge sheepdog on a small family; and comedy from B. Kliban, whose cat books and calendars have been an international favorite. From a Hindi vet who applies an unconventional method to pull an elephant's tooth to a dog free-associating on a psychiatrist's couch, from a shark's day at the dentist to a snake all tied up in knots, this book delivers a wide assortment of laughs for any pet owner.
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Dogs Do the Silliest Things
Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
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Here come the canines at their comical best! Dogs are wonderfully photogenic, whether they’re pedigreed or ordinary mongrels ... whether they’re as large as a St. Bernard or as tiny as a Chihuahua. This attractive little book presents an often charming, always hilarious collection of dog photos, each accompanied by a witty adage or a clever observation by a well-known personality. With funny photos on every two-page spread, here is a wonderful gift book, an interlude for smiles for every reader who owns a dog or wishes he could have one.
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Makes a cute gift.......2006-01-02
This book is a little cutey, with great pooch pics and well-chosen quotes to accompany the photos. Would make a lovely small gift for the dog-lover in your life. For a more substantial book for gift-giving to the canine-captivated, I thoroughly recommend 101 Salivations by Rachel Hale.
Typical fun book.......2005-02-10
A small picture book that is sure to bring a smile to your face, Dogs Do the Silliest Things has pictures of dogs on one page and an appropriate quote on the opposite one. You will recognize the things that make a dog such a wonderful pet time and time again as you leaf through the pages. The pictures are well done and do an excellent job of capturing the true nature of dogs. Dogs Do the Silliest Things is a recommended diversion from life into the world of dogs.
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This songbook features tab transcriptions for all the songs from the debut album resulting from the punk side project of blink-182 members Travis Barker and Thomas DeLonge. Includes: All Systems Go * And I * Cat like Thief * Elevator * The End with You * I Feel So * Instrumental * Letters to God * My First Punk Song * Sorrow * There Is * Tiny Voices * Watch the World.
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Title: Racers on a roll!(Perrin Norris, Soap Box Derby 2004 champion )(Interview)
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Russia and America: A Philosophical Comparison (Sovietica)
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Title: Passing the Torch: The Influence of Economic Incentives on Work and Retirement. (book reviews)
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Firepower: A History of the American Heavy Tank
R. P. Hunnicutt
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The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it.
In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking his cue from Foucault’s fragmentary analysis of biopolitics, Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotle’s notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state), a notion of sovereignty as power over “life” is implicit.
The reason it remains merely implicit has to do, according to Agamben, with the way the sacred, or the idea of sacrality, becomes indissociable from the idea of sovereignty. Drawing upon Carl Schmitt’s idea of the sovereign’s status as the exception to the rules he safeguards, and on anthropological research that reveals the close interlinking of the sacred and the taboo, Agamben defines the sacred person as one who can be killed and yet not sacrificed—a paradox he sees as operative in the status of the modern individual living in a system that exerts control over the collective “naked life” of all individuals.
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The Body = The Nation.......2006-12-13
I was first introduced to this text in one of my college courses. I'm not quite familiar with all of Agamben's theory on power, but I have read portions of, "The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern." This text I found to be weighty and at times difficult to read, but it sparked an interest in me to read more. I would like to contribute to the reviews with a simple interpretation of a few things that I read.
I'm intrigued with Agamben's idea of how society creates the category of the devalued through the category of the valued. An example of this categorical sorting is how the Nazis created this category of the devalued with the Jewish people, thus raising their own status of the valued. The Nazis were able to gain control/domination through the use of their concentration camps. By labeling others in society as lower than oneself, one can easily determine whether one's life is worth keeping around.
Another interesting point is how one's body/identity doesn't belong to that person, but rather the government and society owns that body. An example is of the creation of our American society, which came about through the killing of the Native Americans and bringing in of Slaves to further gain land and power. By controlling and taking over the body, the new America was created. It's fascinating to think of one's identity and body as one with the nation/government through citizenship, yet there are many examples within our own American society. America has taken citizenship away and than contradicted itself to ask the non-citizen to contribute to our causes (i.e. "war" or "economy"). An example of this control over citizenship is related to the Japanese-American internment camps during WWII. Once in these camps, Japanese-Americans' rights as a citizen were taken, than the government asked if they would fight for America. Thus the Japanese-Americans would have to prove themselves worthy of being a citizen/body of the United States of America.
