scholarly journals Una china poblana en Tamaulipas. La fotografía como representación de discursos políticos y nacionalistas

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saúl Iván Hernández Juárez
Keyword(s):  
State Building ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Siglo Xx

A partir de la fotografía de una niña vestida de china poblana en la ciudad de Tampico, Tamaulipas (México), que tiene como escenografía Nueva York, la icónica Estatua de la Libertad y el Empire State Building, el objetivo del artículo es desarticular los elementos que la componen desde diferentes puntos de análisis. En primer lugar, se observará cómo y cuándo fue producida, desde cuál tradición fotográfica de la primera mitad del siglo XX fue realizada, para finalmente demostrar los discursos políticos, nacionalistas, culturales e internacionales en los que está inmersa, y cómo la tradición se contraponía a la modernidad capitalista. Se comprobará que la fotografía es un documento histórico, un archivo visual que aporta nuevas formas de interpretar la historia tradicional.

Virtual Embodiment as/and the Threshold of Love

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Harris
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
State Building ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Arcades Project ◽  
Performance Texts ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Stranger

This essay draws upon the author’s performance script Fall and Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project as a provocation for considering the ways performance texts provide a threshold for somatic inquiry, and for recognizing the limits of scholarly analysis that does not take up performance-as-inquiry. Set at the Empire State Building, this essay embodies the connections and missed possibilities between strangers and intimates in the context of urban modern life. Fall’s protagonist is positioned within a landscape of capitalist exchange, but defies this matrix to offer instead a gift at the threshold of life/death, virtual/real, and love/loss. Through somatic inquiry and witnessing as threshold experiences, the protagonist (as Benjamin’s flaneur) moves through urban space and time, proving that both scholarship and performance remain irrevocably embodied, and as such invariably tethered to the visceral, the stranger, risk, and death.

scholarly journals Revisiting the construction of the Empire State Building: Have we forgotten something?

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Mattias Jacobsson ◽  
Timothy L. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
State Building ◽  
Empire State Building

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF UMBRELLA AGREEMENTS IN ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY GOALS: ENERGY EFFICIENCY AT THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederik Dahlmann ◽  
Gareth Veal
Keyword(s):  
Energy Savings ◽  
State Building ◽  
Contractual Arrangements ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Efficient Delivery ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations ◽  
Tacit Assumptions

In this paper we investigate whether innovative and flexible contractual arrangements can support the process of achieving ambitious sustainability goals. We explore this question through an analysis of the role of umbrella agreements in driving energy savings in the building sector. Drawing on a case study of the iconic Empire State building, we examine the typical challenges faced by clients and contractors in devising suitable agreements that facilitate managing contractual and performance risks, as well as the sharing of responsibilities and cooperation between multiple project stakeholders. We find that the project arrangements appear to exhibit the adoption of the key characteristics commonly found in umbrella agreements which incorporate sustainability measures that maximize income through efficient delivery of outcomes. Specifically, this means that they need to enable stakeholders to manage repeated review cycles, complex perceptions and expectations, and different tacit assumptions and codes of behaviour, as well as managing and communicating in networks and obtaining agreement also from non-contractual parties. Moreover, we demonstrate that umbrella agreements can facilitate a network perspective of business relationships by emphasizing value co-creation and the embeddedness of firms within a network of interactions.

Forthcoming: The Roger L. Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-161
Author(s):  
Brian Martin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
State Building ◽  
Harold Pinter ◽  
Tom Stoppard ◽  
Jean Giraudoux ◽  
West Side Story ◽  
Bus Stop ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Peter Shaffer

Roger Stevens has always been a visionary. His career began in real estate, where he gained national recognition for buying the Empire State Building for $51.5 million—at the time the highest price ever paid for one building—and selling it three years later for a ten-million dollar profit. As he expanded into theatre, he quickly became one of the nation's foremost producers on Broadway, producing more than 200 shows over the last half century, including West Side Story, A Man for All Seasons, Bus Stop, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Deathtrap, and Mary, Mary. He “discovered” playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and Terence Rattigan for New York audiences, and he has worked closely with others, already established, such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Jean Giraudoux, and T.S. Eliot Three United States presidents have depended on Stevens for their arts and humanities policy, and the American theatrical community has benefitted from his intuitive vision.

Fiktionalität des Faktischen

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Nikola Von Merveldt
Keyword(s):  
State Building ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Semantic Distinction ◽  
Hybrid Forms

Artikelbeginn:[English title and abstract below] Am 1. April 1989 wird das Empire State Building von einem reichen Ölscheich gekauft, der es Stein für Stein, Stahlstrebe für Stahlstrebe, im Wüstensand wieder aufbauen lassen will. Der Schotte James Mac Killian reist von 1923–1925 in einem Heißluftballon um die Welt und berichtet davon. Und in den Fragmenten des Geographenvolks der Orbæ lassen sich versunkene Welten erahnen, die sich mutige Reisende erschlossen und dokumentiert haben. Irritiert mag man sich fragen, ob einem diese Fakten entgangen sind, oder ob David Macaulays Unbuilding (1980) fake news ist, Caroline Mac Killians Journey of the Zephyr (2010) eine Lüge und die beeindruckende Bildbandtrilogie von François Place, Atlas des géographes d’Orbæ (1996–2000), eine unverfrorene Fälschung. Oder sind alle drei ›einfach‹ Bilderbücher und somit ohnehin Fiktion, ja Kunst mit all den ihr zustehenden Freiheiten? Fictionality of the FactualReflections on the Poetics of Non-Fiction for Young Readers Drawing on recent research in narratology and theories of fiction, this article proposes ways of productively looking at non­fiction for children beyond the fact­fiction divide. The key to a differentiated analytical toolkit is the semantic distinction between the real and fictional content on the one hand – the question of referentiality – and the prag­matic difference between factual and fictional ways of presenting it on the other hand – whether it lays a claim or not to referential truthfulness on the discursive level. These categories, analysed according to a three­step model developed by Nickel­Bacon, Groeben and Schreier (2000), allow for a nuanced description of the many hybrid forms of non­fiction, especially information picture books. This article will present a typology of dif­ferent variations on the ›fictionality of the factual‹ and the ›factuality of the fictional‹ in current information books for young readers, and show that there is more fiction in non­fiction than is commonly assumed.

Empire State-Building: War and Welfare in Kenya 1925-52

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Conte ◽  
Joanna Lewis
Keyword(s):  
State Building ◽  
Empire State Building
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