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Aimlessness /

"Our culture values striving, purpose, achievement, and accumulation. This book asks us to get sidetracked along the way. It praises aimlessness as a source of creativity and an alternative to the demand for linear, efficient, instrumentalist thinking and productivity. Aimlessness collects idea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lutz, Tom (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Colección:No limits
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Alternative Table of Contents
  • Aimlessness: An Introduction
  • Aimlessness and Literature I: The Essay
  • Aimlessness and Literature II: Poetry
  • Aimlessness and Collage I: Out of Control
  • Aimlessness and the Nomad I: Deleuze and Guattari
  • Aimlessness and Method I: Definitions and Disclaimers
  • Aimlessness and the Nomad II: Lyotard and Genghis Khan
  • Aimlessness and Collage II: Tokarczuk, Nietzsche, Morris
  • Aimlessness and Collage III: The Encyclopedia
  • Aimlessness and Travel I: The Horizon
  • Aimlessness and Idleness I: Nietzsche, Adorno, and Idle Work
  • Aimlessness and Life I: Drugs and Self-Doubt
  • Aimlessness and Literature III: The Novel
  • Aimlessness and Travel II: Bad Road
  • Aimlessness and Death
  • Aimlessness and Life II: Intimacy
  • Aimlessness and Method II: Gertrude Stein, Jan Zwicky, Lao Tzu
  • Aimlessness and Life III: Stages
  • Aimlessness and Travel III: Intention
  • Aimlessness and Idleness II: Workaholicism
  • Aimlessness and Attention I: The Stream of Consciousness
  • Aimlessness and the Nomad III: Vehicle and Tenor
  • Aimlessness and Attention II: Excellence
  • Aimlessness and Idleness III: Restlessness
  • Aimlessness and Method III: The End
  • Aimlessness and Attention III: And Then
  • Acknowledgments
  • Works Cited
  • Index