Tag: Scenes

January 31, 2024

Subculture Vulture A Memoir in Six Scenes [Audiobook]

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Free Download Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4BTR6RM | 2024 | 11 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Moshe Kasher
Narrator: Moshe Kasher, Larry Wilson
A "hilarious" (Dax Shepard), "surprisingly emotional trip" (The Chainsmokers) through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics Anonymous, by the writer and comedian Moshe Kasher. After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: "What’s next?"Over the ensuing decades, he discovered the answer: a lot. There was his time as a boy-king of Alcoholics Anonymous, a kind of pubescent proselytizer for other teens getting and staying sober. He was a rave promoter turned DJ turned sober ecstasy dealer in San Francisco’s techno warehouse party scene of the 1990s. For fifteen years he worked as a psychedelic security guard at Burning Man, fishing hippies out of hidden chambers they’d constructed to try to sneak into the event.

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January 30, 2024

Strange Enemies Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia

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Free Download Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia By Aparecida Vilaça
2010 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0822345560 | PDF | 4 MB
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, near the border with Bolivia, a group of Wari’ Indians experienced their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and agents from the national government’s Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, ‘We touched their bodies!’ The whites reported to their people that ‘The region’s most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase!’ First published in Brazil, "Strange Enemies" is a vivid ethnography describing the first encounters between two groups with radically different worldviews. "Aparecida Vilaca" focuses on the process of pacification conducted by Brazilian government agents, U.S. Protestant missionaries, and representatives of the Catholic Church between 1956 and 1969. During the 1940s and 1950s, white rubber-tappers interested in Wari’ lands raided their villages, shooting and killing sleeping victims. Those massacres prompted the Wari’ to initiate a period of intense retaliatory warfare. The national government and religious organizations stepped in, seeking to pacify the Indians. Vilaca was able to interview both Wari’ and non-Wari’ people who participated in these events. She reproduces many Wari’ testimonies in "Strange Enemies". Drawing on those interviews and an analysis of tribal myths, Vilaca describes Wari’ conceptions of self and other. The Wari’ categorize others as strangers and enemies. White people are enemies. In the past, enemies could be killed in acts of warfare. In the present day, violent encounters are rare and life in close proximity with enemies is common. Vilaca provides a subtle analysis of what it means for the Wari’ to live with enemies when warfare is no longer an option. With "Strange Enemies", she makes a major contribution to the ethnographic record on Amazonia and the understanding of the present-day situation of indigenous people.

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January 5, 2024

Scenes of Attention Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses

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Free Download D. Graham Burnett, "Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses"
English | ISBN: 023121118X | 2023 | 376 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Are we paying enough attention? At least since the nineteenth century, critics have alleged a widespread and profound failure of attentiveness―to others, to ourselves, to the world around us, to what is truly worthy of focus. Why is there such great anxiety over attention? What is at stake in understanding attention and the challenges it faces?

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January 5, 2024

Scenes from the Fashionable World

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Free Download Kennedy Fraser, "Scenes from the Fashionable World"
English | 1987 | ISBN: 0394554833 | EPUB | pages: 204 | 1.8 mb
The author examines the people and events of international fashion and reveals the alluring and disturbing elements in this celebrated environment

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January 3, 2024

Dumb Ideas A Behind-the-Scenes Exposé on Making Pranks and Other Stupid Creative Endeavors (How You Can Also Too!) [Audiobook]

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Free Download Dumb Ideas: A Behind-the-Scenes Exposé on Making Pranks and Other Stupid Creative Endeavors (and How You Can Also Too!) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4VS75W4 | 2023 | 4 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Eric Andre, Dan Curry
Narrator: Dan Curry, Eric André, Jack Black
From the brilliantly demented minds behind The Eric Andre Show and Bad Trip, an insane illustrated compendium about the art of pranking. Eric André is a master of the art of pranking-"an Andy Kaufman for the Four Loko generation," as Spin magazine once hailed him. For over a decade, he and longtime collaborator Dan Curry have dreamed up and performed a cornucopia of outrageous, often illegal, and always death-defying hijinks for the Adult Swim series The Eric Andre Show, as well as in the hit movie Bad Trip. Now, in their very first book, Eric and Dan reveal the secret fuel behind their surrealistic prank machine. Get ready to gorge your thirsty peepers on epic stories of shame, redemption, and glory behind pranks so dumb they’re brilliant…and beyond the realm of criticism. Dumb Ideas is an essential manual for getting a laugh out of friends, family, and complete strangers-and staying out of jail while doing it.

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January 1, 2024

Scenes and Communities in the City

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Free Download Scenes and Communities in the City by Marta Klekotko
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 158 Pages | ISBN : 3031434633 | 5.7 MB
​This book addresses the problem of creation and reproduction processes of contemporary urban communities, as well as cultural mechanisms and factors of these processes. Rejecting both the environmental determinism, and cultural reductionism of community studies, the book assumes that the postmodern city is a space of diverse urban communities that go far beyond the traditional concept of neighbourhood as well as personal and imagined communities, and thus proposes to comprehend urban community as social practice embedded in urban space. The book applies the Theory of Social Practice and the Theory of Scenes and develops the concept of socio-cultural opportunity structures in order to explain how cultural practices of individuals and symbolic dimensions of territory interact, leading to (re)production of various forms of urban community. It is assumed that culture in general and symbolic meanings of territory in particular, play a crucial role in the process of (re)production of urban communities, that this process takes place in collective cultural consciousness and is mediated by territorially embedded cultural practices of individuals. The book overcomes theoretical gaps in classical community studies and develops a new perspective on urban communal processes based on the analysis of social practices in urban cultural scenes.

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