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RESUMEN - Utopia Is Creepy / La utopía es espeluznante: Y otras provocaciones por Nicholas Carr

Autor: Shortcut Edition

Número de Páginas: 15

Al leer este resumen, aprenderá que la utopía de compartir información que ofrece Internet puede ser muy engañosa, incluso aterradora: si un servicio es gratuito, es porque usted -y sus datos personales- son el producto. También aprenderá : que los edenes tecnológicos prometidos se están convirtiendo en futuros distópicos que las evoluciones tecnológicas tienen consecuencias en nuestras capacidades cognitivas cómo Internet le hace más tonto; cómo la Web 2.0 es amoral y le ofrece un espejo engañoso de sí mismo. La religión de la tecnología parece prometerle un paraíso en el que los ordenadores y los robots podrían finalmente liberarle de sus necesidades físicas. Estas profecías anunciadas por los gurús de Silicon Valley han moldeado la opinión pública. Las redes sociales han inculcado una cultura de distracción y dependencia que le ha hecho olvidar que estaba compartiendo datos personales para que pudieran ser monetizados por la GAFA. A través de su blog Rough Type, Nicholas Carr ha compartido muchos posts, entre 2005 y 2015, que muestran la inmoralidad de la Web 2.0, de los que le ofrece aquí una antología.

Rumbo a una utopia

Autor: Isaac Riera Ferrer

Número de Páginas: 104

Rumbo a una utopía plantea un mundo 100% cooperativo, donde se tienen en cuenta las virtudes y los defectos del ser humano y donde se deja la puerta abierta a soñar, ser libre pero también ser solidario. La vivienda, la salud, las comunicaciones o los suministros básicos están garantizados y todas, absolutamente todas las empresas son cooperativas. En esta propuesta de sociedad se trabajan dos horas al día y los sueldos son igualitarios. Este ensayo filosófico y político plantea un cambio radical en la humanidad donde el amor predomine por encima del odio.

Utopia's Garden

Autor: E. C. Spary

Número de Páginas: 338

The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.

The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568–1789)

Autor: Girolamo Imbruglia

Número de Páginas: 331

The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568–1789) explores the religious foundations of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay, and the discussion of the missionary experience in the public opinion of early modern Europe, from Montaigne to Diderot. This book presents a wealth of documentation to highlight three key aspects of this debate: the relationship between civilisation and religion, between religion and political imagination, and between utopia and history. Girolamo Imbruglia's analysis of the Jesuits' own narrative reveals that the idea and the practice of mission have been one of the essential features of the European identity, and of the shaping modern political thought.

Utopia's Discontents

Autor: Faith Hillis

Número de Páginas: 361

In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past seventeen years, the Bolshevik leader had lived in exile, moving between Europe's many "Russian colonies"--large and politically active communities of émigrés in London, Paris, and Geneva, among other cities. Thousands of fellow exiles who followed Lenin on his eastward trek in 1917 were in a similar predicament. The returnees plunged themselves into politics, competing to shape the future of a vast country recently liberated from tsarist rule. Yet these activists had been absent from their homeland for so long that their ideas reflected the Russia imagined by residents of the faraway colonies as much as they did events on the ground. The 1917 revolution marked the dawn of a new day in Russian politics, but it also represented the continuation of decades-long conversations that had begun in emigration and were exported back to Russia. Faith Hillis examines how émigré communities evolved into revolutionary social experiments in the heart of bourgeois cities. Feminists, nationalist activists, and Jewish intellectuals seeking to...

The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia

Número de Páginas: 817

Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies. It has been developed to allow readers to consider these different facets of Utopia in relation to each other and to provide fresh and original contributions to our understanding of the book's creation, vernacularization, and afterlives. In so doing, it provides an integrated overview of More's text, as well as new contributions to the range of scholarship and debates that Utopia continues to attract. An especially innovative feature is that it allows readers to follow Utopia across time and place, unpacking the often-revolutionary moments that encouraged its translation by new generations of writers as far afield as France, Russia, Japan, and China. The Handbook is organized in four sections: on different aspects of the origins and contexts of Utopia in the 1510s; on histories of its translation into different vernaculars in the early...

UTOPIA'S SUICIDE

Autor: John Paul

Número de Páginas: 477

Having one foot in North America and one in Europe, the author inevitably, compares these two continents, their surroundings, their people, and their modus vivendi. The interpretation of happenings on these continents as they relate to one life's adventure is the scope of this work, which is, before everything else, a collage of personal biography, illuminated by flashes of the remarkable historical moments preceding the emigration. There are, moreover, interpretations of impressions colored with romantic, enchanting mysticism, and alternatively, subjective impressions of immigrants who came to America to find a better life and expected, to some extent, to find a promised land on a platter. In either case, impressions are based on predispositions of what immigrants from the old country envisioned American to be like. However, gratia is not a prerequisite; it does not exist in the meaning of emi, nor immi gratia. Is this memoir an unprejudiced evaluation and objective notation of experiences as they were, or a biased overflow of emotions, ridicule and sarcasm, or delight and adornment? What is the difference between autobiography, memoir, and diary, versus a fictitious, rather...

The Utopia

Autor: Thomas More

Número de Páginas: 464

Utopia Avenue

Autor: David Mitchell

Número de Páginas: 859

«Como viejo rockero, tengo que decir que me encantó la nueva novela de David Mitchell sobre el florecimiento del rock and roll británico a mediados y finales de los sesenta. Es un éxito en mi lista Billboard ». Stephen King Un viaje a la revolución sexual y musical del Londres de los años sesenta a través de la historia de una banda inolvidable. En 1967, cuatro músicos se unen para crear un sonido único. Nacida en la escena psicodélica londinense, Utopia Avenue es la banda británica que, con solo dos álbumes y una breve pero deslumbrante trayectoria, consigue capturar la esencia de una época turbulenta. Encabezada por la cantante de folk Elf Holloway, y con el bajista Dean Moss, el virtuoso de la guitarra Jasper de Zoet y el batería de jazz Griff Griffin, Utopia Avenue se embarca en un viaje meteorítico para dejar un legado musical eterno: desde sus inicios en los sórdidos clubes del Soho y su debut televisivo en Top of the Pops hasta la cúspide de su éxito y su agitada gira por un Estados Unidos en pleno apogeo de la contracultura y las protestas por la guerra de Vietnam. Utopia Avenue muestra un vívido y brillante retrato del ocaso de los años sesenta a...

The Utopia of Sir Thomas More

Autor: Saint Thomas More , Sir Thomas More (saint)

Número de Páginas: 500

The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe

Autor: Anthony Pagden

Número de Páginas: 380

Essays on the political 'languages' of natural law, classical republicanism, commerce and political science.

Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction

Autor: Gary Westfahl

Número de Páginas: 284

An examination of science fiction editor and author Hugo Gernsback's career, this critical study explores the many ways in which his work influenced the genre. It summarizes the science fiction theories of Gernsback and his successors, considers his efforts to define science fiction both verbally and visually, and for the first time offers detailed studies of his rarest periodicals, including Technocracy Review, Superworld Comics, and Science-Fiction Plus. An analysis of his ground-breaking novel, Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660, and its influences on a variety of science fiction novels, films and television programs is also offered.

Advances in Network and Communications Engineering 2

Autor: Steven Furnell , Paul Dowland

Número de Páginas: 193

Endless Propaganda

Autor: Paul Rutherford

Número de Páginas: 388

Rutherford shows how politics, social behaviour, and public morals have become subject to the philosophy and discipline of marketing.

The Theory of Architecture

Autor: Paul-alan Johnson

Número de Páginas: 516

The Theory of Architecture Concepts, Themes & Practices Paul-Alan Johnson Although it has long been thought that theory directs architectural practice, no one has explained precisely how the connection between theory and practice is supposed to work. This guide asserts that architectural theory does not direct practice, but is itself a form of reflective practice. Paul-Alan Johnson cuts through the jargon and mystery of architectural theory to clarify how it relates to actual applications in the field. He also reveals the connections between new and old ideas to enhance the reader's powers of critical evaluation. Nearly 100 major concepts, themes, and practices of architecture--as well as the rhetoric of architects and designers--are presented in an easily accessible format. Throughout, Johnson attempts to reduce each architectural notion into its essential concept. By doing so, he makes theory accessible for everyday professional discussion. Topics are arranged under ten headings: identification, definition, power, attitudes, ethics, order, authority, governance, relationship, and expression. Areas covered under these headings include: * Utopic thought in theories of architecture ...

