The History Of The Future Images Of The 21 St Century
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The History Of The Future
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Author : Christophe Canto
language : en
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
Release Date : 1993
The History Of The Future written by Christophe Canto and has been published by Flammarion-Pere Castor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Future in popular culture categories.
Images Of The Future
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Author : Robert Bundy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Images Of The Future written by Robert Bundy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Forecasting categories.
This book is a collection of essays on images of the future. It is intended for people who are sensitive to humanity's awesome problems and who are deeply troubled by the ominous directions global trends are taking as we approach the twenty-first century.
Images Of The Future
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Author : Robert Bundy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Images Of The Future written by Robert Bundy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Forecasting categories.
This book is a collection of essays on images of the future. It is intended for people who are sensitive to humanity's awesome problems and who are deeply troubled by the ominous directions global trends are taking as we approach the twenty-first century.
Trajectory Of The 21st Century
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Author : Lawrence J. Terlizzese
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2009-01-10
Trajectory Of The 21st Century written by Lawrence J. Terlizzese and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-10 with Religion categories.
Trajectory of the Twenty-first Century explores what many prophets of the twentieth century, such as Oswald Spengler, Paul Tillich, Aldous Huxley, Jacques Ellul, and others, have predicted would transpire in the current century. Their vision included an out-of-control technological system and a return to religious sentiment that will ultimately undermine the system to which it is reacting. This book aims to accurately present their positions and draw certain logical conclusions from them that pertain to the course of history in our time. The book's theme argues that modernity is a secularized version of millennial Christianity, which reaches its fullest development in the twenty-first century and will regress into what Russian philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev called the new Middle Ages or a new religious period. This will mean the twilight of modern technological society, as its values of rationalism give way to a postrationalist society. Ironically, decline will come through further technological advance. Omnicide threatens through religious world war driven by transcendent values and modern weaponry. Jihadist thinking and posthumanist technology both establish the omnicidal mentatlity. New technologies such as genetic engineering and artificial intelligence created under millennial inspiration to reach for immortality could potentially bring an end to the human species either through a slow, steady obsolescence or through environmental catastrophe. The titanic forces of technological progress and regress are on a direct collision course in the twenty-first century.
Text Image And The Problem With Perfection In Nineteenth Century France
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Author : Daniel Sipe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Text Image And The Problem With Perfection In Nineteenth Century France written by Daniel Sipe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the decades after the French Revolution, philosophers, artists, and social scientists set out to chart and build a way to a new world and their speculative blueprints circulated like banknotes in a parallel economy of ideas. Examining representations of ideal societies in nineteenth-century French culture, Daniel Sipe argues that the dream-image of the literary or art-historical utopia does not disappear but rather is profoundly altered by its proximity to the social utopianism of the day. Sipe focuses on this persistent afterlife in utopias ranging from François-René de Chateaubriand’s Amerindian utopia in Atala (1801) to the utopian spoof of J.J. Grandville’s illustrated novel Un autre monde (1844). He proposes a new reading of Etienne Cabet’s seminal utopian novel, Voyage en Icarie (1840) and offers an original perspective on the gendered utopias of technological inspiration that authors such as Charles Barbara and Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam penned in the second half of the century. In addition, Sipe considers utopias or important readings of the century’s rampant utopianism in, among others, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, and Gustave Courbet. His book provides the historical context for comprehending the significance and implications of this enigmatic afterlife in nineteenth-century utopian art and literature.
Scary Robots
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Author : Lawrence J. Terlizzese
language : en
Publisher: Christian Publishing House
Release Date : 2020-09-20
Scary Robots written by Lawrence J. Terlizzese and has been published by Christian Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-20 with Computers categories.
Technophobia causes us to reflect, to stop and ask “what for?” Why are we doing this and could there be negative consequences to our actions. Technophobia is not anti-technology if we are honest no one is really anti-technology that would be a rejection of life itself. But neither does technophobia give the green light to all things technical. An altogether too common position these days is to accept technology as manna from heaven as if just the very use of it will inherently lead us in the right direction. All use is good use. Technophobia does not allow us such an easy conscience.
