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Notes Made While Falling

by Jenn Ashworth

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 A genre-bending meditation on sickness, spirituality, creativity, and the redemptive powers of writing.Notes Made While Falling is both a genre-bending memoir and a cultural study of traumatized and sickened selves in fiction and film. It offers a fresh, visceral, and idiosyncratic perspective on creativity, spirituality, illness, and the limits of fiction itself. At its heart is a story of a disastrously traumatic childbirth, its long aftermath, and the out-of-time roots of both trauma and creativity in an extraordinary childhood. Moving from fairgrounds to Agatha Christie, from literary festivals to neuroscience and the Bible, from Chernobyl to King Lear, Ashworth takes us on a fantastic journey through familiar landscapes transformed through unexpected encounters and comic combinations. The everyday provides the ground for the macabre and the absurd, as the narration twists and stretches time. Hovering on the edge of madness, writing, it seems, might keep us sane—or might just allow us to keep on living. In Notes Made While Falling, Ashworth calls for a redefinition of the creative work of thinking, writing, teaching, and being, and she underlines the necessity of a fearlessly compassionate and empathic attention to vulnerability and fragility.
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Fandom As Methodology - A Sourcebook For Artists And Writers

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 An illustrated exploration of fandom that combines academic essays with artist pages and experimental texts.Fandom as Methodology examines fandom as a set of practices for approaching and writing about art. The collection includes experimental texts, autobiography, fiction, and new academic perspectives on fandom in and as art. Key to the idea of "fandom as methodology" is a focus on the potential for fandom in art to create oppositional spaces, communities, and practices, particularly from queer perspectives, but also through transnational, feminist and artist-of-color fandoms. The book provides a range of examples of artists and writers working in this vein, as well as academic essays that explore the ways in which fandom can be theorized as a methodology for art practice and art history. Fandom as Methodology proposes that many artists and art writers already draw on affective strategies found in fandom. With the current focus in many areas of art history, art writing, and performance studies around affective engagement with artworks and imaginative potentials, fandom is a key methodology that has yet to be explored. Interwoven into the academic essays are lavishly designed artist pages in which artists offer an introduction to their use of fandom as methodology.Contributors Taylor J. Acosta, Catherine Grant, Dominic Johnson, Kate Random Love, Maud Lavin, Owen G. Parry, Alice Butler, SooJin Lee, Jenny Lin, Judy Batalion, Ika Willis.Artists featured in the artist pages Jeremy Deller, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Anna Bunting-Branch, Maria Fusco, Cathy Lomax, Kamau Amu Patton, Holly Pester, Dawn Mellor, Michelle Williams Gamaker, The Women of Colour Index Reading Group, Liv Wynter, Zhiyuan Yang
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Cycling And Cinema

by Bruce Bennett

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 A unique exploration of the history of the bicycle in cinema, from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films.Cycling and Cinema explores the history of the bicycle in cinema from the late nineteenth century through to the present day. In this new book from Goldsmiths Press, Bruce Bennett examines a wide variety of films from around the world, ranging from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films, to consider the complex, shifting cultural significance of the bicycle. The bicycle is an everyday technology, but in examining the ways in which bicycles are used in films, Bennett reveals the rich social and cultural importance of this apparently unremarkable machine. The cinematic bicycles discussed in this book have various functions. They are the source of absurd comedy in silent films, and the vehicles that allow their owners to work in sports films and social realist cinema. They are a means of independence and escape for children in melodramas and kids'' films, and the tools that offer political agency and freedom to women, as depicted in films from around the world.In recounting the cinematic history of the bicycle, Bennett reminds us that this machine is not just a practical means of transport or a child''s toy, but the vehicle for a wide range of meanings concerning individual identity, social class, nationhood and belonging, family, gender, and sexuality and pleasure. As this book shows, two hundred years on from its invention, the bicycle is a revolutionary technology that retains the power to transform the world.
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Ghosting Of Anne Armstrong

