Author: Amit S. Rai
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: media, assemblage, new, india’s, bollywood, globalization, untimely
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-05-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822344122
ISBN-13: 9780822344124

Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes, and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In Untimely Bollywood, Amit S. Rai argues that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of contemporary Bollywood cinema are emblematic of the changing conditions of media consumption in a globalizing India. Through analyses of contemporary media practices, Rai shifts the emphasis from a representational and linear understanding of the effects of audiovisual media to the multiple, contradictory, and evolving

Author: Manuel Delanda
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: social, complexity, theory, assemblage, philosophy, society, new
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0826491693
ISBN-13: 9780826491695

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entitles, from small communities to large nation-states, would disappear altogether if human minds ceased to exist, Delanda proposes a novel approach to social ontology that asserts the autonomy of social entities from the conceptions we have of them. This highly original and important book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at

Authors:Curtis Runnels, Daniel Pullen, Susan Langdon,
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: amp, prehistoric, vol, pottery, lithic, artifacts, greece, southern, finds, assemblage, regional, survey, artifact, argolid
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 1995-11-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0804720657
ISBN-13: 9780804720656

This volume presents for the first time in the archaeological history of Greece a full and detailed analysis of the artifacts discovered in the course of a large-scale and intensive regional survey. It sets out the results of a ten-year study of tens of thousands of ceramic and lithic artifacts recovered in the course of the Argolid Exploration Project, an environmental and archaeological survey of the Argolid peninsula in southern Greece conducted by Stanford University.