Who Would You Kill To Save The World

Author : Claire Colebrook
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496237161
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Would You Kill to Save the World? written by Claire Colebrook and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Would You Kill to Save the World? examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world—and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society. Claire Colebrook redefines “the world” as affluent Western society and “saving the world” as preventing us from becoming the othered them who are viewed in their suffering. Colebrook further examines how the use of postapocalyptic cinema is a humanist—Western, capitalist, colonizing, white, heteronormative, and individualist—creation and challenges the notion that a world built on foundations of exploitation is worth saving. Colebrook combines postapocalyptic fiction, concern over the global climate crisis, colonialism, and anti-Blackness to explain how contemporary postapocalypse blockbusters circulate ideas of whiteness and the right of the privileged to rebuild the world. Who Would You Kill to Save the World? is a provocative addition to the field of extinction studies and challenges the conceptual frames we use to define ourselves.

Author : Claire Colebrook
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496234987
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Would You Kill to Save the World? written by Claire Colebrook and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Colebrook examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world--and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society.

Author : David Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000052125
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resilience in the Anthropocene written by David Chandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first critical, multi-disciplinary study of how the concepts of resilience and the Anthropocene have combined to shape contemporary thought and governmental practice. Faced with the climate catastrophe of the Anthropocene, theorists and policymakers are increasingly turning to ‘sustainable’, ‘creative’ and ‘bottom-up’ imaginaries of governance. The book brings together cutting-edge insights from leading geographers, international relations scholars and philosophers to explore how the concepts of resilience and the Anthropocene challenge and transform prevailing understandings of Earth, space, time and knowledge, and how these transformations reshape governance, ethics and critique today. This book examines how the Anthropocene calls into question established categories through which modern societies have tended to make sense of the world and engage in critical reflection and analysis. It also considers how resilience approaches attempt to re-stabilize these categories – and the ethical and political effects that result from these resilience-based efforts. Offering innovative insights into the problem of how environmental change is known and governed in the Anthropocene, this book will be of interest to students in fields such as geography, international relations, anthropology, science and technology studies, sociology, and the environmental humanities.

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165637
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Would You Kill the Fat Man? written by David Edmonds and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people feel it's wrong to kill the fat man.

Author : Bruce Schneier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608891
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World written by Bruce Schneier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world of "smart" devices means the Internet can kill people. We need to act. Now. Everything is a computer. Ovens are computers that make things hot; refrigerators are computers that keep things cold. These computers—from home thermostats to chemical plants—are all online. The Internet, once a virtual abstraction, can now sense and touch the physical world. As we open our lives to this future, often called the Internet of Things, we are beginning to see its enormous potential in ideas like driverless cars, smart cities, and personal agents equipped with their own behavioral algorithms. But every knife cuts two ways. All computers can be hacked. And Internet-connected computers are the most vulnerable. Forget data theft: cutting-edge digital attackers can now crash your car, your pacemaker, and the nation’s power grid. In Click Here to Kill Everybody, renowned expert and best-selling author Bruce Schneier examines the hidden risks of this new reality. After exploring the full implications of a world populated by hyperconnected devices, Schneier reveals the hidden web of technical, political, and market forces that underpin the pervasive insecurities of today. He then offers common-sense choices for companies, governments, and individuals that can allow us to enjoy the benefits of this omnipotent age without falling prey to its vulnerabilities. From principles for a more resilient Internet of Things, to a recipe for sane government regulation and oversight, to a better way to understand a truly new environment, Schneier’s vision is required reading for anyone invested in human flourishing.

Author : Robert Brockway
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 0307464350
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody written by Robert Brockway and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when you thought you’d accepted your own mortality . . . Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing essays reveal the chilling and very real experiments, dangerous emerging technologies, and terrifying natural disasters that soon could—or very nearly already did—bring about the end of humanity. In short, everything in here will kill you and everyone you love. At any moment. And nobody’s told you about it—until now: • Experiments in green energy like the HiPER, which uses massive lasers to create a tiny “contained” sun; it’s an idea that could save the world if it doesn’t consume us all in a fiery fusion reaction first. • Global disasters like the hypercane—a hurricane so large it could cover all of North America and shoot trailer parks into space! • Terrifying new developments in robotics like the EATR, which powers itself on meat—an invention in the running for “Worst Decision Made by Anybody.”

Author : SIMON. KERNICK
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472270979
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kill a Stranger written by SIMON. KERNICK and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles E. Cobb
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080952
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed written by Charles E. Cobb and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self-defense,” King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as “an arsenal.” Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection—yet this crucial dimension of the civil rights struggle has been long ignored. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb, Jr. reveals how nonviolent activists and their allies kept the civil rights movement alive by bearing—and, when necessary, using—firearms. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these men and women were crucial to the movement's success, as were the weapons they carried. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the Southern Freedom Movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb offers a controversial examination of the vital role guns have played in securing American liberties.

Author : Shaw Desmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My country written by Shaw Desmond and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Parsons Lathrop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Would You Kill Him? written by George Parsons Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: