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On Slowness : Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary /
Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the contemporary-a decidedly modern practice that gazes firmly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Colección: | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. NEGOTIATING "MOTHER" IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: BETWEEN CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT
- 1. CERTAIN MOTHERS, UNCERTAIN FATHERS: PLACING ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
- 2. ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE BIOLOGICAL BOTTOM LINE
- 3. MULTIPLE "MOTHERS," MANY REQUIREMENTS FOR PROTECTION: CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND THE STATUS OF MOTHERS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL SURROGACY
- 4. THE BORDERS OF LEGAL MOTHERHOOD: RETHINKING ACCESS TO ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN EUROPE
- 5. PREGNANT BODIES AND THE SUBJECTS OF RIGHTS: THE SURROGACY-ABORTION NEXUS
- 6. THE MOTHERLESS FETUS: ULTRASOUND PICTURES AND THEIR MAGIC DISAPPEARING TRICK
- 7. CONTRACTING FOR MOTHERHOOD: POSTADOPTION VISITATION AGREEMENTS
- 8. RELINQUISHMENT AND ADOPTION IN TAMIL SOCIETY: MOTHERS' EXPERIENCES WITH DE-KINNING
- 9. MARGINALIZED MOTHERS AND INTERSECTING SYSTEMS Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Slowness
- ONE. Slow Modernism
- TWO. Open Shutter Photography and the Art of Slow Seeing
- THREE. Glacial Visions, Geological Time
- FOUR. Dream | Time Cinema
- FIVE. Free Fall
- SIX. Video and the Slow Art of Interlacing Time
- SEVEN. The Art of Taking a Stroll
- EIGHT. Those Who Read
- Epilogue: Slowness and the Future of the Humanities
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter