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Beautyscapes
Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their home country and on those who enable them to access treatment abroad, including surgeons and facilitators. It documents the journeys of those who travel for treatment abroad, as well as the nature and power relations of the IMT industry. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, Beautyscapes draws on key themes of interest to students and researchers interested in globalisation and mobility to explain the nature and growing popularity of cosmetic surgery tourism. Richly illustrated with ethnographic material and with the voices of those directly involved in cosmetic surgery tourism, Beautyscapes explores cosmetic surgery journeys from Australia and China to East-Asia and from the UK to Europe and North Africa.
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Exploring transdisciplinarity in art and sciences
This book is organized around 4 sections. The first deals with the creativity and its neural basis (responsible editor Emmanuelle Volle). The second section concerns the neurophysiology of aesthetics (responsible editor Zoèi Kapoula). It covers a large spectrum of different experimental approaches going from architecture, to process of architectural creation and issues of architectural impact on the gesture of the observer. Neurophysiological aspects such as space navigation, gesture, body posture control are involved in the experiments described as well as questions about terminology and valid methodology. The next chapter contains studies on music, mathematics and brain (responsible editor Moreno Andreatta). The final section deals with evolutionary aesthetics (responsible editor Julien Renoult).
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The Aesthetics of Transience in Japanese Culture: Wabi-sabi, Impermanence, and the Philosophy of Décoïncidence
The article examines the concept of wabi-sabi as the foundation of Japanese aesthetics, emphasizing its role in art and everyday life. Wabi-sabi celebrates the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and natural decay, which is expressed in practices such as the tea ceremony (chanoyu). In the context of art, this aesthetic allows for reflection on the transience of existence, contrasting with the Western tradition of vanitas. The wabi-sabi aesthetic evokes an emotional response akin to Julien’s notion of dé-coïncidence – the experience of contradiction between what is enduring and what is ephemeral, a key element of the Japanese approach to impermanence. The article juxtaposes these manifestations of transience, showcasing both universal and culturally specific ways of coping with the passage of time.
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Middlebrow modernism : Britten's operas and the great divide
\"At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This provocative study is situated at the intersection of the history, historiography, and aesthetics of twentieth-century music. It uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the 'great divide' between modernism and mass culture. Reviving midcentury discussions of the 'middlebrow,' Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how these works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it too: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on key moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, Middlebrow Modernism offers a powerful model for recovering shades of gray in the previously black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Psychology of Static Imagery in the Book of Al-Mab’ath and Al-Maghazi: A Narrative Semiotic Study
The text represents a network of signs interconnected with each other, and this interconnection is determined by the nature of the elements composing the text. These may be grammatical, rhetorical, or structural relations, represented by metaphor, metonymy, and other techniques that help in uncovering threads of meaning and tracing its movements within that structure. This representation is \"a verbal activity where the speaker's role is not to control the use of semantic systems but to utilize them in light of the appropriate conditions for the discourse event\" (Al-Badi, 2024, p. 70), which is determined by the general context of the sentence and its integrated structural construction. The components of narration and their coherence within a single work, being an aesthetic feature, are based on the ideologization of reality as imaginative and its connection to levels of language to make it more realistic through interpretive relationships that generate new meanings. These meanings transcend the superficial appearance to the deeper level, which can only be grasped by delving into the backgrounds that shape the literary work (Khamri, 2024, p. 244). It explores the aesthetics of structure, which is considered a characteristic of everything that indicates beauty, is attributed to it, or is connected to what is beautiful and what is not beautiful (Alloush, 2024, p. 62).
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Herder
Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged the idea that anyone - even the philosophers of the Enlightenment - could have a monopoly on truth.
InHerder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, John K. Noyes plumbs the connections between Herder's anti-imperialism, often acknowledged but rarely explored in depth, and his epistemological investigations. Noyes argues that Herder's anti-rationalist epistemology, his rejection of universal conceptions of truth, knowledge, and justice, constitutes the first attempt to establish not just a moral but an epistemological foundation for anti-imperialism. Engaging with the work of postcolonial theorists such Dipesh Chakrabarty and Gayatri Spivak, this book is a valuable reassessment of Enlightenment anti-imperialism that demonstrates Herder's continuing relevance to postcolonial studies today.
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All ears
The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalized principle of eavesdropping?All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage traces the long history of moles from the Bible, through Jeremy Bentham’s “panacoustic\" project, all the way to the intelligence-gathering network called “Echelon.\" Together with this archeology of auditory surveillance, Szendy offers an engaging account of spycraft’s representations in literature (Sophocles, Shakespeare, Joyce, Kafka, Borges), opera (Monteverdi, Mozart, Berg), and film (Lang, Hitchcock, Coppola, De Palma). Following in the footsteps of Orpheus, the book proposes a new concept of “overhearing\" that connects the act of spying to an excessive intensification of listening. At the heart of listening Szendy locates the ear of the Other that manifests itself as the originary division of a “split-hearing\" that turns the drive for mastery and surveillance into the death drive.
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Guide to Minimally Invasive Aesthetic Procedures
Amid today's growing demand for cosmetic medicine, Guide to Minimally Invasive Aesthetic Procedures provides a reliable, up-to-date, and highly illustrated guide to the wide variety of aesthetic procedures commonly requested and performed in this fast-changing field.
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