Meals To Come
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Author : Warren Belasco
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-10-18
Meals To Come written by Warren Belasco and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-18 with Cooking categories.
"Warren Belasco is a witty, wonderfully observant guide to the hopes and fears that every era projects onto its culinary future. This enlightening study reads like time-travel for foodies."—Laura Shapiro, author of Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America "In his insightful look at human imaginings about their food and its future sufficiency, Warren Belasco makes use of everything from academic papers, films, and fiction to journalism, advertising and world’s fairs to trace a pattern of public concern over two centuries. His wide-ranging scholarship humbles all would-be futurists by reminding us that ours is not the first generation, nor is it likely to be the last, to argue inconclusively about whether we can best feed the world with more spoons, better manners or a larger pie. Truly painless education; a wonderful read!"—Joan Dye Gussow, author This Organic Life "Warren Belasco serves up an intellectual feast, brilliantly dissecting two centuries of expectations regarding the future of food and hunger. Meals to Come provides an essential guide to thinking clearly about the worrisome question as to whether the world can ever be adequately and equitably fed."—Joseph J. Corn, co-author of Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future "This astute, sly, warmly human critique of the basic belly issues that have absorbed and defined Americans politically, socially, and economically for the past 200 years is a knockout. Warren Belasco’s important book, crammed with knowledge, is absolutely necessary for an understanding of where we are now."—Betty Fussell, author of My Kitchen Wars
The Screen Media Reader
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Author : Stephen Monteiro
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-01-12
The Screen Media Reader written by Stephen Monteiro and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-12 with Social Science categories.
As mobile communication, social media, wireless networks, and flexible user interfaces become prominent topics in the study of media and culture, the screen emerges as a critical research area. This reader brings together insightful and influential texts from a variety of sources-theorists, researchers, critics, inventors, and artists-that explore the screen as a fundamental element not only in popular culture but also in our very understanding of society and the world. The Screen Media Reader is a foundational resource for studying the screen and its cultural impact. Through key contemporary and historical texts addressing the screen's development and role in communications and the social sphere, it considers how the screen functions as an idea, an object, and an everyday experience. Reflecting a number of descriptive and analytical approaches, these essays illustrate the astonishing range and depth of the screen's introduction and application in multiple media configurations and contexts. Together they demonstrate the long-standing influence of the screen as a cultural concept and communication tool that extends well beyond contemporary debates over screen saturation and addiction.
Hope In The Thought Of Jacques Ellul
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Author : Lawrence J. Terlizzese
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2005-10-30
Hope In The Thought Of Jacques Ellul written by Lawrence J. Terlizzese and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-30 with Religion categories.
"Hope expresses more than an area of concentration in Ellul's thought; it is the central idea that binds his disparate elements together. Ellul believed that at this moment of history, the world since 1945, hope must preoccupy our thinking and lives. "To understand hope we must first comprehend its absence. This entails discerning what causes the absence of hope, namely the world's embrace of technique and the abandonment of God. Ellul also rejected these as a positive affirmation. He wanted to make a firm distinction between reality and truth. He affirmed modern abandonment as a realistic fact, as an accurate analysis of the present condition, not as an affirmation of the truth. Hope is truth in Jesus Christ, but truth must be asserted against these harsh facts. He used facts to incite hope in believers, to shake their complacency and to realize their actual condition in the world . . . . The idea of hope in the thought of Jacques Ellul can only be properly understood in light of dialectic struggle between negatives, which amount to factual representations of the modern world, and positives, through which hope exerts itself in the face of these facts. From this tension will issue personal resolve. Technique has brought the world to great collective heights and achievements, but this has come at the expense of personal ends and meaning. Ellul attempted to bridge this gap by asserting individual meaning against the aggregated progress of technique without destroying the gains made by collective advance. This represents the central dilemma in Ellul's thought--how does one maintain meaning and personal aims in a world founded on corporate necessity?" --from the Introduction
Designing Culture
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Author : Anne Balsamo
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-07-19
Designing Culture written by Anne Balsamo 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 2011-07-19 with Computers categories.
The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations.