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Shaping the Campus Conversation on Student Learning and Experience

Activating the Results of Assessment in Action

Karen Brown

Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2018

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Small Aesthetics

Experience, Embodiment, and Critical Care

Nate Mickelson

Northwestern University Press, 2027

Synthesizing emerging theories of aesthetic action in relation to literary and art criticism

Drawing attention to what critical theorist Heather Love identifies as “the micro,” contemporary artists use small materials and cross‑media methods to elicit interpretation and foster critical engagement, immersing audiences in the entangled relations engendered with near and distant others through artistic experience. Small Aesthetics analyzes this insurgent tradition in twentieth- and twenty‑first-century poetry and art to show how it confronts the challenges of creating mutually sustaining lives. Feminist and feminist‑of‑color theorists have long argued that acts of care take on critical force when they foreground collective well-being and solidarity across power, class, and cultural differences. Guided by their insights, Nate Mickelson proposes that literary and visual artworks elicit acts of caring attention that engage audiences in their responsibilities to tend to the collective structures through which their lives unfold. Through his close readings, he extends the “post‑critical turn” in literary and art criticism and demonstrates the urgent vitality of feminist, Black, Latine, queer, and trans lives in increasingly hostile social contexts.

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Sound Ideas

Music, Machines, and Experience

Aden Evens

University of Minnesota Press, 2005

As people from record collectors to file swappers know, the experience of music - making it, marketing it, listening to it - relies heavily on technology. From the viola that amplifies the vibrations of a string to the CD player that turns digital bits into varying voltage, music and technology are deeply intertwined. What was gained - or lost - when compact discs replaced vinyl as the mass-market medium? What unique creative input does the musician bring to the music, and what contribution is made by the instrument? Do digital synthesizers offer unlimited range of sonic potential, or do their push-button interfaces and acoustical models lead to cookie-cutter productions? Through this interrogation of sound and technology, Aden Evens provides an acute consideration of how music becomes sensible, advancing original variations on the themes of creativity and habit, analog and digital technologies, and improvisation and repetition. Evens elegantly and forcefully dissects the paradoxes of digital culture and reveals how technology has profound implications for the phenomenology of art. Sound Ideas reinvents the philosophy of music in a way that encompasses traditional aspects of musicology, avant-garde explorations of music's relation to noise and silence, and the consequences of digitization.

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South Vietnam Trial and Experience

A Challenge for Development

Ang Tuan Nguyen

Ohio University Press, 1987

Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, former Minister of Finance of the Republic of South Vietnam, addresses a common perception of Vietnam: that South Vietnam was a fragmented society which did not deserve to succeed because of its internal weaknesses. According to Tuan, however, South Vietnam in the last decade of its life developed considerable governmental cohesion and internal social strength. Before the final failure of will, the South and its defenders were well on the way to becoming a viable society that had managed with American assistance to lift itself by its bootstraps to the point to economic take-off. Tuan argues that South Vietnam’s fall was not inevitable. This controversial book will be of great interest to all those concerned with the Vietnamese experience during the period 1954-1975.

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