Jean-Luc Nancy
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823230365
- eISBN:
- 9780823235476
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823230365.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This book concerns the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. The author's reflection is born out of his relation to ...
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This book concerns the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. The author's reflection is born out of his relation to the bookstore, in the first place his neighborhood one, but beyond that any such “perfumery, rotisserie, patisserie,” as he calls them; dispensaries “of scents and flavors through which something like a fragrance or bouquet of the book is divined, presumed, sensed.” The book is thus not only something of a semiology of the specific cultural practice that begins with the unique character of the writer's voice and culminates in a customer crossing the bookstore threshold, package under arm, on the way home to a comfortable chair, but also an understated yet persuasive plea in favor of an endangered species. In evoking the peddler who, in times past, plied the streets with books and pamphlets literally hanging off him, the author emphasizes the sensuality of this commerce and reminds us that this form of consumerism is like no other, one that ends in an experience—reading—that is the beginning of a limitless dispersion, metamorphosis, and dissemination of ideas. Making, selling, and buying books has all the elements of the exchange economy that Marx analyzed—from commodification to fetishism—yet each book retains throughout an absolute and unique value, that of its subject. With reading, it gets repeatedly reprinted and rebound. For the author, the book thus functions only if it remains at the same time open and shut, like some Moebius strip. Closed, it represents the idea and takes its place in a canon by means of its monumental form and the title and author's name displayed on its spine. But it also opens itself to us, indeed consents to being shaken to its core, in being read each time anew.Less
This book concerns the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. The author's reflection is born out of his relation to the bookstore, in the first place his neighborhood one, but beyond that any such “perfumery, rotisserie, patisserie,” as he calls them; dispensaries “of scents and flavors through which something like a fragrance or bouquet of the book is divined, presumed, sensed.” The book is thus not only something of a semiology of the specific cultural practice that begins with the unique character of the writer's voice and culminates in a customer crossing the bookstore threshold, package under arm, on the way home to a comfortable chair, but also an understated yet persuasive plea in favor of an endangered species. In evoking the peddler who, in times past, plied the streets with books and pamphlets literally hanging off him, the author emphasizes the sensuality of this commerce and reminds us that this form of consumerism is like no other, one that ends in an experience—reading—that is the beginning of a limitless dispersion, metamorphosis, and dissemination of ideas. Making, selling, and buying books has all the elements of the exchange economy that Marx analyzed—from commodification to fetishism—yet each book retains throughout an absolute and unique value, that of its subject. With reading, it gets repeatedly reprinted and rebound. For the author, the book thus functions only if it remains at the same time open and shut, like some Moebius strip. Closed, it represents the idea and takes its place in a canon by means of its monumental form and the title and author's name displayed on its spine. But it also opens itself to us, indeed consents to being shaken to its core, in being read each time anew.
Christian McCrea
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781911325826
- eISBN:
- 9781800342446
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325826.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter talks about the production of David Lynch's Dune through the lens of the film's reputation, histories, and key players. It discusses the collaboration with El Topo director Alejandro ...
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This chapter talks about the production of David Lynch's Dune through the lens of the film's reputation, histories, and key players. It discusses the collaboration with El Topo director Alejandro Jodorowsky and famed French comic artist Jean 'Moebius' Giraud for the filming of Dune. It also recounts how the project for Dune sparked to life with the arrival of Lynch, who was fresh off the success of the Academy Award-nominated film The Elephant Man. The chapter mentions Lynch's reputation before and since Dune, which became part of its story, especially how the film sits both inside and outside a canonical view of his work. It outlines the events of the energetic phase that brought the Dune project to fruition.Less
This chapter talks about the production of David Lynch's Dune through the lens of the film's reputation, histories, and key players. It discusses the collaboration with El Topo director Alejandro Jodorowsky and famed French comic artist Jean 'Moebius' Giraud for the filming of Dune. It also recounts how the project for Dune sparked to life with the arrival of Lynch, who was fresh off the success of the Academy Award-nominated film The Elephant Man. The chapter mentions Lynch's reputation before and since Dune, which became part of its story, especially how the film sits both inside and outside a canonical view of his work. It outlines the events of the energetic phase that brought the Dune project to fruition.
Jonathan Cole and Henrietta Spalding
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198566397
- eISBN:
- 9780191693564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198566397.003.0011
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
In this chapter, Cate describes her life, thus far, through bullying and cruelty at school from many, including her brother, to her discovery that she could sing, her time at the Royal Academy of ...
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In this chapter, Cate describes her life, thus far, through bullying and cruelty at school from many, including her brother, to her discovery that she could sing, her time at the Royal Academy of Music, her singing career, and, latterly, her time as a wife and mother. It was through singing that she first connected with emotional experience and it is when singing that she feels strongest and most alive.Less
In this chapter, Cate describes her life, thus far, through bullying and cruelty at school from many, including her brother, to her discovery that she could sing, her time at the Royal Academy of Music, her singing career, and, latterly, her time as a wife and mother. It was through singing that she first connected with emotional experience and it is when singing that she feels strongest and most alive.
Jonathan Cole and Henrietta Spalding
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198566397
- eISBN:
- 9780191693564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198566397.003.0013
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter reflects from the perspective of those with Möbius. People hear what it is like for one person living with Möbius and its limitations on a day-to-day basis. People with the condition ...
