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Twilight visions : surrealism and Paris
In their works, photographers such as Jacques-Andrâe Boiffard, Brassaèi, Ilse Bing, Andrâe Kertâesz, Germaine Krull, Dora Maar, and Man Ray used fragmentation, montage, unusual viewpoints, and various technical manipulations to expose the disjunctive and uncanny aspects of modern urban life.
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Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde
An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and
visual history of the emergence of the \"avant-garde\" in Paris and
London Over the past fifty years, the term \"avant-garde\"
has come to shape discussions of European culture and modernity,
ubiquitously taken for granted but rarely defined. This
ground-breaking book develops an original and searching methodology
that fundamentally reconfigures the social, cultural, and visual
context of the emergence of the artistic avant-garde in Paris and
London before 1915, bringing the material history of its formation
into clearer and more detailed focus than ever before. Drawing on a
wealth of disciplinary evidence, from socio-economics to histories
of sexuality, bohemia, consumerism, politics, and popular culture,
David Cottington explores the different models of cultural
collectivity in, and presumed hierarchies between, these two focal
cities, while identifying points of ideological influence and
difference between them. He reveals the avant-garde to be at once
complicit with, resistant to, and a product of the modernizing
forces of professionalization, challenging the conventional wisdom
on this moment of cultural formation and offering the means to
reset the terms of avant-garde studies.
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Is a Penny a Month a Basic Income? A Historiography of the Concept of a Threshold in Basic Income
Does a penny per month constitute a Basic Income? Were that penny to be paid individually, universally, and unconditionally, the answer would be ‘yes’, following the definition of Basic Income given by some of its leading advocates, be it organisations like the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) or prominent scholars such as Philippe Van Parijs. Some might be puzzled as to how this could be ‘a capitalist road to communism’, or give us ‘freedom as the power to say no’, both of which have been advocated by prominent researchers. The purpose of this paper is not to argue for or against their definition, but rather to situate it historiographically, enabling fruitful discussion. The paper will show how there was a widely shared assumption in the 1970s and 80s, at the early stages of both academic articulations and public discussion, that Basic Income comes with some notion of a threshold or level to be taken as a minimum or as adequate. The paper goes on to outline three issues that arise once the concept of a threshold is dropped from the definition. Examined in addition are five justifications for doing so. Much like any other idea, the concept of Basic Income is a social construct. By situating it here within a historical perspective, we wish to facilitate academic discussion regarding both the achievements and erasures that have occurred as a consequence of the concept’s academic refinement—refinement that is in itself majorly indebted to BIEN and Van Parijs.
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Colonial Metropolis
World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes-either overseas or metropolitan. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded.
Between the world wars, the mesmerizing capital of France's colonial empire attracted denizens from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Paris became not merely their home but also a site for political engagement.Colonial Metropolistells the story of the interactions and connections of these black colonial migrants and white feminists in the social, cultural, and political world of interwar Paris. It explores why and how both were denied certain rights, such as the vote, how they suffered from sensationalist depictions in popular culture, and how they pursued parity in ways that were often interpreted as politically subversive.
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The Anarchist Inquisition
The Anarchist Inquisition
explores the groundbreaking transnational human rights
campaigns that emerged in response to a brutal wave of repression
unleashed by the Spanish state to quash anarchist activities at the
turn of the twentieth century. Mark Bray guides readers
through this tumultuous era-from backroom meetings in Paris and
torture chambers in Barcelona, to international antiterrorist
conferences in Rome and human rights demonstrations in Buenos
Aires.
Anarchist bombings in theaters and cafes in the 1890s provoked
mass arrests, the passage of harsh anti-anarchist laws, and
executions in France and Spain. Yet, far from a marginal
phenomenon, this first international terrorist threat had profound
ramifications for the broader development of human rights, as well
as modern global policing, and international legislation on
extradition and migration. A transnational network of journalists,
lawyers, union activists, anarchists, and other dissidents related
peninsular torture to Spain's brutal suppression of colonial
revolts in Cuba and the Philippines to craft a nascent human rights
movement against the \"revival of the Inquisition.\" Ultimately their
efforts compelled the monarchy to accede in the face of
unprecedented global criticism.
Bray draws a vivid picture of the assassins, activists,
torturers, and martyrs whose struggles set the stage for a
previously unexamined era of human rights mobilization. Rather than
assuming that human rights struggles and \"terrorism\" are inherently
contradictory forces, The Anarchist Inquisition analyzes
how these two modern political phenomena worked in tandem to
constitute dynamic campaigns against Spanish atrocities.
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The birth of the metropolis : urban spaces and social life in medieval Paris
Between 1150 and 1350, Paris grew from a mid-sized episcopal see in Europe to the largest metropolis on the continent. The population rose during these two centuries from approximately 30,000 to over 250,000 inhabitants. The causes and consequences of this demographic explosion are thoroughly examined for the first time in this book by Jörg Oberste.
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Juan Gualberto Gómez
Juan Gualberto Gómez a fortement marqué l'histoire de Cuba au tournant des XIXe-XXe siècles. Né libre de parents esclavisés, journaliste talentueux et farouche défenseur de la cause des Noirs cubains victimes de discrimination raciale en ces temps, il demeura sa vie durant un ardent patriote : c'est lui qui, au signal de José Martí, lança la révolte de 1895 initiant la guerre cubano-hispano-étasunienne à l'issue de laquelle, en 1898, l'indépendance de l'île vis-à-vis de la métropole espagnole fut acquise. Deux fois condamné à l'exil en Espagne par le pouvoir colonial, le leader noir embrassa toutefois les thèses du nationalisme cubain dès son premier exil à Paris entre 1869 et 1876. Cet ouvrage retrace l'éclosion de son patriotisme, arrosée des péripéties personnelles mais aussi des évènements parisiens de la fin du Second Empire et des débuts de la IIIe République.
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Towards a Kantian Argument for a Universal Basic Income
The paper defends that it is possible to offer a Kantian argument for justifying the introduction of Universal Basic Income (UBI). It first briefly presents Philippe van Parijs’ argument for UBI based on the concept of real freedom for all. In doing so, it will focus on its general structure and central insight, without entering too much into other issues like the economic feasibility of UBI. It second briefly presents Kant’s concept of external freedom and especially focuses on some of its components to assess whether there is some closeness to van Parijs’ concept of real freedom. It further considers whether UBI is not only compatible with a Kantian position, but can be justified from such a position because it represents a tool for concretely realizing external freedom as presented in the Doctrine of Right and for attaining the ethical ideal of virtuosity presented in the Doctrine of Virtue.
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Paris, Capital of Modernity
Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century.
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