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By Derrick Darby, Tommie Shelby

Is there an excessive amount of violence in hip-hop track? What’s the variation among Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop tradition a "black" factor? Is it ok for N.W.A. to name themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to name every body bitches? those witty, provocative essays think about those and different thorny questions, linking the searing cultural matters implicit — and sometimes specific — in hip-hop to the weighty concerns tested by way of the nice philosophers of the prior. The e-book exhibits that rap classics by means of Lauryn Hill, OutKast, and the infamous B.I.G. can assist discover the meanings of affection articulated in Plato's Symposium; that Rakim, 2Pac, and Nas can make clear the belief of God's essence expressed in St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica; and explores the relationship among Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg, and Hegel. Hip-Hop and Philosophy proves that rhyme and cause, faraway from being incompatible, should be combined and mastered to consider life's such a lot profound mysteries.

By S. T. Joshi, John Edgar Browning

Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The residing lifeless in fantasy, Legend, and well known Culture is a finished encyclopedia in terms of all levels of vampirism—in literature, movie, and tv; in folklore; and in international tradition. even supposing past encyclopedias have tried to chart this terrain, no past paintings comprises the intensity of knowledge, the breadth of scope, and the updated insurance of this volume.

With contributions from many prime critics of horror and supernatural literature and media, the encyclopedia bargains entries on best authors of vampire literature (Bram Stoker, Anne Rice, Stephenie Meyer), on very important person literary works (Dracula and Interview with the Vampire), on celebrated vampire motion pictures (the many alternative diversifications of Dracula, the Twilight sequence, Love in the beginning Bite), and on tv indicates (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel). It additionally covers different major issues touching on vampires, akin to vampires in global folklore, funny vampire motion pictures, and vampire lifestyle.

By Robert Johnson

The Hummel was once essentially the most renowned self-propelled artillery items utilized by the German military in global conflict II. 1000s of infrequent images convey the Sd.Kfz. a hundred sixty five from the construction traces in Germany to frontline strive against at the jap entrance. as well as those interval images, the publication additionally includes color images of a superbly restored Hummel to demonstrate right paint color and camouflage schemes.

By New Scientist

Science tells us grand issues in regards to the universe: how briskly gentle travels, and why stones fall to earth. yet clinical endeavour is going a ways past those noticeable foundations. There are a few fields we do not frequently listen approximately simply because they're so specialized, or grow to be lifeless ends. but researchers have given hallucinogenic medicinal drugs to blind humans (seriously), attempted to weigh the soul because it departs the physique and deliberate to blast a brand new Panama Canal with atomic weapons.

Real medical breakthroughs occasionally pop out of the main mind-blowing and unpromising paintings. How to Make a Tornado is set the margins of technology - now not the study down tried-and-tested routes, yet a few of its zanier and extra extraordinary by-ways. Investigating every little thing from what it is wish to die, to exploding trousers and recycled urine, this e-book is a reminder that technology is very inventive and sometimes very a laugh - and while their minds run loose, scientists can hearth the mind's eye like no one else.

By Peter Finley, Laura L. Finley, Jeffrey J. Fountain

Cheaters, gamblers, medications, and violence. Sound just like the most up-to-date action/adventure movie? it truly is probably taking part in in a stadium, ice rink, tune box, basketball court docket, or ballpark close to you. We're conversing in regards to the larger-than-life scandals that frequently encompass and infrequently engulf the realm of activities. masking every little thing from the little leagues to school activities, this indespensable booklet bargains scholars an interesting, readable advisor to the main infamous scandals in American activities history.

Each bankruptcy specializes in a particular class of scandal, together with race-related, gender-related, drug-related, violence-related, recruiting and academic-related, and training scandals. Insightful, in-depth entries supply and evaluate of the ancient and cultural context, what happened and who was once concerned, in addition to the reaction to the scandal. Entries inside of chapters truly define the variety of viewpoints surrounding the scandal in addition to the linked moral, ethical, and criminal matters. Highlighting why game scandals topic to athletes, to coaches, to groups, to enterprises, to the media, and to the general public, this quantity is a perfect source for either prepared reference and for examining cover-to-cover.

By David J. Skal

The primal snapshot of the black-caped vampire Dracula has turn into an indelible fixture of the fashionable mind's eye. It's attractiveness issue opponents, in its personal perverse approach, the familiarity of Santa Claus. so much folks can recite with out prompting the salient features of the vampire: snoozing by means of day in its coffin, emerging at nightfall to feed at the blood of the dwelling; the power to shapeshift right into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wood stake throughout the middle or a shaft of sunlight.

In this seriously acclaimed day trip during the lifetime of a cultural icon, David Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to motion picture idol to cultural commodity, digging throughout the populist veneer to bare what the prince of darkness says approximately us all.

By David Baggett, Philip Tallon

Arguably the main well-known and well-known detective in heritage, Sherlock Holmes is taken into account via many to be the 1st pop icon of the fashionable age. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective has stood as a distinct determine for greater than a century along with his reliance on logical rigor, his analytic precision, and his put out of your mind of social mores. a real vintage, the Sherlock Holmes personality maintains to entertain twenty-first-century audiences at the web page, degree, and screen.

In The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes, a crew of best students use the cherished personality as a window into the quandaries of life, from questions of fact to the hunt for wisdom. The essays discover the sleuth's function in revealing a number of the world's so much primary philosophical matters, discussing matters similar to the character of deception, the teachings enemies can educate us, Holmes's personal capability for criminal activity, and the detective's distinct yet powerful form of inductive reasoning. Emphasizing the philosophical debates raised through generations of committed lovers, this fascinating quantity might be of curiosity to philosophers and Holmes fans alike.

