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Mind Invaders

Autor: Stewart Home

Número de Páginas: 228

“The only movement to work consistently towards the death of history since the disbanding of the Situationist International has been the Global Neoist Network.Since 1979, Neoism has been defending the revolutionary gains made by the Situationists and Fluxus. The Neoists are the only group to have brought about the conjunction of nihilism and historical consciousness — the two elements essential for the destruction of the old order, the order of history.” You can never quite be sure to what degree Stewart Home, (or the Neoists from whom he noisily split, but under who’s banner he long continued to write / agitate), is/was taking the p*ss. Decades of provocation, parody, backhanded agitation, ideological feuding, art, anti art, ideological feuding as both art and anti art, all of it written up, reported upon, exaggerated, added to, invented, and thrown into the face of late 20th / 21st century culture /subculture, first as polemic, eventually as farce. Mind Invaders was first published in 1997, culled from a panopoly of underported , unregarded, barely noticed sources : obscure zines, half finished manifesto’s , loosely formed political strands starting to coalesce in...

Networking

Autor: Tatiana Bazzichelli

Número de Páginas: 338

Networking means to create nets of relations, where the publisher and the reader, the artist and the audience, act on the same level. The book is a first tentative reconstruction of the history of artistic networking in Italy, through an analysis of media and art projects which during the past twenty years have given way to a creative, shared and aware use of technologies, from video to computers, contributing to the creation of Italian hacker communities. The Italian network proposes a form of critical information, disseminated through independent and collective projects where the idea of freedom of expression is a central theme. In Italy, thanks to the alternative use of Internet, during the past twenty years a vast national network of people who share political, cultural and artistic views has been formed. The book describes the evolution of the Italian hacktivism and net culture from the 1980s till today. It builds a reflection on the new role of the artist and author who becomes a networker, operating in collective nets, reconnecting to Neoavant-garde practices of the 1960s (first and foremost Fluxus), but also Mail Art, Neoism and Luther Blissett. A path which began in...

Q

Autor: Luther Blissett

Número de Páginas: 784

Anti-Book

Autor: Nicholas Thoburn

Número de Páginas: 383

No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms “a communism of textual matter,” Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing, shifting the politics of text from an exclusive concern with content and meaning to the media forms and social relations by which text is produced and consumed. Taking a “post-digital” approach in considering a wide array of textual media forms, Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books—to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce. His critique is, instead, one immersed in the many materialities of text. Anti-Book engages with an array of writing and publishing projects, including Antonin Artaud’s paper gris-gris, Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, Guy Debord’s sandpaper-bound Mémoires, the collective novelist Wu Ming, and the digital/print hybrid of Mute magazine. Empirically grounded, it is also a major achievement in expressing a political philosophy of writing and publishing, where the materiality of...

Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Football

Autor: Paul Donnelley

Número de Páginas: 149

Mister Donnelley's compendium of tantalising tales brings you a multitude of intriguing and amusing stories - from the midfielder murdered by a secret police force to a crazed chairman trying to raze to the ground his club's main stand. Marvel at this fascinating exhibition of Firsts, Lasts and Onlys from the illustrious history of this extraordinary game, and encounter remarkable characters, such as: The first footballer to score for both sides in an FA Cup Final. The only Cabinet Minister to play football for his country. The hapless physio knocked out by his own 'magic sponge'.Delve into the pages of this captivating tome and discover the most amazing football miscellany since records began!

La gran conspiración

Autor: Estoy Avisando

Número de Páginas: 122

Cada vez que hace clic, alguien gana dinero, pero eso no es ni lo más importante ni lo más preocupante. Lo más aterrador es que cada vez que pulsa un enlace, da like a una publicación o la distribuye en su grupo familiar, alguien aprende sobre usted. Sus miedos, sus deseos, sus prejuicios, incluso sus secretos mejor guardados. Todo. Y esos datos no se usan para su beneficio. La gran conspiración descubre los mecanismos de la manipulación digital en todas sus vertientes y analiza las estrategias de desinformación contemporáneas de gobiernos, partidos políticos, grupos de presión y organizaciones, además de las herramientas de las que se sirven para llevar a cabo sus campañas. Con el surgimiento de internet llegaron nuevos métodos de comunicación que ocupan un espacio desproporcionado en nuestro día a día. Sin embargo, no son lo que parecían en un primer momento: en las redes sociales hay hilos invisibles que manipulan lo que usted ve, piensa y comparte. En las redes somos parte de un mecanismo. Las aplicaciones no están diseñadas para informarle ni para entretenerle, sino para usarle en un mercado cada vez más competitivo. Es difícil salir de ellas, pero en...

