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The Plenitude
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Author : Rich Gold
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-06-22
The Plenitude written by Rich Gold and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-22 with Design categories.
Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering: how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself. We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound—composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some desire, it also creates the need for even more stuff: cereal demands a spoon; a television demands a remote. Rich Gold calls this dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff the "Plenitude." And in this book—at once cartoon treatise, autobiographical reflection, and practical essay in moral philosophy—he tells us how to understand and live with it. Gold writes about the Plenitude from the seemingly contradictory (but in his view, complementary) perspectives of artist, scientist, designer, and engineer—all professions pursued by him, sometimes simultaneously, in the course of his career. "I have spent my life making more stuff for the Plenitude," he writes, acknowledging that the Plenitude grows not only because it creates a desire for more of itself but also because it is extraordinary and pleasurable to create. Gold illustrates these creative expressions with witty cartoons. He describes "seven patterns of innovation"—including "The Big Kahuna," "Colonization" (which is illustrated by a drawing of "The real history of baseball," beginning with "Play for free in the backyard" and ending with "Pay to play interactive baseball at home"), and "Stuff Desires to Be Better Stuff" (and its corollary, "Technology Desires to Be Product"). Finally, he meditates on the Plenitude itself and its moral contradictions. How can we in good conscience accept the pleasures of creating stuff that only creates the need for more stuff? He quotes a friend: "We should be careful to make the world we actually want to live in."
Plenitude
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Author : Juliet Schor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Plenitude written by Juliet Schor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Sustainable development categories.
Plenitude
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Author : Amado Nervo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
Plenitude written by Amado Nervo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with categories.
The Digital Plenitude
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Author : Jay David Bolter
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-05-07
The Digital Plenitude written by Jay David Bolter and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Social Science categories.
How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of digital media. Media culture today encompasses a universe of forms—websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and radio programs, magazines, and more—and a multitude of practices that include making, remixing, sharing, and critiquing. This multiplicity is so vast that it cannot be comprehended as a whole. In this book, Jay David Bolter traces the roots of our media multiverse to two developments in the second half of the twentieth century: the decline of elite art and the rise of digital media. Bolter explains that we no longer have a collective belief in “Culture with a capital C.” The hierarchies that ranked, for example, classical music as more important than pop, literary novels as more worthy than comic books, and television and movies as unserious have broken down. The art formerly known as high takes its place in the media plenitude. The elite culture of the twentieth century has left its mark on our current media landscape in the form of what Bolter calls “popular modernism.” Meanwhile, new forms of digital media have emerged and magnified these changes, offering new platforms for communication and expression. Bolter outlines a series of dichotomies that characterize our current media culture: catharsis and flow, the continuous rhythm of digital experience; remix (fueled by the internet's vast resources for sampling and mixing) and originality; history (not replayable) and simulation (endlessly replayable); and social media and coherent politics.
What Caused The Big Bang
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Author : Rem Blanchard Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2001
What Caused The Big Bang written by Rem Blanchard Edwards and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Philosophy categories.
This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, incl. Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, that affirm the eternity & self-sufficiency of the universe without God. It defends and revises Process Theology and arguments for God's existence from the universe's life-supporting order & contingent existence.
Plenitude
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Author : Juliet B. Schor
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2010
Plenitude written by Juliet B. Schor and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
In Plenitude economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor offers a groundbreaking intellectual statement about the economics and sociology of ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live. Humans are degrading the planet far faster than they are regenerating it. As we travel along this shutdown path, food, energy, transport and consumer goods are becoming increasingly expensive. The economic downturn that has accompanied the ecological crisis has led to another type of scarcity: incomes, jobs, and credit are also in short supply. Our usual way back to growth a debt-financed consumer boom is no longer an option our households, or planet, can afford. Responding to our current moment, Plenitude puts sustainability at its core, but it is not a paradigm of sacrifice. Instead it's an argument that through a major shift to new sources of wealth, green technologies, and different ways of living, individuals and the country as a whole can actually be better off and more economically secure. And as Schor observes, Plenitude is already emerging. In pockets around the country and the world, people are busy creating lifestyles that offer a way out of the work and spend cycle. These pioneers' lives are scarce in conventional consumer goods and rich in the newly abundant resources of time, information, creativity and community. Urban farmers, D.I.Y renovators, Craig's List users, cob builders all are spreading their risk and establishing novel sources of income and outlets for procuring consumer goods. Taken together, these trends represent a movement away from the conventional market and offer a way toward an efficient, rewarding life in an era of high prices and traditional resource scarcity. Based on recent developments in economic theory, social analysis, and ecological design, as well as evidence from the cutting edge people and places putting these ideas into practice, Plenitude is a road map for the next two decades. In encouraging us to value our gifts nature, community, intelligence, and time Schor offers the opportunity to participate in creating a world of wealth and well-being.
Bread Joy
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Author : Marcos H. N. Rossi
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2015-10-08
Bread Joy written by Marcos H. N. Rossi and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-08 with Fiction categories.
Frank is a troubled young man who has difficulty fitting in, always in constant confrontation with family, friends, school and church. Little by little he descends into complete isolation, loses faith in God and in himself, and starts to believe that life has no purpose. All this starts to change when a mysterious and unconventional mentor unexpectedly steps in and begins to share with him some invaluable life lessons. However, WWII explodes in England and changes his destiny forever, separating master and disciple. He meets Elizabeth and falls in love, but his romance is also sadly impacted by the war. Lost in life, Frank goes through some troubled times, finding refuge in countless mugs of beer. To get out of this dead end he returns to Bread & Joy, the farm where he was born, and discovers that he was never as alone as he thought and learns that in order to make peace with God, with his past, and find true love, some tough decisions are necessary.
The Christian Life And Virtues Considered In The Religious State Tr By Abbot Burder
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Author : Louis Charles Gay (bp. of Anthédon.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
The Christian Life And Virtues Considered In The Religious State Tr By Abbot Burder written by Louis Charles Gay (bp. of Anthédon.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.
The Christian Life And Virtues Considered In The Religious State
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Author : Charles Gay (Bishop of Anthedon.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
The Christian Life And Virtues Considered In The Religious State written by Charles Gay (Bishop of Anthedon.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.
The Plenitude Of Distraction
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Author : Marina Van Zuylen
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-10-23
The Plenitude Of Distraction written by Marina Van Zuylen and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-23 with Literary Collections categories.
A second look at distraction, extracting untold pleasures from its alleged dangers, defending and celebrating the unfocused life for the small and great wonders it can deliver. This short book takes a second look at distraction, extracting untold pleasures from its alleged dangers, defending and celebrating the unfocused life for the small and great wonders it can deliver. It tracks the paths of writers that built their works around non-linear thinking. Bergson called on distraction to sharpen our perceptions; Proust's greatest epiphany came from stumbling, not walking in a straight line; Nietzsche never trusted a thought that didn't come from perambulation. The wanderings documented in these pages carry none of the stigma of attention deficit. Quite the opposite. In Montaigne's words, there is a marvelous grace in letting thoughts be carried away at the pleasure of the wind. It is time to side with some of the great propagandists of so-called wasted time and cultivate controlled mental mayhem. Come join the ranks of the great hedonists of meandering thought.