Karabogdan, Klobučar (eds.): Enigma of the Object: A Collection of Theoretical Writings (2006) [English, Croatian]
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, politics, theory
The reader published as part of the presentation of the work Enigma of the object presented within the Biennial of Quadrilateral: Relativism exhibition in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia, 15.12.2005-26.2.2006.
Contributions by Mieke Bal, Nada Beroš, Zoran Erić, Marina Gržinić, Bojana Kunst, Tomislav Medak, Petar Milat, Žarko Paić, Ana Peraica, Nataša Petrešin, Zoran Roško, Marko Stamenković, Miško Šuvaković, Šefik Tatlić, Ana Vujanović.
Enigma objekta – Zbornik teorijskih tekstova / Enigma of the Object – A Collection of Theoretical Writings
Editors: Gordan Karabogdan, Nikica Klobučar
Publisher: Personal edition: Gordan Karabogdan and Nikica Klobučar, Zagreb, 2006.
ISBN 953-95352-0-4
148 pages
Jacques Ellul: Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1962/1973)
Filed under book | Tags: · agitprop, democracy, ideology, marxism, mass media, propaganda, soviet union, technology, totalitarianism
“A far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell. With the logic which is the great instrument of French thought, [Ellul] explores and attempts to prove the thesis that propaganda, whether its ends are demonstrably good or bad, is not only destructive to democracy, it is perhaps the most serious threat to humanity operating in the modern world.” –Los Angeles Times
Originally published in French as Propagandes by A. Colin, Paris, 1962.
Translated by Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner
With an introduction by Konrad Kellen
Publisher Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1973 (reprint of the Alfred A. Knopf 1965 edition)
Vintage political science and social criticism
ISBN 0394718747, 9780394718743
332 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-17)
Comment (1)George Prochnik: In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · acoustics, listening, noise, psychology, sound recording
“Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the country and meeting and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.”
Publisher Doubleday, Random House, 2010
ISBN 0385528884, 9780385528887
352 pages
EPUB (updated on 2019-12-10)
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