Culture Jamming

Autor: Marilyn Delaure , Moritz Fink

Número de Páginas: 481

A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s, “culture jamming” refers to an array of tactics deployed by activists to critique, subvert, and otherwise “jam” the workings of consumer culture. Ranging from media hoaxes and advertising parodies to flash mobs and street art, these actions seek to interrupt the flow of dominant, capitalistic messages that permeate our daily lives. Employed by Occupy Wall Street protesters and the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot alike, culture jamming scrambles the signal, injects the unexpected, and spurs audiences to think critically and challenge the status quo. The essays, interviews, and creative work assembled in this unique volume explore the shifting contours of culture jamming by plumbing its history, mapping its transformations, testing its force, and assessing its efficacy. Revealing how culture jamming is at once playful and politically transgressive, this accessible collection explores the degree to which culture jamming has fulfilled its revolutionary aims. Featuring original...

Improper Names

Autor: Marco Deseriis

Número de Páginas: 316

Improper Names offers a genealogy and theory of the “improper name,” which author Marco Deseriis defines as the adoption of the same pseudonym by organized collectives, affinity groups, and individual authors. Although such names are often invented to pursue a specific social or political agenda, they are soon appropriated for different and sometimes diverging purposes. This book examines the tension arising from struggles for control of a pseudonym’s symbolic power. Deseriis provides five fascinating and widely varying case studies. Ned Ludd was the legendary and eponymous leader of the English Luddites, textile workers who threatened the destruction of industrial machinery and then advanced a variety of economic and political demands. Alan Smithee—an alias coined by Hollywood film directors in 1969 in order to disown films that were recut by producers—became a contested signature and was therefore no longer effective to signal prevarication to Hollywood insiders. Monty Cantsin was an “open pop star” created by U.S. and Canadian artists in the late 1970s to critique bourgeois notions of authorship, but its communal character was compromised by excessive...

Susurros en la noche

Autor: Fernando Noguera

Número de Páginas: 263

«De nuevo con vosotros, mis queridos pajarracos nocturnos, ya seáis mochuelos de atigrado plumaje, lechuzas de penetrantes ojos, cuervos de negro y tornasolado abrigo o cualquier otra especie nocturna de la que me siento orgulloso de formar parte, una tribu nacida para bebernos las tinieblas». La voz aterciopelada de Gabriel rompe la noche todos los días para hablarle a los impenitentes noctámbulos de libros y escritores, glosas y comentarios, frases y sentencias arropadas por su música preferida. Susurros en la noche se ha convertido en el programa estrella de la madrugada. Gabriel conoce a Julia, una periodista arrojada que lo convence para que en su programa revele un proyecto turbio y violento que pretende desahuciar a los vecinos de una barriada pobre para construir un complejo de lujo. Una denuncia que les acarreará no pocos problemas y peligros. Libros, poemas, párrafos escogidos, escritores sublimes y sus vivencias, canciones míticas, músicos extraordinarios... Susurros en la noche.

Picturing the Beautiful Game

Autor: Daniel Haxall

Número de Páginas: 293

The world's most popular sport, soccer, has long been celebrated as “the beautiful game” for its artistry and aesthetic appeal. Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art is the first collection to examine the rich visual culture of soccer, including the fine arts, design, and mass media. Covering a range of topics related to the game's imagery, this volume investigates the ways soccer has been promoted, commemorated, and contested in visual terms. Throughout various mediums and formats-including illustrated newspapers, modern posters, and contemporary artworks-soccer has come to represent issues relating to identity, politics, and globalization. As the contributors to this collection suggest, these representations of the game reflect society and soccer's place in our collective imagination. Perspectives from a range of fields including art history, sociology, sport history, and media studies enrich the volume, affording a multifaceted visual history of the beautiful game.

