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Media philosopher Vilém Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser showed how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the two-dimensionality of magic) and of industrial into post-industrial society (from work into leisure) went hand in hand, and how photography allows us to read and interpret these changes with particular clarity.
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a fine allegory.......2001-05-06
Flusser dIALectic of the relationship between man and machine is a stunning allegory using the camera TO represent a post-industrial society.
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- Review Appearing in Innerchange Magazine Dec. '05 - Jan. ' 06
- How to Break Limitations and Restraints
- A powerful and extended journey into a higher consciousness
- Opened up new possibilities
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Toward a Philosophy of Perception: The Magnitude of Human Potential--Cloud Optics
Margaret , A. Harrell
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At the same time it adds a large number of Harrell's highly detailed cloud photography. Extending slightly into the infrared and ultraviolet range, they feature unusual colors in the intent to create paintings. Perception is dealt with from within the Blakean tradition of seeing several levels at once and also from within modern theories that vision is always incomplete, but we "fill in the blanks." Of note is a long extract from an inspirational memoir written for the Exceptional Human Experience Network, "A Man Called Milton [Klonsky]: Experiments in Consciousness. Also included are a few samples of unprogrammed computer printouts that psychically reorganize what was on the screen. Drawing it all together is the theme: "the magnitude of human potential." A CRITICAL COMMENTS: "The wonderful aspect of these cloud pictures is that it leaves the reader to be him/herself and to see that as adequate and good . . . rather than floundering around trying to see something that won't quite come into focus for that person." Taken from a review by Virginia Parrott Williams, Ph.D. President, Williams LifeSkills; Co-Author LifeSkills, Anger Kills; Author, Surrealism, Quantum Philosophy and World War I. "This is Margaret A. Harrell's gift, . . . the images and the writing that goes with them. . . . [She is] an energy manifester and she's bringing it through these energies. . . . This is not only an art book, it's not only an intellectual book, it's about raising consciousness. . . . [The images are] something uniquely different . . . aren't in the Earth archetypes." Mariah Martin Intuitive, Light Path coach, Channel for Light Beings, Educator, Minister and Author
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Review Appearing in Innerchange Magazine Dec. '05 - Jan. ' 06.......2005-12-06
There is no denying that Margaret Harrell has led an incredibly full and interesting life. New York 's Greenwich Village in its heyday, a long marriage to a Belgian poet, and an academic background that includes Duke University in Durham, NC and the C.G. Jung Institute in Switzerland, are just some of the highlights for this gifted author and teacher. Her latest book, Toward a Philosophy of Perception is based upon a synopsis of Margaret A. Harrell's previous series, Love in Transition. Harrell's mission is to lead others to acceptance of their potential to add to the collective unconscious through their personal, transcendent experiences. Using cloud photographs as a meditative tool, Harrell maintains that access to the pinnacle of human potential is possible.
How to Break Limitations and Restraints.......2005-07-19
Think about the rewards and increased joy we can experience- successfully breaking current limitations and restraints. "Toward a Philosophy of Perception" reveals brilliant pathways for realization of this quest.
As we meditate upon the exquisite thirty-three full-color particularized cloud images, and read about Margaret Harrells intimate search and flashes of enlightment- meditate upon Hunter S. Thompson's poetry- we understand and share her knowledge about the expansive subject of human potential- opening brain/mind to a limitation/restraint-breaking experience.
Also included- excerpts from the world-renowned author's "Love in Transition/Space Encounters" series-
An exciting, vital book- also providing- Blakean multilevel sight with vision theory- increasing awareness- understanding our "light bodies" and the "Collective Unconscious."
