H. P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu (1928–) [EN, FR, CZ, PL, RU, IT, DE, ES, PT]

Sketch of Cthulhu by Lovecraft, 1934.

‘The Call of Cthulhu’ is one of H. P. Lovecraft’s best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by him in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.

Wikipedia
Publication history, (2)

The Call of Cthulhu (English, 1928, Wikisource)
L’appel de Cthulhu (French, 5 trans.: Jacques Papy 1954, Claude Gilbert 1975, Jean Balczesak c1992, Simone Lamblin c2002, Maxime Le Dain 2012, via)
Volání Cthulhu (Czech, trans. Ondřej Neff, 1990, pp 23-32, 38 MB)
Zew Cthulhu (Polish, trans. Ryszarda Grzybowska, HTML, 1983)
Zov Ktulchu (Russian, trans. Э. Серова, П. Лебедев, Т. Мусатова, Т.Таланова, TXT, 1993)
Il richiamo di Cthulhu (Italian, trans. Gianni Pilo, 1994)
Volání Cthulhu (Czech, trans. Leviathan, 2007)
Der Ruf des Cthulhu (German, trans. Andreas Diesel and Frank Festa, 2008)
La llamada de Cthulhu (Spanish, n.d., HTML)
O chamado de Cthulhu (Portuguese, n.d.)

Comic books:
Los mitos de Cthulhu (Spanish, drawn by Alberto Breccia, adapted by Norberto Buscaglia, 1975/80, 80 MB)
The Call of Cthulhu (drawn by John Coulthart, 1994, 8 MB, via)

See also Donna Haraway’s talk (25 min, May 2014) and video interview (36 min, Aug 2014, PT subs) introducing the concept of ‘Cthulhucene’.

Edgar Morin: Method, vol. 1: The Nature of Nature (1977–) [PT, EN, ES]

“Method: The Nature of Nature is the first of several volumes exposing Edgar Morin’s general systems view on life and society. The present volume maintains that the organization of all life and society necessitates the simultaneous interplay of order and disorder. All systems, physical, biological, social, political and informational, incessantly reshape part and whole through feedback, thereby generating increasingly complex systems. For continued evolution, these simultaneously complementary, concurrent, and antagonistic systems require a priority of love over truth, of subject over object, of Sy-bernetics over cybernetics.”

First published in French as La Méthode, t. 1: La Nature de la nature, 1977.

English edition
Translated and Introduced by J.L. Roland Bélanger
Publisher Peter Lang, 1992
ISBN 0820418781
435 pages

Interview with Morin by his translator Ana Sánchez, 2011
Publisher (EN)
WorldCat (EN)

O método 1. A natureza da natureza (Portuguese, trans. Maria Gabriela de Bragança, 2nd ed., c1987, 12 MB)
Method, 1: The Nature of Nature (English, trans. J.L. Roland Bélanger, 1992, 17 MB)
El método 1. La naturaleza de la naturaleza (Spanish, trans. Ana Sánchez and Dora Sánchez García, 2001, 4 MB)

Michel Chion: Film, a Sound Art (2003/2009)

“French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise—it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes, devices, techniques, and effects that convert multiple sensations into image and sound, therefore rendering, instead of reproducing, the world through cinema.

The first half of Film, A Sound Art considers developments in technology, aesthetic trends, and individual artistic style that recast the history of film as the evolution of a truly audiovisual language. The second half explores the intersection of auditory and visual realms. With restless inventiveness, Chion develops a rhetoric that describes the effects of audio-visual combinations, forcing us to rethink sound film. He claims, for example, that the silent era (which he terms “deaf cinema”) did not end with the advent of sound technology but continues to function underneath and within later films. Expanding our appreciation of cinematic experiences ranging from Dolby multitrack in action films and the eerie tricycle of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining to the way actors from different nations use their voices and words, Film, A Sound Art showcases the vast knowledge and innovative thinking of a major theorist.”

First published as Art sonore, le cinema, 2003

Translated by Claudia Gorbman
Publisher Columbia University Press, 2009
ISBN 0231137761, 9780231137768
536 pages
via johnsonleow

Reviews: Knakkergaard (MedieKultur, 2010), Whittington (Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 2010), Jaeckle (Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 2011).

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