The Universal Subject Of Our Time

Author : Darius Nikbin
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789040418
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Subject of Our Time written by Darius Nikbin and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Subject itself is the Subject of the Machine. What does it mean to be human? We live in a technological age, where rapid advances in personal tech and the science of Artificial Intelligence are challenging us in ways never before imagined. A book in two parts, The Universal Subject of Our Time begins with an exploration of 20th Century post-modernism's undermining of subjectivity with thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard and Althusser and continues with a description of the science wars, where physical realists challenged the post-modernists up to the 1990s when the intellectual conflict resulted in an uncompromising stand-off after the Sokal Hoax. In Part II the subject is resurrected by taking a look at arguments for machine intelligence and AI and also, from the perspective of physics, examines what subjectivity means, particularly in relation to black holes or black stars, and look to what lies ahead in the future, in terms of space exploration, Martian habitats and even the possibility of first contact with extra-terrestrials.

Author : Keith Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244806
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time written by Keith Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated."— Erik Spiekermann, typographer We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages—of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today. Sure to delight book lovers of all stripes with its lush, full-color illustrations, The Book gives us the momentous and surprising history behind humanity’s most important—and universal—information technology.

Author : Carlos Santana
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316244910
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Tone written by Carlos Santana and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years later -- after he played a historic set at Woodstock -- the world came to know the name Carlos Santana, his sensual and instantly recognizable guitar sound, and the legendary band that blended electric blues, psychedelic rock, Latin rhythms, and modern jazz, and that still bears his name. Carlos Santana's unforgettable memoir offers a page-turning tale of musical self-determination and inner self-discovery, with personal stories filled with colorful detail and life-affirming lessons. The Universal Tone traces his journey from his earliest days playing the strip bars in Tijuana while barely in his teens and brings to light the establishment of his signature guitar sound; his roles as husband, father, recording legend, and rock guitar star; his indebtedness to musical and spiritual influences -- from John Coltrane and John Lee Hooker to Miles Davis and Harry Belafonte; and his deep, lifelong dedication to a spiritual path that he developed from his Catholic upbringing, Eastern philosophies, and other mystical sources. It includes his recording some of the most popular and influential rock albums of all time, up to and beyond the 1999 sensation Supernatural, which garnered nine Grammy Awards and stands as arguably the most amazing career comeback in popular music history. It's a profoundly inspiring tale of divine inspiration and musical fearlessness that does not balk at finding the humor in the world of high-flying fame, or at speaking plainly of Santana's personal revelations and the infinite possibility he sees in each person he meets. "Love is the light that is inside of all of us, everyone," he writes. "I salute the light that you are and that is inside your heart."

Author : Universal history
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time written by Universal history and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Wagner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501774301
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eisenhower for Our Time written by Steven Wagner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eisenhower for Our Time provides an introduction to the Eisenhower presidency, extracting lessons for today's world. Steven Wagner proposes that the need to maintain balance defines Eisenhower's presidency. Wagner examines a series of defining moments that were among Eisenhower's greatest challenges, some of which resulted in his greatest accomplishments: the decision to run for president, his political philosophy of the "Middle Way," the creation of a national security policy, the French Indochina War, Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Little Rock Desegregation Crisis, the Race for Space, and the famous Farewell Address. Wagner looks at Eisenhower's executive ability, leadership, decision making, and willingness to compromise, as well as the qualities of duty, integrity, and good character. The moments detailed in Eisenhower for Our Time show Eisenhower as a president intimately engaged in the decisions that defined America in his time and that apply to ours today. The President's actions place him among the most successful presidents and provide many lessons to guide us in our time and in the future.

Author : Xunwu Chen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498596347
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Justice and Our Epochal Mind written by Xunwu Chen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Justice and Our Epochal Mind explores the mind of our epoch, defined as the period since the Nuremberg Trial and the establishment of the United Nations in 1945. Xunwu Chen examines four defining ideas of this epoch—global justice, cosmopolitanism, crimes against humanity, and cultural toleration—as well as the structural relationships among these ideas. Chen argues that the mind of our epoch is essentially the mind of humanity. Its world view, horizon, standpoint, norms, standards, and vocabularies are of humanity, by humanity, and for humanity, and all are embodied in human institutions and practices throughout the globe. Meanwhile, our epochal mind has a dialectical relationship with particular cultures bearing normative force. As a metaphysical subjectivity and substance, humanity is the source of all human values in our epoch and defines what can and should be human values and virtues. Humankind, therefore, are a people with socio-political and legal sovereignty, sharing a common fate. This novel study brings a cross-cultural approach and will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, political science, sociology, and the humanities more broadly.

Author : Marc H. Tanenbaum
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823222308
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Prophet for Our Time written by Marc H. Tanenbaum and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthology of Tanenbaum's most influential writings underscores his major contributions in the areas of civil and human rights, international affairs, and, above all, the development of Jewish-Christian understanding and mutual respect. The thirty-four selections, organized chronologically, track close to thirty years of vigorous, wise, and passionate advocacy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Hooper C. Dunbar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forces of Our Time written by Hooper C. Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anyone looking at the condition of the world today will be struck by the dramatic changes taking place. On the one hand is the visible deterioration in so many fundamental processes and institutions, from the financial world, politics and the fabric of society to climate change and energy. On the other is an enlivening upsurge in knowledge, in concern for human rights and in technologies that bring people together. These energies are spiritual in nature and result from the coming of God's most recent representative to humankind, Bahá'u'lláh. He has set in motion processes that are creating a new, divine civilization. In response to this, negative forces have risen to resist the divine purpose. The nature of these spiritual forces is a prominent theme in the Bahá'í writings, particularly in those of Shoghi Effendi. They convey vital principles and laws, systematic processes and insights into the workings of the world. They explain the changes that are taking place and give us a glimpse into our own nature and reality. In this book Hooper Dunbar examines the character of the spiritual forces as set out in writings of Shoghi Effendi. The first part considers the terms 'force', 'energy' and 'power' in these writings, while the second comprises a selection of quotations drawn from the writings of Shoghi Effendi - many published here for the first time - arranged chronologically, so readers may consider the ideas in their original context."--Publisher's website

Author : John Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A View of Universal History, from the Creation to the Present Time written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joshua Sperling
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786637413
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Writer of Our Time written by Joshua Sperling and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at art with Ways of Seeing. As a storyteller and political activist, he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants, and the oppressed around the world. “Far from dragging politics into art,” he wrote in 1953, “art has dragged me into politics.” He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January 2017. Built around a series of watersheds, at once personal and historical, A Writer of Our Time traces Berger’s development from his roots as a postwar art student and polemicist in the Cold War battles of 1950s London, through the heady days of the 1960s—when the revolutions were not only political but sexual and artistic—to Berger’s reinvention as a rural storyteller and the long hangover that followed the rise and fall of the New Left. Drawing on first-hand, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available, Joshua Sperling digs beneath the moments of controversy to reveal a figure of remarkable complexity and resilience. The portrait that emerges is of a cultural innovator as celebrated as he was often misunderstood, and a writer increasingly driven as much by what he loved as by what he opposed. A Writer of Our Time brings the many faces of John Berger together, repatriating one of our great minds to the intellectual dramas of his and our time.