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Free Download To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: 0593722248 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 10.4 MB
She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will they end a war . . . or ignite one?

Free Download The cosmetic gaze : body modification and the construction of beauty By Wegenstein, Bernadette
2012 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 0262232677 | PDF | 5 MB
If the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze–in Bernadette Wegenstein’s groundbreaking formulation–is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies (often surgical) of bodily modification. It is, Wegenstein says, also a moralizing gaze, a way of looking at bodies as awaiting both physical and spiritual improvement. In The Cosmetic Gaze, Wegenstein charts this synthesis of outer and inner transformation. Wegenstein shows how the cosmetic gaze underlies the "rebirth" celebrated in today’s makeover culture and how it builds upon a body concept that has collapsed into its mediality. In today’s beauty discourse–on reality TV and Web sites that collect "bad plastic surgery"–we yearn to experience a bettered self that has been reborn from its own flesh and is now itself, like a digitally remastered character in a classic Hollywood movie, immortal. Wegenstein traces the cosmetic gaze from eighteenth-century ideas about physiognomy through television makeover shows and facial-recognition software to cinema–which, like our other screens, never ceases to show us our bodies as they could be, drawing life from the very cosmetic gaze it transmits.

Free Download David John Arnold, K. Sivaramakrishnan, "The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0295993839, 029598581X | PDF | pages: 309 | 2.3 mb
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process. Through its close examination of the correlation between tropicality and "otherness," and of science as a means of colonial appropriation, the book offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. It will be of interest to historians of the environment, science, and colonialism; South Asianists; and cultural and environmental anthropologists and geographers.

Free Download Artificial Intelligence-Based System for Gaze-Based Communication
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032438231 | 173 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
This book focuses on the artificial neural network-based system for gaze-based communication. It covers the feasible and practical collaboration of human-computer interaction (HCI) in which a user can intuitively express tasks using gaze-based communication. It will target the vast applications of gaze-based communication using computer vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence.

Free Download Virgil’s Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid by Joseph D. Reed
English | January 22, 2007 | ISBN: 0691127409, 0691170916 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 0.7 MB
Virgil’s Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in Virgil’s Gaze, the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly-if at all. In retelling the story of Aeneas’ foundational journey from Troy to Italy, Virgil defines Roman national identity only provisionally, through oppositions to other ethnic identities-especially Trojan, Carthaginian, Italian, and Greek-oppositions that shift with the shifting perspective of the narrative. Roman identity emerges as multivalent and constantly changing rather than unitary and stable. The Roman self that the poem gives us is capacious-adaptable to a universal nationality, potentially an imperial force-but empty at its heart. However, the incongruities that produce this emptiness are also what make the Aeneid endlessly readable, since they forestall a single perspective and a single notion of the Roman.

Free Download T Storm Heter East Stroudsburg Universi professor director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Studies, "The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening "
English | ISBN: 153816261X | 2022 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
A central criticism emerging from Black and Creole thinkers is that mainstream, white dominated, culture, consumes sounds and images of Creole and Black people in music, theater, and the white press, while ignoring critiques of the white consumption of black culture. Ironically, critiques of whiteness are found not only in black literature and media, but also within the blues, jazz, and spirituals that whites listened to, loved, collected, and archived.

Free Download B Baert, "The Gaze from Above: Reflections on Cosmic Eyes in Visual Culture "
English | ISBN: 9042946156 | 2021 | 181 pages | PDF | 7 MB
When gazing into the vast expanse of ‘the universe’, humankind experiences the universal desire to fathom the mystery of its creation. We utilize our unique ability to express ourselves through artistic means to make this mystery tangible, transmuting the secrets of the cosmos into stunning objects and ingenious symbols. Through a deep engagement with recent iconological methods the author travels up and down a methodological Jacob’s ladder, between the artist’s gazes from the earth to the sky. The reader is treated to studies on a wide variety of objects and mediums, ranging from the embroidery of Girone, the Hereford mappa mundi to the genesis cycle in the Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice. The author reconsiders the iconic gaze of van Eyck’s lamb and enters Danae’s uncanny, voyeuristic space in the painting by Jan Gossaert. Meanwhile, she allows other thinkers to explore these questions alongside her. She turns to Erwin Panofsky, who writes about his fascination with Galileo Galilei’s telescope, and finally Lars von Trier and his movie Melancholia gets to call it Schluss. All the artworks in this captivating book contribute to unravel the largest mystery that surrounds us: the cosmos. The image blooms into the countenance of that majestic, astonishing black pupil above us. Or as Aby Warburg once wrote: "Contemplation of the sky is the grace and the curse of humanity."

Free Download Spitfire Audio skyscapeparadise GAZE KONTAKT | 9.01 GB
Written and created by Pianobook Artist – Skyscrapeparadise. Enter a world of ecstatic art rock, created with love in the Pacific Northwest. An entire shoegaze band in a sample library including guitars, bass, a drum set, and a collection of re-amped synthesizers and presets.

Recorded to tape at deafening volumes through an array of ribbon microphones and the vintage Neve 8048 console at London Bridge Studios in Seattle, GAZE is everything you need to make your next futuristic rock record or distorted soundtrack.