Information Fantasies
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Information Fantasies
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Author : Xiao Liu
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2019-02-19
Information Fantasies written by Xiao Liu and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-19 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses Although the scale of the information economy and the impact of digital media on social life in China today could pale that of any other country, the story of their emergence in the post-Mao sociopolitical environment remains untold. Information Fantasies offers a revisionist account of the emergence of the “information society,” arguing that it was not determined by the technology of digitization alone but developed out of a set of techno-cultural imaginations and practices that arrived alongside postsocialism. Anticipating discussions on information surveillance, data collection, and precarious labor conditions today, Xiao Liu goes far beyond the current scholarship on internet and digital culture in China, questioning the limits of current new-media theory and history, while also salvaging postsocialism from the persistent Cold War structure of knowledge production. Ranging over forgotten science fiction, unjustly neglected films, corporeal practices such as qigong, scientific journals, advertising, and cybernetic theories, Information Fantasies constructs an alternate genealogy of digital and information imaginaries—one that will change how we look at the development of the postsocialist world and the emergence of digital technologies.
Facts And Fantasies
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Author : D. Fatma Türe
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-06-18
Facts And Fantasies written by D. Fatma Türe and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-18 with Social Science categories.
The question of women and their rights was a prominent and ongoing topic of debate in the popular press of Turkey in the 1920s. This work presents an insightful analysis of those debates and follows its traces in obscene literature of the period, as a marginal, but influential branch of popular literature. Popular literature of the time carefully scrutinizes urban Istanbul women in particular, from their biological responsibilities to their behavior in the public arena, down to their clothes and their relations with the opposite sex. It was believed that it was urban women above all who threatened the contemporary social order. Bearing in mind that the traditional faith-based, patriarchal Ottoman social system began to disintegrate after the First World War, and was increasingly replaced by a nationalist and modern, but still patriarchal, structure, this book shows that the popular press sought to integrate women as individuals into the new social structure and define them according to common social perceptions. Women who defied society’s definition of the ideal woman were often depicted as heroines in popular obscene stories. While these stories offered a social fantasy in which society’s concerns and paranoia about women turned into reality, from another perspective, they also reflected the ongoing social disintegration after years of secrecy and seclusion, and the excitement and awkwardness felt both by men and women as a result of coexisting in the same environment.
Democracy And Other Neoliberal Fantasies
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Author : Jodi Dean
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2009-09-02
Democracy And Other Neoliberal Fantasies written by Jodi Dean and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-02 with Political Science categories.
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task for its capitulations to conservatives and its failure to take responsibility for the extensive neoliberalization implemented during the Clinton presidency. She argues that the left’s ability to develop and defend a collective vision of equality and solidarity has been undermined by the ascendance of “communicative capitalism,” a constellation of consumerism, the privileging of the self over group interests, and the embrace of the language of victimization. As Dean explains, communicative capitalism is enabled and exacerbated by the Web and other networked communications media, which reduce political energies to the registration of opinion and the transmission of feelings. The result is a psychotic politics where certainty displaces credibility and the circulation of intense feeling trumps the exchange of reason. Dean’s critique ranges from her argument that the term democracy has become a meaningless cipher invoked by the left and right alike to an analysis of the fantasy of free trade underlying neoliberalism, and from an examination of new theories of sovereignty advanced by politicians and left academics to a look at the changing meanings of “evil” in the speeches of U.S. presidents since the mid-twentieth century. She emphasizes the futility of a politics enacted by individuals determined not to offend anyone, and she examines questions of truth, knowledge, and power in relation to 9/11 conspiracy theories. Dean insists that any reestablishment of a vital and purposeful left politics will require shedding the mantle of victimization, confronting the marriage of neoliberalism and democracy, and mobilizing different terms to represent political strategies and goals.
Archaeological Fantasies
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Author : Garrett G. Fagan
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2006
Archaeological Fantasies written by Garrett G. Fagan and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Pseudoarchaeology categories.
Including case studies, this collection of engaging and stimulating essays written by a diverse group of scholars, scientists and writers examines the phenomenon of pseudoarchaeology from a variety of perspectives.
Fantasies From Opera For Violin And Piano
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Author : Henryk Wieniawski
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2014-01-15
Fantasies From Opera For Violin And Piano written by Henryk Wieniawski and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-15 with Music categories.
Four fantasies, each with separate violin part: Carmen Fantasy, Fantasia on Themes from Gounod's Faust, Fantasie from Mozart's The Magic Flute, and Fantasie Brillante on the March and the Romance from Rossini's Otello.
