The Amme Talks

The Amme Talks PDF Author: Ulf Stolterfoht
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997852448
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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The Amme Talks is a conversation between poet and machine. In 2003, poet Ulf Stolterfoht and a chatbot named Amme (which means "wet nurse" in German) met in Berlin. For one week, Stolterfoht interrogated Amme: not just a chatbot, actually, but a steel-and-glass construction with a computer interface, which is connected to a glass of milk, a robotic arm that tips over the glass, and a tube that releases water, as if urinating. Stolterfoht asked Amme--the creation of artist Peter Dittmer--about the nature of authorship and the agency of language; he intended to turn the answers into an essay on poetics. While Amme replied to every question, Stolterfoht observed that the output was "highly self-reflexive, if not entirely self-referential," and impossible for him to assimilate into his writing. He'd hoped to glean something from Amme's performance of an idiosyncratic and mechanical form of human speech. Instead, he stumbled on a remarkable "second-order realism" in which words refer not to things but to themselves. In the dialogue presented in this book, Stolterfoht glimpses something other than what we understand as poetry, something apart from "solipsistic exercises" with language, something like "endlessly liberated speech"--A potential revolution in poetry mounted by a milk-spilling chatbot.

The Amme Talks

The Amme Talks PDF Author: Ulf Stolterfoht
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997852448
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book Description
The Amme Talks is a conversation between poet and machine. In 2003, poet Ulf Stolterfoht and a chatbot named Amme (which means "wet nurse" in German) met in Berlin. For one week, Stolterfoht interrogated Amme: not just a chatbot, actually, but a steel-and-glass construction with a computer interface, which is connected to a glass of milk, a robotic arm that tips over the glass, and a tube that releases water, as if urinating. Stolterfoht asked Amme--the creation of artist Peter Dittmer--about the nature of authorship and the agency of language; he intended to turn the answers into an essay on poetics. While Amme replied to every question, Stolterfoht observed that the output was "highly self-reflexive, if not entirely self-referential," and impossible for him to assimilate into his writing. He'd hoped to glean something from Amme's performance of an idiosyncratic and mechanical form of human speech. Instead, he stumbled on a remarkable "second-order realism" in which words refer not to things but to themselves. In the dialogue presented in this book, Stolterfoht glimpses something other than what we understand as poetry, something apart from "solipsistic exercises" with language, something like "endlessly liberated speech"--A potential revolution in poetry mounted by a milk-spilling chatbot.

Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

Digital Culture & Society (DCS) PDF Author: Ramón Reichert
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839442664
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Digital Culture & Society is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for inquiries into digital media theory, methodologies, and socio-technological developments. This issue shows: The meaning of AI has undergone drastic changes during the last 60 years of AI discourse(s). What we talk about when saying AI is not what it meant in 1958, when John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky and their colleagues started using the term. Biological information processing is now firmly embedded in commercial applications like the intelligent personal Google Assistant, Facebook's facial recognition algorithm, Deep Face, Amazon's device Alexa or Apple's software feature Siri to mention just a few.

Sweet Georgia Peach

Sweet Georgia Peach PDF Author: Judy M. Suderman
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1636304001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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A young girl's journey to discovering the truth of who she is in God's eyes and how she is loved. Along the journey, her heart is broken a time or two; she meets extraordinary people who change her life, each in their own unique way, and she even falls in love

Merry & Seduced: A Cyborg Holiday Romance

Merry & Seduced: A Cyborg Holiday Romance PDF Author: Shelley Munro
Publisher: Shelley Munro
ISBN: 0473303582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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All roads lead home at Christmas… Cyborg Amme Vanak is wired to care for children and since her current charge is grown, she’s feeling edgy. She’s hoping a Christmas visit to Earth with her friends will offer distraction and maybe even a fling with a sexy Earthman before she flies on to Viros for a new adventure. Wealthy entrepreneur Marcus Polo is single with a rockin’ social life until an unexpected Christmas gift throws his existence into chaos. A chance meeting with exotic Amme deepens his turmoil. She might be the solution to his problem, but she’s different from his exes, and she pushes every one of his sexual buttons. Amme is torn. Marcus Polo is handsome and kind and so, so attractive. Even better, it seems the fascination is mutual. Amme is having a ball on Earth, but as departure day creeps closer, she becomes increasingly conflicted about leaving. Then there’s the whole alien thing. Somehow, she doesn’t think Earth and Marcus are ready to accept aliens are fact and not science fiction. Warning: Contains a bunch of aliens intent on relaxing and enjoying a New Zealand Christmas, some canoodling under the mistletoe and addictions to chocolate. Keywords: paranormal romance, paranormal series, Christmas romance, cyborg romance, alien romance, New Zealand, billionaire hero, secrets, fish out of water, widower with child, surprise baby

