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Object Lessons (book Series)
Object Lessons is "an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things". Each of the essays (2,000 words) and the books (25,000 words) investigate a single object through a variety of approaches that often reveal something unexpected about that object. As stated in the Object Lessons webpage, "Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation—and from there develop original insights and novel lessons about the object in question." In 2023, it was announced that the series was now based in the Program in Public Scholarship in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and will publish its 100th book in the series. Series publishers * ''The Atlantic'' * Bloomsbury Publishing Series editors * Ian Bogost – Washington University in St. Louis, formerly Georgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington University In St
Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C. * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States Washington may also refer to: Places England * Washington, Tyne and Wear, a town in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough ** Washington Old Hall, ancestral home of the family of George Washington * Washington, West Sussex, a village and civil parish Greenland * Cape Washington, Greenland * Washington Land Philippines *New Washington, Aklan, a municipality *Washington, a barangay in Catarman, Northern Samar *Washington, a barangay in Escalante, Negros Occidental *Washington, a barangay in San Jacinto, Masbate *Washington, a barangay in Surigao City United States * Washington, Wisconsin (other) * Fort Washington (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol J
Carol may refer to: People with the name * Carol (given name) * Henri Carol (1910–1984), French composer and organist * Martine Carol (1920–1967), French film actress *Sue Carol (1906–1982), American actress and talent agent, wife of actor Alan Ladd Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Carol (music), a festive or religious song; historically also a dance ** Christmas carol, a song sung during Christmas * ''Carol'' (Carol Banawa album) (1997) * ''Carol'' (Chara album) (2009) * "Carol" (Chuck Berry song), a rock 'n roll song written and recorded by Chuck Berry in 1958 * Carol, a Japanese rock band that Eikichi Yazawa once belonged to *"The Carol", a song by Loona from ''HaSeul'' Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * ''Carol'' (anime), an anime OVA featuring character designs by Yun Kouga * ''Carol'', the title of a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith better known as '' The Price of Salt'' * ''Carol'' (film), a 2015 British-American film starring Cate Blanchett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Garbo launched her career with a secondary role in the 1924 Swedish film '' The Saga of Gösta Berling''. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. She stirred interest with her first American silent film, '' Torrent'' (1926). Garbo's performance in '' Flesh and the Devil'' (1927), her third movie, made her an international star. In 1928, Garbo starred in '' A Woman of Affairs,'' which catapulted her at MGM to its highest box-office star, surpassing the long-reig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mythologies (book)
''Mythologies'' is a 1957 book by Roland Barthes. It is a collection of essays taken from ''Les Lettres nouvelles'', examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. Barthes also looks at the semiology of the process of myth creation, updating Ferdinand de Saussure's system of sign analysis by adding a second level where signs are elevated to the level of myth. Mythologies ''Mythologies'' is split into two: Mythologies and Myth Today, the first section consisting of a collection of essays on selected modern myths and the second further and general analysis of the concept. The first section of ''Mythologies'' describes a selection of modern cultural phenomena, chosen for their status as modern myths and for the added meaning that has been conferred upon them. Each short chapter analyses one such myth, ranging from ''Einstein's Brain'' to ''Soap Powders and Detergents''. They were originally written as a series of bi-monthly essays for the magaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His ideas explored a diverse range of fields and influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, anthropology, literary theory, and post-structuralism. Barthes is perhaps best known for his 1957 essay collection ''Mythologies'', which contained reflections on popular culture, and 1967 essay " The Death of the Author," which critiqued traditional approaches in literary criticism. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Collège de France. Biography Early life Roland Barthes was born on 12 November 1915 in the town of Cherbourg in Normandy. His father, naval officer Louis Barthes, was killed in a battle duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Review Of Books
The ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' (''LARB'' is a literary review magazine covering the national and international book scenes. A preview version launched on Tumblr in April 2011, and the official website followed one year later in April 2012. A print edition premiered in May 2013. Founded by Tom Lutz, Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside, the ''Review'' seeks to redress the decline in Sunday book supplements by creating an online “encyclopedia of contemporary literary discussion.” The ''LARB'' features reviews of new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; original reviews of classic texts; essays on contemporary art, politics, and culture; and literary news from abroad, including Mexico City, London, and St. Petersburg. The site also proposes looking seriously at detective fiction, thrillers, comics, graphic novels, and other writing “often dismissed as genre fiction,” and printing reviews of books published by university pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharrona Pearl
