Download or read book If Only You Could See what I ve Seen with Your Eyes written by Kati Ilves and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today almost all aspects of human--and increasingly nonhuman--lives are being modeled by software. Transcending the limits of our planet, data collection has become a fundamental tool with which to map the earth and beyond. Katja Novitskova's catalogue If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes, published for the Estonian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, addresses emerging potentialities between visual culture, big-data-driven processes, and ecology. Rather than commenting on the observable moment, Novitskova transforms these visual manifestations of data into immersive environments that serve as glimpses of a world yet to come. Copublished with the Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia Texts by Kati Ilves, Nora Khan, Jaak Tomberg, Toke Lykkeberg, Venus Lau
Download or read book Fantasies of Self Mourning written by Ruben Borg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fantasies of Self-Mourning Ruben Borg describes the formal features of a posthuman, cyborgian imaginary at work in modernism. The book’s central claim is that modernism invents the posthuman as a way to think through the contradictions of its historical moment. Borg develops a posthumanist critique of the concept of organic life based on comparative readings of Pirandello, Woolf, Beckett, and Flann O’Brien, alongside discussions of Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Marker, Béla Tarr, Ridley Scott and Mamoru Oshii. The argument draws together a cluster of modernist narratives that contemplate the separation of a cybernetic eye from a human body—or call for a tearing up of the body understood as a discrete organic unit capable of synthesizing desire and sense perception.
Download or read book Teaching the Bible written by Mark Roncace and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While books on pedagogy in a theoretical mode have proliferated in recent years, there have been few that offer practical, specific ideas for teaching particular biblical texts. To address this need, Teaching the Bible, a collection of ideas and activities written by dozens of innovative college and seminary professors, outlines effective classroom strategies—with a focus on active learning—for the new teacher and veteran professor alike. It includes everything from ways to incorporate film, literature, art, and music to classroom writing assignments and exercises for groups and individuals. The book assumes an academic approach to the Bible but represents a wide range of methodological, theological, and ideological perspectives. This volume is an indispensable resource for anyone who teaches classes on the Bible.
Download or read book The Melancholy Android written by Eric G. Wilson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures—the mummy, the golem, and the automaton—and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson tracks the development of android-building and examines the lure of artificial doubles untroubled by awareness of self. Drawing from the works of philosophers Ficino, Kleist, Freud, and Jung; writers Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, and Poe; and movies such as Metropolis, The Mummy, and Blade Runner, this book not only offers a range of sites from which to analyze the relationship between mind and machine, but also considers a pressing paradoxical dilemma—loving machines we want to hate.
Download or read book Reading Science written by J.R. Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Science looks at the distinctive language of science and technology and the role it plays in building up scientific understandings of the world. It brings together discourse analysis and critical theory for the first time in a single volume. This edited collection examines science discourse from a number of perspectives, drawing on new rhetoric, functional linguistics and critical theory. It explores this language in research and industrial contexts as well as in educational settings and in popular science writing and science fiction. The papers also include consideration of the role of images (tables and figures) in science writing and the importance of reading science discourse as multi-modal text. The internationally renowned contributors include M. A. K. Halliday, Charles Bazerman and Jay Lemke.
Download or read book Retrofitting Blade Runner written by Judith Kerman and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of essays looks at the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner, especially the film's relationship to its source novel, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The film's implications as a thought experiment provide a starting point for important thinking about the moral issues implicit in a hypertechnological society. Yet its importance in the history of science fiction and science fiction film rests equally on it mythically and psychologically resonant creation of compelling characters and an exciting story within a credible science fiction setting. These essays consider political, moral and technological issues raised by the film, as well as literary, filmic, technical and aesthetic questions. Contributors discuss the film's psychological and mythic patterns, important political issues and the roots of the film in Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, detective fiction, and previous science fiction cinema.
Download or read book The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge written by Vincent F. Hendricks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-03-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is this, this ain't something else, this is this -Robert De Niro, Deerhunter his book may to some extent be viewed as the continuation of my T Doctoral thesis Epistemology, Methodology and Reliability. The dissertation was, first of all, a methodological study of the reliable performance of the AGM-axioms (Alchourr6n, Gardenfors and Makin son) of belief revision. Second of all the dissertation included the first steps toward an epistemology for the limiting convergence of knowledge for scientific inquiry methods of both discovery and assessment. The idea of methodological reliability as a desirable property of a scientific method was introduced to me while I was a visiting Ph. D. -student at the Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University in Pitts burgh, Pennsylvania, USA in 1995-96. Here I became acquainted with formal learning theory. Learning theory provides a variety of formal tools for investigating a number of important issues within epistemology, methodology and the philosophy of science. Especially with respect to the problem of induc tion, but not exclusively. The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge-a view from the limit utilizes a few concepts from formal learning theory to study problems in modal logic and epistemology. It should be duely noted that this book has virtually nothing to do with formal learning theory or inductive learning problems.
