The Future of Humanity: Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age
Author: Pavlina Radia File Type: pdf What is the future of humanity? What does it mean to be human in the posthuman age? What responsibility does humankind have towards others and their environments? How are the stories that humans tell themselves implicated in the very power asymmetries and eco-political challenges that they bemoan? Taking a cross-disciplinary approach to the posthuman age, the essays in this collection speak to the multifaceted geographies and counter-geographies of humanity, probing into the possible futures we face as planetary species. Some of these include ecological issues generated by centuries of neglecting our environment(s) power asymmetries stemming from economic and cultural globalization violence and its affective politics informed by cultural, ethnic, and racial genocides religious disputes social inequities produced by consumerism gender normativity and the increasing impact of digital and AI (artificial intelligence) technology on the human body, as well as historical, socio-political, not to mention ethical relations.ReviewReframing the humanist subject as a complex temporal material and a differential ecology of affects, this exciting interdisciplinary collection enables multiple entry points to new thinking in support of posthuman futures. The essays explore shared incursions of biology and technology to redefine what it means to be human in the twenty-first century and articulate non-anthropocentric perspectives with planetary implications. (Simone Bignall, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology in Sydney) This groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary meditations on the posthuman condition reminds us that we all have a stake in the shape of the digital future. The essays offer captivating and occasionally unsettling glimpses of an emerging reality that will challenge settled assumptions about the very nature of human existence, and compel us to consider our place in a new order. (James Herrick, Guy VanderJagt Professor of Communication, Hope College) Why read this book? Because it dares to ask questions that are precise, substantial and necessary, when thinking about whats coming next. The future analyzed here is not mere speculation based on personal conjectures, but it manifests in the ramifications of causes and effects well rooted in the history of humankind. The future, in this sense, does not come from nowhere it is already here. (Francesca Ferrando, Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU-Liberal Studies, New York University) About the AuthorPavlina Radia is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University, Canada. She is also Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Arts and Sciences at Nipissing University. She is the author of Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles Two Very Serious Ladies (2016) and Ecstatic Consumption The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature (2016). She is also a co-editor of Food and Appetites The Hunger Artist and the Arts with Ann McCulloch (2012). Sarah Fiona Winters is Associate Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University, Canada. Her research focuses on the representations of evil in post-war childrens fantasy and on the relationship of fandom studies to digital pedagogies. She has published articles on C. S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins, and Margaret Mahy. Laurie Kruk is Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University, Canada. She has published The Voice Is the Story Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction (2003) and Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (2016). She has also published three collections of poetry Theories of the World (1992), Loving the Alien (2006), and My Mother Did Not Tell Stories (2012).
Author: Finn Mackay
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Feminism is not dead. This groundbreaking book advances a radical and pioneering feminist manifesto for todays modern audience that exposes the real reasons as to why women are still oppressed and what feminist activism must do to counter it through a vibrant and original account of the global Reclaim the Night March.
Author: Anatole Lyovin
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Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces linguistics students to the variety of worlds languages. Students will gain familiarity with concepts such as sound change, lexical borrowing, diglossia, and language diffusion, and the rich variety of linguistic structure in word order, morphological types, grammatical relations, gender, inflection, and derivation. It offers the opportunity to explore structures of varying and fascinating languages even with no prior acquaintance. A chapter is devoted to each of the worlds continents, with in-depth analyses of representative languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America, and separate chapters cover writing systems and pidgins and creoles. Each chapter contains exercises and recommendations for further reading. New to this edition are eleven original maps as well as sections on sign languages and language death and revitalization. For greater readability, basic language facts are now organized in tables, and language samples follow international standards for phonetic transcription and word-by-word glossing. There is an instructors manual available for registered instructors on the books companion website. **Review The author succeeds in covering a broad range of important and interesting information, and I am not aware of any other work that could serve as an all-round textbook for a course on the Languages of the World.--Bernard Comrie, University of Southern California, author of The Worlds Major Languages ...clearly exhibits the authors very considerable erudition in several language areas.--Joseph Grimes, Cornell University About the Author Anatole V. Lyovin is at University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Author: Stanley B. Lippman
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Finally, theres a great introduction to ANSI C++ for working programmers! Stanley B. Lippman -- who worked under the leadership of Bjarne Stroustrup, wrote the classic C++ Primer, and now works as a C++ programmer at Dream Works -- teaches programmers exactly what they need to know to get immediate results. Lippman begins with an overview of the ANSI C++ language, in the context of a small program that illustrates built-in data types, predefined operators, vector and string library classes, conditional and looping statements, and the iostream library. Next, readers design and use functions, and review the types of functions supported by C++. Lippman introduces the Standard Template Library then walks through the design and use of the C++ class facility to create data types specific to any application domain. Learn how to extend class design to support families of related classes in object hierarchies build class templates and finally, use the C++ exception handling facility. From start to finish, each concept and technique is presented through real programs designed to solve the problems C++ programmers are most likely to encounter.-- Get your code working and learn the language at the same time!-- Expert coverage of moving from procedural to object-oriented development, with specific examples and solutions..-- By the #1 C++ author, Stanley B. Lippman, whose classic C++ Primer is recognized as required reading for every C++ programmer.