A powerful and extended journey into a higher consciousness.......2005-06-12
Impressively enhanced with thirty-three full-color, coffee table-sized cloud photographs, Toward A Philosophy Of Perception: The Magnitude Of Human Potential--Cloud Optics by academician and Eastern Studies advocate Margaret Harrell provides the reader with a thoughtful and thought-provoking text illustrating a powerful and extended journey into a higher consciousness. Toward A Philosophy Of Perception engagingly chronicles Harrell's several decades of inspirational teachings and personal experiences, as well as her dedicated research into consciousness and life. Toward A Philosophy Of Perception articulates the position that everyone inherently holds all the tools they would need to reach a higher level of conspicuousness, and in doing so, become a source of love and light that can help shape a better future for themselves, their loved ones, and their communities. An enthusiastically recommended reading experience, the photography, poetry, sciences, and Harrell's own remarkable abilities to communicate with the reader, make Toward A Philosophy Of Perception a seminal work of wit, wisdom, and imagination.
Opened up new possibilities.......2005-05-03
Challenged my way of looking at the world. Opened up new possibilities. For me, a highly recommended, don't miss book. Virginia Parrott Williams
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Bold and defiant like the women profiled between its covers, YOU SAY I'M A BITCH LIKE IT'S A BAD THING is a cranked-up collection of affirmations for mommies on the edge, self-styled divas, and domestic goddesses everywhere. Featuring full-color advertising images from the 1950s and 1960s paired with sly, laugh-out-loud sayings, this sassy little gift book tackles issues of love, motherhood, housework, menopause, shopping, and diet with daring humor and a healthy dose of bitchiness. The spiral-bound book stands on its own base for easy display and then slips smoothly away inside a protective box for safekeeping.
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Laughing out Loud .......2007-08-01
What a great gift for anyone (man or woman!) with a sense of humor! The old ad images are offset with witty, irreverent remarks. Some are cute & some delightfully perverse, but all of them had me almost falling off my chair. I highly suggest it!
You say this is a good book when it's a bad thing.......2006-12-29
This has nothing to do with mommies on the edge, housewives or domestic godesses - all of which are demeaning and obnoxious terms which insult women everywhere. It is affirmation only of the low-brow and clueless nature of the editors who know zip about women, strong women, or mommies on the edge. In fact, giving one of these to an actual woman on the edge or at-home mom will probably turn her into a bitch and send this little dustbunny on a quick trip to the trash can. That's where my copy whent.
Bitch Book.......2006-11-19
I loved this book. It has hilarous sayings with vintage photos. When my girlfriends saw it, they had to have one too. Great for a gift.
This is the Funniest!.......2006-08-29
I just got this for my birthday and it's the funniest thing I've ever received - including my Happy Bunny flip chart. You can't go wrong with this gift for yourself or any of your friends!
Therapeutic reading!.......2006-08-27
This is great, and the greatest surprise is that it is written by two MEN!
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An evocative and unique exploration of the most important era in international filmmaking
In film history, the sixties are commonly known as the golden age of international cinema. The period from 1958 to 1969 saw a brilliant explosion of talent not just in Europe but throughout the world. From Sweden and Poland to India and Japan, from Brazil and Hungary to Spain and Czechoslovakia, young filmmakers seemingly sprang out of nowhere, challenging the stale conservativism of fifties cinema. With films like Jules et Jim, 8 1/2, and Breathless, to name but a few, they flouted taboos both sexual and political while bringing sharper, fresher, franker, more violent, and more personal visions to the screen than ever before.
In Revolution!, Peter Cowie discusses the themes, trends, and creative filmmakers of the period--including Antonioni, Bergman, Cassavetes, Fellini, Godard, Kurosawa, and Truffaut--while focusing on those whose voices still evoke the struggles and achievements of the sixties and set the creative and intellectual standard by which today's finest films are still held.
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This digital document is an article from American Scholar, published by Phi Beta Kappa Society on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1341 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The age of the art film.(Revolution! The Explosion Of World Cinema In The Sixties)(Book Review)
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Title: Revolution!: the Explosion of World Cinema in the Sixties.(Book Review)
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Mel Bay Fun with Strums: Guitar
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An ideal instructional text for any guitarist wanting to accompany singing. Each song contains a different strum pattern. In addition, the guitarist will play music in the keys of G, E minor, C, A minor, D, E, A, F, and D minor. Lead sheet format in standard notation.
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- Outdated - there are much better beginner's books.
