Shocked : adventures in bringing back the recently dead

The Big Mac rule of resuscitation and the search for the limits of life -- Why Amsterdam used to be a good place to commit suicide -- The ice woman meets the strange new science of resuscitation -- Science fiction, space travel, and suspended animation -- The deep freeze future cryonauts venture to the frontiers of immortality -- Crowdsourcing survival -- When is dead really dead? Listen for the violins.

Interfaces of the word : studies in the evolution of consciousness and culture

Cleavage and growth: Transformations of the word and alienation -- The sequestration of voice: The writer's audience is always a fiction -- Media transformation: the talked book -- African talking drums and oral noetics -- "I see what you say": sense analogues for intellect -- Closure and print: Typographic rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger, and Shakespeare -- From epithet to logic: Miltonic epic and the closure of existence -- The poem as a closed field: the once new criticism and the nature of literature -- Maranatha: death and life in the text of the book -- From mimesis to irony: writing and print as integuments of voice -- Present and future: Voice and the opening of closed systems.

Interfaces of the word : studies in the evolution of consciousness and culture

Cleavage and growth: Transformations of the word and alienation -- The sequestration of voice: The writer's audience is always a fiction -- Media transformation: the talked book -- African talking drums and oral noetics -- "I see what you say": sense analogues for intellect -- Closure and print: Typographic rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger, and Shakespeare -- From epithet to logic: Miltonic epic and the closure of existence -- The poem as a closed field: the once new criticism and the nature of literature -- Maranatha: death and life in the text of the book -- From mimesis to irony: writing and print as integuments of voice -- Present and future: Voice and the opening of closed systems.

Organization-representation : work and organization in popular culture

Work and organization in popular culture

Documentary film movement : the post office touches all branches of life / Representing reality: cinéma vérité / Cultural representation of trade unions / What is wrong with this picture? Sex and gender relations in Disclosure / Philadelphia : AIDS, organization, representation / Saloon girls : death and desire in the American West / Child's play : representations of organization in children's literature / Management gurus : what are we to make of them? / Fictional money (or, greed isn't so good in the 1990s) / Masculinity and madness / Cyborganization : cinema as nervous system / Computers and representation : organization in the virtual world / Sublime technologies and future organization in science fiction film, 1970-95

Bookmark now : writing in unreaderly times

Introduction: the future is now / Beginnings. Not fade away / Look the part / Border lines / The invisible narrator / From somewhere down south to South Beach : raw takes on the MFA / The writing life. Welcome--grab a broom / A call for collaboration / As we mean to go on / Her dark silent cowboy no more / Your own personal satan / Marginalia and other crimes / Security / The now. Distractions / If I had a stammer / Putting gay fiction back together / Voice of a generation / Ambassadors / The McEggers Tang clan / 121 years of solitude / Lying to the optician : the reading experience revealed / The future. A computer ate my book / The slippery slope to Margaritaville / Andrew Krucoff and the amazing paper weblog / Epilogue: My words consume me

Broca's brain : reflections on the romance of science

Introduction -- Science and human concern. Broca's brain ; Can we know the universe? Reflections on a grain of salt ; The world which beckons like a liberation ; In praise of science and technology -- The paradoxers. Night walkers and mystery mongers: sense and nonsense at the edge of science ; White dwarfs and little green men ; Venus and Dr. Velikovsky ; Norman Bloom, messenger of God -- Science fiction -- a personal view -- Our neighborhood in space. The sun's family ; A planet named George ; Life in the solar system ; Titan, the enigmatic moon of Saturn ; The climates of planets ; Kallipe and the Kaaba ; The golden age of planetary exploration -- The future. "Will you walk a little faster?" ; Via cherry tree, to Mars ; Experiments in space ; In defense of robots ; The past and future of American astronomy ; The quest for extraterrestrial intelligence -- Ultimate questions. A Sunday sermon ; Gott and the turtles ; The amniotic universe -- References -- Index.

