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Counterpoints
Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict associated with multimedia is not a new phenomenon. From opera to the symphonic poem to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints explores this artistic evolution from ancient times to the present day.The book's main focus is music and its relationship with painting, sculpture, and architecture. Philippe Junod draws on theoretical and practical examples to show how different art movements throughout history have embraced or rejected creative combinations. He explains how the Renaissance, neoclassicism, and certain brands of modernism tried to claim the purity of each mode of expression, while other movements such as romanticism, symbolism, and surrealism called for a fusion of the arts. Counterpoints is a unique cultural history, one that provides a critical understanding of a popular but previously unheralded art form.
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Imperial Borderlands
Based on colonial archives and indigenous maps, this book delivers a connected history of imperial margins in Southeast Asia by comparing the British and French geographical policies and practices at the end of the 19th century.
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Regimes of historicity
François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's \"regimes of historicity,\" or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work on the threshold of historical consciousness and contrasting it with an investigation of the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins's concept of \"heroic history.\" He tracks changing perspectives on time in Chateaubriand's Historical Essay and Travels in America and sets them alongside other writings from the French Revolution. He revisits the insights of the French Annales School and situates Pierre Nora's Realms of Memory within a history of heritage and today's presentism, from which he addresses Jonas's notion of our responsibility for the future. Our presentist present is by no means uniform or clear-cut, and it is experienced very differently depending on the position we occupy in society. We are caught up in global movement and accelerated flows, or else condemned to the life of casual workers, living from hand to mouth in a stagnant present, with no recognized past, and no real future either (since the temporality of plans and projects is inaccessible). The present is therefore experienced as emancipation or enclosure, and the perspective of the future is no longer reassuring, since it is perceived not as a promise, but as a threat. Hartog's resonant readings show us how the motor of history(-writing) has stalled and help us understand the contradictory qualities of our contemporary presentist relation to time.
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The childhood of reason: Pedagogical strategies in Descartes's La Recherche De La Verite Par La Lumiere Naturelle
[...] despite the traditional opposition between Descartes and Freud, the persistence of the child in the adult and consequently of the irrational in the rational might indicate that these two thinkers can be set in a different relation to each other, the confusion of the effects of 'raison' and 'autorité' being an early gesture towards what will later be theorised as transference. [...] one can find the attempt to articulate the passage from child to adult, irrational to rational in several literary and critical texts of the seventeenth century.24 For the literary texts, one could cite the explicit didacticism of Molière's comedies, aimed at reintegrating the 'déraisonnable' to the norm of reason and propriety; at the same time, these plays, especially the later ones, also show up the limits and paradoxes in this process (L'Ecole des Femmes is but one example).
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AND TILL THE GHASTLY TALE IS TOLD: SARAH KOFMAN – PRIMO LEVI: SURVIVORS OF THE SHOAH AND THE DANGERS OF TESTIMONY
The great catastrophes of history can be recognised through the paralysed silence which they leave in their wake, a silence which frequently is broken only to make way for the falsifications of memory. BEtween silence and falsification, a third path may be opened. For those who are capable of it, this path involves saying what happened, writing in the first person. This third possibility is doubly valorised. First of all, it offers a public testimony. It allows a truth which is unspeakable or not to be spoken to erupt onto the social scene. Secondly, it is meant to have a cathartic function. The author of the testimony would in this way be unburdening himself o a horror too heavy to bear. Put into words, his suffering would become something which could be shared. It is this sharing which will be discussed here, its power to grant peace. One may doubt this power.
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Solving the puzzle of my brother Saskia Baron grew up with an autistic brother. She reflects on how he and attitudes to his condition have changed over 40 years
They weren't prepared to write off their son. They knew [Timothy] could learn, and that sending him to a hospital would condemn him to a life of taking sedative drugs and being cut off from the world. Instead, they got together with other parents of autistic children and founded The National Autistic Society, the first organisation in the world dedicated to autism. My parents set up a little classroom at home for Timothy and three other autistic children, and by 1965, the NAS had raised enough money to set up the first school for autistic children, the Sybil Elgar School in west London. The school helped Timothy enormously, but he was still very difficult, and any change in routine - whether it was being offered strange food to eat, visiting a new place, or even choosing a different spot from which to cross the road on the way to the playground - made him erupt with rage. We still don't know what caused Timothy's autism, but he had problems from very early on, was slow to walk and his speech did not develop in the normal way. At 15 months, he fell completely silent. This coincided with the birth of my older sister, so, for a while, the doctors even suggested it was an extreme form of sibling rivalry - that Timothy had sulked his way into autism. This was a common theory in the Sixties, and must have made many children feel even worse about their autistic sibling. As a child, I was always puzzled by Timothy. There were times when he said or did something so utterly normal that I'd think he must be pretending to be autistic, and that one day he would say: \"Had you fooled. I'm all right really.\" But, of course, he never did. The autistic children I met growing up with my brother varied enormously. Some were like [Tim], having learning difficulties as well as being autistic, others were of normal intelligence and could talk very clearly, but were completely single-minded. They had a pet topic of conversation, and would ask the same question over and over again. They rarely made eye contact with others and seemed pretty unconcerned about other people's reactions to them.
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