Oppositions Reader: Selected Essays 1973-1984

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Oppositions Reader: Selected Essays 1973-1984

Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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ASIN: 1568981538

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In its eleven-year history, Oppositions, the journal of the New York-based Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS), had an impact far beyond what its modest cover might suggest. Indeed, Oppositions set the agenda, introduced the key players, and published the seminal pieces in the theorization of architecture in the last twenty years. It is a testament to the enduring importance of the journal that its issues are still highly sought after today, prized (and priced) as collector's items, and found behind the desk at virtually every architectural library.
Oppositions Reader collects the most important essays from 26 issues of Oppositions. Essays from the editors of the series-Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler, and Kurt Forster-are included, along with texts by such noted architects, theorists, and historians as Aldo Rossi, Alan Colquhoun, Leon Krier, Denise Scott Brown, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Mary McLeod, Georgio Ciucci, and Rafael Moneo. The page design, by Massimo Vignelli, has been faithfully reproduced. Harvard Professor K. Michael Hays has selected the writings for inclusion.

Contributors include: Diana Agrest, Stanford Anderson, Giorgio Ciucci, Stuart Cohen, Alan Colquhoun, Francesco Dal Co, Peter Eisenman, William Ellis, Kurt W. Forster, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Giorgio Grassi, Fred Koetter, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Mary McLeod, Rafael Moneo, Joan Ockman, Martin Pawley, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Denise Scott Brown,?Jorge Silvetti, Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Manfredo Tafuri, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, and Hajime Yatsuka.

?It is an understatement to say that this volume is indispensable for any scholar or student interested in contemporary architectural theory.

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necessary.......1999-02-26

a great project, a necessary book to understand the Seventeens, not only in the architecture, not only for architects.

The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition

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Crucial Reading
embarassing, dissapointing
You wont find this in Wall Street Journal

The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Opposition

Manufacturer: Akashic Books
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ASIN: 1888451335

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A refreshingly non-doctrinaire collection of writings on the theory, practice, and history of anti-capitalist politics from the most well-versed activists and scholars in the movement. Since the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle two years ago, the world has witnessed the emergence of a brand new left. Largely focusing on such issues as third-world debt reduction and the emergence of a decidedly undemocratic transnational political order, this new progressivism is a rich and complex phenomenon which demands careful analysis to understand its ascendance ten years after the Cold War-in a time of supposed affluence and ongoing celebration of capitalism's triumph over the Soviet Union. Aimed squarely at activists and academics, as well those interested in educating themselves about the anti-market tenor of the new left, this is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to anti-capitalist politics and cultures.

Contributors include SF Bay Guardian Culture editor and high-tech critic Annalee Newitz, Wall Street author and Left Business Observer editor Doug Henwood, journalist and social critic Liza Featherstone, as well as interviews with influential thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek, Frederic Jameson, Susan George, and Antonio Negri (co-author of Empire). Among the topics explored are the presence of anti-capitalist movements in everyday life, the history of anti-capitalism, strategies of anti-capitalist resistance, regionalism and anti-capitalism, and anti-capitalism and intellectual property. Includes a brief selection of some of the most historically important criticisms of the free market from the likes of Marx, Gramsci, and other Marxist, anarchist, and Situationist thinkers.

Editor Joel Schalit is the author of Jerusalem Calling and editor of both Punk Planet magazine and webzine Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life. He is a regular contributor to the SF Bay Guardian.

Contributors:
Megan Shaw
Rick Prelinger
Jason Meyers
Annalee Newitz
Scott Schaffer
Doug Henwood
Liza Featherstone

Interviews:
Slavoj Zizek
Frederic Jameson
Susan George
Ant

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Recent Artifact.......2007-04-29

It's rather late to be commenting on this well-intentioned 2002 anthology. However, researchers into post-soviet, anti-capitalist thinking may find the publication helpful. On one hand, there's really little here in the way of lasting political or theoretical value. On the other, the 300 pages do provide the reader with a good idea of just how dispersed and inchoate most anti-capitalist thinking is in the wake of the soviet demise. The shadow of Marx still looms large over the rebellious landscape suggesting that some 21st century reckoning amounts to a major order of business. However, don't look for anything on Iraq or the brutal resurgence of Western imperialism. Were the book updated, I suspect the contents would be meatier. All in all, a minor book on a major subject.

Crucial Reading.......2005-09-03

I have to say that this book really took me by surprise. It's a first class introduction to its subject matter, in terms of how it maps the intellectual currents that inform post-Seattle anti-market politics today. Its accessible, moves quickly, and the interviews with Thomas Frank, Slavoj Zizek and Negri are a total hoot to see gathered together in the same bookspace.

