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Auteur(s) : Wagner-Pacifici, Robin Erica
Titre(s) : What is an event? [Texte imprimé] / Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Publication : Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Comprend : Introduction; Why a book about events?; Advances and limitations of existing scholarship;
Form and flow -- ; Political semiosis; Inside or outside; Deconstructing political
semiosis ; Summary -- ; Ground; L'origine du monde: birth; Et in Arcadia ego: death;
Background; Ground as surface, point of contact, scene of action; Underground and
overground -- ; Rupture; Suspended animation; Time and space in rupture ; Event and
series: the financial crisis of 2008; "The trigger gave" -- ; Resonating forms; Violence
and event formation; The French Revolution ; Jacques-Louis David: eventful moments
and the pause -- ; Fragmenting forms; The representational uncertainty of the Paris
Commune; Styles and genres of the Paris Commune; Formal fault lines of Il Quarto Stato
-- ; Sedimentation and drift; 9/11; Sedimentation and the official report; Insiders
and outsiders; Event spaces; 9/11 in Lower Manhattan -- ; Conclusion
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine
can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals
and societies experience life. Even life's inevitable moments birth, death, love,
and war are almost always a surprise. Inspired by the cataclysmic events of September
11, Robin Wagner-Pacifici presents here a tour de force, an analysis of how events
erupt and take off from the ground of ongoing, everyday life, and how they then move
across time and landscape. "What Is an Event?" ranges across several disciplines,
systematically analyzing the ways that events emerge, take shape, gain momentum, flow,
and even get bogged down. As an exploration of how events are constructed out of ruptures,
it provides a mechanism for understanding eventful forms and flows, from the micro-level
of individual life events to the macro-level of historical revolutions, contemporary
terrorist attacks, and financial crises. Wagner-Pacifici takes a close look at a number
of cases, both real and imagined, through the reports, personal narratives, paintings,
iconic images, political posters, sculptures, and novels they generate and through
which they live on. What is ultimately at stake for individuals and societies in events,
Wagner-Pacifici argues, are identities, loyalties, social relationships, and our very
experiences of time and space. What Is an Event? provides a way for us all as social
and political beings living through events, and as analysts reflecting upon them to
better understand what is at stake in the formations and flows of the events that
mark and shape our lives
Sujet(s) : Événement (philosophie)
Événement (philosophie) -- Société
Sciences sociales et histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226439648. - ISBN 022643964X. - ISBN 9780226439785. - ISBN 022643978X. -
ISBN 9780226439815 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45205639d
Notice n° :
FRBNF45205639
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