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Masking America, 1918-1919 - Kerry Segrave - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Masking America, 1918-1919 - Kerry Segrave - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book recalls masking efforts in response to the Spanish flu epidemic. Masking the population as an ineffective response to disease by public health officials and political bureaucrats at various levels of jurisdiction reached its zenith in 2020. However, it began a century earlier during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919. In both cases, masking was not the first response made by the officials. In both cases, it was introduced as part of the second round of responses after the first round had failed. During 1918 the imposition of masking was done by legal mandate in some areas, by hectoring and whining on the part of officials in other areas, and by gentle and not so gentle public persuasion involving the use of "good" examples. Military members were mainly forced to don masks. Since there were bases, camps, and cantonments all over America as the war was ongoing, it was hoped an example would be set for the general public. Post office clerks who dealt with the public were often forced to wear masks; it was one of the few areas where the federal government had the power to impose masking. Some areas used masking almost not at all, such as the New England states. Other areas, such as the Pacific, forced masking on much of the population. Some public health officials did not subscribe to any of the imposed measures, such as Dr. Royal Copeland, the New York City Health Commissioner, and Dr. Rupert Blue, the United States Surgeon General.

DKK 791.00
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Masking the Abject - Mechthild Nagel - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Masking the Abject - Mechthild Nagel - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Masking the Abject traces the beginnings of the malediction of play in Western metaphysics to Aristotle. Mechthild Nagel''s innovative study demonstrates how play has served as a ''castaway'' in western philosophical thinking: It is considered to be repulsive and loathsome, yet also fascinating and desirable. The book illustrates how play ''succeeds'' and proliferates after Hegel—despite its denunciation by classical philosophers—entering Marxist, phenomenological, postmodern, and feminist discourses. This work provides the reader with a superb analyisis of how the distinction between the serious and the playful has developed over time, charting play''s changing ontological status, and ethical and aesthetic dimensions, from the logocentric to the bacchnalian.

DKK 830.00
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Caught on Tape - Casey Ryan Kelly - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Caught on Tape - Casey Ryan Kelly - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors performed by both ordinary and high-profile people. From former President Donald J. Trump''s lewd banter on the infamous Access Hollywood video and leaked audio of celebrity racist tirades to outburst of violent hate speech posted daily to YouTube, contemporary media culture is awash in obscene performances of transgressive white masculinity. Such exposés are screened and viewed under the assumption that revealing secret prejudices will necessarily realize the promises of democracy and bring about a postracial and postfeminist future. This book addresses why the culture of public revelations has failed to hold the perpetrators accountable. Caught on Tape illustrates how public revelations constitute a symbolic and imaginary world for the public that is preoccupied with the obscene enjoyment of transgressive white masculinity: a compulsively repetitive experience of ecstatic and excessive pleasure-in-pain that arises from encounters with that which disturbs, traumatizes, and interrupts illusory notions of our coherent selves and reality. Caught on Tape argues that addressing race and gender inequality with the promise of scandalous hot mics and obscene private videos transforms antiracism and gender justice into disempowering forms of spectatorship that ultimately conceal the structural nature of whiteness, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The central argument of this book is that the spectators are the ones really caught on tape.

DKK 805.00
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Red Tape - Akhil Gupta - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

Red Tape - Akhil Gupta - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world''s fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous peoples. Yet India''s poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project. Nor is the state indifferent to the plight of the poor; it sponsors many poverty amelioration programs. Gupta conducted ethnographic research among officials charged with coordinating development programs in rural Uttar Pradesh. Drawing on that research, he offers insightful analyses of corruption; the significance of writing and written records; and governmentality, or the expansion of bureaucracies. Those analyses underlie his argument that care is arbitrary in its consequences, and that arbitrariness is systematically produced by the very mechanisms that are meant to ameliorate social suffering. What must be explained is not only why government programs aimed at providing nutrition, employment, housing, healthcare, and education to poor people do not succeed in their objectives, but also why, when they do succeed, they do so unevenly and erratically.

DKK 850.00
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Playful Performers - David Binkley - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Playful Performers - David Binkley - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

African children develop aesthetic sensibilities at an early age, roughly from four to fourteen years. By the time they become full-fledged adolescents they may have had up to ten years experience with various art forms--masking, music, costuming, dancing, and performance. Aesthetic learning is vital to their maturation. The contributors to this volume argue that the idea that learning the aesthetics of a culture only occurs after maturity is false, as is the idea that children wearing masks is only play, and is not to be taken seriously. Playful Performers is a study of children''s masquerades in Africa. The contributors describe specific cases of young children''s masking in the areas of west, central, and southern Africa, which also happen to be the major areas of adult masquerading. The volume reveals the considerable creativity and ingenuity that children exhibit in preparing costumes, masks and musical instruments, and in playing music, dancing, singing, and acting. The book includes over 50 pages of black and white photographs, which illustrate and elaborate upon the authors'' main points. The editors describe general categories of children''s masquerades. In each of the three masking categories children''s relationships to their parents and other adults differ, from a close relationship to some independence to almost complete independence. No other major work has covered this aspect of African children at this age level. The book offers a challenging perspective on young children, seeing them as active agents in their own culture rather than passive recipients of culture as taught by parents and other elders. It will be interesting reading for anthropologists, art historians, educators, and African studies specialists alike.

DKK 901.00
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Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2022 - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2022 - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

The 3-volume-set LNCS 13275, 13276 and 13277 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 41st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Eurocrypt 2022, which was held in Trondheim, Norway, during 30 May – 3 June, 2022. The 85 full papers included in these proceedings were accepted from a total of 372 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Best Paper Award; Secure Multiparty Computation; Homomorphic Encryption; Obfuscation; Part II: Cryptographic Protocols; Cryptographic Primitives; Real-World SystemsPart III: Symmetric-Key Cryptanalysis; Side Channel Attacks and Masking, Post-Quantum Cryptography; Information-Theoretic Security.

DKK 905.00
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