What is especially interesting is how many of the contributors to the book invoke the continuing importance of first and second generation Frankfurt School theory to the analysis of contemporary capitalism. While I wouldn't necessarily have thought this to be true, there's clearly some merit to this argument. Worth considering further.

embarassing, dissapointing.......2004-01-11

Thought this would be fun, but it is quite uninformative and banal, or worse at points. SOme of the writing is okay and all is "accessible" but that is easy when one has nothing to say, or has no research or complicated arguements to offer. This is stuff that would NEVER pass a real, professional editing process, and it is significant that the press here is virtually unknown and more like a desktop publisher than a real, even alternative press.

the henwood piece is jejune. He betrays no knowledge of having ever read Lenin or any Russian history, and so does not have anything to say other than 1917 was a long time ago (Duh~!) and that imperialism has changed since Lenin's time. Thanks, Einstein, but its interesting that about a dozen other, real economists/leftists have said that maybe some aspects of Lenin's analysis still shine today.

The editors once refer to MOnthly Review magazine as being a sect paper affiliated with some 'Trotskyite" group. This would come as news to the academics and independent journalists and actvists who have run the JOURNAL for over fifty years. Speaking of journalists, thats what all these folks are, except they arent very good and have no facts or research to present, and moreover have nothing substantial to say about what capitalism is, or anti-capitalism.

Save your money. You can hear better chit-chat about capitalism and "the left" in campus coffee bars, etc, and that'd be free. Poor trees!

You wont find this in Wall Street Journal.......2002-12-14

This anthology is provocative and guaranteed to create debate and discourse where ever two readers gather. It focuses on the writings and interviews of many proponents of the new anti-market left that has been around for awhile but gained increased visibility after the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999. Interestingly, increased numbers of centrists and conservatives are questioning the legitimacy of market driven societies that are destroying their investments and jobs. Serious questions about the role of the market driven economy are no longer the province of the left.
The writers of this book discuss such topics as politics, culture, gender, and alternative economic systems in a non-doctrinaire manner that will give the reader an up-to-date discourse on globalization, war, and economic decline.
This is not something you will read in The Wall Street Journal.

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Exploitive and unscholarly.......2007-03-05

Sacred Journey by David Howard is an embarrassment. The author is completely uninformed about sadhus. His methods and approaches are questionable and disrespectful. The quality of writing is hopeless.

Enlightenment in the form of photographs.......2004-06-09

I just finished reading David Howard's "Sacred Journey" and have to ask, "what do you see, David, when you close your eyes?"

Viaje Sagrado : De Las Riberas Del Ganges Al Himalaya / Sacred Journey : From the Ganges to the Himalayas: De Las Riberas Del Ganges Al Himalaya

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Viaje Sagrado : De Las Riberas Del Ganges Al Himalaya / Sacred Journey : From the Ganges to the Himalayas: De Las Riberas Del Ganges Al Himalaya
David Howard
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Frank Sinatra at a recording session, Marilyn Monroe giggling with Betty Grable, Clark Gable making an entrance at a premiere: showbiz photographer Murray Garrett had a knack for catching movie idols in unguarded moments. In this beautiful black-and-white album, an eagerly awaited follow-up to his highly successful Hollywood Candid, Garrett showcases 145 surprisingly intimate, sometimes irreverent images from Hollywood's heyday, including never-before-seen shots of celebrities such as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck-plus, of course, Bogey and Bacall.

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Over the last twenty-five years, the field of cinema studies has offered a dramatic reassessment of the history of film in general and of Hollywood in particular. Writers have drawn on the methodologies of a number of disciplines--literary criticism, sociology, psychology, women's studies, and minority and gay studies--to deepen our understanding of motion pictures, the film industry, and movie theater audiences.

In Hollywood's High Noon, noted film historian Thomas Cripps offers a lively narrative history of Hollywood's classical age that brings the insights of recent scholarship to students and general readers. From its origin during the First World War to the beginning of its decline in the 1950s, Cripps writes, Hollywood operated as did other American industries: movies were created by a rational production system, regulated by both government and privately organized interests, and subject to the whims of a fickle marketplace. Yet these films did offer consumers something unique: in darkened movie palaces across the country,audiences projected themselves--their hopes and ideas -- onto silver screens, profoundly mediating their reception of Hollywood's flickering images.

Beginning with turn-of-the-century moving-picture pioneer Thomas Edison, Cripps traces the invention of Hollywood and the development of the studio system. He explores the movie-going experience, the struggle for social control over the movies through censorship, the impact of sound on the style and content of films, alternatives to Hollywood's oligopoly including "race" films and documentaries, the paradoxical predictability and subversive creativity of genre pictures, and Hollywood's self-proclaimed "shining moment" during the Second World War. Cripps concludes with a discussion of the collapse of the studio system after the war, due in equal parts to suburbanization, the emergence of television, and government anti-trust action.

