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Metaichmio Publications S.A.
Metaichmio was founded in 1993 and today is one of the most important and leading publishing companies in Greece, specializing in translated and Greek fiction, as well as in children’s and educational books, academic books, biographies, contemporary comment and graphic novels, both translated and original. Our list includes many multi-awarded Greek authors and illustrators. Over the years, our original titles (children’s and adult) and our acclaimed contributors have been awarded among others with the following distinctions: The Greek State Prize (for Adult and Children’s Literature) Academy of Athens Novel Prize IBBY awards and nominations Mentions in the White Raven Catalogue of the International Children’s Library of Munich Nominations for the Hans Christian Andersen Illustration Award “Public” Book Awards Literary Prizes awarded by Anagnostis / Dekata literary magazines
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History of Art / Art & Design StylesOctober 2016Hot metal
Material culture and tangible labour
by Jesse Stein. Series edited by Bill Sherman, Christopher Breward
The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things. Hot metal illuminates connections between design, material culture and labour between the 1960s and the 1980s, when the traditional crafts of hot-metal typesetting and letterpress were finally made obsolete with the introduction of computerised technologies. This multidisciplinary history provides an evocative rendering of design culture by exploring an intriguing case: a doggedly traditional Government Printing Office in Australia. It explores the struggles experienced by printers as they engaged in technological retraining, shortly before facing factory closure. Topics explored include spatial memory within oral history, gender-labour tensions, the rise of neoliberalism and the secret making of objects 'on the side'. This book will appeal to researchers in design and social history, labour history, material culture and gender studies. It is an accessible, richly argued text that will benefit students seeking to learn about the nature and erosion of blue-collar work and the history of printing as a craft.
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May 2020Metalmorphoses
The Fantastic Mutations of Heavy Metal
by Jörg Scheller
How did heavy metal get started? What’s behind the fascination of many bands with the occult? Which women liven up the scene? What is the Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship in Finland about? Jörg Scheller invites you to find out more about the mainstream trends as well as less well-known bizarre facts. Heavy metal began in the 1970s in the subculture of British industrial centres and until today it is an unruly and agile art form. Wellknown warhorses like Iron Maiden or Metallica still pack stadiums, while new trends come from the strong Scandinavian scene. Scheller credits the genre with “exciting synchronism of freedom and order, rebellion and retreat, scepticism and enthusiasm, toughness and diversity”.
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August 2016Benachbarte Metalle
Ausgewählte Gedichte
by Friederike Mayröcker, Thomas Kling
»Benachbarte Metalle« enthält eine Auswahl von Friederike Mayröckers Gedichten aus über dreißig Jahren, besorgt und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Thomas Kling. In die nichtchronologische Anordnung ist schwerpunktmäßig Lyrik aus ihren Gedichtbüchern aufgenommen, beginnend mit dem fulminanten Zyklus Tod durch Musen, der ihrem ersten Gedichtbuch 1966 den Namen gab. Ein Schwergewicht der Benachbarten Metalle liegt bei den Gedichten der achtziger Jahre aus Winterglück, dem vielleicht wichtigsten Gedichtband der Grande Dame der deutschen Gegenwartsdichtung.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2008Great Satan's rage
American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism
by Scott Wilson
This book looks at how rap and metal, the two most pervasive popular music forms of the 1990s, have been highly engaged with America's role in the world, supercapitalism and their own role within it. This has especially been the case when genres - hitherto clearly identified as indelibly 'black' or 'white' forms of music - have crossed over as an effect of cross-racial forms of identification and desire, marketing strategy, political engagement, opportunism and experimentation. It is how examples of these forms have negotiated, contested, raged against, survived, exploited, simulated and performed 'Satan's rage' that is the subject of this book. The book offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture, introducing a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of negativity and expenditure that will be of great interest to students in media and cultural studies, American studies, critical and cultural theory, advertising and marketing, and sociology and politics. ;
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September 2022Identity or Not?
by Jean-Pierre Wils (ed.)
Questions of identity trigger controversial and highly emotional discussions in the political and social debate. The positions range from radically emancipatory perspectives to authoritarian and restorative efforts on the far right wing of politics. Liberal democracies are now opening up – slowly – as identity- and gender-sensitive forums. Opposite them are the 'new ethics' of illiberal democracies and totalitarian states that are aimed at ethnic homogeneity and gender uniformity. But that's not to say that there is unity in the liberal settings on the necessary degree of identity politics. Both language and gender politics are deeply controversial. Do we need an 'identity' and, if so, which one or how many? Can the identity debate be extended by means of other concepts?
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2022Civic identity and public space
Belfast since 1780
by Dominic Bryan, Sean J. Connolly, John Nagle
Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades, flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in Northern Ireland. It examines the emergence during the nineteenth century of the concept of public space and the development of new strategies for its regulation, the establishment, the new conditions created by the emergence in 1920 of a Northern Ireland state, of a near monopoly of public space enjoyed by Protestants and unionists, and the break down of that monopoly in more recent decades. Today policy makers and politicians struggle to devise a strategy for the management of public space in a divided city, while endeavouring to promote a new sense of civic identity that will transcend long-standing sectarian and political divisions.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Insanity, identity and empire
Immigrants and institutional confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873–1910
by Catharine Coleborne
Insanity, identity and empire examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry.
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