Q comme Qomplot

Autor: Wu Ming 1

Número de Páginas: 677

Ce livre commence comme une enquête sur QAnon, la nébuleuse conspirationniste qui a sévi sous Trump et qui s’est cristallisée lors de la prise du Capitole, le 6 janvier 2021. En apnée dans l’univers du complotisme américain contemporain, l’auteur s’attèle à la tâche, vaste et urgente, d’assainir le fatras de confusionnisme qu’est devenu le monde. Q comme qomplot est un coffre à outils pour lutter contre les narrations toxiques qui alimentent le délire paranoïaque ambiant, de ceux qui sont convaincus que Kennedy n’est pas mort à ceux qui disent que la pandémie de coronavirus a été planifiée à l’avance, en passant par ceux qui croient à la conspiration mondiale des chemtrails. L'auteur prend à bras le corps un phénomène politique délétère qui court-circuite le mécontentement et la colère et les détourne vers des boucs émissaires. Un livre monstre qui joint les instruments narratifs et littéraires à la démonstration sociologique, psychologique et historique, et qui fait la preuve que la littérature a un rôle fondamental à jouer dans le combat contre la haine et le mensonge.

Les Dissidents - Une année dans la bulle conspirationniste

Autor: Anthony Mansuy

Número de Páginas: 220

" Avec la pandémie, les fausses informations et les fantasmes conspirationnistes sont descendus crescendo dans la vraie vie. Rapidement, mon quotidien est devenu un fil Facebook grandeur nature. En un peu plus d'un an, j'ai assisté à la naissance d'une quasi-religion à la Concorde et démasqué le désinformateur le plus influent de France tandis qu'un groupuscule anti-Macron tentait de me recruter. J'ai aussi appris qu'un ancien journaliste du service public pensait avoir été choisi par une intelligence artificielle pour mener la fronde anti-passe sanitaire et je me suis retrouvé à trinquer dans des soirées QAnon ou à méditer dans un stage de "citoyens souverains' dans le Lubéron. " Fruit d'une longue immersion au sein des communautés les plus visibles comme les plus sombres du conspirationnisme moderne, Les Dissidents raconte, exemples et témoignages à l'appui, l'évolution d'une société secouée par une pandémie, un conflit meurtrier aux portes de l'Europe et des théories du complot de plus en plus extrêmes et farfelues - anti-vaccins, QAnon, spiritualités alternatives... - qui déchirent bien des familles et amitiés. Étayée sur des reportages de...

Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information

Autor: Barbara Tillett , Arlene G. Taylor

Número de Páginas: 681

International authority control will soon be a reality. Examine the projects that are moving the information science professions in that direction today! In Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience, international experts examine the state of the art and explore new theoretical perspectives. This essential resource, which has its origins in the International Conference on Authority Control (Italy, 2003), addresses standards, exchange formats, and metadatawith sections on authority control for names, works, and subjects. Twenty fascinating case examples show how authority control is practiced at institutions in various nations around the world. Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information provides an essential definition of authority control and then begins its sharply focused examinations of essential aspects of authority control with a section entitled State of the Art and New Theoretical Perspectives. Here you’ll find chapters focusing on: the current state of the artwith suggestions for future developments the importance (and current lack) of teaching authority control as part of a library/information...

Cultural Activism

Autor: Begüm Özden Firat , Aylin Kuryel Aylin Kuryel

Número de Páginas: 256

This volume addresses contemporary activist practices that aim to interrupt and reorient politics as well as culture. The specific tactics analyzed here are diverse, ranging from culture jamming, sousveillance, media hoaxing, adbusting, subvertising, street art, to hacktivism, billboard liberation, and urban guerilla, to name but a few. Though indebted to the artistic and political movements of the past, this form of activism brings a novel dimension to public protest with its insistence on humor, playfulness, and confusion. This book attempts to grasp both the old and new aspects of contemporary activist practices, as well as their common characteristics and internal varieties. It attempts to open up space for the acknowledgement of the ways in which contemporary capitalism affects all our lives, and for the reflection on possible modes of struggling with it. It focuses on the possibilities that different activist tactics enable, the ways in which those may be innovative or destructive, as well as on their complications and dilemmas. The encounter between the insights of political, social and critical theory on the one hand and activist visions and struggles on the other is...

Anarchitexts

Autor: Joanne Richardson

Número de Páginas: 370

Anthology of selections from the first two years of the webzine Subsol.

