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Images of Elsewhere
Flying saucers first appeared in the late 1940s, in the aftermath of the Second World War. They immediately became the subject of fascination, and their mystery has persisted. They can be understood through three lenses, that of science and technology, popular culture and, at the human level, personal experience. In general, approaches to flying saucers concentrate either on military and space hardware, or on science fiction and film, or on religious and occult ways of thinking. This mini-series brings these different perspectives into conversation for the first time, tracing the appearances of UFOs and their development. It explores how machines and humans learn to think together, producing new objects in a world that is dominated by technology and yet continually escaping our control.
12 publications
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Art and Thought / Art et pensée
Histories of the Avant-Garde / histoires des avant-gardesIf the past is continually retold in the present, as Walter Benjamin suggests, what can critical perspectives reveal and what do they obscure about the history of our modern time? Art and Thought: Histories of the Avant-Garde revisits and reconceptualises the histories of modernism, avant-gardism and postmodernism. Volumes in the series will each offer a critical perspective developed in response to specific cultural artefacts and their qualities. They will engage with literary, artistic and theoretical works, from the past as well as the present, and explore the interactions between literature, visual art, film and music, including the livre d’artiste. The series showcases work by new as well as established scholars, whether monographs, single- or multi-authored collections of essays, and new editions of salient or neglected primary texts in English or French, including original aesthetic works. Writing on translation as well as in translation is welcome. Walter Benjamin nous rappelle que le passé se dit au présent. Dans quelle mesure la pensée critique permet-elle d’illuminer notre histoire ? La collection Art et pensée : histoires des avant-gardes se propose de penser à nouveaux frais les problématiques liant les esthétiques de la modernité, de l’avant-garde et du postmoderne. Chaque volume répondra aux qualités ponctuelles d'objets esthétiques et culturels considérés par une perspective critique propre. Des œuvres de littérature, d’art et de réflexion y seront abordées, qui souligneront les rapports intimes de l’écriture, du visuel, de la musique, du cinéma. Les livres d’artistes ne seront pas oubliés. La collection présentera, en langue française ou anglaise, le travail critique de chercheurs établis ou en début de carrière. Elle offrira à ses lecteurs des monographies, des collections d’essais, des volumes collectifs, et des éditions nouvelles d’œuvres marquantes ou jusqu’à présent négligées, y compris les œuvres littéraires et esthétiques. Les œuvres en traduction nouvelle tout comme les travaux sur la traduction même seront vivement accueillis.
8 publications
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Early Christianity and Ancient Astrology
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Selected Short Works by Klaus Mann
©2016 Monographs -
Alien Sightings
©2025 Monographs -
Religion and Science Fiction
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Liturgy and Life
The Unity of Sacrament and Ethics in the Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet©2007 Monographs -
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Changing Images of Law in Film and Television Crime Stories
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Images of Elsewhere
©2025 Monographs -
UFO Reports
©2025 Monographs -
Martian Linguistics
©2025 Monographs -
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Dickens in Galdós
©2000 Monographs -
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Not «Who Is on the Lord's Side?» but «Whose Side Is the Lord On?»
Contesting Claims and Divine Inscrutability in 2 Samuel 16: 5-14©2014 Monographs -
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Inexcusable Omissions
Clarence Karier and the Critical Tradition in History of Education Scholarship©2001 Textbook -
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Fostering Subsistence Agriculture, Food Supplies and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sibelius in the Old and New World
Aspects of His Music, Its Interpretation, and Reception©2010 Edited Collection -
