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Rust de Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté

Rust: Object Lessons

Autor Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2018
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.It's happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. Rust takes on the many meanings of this oxidized substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology. Jean-Michel Rabate´ combines art, science, and autobiography to share his fascination with peeling paints and rusty metal sheets. Rust, he concludes, is a place where things living, built, and remembered commingle.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501329494
ISBN-10: 1501329499
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 121 x 165 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Object Lessons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

The Object Lessons series, published in association with The Atlantic, explores the hidden lives of ordinary things and shows how everyday objects can teach us things about ourselves and the modern world

Notă biografică

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, senior curator of Slought Foundation, one of the editors of the Journal of Modern Literature, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has authored or edited forty books and collections on modernism, psychoanalysis, philosophy and aesthetics.

Cuprins

Introduction1. How to Live with Global Rust2. Hegel and Ruskin, from the Inorganic to the Organic3. Interlude: Blood-work4. Rats and Jackals, Kafka after von Hofmannsthal5. Aesthetics of RustConclusion: Fougères to Marseilles: Green Rust or Edible Rouille?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Recenzii

Rabate counters our instinctively negative view of rust with a surprisingly wide variety of examples drawn from philosophy as well as the arts and sciences for a strikingly and broadly convincing argument as to the merits of rust . Rabate presents rust as an imperfection with unlimited possibilities. He clarifies its role in our lives and complicates how we value its role. He brings readers his family rouille recipe and the news that someday soon, science may give us a green rust capable of cleaning our water and soil . He provides plenty of food for thought as we run into these references across daily life.
This is a witty, delightfully eclectic fantasy and fugue on the theme of rust, which, it turns out, is a perfect metaphor for an aesthetics of metamorphosis in and after modernism. Rust has the ruddy glow of active thinking in the process of self-transformation. Rust not only doesn't sleep, it never stops giving off sparks.
Through his elegant alchemical associations, Rabaté spins Rust to gold.
Rust has its fascinating moments, those deeply poetic instants where metaphor becomes real and you get a tiny glimpse of the wonder that can reside inside seemingly ordinary items.