![]() ![]() A waiter armed with a revolver is chased but falls to his death. ![]() Book.TV newswoman Lee Carter ( Paula Prentiss) is one of many witnesses to the public assassination of presidential candidate Senator Charles Carroll ( Bill Joyce) atop the Seattle Space Needle. Tan half-cloth with brown paper-covered boards, and gilt lettering to spine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. The Parallax View not only expands Zizek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work." Not Price Clipped. The author focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. From this consideration of parallax, Zizek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Zizek is interested in the 'parallax gap' separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. "The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years Zizek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Short Circuits series: First Edition, 2006. The Obscene Knot of Ideology, and Hw to Unite It notes, index. ![]() The Lunar Parallax: Toward a Politics of Subtraction: 5. Object Petit A in Social Lines, or, The Impasses of Anti-Anti-Semitism. The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Divine Shit The Loop of Freedom Interlude 2. The Solar Paralax: The Unbearable Lightness of Being No One: 3. Kate's Choice, or, The Materialism of Henry James. Building Blocks for a Materialist Theology Interlude 1. The Subject, This "Inwardly Circumcised Jew" 2. The Stellar Parrallax: The Traps of Ontological Difference: 1. ix (i), 433 (1) pp, series foreword, Introduction - Dialectical Materialism at the Gates: I. to view this book is to view science fiction at its very best." -Paul Kane, Terror Tales. Brooke and Brown possess the world-building ability of Frank Herbert, the same capacity for extrapolation and black humour that marked Philip K Dick's work and a social conscience to rival that of Orwell's. The fusion of their talents is a sublime alchemy, a seamless pageant of humanity and wonder, eloquently expressed." -James Lovegrove "A stunning cluster of sf parables. "Individually, Keith Brooke and Eric Brown purvey SF of the highest order: their stories have epic scope and a huge heart. Plus six other stories that examine the interface between human and alien - a parallax view from two of Britain's top science fiction writers, both shortlisted for the 2012 Philip K Dick Award. What follows is a terrifying journey across a hellish landscape towards a finale that might change the destiny of the Kryte and humanity, forever. When they crash-land on the fortress planet of St Jerome, the Kryte prisoner turns the tables and takes Abbott into terrible custody. Xeno-psychologist Abbott finds himself the guardian of a deadly Kryte on a mission to study it on his return to Earth. Cherish them." - from the foreword by Stephen Baxter Parallax View showcases the previously unpublished novella 'In Transit', set in a future war-torn universe in which human expansion has come up against the implacable Kryte. These are mature stories, tales of love and loss, of pleasure and pain. These are stories imbued with a rich intelligence and a deep sense of humanity. "The stories in this collection are among the best science fiction. ![]()
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