Critical Issues In Information Systems Research
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Author : Richard Boland
language : en
Publisher: Chichester [Sussex] ; New York : Wiley
Release Date : 1987-05-18
Critical Issues In Information Systems Research written by Richard Boland and has been published by Chichester [Sussex] ; New York : Wiley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-05-18 with Business & Economics categories.
Contains critical contributions by seventeen scholars, each writing on a different issue of major importance to information systems research. The book is divided into two sections. In Part I, chapters present a broad view of practice, including its sociology of knowledge, the responsibility of its professionals, and the effectiveness of its tools and procedures. In Part II, chapters focus on the social context of information systems. Contributors address the way we think about and research the organizational antecedents and consequences of information systems, their diffusion, and our ability to understand their repercussions in the wider network of changing social relations. Topics covered include semantics, systems analysis, system design, software engineering models, managerial expert systems, information systems in organization theory, a research agenda for a transaction cost approach to information systems, and much more.
How Fantasy Becomes Reality
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Author : Karen Dill-Shackleford
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
How Fantasy Becomes Reality written by Karen Dill-Shackleford and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Psychology categories.
From smartphones to social media, from streaming videos to fitness bands, our devices bring us information and entertainment all day long, forming an intimate part of our lives. Their ubiquity represents a major shift in human experience, and although we often hold our devices dear, we do not always fully appreciate how their nearly constant presence can influence our lives for better and for worse. In this revised and expanded edition of How Fantasy Becomes Reality, social psychologist Karen E. Dill-Shackleford explains what the latest science tells us about how our devices influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In engaging, conversational prose, she discusses both the benefits and the risks that come with our current level of media saturation. The wide-ranging conversation explores Avatar, Mad Men, Grand Theft Auto, and Comic Con to address critical issues such as media violence, portrayals of social groups, political coverage, and fandom. Her conclusions will empower readers to make our favorite sources of entertainment and information work for us and not against us.
The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life And The Eight Realities That Will Save You
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Author : Joy Browne, M.D.
language : en
Publisher: Harmony
Release Date : 2010-02-17
The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life And The Eight Realities That Will Save You written by Joy Browne, M.D. and has been published by Harmony this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-17 with Self-Help categories.
Dr. Joy Browne has spent nearly twenty years advising thousands of women and men about their frustrations and disappointments. She has diagnosed the ways we get in trouble and stay there. In turn, Dr. Joy has developed a proven prescription to free us from our self-defeating thoughts and habits that allows for real progress toward our goals. She calls her plan for emotional health The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life and the Eight Realities That Will Save You. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Joy Browne shows you how to apply these simple, powerful ideas to your marriage, personal relationships, career, finances, health, and every other area of your life. No matter how difficult or long-standing your problems, Dr. Joy will show you how to become a fearless, focused, and, most important, happy adventurer in your own life. That may sound like a fantasy, but you can make it your new reality.
Modern Fantasies On Love Versus Classical Romances
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Author : Ljuba Tarvi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-07-14
Modern Fantasies On Love Versus Classical Romances written by Ljuba Tarvi and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-14 with Fiction categories.
Viewed through the lens of physics, love conquers nothing is the conclusion reached when love patterns in romances are viewed through laws of quantum physics. In this book, based on the metaphor “Love/Text is Energy,” love in fiction is interpreted in the same way as subatomic particles are studied in quantum mechanics — by investigating traces of their clashes in giant colliders, i.e., as Marx’s ‘converted forms’ of the protagonists’ conscious and unconscious decisions and actions. The book introduces the Token Valence Method, which assumes that a word, like an elementary particle, is neither a particle nor a wave but rather a quantum state. The TVM has revealed three models of love patterns in fiction: adaptation (21st century), alienation (20th century), and imagination (1991-2021).
Youth Fantasies The Perverse Landscape Of The Media
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Author : jan jagodzinski
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-08-20
Youth Fantasies The Perverse Landscape Of The Media written by jan jagodzinski and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-20 with Education categories.
Youth Fantasies is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the past ten years that theorizes 'youth fantasy'; as manifested through the media of TV, film, and computer games. Unlike other media studies and education books, the authors employ both Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalytic concepts to attempt to make sense of teen culture and the influence of mass media. The collection includes case studies of X-Files fans, the influence of computer games and the 'Lara Croft' phenomenon, and the reception of Western television by Tanzanian youth. The authors see this book as a much needed reconciliation between cultural studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and attempt to highlight why Lacan is important to note when exploring youth fantasy and interest in the media, especially in shows like X-Files .