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Affective Mapping: Jonathan Flatley; The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss.; Hardcover November 2008

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media: Walter Benjamin; Edited by Michael W. Jennings; Edited by Brigid Doherty; Edited by Thomas Y. Levin; Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general. This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the “Work of Art” essay—the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. The collection tracks Benjamin’s observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting.; Paperback May 2008