Author: Alain Brossat
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Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish traditionJewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe that, before the Holocaust, ran from the Baltic Sea to the western edge of Russia and incorporated hundreds of Jewish communities with a combined population of some 11 million people. Within this territory, revolutionaries arose from the Jewish misery of Eastern and Central Europe they were raised in the fear of God and taught to respect religious tradition, but were caught up in the great current of revolutionary utopian thinking. Socialists, Communists, Bundists, Zionists, Trotskyists, manual workers and intellectuals, they embodied the multifarious activity and radicalism of a Jewish working class that glimpsed the Messiah in the folds of the red flag. Today, the world from which they came has disappeared, dismantled and destroyed by the Nazi genocide. After this irremediable break, there remain only survivors, and the work of memory for red Yiddishland. This book traces the struggles of these militants, their singular trajectories, their oscillation between great hope and doubt, their lost illusionsa red and Jewish gaze on the history of the twentieth century.From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Richard Susskind
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In his newest provocative and forward-looking volume on the legal profession, Richard Susskind-the best-selling author of The End of Lawyers? and The Future of Law-predicts fundamental and irreversible changes in the world of law. What Susskind sees is eye-opening-a legal world of virtual courts, Internet-based global legal businesses, online document production, commoditized service, legal process outsourcing, and web-based simulated practice. Legal markets will be liberalized, with new jobs for lawyers and new employers too. Tomorrows Lawyers is a definitive guide to this future--for young and aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize our legal and justice systems. It introduces the new legal landscape and offers practical guidance for those who intend to build careers and businesses in law. Susskind identifies the key drivers of change, such as the economic downturn, and considers how these will shape the legal marketplace. He then sketches out the new legal landscape as he envisions it, highlighting the changing role of law firms-and in-house lawyers-and the coming of virtual hearings and online dispute resolution. He also suggests solutions to major concerns within the legal profession, such as diminishing public funding, and explores alternative roles for future lawyers in a world increasingly dominated by IT. And what are the prospects for aspiring lawyers? Susskind predicts what new jobs and new employers there will be, equipping prospective lawyers with penetrating questions to put to their current and future bosses. Tomorrows Lawyers is an essential roadmap to the future of law for those who want to survive the rapidly changing legal landscape. **
Author: Philip Allott
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Review... this is a profoundly thought-provoking work. The scope of this book is immense and panoptic ... all of what is written is engaging ... this is an enjoyable and thought-provoking book. Allotts work has always broken the mould of international legal scholarship in this country, and this book is no exception. The application of his general philosophy to more concrete legal issues is very welcome and will permit the dissemination of his ideas to a wider audience. Even if they disagree with Allotts philosophy, professional and academic international lawyers, as well as students of international law, should read this book and seriously reconsider both the current state of their discipline and how they can move it forward. They will find that it has much to offer them. Public Law Book DescriptionGlobalisation has become familiar, the target even of street demonstrations from Seattle to Genoa. It challenges all our traditional social structures, with international systems, such as the European Union, the WTO or the global capital markets, taking power over the power of states and governments. We have to rethink the complex and subtle ideas which have made our national systems work and have made them tolerable. This book seeks to uncover these ideas and to develop them in new ways to meet the new and urgent global challenges.
Author: Andrew Root
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Since the late 1970s practical theology has had a significant voice and influence in the academy. While many have seen great hope and potential in this work, not everyone has agreed. Some, for instance, have examined the conversation and found by focusing on the concrete and lived experiences of humanity, by and large, practical theology has not had the theological vision to present frameworks for understanding concrete and lived experience with divine action. So argues Andrew Root, who in Christopraxis seeks to reset the entire edifice of practical theology on a new foundation. While not minimizing practical theologys commitment to the lived and concrete, Root argues that practical theology has neglected deeper theological underpinnings, and seeks to create a practical theology that seeks to be fully post-postmodern, post-Aristotelian, and that in seeking to attend to doctrines such as divine action and justification, is properly and fully theological. **
Author: Sifeng Liu
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Constructive Suggestions for Efficiently Implementing Technology TransferTheory of Science and Technology Transfer and Applications presents the mechanisms, features, effects, and modes of technology transfer. It addresses the measurement, cost, benefit, optimal allocation, and game theory of technology transfer, along with the dynamics of the technical diffusion field.The book explores the concept of technology transfer and its mechanism as the main theme. It measures the cost and benefit of technology transfer, analyzes technology transfer based on technical diffusion field theory, and presents case studies to illustrate the use of a linear programming model and government investment and planning model. The authors also offer strategic analyses that utilize game models and discuss the impact of technology transfer on economic growth.Accompanied by economic globalization, globalization in technology enables the rational allocation and flow of the elements of technology without restrictions, which in turn allows the sharing of technological activities and the space flow of technology more frequently. This book focuses on the creation and development of advanced productivities. Through many real-world examples, it shows how to implement technology transfer in society, leading technology to become socially and economically valued. (Systems Evaluation, Prediction, and Decision-Making)