Author: Erica O'Rourke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442460245
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
From the author of the Torn trilogy comes an inventive romantic thriller. Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world is spun off the existing one and Del's job is to keep the dimensions in harmony.
Dissonance
Author: Erica O'Rourke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442460245
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
From the author of the Torn trilogy comes an inventive romantic thriller. Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world is spun off the existing one and Del's job is to keep the dimensions in harmony.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442460245
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
From the author of the Torn trilogy comes an inventive romantic thriller. Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world is spun off the existing one and Del's job is to keep the dimensions in harmony.
Social Dissonance
Author: Mattin
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1913029867
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
An argument that by amplifying alienation in performance, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social. Work in sound studies continues to seek out sound "itself"--but, today, when the aesthetic can claim no autonomy and the agency of both artist and audience is socially constituted, why not explore the social mediation already present within our experience of the sonorous? In this work, artist, musician, performer, and theorist Mattin sets out an understanding of alienation as a constitutive part of subjectivity and as an enabling condition for exploring social dissonance--the discrepancy between our individual narcissism and our social capacity. Mattin's theoretical investigation is intertwined with documentation of a concrete experiment in the form of an instructional score (performed at documenta 14, 2017, in Athens and Kassel) which explores these conceptual connotations in practice, as players use members of the audience as instruments, who then hear themselves and reflect on their own conception and self-presentation. Social Dissonance claims that, by amplifying alienation in performance and participation in order to understand how we are constructed through various forms of mediation, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social, and in doing so, discover for ourselves that social dissonance is the territory within which we already find ourselves, the condition we inhabit.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1913029867
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
An argument that by amplifying alienation in performance, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social. Work in sound studies continues to seek out sound "itself"--but, today, when the aesthetic can claim no autonomy and the agency of both artist and audience is socially constituted, why not explore the social mediation already present within our experience of the sonorous? In this work, artist, musician, performer, and theorist Mattin sets out an understanding of alienation as a constitutive part of subjectivity and as an enabling condition for exploring social dissonance--the discrepancy between our individual narcissism and our social capacity. Mattin's theoretical investigation is intertwined with documentation of a concrete experiment in the form of an instructional score (performed at documenta 14, 2017, in Athens and Kassel) which explores these conceptual connotations in practice, as players use members of the audience as instruments, who then hear themselves and reflect on their own conception and self-presentation. Social Dissonance claims that, by amplifying alienation in performance and participation in order to understand how we are constructed through various forms of mediation, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social, and in doing so, discover for ourselves that social dissonance is the territory within which we already find ourselves, the condition we inhabit.
The Dissonance of Democracy
Author: Susan Bickford
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722204
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Although the role of shared speech in political action has received much theoretical attention, too little thought has focused on the practice of listening in political interaction, according to Susan Bickford. Even in a formally democratic polity, political action occurs in a context of conflict and inequality; thus, the shared speech of citizenship differs significantly from the conversations of friendly associates. Bickford suggests that democratic politics requires a particular quality of attention, one not based on care or friendship. Analyzing specifically political listening is central to the development of democratic theory, she contends, and to envisioning democratic practices for contemporary society.Bickford's analysis draws on the work of Aristotle and of Hannah Arendt to establish the conflictual and contentious character of politics. To analyze the social forces that deflect attention from particular voices, Bickford mobilizes contemporary feminist theory, including Gloria Anzaldua's work on the connection between identity and politics. She develops a conception of citizen interaction characterized by adversarial communication in a context of inequality. Such a conception posits public identity—and hence public listening—as active and creative, and grounded in particular social and political contexts.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722204
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Although the role of shared speech in political action has received much theoretical attention, too little thought has focused on the practice of listening in political interaction, according to Susan Bickford. Even in a formally democratic polity, political action occurs in a context of conflict and inequality; thus, the shared speech of citizenship differs significantly from the conversations of friendly associates. Bickford suggests that democratic politics requires a particular quality of attention, one not based on care or friendship. Analyzing specifically political listening is central to the development of democratic theory, she contends, and to envisioning democratic practices for contemporary society.Bickford's analysis draws on the work of Aristotle and of Hannah Arendt to establish the conflictual and contentious character of politics. To analyze the social forces that deflect attention from particular voices, Bickford mobilizes contemporary feminist theory, including Gloria Anzaldua's work on the connection between identity and politics. She develops a conception of citizen interaction characterized by adversarial communication in a context of inequality. Such a conception posits public identity—and hence public listening—as active and creative, and grounded in particular social and political contexts.
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Author: Leon Festinger
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804709118
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Originally published: Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, c1957.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804709118
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Originally published: Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, c1957.
