En 1984, la Rua déborde près de la petite ville irlandaise de Murn. Quand le déluge s'arrête, les eaux recrachent neuf corps. Neuf suicides. Qu'est-ce qui a pu pousser ainsi ces gens vers la rivière ? Un jour, dans la cave dont l'accès lui était interdit, le petit Enoch O'Reilly entendit la voix terrifiante d'un évangéliste diffusée par une radio que son père avait trafiquée. Cette frousse mêlée de fascination et associée à son obsession pour Elvis Presley donneront à Enoch sa vocation. Il deviendra radio-évangéliste, pour diffuser la bonne parole et divertir les auditeurs de Murn. Mais il n'oublie pas la prophétie de son cinglé de père, qui croyait pouvoir déterminer la prochaine crue de la rivière grâce à de savants calculs et une théorie des ondes toute personnelle. La Rivière d'Enoch O'Reilly mêle influences gothiques, musicales et poétiques pour donner voix au blues le plus sombre, au murmure obsessionnel des torrents et aux prédicateurs radio des fréquences oubliées. C'est un roman sur les légendes - celles de l'Irlande, de la Bible et du rock'n'roll.

La Rivière d'Enoch O'Reilly

"This book is majestic and squalid at the same time, as if the Bible were actually about Elvis. The rhythms and music carry you like a baby on a raft on the river, but it's the precision of the words that cinches you."-Richard Hell, author of I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp  "A passionate dream of a book. Dazzling, but lucid-as though Flannery O'Connor had gone back to the Ireland of her forebears to write a novel."-Peter Behrens, author of The Law of Dreams A small Irish town. A river flood. The return of a prodigal son. On the banks of the river Rua, when the rains have stopped and the waters receded, nine bodies are found. What took them to the river? Enoch O'Reilly, a self-made preacher and Elvis impersonator claiming to be just returned to Ireland from America, launches a radio show Revival Hour. It enjoys a short but spectacular run, and its disastrous end forces Enoch back to the family home. There he finds clues to a mythic connection between the dead-this brotherhood of the flood-the natural rhythms of the earth, a secret language called riverish, and his lost father. Conjuring together various traditions-gothic, Irish, Southern, musical, poetic, our deep connections to stories, to our homelands, and to nature-Peter Murphy establishes himself as one of Ireland's literary wonders. "A wild and inventive butt-kicker, but also strangely tender, and the language is charged, vivid, luminous."-Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane "Murphy can write like an angel, [but] his gaze is mischievous."- Irish Times

The River And Enoch O'reilly

Advancement in the arts and sciences is a primary driver of economic production and social policy in post-industrial societies. Imagination steps back and asks ‘what advances the arts and sciences ? ' This book explores the collective, social and global dimension of human imagining–and the ambivalent relationship of social institutions, including universities, schools, economies, media and culture industries, to the collective imagination. Basic discovery requires high levels of creative thinking : Imagination looks at the social conditions that make path-breaking thought possible on a large scale. It examines the role of aesthetic, pictorial, digital, paradoxical and other imaginative styles of thinking, and the times and places in which such styles become socially prominent and a significant force in economic and cultural production. It looks at successful societies as they are approaching their peak, when new ideas are driving them forward.

Imagination - Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy

This lively and original book changes the way we see globalization and the knowledge economy. Creativity, exchange and the open flow of ideas have long shaped states, economies and everyday life. But knowledge now has an extraordinary dynamism. The world is crisscrossed by traffic in people, data and images. A world society is emerging, though governance is yet to reflect this. Global Creation shows that global creativity is transforming in two ways. First, global synchrony and convergence are changing the conception, production and sharing of creative work and this is feeding back into the core structures of the social world. Second, the global dimension is itself a human product and one that is continually being created. This book explores acts of imagining, producing and regulating the global dimension of action in the past, present and future. It will interest all intelligent readers, particularly those engaged with the history of ideas, political economy, sociology, innovation, or business organization. It follows Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (Peters, Marginson, Murphy 2009), also published by Peter Lang.

Global Creation - Space, Mobility, and Synchrony in the Age of the Knowledge Economy

This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education and knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role of the creative and expressive arts, of performance, of aesthetics in general, and the significant role of design as an underlying infrastructure for the creative economy. This book tracks the most recent mutation of these serial shifts – from postindustrial economy to the information economy to the digital economy to the knowledge economy to the ‘creative economy' – to summarize the underlying and essential trends in knowledge capitalism and to investigate post-market notions of open source public space. The book hypothesizes that creative economy might constitute an enlargement of its predecessors that not only democratizes creativity and relativizes intellectual property law, but also emphasizes the social conditions of creative work. It documents how these profound shifts have brought to the forefront forms of knowledge production based on the commons and driven by ideas, not profitability per se ; and have given rise to the notion of not just ‘knowledge management' but the design of ‘creative institutions' embodying new patterns of work.

Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy

Peter John Joseph Murphy est un chanteur de rock anglais né le 11 juillet 1957 près de Northampton au Royaume-Uni.

Oui. Je suppose que c'est le romantique stupide en moi, mais vous voyez, je ne pense pas que le sexe soit ma muse.

[Puisqu'il n'y a ni bien ni mal, on récolte ce que l'on a semé.

Le travail insatisfaisant n'est pas l'échec; Ne pas poursuivre vos rêves est le véritable échec. Développer une vision nécessite de conquérir vos peurs et de trouver la motivation de l'intérieur.

Nico était gothique, mais elle était Mary Shelley Gothic au film d'horreur de marteau de tous les autres. Ils ont tous deux fait Frankenstein, mais Nico était réel.

La réécriture, c'est comme frotter le sous-sol avec une brosse à dents.

Les Goths sont magnifiques, une vaste profondeur d'idées sous-culturelles, esthétiques et poétiques, et nous nous identifions à cela comme nous l'avons fait en 1979. Mais pas la distorsion post-moderne ... le costume sans le cerveau.

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