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Modernettes

Get It Straight

Modernists: A Decade Of Rhythm & Soul Dedication

Henri Meschonnic,

Modernität Modernität

Henri Meschonnic entwirft eine Theorie der Modernität als eines Konflikts, in dem sich die Sprache, das Subjekt, die Gesellschaft und ihre Artikulationen wechselseitig bestimmen. Moderne nicht als eine Ep…

A Snapshot In Time: Society, Scandal And The First String Of Modernism 1960 - 1963

In den Jahren 1960, 1961 und 1962 wurden viele großartige Platten veröffentlicht. Man musste einfach die Perlen finden. Der Sampler hält einige krachende Juwelen wie den R&B-Swagger von Blue Flames »Orang…

Elizabeth Wilson

Adorned in Dreams

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none.'From haute couture to haberdashery, and 'deviant' dress to Dior, Eli…

Elizabeth Wilson

Adorned in Dreams

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none.'From haute couture to haberdashery, and 'deviant' dress to Dior, Eli…

Dag S. Yngvesson

Archipelagic Cinemas

"Archipelagic Cinemas is a beautifully written book, impeccably researched and strongly grounded in Southeast Asian thought. It offers a detailed comparative history of Southeast Asian film style and…

Ksenia Gusarova,

The Art of Beauty

Examines 19th century make-up practices in the context of visual and performance arts of western modernity, arguing that make-up played an important role in defining modernist art.

Dag S. Yngvesson

Archipelagic Cinemas

"Archipelagic Cinemas is a beautifully written book, impeccably researched and strongly grounded in Southeast Asian thought. It offers a detailed comparative history of Southeast Asian film style and…

Jane Tylus

Who Owns Literature?

Material culture scholarship explores licensing, permissions, and patronage dynamics, highlighting the estrangement of works from authors. This Element explores early modern authors' goodbyes, translators…

Les Vents Francais - Moderniste

Eric Le Sage, Les Vents Francais

Knowledge Shaping

How can we portray the history of Renaissance knowledge production through the eyes of the students? Their university notebooks contained a variety of works, fragments of them, sentences, or simple words.…

Wendy Brown

States of Injury

A landmark work from one of our leading political theorists

Lorenzo Casini

Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists . Beginning with the writings of Muh…

W. Ian Bourland

Black and Gold

For centuries, Africa has been the center of global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, the precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empires a…

W. Ian Bourland

Black and Gold

For centuries, Africa has been the center of global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, the precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empires a…

Matthew Costa

Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

Ashokan Nambiar C

Print and the Novel in 19th Century Kerala

The book demonstrates how the early novel can be seen as a good site to think about what was effected by the print technology in the last decades of the 19th Century in Kerala. It was in the novel that ch…

Ana Teixeira Pinto

Death Wall

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.From the eighteenth century onwards, Western science began to tap a large, yet non-renewable, capital s…