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1. For a New Critique of Political Economy

   For a New Critique of Political Economy

   Chiara Agostinelli - 23.09.2018 - 23:53

2. What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology

   What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology

   Chiara Agostinelli - 23.09.2018 - 23:59

3. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language

   Marxism and the Philosophy of Language

   Chiara Agostinelli - 24.09.2018 - 00:05

4. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays

   Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton University Press, 1957) is a book by Canadian literary critic and theorist, Northrop Frye, which attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope, theory, principles, and techniques of literary criticism derived exclusively from literature. Frye consciously omits all specific and practical criticism, instead offering classically inspired theories of modes, symbols, myths and genres, in what he termed "an interconnected group of suggestions." The literary approach proposed by Frye in Anatomy was highly influential in the decades before deconstructivist criticism and other expressions of postmodernism came to prominence in American academia circa 1980s.

   Frye's four essays are sandwiched between a "Polemical Introduction" and a "Tentative Conclusion." The four essays are titled "Historical Criticism: A Theory of Modes", "Ethical Criticism: a Theory of Symbols", "Archetypal Criticism: A Theory of Myths", and "Rhetorical Criticism: A Theory of Genres."

   Ana Castello - 02.10.2018 - 17:38

5. Genre

   Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture, but it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in music and images, in film and television, genres actively generate and shape our knowledge of the world. Understanding genre as a dynamic process rather than a set of stable rules, this book explores:

   • the relation of simple to complex genres
   • the history of literary genre in theory
   • the generic organisation of implied meanings
   • the structuring of interpretation by genre
   • the uses of genre in teaching.

   (Source: Routledge catalog copy)

   Ana Castello - 02.10.2018 - 17:51

6. The Birth of Tragedy and The Genealogy of Morals

   The Birth of Tragedy and The Genealogy of Morals

   Ana Castello - 02.10.2018 - 18:11

7. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

   Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is a 1999 book by Lawrence Lessig on the structure and nature of regulation of the Internet.

   The primary idea of the book, as expressed in the title, is the notion that computer code (or "West Coast Code", referring to Silicon Valley) regulates conduct in much the same way that legal code (or "East Coast Code", referring to Washington, D.C.) does. More generally, Lessig argues that there are actually four major regulators (Law, Norms, Market, Architecture) each of which has a profound impact on society and whose implications must be considered (sometimes called the "pathetic dot theory", after the "dot" that is constrained by these regulators.)

   Ana Castello - 02.10.2018 - 18:48

8. Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication

   The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making.

   Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication represents a long-awaited and much anticipated addition to the study of multimodality from the scholar who pioneered and continues to play a decisive role in shaping the field. Written in an accessible manner and illustrated with a wealth of photos and illustrations to clearly demonstrate the points made, Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication deliberately sets out to locate communication in the everyday, covering topics and issues not usually discussed in books of this kind, from traffic signs to mobile phones.

   In this book, Gunther Kress presents a contemporary, distinctive and widely applicable approach to communication. He provides the framework necessary for understanding the attempt to bring all modes of meaning-making together under one unified theoretical roof.

   Ana Castello - 02.10.2018 - 18:51

9. Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print

   Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print

   Ana Castello - 02.10.2018 - 19:13

10. Word Toys

    With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving that include multimedia, networked, conceptual, and other as-yet-unnamed genres while traditional genres and media—the lyric, the novel, the book—have been transformed. Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and which views them instead as technical objects.
     
    Brian Kim Stefans considers the problems that arise when discussing these progressive texts in relation to more traditional print-based poetic texts. He questions the influence of game theory and digital humanities rhetoric on poetic production, and how non-digital works, such as contemporary works of lyric poetry, are influenced by the recent ubiquity of social media, the power of search engines, and the public perceptions of language in a time of nearly universal surveillance.
     

    Ana Castello - 02.10.2018 - 19:22

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