"The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime" is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's "Lost Highway", based on the premises of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Lynch's unique universe of the 'ridiculous sublime' is interpreted as a simultaneous playful staging and traversing of the fundamental ideological fantasies that sustain our late capitalist society. A master of reversals, Zi...(展开全部)

（美）诺亚•查尼 Noah Charney 国际畅销书作家、艺术史家，因其在艺术犯罪领域的深厚研究而声名远扬。查尼也是一名艺术史教授，艺术犯罪研究会的创始人、会长。迄今他已出版了12本著作，包括好几本国际畅销书，诸如《乔尔乔﹒瓦萨里传》（获得普利策奖提名）、《艺术的发明》和《伪造的艺术》等。现在，他和家人及一条名叫凡﹒艾克的无毛犬生活在斯洛文尼亚。

Excerpt from On the Art of the Theatre Then there are other surprises, those engineers, those directors of journals, those managers of stores, those sea captains, men who startle one by suddenly putting in an appearance and expressing a sincere and hearty desire to join in the festivities.

"Introduction by Edward F. Fry. Sponsored by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum." Includes bibliographical references.

Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory," and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contempora...(展开全部)

Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory," and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contempora...(展开全部)

斯拉沃热·齐泽克，斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那大学社会学研究所资深研究员，欧美众多大学客座教授，大名鼎鼎的欧陆哲学家，魅力四射的演说家，光彩夺目的文化理论家，人称“文化理论界的猫王”、“屹立于人类智力顶峰”的“卢布尔雅那巨人”，“几十年来强大无比的杰出阐释者”，自称“一定意义上的共产主义者”和“激进左翼分子”。他深受黑格尔主义、马克思主义和拉康精神分析理论的影响，擅长以通俗文化产品解读拉康的精神分析理论，并以拉康精神分析理论、黑格尔哲学和马克思主义政治经济学解析最新的社会文化现象。他“把一切纳入自己的研究领域”，颇有“席卷天下，包举宇内”之势，同时“把理论的严密性与阅读的强制性融为一炉”，“是反直觉观察的大师”。 季广茂，北京师范大学文学院教授、博士生导师，北京师范大学文艺学研究中心研究员，齐泽克在中国最早的译介者。主要研究方向：西方当代文学理论、文化理论和...(展开全部)

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk—and the players raising the stakes In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them ...(展开全部)

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Ne...(展开全部)