The Sense of Dissonance
Author: David Stark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400831008
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
What counts? In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. This can be disorienting and disconcerting. Because of this, many organizations devote considerable resources to limiting and clarifying the logics used for evaluating worth. But as David Stark argues, firms would often be better off, especially in managing change, if they allowed multiple logics of worth and did not necessarily discourage uncertainty. In fact, in many cases multiple orders of worth are unavoidable, so organizations and firms should learn to harness the benefits of such "heterarchy" rather than seeking to purge it. Stark makes this argument with ethnographic case studies of three companies attempting to cope with rapid change: a machine-tool company in late and postcommunist Hungary, a new-media startup in New York during and after the collapse of the Internet bubble, and a Wall Street investment bank whose trading room was destroyed on 9/11. In each case, the friction of competing criteria of worth promoted an organizational reflexivity that made it easier for the company to change and deal with market uncertainty. Drawing on John Dewey's notion that "perplexing situations" provide opportunities for innovative inquiry, Stark argues that the dissonance of diverse principles can lead to discovery.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400831008
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
What counts? In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. This can be disorienting and disconcerting. Because of this, many organizations devote considerable resources to limiting and clarifying the logics used for evaluating worth. But as David Stark argues, firms would often be better off, especially in managing change, if they allowed multiple logics of worth and did not necessarily discourage uncertainty. In fact, in many cases multiple orders of worth are unavoidable, so organizations and firms should learn to harness the benefits of such "heterarchy" rather than seeking to purge it. Stark makes this argument with ethnographic case studies of three companies attempting to cope with rapid change: a machine-tool company in late and postcommunist Hungary, a new-media startup in New York during and after the collapse of the Internet bubble, and a Wall Street investment bank whose trading room was destroyed on 9/11. In each case, the friction of competing criteria of worth promoted an organizational reflexivity that made it easier for the company to change and deal with market uncertainty. Drawing on John Dewey's notion that "perplexing situations" provide opportunities for innovative inquiry, Stark argues that the dissonance of diverse principles can lead to discovery.
The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance
Author: Knud Jeppesen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harmony
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harmony
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
1910
Author: Thomas Harrison
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520200432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"1910 stands out as a model of interdisciplinary and comparative study. . . . It brilliantly illustrates the complexity of a crucial period in European culture . . . focusing in particular on the intellectual intricacies of Mitteleuropa on the eve of World War I and of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire."—Lucia Re "Compellingly original. . . . In Harrison's work, Michelstaedter and his confreres (Campana, Slataper, Kokoschke, Rilke, Kandinsky, Lukàcs, Trakl, et al.) turn out to be considerably more fascinating and more emblematic of their time than anyone has been able to perceive before."—Gregory Lucente, University of Michigan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520200432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"1910 stands out as a model of interdisciplinary and comparative study. . . . It brilliantly illustrates the complexity of a crucial period in European culture . . . focusing in particular on the intellectual intricacies of Mitteleuropa on the eve of World War I and of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire."—Lucia Re "Compellingly original. . . . In Harrison's work, Michelstaedter and his confreres (Campana, Slataper, Kokoschke, Rilke, Kandinsky, Lukàcs, Trakl, et al.) turn out to be considerably more fascinating and more emblematic of their time than anyone has been able to perceive before."—Gregory Lucente, University of Michigan
Intentional Dissonance
Author: Iain S. Thomas
Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing
ISBN: 1926760859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
It’s been 10 years since the world officially ended. In the last city on Earth, Jon Salt is addicted to Sadness, a drug that invokes its name, and obsessed with his lover, Michelle; both of which threaten to drive him insane. Strange creatures and new technologies appeared in the last days of humanity and the widespread adoption of teleportation technology sundered the fabric of time and space, leaving a smattering of looping ghosts. It is a sad, monotone world, but the remaining populace is happy, thanks to the anti-depressants in the water supply. The last government on Earth has taken a special interest in a gift that Jon possesses: the ability to make his thoughts real. Jon must rely on that gift and the help of a few unlikely friends to stay one step ahead of those who desperately want to use him for something far more sinister than even he could dream…
Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing
ISBN: 1926760859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
It’s been 10 years since the world officially ended. In the last city on Earth, Jon Salt is addicted to Sadness, a drug that invokes its name, and obsessed with his lover, Michelle; both of which threaten to drive him insane. Strange creatures and new technologies appeared in the last days of humanity and the widespread adoption of teleportation technology sundered the fabric of time and space, leaving a smattering of looping ghosts. It is a sad, monotone world, but the remaining populace is happy, thanks to the anti-depressants in the water supply. The last government on Earth has taken a special interest in a gift that Jon possesses: the ability to make his thoughts real. Jon must rely on that gift and the help of a few unlikely friends to stay one step ahead of those who desperately want to use him for something far more sinister than even he could dream…
The Day of the Dissonance
Author: Alan Dean Foster
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575131667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Day of Dissonance continues Alan Dean Foster's epoch fantasy set in a strange world where magic, beauty and violence challenge Jon Thomas Meriweather, the Spellsinger. In this enchanting sequel to Spellsinger and The Hour of the Gate the wizard Clothahump sends the Spellsinger on a perilous and adventure-filled quest. It is on this journey that the powers of his musical magic are tested to their fullest.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575131667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Day of Dissonance continues Alan Dean Foster's epoch fantasy set in a strange world where magic, beauty and violence challenge Jon Thomas Meriweather, the Spellsinger. In this enchanting sequel to Spellsinger and The Hour of the Gate the wizard Clothahump sends the Spellsinger on a perilous and adventure-filled quest. It is on this journey that the powers of his musical magic are tested to their fullest.
Cognitive Dissonance
Author: Eddie Harmon-Jones
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN: 9781433830105
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This volume describes advances in the theory of cognitive dissonance, from its origination in 1954 to the present day.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN: 9781433830105
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This volume describes advances in the theory of cognitive dissonance, from its origination in 1954 to the present day.