Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture

Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture

Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture
Berg Publishers | ISBN: 1847883656 | 2009-10-27 | PDF | 256 pages | 3 Mb

Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable?

This volume brings together international experts from geography, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. In case studies covering the United States, Asia, and Europe, contributors follow routines and rhythms, their emotional and political dynamics, and show how they are anchored in material culture and everyday practice. Running themes of the book are questions of coordination and disruption; cycles and seasons; and the interplay between power and freedom, and between material and natural forces. The result is a volume that brings studies of practice, temporality and material culture together to open up a new intellectual agenda.

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Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political

Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political

Philip Armstrong "Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political"
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press 2009 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0816654905 | PDF | 2.1 MB

Significantly advancing our notion of what constitutes a network, Philip Armstrong proposes a rethinking of political public space that specifically separates networks from the current popular discussion of globalization and information technology. Analyzing a wide range of Jean-Luc Nancy’s works, Reticulations shows how his project of articulating the political in terms of singularities, pluralities, and multiplicities can deepen our understanding of networks and how they influence community and politics. Even more striking is the way Armstrong associates this general complex in Nancy’s writing with his concern for what Nancy calls the retreat of the political. Armstrong highlights what Nancy’s perspective on networks reveals about movement politics as seen in the 1999 protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization, the impact of technology on citizenship, and finally how this perspective critiques the model of networked communism constructed by Hardt and Negri. Contesting the exclusive link between technology and networks, Reticulations ultimately demonstrates how network society creates an entirely new politics, one surprisingly rooted in community.

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Angela Hicks's77 Ways to Improve Your Wellbeing: Use Ancient Chinese Wisdom to Enhance Your Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health

77 Ways to Improve Your Wellbeing: Use Ancient Chinese Wisdom to Enhance Your Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health

Angela Hicks, "77 Ways to Improve Your Wellbeing: How to Use Ancient Chinese Wisdom to Enhance Your Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health"
Spring Hill / How To Books | 2009 | ISBN: 1905862253 | 244 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
In China, people send greetings by wishing a person 'a long and healthy life'. Our natural state is to be healthy and happy. This includes having a calm mind, a healthy body and emotional resourcefulness. This book reveals the profound, yet simple health maintenance secrets that Chinese medicine has developed over many centuries. These secrets enable us to deal with stress and return to our natural balance. In this book, you will discover guidelines about many aspects of our lifestyle including: UNDERSTANDING OUR OWN PARTICULAR CONSTITUTION EATING WELL FOR OUR OWN UNIQUE NEEDS BEING EMOTIONALLY RESILIENT AND USING SETBACKS TO GROW FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE BETWEEN WORK, REST AND EXERCISE RECOGNIZING HOW OUR ENVIRONMENT AFFECTS US By practising these secrets, Angela Hicks shows us how to recover the ability to nourish and protect our energy, overcome illness, and feel an easy joy in simply being alive.

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