1,435 research outputs found
Collar
No full text'Collar' extends Toby Christian's attraction to the description of objects in fine detail, where focus is accented through an amplified magnification of surface and substance. This book charts a course between the cities of São Paulo, Glasgow and Marseille, recording a sequence of things Christian has visited, chanced upon or collected. These recollections, written in the present tense, set empty, intricate scenes for a reader to inhabit. And carefully inching through each entwined episode, this book conjures a collar, tailored to the reader.
'Collar' was launched at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in April 2017, and is published by Koenig Books, London
Commuters
No full textAboard a beaten bus, fragile passengers are transported to a gloomy stop, while a cat stares silently, alone in a stationed trailer. Commuters, the third book of writing by Toby Christian, bids us to work with a new train of accounts, travelling between objects and spaces from Vienna to Matera, Liverpool to London. Written in Christian’s trademark dazzling detail, passages teem with feral poetics in descriptions that tilt between the headspaces of guided meditation and hyper-forensic rave. Commuters is a searching shuttle through alternative text, zooming to a stellar end.
Featuring an introduction by Chris Fite-Wassilak.
‘The ghosts of Gertrude Stein and Francis Ponge hover about these short texts, in which objects become subjects, surface depth and language reality.’
- Tom McCarthy
‘Perhaps it’s impossible to unknow, but I feel Toby Christian gets close. He strips things of the usual expectations – of function and value – to better relay their complicatedness. He chases down the specific through crisp lists and proximities and exquisite terminology, then sends it all skittering with sly, swift metaphors. In Commuters, the material world is being remade: as confounding and saturated as we pretend that it isn’t.’
- Sally O’Reilly
‘In his essay, 'Visibility', Italo Calvino wondered what impact living in a world replete with ready-made images would have on the imagination. He thought perhaps we were in danger of losing a basic human faculty, the ability to close our eyes and evoke images in absentia. To counter this decline he proposed 'a potential pedagogy of the imagination that would assist in the control of inner vision, that would neither suffocate it nor let it slip into vague, ephemeral fancy but would instead allow images to crystallize into forms that are distinct, memorable, autonomous -icastic'. Calvino would have found much in Toby Christian's Commuters to be encouraged by. The rigour and devotion with which Christian's slim but multitudinous volume engages with his challenge produces a way of seeing that is startlingly original, and profoundly consoling.’
- Claire-Louise Bennet
Toby McWilliams' Ph.D. Recital
No full textOriginal Format: CassetteComposers in the first Ph.D. recital: Mauro Giuliani; Fernando Sor; Fernando Carulli; Christian Gottlieb Scheidler; Nikita Koshkin; Vladimir Bobri; Manuel de FallaComposers in the second Ph.D. recital: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; Heitor Villa-Lobos; Benoit Schlosberg; Astor PiazzollaFirst Recital: GuitarSecond Recital: Guita
Review of Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry by Toby Davidson
No full textReview of Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry by Toby Davidso
Review of Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry by Toby Davidson
No full textReview of Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry by Toby Davidso
Toby Miller on Games
No full textToby Miller is Professor of English, Sociology, and Women's Studies and Director of the Program in Film & Visual Culture at the University of California, Riverside. His teaching and research cover the media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy. Toby is the author and editor of over 20 books, and has published essays in more than 30 journals and 50 volumes. His current research covers the success of Hollywood overseas, the links between culture and citizenship, and anti-Americanism. His forthcoming book is Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.\ud
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This interview was conducted during Toby's recent stint at QUT as a visiting fellow of the Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Toby delivered a lecture on the games industry in which he directed attention both to the production cycle of games hardware and software, and to the historical context of moral panics about new media, where games can be viewed as the latest in a long line of new media to generate anxiety within a culture.\ud
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In this interview we canvass the directions that games studies might take, and the issues of production, particularly as they relate to the role of players as producers, and the politics of labour in this new model of networked production
Toby Tortoise and the Hare
No full textI am glad at last to have some original Disney fable work. The presentation is surprising. It assumes the race. During it, Max shows off for the little-girl rabbits at Miss Cottontail's Boarding School. (They can be recognized by their huge eyelashes!) All laugh meanwhile at Toby as he goes on at a snail's pace. Then, surprisingly, a different story begins: Max and Toby wage a prize fight. The experience of the first story repeats itself. Toby trains and knocks out lazy Max with one punch. Because both copies have flaws, I will keep both in the collection
Two Dirty Charms
No full textText insert printed on butter wrap, for acid house record 'Dirty Mac: Last B Boy on Mars' ep, by Dirty Mac. Sleeve artwork by Katie Shambles, inner note printed on butter wrap, text by Toby Christian, label design Dan Miller. 20 sealed art editions exist, sealed with duct tape signed/numbered
LGBTI variations in crime reporting: how sexual identity influences decisions to call the cops
No full textResearch shows that people vary in their willingness to report crime to police depending on the type of crime experienced, their gender, age, and their race or ethnicity. Whether or not lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) and heterosexual people vary in their willingness to report crime to the police is not well understood in the extant literature. In this article, I examine variations in LGBTI respondents' attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on their intentions to report crimes to the police. Drawing on a survey of LGBTI individuals sampled from a Gay Pride community event and online LGBTI community forums (N = 329), I use quantitative statistical methods to examine whether LGBTI people's beliefs in police homophobia are also directly associated with the behavioral intention to report crime. Overall, the results indicate that LGBTI and heterosexual people differ significantly in their intention to report crime to the police, and that a belief in police homophobia strongly influences LGBTI people's intention to underreport crime to the police
Lecidea rubrocastanea, a new lichen species from conifer bark and wood in interior western North America (Lecanorales, lichenized ascomycetes)
No full textLecidea rubrocastanea T. Sprib. & Printzen is described as new from conifer bark and wood in montane valleys of inland British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington State. It is characterized by its combination of a crustose olivaceous thallus lacking secondary lichen substances, small, dark burgundy-red or maroon apothecia, dark-capped paraphyses, Lecidella-type ascus, small, thin-walled ascospores, and bacilliform conidia. The generic affinities of the species based on analysis of ITS DNA are unclear, but it has numerous morphological traits in common with Fapewia
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