An unexpected relationship turns into an unconventional adventure, as full-time traveler Colin Wright falls for an Icelandic girl who tests his ideas about relationships and becomes a partner-in-crime across three continents.

Iceland India Interstate

Wright, Colin

Asymmetrical Press

This book foregrounds the centrality of political conflicts in the radical philosophy of Alain Badiou. It is divided into two halves. The first undertakes a reading of Badiou's wider oeuvre (beyond Being and Event) and demonstrates that his political theory derives from analyses of key revolutionary sequences such as the Paris Commune, October '17, May '68 and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. From his evolving meditations on these sequences, and from his theoretical borrowings from Marxism, psychoanalysis and set-theory, Badiou has established a complex schema of the possible outcomes of conflict which constitutes a subtle and flexible theory of change. In the second half, the book applies this schema to a concrete 'situation': colonial and post-colonial Jamaica. Against the backdrop of the history of conflict in Jamaica, the Morant Bay Revolt of 1865 is interpreted as an 'event' in Badiou's very precise sense. The Rastafari movement is then posited as a 'subject body' faithful to this event, while roots reggae is explored as the 'subject language' of this Rastafarian subject body. Through this example, it is suggested that the starkness of the account of the event in Being and Event, in its incompatibility with history or culture, must be qualified if Badiou's contribution to a renewed philosophy of conflict is to be realized. To this end, the book builds on Badiou's own Logics of Worlds in order to speculatively propose two new concepts: 'evental historiography' and 'evental culture'. It is argued that conceptual elaborations like these might enable a productive rapprochement between Badiou and Cultural Studies and Postcolonial theory - disciplines of which Badiou himself has been extremely critical, but which are certain to shape his reception in the English-speaking world. Conversely, both Cultural Studies and Postcolonial theory, precisely in their increasingly enfeebled conceptions of social, cultural and political conflict, stand to gain a great deal from dialogue with the persistently Maoist dimensions of Badiou's work.

Badiou in Jamaica: The Politics of Conflict (Anamnesis)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

re.press

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

Big Font Sudoku - Lazy Saturday Morning: 80 Easy to Read, Large Print Sudoku Puzzles

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

Silver Belt Big Font Sudoku: Fun, Large Grid Sudoku Puzzles

Travel is an excuse to challenge your beliefs and increase your perspective. Telling travel stories is an excuse to discuss society, philosophy, the evolution of modern relationships, and the state of contemporary marketing. From the secluded rice terraces of Mayoyao to the expat-friendly beaches of Boracay, Come Back Frayed is a collection of stories and essays written about and from the Philippines by full-time traveler Colin Wright. The pieces in this collection connect isolated agrarian societies with those that have fallen prey to rampant consumerism, and draw a line between introverted, nonstandard lifestyles and the always-on connections that bind humanity together in the modern world. There's also some discussion about allergies, loincloths, and why cockroaches are so rage-inducing. Colin Wright is the author of the narrative nonfiction works My Exile Lifestyle and Iceland India Interstate, the essay collections Act Accordingly, Considerations, and Some Thoughts About Relationships, and numerous works of fiction, including Ordovician and the A Tale of More series. Colin moves to a new country every four months based on the votes of his readers, and writes a blog called Exile Lifestyle.

Come Back Frayed

Travel

Asia

Becoming Who We Need To Be is a book about the challenges we face as societies, and how the decisions we make as individuals matter in those larger struggles.How we seek out, filter, and parse knowledge shapes our understanding of ourselves and of the world. How we analyze, organize, and act upon this information influences how well our ideas and ideologies scale up.In developing as individuals and evolving as groups, context matters. This is a book about broadening one's own context, and understanding how personal growth is related to societal well-being.

Becoming Who We Need To Be

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

One of the most neglected areas of management is the management of communication with customers and markets that use a foreign language. Yet faulty or non-existent command of appropriate foreign languages impairs business relations, makes for inefficiency and loss of business. This book provides a set of analytical tools for establishing the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation's entire system of foreign language communication from the strategic and planning level, to that of the proficiency of individual postholders. The tools can be used by managers or training officers as well as professional language trainers, in industry, commerce or government. The information can help in decisions on recruitment and equally provide a sound basis for the design of targeted, needs-specific language training, avoiding wasteful expenditure on 'general' language learning that neither motivates nor results in applicable knowledge. The proficiency testing methods are designed for use by language experts and are related to the National Vocational Qualifications language standards.

Linguistic Auditing (Topics in Translation, 8)

Business & Money

Reeves, Nigel

International

Multilingual Matters

Psychoanalytical Notebooks:: Issue 41, aNormality

Ansermet, François

Laurent, Éric

Voruz, Véronique

Pfauwadel, Aurelie

Stevens, Alexandre

Nielsen

An unexpected relationship turns into an unconventional adventure, as full-time traveler Colin Wright falls for an Icelandic girl who tests his ideas about relationships and becomes a partner-in-crime across three continents.

Travel Writing

My Exile Lifestyle is a collection of stories from full-time traveler, Colin Wright.From his early years as an antisocial geek, to his high-flying career in Los Angeles, to his life as a wandering vagabond, Colin talks about relationships, business, blogging, and culture through tales that span four continents.

My Exile Lifestyle

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Iceland India Interstate

Badiou in Jamaica: The Politics of Conflict (Anamnesis)

Big Font Sudoku - Lazy Saturday Morning: 80 Easy to Read, Large Print Sudoku Puzzles

Silver Belt Big Font Sudoku: Fun, Large Grid Sudoku Puzzles

Come Back Frayed

Becoming Who We Need To Be

Linguistic Auditing (Topics in Translation, 8)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks:: Issue 41, aNormality

Iceland India Interstate

My Exile Lifestyle