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Mel Bay's Fun With the Guitar
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An excellent beginner's book that teaches simple chord strumming. A companion CD and DVD are currently available and the use of one of these is highly recommended to insure accuracy of interpretation and ease in learning.
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Outdated - there are much better beginner's books........2003-01-02
This book should have been updated long ago - it still talks of tuning with pitch pipes and pianos, and all the songs are old folk songs ("Nellie Gray", "Oh, Susanna", "My Bonnie ...").
Though aimed at absolute beginners, there are very few written instructions - you are expected to start playing your guitar just by looking at a few diagrams. Also, some basic music theory should have been included.
There are much more comprehensive and well-written beginner's guides on the internet (and available for free, too).
Stupid- Proof.......2000-03-25
This book is imperitive for all beginners, I have been playing the guitar for 3 months now, and this book gave me the flying start. The book is 'stupid-proof' anyone can learn all the basics for guitar with this book. Bottom line, buy it!
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Mel Bay Fun with the Guitar
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All the living room's a stage! And your friends and
family merely players, with their exits and entrances-and 45 minutes of utter enjoyment. Created by an imaginative drama teacher, The Home Shakespeare Festival is a complete theater company in a box.
Home Shakespeare is like a host-your-own-murder game, but with an intellectual and artistic bent. Beginning with one of Shakespeare's best-known, best-loved works, the comedy The Taming of the Shrew, each kit has everything needed to produce and act out a thoroughly entertaining 45-minute version of the play: cards for a director and technical director, showing how to cast the play, direct it, stage it, and create easy sets and sound effects; cards for each of the major parts, with a summary of the character and suggestions on how to play him or her; ten cleverly abridged copies of the script; and key props. For Taming of the Shrew, each kit contains a working plastic recorder (a "flute" instead of a lute) and plastic Groucho eyeglasses.
Each kit also contains a booklet introducing the wonderful world of Shakespeare, acting tips and exercises, recipes for grog, and other good party games to play.
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Party Shakespeare.......2002-07-22
We bought the "Taming fo the Shrew" box because we knew that the box contained a blond wig, funny glasses and a broken recorder. The kids just had to have the props. But what I didn't expect was how enthusiastic the whole group of kids was to perform the play at our family reunion. It truly took about 30 minutes for the kids, ages 11-14 (with one adult present but not presiding), to assign all the parts, quickly rehearse and get their act together. The play has been perfectly abridged so that it makes sense to the kids as well as to their audience and is such a great way to entertain at a family or social gathering, much better than "How to Host a Murder" which is so much more work than this. My only advice would be to go over the pronuciation of all names with the whole "cast" before show time. There were a few glitches, but it all made for bigger laughs! (Wish there were more than just the two sets!)
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Sexual icon Jenna Jameson, the most famous female adult entertainment star in history, steps further into the mainstream spotlight with this beautifully written, designed, and photographed tell–all sexual autobiography.
With the help of writer Neil Strauss, porn superstar turned mainstream sex goddess Jenna Jameson has created an unforgettable autobiography that is many things at once: a titillating sexual history, an insider's guide to the secret workings of the billion–dollar adult–film industry, and a gripping thriller that probes deep into Jenna's dark past.
The tales begin in the underbelly of Las Vegas, a cesspool of strip clubs, tattoo parlours, murder and shoot–outs that turned the gawky brace–faced Jenna Masolli into the bombshell Jenna Jameson, one of the most recognised women in the world. Most of these stories Jenna has never told before, for fear of having to spend the rest of her life living in their shadow.
Jameson rebounds in the adult–film business, where she encounters sadistic directors, experienced lovers of both sexes, rock–star lovers, bitter rival starlets, and, finally, glory when as a relative unknown she seduces the international media at the Cannes Film Festival and goes on to become the biggest star the porn world has ever seen.
Along the way, Jenna provides insight into the closed world of the adult entertainment business.
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Excellent.......2007-09-29
This book was wonderful! I couldn't put it down. It kept my attention from start to finish, which is rare. Im not a big reader, but it pulled me in. It is basically Jenna Jameson's biography. What a dark and crazy life she led. Working her way from the bottom to the top of the porn industry. Learning about life as she went along. I would recommend this to anyone who would read on such a taboo subject. It was a great find for me.
