Author: Mark Helprin
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061733113
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Present an argument in defense of private property in the age of digital culture, sharing observations about how significant differences in generation values has compromised ownership rights and copyright protections.
Digital Barbarism
Author: Mark Helprin
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061733113
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Present an argument in defense of private property in the age of digital culture, sharing observations about how significant differences in generation values has compromised ownership rights and copyright protections.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061733113
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Present an argument in defense of private property in the age of digital culture, sharing observations about how significant differences in generation values has compromised ownership rights and copyright protections.
Digital Barbarism
Author: Mark Helprin
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061868329
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.” —National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, Digital Barbarism provides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061868329
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.” —National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, Digital Barbarism provides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections.
Barbarism and Its Discontents
Author: Maria Boletsi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804785376
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which "civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others "barbarians." Since the 1990s, and especially since 9/11, these terms have become increasingly popular in Western political and cultural rhetoric—a rhetoric that divides the world into forces of good and evil. This study intervenes in this recent trend and interrogates contemporary and historical uses of barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent potential. Boletsi recasts barbarism as a productive concept, finding that it is a common thread in works of literature, art, and theory. By dislodging barbarism from its conventional contexts, this book reclaims barbarism's edge and proposes it as a useful theoretical tool.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804785376
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which "civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others "barbarians." Since the 1990s, and especially since 9/11, these terms have become increasingly popular in Western political and cultural rhetoric—a rhetoric that divides the world into forces of good and evil. This study intervenes in this recent trend and interrogates contemporary and historical uses of barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent potential. Boletsi recasts barbarism as a productive concept, finding that it is a common thread in works of literature, art, and theory. By dislodging barbarism from its conventional contexts, this book reclaims barbarism's edge and proposes it as a useful theoretical tool.
Ripped
Author: Greg Kot
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416547312
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Tells the story of how the laptop generation created a new grassroots music industry, with the fans and bands rather than the corporations in charge.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416547312
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Tells the story of how the laptop generation created a new grassroots music industry, with the fans and bands rather than the corporations in charge.
In Catastrophic Times
Author: Isabelle Stengers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781785420092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This book is addressed to everyone who is struggling and experimenting today, to everyone who is a true contemporary of what Stengers dares to call "the intrusion of Gaia," this "nature" that has left behind its traditional role and now has the power to question us all. In Catastrophic Times is neither a book of prophecy nor a survival guide. Here, Stengers reminds us that it falls to us to experiment with the apparatuses that make us capable of surviving without sinking into barbarism, to create what nourishes trust where panicked impotence threatens.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781785420092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This book is addressed to everyone who is struggling and experimenting today, to everyone who is a true contemporary of what Stengers dares to call "the intrusion of Gaia," this "nature" that has left behind its traditional role and now has the power to question us all. In Catastrophic Times is neither a book of prophecy nor a survival guide. Here, Stengers reminds us that it falls to us to experiment with the apparatuses that make us capable of surviving without sinking into barbarism, to create what nourishes trust where panicked impotence threatens.
Socialism Or Barbarism
Author: István Mészáros
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583670521
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
"This bold new study analyzes the historical choices facing us at the outset of the new millennium. The author gives new meaning and urgency to the alternatives posed by Rosa Luxemburg at the beginning of the century. His detailed analysis of the roots and development of US global power shows how its supremacy has come at the cost of exhausting the universalising pretensions of capitalism. The destructive tendencies of capitalism are a greater threat today than every before." -- BACK COVER.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583670521
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
"This bold new study analyzes the historical choices facing us at the outset of the new millennium. The author gives new meaning and urgency to the alternatives posed by Rosa Luxemburg at the beginning of the century. His detailed analysis of the roots and development of US global power shows how its supremacy has come at the cost of exhausting the universalising pretensions of capitalism. The destructive tendencies of capitalism are a greater threat today than every before." -- BACK COVER.
Mara
Author: Kurt Busiek
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
ISBN: 1594656665
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A powerful and enthralling sci-fi epic about a perfect warrior unleashed in an age of barbarism and sorcery, and fated to one day destroy the gods.
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
ISBN: 1594656665
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A powerful and enthralling sci-fi epic about a perfect warrior unleashed in an age of barbarism and sorcery, and fated to one day destroy the gods.
Son of Oblivion
Author: Kurt Busiek
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
ISBN: 1594656134
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A powerful and enthralling sci-fi epic about a perfect warrior unleashed in an age of barbarism and sorcery, and fated to one day destroy the gods.
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
ISBN: 1594656134
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A powerful and enthralling sci-fi epic about a perfect warrior unleashed in an age of barbarism and sorcery, and fated to one day destroy the gods.
The American Jeremiad
Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299288633
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
When Sacvan Bercovitch’s The American Jeremiad first appeared in 1978, it was hailed as a landmark study of dissent and cultural formation in America, from the Puritans’ writings through the major literary works of the antebellum era. For this long-awaited anniversary edition, Bercovitch has written a deeply thoughtful and challenging new preface that reflects on his classic study of the role of the political sermon, or jeremiad, in America from a contemporary perspective, while assessing developments in the field of American studies and the culture at large.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299288633
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
When Sacvan Bercovitch’s The American Jeremiad first appeared in 1978, it was hailed as a landmark study of dissent and cultural formation in America, from the Puritans’ writings through the major literary works of the antebellum era. For this long-awaited anniversary edition, Bercovitch has written a deeply thoughtful and challenging new preface that reflects on his classic study of the role of the political sermon, or jeremiad, in America from a contemporary perspective, while assessing developments in the field of American studies and the culture at large.
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Author: Aaron Bastani
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786632640
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone. New technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism and scarcity. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness. Solar power will deliver the energy that we need, while asteroid mining will deliver the necessary resources, allowing us to end the devastation of our environment. Innovations in AI, gene editing, food technology will leads us to new ways of living better lives. In his first book, radical political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable hope, highlighting how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of nine billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology and build meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society heralds the beginning of history.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786632640
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone. New technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism and scarcity. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness. Solar power will deliver the energy that we need, while asteroid mining will deliver the necessary resources, allowing us to end the devastation of our environment. Innovations in AI, gene editing, food technology will leads us to new ways of living better lives. In his first book, radical political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable hope, highlighting how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of nine billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology and build meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society heralds the beginning of history.