Rebecca Solnit Libros

Después de un desastre, sea provocado por el hombre o por la naturaleza, ¿se vuelven las personas más altruistas, ingeniosas y valientes? ¿Qué hace que las nuevas comunidades y los nuevos propósitos que surgen entre las ruinas y las crisis sean tan felices? Y ¿qué revela esta alegría sobre los deseos y posibilidades sociales normalmente insatisfechos? Solnit explora este fenómeno, observando grandes calamidades como el terremoto de 1906 en San Francisco, la explosión de 1917 que destruyó Halifax, el terremoto de la Ciudad de México de 1985, el 11-S en Nueva York y el huracán Katrina en Nueva Orleans. Lo más sorprendente sobre los desastres no es que tanta gente esté a la altura de las circunstancias, sino que lo haga con alegría. Un paraíso en el infierno es una investigación sobre los momentos de altruismo, ingenio y generosidad que surgen en medio del dolor y la catástrofe.

En este conjunto de ensayos mordaces y oportunos sobre la persistente desigualdad entre mujeres y hombres y la violencia basada en el género, Solnit cita su experiencia personal y otros ejemplos reales de cómo los hombres muestran una autoridad que no se han ganado, mientras que las mujeres han sido educadas para aceptar esa realidad sin cuestionarla. La autora narra la experiencia que vivió durante una cena en la que un desconocido se puso a hablarle acerca de un libro increíble que había leído, ignorando el hecho de que ella misma lo había escrito, a pesar de que se lo hicieron saber al principio de la conversación. Al final resultó que ni siquiera había leído el libro, sino una reseña del New York Times. El término mansplaining conjuga man («hombre») y explaining («explica»), en alusión a este fenómeno: cuando un hombre explica algo a una mujer, lo hace de manera condescendiente, porque, con independencia de cuánto sepa sobre el tema, siempre asume que sabe más que ella. El concepto tiene su mayor expresión en aquellas situaciones en las que el hombre sabe poco y la mujer, por el contrario, es la «experta» en el tema, algo que, para la soberbia del primero, es irrelevante: él tiene algo que explicar y eso es lo único que importa.

The beauty, mystery, and abuse of the American desert are topics explored by Richard Misrach in his breathtaking Desert Cantos series, one of the most ambitious and innovative photographic projects of our time. Evolving over the course of two decades, the series now comprises eighteen numbered and named subseries, or cantos, and a prologue. With subjects as diverse as a military base in Utah, a man-made flood in California, sublime skies in Arizona, and arts happenings in Nevada, Richard Misrach's images raise probing and compelling questions about contemporary society's relationship to the desert. Included in this beautifully illustrated book are more than sixty Desert Cantos photographs that have never before been published, as well as some of the artist's best-known and most-admired images. This monumental publication, the first comprehensive survey of Richard Misrach's epic work-in-progress, serves as an exhibition catalogue for a major midcareer retrospective organized by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The show will tour in the United States (venues include Tucson, Tacoma, and Chicago).

Presents twenty-two color maps and accompanying essays providing details on the people, ecology, and culture of the city.

What is a Museum Now? asks about the role of a museum in contemporary society. All of Snøhetta's work is formed by the interaction between humans and their physical surroundings. Regarding this connection, the design studio recognized that a museum is a mediator between art and life. This book contains a detailed and extensive documentation of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's expansion, conducted by Snøhetta. The studio evolved the SFMOMA as a new form of art appreciation where the experience is an extension of the life of the city itself. This book presents the most recent investigation by Snøhetta into how architecture can nurture social interaction and diversity, fostering relationships where the world of the imagination and the realities of our lives come together. Accompanied by behind-the-scenes sketches, drawings and photographs that detail the design and construction process, this book is in itself an intimate engagement with the building, its art, its directors and curators, its inhabitants and its creators.

Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. This work represents developments in Solnit's thinking and offers you a panoramic world view enriched by her characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations.

Exploring the San Francisco Bay Area, this innovative atlas delves into the complex layers of meaning that define a place. Through the collaboration of artists, writers, and cartographers, the book features twenty-two stunning color maps that reveal the city from various perspectives. Solnit's work invites readers to reconsider their understanding of location and experience, transforming the concept of an atlas into a rich narrative of interconnected lives and landscapes.

Exploring the power of individual actions, Rebecca Solnit delves into how embracing uncertainty can lead to transformative change. Building on themes from her previous work, she highlights the potential for liberation and hope in navigating an unpredictable future.

New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me.

One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed a hundred pounds of apricots - the fruit came from a tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to. From this unexpected inheritance came stories, spun like those of Scheherazade who used her gifts as a storyteller to prolong her life and weave her way into the heart of a king. So too came adventure; in a library of water in Iceland, in the basin of the Grand Canyon, and in the emptiness of the Arctic. As she looks back on the year of apricots and emergencies, Solnit draws together the threads of her life with the lives of others.