Jenna's Misadventures.......2007-09-28
I don't remember tips on how to make love like a porn star, but I do remember this book detailing Jenna's life's journey. Her adolescent years may have been dysfunctional, but her teenage years were the real mess. She got into trouble with boys b/c of sexy clothes and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She got into drugs, she dated the wrong men, she made poor career choices...or did she. After reading her book you realize this young woman may have gone through a whole hell of a lot but she's actually quite strong and smart enough to recognize an opportunity staring her in the face...like running her own porn empire. It's a big book with loads of color pictures and excerpts from her journals that will keep you engaged for hours. Oh Jenna.
Honest Account.......2007-08-12
Although the title is provocative and misleading, this is an autobiography of the leading actress of the adult-film industry. We are treated to an honest account of her ups and downs, and an insider's guide to the secret workings of the industry. Often, her intelligence is surprising. The book closes with the very happy prospect for her husband, her pregnancy and motherhood. But we all know better. After this, she micarried and filed for divorce. It was then a replay of the sad events recounted here.
So, here is a girl who desperately needs to be happy but is somehow fated to fail. This is tragic.
Amazing Book!!.......2007-08-11
This is an amazing book to read. Jenna Jameson went through a rough life. I really would encourage people to read it!
JENNA.......2007-08-06
THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON IN THIS BOOK,AND SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT-I CAN'T NARROW IT DOWN.EVER SINCE SHE WAS A TEENAGER,SHE'S WORKED SO HARD TO GET TO WHERE SHE IS TODAY.SHE DID EVERYTHING ON HER OWN.SHE'S HER OWN PERSON.HER LIFE FROM CHILDHOOD TIL NOW IS VERY EXCITING,AND INTERESTING!SHE TALKS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT MEN IN HER LIFE THAT SHE HAD RELATIONSHIPS WITH.SHE TALKS ABOUT HER FRIENDS THROUGHOUT THE BOOK.SHE TALKS ABOUT HER FEELINGS ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS.THERE ARE PAGES THROUGHOUT THE BOOK THAT SHE'S IN THE COMICS.THEY'RE VERY UNIQUE!THE PICTURES IN THIS BOOK ARE SO VIVID!THE PICTURE OF HER AND HER MOM IS SO SPECIAL!THEY LOOK SO MUCH
ALIKE!JENNA DOESN'T TAKE HER FAME,AND FANS FOR GRANTED.I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT AS BEAUTIFUL AS SHE IS,AND HOW FAMOUS SHE IS-THAT SHE'S NOT A STUCK UP,OR THAT SHE DOESN'T SAY TO HECK WITH EVERYBODY.SHE'S SUCH A SPIRITUAL,THANKFUL,AND APPRECIATIVE PERSON OF EVERYTHING SHE HAS,AND OF ALL HER FANS.DEFINITELY GET THIS BOOK!I CAN'T PUT INTO WORDS HOW GREAT THIS BOOK IS,AND HOW GREAT JENNA IS!JENNA HAD ALOT OF HARDSHIPS IN HER LIFE IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS-BUT NO MATTER WHAT,SHE DID WHAT IT TOOK TO GET TO WHERE SHE IS TODAY.
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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star CD: A Cautionary Tale
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- Best Book on Boer War
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- This is an outstanding story of adventure.
- Memoirs of a guerilla war at the turn of the century
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Boer Commando: An Afrikaner Journal of the Boer War
Deneys Reitz
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Best Book on Boer War.......2000-03-05
This is an incredible story of the adventures that a young commando endured during the boer wars. The narrow escapes, the victories, the defeats and the struggle to keep up the fight make this a must read for anyone interested in the Boer War. If there is one book to read on the subject this is it!
This is an outstanding story of adventure........1999-02-22
It is always interesting to hear 'the other side of the story'. This account of the Boer War is informative yet very personal. It is one of those books that most will find difficult to set down before it is finished.