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This chapter reflects from the perspective of those with Möbius. People hear what it is like for one person living with Möbius and its limitations on a day-to-day basis. People with the condition discuss how concerns about intimacy and employment become more significant in the adult years and how resilience can be maintained. While some find ways beyond their condition, many remain inside Möbius and need assistance in various ways.Less
This chapter reflects from the perspective of those with Möbius. People hear what it is like for one person living with Möbius and its limitations on a day-to-day basis. People with the condition discuss how concerns about intimacy and employment become more significant in the adult years and how resilience can be maintained. While some find ways beyond their condition, many remain inside Möbius and need assistance in various ways.
Maaheen Ahmed
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496805935
- eISBN:
- 9781496805973
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496805935.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter describes and analyzes books where fantasy is the dominant element and acquires vivid degrees of visuality. Adhering to a chronological order, analyses of Moebius’ Arzach, Enki Bilal’s ...
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This chapter describes and analyzes books where fantasy is the dominant element and acquires vivid degrees of visuality. Adhering to a chronological order, analyses of Moebius’ Arzach, Enki Bilal’s Nikopol trilogy, and Yslaire’sXXeCielare carried out and concluded by comparisons between these works and other popular examples of fantastic comics. In order to underscore the degrees of openness between comics generated by images, JarmoMäkilä’sTaxi Ride through Van Gogh’s Earis then discussed.
The importance of Moebius’ books comes through their visual detail and the subsequent encouragement of intensive visuality and experimentation with form usually ascribed to the fine arts. The comics by Bilal, Yslaire, and Mäkilä indicate both the extent and the ways in which conventional comics have been altered:adhering more strongly to comics conventions, Bilal’s and Mäkilä’s comics offer diverse options of interpretation through, for instance, intertextual and intermedial references.Less
This chapter describes and analyzes books where fantasy is the dominant element and acquires vivid degrees of visuality. Adhering to a chronological order, analyses of Moebius’ Arzach, Enki Bilal’s Nikopol trilogy, and Yslaire’sXXeCielare carried out and concluded by comparisons between these works and other popular examples of fantastic comics. In order to underscore the degrees of openness between comics generated by images, JarmoMäkilä’sTaxi Ride through Van Gogh’s Earis then discussed.
The importance of Moebius’ books comes through their visual detail and the subsequent encouragement of intensive visuality and experimentation with form usually ascribed to the fine arts. The comics by Bilal, Yslaire, and Mäkilä indicate both the extent and the ways in which conventional comics have been altered:adhering more strongly to comics conventions, Bilal’s and Mäkilä’s comics offer diverse options of interpretation through, for instance, intertextual and intermedial references.
Matthew Screech
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239383
- eISBN:
- 9781846313530
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313530
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
In English-speaking countries, Francophone comic strips like Herges' ‘Les Aventures de Tin Tin’ and Goscinny and Uderzo's ‘Les Aventures d'Asterix’ are viewed — and marketed — as children's ...
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In English-speaking countries, Francophone comic strips like Herges' ‘Les Aventures de Tin Tin’ and Goscinny and Uderzo's ‘Les Aventures d'Asterix’ are viewed — and marketed — as children's literature. But in Belgium and France, their respective countries of origin, such strips — known as bandes dessinées — are considered a genuine art form, or, more specifically, ‘the ninth art’. But what accounts for the drastic difference in the way such comics are received? This book explores that difference in the reception and reputation of bandes dessinées. Along with in-depth looks at Tintin and Asterix, the book considers other major comics artists such as Jacque Tardi, Jean Giraud and Moebius, assessing in the process their role in Francophone literary and artistic culture.Less
In English-speaking countries, Francophone comic strips like Herges' ‘Les Aventures de Tin Tin’ and Goscinny and Uderzo's ‘Les Aventures d'Asterix’ are viewed — and marketed — as children's literature. But in Belgium and France, their respective countries of origin, such strips — known as bandes dessinées — are considered a genuine art form, or, more specifically, ‘the ninth art’. But what accounts for the drastic difference in the way such comics are received? This book explores that difference in the reception and reputation of bandes dessinées. Along with in-depth looks at Tintin and Asterix, the book considers other major comics artists such as Jacque Tardi, Jean Giraud and Moebius, assessing in the process their role in Francophone literary and artistic culture.
Giuseppe Mussardo
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198788102
- eISBN:
- 9780191830082
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198788102.003.0010
- Subject:
- Physics, Theoretical, Computational, and Statistical Physics
Chapter 10 introduces the notion of conformal transformations and the important topic of the massless quantum field theories associated to the critical points of the statistical models. The chapter ...
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Chapter 10 introduces the notion of conformal transformations and the important topic of the massless quantum field theories associated to the critical points of the statistical models. The chapter establishes the important conceptual result that the classification of all possible critical phenomena in two dimensions consists of finding out all possible irreducible representations of the Virasoro algebra. It covers the algebra of local fields, conformal invariance, Polyakov's theorem, quasi-primary fields, Ward identity, primary fields, the Schwartz derivative, the representation theory, radial quantization, the Hilbert space of conformal states, the use of the Cauchy formula, orthogonality of conformal families and structure constants of descendant fields.Less
Chapter 10 introduces the notion of conformal transformations and the important topic of the massless quantum field theories associated to the critical points of the statistical models. The chapter establishes the important conceptual result that the classification of all possible critical phenomena in two dimensions consists of finding out all possible irreducible representations of the Virasoro algebra. It covers the algebra of local fields, conformal invariance, Polyakov's theorem, quasi-primary fields, Ward identity, primary fields, the Schwartz derivative, the representation theory, radial quantization, the Hilbert space of conformal states, the use of the Cauchy formula, orthogonality of conformal families and structure constants of descendant fields.