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A Good Start at Exploring the History of the Film Industy.......2004-06-11

Moviemaking before the latter 1950s and the rise of the television has been the subject of numerous studies. This book explores the rise of the film industry, concentrating on the experience in Hollywood, and offering an analysis of the changes in the industry wrought by technology (sound pictures, color, cinemascope), business (the studio system, contract players, star power, vertical integration), and culture (the meaning of films, the experience of the viewer).

Cripps does an excellent job demonstrating the rise of the Hollywood oligopoly, and the alternatives that arose to that system but could never quite break its control. He expends considerable effort discussing various genres that arose before World War II, especially westerns and gangster films.

The high point of Hollywood, at least according to many in the industry, was its effort in World War II to make films that were both entertaining and helpful to the war effort. Cripps discusses this activity from the Anglophillic "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1939) through "Casablanca" (1942) to John Ford's semi-documentaries such as "They Were Expendable" (1945), as well as a host of other works. He also spends considerable effort unpacking the relationship of Hollywood to the Office of War Information (OWI) and finds that the Hollywood moguls, who had spent their careers answering to their moneyed overlords in New York, had little trouble answering to OWI communicators in Washington.

Cripps concludes the book with a discussion of the collapse of the studio system after World War II. He explains that this took place because of several key issues. First, the suburbanization of America meant that moviegoers abandoned their downtown theaters and the current metroplexes did not emerge until much later. Second, the sudden rise in family development, sparking the advent of the baby boom, meant that these new families sought entertainment that was more private than the public gathering of the theater. Third, television arose and this gave these new families entertainment that they could partake of together in their homes. Finally, government antitrust action broke apart the vertical integration that had dominated in the prewar era.

Cripps also discusses the experience of the moviegoer in the theater throughout the first half of the twentieth century. He finds that the shared experience of sitting with others in a darkened theater partaking of exotic adventures, romances, historical and futuristic times, and the like provided a unique experience unavailable anywhere else. This experience profoundly affected how people embraced the movies as a central part of modern culture. Also overlaying the entire book is the issue of film censorship. The industry both self-regulated itself and had overseers who regulated it to create film that reinforced specific cultural and national values while discouraging mindsets and actions that went against the status quo.

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Parks face intense pressure both to conserve biodiversity and provide economic opportunities for rural communities. Based on the insight from over fifty case studies, this book synthesizes lessons to guide park management in transitional economies where the challenges of poverty and governance can be severe.
The central insight is that parks are common property regimes that supposedly serve society. If parks are set aside to serve poor people, should conservation demands over-rule demands for jobs and economic growth? Or will deliberately using parks as bridgeheads for better land use and engines for rural development produce more and better conservation? Accountability emerges as a major issue at all levels, including the problematic linkages between park authorities and the political system, and the ability to measure park performance. This book provides important lessons in park management regarding the relationship between conservation and commercialization, performance management, new systems of governance and management, and linkages between parks, landscape and the land-use economy.

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Unemployment is one of southern Europe's most serious political problems. Though much has been written about unemployment's causes and cures, systematic attention to its consequences is lacking. This collection of original essays deals with the effects of unemployment on regimes, parties, immigrants, economies and families, highlighting the differences and the similarities among southern European states and offering lessons about the profound human consequences of unemployment in general.

Unemployment in Southern Europe: Coping with the Consequences

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Unemployment in Southern Europe: Coping with the Consequences
Nancy Gina Bermeo
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ASIN: B000N7EX8K

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Since publication of the first edition of this book, the social, political and economic landscape of South-East Asia has changed dramatically. In only a relatively short period, the region has experienced economic boom followed by economic bust, accompanied by severe political upheaval. This second edition thoroughly revises and updates the first in its attempt to address recent events and the way in which they are interpreted by political economists. The authors explain the dramatic changes under way in South-East Asia through a particular understanding of the inseparability of economic and political processes. Within this framework, they examine such developments as the overthrow of Soeharto, the problems of corruption and money politics, and the 1997-98 financial crises. These are explained as part of a continuing process of conflict among contending interests attempting either to forge new regimes or preserve old ones. The latest crises are viewed as part of the broad sweep of ongoing capitalist revolutions across the region. Featuring both new and fully revised chapters, this is a dynamic and timely text.

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excellent.......2003-04-08

This comprehensive introductory book will give an excellent first step in learning the subject.

The Political Economy Of South-East Asia: Conflict, Crisis, And Change

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The Political Economy Of South-East Asia: Conflict, Crisis, And Change
Garry Hewison, Kevin Rodan
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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