Download or read book TransCanadian Feminist Fictions written by Libe García Zarranz and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this contradictory era of uneven globalization, borders multiply yet fantasies of borderlessness prevail. Particularly since September 11th, this paradox has shaped deeply the lives of border-crossing subjects such as the queer, the refugee, and the activist within and beyond Canadian frontiers. In search of creative ways to engage with the conundrums related to how borders mould social and bodily space, Libe García Zarranz formulates a new cross-border ethic through post-9/11 feminist and queer transnational writing in Canada. Drawing on material feminism, critical race studies, non-humanist philosophy, and affect theory, she proposes a renewed understanding of relationality beyond the lethal binaries that saturate everyday life. TransCanadian Feminist Fictions considers the corporeal, biopolitical, and affective dimensions of border crossing in the works of Dionne Brand, Emma Donoghue, Hiromi Goto, and Larissa Lai. Intersecting the genres of memoir, fiction, poetry, and young adult literature, García Zarranz shows how these texts address the permeability of boundaries and consider the ethical implications for minoritized populations. Urging readers to question the proclaimed glamours of globality, TransCanadian Feminist Fictions responds to a time of increasing inequality, mounting racism, and feminist backlash.
Download or read book Realms of the Quanta Book I Shadows in the Veil written by Michael Spina and published by Michael Spina. This book was released on 2020-04-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kinetic Sci-Fi Blockbuster Trilogy Starts Here… Alone and angry, trudging along a San Francisco beach on a crisp December night, widower Ridley only wanted one thing: to deal with his haunting pain in isolation. He didn’t want a shoulder to cry on. He didn’t want to be pursued by Marisol, the woman whose allure he could not resist. And he certainly didn’t want to discover he was being hunted by a being from another universe. That choice is taken from him when a rift to another world opens above the moonlit sands. Thrown in with a cabal that rides the interdimensional tides to police the borders between realities, he learns he could be the catalyst for epic destruction. Taking up the cause with his new companions, Ridley must help them uncover who’s after him and why, while coming to terms with the emotional turmoil consuming him. His feelings and courage are put to the test when a new target is painted on Marisol. These are his first steps into the Realms of the Quanta, a multiverse of infinite diversity, where each reality is governed by its own laws of nature and metaphysics. The sole commonality they all share is that very few ever learn of their sister dimensions. But someone has, and is lashing out from the shadows, putting Ridley’s life in the crosshairs and threatening to shatter the pillars of the Quanta itself. A Note From the Author: 80's Amblin Style Adventure for the 21st Century For me it began in 2010. My hope was to fill a void I myself had been feeling, by providing a story I found intriguing. I wanted to read something rousing and perilous, that allowed me to experience captivating worlds, and introduced me to relatable characters. I wanted a sense of discovery, wonder and excitement. Most of all I wanted something fun. The end result is the trilogy of novels making up the Realms of the Quanta. The characters you’ll meet, while good humored, are people of deep compassion and feeling, struggling to overcome loss, the results of their own sins...and sometimes both. In other words, they reflect us. As their paths collide, they are challenged to meet the demands of their own convictions. Within you’ll find a story of human adventure set in a variety of exotic alien landscapes. Some are opulent, others frightening. Some are vibrant, others barren. All are meant to stir your imagination as you embark on a three book odyssey that begins here, and stretches beyond the edge of creation.
Download or read book 1980s Movie Quotes The Quick Quiz written by Jack Goldstein and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a fan of 80s movies? Do you think you could recognise a film just from a single quote? If so, you'll love this fantastic quiz featuring 120 of the greatest movies from the decade that fashion forgot. With classic lines from Stand By Me to Scarface, Ghostbusters to The Goonies and many more, these questions - sorted into easy, medium and hard categories - are sure to keep the whole family entertained.
Download or read book Being There Being Here written by Maurice Ebileeni and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue. More than a century after the early waves of immigration to the Americas, and more than seven decades after the Nakba of 48, generations of Palestinians have grown up in a variety of different contexts within Israel-Palestine and the world at large. This ongoing scattered state has led to the proliferation of Palestinian culture as it is simultaneously growing in multiple directions, depending on geographical, political, and lingual contextualization. The Palestinian story no longer exists exclusively in Arabic. A new generation of Palestinian and Palestinian-descended writers and artists from both Latin and North America, Scandinavia, and Europe at large, as well as Israel-Palestine are bringing stories of their heritage and the Palestinian nation into a variety of languages such Spanish, Italian, English, Danish, and Hebrew—among so many other languages. Being There, Being Here is the product of an eight-year long journey in which Maurice Ebileeni explores how the Palestinian homeland is being imagined in multiple languages from a variety of positions both locally and globally. The book poses unsettling questions about this current situation and also looks to the future to speculate about how a Palestinian nation might still house the notion of home for an increasingly diverse Palestinian population.
