Mobility, Modernity and the Slum: The Real and Virtual Journeys of 'Slumdog Millionaire' 1138344745, 9781138344747

Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real 3161551117, 9783161551116

In the Roman Empire, travelling was something of a central feature, facilitating commerce, pilgrimage, study abroad, tou

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Disastrous Subjectivities: Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real 9781487533373

Drawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infi

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Ritual Journeys in South Asia: Constellations and Contestations of Mobility and Space 9781138055001, 9781315166278

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Tracking Modernity: India’s Railway and the Culture of Mobility 9780816665600, 9780816665617, 0816665605, 0816665613, 9780816676705, 0816676704

The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity For centuries the railway has been one of India’s

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Architectonics of Game Spaces: The Spatial Logic of the Virtual and Its Meaning for the Real 9783839448021

What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architectur

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Qumran through (Real) Time: A Virtual Reconstruction of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls 9781463216795

This book proposes a new occupation model for the remains of Khirbet Qumran, the site associated with the discovery of t

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Qumran through (Real) Time: A Virtual Reconstruction of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls 9781463216795

This book proposes a new occupation model for the remains of Khirbet Qumran, the site associated with the discovery of t

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Speculative Coolness: Architecture, Media, the Real, and the Virtual 4729460279, 9876543210, 9780194230193, 9781032318882, 9781032318868, 9781003311881

Cantley’s work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the re

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Refiguring the Real: Picture and Modernity in Word and Image, 1400-1700 9781400872756

In a major analysis of pictorial forms from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Christopher Braider argues that t

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Modernity and the Unmaking of Men 9781789208634

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a

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