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By George A. Reisch, Gary L. Hardcastle

Well known curiosity in bullshit — and its close to relative, truthiness — is at an all-time excessive, however the topic has a wealthy philosophical background, with Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Kant all weighing in at the topic. the following, modern philosophers ponder bullshit from epistemological, moral, metaphysical, ancient, and political issues of view. Tackling questions together with what's bullshit, what does it do, is it a passing fad, and will it ever be eradicated, the ebook is a advisor and source for the various who locate bullshit worthy wondering.

By Charles, Dr Krinsky

The Ashgate study spouse to ethical Panics deals a accomplished assemblage of state-of-the-art severe and theoretical views at the inspiration of ethical panic. All chapters signify unique learn by means of some of the such a lot influential theorists and researchers now operating within the zone of ethical panic, together with Nachman Ben-Yehuda and Erich Goode, Joel most sensible, Chas Critcher, Mary DeYoung, Alan Hunt, Toby Miller, Willem Schinkel, Kenneth Thompson, Sheldon Ungar, and Grazyna Zajdow. Chapters come from a variety of disciplines, together with media experiences, literary reviews, background, criminal reviews, and sociology, with major new embellishments at the thought of ethical panic (and its future), proficient and robust evaluations, and exact empirical reports from numerous continents.A transparent and finished survey of an idea that's more and more influential in a few disciplines in addition to in pop culture, this selection of the most recent examine within the box addresses subject matters together with the evolution of the ethical panic proposal, intercourse panics, media panics, ethical panics over kids and adolescence, and the way forward for the ethical panic inspiration.

By Matthew Flisfeder, Louis-Paul Willis

Because the early Seventies, movie, media, and cultural theorists have appealed to Lacanian psychoanalytic thought so that it will determine strategies of subjectivization, illustration, and ideological interpellation. notwithstanding, starting with the paintings of theorists similar to Jacqueline Rose, Joan Copjec, and Slavoj Žižek, a brand new method of Lacan has been complex, one that can pay nearer awareness to thoughts resembling sexual distinction, the 'objet petit a' (the object-cause of desire), fable, the genuine, entertainment, and the force. Žižek specifically has complicated a political-philosophical re-interpretation of Lacan that has spawned a complete new wave of movie, media, and cultural conception that exhibits a marked distinction from an early Lacanian process. The participants during this publication take in a in particular Žižekian method of reports of cinema and media, either outdated and new, elevating questions on energy, ideology, sexual distinction, and delight. together with chapters written by way of key figures in Žižekian movie, media, and cultural concept corresponding to Jodi Dean, Todd McGowan, Paul A. Taylor, and Fabio Vighi, it concludes with a reaction from Žižek himself.

"Flisfeder and Willis thoroughly reshape our figuring out of the historical past of psychoanalytic movie idea by means of contextualizing it via Slavoj Žižek's impression. Žižek and Media reports comes at a time whilst modern psychoanalytic movie conception has replaced considerably and this contribution is hence required reading." - Hilary Neroni, movie and tv stories, collage of Vermont, united states and writer of the topic of Torture: Psychoanalysis, Biopolitics, and Media Representations

"One factor that makes analyzing Žižek so fascinating and (let's be sincere) enjoyable is the way in which he engages pop culture and media. regrettably the effect of this attempt has been principally underappreciated in the self-discipline of Media experiences. This booklet upkeep that deficiency by way of constructing a tremendously Žižekian method of media scholarship. it truly is quintessential for a person attracted to Žižek and a must-read for college students, academics, and researchers in Media, movie, and conversation Studies." - David J. Gunkel, Professor, Northern Illinois collage, united states and writer of The laptop query and Heidegger and the Media

Contents:
Introduction: Žižek and Media stories, past Lacan; Matthew Flisfeder and Louis-Paul Willis
PART I: MEDIA, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICS
1. Žižek's Reception: Fifty colours of grey Ideology; Paul A. Taylor
2. The chic Absolute: Althusser, Žižek, and the Critique of Ideology; Agon Hamza
3. scholar Fantasies: A Žižekian point of view at the 2012 Quebec pupil rebellion; Louis-Paul Willis
4. the target: The Configuration of Trauma within the 'War on Terror,' or the elegant item of the Medium; Richard Bégin
PART II: renowned CULTURE
5. the concern of the instance: Hegel Contra movie experiences; Todd McGowan
6. Imagining the top instances: Ideology, the modern catastrophe motion picture, and Contagion; Matthew Beaumont
7. Žižek and the 80s motion picture music: "There Is a Non-Relationship"; Graham Wolfe
8. a bit Piece of the Reel: Prosthetic Vocality and the Obscene Surplus of checklist creation; Mickey Vallee
9. White Elephants and darkish Matter(s): staring at the realm Cup with Slavoj Žižek; Tim Walters
PART III: movie AND CINEMA
10. Contingent Encounters and Retroactive Signification: Zooming in at the Dialectical center of Žižek's movie feedback; Fabio Vighi
11. tips to Kill Your mom: Heavenly Creatures, hope and Žižek's go back to Ideology; Cindy Zeiher
12. discussion with American Skepticism: Cavell and Žižek on Sexual distinction; Keiko Ogata
13. From Interpassive to Interactive Cinema: A family tree of the relocating photograph of Cynicism; Tamas Nagypal
14. past the past: CGI and the anxiousness of Overperfection; Hugh Manon
PART IV: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE INTERNET
15. Slavoj Žižek as web thinker; Clint Burnham
16. the true net; Jodi Dean
17. having fun with Social Media; Matthew Flisfeder
18. Is Torture a part of Your Social community; Tara Atluri
Afterword: Staging female Hysteria: Schoenberg's Erwartung; Slavoj Žižek