Sharrona Pearl (May 3, 1977) is a Canadian-American historian and theorist of the face and writer who teaches at Drexel University. Background and education She was raised in Toronto, Canada, and graduated from the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto in 1995. She earned her bachelor’s of arts degree summa cum laude from York University in 1999, and was awarded her doctorate in the History of Science from Harvard University in 2006. She has studied abroad at both the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge. Pearl has taught at Harvard University, MIT, The University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University. Scholarship and Academic Career Pearl has written several articles (both scholarly and popular) exploring the role of the face as a cultural object and the framework for human relationships and communication. She focuses on critical race, gender, sexuality, and disability studies to understand how we make sense of the faces of others and what that says ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piotr Florczyk
Piotr Florczyk (born 18 May 1978 in Kraków, Poland) is a poet, translator, essayist, and critic. His honors include the 2017 Found in Translation Award (an annual prize for the best translation of Polish literature into English) and the 2017 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for his translation of Anna Świrszczyńska Anna Świrszczyńska (also known as Anna Swir) (1909–1984) was a Polish poet whose works deal with themes including her experiences during World War II, motherhood, the female body, and sensuality. Biography Świrszczyńska was born in Warsaw ...'s ''Building the Barricade''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Florczyk, Piotr 1978 births Living people Polish male poets Polish translators Polish essayists Male essayists Polish literary critics Writers from Kraków Polish male non-fiction writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis (born July 15, 1954) is an American journalist, associate professor, public speaker and former television critic. He advocates the Open Web and argues that there are many social and personal benefits to living a more public life on the Internet. Career Jarvis began his career in journalism in 1972 writing for the ''Addison Herald-Register'', a local weekly newspaper at which he was the sole journalist. In 1974 Jarvis was an undergraduate in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University when he was hired by the '' Chicago Tribune''. He completed his degree and holds a BSJ from Northwestern. Jarvis went on to work as a television critic for '' TV Guide'' and '' People'' magazines. In 1984, while still at People, Jarvis proposed the idea for '' Entertainment Weekly'', a magazine which he hoped would feature "tough reviews and offbeat subjects" pertaining to the entertainment industry. The first issue was published in February 1990, with Jarvis as crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hoke (author)
Henry Hoke (born Henry Hoke Perkins) is an American author known for hybrid books. He directs Enter>text, a living literary journal, and his short fiction and non-fiction have been published in Electric Literature, Hobart, The Collagist, Birkensnake, and Joyland. Early life and education Hoke was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a great-grandson of Walter W. Bankhead and a cousin of Tallulah Bankhead. He earned his MFA in creative writing from California Institute of the Arts. Enter>text Hoke co-created Enter>text, a series of large-scale immersive literary events, in Los Angeles in 2011. Enter>text has been performed at the &NOW Festival, Machine Project, Human Resources, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and the Neutra VDL House. Over 150 performers have appeared in Enter>text, including Kate Durbin, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Douglas Kearney and Ryka Aoki. Awards Hoke's story collection Genevieves won the 2015 book prize for prose from Subito Press at the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Potts
Rolf Potts (born October 13, 1970) is an American travel writer, essayist, podcaster, and author. He has written five books, including ''Vagabonding'' (Random House, 2003), ''Marco Polo Didn't Go There'' (Travelers Tales, 2008), ''Souvenir'' (Bloomsbury, 2018), and ''The Vagabond's Way'' (Ballantine, 2022). The lifestyle philosophies he outlined in ''Vagabonding'' are considered to have been a key influence on the digital nomad movement. Career Online journalism The son of schoolteachers from Wichita, Kansas, Potts' earliest vagabonding journeys included hopping freight trains across the Pacific Northwest, and taking an eight-month "van life before #VanLife" Volkswagen Vanagon journey around North America in the early 1990s. He later taught English in Busan, South Korea before embarking on a pioneering multi-year digital nomad journey, writing from-the-road travel dispatches for such dialup-era online outlets as salonmagazine.com (which later became Salon.com). In 1999, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margret Grebowicz
Margret Grebowicz (born 1973) is a Polish philosopher, author, and former jazz vocalist. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. In addition to peer-reviewed academic publications, Grebowicz, a proponent of public humanities, also publishes many works for the lay audience. Early life and education Grebowicz is originally from Łódź, Poland but was raised in Texas. In 1994, she earned a bachelor's degree in German literature, philosophy, and art history from the University of Texas at Austin. While completing her undergraduate degree, Grebowicz worked in record stores. She completed a Master of Arts degree from Emory University in 1998. In 2001, she earned a doctorate in philosophy at Emory University where she studied under Jean-François Lyotard. She completed her dissertation on late 20th century French philosophy and Anglo-American philosophy of science with doctoral advisor David Carr. Career After her doctorate, Grebowicz tau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
