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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography in Reflections on Photography as mentioned in this paper, examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death.Abstract:
Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.read more
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Shakespeare, Time and the Victorians: A Pictorial Exploration
TL;DR: Sillars as discussed by the authors examines multiple facets of the complex relationship between time and the visual sense of Shakespeare's plays and considers the multiple forms in which performances were recorded and re-created visually, and absorbed into the memories of their viewers.
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Is a Financial Crisis a Trauma
TL;DR: Is a financial crisis a trauma? as mentioned in this paper argues that if the answer is yes, then profound implications follow for issues of major importance in critical thought, including the power of symbolic systems to shape experience and material conditions, the challenge of representing disastrous events, and the status of the much-vaunted return of the Real.
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I Am Not Who "I" Pretend to Be: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and its Photographic Frontispiece
TL;DR: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas: The Life Story of Gertrude Stein this paper is a classic example of a self-portrayal book with a frontispiece.
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Transition and transformation: Nigerian familial formations in Ireland's spaces of regulation and regimentation
TL;DR: In this paper, the dialogic relation between the Irish state and its Nigerian immigrant family subjects is explored, with a special focus on the institution of Direct Provision for asylum seekers in Ireland, to demonstrate how Ireland state suspends and alters generally applicable rights and laws based on the necessity to discourage the inflow of particular immigrants populations.