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*Valuing the unique : the economics of singularities / Lucien Karpik ; translated by Nora Scott. Publisher's info on the book("Singularities" in this book include goods and services such as art and music, that cannot, according to the author, be analyzed economically in quite the same way as mass-produced items. This looks quite relevant to those of us currently struggling with the challenge of making our artistic pursuits economically viable, versus the financial black holes they often threaten to become!) *The erotic engine (How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google) / Patchen Barss. amazon.com link for the book*Gratuity : a contextual understanding of tipping norms from the perspective of tipped employees / Richard Seltzer, Holona LeAnne Ochs. linkTags: art, books, economics, internet, media, porn, sociology
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Crash : cinema and the politics of speed and stasis / Karen Beckman. CONTENTS: "Jerky nearness" : spectatorship, mobility, and collision in early cinema -- Car wreckers and home lovers : the automobile in silent slapstick -- Doing death over : industrial-safety films, accidental-motion studies, and the involuntary crash test dummy -- Disaster time, the Kennedy assassination, and Andy Warhol's Since (1966/2002) -- Film falls apart : Crash, Semen, and Pop -- Crash aesthetics : Amores perros and the dream of cinematic mobility -- The afterlife of Weekend, or, the university found on a scrapheap. Tags: books, film
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Kissing the mask : beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figures / William T. Vollmann. Link to publisher's info on the bookTags: art, books, gender, japanese culture, porn, theater
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Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire / Robert Perkinson. CONTENTS: Prison heartland -- Plantation and penitentiary -- "Worse than slavery" -- The agonies of reform -- The penal colony that wasn't -- "Best in the nation" -- Appeal to justice -- Retributive revolution -- The triumph of Texas tough. "Sweeping in scope and exhaustively researched, it tries to answer some of the most vexing questions of our time: Why has the United States built the largest prison system in the world, unlike anything in the history of democratic governance, and why have racial disparities in criminal justice worsened over the past two generations, despite the landmark victories of the civil rights movement? Drawing on a decade of archival, legal, and legislative research, combined with scores of interviews, this book argues that the history of American criminal justice is a more southern story than most have acknowledged (the prison boom began and has remained most pervasive in the South) and that the politics of race and reaction have played a more prominent role in the expansion of incarceration than elevated crime rates. ( Source)" Tags: books, criminology, sociology
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