Glass, Light, and Electricity João ParrachoFleet footed and capricious, the essays in Glass, Light & Electricity wander through landscapes both familiar and unfamiliar, finding them equal parts magical and toxic. They explore and merge public and private history through lyric meditations that use research, association, and metaphor to examine subjects as diverse as neon signs, scalping, heartbreak, and seizures. The winner of the 2019 Permafrost Prize in nonfiction, Shena McAuliffe expands the
regarding these realms of human endeavor as not limited to aesthetics in the narrower sense
Excerpts from these writings have been published elsewhere but in abbreviated form
Did You Have to Turn on the Light
This book explores various facets of the dilemma
Franco-Mauritians have been able to continue their elite position into the early twenty-first century
But the essays do not leave off in the past
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Berliner Chic charts the stories of entrepreneurially-savvy manufacturers and cultural workers striving to establish their city as a fashion capital
and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek
Advanced software and high-resolution infrared detectors has allowed for a renaissance in the use of infrared thermal imaging or thermography in medical research and practice
Authored by experienced postgraduate examiners
How are Martinicans and Guadeloupeans today transforming the silences of the past into historical and cultural manifestations rooted in the Caribbean