...John Beck Abstract The phrase “on the beach” originates as naval slang for being between assignments or unemployed and was used as the title for Nevil Shute's bestselling novel of 1957 about the last remaining survivors of a global nuclear conflict as they await their inevitable demise. The novel...

... that there are no model sons who are more capable of mounting a filial revolt than a heterogeneous breed of variously undutiful sons, or as I call them, for reasons that will become clear in due course, sons of a beach. All these films, and particularly Man of Ashes , paint the broad strokes of Bouzid’s cinematic...

...Figure 4 Schoolkids from Al-Shati (the Beach) refugee camp, Gaza City ...

...; they are even being built around Italian towns in the south. The Berlin Wall has fallen, only to crop up multiplied everywhere. So when we build walls, it's that borders are about to disappear. However, the one border that will never disappear is the coastline. It's the last frontier of history. The beaches...

... ). Regardless, BP applied these dispersants in deep sea as well as to surface water. Normal currents spread the contaminants throughout the region, eventually coating thousands of kilometers of the gulf floor with toxic sludge and impacting over one thousand miles of fragile estuary ecosystems and beaches...

... installation entitled Blackboat (1999), Vivan Sundaram strips down the frame of a beached boat and suspends it along a vertical axis, thereby exposing, through an act of artistic violence, the essentially architectonic form of the vessel. Positioned outside the National Gallery of Modern Art in Port-of-Spain...

... officer Peter Bryan George conceived the idea for a novel which would depict what seemed to him the likeliest way in which the Third World War might begin. The great success, in the previous year, of Nevil Shute’s novel On The Beach had demonstrated the existence of a keen public appetite for even...

... Beach. The Karl Marx was once part of an Angolan-Soviet fishing cooperative. It now serves the artist as a poignantly disintegrating memorial to ideals that were shattered in the long Angolan civil war. To the extent those ideals yet remain, their trace is captured and preserved in the artistic amber...

... and space of work, placing software in contact with every space its users might occupy: not just the office but also the train or bus, not only the home office but also the sofa or the bed, not only the Internet café or hotel but also the beach. But this expansion of the space and time of labor represents...

... of Mercer. It is late at night and the beach is empty, so she thinks that her law-breaking episode will go unnoticed. But when she goes to work the morning after, she discovers that, thanks to a SeeChange camera located on the beach, the Circle knows all about it. She finds herself in a one-on-one meeting...

... por el General Gerardo Machado y Morales , ca. 1929. Courtesy of the Wolfsonian, Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, the Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection ...

... of photography was revised by every wartime generation and every advance in photographic media, whether in the depiction of trench warfare brought home from World War I, the corpses strewn across Nanjing and the Normandy beaches in World War II, the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the Highway of Death in the first...

...” gasped, as print media and television relayed images of every phase of what looked like a Biblical curse unfolding, from the sucking back of the seas on beaches suddenly frozen in time, to the onslaught of the roilng waves, with people flailing about in the foam, many of them soon to disappear...

... of the twentieth century on a beach with Shah Massoud and Erwin Rommel. Dantec's observations on the experience of writing, confided in his journals, may go some way to explaining this bizarre course of events. For Dantec, a literary creation can be considered as something like a dark and diabolical twin...

...: Situationists and the Beach, May 1968 , edited by Star Dark , 9 – 28 . Edinburgh : AK . Touraine Alain . 1971 . The May Movement: Revolt and Reform . Translated by Mayhew Leonard F. X. . New York : Random House . Wallerstein Immanuel . 1969 . University in Turmoil...

... . Oakland, CA : PM . Virno Paolo . 2004 . A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life . Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) . Wark McKenzie . 2011 . The Beach beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International . London...

..., strengthens his assumed connection to a much colder (healthier) Norway. In this discourse of a nostalgic longing for Norway, the cold North is repositioned as healthy, and the strangeness of the warm climate is made visible in photographs of the twins playing on the beach in December wearing red Santa hats...

... by those who have developed it as a commodity/industry on this landscape; there are no gates in this community, but it is enclosed by the campus in the same way as other developments in and around Irvine and Newport Beach are “gated”). UH is thus an enclave whose mostly faculty denizens live in comfortable...