Essays Social

Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but life kept getting in the way. Then came a game-changing opportunity: she won a fellowship that would let her spend three months, all expenses paid, anywhere in the world to research and write a book. Would she choose a glittering metropolis, a romantic village, an exotic paradise? Not exactly. Nell chose Bleaker Island, a snowy, windswept pile of rock in the Falklands. There, in a guesthouse where she would be the only guest, she could finally rid herself of distractions and write.

Después de un desastre, sea provocado por el hombre o por la naturaleza, ¿la gente se vuelve más altruista, ingeniosa y valiente? ¿A qué deben él ánimo las nuevas comunidades que surgen entre las ruinas y en momentos de crisis, con sus nuevos propósitos? ¿Qué revela su alegría sobre la posibilidad y el deseo de cambio social, normalmente insatisfecho? Solnit explora este fenómeno a través de algunas calamidades como el terremoto de 1906 en San Francisco, la explosión que casi acabó con Halifax en 1917, el terremoto de Ciudad de México de 1985, el 11-S en Nueva York y el huracán Katrina, que arrasó Nueva Orleans.

Esta antología reúne a escritores nacidos en algún lugar de Latinoamérica y que viven en España. Todos han conspirado en el apretado salón del cuento. Contiene, además, un mapa para escapar de los corsés ideológicos que tantos militares, políticos e intelectuales trataron de imponer al continente; un pergamino con veinte itinerarios que recogen distintas formas de huir, de volverse sospechoso en dos países a la vez, en el despegue y en el aterrizaje. Veinte maletas con ropa suficiente para vestir al anfitrión de huésped.

Reinventándonos, los retos de la Covid-19 y la nueva normalidad reúne las visiones de diversos especialistas sobre el impacto generado y el cambio que nos espera en campos como la ciencia, la educación, el deporte, la cultura o incluso en las formas de protegernos contra la violencia. Pero reúne, además, ejemplos de cómo a pesar de todo, y del nulo apoyo del Estado, los peruanos, una vez más, nos reinventamos.

Liberalism won the "sexual revolution." But the revolutionaries are miserable. Americans are not only delaying marriage and having fewer children, but also having less sex in general, as the radical left brings politics back into the bedroom. Ironically, sex has become a potential conservative cause. Conservatism can remind us that sex is fundamentally about happiness.

Kevin Powell is one of the most prolific and acclaimed American writers, thinkers, activists, and public speakers of the past three decades. His writings are important contributions to our national conversations on race, gender, class, politics, pop culture, celebrity, hip-hop, and the past, present, and future of the United States.

In her remarkable literary debut, Taylor (AKA Self Esteem) will explore the devolution of a woman. As Self Esteem, Rebecca Taylor has given voice to the feelings of insecurity and misogyny-induced frustration whilst emboldening a whole new audience with powerful, truth-telling lyricism. Her latest album 'Prioritise Pleasure' was voted the Guardian's top album of 2021. She has written the music for Prima Facie, Jodie Comer's theatre debut and music for Dolly Alderton's TV Adaptation for the BBC of Everything I Know About Love.

The digital revolution has been corrupted. What began as a celebration of freedom has become a machine for monitoring and control. What began as history’s greatest dream of enlightenment has been twisted into an anti-intellectual nightmare of indoctrination. In 12 essays, several already well-known but newly revised in this volume, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger stakes out a hard-headed position in favor of the ideals of the digital revolution.

Im Jahr 1849 schrieb Henry David Thoreau seinen weltberühmten Essay über die "Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat". In diesem stellte er sich außerhalb einer Gesellschaft, die, obwohl auf den Prinzipien der Freiheit und Gleichheit aller gegründet, nicht in der Lage war, die Sklaverei abzuschaffen. Neben "Walden" der wohl berühmteste Text des Eigenbrötlers aus den Wäldern von Massachusetts.

A collection of 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage, featuring work by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders. Spanning comedy and tragedy, Alien Nation brilliantly illuminates what it’s like to be an immigrant in America.

For decades, Asaram Bapu presided over a politically influential empire built on blind faith. Along with his son and heir, Narayan Sai, he has now become an example of everything that is wrong with self-styled godmen and the cults they spawn. God of Sin pieces together Asaram's journey to spiritual godhood, his fall from grace, and the long and arduous road to bring him to justice.

A unique collection of 41 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers—including award-winning writers, artists, and activists—that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today.

"Was macht eigentlich das Unterschichtskind auf dem Roten Teppich?", fragt eine Besucherin auf dem Münchner Filmfest in meine Richtung. Ja, was macht sie da? Sie ist auf einer Mission. Die Tussi suggeriert durch ihre Erscheinung ein grenzüberschreitendes Begehren. Es geht um Kitsch, Glamour, Trash, es geht um Camp. Es geht um Körper, Identitäten. Es geht um Strass, um Klasse und um künstliche Fingernägel. Pleasure ist eine atemberaubend eloquente Tour de Force durch die Luxus-Triade Schlaf (meterlange Hotelbett-Laken!), Nahrung (Schlemmermaus!) und Kleidung (Dior, aber fake!).

Imagine a world where technology understands the human condition - a world that values relationships more than diamonds - a place where people earn a living, not from selling, but from compassion. We stand on the threshold of such a world. The door is open.

Der wohl berühmteste und berüchtigtste Text von Thomas de Quincey beginnt mit einer historischen Analyse des Mordes in wissenschaftlichem Gewand, welche gleichermaßen als Parodie der herrschenden Bildungs- wie Religionsstrukturen verstanden werden darf. Im Verlauf der "fiktionalen Vorlesung" ändert das Werk plötzlich seine Richtung und offenbart in Form einer veränderten Stilistik die unterschiedlichen Interpretationsmöglichkeiten von redaktionell aufgearbeiteten Tatsachen, deren Inhalte nur zu leicht an entsprechendes Publikum ausgerichtet und angepasst werden können.

This collection of essays suggests that the EU and US are both cases of modern federalism at the empire political-level and scale.

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The Maria girls from Bastar practice sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules—one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day; the Kanjars have plundered, looted and killed generation after generation, and will show you how to roast a lizard when hungry. The original inhabitants of India, these Adivasis still live in forests and hills, with religious beliefs, traditions and rituals so far removed from the rest of the country that they represent an anthropological wealth of our heritage.

Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919) war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin, Frauenrechtlerin und eine der ersten feministischen Theoretikerinnen. Die Großmutter von Katia Mann, der Gattin Thomas Manns, war sie obendrein. Im Jahr 1903 veröffentlichte sie ihr Essay "Die Mütter", in dem sie auf vielfältige Weise unter anderem folgende Themen beleuchtet: das überladene Mutterideal; Einflüsse, die auf Kinder wirken; freie Berufswahl der Frau; Erziehungsfragen. Cover-Illustration von Lea Pfeiffer.

Against the Written Word is the most important, most revolutionary book produced since the advent of the printing press; the book that will liberate readers from reading, writers from writing, and booksellers from peddling their despicable wares. This book ushers in a new era of freedom from reading and all its attendant bedfellows such as Enlightenment thinking and the mass alienation wrought by the phonetic alphabet. Against the Written Word will be a tremendous best seller and simultaneously the last book that anyone will listen to.