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When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world. Composers and musicians now had a tool that could help them maintain a precise and consistent tempo. The metronome evokes strong feelings because of its uncompromising power. For that reason, this object has appeared in unlikely settings as athletes, scientists, psychologists, authors, and other professionals have found uses for it beyond music.

The mall near Mat thew Newton’s childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state’s first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a climate-controlled pleasuredome where strangers converged. It boasted waterfalls, fish ponds, an indoor ice skating rink larger than Rockefeller Center’s, and a monolithic clock tower illuminated year-round beneath a canopy of interconnected skylights. It also became the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero’s zombie opus Dawn of the Dead.

“Cranes Over Smog” follows the personal journey of the protagonist, who reflects on their life as they find themselves in a remote, harsh environment. Through vivid imagery and introspective narrative, the book paints a picture of both the physical and emotional landscapes the protagonist navigates. The story weaves in themes of self-discovery, resilience, and the clash between personal dreams and the stark realities of life. Set against the backdrop of post-Soviet cities and nomadic landscapes, the novel explores how ambition and the modern world intersect with personal identity and ...

For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples—from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop—travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation.

Más que de estética, en el sentido estricto de la palabra, este tratado explora asuntos diversos como la moral, la psicología, la descripción de los caracteres individuales y nacionales. Temas que pueden ocurrirse alrededor del asunto principal. Es una obra sencilla, llena de ingenio y alegría. Kant, ataca por primera vez el problema estético, y aunque sus ideas fundamentales acerca del arte y la belleza se hallan sistemáticamente expuestas en su obra posterior, la "Crítica del Juicio", tienen aquí cierto interés para el conocimiento de los orígenes de la estética Kantiana.

To avoid the hurt from life's failures, we allow in more pain by downsizing our dreams. You know that you can reach that mountain top, yet deny it out of conditioned fear. The only way up is to remove every single layer of faulty programming.

Art has the power to move us, to spark an unexplainable connection, or to leave us cold. We might focus on small details or take in the entire piece of art, searching for something familiar. This book explores how we see art, how our experiences shape our perceptions, and why some works resonate deeply while others do not.

What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and commercially entangled, imposed upon us by oppressive systems and further strengthened by our conditioned self-loathing. This book encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system.

Discover 100 brilliant quotes from Oscar Wilde on life, love, art, and temptation. The ultimate collection of his most famous epigrams and witty observations. The Ultimate Oscar Wilde Collection: 100 Epigrams on Life, Love, and the Art of Being Yourself. Unlock the genius of Oscar Wilde, the undisputed master of wit and paradox, with this essential collection of his most brilliant and timeless quotes. More than mere clever lines, these aphorisms are the distilled philosophy of Aestheticism, challenging you to live a life less ordinary. Inside, Discover the Wisdom to: Invert Morality: ...

En Contramundo, el escritor Carlos Marín-Blázquez acomete una difícil tarea de deconstrucción civilizatoria. Con golpes secos y certeros que se encarnan en líricos aforismos, derriba las falacias y las iniquidades sobre las que se ha erigido la torre de Babel contemporánea. «Nuestro objetivo ha de ser modesto: no transformar, sino desenmascarar», dice el autor. Sin embargo, la naturaleza de su obra no es meramente destructiva; de serlo, el lector pasaría la última página exánime, sumido en una paralizante desazón. Y no ocurre así. Quien termine de leer Contramundo se ...

When Rudolf Diesel published Solidarismus: Natürliche wirtschaftliche Erlösung des Menschen in 1903, he was already celebrated as the inventor of the internal combustion engine that bore his name. Yet behind the engineer stood a man deeply troubled by the social consequences of industrial capitalism. He had seen firsthand the paradox of modernity: machines producing abundance while workers lived in misery. Diesel’s Solidarism was his attempt to resolve this contradiction. It was neither Marxist nor anarchist, nor a conventional liberal reform. Instead, Diesel proposed a peaceful, ...

En esta segunda lección presento el núcleo del modelo neojunguiano: la psique concebida como una esfera energética viva, organizada en tres regiones —ego, alter y selbst— y atravesada por rayos que conectan al ser con el mundo, con los otros y consigo mismo. El rayo es la unidad mínima de intercambio psíquico: puede nacer como respuesta reactiva en la superficie del ego o emerger desde las profundidades creadoras del selbst, manifestándose como acción, palabra o presencia. Este enfoque sitúa a la psicología neojunguiana entre el reduccionismo biologicista y el espiritualismo ...

If you feel overwhelmed, stressed, and like you constantly have a huge weight on your shoulders, odds are you need to declutter your life. Decluttering is highly necessary in today’s world, but what is not always known is how to recognize the point at which you need to start. You also need to know how to do it and what to look for to know if it’s working. This audiobook has all that and more. We break it down to a level almost anyone can apply to his or her unique circumstances.

Qu'est-ce que l'art ? Comment s'est-il constitué et défini à travers l'histoire ? Quels rapports entretient-il avec la philosophie ?

What do we mean when we call something beautiful? In The Eye of the Beholder: What Is Beauty?, JD Arden strips away the clichés and easy answers, diving deep into the shifting ground beneath our ideas of art, attractiveness, and worth. From ancient statues to street graffiti, from symmetry to scars, Arden leads us through a landscape where every judgment is up for grabs and every standard is ripe for rebellion. Sharp, philosophical, and surprisingly witty, this book will challenge what you think you know about taste, envy, and what really stands the test of time. For anyone who’s ever ...

No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering place, a random community of what has been and what is yet to be, a catalog of traces and a set of promises: dead skin cells and plant pollen, hair and paper fibers, not to mention dust mites who make it their home. And so, dust blurs the boundaries between the living and the dead, plant and animal matter, the inside and the outside, you and the world.

Az ember a természetnek vagy apja, vagy megrablója. Ezt az ősi iráni tudást Darwin nem ismerte. A létért folytatott mészárlás tanában azonban nem jelenik meg egyetlen Mozart-akkord, Giotto tájkép, vagy Pascal-aforizma sem. A világ újkori kirablásával szemben a vallás, a tudomány, a filozófia készületlenül állt. Egyedül a mûvészet tudta megôrizni a humánum "alapállását". Művésznek lenni azt jelenti: túlemelkedni a téridőbe szorított életen. A művészet egyetemes távlatot nyit, és a létünket átható homályba bevilágít.

How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consider our relationship to nature, to our fellow animals, to each other and to ourselves. So can thinking about food teach us about being virtuous, and can what we eat help us to decide how to live?

The world is full of fakes, fake music, fake maps, fake clocks, fake passion, fake everything. You have to figure out for yourself which is legit and which is not. However there are those things that start out as poor samples of an existing one, then later go on to improve, to surpass the brilliance of the already existing ones. To great advantage of the public, the good news is that all humans have an inborn ability to detect falsehood, to distinguish truth from lies, and quality form error, when you see someone or something that’s fake, you will just know it from the start, even a small...

What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant of power, as a lie, as a punishment, as the voice of God, as a terrorist’s final weapon, as a luxury good, as the reason for torture—in short, as an object we both do and do not recognize. Concluding with the prospects for its future in a world burgeoning with noise, Biguenet asks whether we should desire or fear silence—or if it is even ours to choose.