by Michael Cawood Green

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 A novel that tells a four-hundred-year-old tale of witchcraft and intrigue, reimagining the life of a servant girl who accuses her neighbors of being witches.Michael Cawood Green''snovel The Ghosting of Anne Armstrong calls up the lost voice of a fourteen-year-old girl who, between January and May 1673, made some of the most dramatic accusations in the history of English witchcraft and then disappeared, leaving behind the mystery of what drove her to insist, in the face of rejection after rejection, on telling so strange a story—ultimately at the cost of her own life.Fantastic yet compelling, Anne Armstrong''s accusations against her neighbors in an isolated part of the Tyne Valley were recorded in the court depositions that form the basis for this literary thriller from Goldsmiths Press. Following a fictional historian who becomes obsessed with tracking Anne through each twist and turn of the legal proceedings, the reader is drawn ineluctably into the shadowy world where Anne''s dark tale plays out to its devastating end. T he narrative is shot through with questions: Why does Anne risk being suspected of witchcraft herself as she accuses an ever-increasing number of others? Is she seeking revenge, or does she want to earn money as a witch finder? How does a young, illiterate woman have such detailed knowledge of esoteric forms of witchcraft? How does she learn to understand and manipulate the legal process? Is she a victim of her own hallucinations? Or is she telling the truth—the truth as she sees it, as perhaps only she can see it? And, finally, how does she meet her lonely death in the building which—if reports about appearances of her ghost are to be believed—she has never left?
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Broadcast 41 - Women And The Anti-Communist Blacklist

by Carol A. Stabile

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 How forty-one women--including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne--were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s "Red Scare."
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Many Splendored Things - Thinking Sex And Play

by Susanna Paasonen

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 Exploring sex--bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections--in terms of play and playfulness.
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Future For Public Service Television

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 "An edited collection that brings together some of the key documents from Goldsmiths' 2015 major inquiry into the nature, purpose and place of public service television. It includes the final report; a selection of submissions from academics, regulators, broadcasters and civil society groups; transcripts of key events and an evaluation of the inquiry itself"--
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Bikes And Bloomers - Victorian Women Inventors And Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear

by Kat Jungnickel

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 An illustrated history of the evolution of British women''s cycle wear.The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women''s liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives—cycle wear. This illustrated account of women''s cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist invention to supply a missing chapter in the history of feminism.Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were unworkable, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals. Yet wearing "rational" cycle wear could provoke verbal and sometimes physical abuse from those threatened by newly mobile women. Seeking a solution, pioneering women not only imagined, made, and wore radical new forms of cycle wear but also patented their inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to transform ordinary clothing into cycle wear.Drawing on in-depth archival research and inventive practice, Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the little-known stories of six inventors of the 1890s. Alice Bygrave, a dressmaker of Brixton, registered four patents for a skirt with a dual pulley system built into its seams. Julia Gill, a court dressmaker of Haverstock Hill, patented a skirt that drew material up the waist using a mechanism of rings or eyelets. Mary and Sarah Pease, sisters from York, patented a skirt that could be quickly converted into a fashionable high-collar cape. Henrietta Müller, a women''s rights activist of Maidenhead, patented a three-part cycling suit with a concealed system of loops and buttons to elevate the skirt. And Mary Ann Ward, a gentlewoman of Bristol, patented the "Hyde Park Safety Skirt," which gathered fabric at intervals using a series of side buttons on the skirt. Their unique contributions to cycling''s past continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile women.
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Academic Diary - Or Why Higher Education Still Matters

by Les Back

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 Sharp and witty observations of academic life that range from the local to the global, from PowerPoint to the halls of power.
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Stuart Hall - Conversations, Projects And Legacies

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 Forthcoming from the MIT Press.
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Liberalism In Neoliberal Times - Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits

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 An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today.
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The New Internationalists - Activist Volunteers In The European Refugee Crisis

by Sue Clayton

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Bikes And Bloomers - Victorian Women Inventors And Their Extraordinary Cycle Wear

by Kat (Goldsmiths College, University Of London) Jungnickel

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The Broadcast 41 - Women And The Anti-Communist Blacklist

by Carol A (7207 Wells Parkway) Stabile

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Phone & Spear - A Yuta Anthropology

by Miyarrka Media

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Global Securities Operations

by Bob Currie

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Memorandum To Pronaco

by J. B. Nwankwo

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Technological Emancipation Of Nigeria - The Role Of Chemical Engineering (A Collection Of Lectures)

by Benedict Nnolim

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Mr. Goodman And Other Poems

by B. N. Nnolim

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Old Woman And The Boy

by Desmond Ohaegbulem

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Graffiti

by B. N. Nnolim

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What Others Believe

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What Others Believe

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Fundamentals Of Mass Transfer

by B. N. Nnolim

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