Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age
Author: Sean Redmond File Type: pdf Science fiction is perhaps the most effective genre to explore the concerns of the present whilst reflecting on the possibilities of the future. But what precisely can it tell us about present and future by setting these two timeframes in the same critical space?*ReviewIn this immersive yet critical book, Sean Redmond never forgets the structures of power behind the enticing mirrored surfaces of science fiction. A warm, generous and honest academic-poet he gently shapes our understanding by sharing his personal experiences.(Will Brooker, Kingston University author of Hunting the Dark Knight Twenty-first Century Batman) Accessible and passionately written, this is a welcome contribution to contemporary science fiction film and television theory. Especially noteworthy for its rarity and descriptive power is the absolutely terrific last chapter, devoted to close analysis of recent science fictions aesthetics of sound.(Vivian Sobchack, UCLA author of Screening Space The American Science Fiction Film) In this ground-breaking study, Sean Redmond travels to the far reaches of screen outer space, previously undiscovered and unexplored, to reveal new ways of seeing science fiction as an immersive, interactive experience at one with our digital lives. Howard Hughes, author of Outer Limits The Filmgoers Guide to the Great Science-Fiction Films # Cinema is science fiction this startling, persuasive conclusion guides Sean Redmonds enquiry into the liquid state of digital culture seen through the lenses, heard through the speakers and felt through the trackpads of science fiction film and television. From capitalism to race, surveillance to the sublime, in a brilliant constellation of close readings Redmond tracks the new heavens and hells of our compulsorily fluid condition.(Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London) About the Author Sean Redmond is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of numerous books including Blade Runner (2016), The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano Flowering Blood (2013) and Liquid Metal A Reader in Science Fiction Film (2004).
Author: Angela Y. Davis
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A powerful study of the womens movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.Amazon.com ReviewLongtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the womens movement in the context of the fight for civil rights and working class issues. She uncovers a side of the fight for suffrage many of us have not heard the intimate tie between the anti-slavery campaign and the struggle for womens suffrage. She shows how the racist and classist bias of some in the womens movement have divided its own membership. Davis message is clear If we ever want equality, were gonna have to fight for it together. ReviewAs useful an exposition of the current dilemmas of the womens movement as one could hope for.--Los Angeles Times Book Review
Author: Euna Lee
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For the first time, Euna Leethe young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Koreatells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. On March 17, 2009, Lee and her Current TV colleague Laura Ling were working on a documentary about the desperate lives of North Koreans fleeing their homeland for a chance at freedom when they were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers. For nearly five months they remained detained while friends and family in the United States were given little information about their status or conditions. For Lee, detention would prove especially harrowing. Imprisoned just112 miles from where she was born and where her parents still live in Seoul, South Korea, she was branded as a betrayer of her Korean blood by her North Korean captors. After representing herself in her trial before North Koreas highest court, she received a sentence of twelve years of hard labor in the countrys notorious prison camps, leading her to fear she might not ever see her husband and daughter again.The World Is Bigger Now draws us deep into Euna Lees life before and after this experience what led to her arrival in North Korea, her efforts to survive the agonizing months of detainment, and how she and her fellow captive, Ling, were finally released thanks to the efforts of many individuals, including Bill Clinton. Lee explains in unforgettable detail what it was like to lose, and then miraculously regain, life as she knew it.The World Is Bigger Now is the story of faith and love and Euna Lees personalconviction that God will sustain and protect us, even in our darkest hours.
Author: Maximus The Confessor
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PThe last half of the twentieth century saw the establishment of the reputation of St Maximus the Confessor as the greatest of all Byzantine theologians, with a wholeness of vision that speaks directly to many of our concerns today. Until very recently, however, little of his work has been available in English translation, save for some collections of brief reflections arranged in centuries and a few brief treatises, too easily classified as spirituality. This volume provides translations from St Maximus, two main collections of theological reflections, his *Ambigua* (or Difficulties) and his *Questions to Thalassius*, plus one of his *Christological opuscula*, hitherto unavailable in English. PThe translations are accompanied by immensely helpful notes, and prefaced by a long, brilliant introduction to the theology of the Confessor. This is the ideal volume from which to learn at first hand the depth and insight of St Maximus cosmic vision and grasp of the complexities of human nature, as he patiently explores the nature and consequences of the renewal of all things in Christ. Robert Wilken and Paul Blowers have put us all deeply in their debt. - Andrew Louth, Professor of Patristics and Byzantine Studies, University of Durham P*Paul M. Blowers is Professor of Church History at Emmanuel School of Religion and an historian of early and Byzantine Christianity.* P*Robert Louis Wilken is the William R. Kenan, Jr Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.* *On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ* is part of the POPULAR PATRISTIC SERIES. **
Author: Dean Bavington
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The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful fishery in the world. When it collapsed in 1992 - causing the largest single-day layoff in Canadian history and irrevocable ecological damage - fishermen, scholars, and scientists pointed to failures in management such as uncontrolled harvesting as likely culprits. Examining the history of commercial cod fisheries in the region from the mid-nineteenth century, Managed Annihilation makes the case that the very idea of natural resource management caused the death of the cod. The collapse occurred when the fisheries were ostensibly managed by the state, and the fishery has still not recovered nearly two decades later. Although the collapse raised doubts among policy-makers about their ability to understand, predict, and control nature, their ultimate goal of control through management has not wavered - it has simply been transferred onto new targets.