Download or read book The Ultimate Movie Quote Quiz Book written by Jack Goldstein and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well do you know your movies? Do you think you could recognize a film from just one key line? If so, you'll love this fantastic quiz, featuring famous (and some not-so-famous) quotes from over four hundred different films. The quiz is split into three main difficulties: easy, medium and hard. Within each difficulty there are both decade-specific rounds and general sections, in which the films referenced can be from any year between 1970 and 2017. Some quotes contain language that could be considered a little above PG level, although we have blanked out the middle letters of the worst words used. So if you think you're ready for the quiz, prince of a thousand enemies, then dance, magic dance – because nobody puts Baby in a corner. After all, this is Sparta.. Toga! Toga! Toga!
Download or read book News from the Empire written by Fernando del Paso and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten from this strange era in Mexico's early nationhood. Using Emperor Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, as a starting point, Fernando Del Paso both considers what Mexico is and the country's place in the larger narrative of world history. The book spans the palaces of Europe and the villages of Mexico, yet despite its broad focus News is a book rich in characters and details, a work that opens up this era of Mexican history to readers without specialized knowledge. Maximilian and Carlota are the focus of the book, and even if they are not explicitly on every page, they are always in the background somewhere, providing the humanizing contradictions that fill it. Del Paso draws a complicated picture of two naïve people placed in a situation they could not manage and a country they did not understand. This innocence is especially inexplicable in the case of Maximilian, who, as brother of Austria's Emperor Franz Josef, should have known something about ruling but is completely unable to govern.
Download or read book Alien Zone written by Annette Kuhn and published by Verso. This book was released on 1990-05-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, bringing science fiction cinema into the ambit of film and cultural theory.
Download or read book The Geek s Guide to SF Cinema written by Ryan Lambie and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Awesome. Everything you've ever wanted to know about big-screen sci-fi' - James King, film critic 'Don't leave Planet Earth without it' - Dan Jolin, film critic 'A wonderfully accessible, fascinating, flat-out treasure chest of science fiction cinema, from an author whose love of the subject leaps off the page' - Simon Brew, Editor, Den of Geek Why do SF movies matter? What do they tell us about the interests of storytellers and the changing tastes of cinema-goers? How have SF movies evolved with filmmaking technology over the past 110 years? The Geek's Guide To SF Cinema provides an entertaining and in-depth history of the science fiction genre's pivotal and most influential movies. From the pioneering films of Georges Méliès to such blockbusters as Avatar and Inception in the 21st century, the book will explore how these key movies were made, how they reflected the mood of the time in which they were released and how they have influenced other filmmakers in the years since. Historians and experts contribute to answer questions such as: 'How important was Fritz Lang's contribution to cinema?' and 'What did Alien say about the cynical climate of the 1970s?'. Providing nostalgia for long-time SF addicts and context for those whose knowledge and love of the genre is still growing, this is a pop-culture book with depth.
Download or read book Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny written by Leandros Kyriakopoulos and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny: Nomadism, Technique and Aesthetics in the Psychedelic Rave examines the psychedelic rave music and culture with a focus on the multiday phantasmagoric events organized in mountains, deserts, beaches, and other exotic destinations. Using mobile and multi-sited ethnography, the author follows the routes of a diverse group of Greek EDM and party enthusiasts across the festival map of psychedelic-trance gatherings, including Hungary, Morocco, and Greece, with the aim of investigating the revelatory experience of the chemical psychedelic raving. By situating the rave experience within the phantasmagoria of the festival – a dreamworld par excellence of the alien and the uncanny – the work reformulates questions of ‘liminality’, ‘spirituality’, ‘community’ and ‘identity’ while initiating a discussion about the limits of cosmopolitanism and aesthetics as they are reorganized in the techno-political conditions of the 21st century. In an intense and at times demanding theoretical ‘journey’, the author reframes questions of taste, consumption, altered experience, and lifestyle through the lens of technology or technoaesthetics, speculating on an impending techno-social world of augmented senses and artificial impressions, thus posing questions to the reader about the mediation of social and public events, and the reification of ‘utopian’ paradises in the form of contemporary dreamworlds.
Download or read book Wrath of the Eternal Warrior Vol 1 Risen written by Robert Venditti and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (BOOK OF DEATH, X-O MANOWAR) and visionary artist Ral Alln (NINJAK, Hawkeye) forge a new legend for ValiantÕs master of war! For five millennia, the Eternal Warrior has shaped history at the end of his sword. HeÕs razed empires, toppled civilizations, and broken armies as an immortal soldier in service to the Earth. But now, the Eternal Warrior has been torn from the world he once protected and finds himself stranded in a hostile alien landscape unlike any heÕs faced before. Separated from his earthly environs, can historyÕs deadliest soldier survive a realm far older, far deadlier, and far more ruinous than anything heÕs ever encountered? Beyond Earth lies eternity... Collecting WRATH OF THE ETERNAL WARRIOR #1Ð4.
