Gareth Williams Bücher

Angespitzte Zähne, struppige Haare, mächtige Waffen – die Wikinger sind der Inbegriff gefürchteter Krieger. Vom 9. bis zum 11. Jahrhundert machten sie den Nord- und Ostseeraum unsicher und gründeten Siedlungen in Grönland und Nordamerika. Doch wer waren sie wirklich – barbarische Mörder, mutige Entdecker oder kluge Kaufleute? Ihre Identität lässt sich nicht eindeutig zuordnen. Ihr Mut beeindruckt, ihre Grausamkeit schreckte Gegner ab. In der Ausstellung und dem Katalog wird dieser Dualität nachgegangen. Ein spektakulärer Fund, das 37 Meter lange Schiff „Roskilde 6“, wurde 1997 in Dänemark entdeckt und ist nun erstmals öffentlich zu sehen. Es steht im Mittelpunkt der internationalen Ausstellung in Berlin, die bekannte Objekte neu bewertet und mit dem Schiff in Verbindung bringt. Der Katalog bietet zahlreiche Abbildungen und spannende Texte zu den außergewöhnlichen Kenntnissen der Wikinger im Schiffsbau, Kriegstaktiken und ihren Kontakten zu anderen Völkern. Ein Kapitel widmet sich dem Glauben und den Ritualen der Wikinger, die sich intensiv mit Magie und Totenkult beschäftigten. Der Katalog spannt den Bogen von der „Roskilde 6“ zu berühmten Wikinger-Schiffsgräbern, wie dem Oseberg-Schiffsgrab in Norwegen, und bietet 395 teils großformatige Abbildungen, die das Leben und die Kunst der Wikinger lebendig darstellen.

This book makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale.Infrapolitical Passages proposes to clear a way through some of the dominant political determinations and violent symptoms of contemporary globalization. In doing so, Gareth Williams makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale.The book offers a theory of globalization as a gigantic, directionless crisis in humanity’s symbolic organization, as well as a theory of global economic warfare as the very positing of directionlessness and, at the same time, facticity. Williams’s infrapolitics stands at a distance from the biopolitical, which it understands as domination presenting itself as the production of specific forms of subjectivity in the face of the commodity. The subsequent obscuring of being signals the need to circumvent the instrumentalization of life as subordination to the metaphysics of subjectivity, representation, and politics.Infrapolitical Passages works to confront that which is unavailable in subjectivity and representation, opening a way for facticity in the age of globalization in order to make room for the infrapolitical question for existence.

A contemporary novel with an important historical element

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A historical novel with an important time-travel element

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Focusing on the cultural challenges of postmodernism in Latin America, this book offers a critical examination of contemporary cultural dynamics in the region. It addresses a significant gap in Latin American cultural studies through rigorous scholarship and intellectual depth, making a notable contribution to understanding the complexities of popular culture. The work is recognized for its brilliance and commitment to exploring the current cultural landscape, providing valuable insights for scholars and readers alike.

The third novel in 'The Richard Davey Chronicles' series

A little bulldozer resists sleep in this humorous board book perfect for fans of Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? and Good Night, Good Night, Construction Site.