The author had a most incredible life which is doccumented in Commando and two subsequent books. The adventures are so amazing that, in the preface, Jan Smuts is compelled to comment upon the truthfulness of the account. The book provides insight into the Boer culture and a turn of the century concept: honor.
This is an outstanding story of adventure........1999-02-22
It is always interesting to hear 'the other side of the story'. This account of the Boer War is informative yet very personal. It is one of those books that most will find difficult to set down before it is finished.
The author had a most incredible life which is doccumented in Commando and two subsequent books. The adventures are so amazing that, in the preface, Jan Smuts is compelled to comment upon the truthfulness of the account. The book provides insight into the Boer culture and a turn of the century concept: honor.
Memoirs of a guerilla war at the turn of the century.......1997-01-09
The memoirs of a soldier in the unsuccesfull war of independence that the Transvaal and Free State Republics in Southern Africa fought against the British Empire at the turn of the century. Reitz wrote the book in exile and left it for 20 years, then took out the emotion and bitterness and was left with a well structured, intelligent memoir that reads like the best fiction. His account of this guerilla war against the British empire can loosly be compared with Chickenhawk, Robert Mason's equally gripping memoir of the Viet Nam war
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- A Renaissance of Political Philosophy
- a great book
- Psychoanalysis meets 9/11
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Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
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In the months after September 11, titles like 'The End of the Age of Irony' abound in our media. Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Zizek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyses the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.
About the series: Appearing on the first anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, these series of books from Verso present analyses of the United States, the media, and the events surrounding September 11 by Europe's most stimulating and provocative philosophers. Probing beneath the level of TV commentary, political and cultural orthodoxies, and 'rent-a-quote' punditry, Baudrillard, Virilio, and Zizek offer three highly original and readable accounts that serve as fascinating introductions to the direction of their respective projects, and as insightful critiques of the unfolding events. This series seeks to comprehend the philosophical meaning of September 11 and will leave untouched none of the prevailing views currently propagated.
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A Renaissance of Political Philosophy.......2006-06-12
I am overwhelmed by Zizek's judgment of the political situation he presents in this book. It concerns world politics after 9/11 and is still very actual. What makes this book so interesting, is that Zizek distances himself from a simplifying (left-wing) critique of American foreign politics and gives at the same time a compelling interpretation of the complexity of the "clash of cultures" that haunt still our Tv-News today.
Against a cynical attitude towards politics Zizek's defends what he calls a "political act" of truth. This is not the slogan of a new philosophical ideology but a defence of a truth that can't be "relativiced" by post-modern Philosophy. Zizek thus revives political philosophy by overcoming philosophical patterns that dominated the second half of the 20th century.
a great book.......2003-01-19
~~~I truly enjoyed this book, which provides great insight while analyzing the current situation of the States. Not "with us or against us," as Bush constantly stated,but we are against them, since both military leaders in the US and Bin Laden's terrorists are following the same logic. What happend in September 11 had happened in third world countries everywhere, but we Americans watched them as virtual reality until this has become real in our territory. Nothing can justify what happened in~~ September 11, just as nothing could~~ justify what happened in third world countries, which had appeared as spectatles until that point. It's stupid to exchange one terror against another, because this will entail endless circle of violence. What one must do is to be awake from this rosy dream, to realize the existence of the desert of the real, and resist "them", who have been making such terrible spectacles happen everywhere,Mid-East, Africa, Asia, but not simly in the US, which has~~ become part of the desert of reel.~
Psychoanalysis meets 9/11.......2002-12-08
In my opinion,Zizek is the most profound cultural analyst writing today, and this short collection of several contemplative essays on 9/11 succeeds in truly saying something new and important about the scope of the events that transpired. Zizek's writing style is famous for achieving a mixture between abstruse, Lacanian psycho-analysis and popular culture. This makes him perhaps one of the most difficult but most enjoyable reads out there in the cultural criticism market. Certainly, this stands out from the the sentimental fluff and proganda rubbish that flies off the shelves. Zizek challenges us to think outside the canard of 'fundamentalism' vs. American hegemony and capitalism.
