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Kermode, Frank, 1919-. Classic : literary images of permanence and change / Frank Kermode. [067413396X (pbk.)] Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1983.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN56.C6 K4 1983

Illuminates the vagaries of musical 'classics.'
tagged [none] by dkelly ...on 31-MAR-06
Diamond, Jared M. . Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond. [0670033375 ] New York : Viking, 2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library HN13 .D5 2005

Cited by Susan McClary in OHWM review.
tagged history by dkelly ...on 24-OCT-06
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.. Illuminations / Walter Benjamin : edited and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt : translated by Harry Zohn. [0805202412] New York : Schocken Books, 1969, c1968.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN514 .B3623 1969

Quoted in Language of New Media (p. 107): film burst prison-world asunder (p. 238).
tagged gaze observer_mobility by dkelly ...on 12-APR-06

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-7910%28199604%29111%3A3%3C578%3AFWMVFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T

Cited in Abbate "Drastic or Gnostic?" (529):

agrees w/ Jean-Francois Lyotard that "techne - the action and labor of machines, the material reality implicit in technology, and th temporality attached to that action - carries implications of conreteness, physicality, and embodiment." p. 590-91. When hermeneutics invokes technoogy it reaps those implications, relying on synthetic carnality for persuassive impact.

(531): "phenomena that are events may not be particularly susceptible to a philosophical tradition in which the metaphysics of the subject or insights of Saussurean linguistics are basic sustenance. For such phenomena, philosophis of action, labor, and techne...and a critical discourse accounting for the 'movement, immediacy, and violence' in events being 'born to presence' prove more fertile. meaning culture and presence culture 

tagged deconstructive presence by dkelly ...on 19-JUN-06
Friedberg, Anne.. Window shopping : cinema and the postmodern / Anne Friedberg. [0520079167 (alk. paper)] Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1995 .F743 1993

Cited in Language of New Media (p. 109): as mobility of gaze became more virtual, observer became more immobile (p. 28).
tagged observer_mobility by dkelly ...on 12-APR-06