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John Levin replied to the topic Emmy Hennings in Spanish in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAnd more Hennings en español: ‘La última alegría’, containing the volume of poetry of that title “Die Letzte Freude” (The Last Joy), short pieces by and about her, and some correspondence. Available in print and in a cheap ebook edition:
https://publicaciones.uclm.es/la-ultima-alegria/
Also, the comic has been translated into German, with the ti…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Evangelicals, culture and the arts in the group
British History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoExamines evangelical encounters with the arts as: consumer and performer in the ‘neutral’ sphere of the home; as users of the arts in public worship; as evangelists; and as moralists and reformers of the pursuits of others. It deals mainly with music, literature, the visual arts and drama, and its examples are drawn chiefly from Britain and the…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Evangelicals, culture and the arts on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
Examines evangelical encounters with the arts as: consumer and performer in the ‘neutral’ sphere of the home; as users of the arts in public worship; as evangelists; and as moralists and reformers of the pursuits of others. It deals mainly with music, literature, the visual arts and drama, and its examples are drawn chiefly from Britain and the…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic Dada on Twitter in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 6 years agoJust to let you know, in advance of some gexciting news, I’ve set up a Twitter account for all things dadaist:
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John Levin started the topic English translations of Walter Serner in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 6 years agoAn english translation of Walter Serner’s first collection of short stories has just been published by Wakefield Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
http://wakefieldpress.com/serner_monkey.html
And Twisted Spoon Press (Prague) are due to publish his infamous ‘Last Loosening’ in July:
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Jim Clifford's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
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John Levin started the topic London: Barbican: Into The Night in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe Barbican in London (in collaboration with the Belvedere of Vienna, a very fine museum) is presenting “Into The Night”, an exhibition on nightclubs and cabaret related to modern art. I’ve not seen it yet, but the Cabaret Voltaire does feature, as does the work of Sophie Taeuber and Hans Arp in the recreation of L’Aubette.
More details…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic London: John Heartfield Exhibition in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThere is an exhibition of some of John Heartfields’s works on in London at the Four Corners gallery until February 1st 2020.
HEARTFIELD: ONE MAN’S WAR
“Revisiting the father of photomontage, John Heartfield. Armed with scissors, paste and acerbic wit, Heartfield used art as a political weapon. Risking his life under Hitler’s Third Reich, he s…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic CFP: New York Dada (Loughborough, UK, 14-15 May 2020) in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoCFP: New York Dada (Loughborough, 14-15 May 20)
Loughborough University, May 14 – 15, 2020
Deadline: Dec 9, 2019
Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of New York Dada
Over the course of the 1920s, Dada became one of the driving forces of avant-garde art production in New York. This cosmopolitan, transatlantic art movement stimulated i…[Read more]
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John Levin replied to the topic Dada-companion gone in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoI hope to have some news about this fairly soon. Hopefully, good news.
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Peter Webster deposited Users, technologies, organisations: Towards a cultural history of world web archiving in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoIf 2015 marked the elapse of 25 years since the birth of the web, 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of web archiving: of systematic attempts to preserve web content and make it accessible to scholars and the public. As such, the time is ripe to make an initial assessment of the history of the movement, and the patterns into which it has already…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Users, technologies, organisations: Towards a cultural history of world web archiving in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoIf 2015 marked the elapse of 25 years since the birth of the web, 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of web archiving: of systematic attempts to preserve web content and make it accessible to scholars and the public. As such, the time is ripe to make an initial assessment of the history of the movement, and the patterns into which it has already…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Technology, ethics and religious language: early Anglophone Christian reactions to “cyberspace” in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe very recent past has seen an upswing of scholarly interest not so much in the Internet and Web themselves but in the terms in which they have been discussed and understood. This article examines a remarkable effusion of writing in the 1990s that addressed the spiritual and ethical implications of “cyberspace”. Christian critics reacted in dif…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Technology, ethics and religious language: early Anglophone Christian reactions to “cyberspace” in the group
British History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe very recent past has seen an upswing of scholarly interest not so much in the Internet and Web themselves but in the terms in which they have been discussed and understood. This article examines a remarkable effusion of writing in the 1990s that addressed the spiritual and ethical implications of “cyberspace”. Christian critics reacted in dif…[Read more]
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Peter Webster started the topic Early Christian reactions to "cyberspace" in the discussion
AAR Artificial Intelligence and Religion Research Seminar on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoMembers might like to know that I recently added an article of mine to CORE, on the trajectories of response in the late 1990s among Christians to the potential (positive and negative) of cyberspace. It shows the continuities of these concerns with Christian reactions to earlier technological change, and so may be of interest in framing the…[Read more]
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Peter Webster deposited Users, technologies, organisations: Towards a cultural history of world web archiving on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
If 2015 marked the elapse of 25 years since the birth of the web, 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of web archiving: of systematic attempts to preserve web content and make it accessible to scholars and the public. As such, the time is ripe to make an initial assessment of the history of the movement, and the patterns into which it has already…[Read more]
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