Author: Gustav METZGER
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Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Author: Gustav Metzger
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Author: Nicholas Michelsen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317375874
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Politics and Suicide argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined. It contends that practices like suicide-bombing do not simply embody a strange or abnormal ‘suicidal’ articulation of the political, but rather, that the existence of suicidal politics tells us something fundamental about the political as such and thinking about political violence more broadly. Recent world events have emphatically shown our need for tools with which to develop better understandings of the politics of suicide. Through the exploration of several arresting case-studies, including the ‘Kamikaze’ bombers of World War Two, Jan Palach’s self-immolation in 1969, Cold War nuclear deterrence, and the suicide-terrorist attacks of 9/11 Michelsen asks how we might talk of a political suicide in any of these contexts. The book charts how political processes ‘go suicidal’, and asks how we might still consider them to be political in such a case. It investigates how suicide can function as ‘politics’. A strong contribution to the fields of philosophy and international relations theory, this work will also be of interest to students and scholars of political theory and terrorism & political violence.

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Category : Conceptual art
Languages : en
Pages : 1

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Arthur James Wells
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1858

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Author: British Library
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Gustav Metzger
Publisher: AA Publications
ISBN: 9781907414503
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Auto-destructive art is a comprehensive theory for action in the field of the plastic arts in the post-second world war period. The action is not limited to theory of art and the production of art works. It includes social action. Auto-destructive art is committed to a left-wing revolutionary position in politics, and to struggles against future wars.' (Gustav Metzger, introduction to Auto-Destructive Art: Metzger at AA) Facsimile edition of a lecture transcript given by German-born artist Gustav Metzger at the Architectural Association in February 1965. This new edition is published 50 years on since its original printing in June 1965 by the AA's Action Communications Centre (A.C.C), reigniting Metzger's urgent and ever-relevant arguments which confront society's obsession with destruction and the detrimental effects of machinery on human life.'

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Includes entries for maps and atlases.