Published Essays

Autor: Eric Voegelin

Número de Páginas: 267

Annotation Contains some of Voegelin's most provocative and interesting work, including his first publications after he fled Vienna; a summary of the two volumes on the growth of the race idea first published in 1933; his analysis of the diplomatic correspondence conducted between the Western powers, the papacy, and the Great Khans; a study of the grounds of much of modern philosophy and of all modern political ideologies; surveys of the state of political theory in the late 40s; studies of utopian thought; and a concluding essay that explores the intricacies of "Gnostic Politics." Edited by Sandoz, director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies at Louisiana State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

Autor: Laurence Davis , Peter G. Stillman

Número de Páginas: 360

The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions--and snares--of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever collection of original essays devoted to Le Guin's novel. Among the topics covered in this wide-ranging, international and interdisciplinary collection are the anarchist, ecological, post-consumerist, temporal, revolutionary, and open-ended utopian politics of The Dispossessed. The book concludes with an essay by Le Guin written specially for this volume, in which she reassesses the novel in light of the development of her own thinking over the past 30 years.

Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

Autor: Nivedita Bagchi

Número de Páginas: 101

While the interest in anti-utopias has exploded over the years, issues of human nature rarely make it into the discussion of these works of literature. Yet conceptions of human nature play a key role in both the utopian belief that the perfect political system can be achieved and in the anti-utopian conviction that an ideal state is neither possible nor desirable, and would simply lead to a repressive state. This book examines two well-known utopias and two anti-utopias to draw out their conceptions of human nature and show that these conceptions are directly related to their views on politics. It shows that utopians emphasize that human nature is knowable, predictable, and therefore, open to manipulation and/or suppression. Anti-utopians, on the other hand, make the claim that human nature is not entirely knowable or predictable. While they worry about the power of the state to manipulate human nature, they also make the case that the natural recalcitrance and unpredictability of human beings would lead inevitably to a search for freedom and individuality and, therefore, to a clash between the state and the individual in the supposedly ideal state. Ultimately, therefore, these...

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

Autor: George Watson , Ian Roy Willison

Número de Páginas: 1320

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature

Autor: Frederick Wilse Bateson

Número de Páginas: 736

A Thematic Exploration of Twentieth-Century Western Literature

Autor: Jiang Chengyong , Wu Yuesu , Shi Yongxia , Gao Maohua , Wang Yiping

Número de Páginas: 210

The twentieth century witnessed dramatic changes in terms of the structure of society, economics, politics, science, and technology, driving a change in Western literature from traditional to modern: old value systems were shattered; writing approaches and aesthetics changed; writers began to explore the psychological world and expand the discussion of humankind and modern civilization. This title takes classic literature by European and American authors of the twentieth century as research objects in order to comprehensively explore their thoughts, values, aesthetics, and narratives. Six major themes are used as units for analysis—existential meaning, self-identity, war and human nature, growing confusion, love and marriage, and anti-utopia. The authors argue that the six themes extend the themes of traditional literature and epitomize the unique characteristics of twentieth-century Western literature. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, especially Western literature and twentieth-century literature.

Feminist Philosophy in Latin America and Spain

Autor: María Luisa Femenías , Amy Oliver , Amy A. Oliver

Número de Páginas: 253

This book demonstrates the vast range of philosophical approaches, regional issues and problems, perspectives, and historical and theoretical frameworks that together constitute feminist philosophy in Latin America and Spain.This is important while feminist philosophy was long dominated by Anglo-American authors. It makes available recent feminist thought in Latin America and Spain to facilitate dialogue among Latin American, North American, and European thinkers.

Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature

Autor: Tony Burns

Número de Páginas: 332

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature and of science fiction. Published in 1974, it marked a revival of utopianism after decades of dystopian writing. According to this widely accepted view The Dispossessed represents a new kind of literary utopia, which Tom Moylan calls a 'critical utopia.' The present work challenges this reading of The Dispossessed and its place in the histories of utopian/dystopian literature and science fiction. It explores the difference between traditional literary utopia and novels and suggests that The Dispossessed is not a literary utopia but a novel about utopianism in politics. Le Guin's concerns have more to do with those of the novelists of the 19th century writing in the tradition of European Realism than they do with the science fiction or utopian literature. It also claims that her theory of the novel has an affinity with the ancient Greek tragedy. This implies that there is a conservatism in Le Guin's work as a creative writer, or as ...

Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness

Autor: Letizia Modena

Número de Páginas: 280

This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. Passages from Calvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, reducing the novel to vague abstractions and totalizing wisdom about thinking outside the box. The shadow of postmodern studies has had a similarly diminishing effect on this text, rendering up an accomplished but ultimately apolitical novelistic experimentation in endless deconstructive deferrals, the shiny surfaces of play, and the ultimately rigged game of self-referentiality. In contrast, this study draws on an archive of untranslated Italian- and French-language materials on urban planning, architecture, and utopian architecture to argue that Calvino's novel in fact introduces readers to the material ...

Research Handbook on Law and Literature

Autor: Goodrich, Peter , Daniela Gandorfer , Cecilia Gebruers

Número de Páginas: 629

In this original and thought-provoking Research Handbook, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, lawyers, judges, and writers offer a range of perspectives on rethinking law by means of literary concepts. Presenting a comprehensive introduction to jurisliterary themes, it destabilises the traditional hierarchy that places law before literature and exposes the literary nature of the legal.

Engendering Realism and Postmodernism

Autor: Beate Neumeier

Número de Páginas: 432

This volume assembles critical essays on, and excerpts from, works of contemporary women writers in Britain. Its focus is the interaction of aesthetic play and ethical commitment in the fictional work of women writers whose interest in testing and transgressing textual boundaries is rooted in a specific awareness of a gendered multicultural reality. This position calls for a distinctly critical impetus of their writing involving the interaction of the political and the literary as expressed in innovative combinations of realist and postmodern techniques in works by A. S. Byatt, Maureen Duffy, Zoe Fairbairns, Eva Figes, Penelope Lively, Sara Maitland, Suniti Namjoshi, Ravinder Randhawa, Joan Riley, Michele Roberts, Emma Tennant, Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson. All contributions to this volume address aspects of these writers' positions and techniques with a clear focus on their interest in transgressing boundaries of genre, gender and (post)colonial identity. The special quality of these interpretations, first given in the presence of writers at a symposium in Potsdam, derives from the creative and prosperous interactions between authors and critics. The volume concludes with...

Utopian Thinking and Social Work

Autor: Chris Horsell

Número de Páginas: 90

This book highlights the importance of employing imaginative sensibilities to thinking and action in social work and social policy practice. Exploring the question of how ideas about utopia and utopian method can be used in social work practice and policy practice to address social inequalities, it shows that central to this critique is the argument that contemporary social policy responses and subsequent social work interventions to a range of policy problems (e.g. homelessness, poverty, family violence) need to acknowledge the failure of dominant neoliberal discourses in addressing these issues. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and, in many ways, exacerbated existing inequalities, and the post-pandemic future provides opportunities to put utopian ideas into action. Showing how utopian thinking can challenge fundamental assumptions regarding welfare dependency and unitary identities in policy settings, this book will be of interest to all scholars, students and professionals working in social work and social policy.

InfoWorld

Número de Páginas: 120

InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects.

1,000 Type Treatments

Autor: Wilson Harvey

Número de Páginas: 446

A collection of 1000 instances of thoughtful type usage along with credits that note what fonts were used in the design. The photography focuses in on the typography so readers can get an up-close look at the work.

Transcript of Enrollment Books

Autor: New York (n.y.). Board Of Elections

Número de Páginas: 954

Challenge of a utopia

Autor: Patricia Rodríguez Alomá

Número de Páginas: 122

Utopia's Avenger Volume 2

Autor: Oh Se-kwon

Número de Páginas: 204

Legendary warrior Hong Gil-Dong reappears after an absence of many years to save the kingdom of Yuldo from threat, assisted by the hapless Danu and accompanied by Sanghui, a merchant's daughter whom he saved from her enemies.

Notes and Queries

Número de Páginas: 560

Utopia XXI

Autor: Aymeric Caron

Número de Páginas: 528

Ceci n'est pas un livre. C'est un voyage au centre d'une terre nouvelle, ce sont des pas sur une route à inventer, c'est un rêve pour affronter la réalité.