A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing a...(展开全部)

Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China is not simply a survey of sixteenth-century images, but rather, a thorough and thoughtful examination of visual culture in China's Ming Dynasty, one that considers images wherever they appeared—not only paintings, but also illustrated books, maps, ceramic bowls, lacquered boxes, painted fans, and even clothing and tomb pictures. Clun...(展开全部)

A Village Voice Best Book, this seminal work presents new models of vision and examines modern theories of seeing.

A Village Voice Best Book, this seminal work presents new models of vision and examines modern theories of seeing.

Computability and complexity theory should be of central concern to practitioners as well as theorists. Unfortunately, however, the field is known for its impenetrability. Neil Jones's goal as an educator and author is to build a bridge between computability and complexity theory and other areas of computer science, especially programming. In a shift away from the Turing machin...(展开全部)

Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future. ...(展开全部)

Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future. ...(展开全部)

布赖恩·费根教授是世界顶级的考古学家之一，也是国际公认的世界史前研究权威。 他曾在剑桥大学潘布罗克学院学习考古学，先后在撒哈拉以南、赞比亚、东非地区发掘最早的农业遗址或在当地博物馆进行保存古迹的工作，堪称非洲历史跨学科研究的先驱。后担任加利福尼亚大学圣巴巴拉学院的人类学教授，现为名誉教授。 费根教授撰写了多部畅销教材和大众读物，如《简明考古学导论》《地球上的人们》《尼罗河的劫掠》《洪水、饥馑与帝王：厄尔尼诺和文明兴衰》《大暖化》等，并主编了《牛津考古学指南》，出版了多部有关非洲考古的学术专著，后因其在教育界和考古学界孜孜不倦的努力而获得美国考古学会颁发的首届公共教育奖。

Few thought systems have been as distorted and sometimes misconstrued as those of Marx and Hegel. Philosophy and Revolution, presented here in a new edition, attempts to save Marx from interpretations which restrict the revolutionary significance of the philosophy behind his theory. Developing her breakthrough on Hegel's Absolute Idea, Raya Dunayevskaya, who died in the June of...(展开全部)

Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning b...(展开全部)