In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist, Black, Indigenous, and non-Western perspectives to address the exigencies of the experience of the Anthropocene and its attend…
Life has shattered all around you. Now what? What do you do when you are suddenly navigating a life you didn't sign up for? You never saw this pain coming, and you're facing a future you'd pass up if you could. Lisa Appelo understands deeply. She has experienced the raw emotions and uncertainty that come when everything falls apart. Lisa went to bed married and woke up a widow and single mom …
"Reach into this trickbox of memory and rummage around: you may find a tiny spaceship, or perhaps a signpost, a parade, a raised fist, an entire museum. The essays in Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts draw on literary criticism, post-qualitative inquiry, new materialism, and political activism to dismember and reanimate the field of memory studies. In the trickbox, concep…
At the origin of the cooperation that eventually led to this book, there is the idea of emphasizing the gap between the ordinariness of diversity, as it occurs in everyday life, and the many ways of representing and addressing it as something exceptional, independently of whether those representations and practices carry with them posi-tive or negative connotations. On the on…
Understanding the underlying concepts of human genetics and the role of genes, behavior, and the environment will be important to appropriately collecting and applying genetic information and technologies during clinical care. This chapter provides some fundamental information about basic genetic concepts including cell structure, the molecular and biochemical basis of disease, major types of g…
The Chinese have been using martial arts for thousands of years, both among themselves and against others, but organized Kung Fu needed a parent system from which to evolve. Recorded history is sparse on the subject. However, there are many indications that Kung Fu originated from the Long Fist system. It is reported to have been created during the reign of Tai Tzu, the first emperor of the Su…
"Ketika mata tidak terganggu, hasilnya adalah penglihatan. Ketika telinga tidak terganggu, hasilnya adalah pendengaran. Ketika mulut tidak terganggu, hasilnya adalah cita rasa. Ketika pikiran tidak terganggu, hasilnya adalah kebenaran. Dan ketika hari tidak terganggu, hasilnya adalah kegembiraan dan cinta. Anda sudah mendapatkan semuanya, tetapi terganggu. Lepaskanlah gangguan itu." Re…
Pelataran Basilika Santo Petrus, Vatikan, dipenuhi hamparan luas payung-payung yang mengembang. Ribuan orang seraya menahan udara dingin yang menggigit serta terpaan air hujan selama berjam-jam, menantikan saat cerobong asap Kapel Sistina memberikan tanda-tanda yang diharapkan... Pada saat jarum jam menunjuk pukul 19.05, segumpal asap putih membumbung. Awalnya asap putih itu sangat tipis, tetap…