Reality as illusion.......2002-10-02
To people who come to this book looking for an analysis of the attacks on the World Trade Center this book will appear to be peculiar and eccentric, and therefore in questionable taste. Slavoj Zisek is a Marxist philosopher from the formerly Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. (At the same time he is quite caustic against those who think that Milosevic's horrors could have been avoided by an appeal to the cosmopolitan virtues of Titoism. Not within the party framework, at any rate.) He has a special interest in the French psychoanalyst Lacan, which does not stop him from discussing other imposing figures such as Hegel, Adorno, Foucault and, suprisingly in this book, G.K. Chesterton. At the same time he discusses popular movies from "Unbreakable" to "Shrek." Like Terry Eagleton he has a fondness, and a weakness, for paradox and contradiction. A person examining this book will note that the five essays are not as concise and straightforward as they may appear. (They will also note that this book has six chapters.) The unsympathetic reader may wonder how we get from the events of September 11th to sado-masochism and "The Piano Teacher," to Judith Butler and Antigone. Given the bottomless malice of Al Qaidya towards any concept of freedom, surely, one might state, it is irresponsible to say that freedom of thought is the surest way of ensuring submission and control (as Zisek suggests in his introduction)?
In fact, Zisek is a stimulating and important writer and the reader should take the effort to appreciate him. To the extent that this book has a thesis it is expressed on the cover. Instead of the attacks forcing the United States to rethink its attitude towards the rest of the world, it has allowed itself to view itself solely as a victim. By contrast "That is the true lesson of the attacks: the only way to ensure that it will not happen here again is to prevent it happening anywhere else." At the same time Zisek is vehement against those who showed a certain schaudenfreude at American suffering, or those tempted to euphemize Palestianian suicide bombers. On the Islamists themselves, Zisek makes an interesting point against those who wish for a "Protestant" reformation for Islam. There already has been one. Like Protestantism, the Wahabbi sect that rules Saudi Arabia rejects the accretions and growths of Islam over the previous centuries as so much quasi-pagan superstition. Like Protestantism it emphasizes holy scripture and even offers suggestions for a more practical bible interpretation. Clearly, this is not enough. Elsewhere Zisek points out that in a way political Islam is Islamic fascism, in the sense that it seeks a capitalism without capitalism, or a capitalism with its destabilizing effects.
Elsewhere Zisek has stimulating things to say about "The Matrix" from which he extracts his title, and about the way that movie and others like "The Truman Show," reflect a nervous anxiety that "our" suburban life is something unreal. At the same time, one cannot unproblematically search for the real, a la Orwell, a certain harmony with fantasy is crucial to Lacanian good health. There are interesting comments on suicide as the expression not of certainty, but of doubt, not as sacrifice, but as evasion. His comments on "Shrek" will be of great comfort to all those who think that film over-rated: it is a movie which overturns all conventions yet at the same time only reaffirms them. Zisek cautions against the use of "proto-fascist": not all criticisms of decadence or invocations of discipline are fascist--consider the example of Schoenberg. He also notes that the private sphere is becoming a commodified space. The only way, he suggests, for true love to exist is not for the lovers to stare into each others eyes but at some sort of collectivity outside them. He is especially angry at Jonathan Alter and Alan Dershowitz for suggesting the torture of terrorists. As he quite properly points out, if torturing terrorists could save lives, then the torturing of prisoners of wars would saveeven more. Although at one point he argues that anti-Americanism is most common in countries that have lost their influence, like France and Germany, he argues that it is vitally necessary for a European response to provide an alternative to American diplomacy. On this point, I fully agree.
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This milestone book is the first comprehensive survey of the geographical distribution of West Virginia’s many breeding birds. More than three hundred volunteer birders systematically combed the Mountain State’s forests, wetlands, mountains, and farmlands over a six-year period to collect the data that forms its basis.
Detailed range maps are provided for 171 species of birds and two hybrids. Each map is accompanied by a summary of the bird’s breeding range, population trends from the USFWS Breeding Bird Survey, and a discussion of factors affecting the Atlas results. Acetate map overlays allow the reader to compare bird distribution with geographical and ecological features of the state.
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