帕特里克•莫迪亚诺，法国当代著名作家，2014年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。 莫迪亚诺1945年生于巴黎郊外布洛涅—比扬古地区，父亲是犹太金融企业家，母亲是比利时演员。1968年莫迪亚诺在伽利玛出版社出版处女作《星形广场》一举成名。1972年的《环城大道》获法兰西学院小说大奖，1978年的《暗店街》获得龚古尔奖。1996年，莫迪亚诺获得法国国家文学奖。他还分别于2010年和2012年获得法兰西学院奇诺•德尔•杜卡基金会世界奖和奥地利欧洲文学奖这两项终身成就奖。 莫迪亚诺的小说常常通过寻找、调查、回忆和探索，将视野转回到从前的岁月，描写“消逝”的过去；也善于运用象征手法，通过某一形象表现出深远的含义。 自1968年至今，莫迪亚诺已经出版近三十部小说，在三十多个国家出版。

A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience life Acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's Rapt makes the radical argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty or brains, fate or coincidence, but on what you choose to pay attention to. Rapt introduces a diverse cast of character...(展开全部)

Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, and author, was an inspired critic. "Forms of Attention" is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The opening essay, on Botticelli, traces the artist's sudden popularity in the nineteenth century for reasons that have more to do with poetry than painting. In the second...(展开全部)

Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back? For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons behind our shortening attention spans. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think about this subject ...(展开全部)

Is human vision universal and largely unchanging, or historically conditioned? What happened to the Western understanding of vision when the camera obscuraAa simple pinhole camera popular in the 17th and 18th centuriesAgave way to the Kodak? Columbia University art historian Crary brings a multidisciplinary approach to such questions, and though his work is densely written for ...(展开全部)

作者简介 乔纳森·克拉里（Jonathan Crary），美国著名艺术史家，视觉文化研究者。现为哥伦比亚大学现代艺术与理论夏皮罗讲席教授。区域（Zone）出版社创始人。著有《观察者的技术》《知觉的悬置》《24/7》等，已译成近二十种语言，被公认为当今世界最活跃的视觉研究者之一。 沈语冰，复旦大学特聘教授，复旦大学哲学学院博士生导师，兼浙江大学世界艺术研究中心主任。著有《20世纪艺术批评》，并获教育部第四届人文社科优秀科研成果二等奖。独立或合作译有《塞尚及其画风的发展》等12部，其中《现代生活的画像：马奈及其追随者艺术中的巴黎》获AAC第八届“艺术中国·年度影响力”年度艺术类出版物最终提名奖。因“长期致力于系统翻译介绍西方现当代艺术理论，为中国艺术研究做出重大贡献，丰富了中文世界的学术视野”，获第二届当代艺术思想论坛艺术理论奖。 贺玉高，1975年生于...(展开全部)

Is human vision universal and largely unchanging, or historically conditioned? What happened to the Western understanding of vision when the camera obscuraAa simple pinhole camera popular in the 17th and 18th centuriesAgave way to the Kodak? Columbia University art historian Crary brings a multidisciplinary approach to such questions, and though his work is densely written for ...(展开全部)

Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have...(展开全部)

作者简介 乔纳森·克拉里（Jonathan Crary），美国著名艺术史家，视觉文化研究者。现为哥伦比亚大学现代艺术与理论夏皮罗讲席教授。区域（Zone）出版社创始人。著有《观察者的技术》《知觉的悬置》《24/7》等，已译成近二十种语言，被公认为当今世界最活跃的视觉研究者之一。 沈语冰，复旦大学特聘教授，复旦大学哲学学院博士生导师，兼浙江大学世界艺术研究中心主任。著有《20世纪艺术批评》，并获教育部第四届人文社科优秀科研成果二等奖。独立或合作译有《塞尚及其画风的发展》等12部，其中《现代生活的画像：马奈及其追随者艺术中的巴黎》获AAC第八届“艺术中国·年度影响力”年度艺术类出版物最终提名奖。因“长期致力于系统翻译介绍西方现当代艺术理论，为中国艺术研究做出重大贡献，丰富了中文世界的学术视野”，获第二届当代艺术思想论坛艺术理论奖。 贺玉高，1975年生于...(展开全部)

Jenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She lives in Oakland.