Infinite Constellations

Infinite Constellations
Author: Khadijah Queen
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2023-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1573661988

"The 43 innovative fictions in Infinite Constellations showcase the voices and visions of 30 remarkable writers, both new and established, from the global majority: Native American/First Nation writers, South Asian writers, East Asian writers, Black American writers, Latinx writers, and Caribbean and Middle Eastern writers. These are visions both familiar and strange, but always rooted in the mystery of human relationships, the deep honoring of memory, and the rootedness to place and the centering of culture"--

Performance Constellations

Performance Constellations
Author: Marcela A. Fuentes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2019-10-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0472125834

Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as people struggle to be heard and effect long-term social justice. Its case studies explore collective political action in Latin America, including the Zapatistas in the mid-’90s, protests during the 2001 Argentine economic crisis, the 2011 Chilean student movement, the 2014–2015 mobilizations for the disappeared Ayotzinapa students, and the 2018 transnational reproductive rights movement. The book analyzes uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative. While other studies have focused either on digital activism or on street protests, Performance Constellations shows that they are in fact integrally entwined. Zooming in on protest movements and art-activism in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile, and putting contemporary insurgent actions in dialogue with their historical precedents, the book demonstrates how, even in moments of extreme duress, social actors in Latin America have taken up public and virtual space to intervene politically and to contest dominant powers.

Connected Constellations

Connected Constellations
Author: Vasantha Lakshmi,
Publisher: Wordsgenix Publication
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Connected Constellations" is an anthology book compiled by Harkirat Singh and Vasantha Lakshmi. Amazingly talented writers from around the globe have written poetically beautiful things that could seperate you from the reality or give you a deeper meaning of it. We hope you enjoy the adventurous journey. Have a heavenly day!

The One

The One
Author: Alain Badiou
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2023-07-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231550669

Alain Badiou’s 1983–1984 lecture series on “the One” is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant—a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no “One”: there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple. What is novel in Badiou’s view of multiplicity is his reliance on mathematics, and set theory in particular. A set is a collection of things—yet, as he observes, it often is taken to “count as one” operationally for the purposes of mathematical transformations. In this seminar, distinguishing between “the One” and “counting as one” emerges as essential to Badiou’s ontological project. His analysis of reflections on oneness in Descartes, Plato, and Kant prefigures core arguments of his defining work, Being and Event. Showcasing the seeds of Badiou’s key ideas and later thought, The One features singular readings, breathtaking theorizations, and frequently astonishing offhand remarks.

The Heavens

The Heavens
Author: Amédée Guillemin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1871
Genre: Astronomy
ISBN: