Duroc, duc de Frioul : grand maréchal du Palais impérial (1772-1813)

Mode of access: Internet.

Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres : avec leurs portraits gravés en Taille-douce, les indications de leurs principaux ouvrages, Quelques Réflexions sur leurs caractères et la maniere de connoître les desseins et les tableaux des grands maîtres /

Mode of access: Internet.

Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres : avec leurs portraits gravés en Taille-douce, les indications de leurs principaux ouvrages, Quelques Reflexions sur leurs caractères et la maniere de connoître les desseins et les tableaux des grands maîtres /

Mode of access: Internet.

Essai historique et critique sur la Révolution Française : ses causes, ses résultats, avec les portraits des hommes les plus célèbres /

"La 1ère éd. fut enlevée entière, par ordre de l'ancien gouvernement en 1810, et détruite en 1813"

Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres : avec leurs portraits gravés en Taille-douce, les indications de leurs principaux ouvrages, Quelques Reflexions sur leurs caractères et la maniere de connoître les desseins et les tableaux des grands maîtres /

Mode of access: Internet.

Portraits et souvenirs littéraires /

Gérard de Nerval.-- Madame Émile de Girardin.-- Henri Heine.-- Charles Baudelaire.-- Achim d'Arnim.

The poetical works of Horace Smith and James Smith ... with portraits and a biographical sketch.

"Our reprint of this work is from the twenty-third London edition, and the notes inclosed in brackets are from the pen, we believe, of Mr. Peter Cunningham."--Pref.

The sentimental exhibition, or, Portraits and sketches of the times.

"Plays printed for T. Lowndes" ([3] p.) at end.

The amateur's pocket companion; or, A description of scarce and valuable engraved British portraits. Also of the rare or curious books, as mentioned in the works of Granger, Bromley, Noble, &c. Alphabetically arranged. With notes, including the prices and descriptions of many rare prints ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Political portraits, in this new æra;

On t.-p. of v. 1-2: "In two volumes"; v. 3: "Supplementary volume."

Data compilation on the biological response to ocean acidification: environmental and experimental context of data sets and related literature

The exponential growth of studies on the biological response to ocean acidification over the last few decades has generated a large amount of data. To facilitate data comparison, a data compilation hosted at the data publisher PANGAEA was initiated in 2008 and is updated on a regular basis (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.149999). By January 2015, a total of 581 data sets (over 4 000 000 data points) from 539 papers had been archived. Here we present the developments of this data compilation five years since its first description by Nisumaa et al. (2010). Most of study sites from which data archived are still in the Northern Hemisphere and the number of archived data from studies from the Southern Hemisphere and polar oceans are still relatively low. Data from 60 studies that investigated the response of a mix of organisms or natural communities were all added after 2010, indicating a welcomed shift from the study of individual organisms to communities and ecosystems. The initial imbalance of considerably more data archived on calcification and primary production than on other processes has improved. There is also a clear tendency towards more data archived from multifactorial studies after 2010. For easier and more effective access to ocean acidification data, the ocean acidification community is strongly encouraged to contribute to the data archiving effort, and help develop standard vocabularies describing the variables and define best practices for archiving ocean acidification data.

Comentario del libro de Arturo Taracena Arriola, Invención criolla, sueño ladino, pesadilla indígena. Los Altos de Guatemala: de la región al Estado, 1740-1850

IntroducciónDetrás del bello título y de las referencias explícitamente froidianas de este libro, el lector descubre en él un importante libro de historia regional. De golpe osamos a plantear una afirmación a manera de previsión, ejercicio que por cierto repugna tanto al historiador, pero que en este caso no deja de ser un tanto riesgoso. El trabajo de A. Taracena probablemente será por muchos años como una de esas referencias trascendentales para todos aquellos que decidan en el futuro plantear un estudio de historia regional.