Author: Nancy K. Levene
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Nancy Levene reinterprets a major early-modern philosopher, Benedict de Spinoza - a Jew who was rejected by the Jewish community of his day but whose thought contains, and critiques, both Jewish and Christian ideas. It foregrounds the connection of religion, democracy, and reason, showing that Spinozas theories of the Bible, the theologico-political, and the philosophical all involve the concepts of equality and sovereignty. Professor Levene argues that Spinozas concept of revelation is the key to this connection, and above all to Spinozas view of human power. This is to shift the emphasis in Spinozas thought from the language of amor Dei (love of God) to the language of libertas humana (human freedom) without losing either the dialectic of his most striking claim - that man is God to man - or the Jewish and Christian elements in his thought. Original and thoughtfully argued, this book offers new insights into Spinozas thought.ReviewBecause she is so clear about the stakes of her project...and offers a persuasive account of why the relationship between religion and politics must be difficult, her contribution to philosophy of religion, Jewish studies, and political theology is enormous. Those who have sorely missed the voice of Gillian Rose in the years since her death will be especially grateful to hear Levenes. Modern Theology Martin Kavka, Florida State University Book DescriptionNancy Levene reinterprets a major early-modern philosopher, Benedict de Spinoza - a Jew who was rejected by the Jewish community of his day but whose thought contains, and critiques, both Jewish and Christian ideas. It foregrounds the connection of religion, democracy, and reason, showing that Spinozas theories of the Bible, the theologico-political, and the philosophical all involve the concepts of equality and sovereignty. Professor Levene argues that Spinozas concept of revelation is the key to this connection, and above all to Spinozas view of human power. This is to shift the emphasis in Spinozas thought from the language of amor Dei (love of God) to the language of libertas humana (human freedom) without losing either the dialectic of his most striking claim - that man is God to man - or the Jewish and Christian elements in his thought. Original and thoughtfully argued, this book offers new insights into Spinozas thought.
Author: Tiqqun
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The Young-Girl is not always young more and more frequently, she is not even female. She is the figure of total integration in a disintegrating social totality.--from * Theory of the Young-Girl*First published in France in 1999, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl dissects the impossibility of love under Empire. The Young-Girl is consumer societys total product and model citizen whatever type of Young-Girl she may embody, whether by whim or concerted performance, * she can only seduce by consuming. Filled with the language of French womens magazines, rooted in Prousts figure of Albertine and the amusing misery of (teenage) romance in Witold Gombrowiczs Ferdydurke, and informed by Pierre Klossowskis notion of living currency and libidinal economy, * Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl diagnoses -- and makes visible -- a phenomenon that is so ubiquitous as to have become transparent.In the years since the books first publication in French, the worlds of fashion, shopping, seduction plans, makeover projects, and eating disorders have moved beyond the comparatively tame domain of paper magazines into the perpetual accessibility of Internet culture. Here the Young-Girl can seek her own reflection in corporate universals and social media exchanges of personalities within the impersonal realm of the marketplace. Tracing consumer societys colonization of youth and sexuality through the Young-Girls freedom (in magazine terms) to do whatever she wants with her body, Tiqqun exposes the rapaciously competitive and psychically ruinous landscape of modern love.