Participatory Culture

Autor: Henry Jenkins

Número de Páginas: 188

Since 2006, Henry Jenkins's Confessions of an Aca-Fan blog has hosted interviews in which academics, activists, and artists have shared their views on the changing media landscape. For the first time, Jenkins – often called “the Marshall McLuhan for the twenty-first century” – compiles some of these interviews to highlight his recurring interests in popular culture and social change. Structured around three core concepts – culture, learning, politics – and designed as a companion to Participatory Culture in a Networked Era, this book broadens the conversation to incorporate diverse thinkers such as David Gauntlett, Ethan Zuckerman, Sonia Livingstone, S. Craig Watkins, James Paul Gee, Antero Garcia, Stephen Duncombe, Cathy J. Cohen, Lina Srivastava, Jonathan McIntosh, and William Uricchio. With an introduction from Jenkins and reflections from each interviewee, this volume speaks to a sense of crisis as contemporary culture has failed to fully achieve the democratic potentials once anticipated as a consequence of the participatory turn. This book is ideal for students and scholars of digital media, popular culture, education, and politics, as well as general readers...

Those Feet

Autor: David Winner

Número de Páginas: 207

This follow-up to Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer is “an enchanting love letter to English football” (The Daily Telegraph). In this playful, witty, and highly original look at English soccer, David Winner, author of the acclaimed Brilliant Orange, journeys to the heart of an essential English pastime and sheds new light on the true nature of a rapidly changing game that was never really meant to be beautiful. With the same insightful eye he brought to his bestselling study of Dutch soccer, Winner shows how Victorian sexual anxiety underlies England’s many World Cup failures. He reveals the connection between Roy Keane and a soldier who never lived but died in the “Charge of the Light Brigade.” And he demonstrates how thick mud and wet leather shaped the contours of the English soul. “It’s neither a history of the game nor a memoir, instead exploring the interplay between sport, history, and national character . . . For thinking fans of the game, this is exquisitely pleasurable reading . . . As [Winner] finds acceptance, and even fondness, for the English game, his insight, humor, warmth, and enthusiasm place him in the top echelon of soccer...

Zapatistas sin fronteras

Autor: Guiomar Rovira

Número de Páginas: 333

El levantamiento del EZLN en Chiapas generó una red espontánea de solidaridad internacional que inauguró el uso de Internet como medio para la acción concertada. Este inteligente libro narra y analiza, con un profundo conoci­miento, el desarrollo de las novedosas redes del “zapatismo sin fronteras”, punto de confluencia de una nueva generación de activistas, con su imaginativo uso de los medios, su alcance global, su pronta adaptación a las nuevas circuns­tancias políticas y tecnológicas, y sus utopías y realidades.

El libro tachado

Autor: Patricio Pron

Número de Páginas: 498

Nada le gusta más a un escritor que relatar las tragedias de otros escritores. Qué peripecias sufrieron hasta la publicación o después, qué jugarretas les hicieron el editor o la familia, qué enfermedades, qué pérdidas sufrieron (se entiende que el escritor feliz, triunfador y amado es un personaje de ficción). Pero pocas veces este interés algo morboso se transforma en el libro extraordinario que está usted a punto de abrir. Porque para ello hace falta un escritor que lea (y esta obra es, por encima de todo, la demostración de fuerza de un escritor que lee). Y hace falta reflexionar a fondo sobre el futuro de la literatura, y sobre lo que nos enseñan los libros que no tenemos en la estantería: los censurados, tachados, quemados, prohibidos. Los que no escribieron los autores silenciados, bloqueados, dementes o suicidas. Y, con perdón, los que se plagiaron, se piratearon o se robaron. Este libro tachado no pretende ser una historia de la literatura, pero es la historia que un lector no puede dejar de leer.

Community without Community in Digital Culture

Autor: C. Gere

Número de Páginas: 327

Community Without Community in Digital Culture presents the view that our digital culture is determined not by greater connection, but by the separation and gap that is a necessary concomitant of our fundamental technicity.

Beyond Catholicism

Autor: Fabrizio De Donno , S. Gilson

Número de Páginas: 332

The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.

