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Motion in Classical Literature - G. O. Hutchinson - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Motion in Classical Literature - G. O. Hutchinson - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Classical literature is full of humans, gods, and animals in impressive motion. The specific features of this motion are expressive; it is closely intertwined with decisions, emotions, and character. However, although the importance of space has recently been realized with the advent of the ''spatial turn'' in the humanities, motion has yet to receive such attention, for all its prominence in literature and its interest to ancient philosophy. This volume begins with an exploration of motion in particular works of visual art, and continues by examining the characteristics of literary depiction. Seven works are then used as case-studies: Homer''s Iliad, Ovid''s Metamorphoses, Tacitus'' Annals, Sophocles'' Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus, Parmenides'' On Nature, and Seneca''s Natural Questions. The two narrative poems diverge rewardingly, as do the philosophical poetry and prose. Important in the philosophical poem and the prose history are metaphorical motion and the absence of motion; the dramas scrutinize motion verbally and visually. Each study first pursues the general roles of motion in the particular work and provides detail on its language of motion. It then engages in close analysis of particular passages, to show how much emerges when motion is scrutinized. Among the aspects which emerge as important are speed, scale, and shape of movement; motion and fixity; the movement of one person and a group; motion willed and imposed; motion in images and in unrealized possibilities. The conclusion looks at these aspects across the works, and at differences of genre and period. This new and stimulating approach opens up extensive areas for interpretation; it can also be productively applied to the literature of successive eras.

DKK 1070.00
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The Green Fuse - John Harte - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

The Green Fuse - John Harte - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak Tibetan plateau. The result is that rare book that bridges the cultures of science and art. Lyrical, vivid portraits of natural wonders and the threats to them are combined with precise scientific accounts of natural processes and their disturbances. The Green Fuse will show nonscientists the fascination of ecological detective work and renew scientists' love for the beauty of the world under their microscopes. Harte's stories illuminate, without sermonizing, the damage to natural systems brought about by technological hubris and calculated political ruthlessness. "The green fuse" symbolizes the basic unity behind natural diversity. But a fuse may also be the weak link in an overloaded system or the slow burning wick on an ecological bomb. As The Green Fuse reminds us, the energies that created human liberation from nature can also be those that lead to the human destruction of nature. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

DKK 971.00
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The Shape of Motion - Jordan Schonig - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Shape of Motion - Jordan Schonig - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement, author Jordan Schonig provides a new way of theorizing cinematic motion by examining cinema''s "motion forms": structures, patterns, or shapes of movement unique to the moving image. From the wild and unpredictable motion of flickering leaves and swirling dust that captivated early spectators, to the pulsing abstractions that emerge from rapid lateral tracking shots, to the bleeding pixel-formations caused by the glitches of digital video compression, each motion form opens up the aesthetics of movement to film theoretical inquiry. By pairing close analyses of onscreen movement in narrative and experimental films with concepts from Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Henri Bergson, and Immanuel Kant, Schonig rethinks longstanding assumptions within film studies, such as indexical accounts of photographic images and analogies between the camera and the human eye. Arguing against the intuition that cinema reproduces our natural perception of motion, The Shape of Motion shows how cinema''s motion forms do not merely transpose the movements of the world in front of the camera, they transform them.

DKK 857.00
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Streets in Motion - Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Streets in Motion - Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The book studies the social production of motion in a capitalist urban context. In the city of capital, motion refers to a fetish. The bourgeois order posits motion as a metaphor for energy, positivity, and progress – a norm – and obstruction (motion''s dialectical opposite) as delinquency. The book uncovers the social tectonics of spatial mobilization and thus demystifies motion. Who and what set spaces on the move? How did various classes of city dwellers activate, experience, and negotiate it? Streets in Motion develops an approach to urban history by theorizing and historicizing the ''street'' as an apparatus of city-making and subject formation. It works at two registers – a local history of Calcutta in colonial and post-colonial periods, and a theorizing of the logistical and political-cultural centrality of the street within this rubric. It is argued that the street is politics in as much as politics is the production of space.