A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent.

An essential and revelatory new collection from the bestselling phenomenon Rebecca Solnit calling for reflection and context, activism and hope.

Following on from the success of MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up a feminism for all of us: one that doesn't stigmatize women's lives, whether they include spouses and children or not; that brings empathy to the silences in men's lives as well as the silencing of women's lives; celebrates the ways feminism has shifted in recent years .

What makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of Vertigo.

The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit’s new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge—who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically—becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. Solnit shows how the peculiar freedoms and opportunities of post–Civil War California led directly to the two industries—Hollywood and Silicon Valley—that have most powerfully defined contemporary society.

Essays exploring politics and place, written with the lyricism of a poet and the wisdom of a modern-day sage

This set explores the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City. With many contributors, each atlas addresses the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by numerous categories of inhabitants.

Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world.

Bestselling author Rebecca Solnit highlights the transformative power of activism and its significant impact on the world, inspiring readers to recognize the importance of collective action.

Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes is Trevor Paglen's long-awaited first photographic monograph. Social scientist, artist, writer and provocateur, Paglen has been exploring the secret activities of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies--the "black world"--for the last eight years, publishing, speaking and making astonishing photographs. As an artist, Paglen is interested in the idea of photography as truth-telling, but his pictures often stop short of traditional ideas of documentation. In the series Limit Telephotography, for example, he employs high-end optical systems to photograph top-secret governmental sites; and in The Other Night Sky, he uses the data of amateur satellite watchers to track and photograph classified spacecraft in Earth's orbit. In other works Paglen transforms documents such as passports, flight data and aliases of CIA operatives into art objects. Rebecca Solnit contributes a searing essay that traces this history of clandestine military activity on the American landscape.

Rebecca Solnit reinvents the classic Cinderella tale with a feminist twist, introducing new plot developments that motivate young readers to embrace change and empowerment.

In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of Covid-19.The world’s media was quick to weave a narrative of selfish individualism, full of empty supermarket shelves and con-men. However, if you scratch the surface, you find a different story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions, including India, Rojava, Taiwan, South Africa, Iraq and North America, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture, revealing a universality of experience - a housewife in Istanbul supports her neighbour in the same way as a teacher in Argentina, a punk in Portland, and a disability activist in South Korea does.Moving beyond the present, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like, and reflect the skills and relationships we already have to create that society, challenging institutions of power that have already shown their fragility.

"In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now."-- Provided by publisher

Portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, this title carves a route through Ireland's history, literature and landscape.

'Wanderlust' explores the profound relationship between thinking and walking, walking and culture, and argues for the preservation of the time and space in which to walk in an ever-more car dependent and accelerated world.

California's Bay Area hosts a significant portion of the U.S. venture capital and internet businesses, leading to a booming economy and an influx of high-paid workers that has drastically altered San Francisco's landscape. Once an anomaly among American cities, San Francisco now exemplifies the cultural impoverishment affecting many urban centers due to shifting wealth distributions. In a collaboration between writer-historian Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg, this work examines the city's transformation, marked by soaring rents that displace artists, activists, and the economically vulnerable; the homogenization of architecture and industries; and the decline of public life and civic memory. Solnit's narrative connects current evictions to historical instances of urban renewal and the economic dynamics of artists, referencing influences from Haussmann's Paris to the relationship between the Beats and the African-American community in the 1950s. She explores how wealth is erasing the cultural richness of urban life, leaving little room for idealism, dissent, and vulnerable populations. Schwartzenberg's photo-essays capture the extensive construction and demolition reshaping the city, highlighting the dominance of dot-com businesses, retail chains, and the rapid loss of spaces for artistic creation.

American photographer John Pfahl has an ongoing fascination with man's complex interaction with nature. This is a photographic survey of gardening at its boldest, most bizarre and most exuberant. Among the plants featured are vast flowers, terrifying sculptural cacti, outlandish topiary and extraordinary these gardens were planned and planted by true eccentrics, with surreal creativity and great humour. Subjects include huge bright orange Japanese maples, Jeff Koons' monumental "Puppy", a giant pumpkin, other-worldly cacti and "The Largest Fig Tree in the United States". Each photograph is accompanied by a detailed caption with information about the quirky gardens, the plants and their strange cultivation. Rebecca Solnit's introduction sets the plants in their historic and cultural context.

V pokračovaní bestsellera Muži mi to vysvetlia Rebecca Solnit ponúka úvahy o ženách, ktoré odmietajú byť umlčané, mizogýnnom násilí, krehkej mužskosti literárneho kánonu, nedávnej histórii vtipov o znásilnení a mnohých ďalších témach. Autorka svojím charakteristickým štýlom mieša humor, bystrú analýzu a nadhľad.