Author: Fareed Zakaria
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p itemprop=descriptionDe paradoxen en schaduwzijden van democratiep itemprop=descriptionDemocratie is in de moderne tijd het overheersende ideaal. Alles wordt democratischer politiek, economie, cultuur, technologie, zelfs informatie en amusement. Democratie is welhaast synoniem met vrijheid, dus wie kan daar tegen zijn? Het klinkt als heiligschennis, maar volgens Fareed Zakaria kent democratie wel degelijk schaduwzijden. Voor een rechtvaardige samenleving is politieke democratie op zichzelf niet genoeg. Ware democratie is geworteld in economie en cultuur.Ontbreken die wortels, dan ontstaat chaos en terreur. Duurzame vrijheid is gebonden aan regels, wetten, afspraken aan gedeelde normen en waarden. Zakaria beziet het westerse democratische ideaal met een kritisch oog voor de tekortkomingen ervan. Zijn betoog begint bij de Griekse en Romeinse wetgevers, en loopt via Montesquieu en Marx tot aan moderne politieke denkers als Thomas Friedman en Bernard Lewis. De toekomst van vrijheid is een even belangrijke als belangwekkende studie naar de fundamentele voorwaarden voor vrijheid, en naar het wezen van democratie.Fareed Zakaria is discussieleider voor cnn en redacteur bij Newsweek. De stukken die hij voor dat blad schrijft, worden wereldwijd overgenomen, in Nederland onder andere door nrc Handelsblad. De toekomst van vrijheid was een wereldwijde bestseller en voor Esquire reden hem tot een van de eenentwintigste belangrijkste personen van de eenentwintigste eeuw uit te roepen. Hij wordt getipt als minister, of toch tenminste adviseur, in een eventuele Democratische regering.Het zou me zeer verbazen als Zakaria op den duur niet in de regering terecht kwam. Henry KissingerNiet alle landen varen altijd wel bij verkiezingen en een parlementaire democratie. Soms is de vrijheid van de burger beter gewaarborgd in een liberale autocratie. De Amerikaanse commentator Fareed Zakaria waarschuwt welsprekend en luidend. TrouwDe grote verdienste van De toekomst van vrijheid is vooral dat het boek eigenzinnig en origineel genoeg is om aan te zetten tot nadenken over een probleem dat ons allemaal raakt. De MorgenNovemberisbn 9789025429904nur 740Omvang 272 blz.Prijs 15,00Oorspronkelijke titel The Future of FreedomVertaling peter van huizen Recencie(s) Democratie heeft grote invloed gehad op politiek, economie en cultuur over de gehele wereld. Zaharia, auteur van onder andere From wealth to power en redacteur bij Newsweek International, beschrijft in De toekomst van vrijheid de schaduwzijde van democratie. Aan de hand van de westerse geschiedenis, vanaf de tijd van het Romeinse Imperium tot het heden, beschrijft dr. Zaharia een koers die, via verlicht despotisme en respect voor de wet, leidt tot openheid van het openbaar bestuur, tot kapitalisme en uiteindelijk tot beperkte democratie. Vanuit het westen verspreidt zich de hang naar democratie naar de rest van de wereld. Dr. Zaharia beschrijft de anomalieen die optreden tijdens en na dit verspreidingsproces. Een buitengewoon uitdagend boek omdat een goede analyse wordt gegeven van de huidige politieke stelsels vanuit multidisciplinair perspectief. Het boek geeft een intellectueel model waarmee veel huidige politieke dilemmas verklaard kunnen worden. Zaharia beargumenteert waarom de Verenigde Statem een verlicht dictator als Musharaf van Pakistan moesten steunen, op hun hoede moeten zijn voor een gekozen schurk als Venezuelas Chavez en eraan moet werken Afghanistan en Irak niet alleen democratisch te maken, maar vrij.Redactie (source Bol.com)
Author: John H. Arnold
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What does it mean--and what might it yet come to mean--to write history in the twenty-first century? History After Hobsbawm brings together leading historians from across the globe to ask what being an historian should mean in their particular fields of study. Taking their cue from one of the previous centurys greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, and his interests across many periods and places, the essays approach their subjects with an underlying sense of what role an historian might seek to play, and attempt to help twenty-first-century society understand how we got here They present new work in their sub-fields but also point to how their specialisms are developing, how they might further grow in the future, and how different areas of focus might speak to the larger challenges of history--both for the discipline itself and for its relationship to other fields of academic inquiry. Like Hobsbawn, the authors in this collection know that history matters. They speak to both the past and the present and, in so doing, introduce some of the most exciting new lines of research in a broad array of subjects from the medieval period to the present. **
Author: Susanne Lummerding
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Den Cyberspace als konkretes Feld gesellschaftlichen Handelns zu betrachten bedeutet eine Politisierung der Medientheorie. Hierfur liefert die Autorin eine neuartige Verknupfung strukturalistischer Psychoanalyse mit einer Theorie des Politischen, dezidiert bezogen auf die Analyse visueller Kultur im Kontext digitaler Medien. Mit einer grundsatzlichen Kritik an technologiedeterministischen Rhetoriken nimmt die Untersuchung ihren Ausgangspunkt in der Frage nach den Ursachen der Persistenz von utopischen Versprechungen und Erwartungen, die an Technologieentwicklungen geknupft werden. Ziel ist, einen neuen wissenschaftlichen Zugang zum Problem der Handlungsfahigkeit im Kontext gegenwartiger Medienentwicklungen zu formulieren. Grundlegend hierfur ist eine neue Sicht auf die vermeintlich stabilen Kategorien von sexueller Differenz und Geschlecht fur eine Konzeption des Subjekts des Handelns.