DKK 773.00
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Algorithms for Robotic Motion and Manipulation - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Algorithms for Robotic Motion and Manipulation - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This volume deals with core problems in robotics, like motion planning, sensor-based planning, manipulation, and assembly planning. It also discusses the application of robotics algorithms in other domains, such as molecular modeling, computer graphics, and image analysis. Topics Include: - Planning - Sensor Based Motion Planning - Control and Motion Planning - Geometric Algorithms - Visibility - Minimalism and Controllability - Algorithms for Manufacturing - Contact and Tolerancy - Beyond Robotics

DKK 1042.00
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Equations of Motion in General Relativity - Hideki Asada - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Equations of Motion in General Relativity - Hideki Asada - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The problem of motion of extended bodies in General Relativity is notorious for its analytical difficulty, but at the same time highly relevant for comparison of theoretical predictions with modern precision measurements in relativistic astrophysics and cosmology. Its one of the most important topics in General Relativity and its application to astrophysics.We focus attention on two aspects of equations of motion in general relativity: the motion of extended bodies (stars) and the motion of small black holes. Our objective is to offer a guide to prospective researchers into these areas of general relativity and to point out open questions and topics that are ripe for further development. It is over forty years since a text on this subject was published and in that time the research area of equations of motion in general relativity has undergone extraordinary development, stimulated by the discovery of the binary neutron star PSR 1913+16 in 1974 (which was the first isolated gravitating system found in which general relativity plays a fundamental role in describing theoretically its evolution), and more recently by the advent of kilometre size interferometric gravitational wave detectors which are expected to detect gravitational waves produced by coalescing binary neutron stars.

DKK 970.00
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Perception and Control of Self-motion - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Perception and Control of Self-motion - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book presents studies of self-motion by an international group of basic and applied researchers including biologists, psychologists, comparative physiologists, kinesiologists, aerospace and control engineers, physicians, and physicists. Academia is well represented and accounts for most of the applied research offered. Basic theoretical research is further represented by private research companies and also by government laboratories on both sides of the Atlantic. Researchers and students of biology, psychology, physiology, kinesiology, engineering, and physics who have an interest in self-motion -- whether it be underwater, in space, or on solid ground -- will find this volume of interest. This book presents studies of self-motion by an international group of basic and applied researchers including biologists, psychologists, comparative physiologists, kinesiologists, aerospace and control engineers, physicians, and physicists. Academia is well represented and accounts for most of the applied research offered. Basic theoretical research is further represented by private research companies and also by government laboratories on both sides of the Atlantic. Researchers and students of biology, psychology, physiology, kinesiology, engineering, and physics who have an interest in self-motion -- whether it be underwater, in space, or on solid ground -- will find this volume of interest.

DKK 884.00
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Being and Motion - Thomas Nail - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Being and Motion - Thomas Nail - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The history of philosophy has systematically explained movement as derived from something else that does not move: space, eternity, force, and time. Why, when movement has always been central to human societies, did a philosophy based on movement never take hold? This book finally overturns this long-standing metaphysical tradition by placing movement at the heart of philosophy. In doing so, Being and Motion provides a completely new understanding of the most fundamental categories of ontology from a movement-oriented perspective: quality, quantity, relation, modality, and others. It also provides the first history of the philosophy of motion, from early prehistoric mythologies up to contemporary ontologies. Through its systematic ontology of movement, Being and Motion provides a path-breaking historical ontology of our present.

DKK 969.00
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Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO 2016, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in July 2016. The 20 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The conference dealt with the following topics: advanced computer graphics and immersive videogames; human modeling and animation; human motion analysis and tracking; 3D human reconstruction and recognition; multimodal user interaction and applications; ubiquitous and social computing; design tools; input technology; programming user interfaces; 3D medical deformable models and visualization; deep learning methods for computer vision and graphics; multibiometric.

DKK 780.00
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Perspectives in Motion - - Bog - Berghahn Books - Plusbog.dk

Perspectives in Motion - - Bog - Berghahn Books - Plusbog.dk

Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, this edited collection offers new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.

DKK 1124.00
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