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The future of community research: a conversation with Alison Hulme, Alan Bradshaw and Adam Arvidsson
No full textTo better understand the state of community research in other disciplines, and to consider how the contexts of contemporary market societies are changing both com- munities, and knowledge making in respect of communities
The reduction of perturbed Markov generators : an algorithm exposing the role of transient states
No full textBibliography: p. 41-42.Supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant AFOSR-82-0258.Jan Robin Rohlicek, Alan S. Willsky
Fine's Food, Los Angeles, 1991
No full textFine's Food, untitled, Los Angeles, 1991. Fine's Food, exterior, 2765 East Olympic Boulevard (between Soto Street and Orme Avenue). Impressionistic landscapes with cows, ducks, geese, and fruit trees. House paint, 400' x 20', by Nancy Turner and Peeter Alvet. Sponsored by Alan Fine. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 311, #70
Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
In Alan Turing’s Name: Pardoning the Dead, Forgetting the Living
No full textThis special panel discussion brought together authorities on Alan Turing and the statutory pardon legislation intended to honour him. Leading academics, in conversation with those who have unsuccessfully petitioned to have offences disregarded, were joined by the Turing Bill’s author
Bernard Williams
No full textAn edited multi-author volume assessing the moral philosophy of the late British philosopher Bernard Williams. Contributors: Adrian Moore, John Skorupski, Alan Thomas, Robert B Louden, Michael Stocker, A. A. Long, Edward Crai
GENETIC GOVERNANCE: HEALTH, RISK AND ETHICS IN THE BIOTECH ERA
No full textList of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Genetics and governance: an introduction / Robin Bunton and Alan Petersen -- Pt. I. Ethics, risk and governance -- Ch. 1. Ethics of clinical genetics: the spirit of the profession and trials of suitability from 1970 to 2000 / Piia Jallinoja -- Ch. 2. Risk management and ethics in high-tech antenatal care: the Finnish experience / Ilpo Helen -- Ch. 3. The first genetic screening in Finland: its execution, evaluation and some possible implications for liberal government / Seppo Poutanen -- Ch. 4. Choice as responsibility: genetic testing as citizenship through familial obligation and the management of risk / Jessica Polzer -- Pt. II. Risk, population and identity -- Ch. 5. From eugenics to the government of genetic risks / Thomas Lemke -- Ch. 6. The sociology of the new genetics: conceptualizing the links between reproduction, gender and bodies / Elizabeth Ettorre -- Ch. 7. Whose right to choose? The new genetics, prenatal testing and people with learning difficulties / Linda Ward -- Ch. 8. 'New' genetics meets the old underclass: findings from a study of genetic outreach services in rural Kentucky / Susan E. Kelly -- Pt. III. Knowledge, governance and the future -- Ch. 9. Public health and the 'new genetics': balancing individual and collective outcomes / Evan Willis -- Ch. 10. More than code: from genetic reductionism to complex biological systems / Martha R. Herbert -- Ch. 11. Emerging forms of governance in genomics and post-genomics: structures, trends, perspectives / Herbert Gottweis -- Inde
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
Robin Hood Gardens re-visions
No full textRobin Hood Gardens is a development of flats in Tower Hamlets, London, designed by the internationally-known architects Alison and Peter Smithson and completed in 1972. It has been the subject of media attention, especially since 2007, owing to a redevelopment proposal and a campaign to save the building by listing. The main piece in the book reviews the history of the building, its critical reception and false perceptions about its current performance and presumed 'failure'. It argues that the building is fit for purpose and that its destruction would be a waste of a physical and cultural resource. Other contributions from architects, housing specialists etc. reinforce the argument, with period and modern photos and the first publication in English of a TV film script by the architects about the project.
[Publisher/Distributor's description] This book uncovers the history of the project, arguing for its historical and architectural significance and for its future role in local housing provision. It includes support from architects Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid, with previously unpublished text and pictures by Alison + Peter Smithson and photographs by Sandra Lousada and Ioana Marinescu.
With contributions by: Catherine Croft, Alan Powers, Dirk van den Heuvel, Ken Baker, Simon Smithson, Amanda Baillieu, Zaha Hadid, Sir Stuart Lipton, Peter St John, Neil Jackson, Deborah Saunt, Richard Rogers, Ann Power, Dan Cruickshank
Arabicus Felix : Luminosus Britannicus. Essays in Honour of A.F.L. Beeston on his Eightieth Birthday, edited by Alan Jones. Ithaca Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University, Reading, 1991
No full textRobin Christian. Arabicus Felix : Luminosus Britannicus. Essays in Honour of A.F.L. Beeston on his Eightieth Birthday, edited by Alan Jones. Ithaca Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University, Reading, 1991. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°11, 1994. pp. 241-243
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