Homo Sacer is a must read........2006-06-06
Agamben's best known work lives up to the hype. One of the most powerful aspects of this book is its shocking predictions about the world to come. Published many years before the initiation of the war on terror, Agamben signals the beginning the of a style of governance built on permanent exception. He insists that the extermination of the Jewx by the Nazis was not simply a horrible enigma that should never return, rather biopolitical atrocities have continued to intensify. This book is a must read for any person interested in understanding how the deep seated structure of sovereignty and its spatio-temporal course through power relations have brought us to the seeming limit poit of exception become rule. A handbook for contemporary politics. This is a great book.
Political Ontology and Bio-Politics.......2005-11-29
Agamben begins his inquiry into sovereignty in the light of the problematic left to contemporary political ontology via Hobbes, Schmitt, and up to Heidegger (Dasein being that being who's very being is always at stake for that being, and ontological difference), post Heideggerian political thought (Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Derrida) and finally Foucault's bio-politics. While Agamben's criticisms of these thinkers is brief (and somewhat reductive) it does serve the importance of situating his own conception of bio-politics, sovereignty and life as a radicalized "state of exception".
The Logic of Sovereignty is not one of a mere inclusion of beings into a political sphere or form of life specific to it (bios) which emerges or is transformed from an originary bare life (zoe). Rather Sovereignty establishes itself as "sacred" or "set apart" from the polis. There is nothing legal about law, in that the very founding moment of political ontology is apolitical and extra-juridical (because there is no normative law that has been set up yet). Benjamin distinguishes between two forms of violence (constituting and constituted). However, while the Sovereign constituting power of law must claim to be wholly outside the law in order to have created it, it must also regulate and constitute its power through law itself, thus including itself within the law. The Paradox of Sovereignty then is that its life is an "inclusion through exclusion". The signifier of law is absent (or non-signifying form) but is signified through this very non-signification of absence.
Homo Sacer then is the non-criminal criminal , the "extra-juridical" exception that is designated by the sovereign. The homo sacer can be legally killed by any person but is not a juridical killing. That is to say, killing the sacred human is not homicide nor is it sacrifice. The norm of political subjects are set against the exception of the homo sacer, but also included in the norm in its very opposition and ability to exile homo sacer. Agamben sees homo sacer and the sovereign to have this very inclusion by exception in common. Both the Sovereign and homo sacer can be killed but not sacrificed. (It is not a legal issue to kill a King but rather a heretical or anti-juridical one in this account). The Werewolf (half man and wolf inside the city and outside of it, man and animal, political and non-political) and the Sovereign, the inside and outside become an "indistinction" which no longer holds up for modern politics.
The Camp is the modern political space or "coming to light" of this "indistinction" between nature and law in the form of bio-politics. Modern politics as bio-politics takes life as what is at stake for its own life. Bare life as the state of exception, or the sacred, now becomes the rule. As for homo sacer everyone was sovereign, for the sovereign everyone is homo sacer. "The Enemy" as constitutive outside to the norm of civil society now becomes the inside in a society as war carried out by other means (politics). Society as life itself is the `enemy outside which is inside'. In fact, it was the rule from the inception of western politics. The camp then refers to the Nazi bio-political movement where law and fact are indistigusihable. The "suspension of law" and "states of emergency" are not purely juridical, and the holocaust cannot be understood in terms of law alone, but can only be understood as the indefinite suspension necessary for sovereign power to kill without crime, and without sacrifice.
One of the strengths of Homo Sacer is that it is able to weave the problems of political ontology together with the historico-political configurations and aporias of Nazism/mythology/capitalism/ and statism. In a subtle way Agamben is challenging the whole of contemporary political ontology to begin to rethink politics in terms of (actual)potentiality: (Life). Bio-politics as the state of exception (as rule) is no longer oriented toward the impossibility of the law (as form of the law without signification) but is rather concerned with the form-of-life (as indistinction/exception). A political ontology that is not concerned with the impossibility of laying claim to bare life as such, or the fascist mobilization of its totality and implementation, but rather with the practical creation and proliferation of non-statist, non-hierarchical experimentations in political practices that would create new ways of living and maximize the diversity of lives that would decide these ways. Life as potentiality (never reducible to any given definition or determination (totalitarianism) always calls for the emergence of a new politics of the actual, pointing always to the inexustablity/infinity of Life itself.
Critique of Agamben's somewhat reductive (although appropriate) critique of Heidigger, Battaille, Nancy, Derrida etc. aside for a moment, what remains a gapping hole in this work is the complete lack of eco-critical perspective on life. Almost every time Agamben speaks of life it is always in terms of a human life (a human political refugee, a proletariat, the life of a human political body, or a human sovereign king or people). It is his call for the creation of a people (resonances with Deleuze here) that he seems to close up his work on life. His very inquiry into the `open' of Bare Life (potentiality) as always political (indistinction) is closed up through the work in his neglect of animal, plant, and non-organic life, and hierarchical (statist?) (almost humanist) privileging of the bios politicos of the human.
