This article surveys the transformations and permutations of “totality” throughout the cultural and political landscapes of the twentieth century. Specifically, it explores connections between “high’ ...modernism” and totality by focusing on the heritage of this pairing as figured by major thinkers from both the Frankfurt school and structuralist and poststructuralist debates in France. Ultimately, I argue that modernism is an unfinishable archive, one that resists, and will never become, a closed totality.
"Few authors have led as storied a life as Setouchi Jakuchō.
Writer, translator, feminist, peace activist, Buddhist nun . . .
even this list cannot contain the impressive sweep of her career.
Along ...the way she has also been daughter, wife, mother, mistress,
lover, role model, and femme fatale. Through each twist and turn,
she has reacted with both feisty verve and self-reproving
reflection. Basho (Places), superbly translated here by Liza Dalby,
enjoins readers to accompany the author as she travels again over
the familiar terrain of her life story, journeying through the
places where she once lived, loved, suffered, and learned." -from
the Foreword by Rebecca L. Copeland In this scintillating work of
autobiographical fiction, Setouchi Jakuchō recalls with almost
photographic clarity scenes from her past: growing up in the
Tokushima countryside in the 1920s, the daughter of a craftsman,
and in Tokyo as a young student experiencing the heady freedom of
college life; escaping to Kyoto at the end of a disastrous arranged
marriage and an ill-starred love affair before returning to Tokyo,
with its lively community of artists and writers, to establish
herself as a novelist. Throughout, Jakuchō is propelled by a
burning desire to write and to make a living as a writer. Her
memories, sharp and clear, also provide a fascinating picture of
everyday life in Japan in the years surrounding World War II.
This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads ...fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussolini's elaboration of a new ruling style to the shaping of the regime's identity, she finds that in searching for symbolic means and forms that would represent its political novelty, fascism in fact brought itself into being, creating its own power and history.
Falasca-Zamponi argues that an aesthetically founded notion of politics guided fascist power's historical unfolding and determined the fascist regime's violent understanding of social relations, its desensitized and dehumanized claims to creation, its privileging of form over ethical norms, and ultimately its truly totalitarian nature.
El terremoto de Atacama del 11 de noviembre de 1922 (Mw 8,5 – 8,6) es el segundo mayor terremoto ocurrido en Chile en el siglo XX. En este trabajo revisamos los depósitos asociados a este evento ...tsunamigénico y presentamos nuevas evidencias de su registro en la costa del desierto de Atacama. Las evidencias geológicas aparecen de manera muy puntual y heterogénea debido a la escasez de contextos ambientales adecuados para su conservación, destacando el buen potencial de preservación de los campos de bloques en zonas acantiladas. Es probable que grandes eventos tsunamigénicos ocurridos durante el Presente Interglaciar en costas áridas, como la del desierto de Atacama, hayan pasado desapercibidos hasta la fecha, siendo necesarios estudios multidisciplinares y enfocados a escenarios muy concretos para su correcta identificación y análisis.
Bağımsızlık mücadelesinin varış noktası olarak Cumhuriyet, Türk halkı için 1923 tarihinde bir umut olarak doğmuştur. Cumhuriyet’in ilanı ile yeşeren bu umut tüm yurtta büyük bir coşku ve heyecanla ...karşılanmıştır. Kurtuluş Savaşı kahramanı, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin kurucusu Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’ ün en büyük eserim dediği Cumhuriyet kendisinden sonra aynı heyecan ve coşkuyla bugün hala yaşatılmaktadır. Cumhuriyet’ in ilan edildiği dönemde yurdun içinde bulunduğu zorlu koşullar Anadolu halkının fedakârlığı ve özverisi ile aşılmış, kentlerin yeniden inşası süreci ve savaştan çıkmış olmanın getirdiği sıkıntılar ise yönetimsel kararlılık, milli ekonomi politikaları ile çözüm bulmuştur. Kurtuluş Savaşı’nın gazi kentlerinden biri olan İzmir işgalden bağımsızlığa kavuştuğu günlerde büyük bir yangın ile sınanmış ve yangının sebep olduğu zarar kentin büyük çaplı bir imar sürecini ortaya çıkarmıştır. Ancak bu durum kent halkına Cumhuriyet coşkusundan hiçbir şey kaybettirmemiştir. Kentin dört bir yanında karşılaşılan Cumhuriyet temsili anıtlar bunun en güzel ispatıdır. Bu çalışmada İzmir’in Cumhuriyet ile birlikte yeniden inşa edilme süreci ve şehrin işlek bölgelerinde yer alan anıtların Cumhuriyet temsili konu edilmiş, şehrin yeniden imarı sürecinde değişen mimari üslup ve anıtlara ilişkin değerlendirmeler fotoğraflarla sunulmuştur.
Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigr and fervent ...nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with either capitalist commercialism or the postwar rebellion against it. By focusing on his sensitivity to political struggle, however, leading film commentators here offer fascinating insights into Mekas's career as a writer, filmdistributor, and film-maker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. This collection of essays, interviews, and photographs addresses such topics as Mekas's column in the Village Voice, his foundation and editorship of Film Culture, his role in the establishment of Anthology Film Archives and The Film-Makers Co-op (the major distribution center for independent film), his interaction with other artists, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that followed Walden. The contributors to this volume are Paul Arthur, Vyt Bakaitis, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Rudy Burckhardt, David Curtis, Richard Foreman, Tom Gunning, Bob Harris, J. Hoberman, David E. James, Marjorie Keller, Peter Kubelka, George Kuchar, Richard Leacock, Barbara Moore, Peter Moore, Scott Nygren, John Pruitt, Lauren Rabinovitz, Michael Renov, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, and Maureen Turim.
How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of sovereignty to the European Union and the ...retraction of the constitutional claim over Northern Ireland? The author of this book argues that such discourses are integrally connected and, what is more, embody the enduring relevance of nationalism in modern Ireland. As the most comprehensive study to date of official discourse in twentieth-century Ireland, this book traces the ways in which nationalism can be simultaneously redefined and revitalised through European integration. The text begins with an overview of the origins and development of Irish official nationalism. It then analyses the redefinition of this nationalism in meeting the challenges to Irish nation-statehood posed by the conflict in Northern Ireland and membership of the EU. New interpretations of the symbolic and practical importance of the island of Ireland have been central to this process. Indeed, the genius of the Irish was to employ innovative EU-inspired concepts in finding agreement with and within Northern Ireland on the one hand whilst, on the other, legitimising further European integration through the notion that it furthers traditional nationalist ideals such as Irish unity. Thus, Irish political leaders were remarkably successful in not only accommodating potent nationalist and pro-European discourses but in making them appear complementary. An over-reliance on this discourse, however, plus a critical failure to adjust it to the conditions it helped to fashion, contributed to the failure of the 'Yes' campaigns in the Irish referendums on the EU Treaties of Nice and Lisbon. The book concludes with an assessment of the reasons for these results and argues that the symbiotic relationship between Irish nationalism and European integration can be redeemed for a new era in EU-member-state relations. This book will appeal to any reader with an interest in the changing dynamics of Ireland's relationship with the European Union and with Northern Ireland, as well as scholars of discourses on identity, territory and governance in Europe.
Irish Adventures in Nation-building consists of eighteen mostly-chronological essays examining the debates and processes that have shaped the modernisation of Ireland since the beginning of the ...twentieth century. The vantage points examined include those of prominent revolutionaries, cultural nationalists, clerics, economists, sociologists, political scientists, public intellectuals, journalists, influential civil servants, political leaders and activists who weighed into debates about the condition of Ireland and where it was going. Topics considered range from why Patrick Pearse's ideas about education were ignored to why Ireland has been recently so open to large-scale immigration, from the intellectual conflicts of the 1930s to the future of Irish identity. This is a genuinely multi-disciplinary book that offers an accessible overview of how Ireland and what it means to be Irish has changed during the last century.
Flávio Wolf de Aguiar nasceu em Porto Alegre (RS), em 1947. É Doutor em Letras (1979) pela Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH/ USP), onde fundou e ...dirigiu o Centro Ángel Rama e atuou por muitos anos (1973-2006) como professor de Literatura Brasileira, até se aposentar. Sua atuação intelectual abrange os campos da Literatura, do jornalismo e da criação literária. Flavio Aguiar foi professor convidado e conferencista em universidades no Brasil, Uruguai, Argentina, Canadá, Alemanha, Costa do Marfim e Cuba. Dentre seus mais de trinta livros publicados constam os de autoria própria, as coletâneas por ele organizadas ou editadas, traduções e participações em antologias. São obras de crítica literária, ficção e poesia. Ao longo da vida, trabalhou nos principais jornais e revistas brasileiros. No período da ditadura militar, foi editor de cultura do jornal Movimento.
