Stéphane Hessel: Time for Outrage! (2010-) [FR, EN, DE, IT, PT, GA]

This controversial, impassioned call-to-arms for a return to the ideals that fueled the French Resistance has sold millions of copies worldwide since its publication in France in October 2010. Rejecting the dictatorship of world financial markets and defending the social values of modern democracy, 93-old Stéphane Hessel — Resistance leader, concentration camp survivor, and former UN speechwriter — reminds us that life and liberty must still be fought for, and urges us to reclaim those essential rights we have permitted our governments to erode since the end of World War II.

French edition
Publisher Indigène éditions, Montpellier, October 2010
ISBN 9782911939767
32 pages

English edition
Translated by Damion Searls
Publisher Published by Charles Glass Books, an imprint of Quartet Books
ISBN 0704372223, 9780704372221
40 pages
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Indignez-vous! (French, 6th edition, December 2010, PDF)
Time for Outrage! (English, 2011, EPUB)
Time for Outrage! (English, published in The Nation, March 2011, PDF)
Empört Euch! (German, trans. Michael Kogon, 2011, PDF)
Empört Euch! (German, trans. Michael Kogon, 2011, EPUB)
Indignatevi! (Italian, Scribd.com, February 2011)
Indignai-vos! (Portuguese, trans. Marly Peres, 2011, PDF)
Indignádevos (Galician, trans. Henrique Harguindey, 2011, Scribd.com)

Tom Standage: The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers (1998)

For thousands of years people had communicated across distances only as quickly as the fastest ship or horse could travel. Generations of innovators tried to develop speedier messaging devices. Then, in the mid-1800s, a few extraordinary pioneers at last succeeded. Their invention–the telegraph–nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before, or since. This book tells the story of the telegraph’s creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. By 1865 telegraph cables spanned continents and oceans, revolutionizing the ways countries dealt with one another, giving rise to creative business practices and new forms of crime. Romances blossomed over the wires. The benefits of the network were hyped by advocates and dismissed by skeptics. Government regulators tried and failed to control the new medium. And attitudes toward everything from news gathering to war had to be completely rethought.

Publisher Walker & Company, New York, 1998
ISBN 0802713424, 9780802713421
227 pages

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Michel Maffesoli: O nomádství: Iniciační toulky (1997-) [CZ, ES]

Maffesoliho esej se nevrací jen k dějinám pojmu nomádství, jehož počátky tkvějí kdesi u Nietzscheho a který se odráží později jak u Artauda, tak především u Deleuze, ale pokouší se tento jev obohatit interpretačním kontextem fenoménu bloudění, hledání, migrace, touhy neustále unikat a vystavovat se riskantním setkáním. Maffesoliho nomádství je spíše zakotveno v sociologii a etnologii, aniž ztratilo svou funkci klíče, jímž lze odemykat zcela současné jevy, jako je například ztráta místa v postmoderním světě apod. Stěžejní část Maffesoliho knihy o „sociologii dobrodružství“ – dobrodružného bloudění po světě -, zkoumající z různých úhlů pluralitu, nahodilost a masovost, kterou chápe jako neodmyslitelný rys moderního společenství, vyúsťuje v překvapivou pointu závěrečné kapitoly, zabývající se problémy exilu a reintegrace.

Originally published in French as Du Nomadisme, Vagabondages initiatiques, La Table ronde, 1997

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O nomádství: Iniciační toulky (Czech, trans. Josef Fulka, 2002)
El nomadismo: vagabundeos iniciáticos, (Spanish, trans. Daniel Gutiérrez, 2004)