Movements in the City

Autor: Vincenzo Ruggiero

Número de Páginas: 182

For 2nd and 3rd year courses in urban sociology, sociology of exclusion, social stratification, planning and cultural studies in departments of sociology and urban geography. This book provides an in depth examination of social movements and urban life in European cities today. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach, it covers traditional areas of urban studies, sociological concerns about the concept of change and the characteristics of social movements. It presents current theory as well as discursive sections based around empirical work conducted in major European cities including London, Paris and Berlin.

Queeriser l'art

Autor: Jean-claude Moineau

Número de Páginas: 232

Queeriser l’art, ce n’est pas vouloir promouvoir un art queer, si tant est que cela existe ou que cela puisse exister, et encore moins vouloir esthétiser ou « artistiser » la pensée et la pratique queer. C’est renoncer définitivement à toute ontologie comme à tout paradigme, c’est rejeter toute prétention à la catégorisation, à commencer par les catégories d’art pur et même d’art. Ouvrir des pistes, mais pas pour les refermer aussitôt, le queer ne procédant pas de la vaine recherche d’une identité de plus, même minoritaire ou «mineure», mais tout au contraire d’une entreprise de désidentitarisation, de désidentification, de critique de toute identité. ... Non pas un roman-fleuve mais un livre-fleuve, pas si tranquille que cela, un livre-montage, une sorte de cut-up théorique mixant les références les plus diverses, les plus hétérogènes, voire les plus hétéroclites. « (...) Faut-il quitter le monde de l’art pour rester debout ? On pensera ici . Lee Lozano, Raivo Puusemp et beaucoup d’autres de cette première génération d’artistes qui avaient anticipé ce devenir de l’art toxique et obscène et ne voulaient s’y...

Ovni 78

Autor: Wu Ming 1

Número de Páginas: 496

1978 fut à la fois l’année de l’enlèvement d’Aldo Moro, qui marqua la fin de la période d’agitation révolutionnaire et culturelle post-68 en Italie, et celle où il y eut dans la péninsule le plus de signalements d’ovnis (ufo en italien). S’entrecroise l’histoire de trois personnages. Zanka, écrivain à succès produisant en série des livres du type Matin des Magiciens, est pris entre doutes sur la légitimité de son travail et besoin de gagner de l’argent. Son fils Vincenzo, qui s’efforce de rompre avec la toxicomanie, s’est installé dans la communauté mystique et libertaire de Thanur. Milena, sociologue en congé de gauchisme étudie les mœurs des ufologues. Wu Ming est un collectif d’auteurs originaires de Bologne. Serge Quadruppani, né en 1952, a écrit une trentaine de romans et une dizaine d’essais ou d’enquêtes. Il est aussi traducteur de l’italien et directeur de la Bibliothèque italienne aux éditions Métailié. Il a contribué à faire connaître quelques-uns des plus importants auteurs tels que Andrea Camilleri, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Valerio Evangelisti, Wu Ming, Carlo Lucarelli, Massimo Carlotto, Walter Siti, Marcello Fois,...

LapTopRadio. La Radio Siamo Noi

Autor: Laurent Schmid , Ceel Mogami De Haas , Jonathan Frigeri

Número de Páginas: 266

In the context of a revived interest in the medium of radio, the collective and self-organized project LapTopRadio explored the possibilities and the limits of an irregularly, unexpectedly and sporadically broadcasting internet radio in the perspective of fine arts with a specific approach-the studio followed the participants, musicians and events, and not the other way round. It thereby created a new basis with a as yet hardly known potential, which the project intended to probe. This was made possible thanks to the co-operation of all the participants and co-producers, speakers, interviewers and authors of the texts published here. Delphine Bedel, Francesco Bernardelli, Donatella Bernardi, Yann Chateigné, Alfredo Cramerotti, Nadia EL-Imam, Jonathan Frigeri, Kenneth Goldsmith, Lars Bang Larsen, Quinn Latimer, Andrea Marioni with Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Federica Martini, Ceel Mogami de Haas, Angelo Plessas, Laurent Schmid, Joël Vacheron with Tex Royale and Alexis Milne, Willem van Weelden, Giovanna Zapperi.