AKASHVANI

AKASHVANI PDF Author: All India Radio (AIR), New Delhi
Publisher: All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 4 MARCH, 1973 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 56 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXXVIII, No. 10 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 19-54 ARTICLE: 1.Wildlife Sanctuaries in Mysore State 2. Discussion: Role of Civil Servants In A democracy 3.Twenty Five Years Ago 4. Swami Vivekanand-Patriot and Seer 5. Thoughts On Our Open Society 6. Brain Surgery 7. Let Me Be Lonely’ 8. Unity in Diversity 9.Population Explosion in India AUTHOR: 1. K. N. Bengeri 2. Participants:—S. P. Ranga Rao, Smt. Y. Saraswathy Rao, And Dr. P. A James 3. H. R. Luthra 4. V. N. Deshpande 5. Prof. Samuel Mathai 6. Dr. B. Dayananda Rao 7. Shankari Ram Iyer 8. Col. S.S. Kanbargimath 9. A. K. Saikia KEYWORDS : 1.Tourists Oriented Sanctuaries, Bandipur Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagarcole Sanctuary,Dndel Wildlife Sancuary, JAGARVALLEY Wildlife Sanctuary, Birds Sanctuary 2.New and Challenging Assignment,Inaugural Function,Gandhiji's Assassination, Happy Memories 3.Abolition of Caste Distinction,Education.To The Youth,Position of Women views on Religion.Cultural Ambassador. Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matters published in this “AKASHVANI” and other AIR journals. For reproduction previous permission is essential.

Das Gedicht ist, was es tut

Das Gedicht ist, was es tut PDF Author: Elke Erb
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
ISBN: 3835341537
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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"Ich habe vor, meine Poetologie darzustellen aus Tagebuch-Notizen der letzten Jahre. Sie zeigen, wie ich über das Schreiben nachgedacht habe. Da ging es nicht um öffentliche Wirkung, sondern nur um das Schreiben. Am Anfang stand: Ich muss meine Voraussetzungen ändern, jene, die den allgemeinen, denen der anderen Menschen, gleichen, geprägt von der Schule, dann, so oder so, von den Parolen der Partei: die Partei, die Partei, die hat immer recht, dieses "Hirn der Klasse". Aus den Tagebuch-Notizen wurden Gedichte, die das "Hirn der Klasse" überholten. Ich weiß noch, dass ich in der ersten Zeit immer dachte: "Es geht doch, geht doch!" Da war ich aber schon auf dem realen poetologischen Weg, abgekehrt von den Verfehlungen der Politik. "Das Gedicht ist, was es tut." Es ist selbständig und real, keine leere, unselbstständige Phraseologie, der viele Menschen ausgesetzt und auch viele gefolgt waren. Es ist ja gleich, welchen Verkündungen. Hat das Christentum die vorgegebenen Ideale gesellschaftlich verwirklicht? Ich galt lange als unverständlich, das hat sich geändert, als es aus war mit den hohlen Phrasen. Lange her. So kam ich weiter mit den Gedichten."

Mission

Mission PDF Author: Patrick Tilley
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448209846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 525

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What would you do if, through an unexpected twist of fate and time, you came face to face with Jesus of Nazareth? In the flesh. A living, breathing, three-dimensional figure with a disconcertingly casual manner. Leo Resnick, a smart young Manhattan lawyer, and his girlfriend, Dr Miriam Maxwell, are confronted with this very reality. Leo's record of his encounter with The Man is fast-paced and thoughtful at the same time. Here Tilley showcases his ability to explore vast themes whilst creating a page-turning level of excitement. If you've ever looked up at the stars and wondered what it all means, this is the book you've been waiting for. Mission, first published in 1981, is a sci-fi novel of biblical proportions full of wit, theology and - in an inspired twist - aliens.

Speech Play

Speech Play PDF Author: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512803154
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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From riddles to proverbs, from jingles to jokes, from mnemonics to pig Latin to dueling with words, speech play is central to social life in all of its forms. These essays describe a variety of speech play genres, formulate the "rules" for play with language, and discuss the relevance of speech play to current issues in linguistic theory, cognitive development, and the ethnography of speaking.

Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 938

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Talking Visions

Talking Visions PDF Author: Ella Shohat
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262692618
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Book Description
This multivoiced collection of essays and images presents a "relational" feminism of diverse communities, affiliations, and practices.