Cinematic sociology : social life in film

Introduction. American society and film ; Sociology and film ; Sociological "toolkit" ; In this book -- Social class and inequality. Sitting in the dark with Max: classical sociological theory through film / Understanding social mobility through the movies / Class in the classroom: Hollywood's distorted view of inequality / Race and ethnicity. Spectacle of black violence as cinema / Don't worry, we are all racists!: Crash and the politics of privitization / Latinos/as through the lens / Gender and sexuality. Constructing empowered women: cinematic images of power and powerful women / Masculinity of the governator: muscle and compassion in American politics / Working the boundaries: bisexuality and transgender on film / Work and family. Service, smiles, and selves: film representations of labor and the sociology of work / Reel families: family life in popular films / Global connections. Scripting an enemy: portrayals of Arab terrorists in American film / Dirty pretty things: migration, the state, and contexts of survival in the global city / Social change and the environment. Only possible solution? The challenge of nonviolence to the hegemony of violence in film / From earth to cosmos: environmental sociology and images of the future in science fiction film

As time goes by : portraits of age

Introduction / The veiled mirror : epiphany and epicalyptry in contemporary French women's writing about ageing / Memories and nostalgia : discovering the mother in Tahar Ben Jelloun's Sur ma mère / To break the looking-glass : writing a mother's ageing, illness and death in Annie Ernaux's Une femme and "Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit" / La vieillesse menac̦ante : female ageing in latterday nineteenth-century French society / Learning to be old : Laure Wyss's literary reflections on the challenge of ageing / As time goes by : old age and the elderly in Maria Judite de Carvalho's Seta despedida / The quest for Leonora Carrington : the older role model in Monika Maron's novel Ach Glück / Le père Goriot : the depiction of old age and obsession? / Life begins at sixty : representations of old age in Emile Zola's Le docteur Pascal / Memories and old age : the old Goethe, as seen by Thomas Mann / Respect or ridicule? : the representation of old age in Cervantes's works / Future age and children : a compensatory "trope of vulnerability" in Llorenc̦ Villalonga's fiction? -- Ageing, masculinity and sexuality in Serge Doubrovsky's L'après-vivre and Un homme de passage / "Silent transformations" : ageing and the work of writing in Robert Pinget's Thèo ou le temps neuf / "In my end / is my beginning: " Giuseppe Ungaretti's last works and old-age creativity / Towards a positive psychology of ageing : a discussion of the representation of old age in the writings of Gabrielle Roy / Contributors.

Picked-up pieces

Views: The literary life. On meeting writers ; Voznesensky met ; Bech meets me ; Farewell to the middle class -- Four speeches. Accuracy ; The future of the novel ; From Humor in fiction ; Why write? -- London life. Notes of a temporary resident ; Notes to a poem -- Amor vincit omni ad nauseam -- Cemeteries -- Letter from Anguilla. P.S. -- Four introductions. To Pens and needles ; To the Czech edition of Of the farm ; To The Harvard lampoon centennial celebration ; To Soundings in Satanism -- Golf. The first lunar invitational ; Tips on a trip ; Is there life after golf?

Reviews: The fork -- Religious notes -- Dostoevsky. A raw something ; Polina and Aleksei and Anna and Losnitsky -- Knut Hamsun. "My mind was without a shadow" ; Half-mad and maddening ; Love as a standoff -- Joyce and Proust. Questions concerning Giacomo ; Remembrance of things past remembered -- Borges. The author as librarian ; Three translations -- Nabokov. Mnemosyne chastened ; Mary unrevamped ; The crunch of happiness ; Van loves Ada, Ada loves Van ; The translucing of Hugh Person ; Motley but true ; A tribute -- English lives. A short life ; Ayrton fecit ; The mastery of Miss Warner ; A sere life, or, Sprigge's ivy ; Milton adapts Genesis, Collier adapts Milton ; Auden fecit ; A messed-up life -- French deaths. Death's heads ; Albertine disparue ; Saganland and the back of beyond ; In praise of the blind, black god -- Europe. Two points on a descending curve ; The view from the dental chair ; Snail on the stump ; Witold who? ; Inward and onward -- Africa. Out of the glum continent ; Shades of black ; Addendum : excerpts from a symposium ; Through a continent, darkly -- The avant garde. Grove is my press, and avant my garde ; Infante terrible ; Satire without serifs ; Bombs made out of leftovers ; Mortal games -- Young Americans. If at first you do succeed, try, try again ; From Dyna Domes to turkey-pressing ; Jong love -- Older Americans. Indifference ; Papa's sad testament ; And yet again wonderful ; Talk of a tired town ; His own horn ; Remarks ; A citation ; An unpublished book note ; An interesting emendation ; Phantom life -- Non-fiction. Black suicide ; Fool's gold ; Sons of slaves ; Coffee-table books for high coffee tables ; Before the sky collapses ; A new meliorism ; Alive and free from employment.

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