Interesting but Problematic.......2005-05-23
Agamben's sets up his work in the left-open space of Foucault's work, the void in which "subjectivization" (the internalization of the order into the individual psyche)and police/political strategies might intersect. It is this void that Agamben desires to write, a (non)place in which "life" is incorporated into the political order. Agamben goes about this by beginning with a reading of Greek and Roman philosophical and poetic texts and weaving a continuity from these early works through the works of Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and Jacques Derrida. The continuity he describes is that of sovereignty founded upon the "suspension" of "bare life." "Life," here, is "natural life," natural being that element (like the referent in language) that is the always already included absence (or as Agamben calls it the "exclusive inclusion"). This relation of suspension also creates the possibility of the "state of exception," a space in which the force of law is exerted outside of law.
This state in which the law is outside of itself allows for a renewal of the force of law, it transforms the law through its absence. Such a process involves the creation of sacred life, the life that can be killed without sacrifice and without guilt. It is from here that Agamben takes a look at the concentration camp and comes to the conclusion that this exceptional state of political life is in fact the norm of our contemporary reality: the exception has become the rule. "Life" in modern times is the life in the camp, whether it be in a totalitarian regime or one of mass democracy.
The strengths and faults of Agamben's lie in this continuity of sovereingty. On the one hand, it provides a discourse (indeed, a kind of meta-discourse) for placing philosophy and politics in relation to each other. It makes a poignant argument for the politicization of life as not merely a modern affair (as Foucault largely situates it) but, in fact, the founding moment of Western civilization, of the civis and the polis. However, this poignancy is also the achilles heel of Agamben's argument. Agamben's argument accounts for modernity as a "coming into light" of life's incorporation in politics. This subordination of modernity to a realization of what was already there is reductive to the point of excluding some of Foucault's most interesting insights into the diagramming (or beuraucratization) of life. In other words, much of Agamben's argument seems to derive its powers from excluding particularities. (This exclusion of particularities extends to a reductive reading of Derrida's "The Force of Law.")
Don't get me wrong, Agamben's work is important, especially his considerations of Walter Benjamin and Aristotle. Like Benjamin, he raises the stakes. Revolution becomes not merely the transition of one state to another but an eradication of the state that must also involve a revolution of language. Like, Benjamin in his "Critique of Violence," this transformation is ambiguous. Agamben locates it in the sphere of ontology's limits: the revolution will deconstruct the difference of world and person and of pure being and being. It will heal the fissure of life and politics that captures life in politics. Though this is a noble cause, it could certainly use elaboration, an elaboration that may not be possible within the reductive limits of Agamben's historicizing.
Well, there are some problems..........2005-05-23
WOW! Agamben's work continues to become more accepted and it continues to get shorter and shorter; his texts these days seem more like pamphlets than anything else. While Homo Sacer is the exception to this, it is perhaps the one text where Agamben's brevity lends him to making some theoretical blunders.
First, many people believe Agamben is the new Foucault. This simply is not true. There are no new "X's"; each thinker is who her or she is and not another. Yet, Agamben does make the move early in Homo Sacer to read Foucault and Arendt together on the question of totalitarianism. Well, this could be a problem since Foucault believes that the Holocaust has no ideological underpinning, while for Arendt it is the ideology of national socialism that constitutes the Holocaust. Seems like an irreconcilable difference that he not only does not mention but does not overcome.
Second, his notion of biopolitics, well, is hardly Foucauldian. So, are we operating with a new conception of the biopolitical? I think Agamben needs to be more clear about this. Agamben thinks the origins of biopolitics is contained within the difference between zoe and bios and does not understand, as Foucault articulates, the transformation of the sovereign right to kill to to sovereign's necessity for creating and enhancing the social body, which understands the human being as a species and not as an individual or citizen in Foucault's reading of the emergence of the state. Now, with the specialization of the human it becomes necessary that the biological existence of the human being become what is at stake for the state; however, it is this move to the biological existence of the human that it can become specialized.
All of this work by Foucault, which is more nuanced than what I have put forward in this review...but its a review so I chose to leave it brief, is missing in Agamben's work and as I stand on the Foucauldian side of the fence and find his work more compelling and thorough, I really find Agamben's notion of the biopolitical theoretically problematic
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I Wonder How Parrots Can Talk and Other Neat Facts About Birds
Mary Packard
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A Teachers Dream.......2001-05-09
A student brought this book into my 2nd grade classroom during a unit on birds. This book was informative and easy to read. It also answered a lot of the questions the students had about birds. I recommend this book to all who are interested about bird facts.
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