Collective Creativity

Autor: Gerhard Fischer , Florian Vassen

Número de Páginas: 370

Collective Creativity combines complex and ambivalent concepts. While ‘creativity’ is currently experiencing an inflationary boom in popularity, the term ‘collective’ appeared, until recently, rather controversial due to its ideological implications in twentieth-century politics. In a world defined by global cultural practice, the notion of collectivity has gained new relevance. This publication discusses a number of concepts of creativity and shows that, in opposition to the traditional ideal of the individual as creative genius, cultural theorists today emphasize the collaborative nature of creativity; they show that ‘creativity makes alterity, discontinuity and difference attractive’. Not the Romantic Originalgenie, but rather the agents of the ‘creative economy’ appear as the new avant-garde of aesthetic innovation: teams, groups and collectives in business and science, in art and digital media who work together in networking clusters to develop innovative products and processes. In this book, scholars in the social sciences and in cultural and media studies, in literature, theatre and visual arts present for the first time a comprehensive, inter- and...

Youth ‘At the Margins’

Autor: Sheri Bastien , Halla B. Holmarsdottir

Número de Páginas: 391

This volume comes at a critical juncture, as global commitments transition from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals and the wider post-2015 development agenda is being discussed and debated. In these discussions, children and youth have been recognized as one of the nine major groups of civil society whose participation in decision making is essential for achieving sustainable development. There is also a concomitant need for action – innovative, evidence-based approaches to addressing entrenched global challenges or ‘wicked problems’ and engaging youth in those efforts. Within academic discourse, the perspectives and active participation of youth in research has long been debated. It is widely believed that their participation can result in better policy responses and contribute to the development of more relevant and effective interventions and programs to address their needs. However, the engagement of youth in research processes is not without critique; issues such as how to move from tokenism towards authentic participation and empowerment have been critically discussed, and many question if youth can or should even be expected to make...

Whistleblowing for Change

Autor: Tatiana Bazzichelli

Número de Páginas: 377

The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today's information society. But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing as an act of dissent on politics, society, and the arts? How does it contribute to new courses of action, digital tools, and contents? This urgent intervention based on the work of Berlin's Disruption Network Lab examines this growing phenomenon, offering interdisciplinary pathways to empower the public by investigating whistleblowing as a developing political practice that has the ability to provoke change from within.

Futurism and the Technological Imagination

Número de Páginas: 398

This volume, Futurism and the Technological Imagination, results from a conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas in Helsinki. It contains a number of re-written conference contributions as well as several specially commissioned essays that address various aspects of the Futurists’ relationship to technology both on an ideological level and with regard to their artistic languages. In the early twentieth century, many art movements vied with each other to overhaul the aesthetic and ideological foundations of arts and literature and to make them suitable vehicles of expression in the new Era of the Machine. Some of the most remarkable examples came from the Futurist movement, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. By addressing the full spectrum of Futurist attitudes to science and the machine world, this collection of 14 essays offers a multifaceted account of the complex and often contradictory features of the Futurist technological imagination. The volume will appeal to anybody interested in the history of modern culture, art and literature.

Lovejoy on Football

Autor: Tim Lovejoy

Número de Páginas: 302

Tim Lovejoy loves football. Along with Helen Chamberlain he presented Soccer AM for more than a decade to become as much a part of a football fan's weekend as phone-ins, back-page EXCLUSIVES and the vidiprinter. But why does Tim love football? Is it actually the most important subject in the world? And did he really once support Watford as a kid? Lovejoy on Football gets down to the nitty gritty of the really important stuff in football, such as: Why he, Tim, is technically a rubbish football fan; Women's true place in football; How 'Save Chip' became the biggest football cause in the country; Why it's a bad idea to hammer Razor Ruddock; And why footballers are in fact underpaid. Packed with amusing anecdotes, bustling with great football stories and full of strong opinions, Lovejoy on Football is the must-have football book of 2007.

Q, l'oeil de Carafa

Autor: Luther Blissett

Número de Páginas: 751

Anno Domini 1555 : soulèvements contre les empires, révolte contre la papauté, rebellions paysannes, hérésies... Dans cette Europe en pleine fermentation, un même espoir unit le rêve communautaire de Thomas Müntzer et les visions des anabaptistes : celui d'ouvrir une brèche dans l'alliance diabolique qui unit tous les Grands de ce monde, les rois, les papes et les « nouveaux » chrétiens de Luther. Au centre de toutes ces batailles et insurrections, dans cette foule d'illuminés, d'usurpateurs et d'esprits éclairés, un capitaine aux mille noms, ex-étudiant en théologie, et son ennemi, Q, œil et espion du Grand Inquisiteur, le futur pape Carafa, se livrent un combat sans merci dans lequel tous les coups sont permis. De l'Allemagne à l'Italie, en passant par la Hollande et la Suisse, les deux antagonistes se poursuivent pour se retrouver à Venise, porte de l'Orient, et dévoiler enfin l'énigme de leur identité. Le talent des quatre auteurs mystérieusement dissimulés derrière le pseudonyme de Luther Blissett a été reconnu par d'innombrables lecteurs, qui ont fait de ce livre un nouveau classique du roman historique d'aventures. Publié dans 30 pays, ce fut le ...

Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other

Autor: John Preston , Elton John

Número de Páginas: 273

The unforgettable story, decades before Ted Lasso, of the real-life Watford Football Team, transformed into a powerhouse by coach Graham Taylor and owner Elton John. Nothing has brought English soccer more immediately into the American mainstream than Ted Lasso, which captivated the nation in thirty-four episodes over three seasons. But before there was Jason Sudeikis’s lovable and, at first, hapless AFC Richmond, there was Watford Football Club, a team from the outskirts of London with barely enough fans to fill its stands—and which, in the mid-1970s, was languishing in 92nd place at the bottom of the last division of the English Football League. That is, until rock superstar Elton John—who, with his dad, had followed the team as a boy—bought the lowly franchise and, with legendary manager Graham Taylor, transformed the luckless football club into a top-seeded Premier League team. Inspiring, funny, and ultimately heartbreaking, Watford Forever recalls the improbably tender relationship between Elton John and Taylor, a straight-talking former fullback, who together beat the odds and their personal demons to save a club and a struggling community.

Super foot 83

Autor: Monique Pivot , Jean-philippe Réthacker

Número de Páginas: 187

On l'a surnommé le «Brésilien» de Nantes et du football français. Et il est vrai que ce magnifique athlète possède, comme le tennisman Yannick Noah, des dons exceptionnels de souplesse, de détente, d'adresse. Son habileté dans le dribble, son jeu de tête, ses dons de buteur sont prodigieux. Ils lui ont permis de marquer en finale de Coupe un but d'anthologie, et de faire en équipe de France des débuts étincelants et prometteurs. TOURÉ F.C. Nantes Prénom: José Né le: 24 avril 1961 à Nancy Morphologie: 1,82 m, 76 kg Poste: Milieu de terrain Club précédent: Blois Total des sélections en équipe de France A: 2 Saison 1982-83 Club: F.C. Nantes Matches joués en championnat: 37 Buts marqués: 13 Sélections en équipe de France A: 2 (Yougoslavie et Belgique) But marqué: 1 (Yougoslavie) Points forts: Jeu de tête, rapidité, adresse diabolique, imagination Points faibles: Veut parfois trop en faire entre le jeu de numéro 10 et celui de numéro 9 Autant qu'un panorama de la saison écoulée, Super Foot 83 vous offre des perspectives sur celle à venir et vous propose une fiche détaillée des quatre-vingt-seize meilleurs joueurs français et étrangers: à côté...

Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari

Autor: S. O'sullivan

Número de Páginas: 245

In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this volume develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art. The argument is made for a return to aesthetics - an aesthetics of affect - and for the theorization of art as an expanded and complex practice. Staging a series of encounters between specific Deleuzian concepts - the virtual, the minor, the fold, etc. - and the work of artists that position their work outside of the gallery or 'outside' of representation - Simon O'Sullivan takes Deleuze's thought into other milieus, allowing these 'possible worlds' to work back on philosophy.

A Random History of Football

Autor: Colin Murray

Número de Páginas: 208

'A real knock-out' DAILY TELEGRAPH Random occurences that shaped the history of football - an alternative history of the game from loveable broadcaster Colin Murray. Nowadays a top Premiership football club can spend £50 million on a Portuguese pin-up or a legendary Italian goalkeeper, but you cannot take into account the effects of a dodgy takeaway meal, a dropped bottle of aftershave on a goalkeeper's toe, or the fact that your most creative player has to leave town because of a chance drunken encounter with another player's wife. It is these random moments that have shaped football as much as the headline-grabbing Cantona kung fu kick and that Russian linesman in 1966. In this witty alternative history of football you will learn: * Different sizes of football were used in each half of the inaugural World Cup Final of 1930. * Sheffield United almost signed Diego Maradona. * Saddam Hussein changed the result of an Iraq versus Chelsea match. * Bury FC's Robbie the Bobby tops the league of worst-behaved mascots. From the height of international football to the scandal of the Conference league Christmas party that cost far more than a bar-bill, Colin Murray tries his best to make...

Hipnocracia

Autor: Jianwei Xun

Número de Páginas: 131

Un libro crucial para comprender cómo el control se ejerce actualmente no reprimiendo la verdad sino multiplicando las narrativas, haciendo que cualquier punto fijo se vuelva imposible. En la era de la posverdad y la inteligencia artificial, el poder ya no opera mediante la represión, sino mediante la manipulación de la percepción de la realidad. En este revolucionario ensayo, Jianwei Xun analiza el surgimiento de una nueva forma de control social: la hipnocracia, un régimen que no censura ni reprime, sino que induce un trance funcional permanente mediante la modulación algorítmica de la conciencia colectiva. Desde las figuras emblemáticas de Trump, Musk y otros dirigentes mundiales, hasta las arquitecturas de atención de las plataformas digitales, Xun desvela los mecanismos mediante los cuales el poder moldea nuestra percepción de la realidad. Un análisis lúcido e inquietante que va más allá de las críticas tradicionales a la sociedad digital para revelar cómo la propia realidad se ha convertido en un campo de batalla político. Pero Hipnocracia no se limita al análisis: también propone estrategias de resistencia invisible y prácticas de autonomía perceptiva...

Agregue y devuelva. MAIL ART en las colecciones del MIDE-CIANT/UCLM

Autor: Ana Navarrete Tudela

Número de Páginas: 260

MAIL-ART en las colecciones del MIDE, Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

In the House of the Hangman volume 6

Autor: John Bloomberg-rissman

Número de Páginas: 657

A marathon dance mix consisting of thousands of mashed up text and image samples, In the House of the Hangman tries to give a taste of what life is like there, where it is impolite to speak of the noose. It is the third part of the life project Zeitgeist Spam. If you can't afford a copy ask me for a pdf.

Wu Ming's Transmedia Activism

Autor: Paolo Saporito

Número de Páginas: 227

This book explores the activism of the Italian collective Wu Ming. Engaging in a dynamic conversation with critical theory, post-workerist philosophy and eco-criticism, Saporito illuminates how Wu Ming’s forms of protest radically challenge neoliberal models of subjectivity through a revived commitment to an ​eco-centric ethics. The book charts how Wu Ming’s interventions, combining embodied, literary and online activism, aim to performatively create life-rhythms, practices and ultimately a political subjectivity alternative to fast-paced anthropocentric models imposed by neoliberal apparatuses. In-depth analyses of Wu Ming’s participation in the 27th Genoa G8 Summit, literary texts and online presence define the trajectory of their interventions, which moved from a traumatic repudiation of neoliberal apparatuses in Genoa to a thorough exploration of how these apparatuses produce and control subjectivity. Wu Ming’s literary texts invite the reader to grasp the complexity of the human-non-human relations these apparatuses exploit, while affirmatively exploring eco-centric ethical relations to the non-human other. Wu Ming open their bodies to these relations via hikes,...

Framed

Autor: Frank Cottrell-boyce

Número de Páginas: 283

The perfect crime – it's a work of art, in Frank Cottrell Boyce's ingenious story, Framed. Dylan is the only boy living in the tiny Welsh town of Manod. His parents run the Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel garage – and when he's not trying to persuade his sisters to play football, Dylan is in charge of the petrol log. And that means he gets to keep track of everyone coming in and out of Manod – what car they drive, what they're called, even their favourite flavour of crisps. But when a mysterious convoy of lorries trundles up the misty mountainside towards an old, disused mine, even Dylan is confounded. Who are these people – and what have they got to hide? A story inspired by a press cutting describing how, during World War II, the treasured contents of London's National Gallery were stored in Welsh slate mines. Once a month, a morale-boosting masterpiece would be unveiled in the village and then returned to London for viewing. This is a funny and touching exploration of how art – its beauty and its value – touches the life of one little boy and his big family in a very small town. This edition of Framed includes bonus material and discussion questions from Frank Cottrell...