Letting go of Neo-Liberalism (with some help from Michel Foucault)

Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original reference point as a descriptor of the economics of the “Chicago School” such as Milton Friedman, or authors such as Friedrich von Hayek, neo-liberalism has become an all-purpose descriptor and explanatory device for phenomena as diverse as Bollywood weddings, standardized testing in schools, violence in Australian cinema, and the digitization of content in public libraries. Moreover, it has become an entirely pejorative term: no-one refers to their own views as “neo-liberal”, but it rather refers to the erroneous views held by others, whether they acknowledge this or not. Neo-liberalism as it has come to be used, then, bears many of the hallmarks of a dominant ideology theory in the classical Marxist sense, even if it is often not explored in these terms. This presentation will take the opportunity provided by the English language publication of Michel Foucault’s 1978-79 lectures, under the title of The Birth of Biopolitics, to consider how he used the term neo-liberalism, and how this equates with its current uses in critical social and cultural theory. It will be argued that Foucault did not understand neo-liberalism as a dominant ideology in these lectures, but rather as marking a point of inflection in the historical evolution of liberal political philosophies of government. It will also be argued that his interpretation of neo-liberalism was more nuanced and more comparative than the more recent uses of Foucault in the literature on neo-liberalism. It will also look at how Foucault develops comparative historical models of liberal capitalism in The Birth of Biopolitics, arguing that this dimension of his work has been lost in more recent interpretations, which tend to retro-fit Foucault to contemporary critiques of either U.S. neo-conservatism or the “Third Way” of Tony Blair’s New Labour in the UK.

Michel Foucault's 'the birth of biopolitics' and contemporary neo-liberalism debates

Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original reference point as a descriptor of the economics of the ‘Chicago School’ or authors such as Friedrich von Hayek, neo-liberalism has become an all-purpose concept, explanatory device and basis for social critique. This presentation evaluates Michel Foucault’s 1978–79 lectures, published as The Birth of Biopolitics, to consider how he used the term neo-liberalism, and how this equates with its current uses in critical social and cultural theory. It will be argued that Foucault did not understand neo-liberalism as a dominant ideology in these lectures, but rather as marking a point of inflection in the historical evolution of liberal political philosophies of government. It will also be argued that his interpretation of neo-liberalism was more nuanced and more comparative than more recent contributions. The article points towards an attempt to theorize comparative historical models of liberal capitalism.

Stripping Sight Bare : Alison Jones’ ‘Portraits by Proxy’

In this paper I analyse UK artist Alison Jones’ sonic interventions Portrait of the Artist by Proxy (2008), Voyeurism by Proxy (2008) and Art, Lies and Audio Tapes (2009). In Portrait of the Artist by Proxy, Jones – who, due to deteriorating vision, has not seen her reflection in a mirror in years – asks and trusts participants to audio-describe her own image back to her. In Voyeurism by Proxy, Jones asks participants to audio-describe erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt. In Art, Lies and Audio Tapes, Jones asks participants to audio-describe other artworks, such as W.F. Yeames’ And When Did You Last see Your Father?. In these portraits by proxy, Jones opens her image, and other images, to interpretation. In doing so, Jones draws attention to the way sight is privileged as a mode of access to fixed, fundamental truths in Western culture – a mode assumed to be untainted by filters that skew perception of the object. “In a culture where vision is by far the dominant sense,” Jones says, “and as a visual artist with a visual impairment, I am reliant on audio-description …Inevitably, there are limitations imposed by language, time and the interpreter’s background knowledge of the subject viewed, as well as their personal bias of what is deemed important to impart in their description” . In these works, Jones strips these background knowledges, biases and assumptions bare. She reveals different perceptions, as well as tendencies or censor, edit or exaggerate descriptions. In this paper, I investigate how, by revealing unconscious biases, Jones’ works renders herself and her participants vulnerable to a change of perception. I also examine how Jones’ later editing of the audio-descriptions allows her to show the instabilities of sight, and, in Portrait of the Artist by Proxy, to reclaim authorship of her own image.