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Becoming Human Amid Diversions

Author : Andreas Ervik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783031138782
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Human Amid Diversions written by Andreas Ervik and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stupid but cute, distracted and fungal, burned out and playful: this is an inventive and sometimes mischevious media theory that embraces ecology, artifice and delight to propose an art of living with the internet we know today." -Matthew Fuller, Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London This book develops a philosophy of the predominant yet obtrusive aspects of digital culture, arguing that what seems like insignificant distractions of digital technology - such as video games, mindless browsing, cute animal imagery, political memes, and trolling - are actually keyed into fundamental aspects of evolution. These elements are commonly framed as distractions in an economy of attention and this book approaches them with the prospect of understanding their attraction, from the starting point of diversions. Diversions designate not simply shifting states of attention but characterize the direction of any system on a different course, a theoretical perspective which makes it possible to investigate distractions as not only by-products of contemporary media and human attention. The perspective shifts from distractions as the unwanted and inconsequential to considering instead the function of diversions in the process of evolutionary development. Grounded in media theory but drawing from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives in biology, philosophy, and systems theory, this book provocatively theorizes the process of diversions - of the playful, stupid, cute, and funny - as significant for the evolution of a range of organisms. Andreas Ervik holds a PhD in Media studies from the University of Oslo, Norway. He is an independent researcher and artist.

Becoming Human Amid Diversions

Author : Andreas Ervik
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031138775
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Human Amid Diversions written by Andreas Ervik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a philosophy of the predominant yet obtrusive aspects of digital culture, arguing that what seems like insignificant distractions of digital technology - such as video games, mindless browsing, cute animal imagery, political memes, and trolling - are actually keyed into fundamental aspects of evolution. These elements are commonly framed as distractions in an economy of attention and this book approaches them with the prospect of understanding their attraction, from the starting point of diversions. Diversions designate not simply shifting states of attention but characterize the direction of any system on a different course, a theoretical perspective which makes it possible to investigate distractions as not only by-products of contemporary media and human attention. The perspective shifts from distractions as the unwanted and inconsequential to considering instead the function of diversions in the process of evolutionary development. Grounded in media theory but drawing from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives in biology, philosophy, and systems theory, this book provocatively theorizes the process of diversions – of the playful, stupid, cute, and funny – as significant for the evolution of a range of organisms.

On Becoming Human

Author : Ross Snyder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book On Becoming Human written by Ross Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Formative Media

Author : Steffen Krüger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040100538
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Formative Media written by Steffen Krüger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formative Media presents a psychoanalytic and psychosocial inquiry into the significance of the most widely used digital platforms – including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter (X), and Instagram – and the relational styles that users cultivate and habituate in their interplay with these platforms. Steffen Krüger assesses the formative effects of these platforms, considering who we are and how we are becoming who we are in relation to, as well as mediated through, digital platforms. The book considers Facebook in conversation with the Freudian theory of Eros and the Live/Love drive, then homes in on the primitive forms of orality, attachment, dependence, and symbiosis in relation to YouTube. Krüger then expands the discussion of orality with an inquiry into the notions of mastery, control, and domination that Google unfolds and activates in its search function, considers narcissism in the context of Instagram, and examines hate speech and aggression on Twitter. The book focuses on the most salient, most talked about aspects, features, and activities of commercial, corporate social media culture to inquire into the formational pushes and pulls of these activities in their contexts for our subjectivities and sense of self. Showing in detail how digital media platforms have advanced into central “socialisation agencies,” Formative Media will be of great interest to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic, psychocultural, and psychosocial theory, critical digital media studies, and interactional theory.

Becoming Human

Author : Jean Vanier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Human written by Jean Vanier and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Becoming Human

Author : Mary E. Mercer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781573921206
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Becoming Human written by Mary E. Mercer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Becoming Human considers not only the common experiences of human growth from birth to old age, but the profound influences that inborn talent, chance, necessity, and hope play in our development. Dr. Mercer's years of training and experience in internal medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry provided her the opportunity and privilege of witnessing the unfolding of every stage of human life. Rather than use anecdotes from her patients' personal histories, she has brought together a wealth of quotations from great works of literature to reveal the universal pattern that lies deeply buried beneath the economic, social, and political surface of individual lives.

Becoming Human

Author : Colleen A. Sovory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Human written by Colleen A. Sovory and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Becoming Human (Large Print 16pt)

Author : Jean Vanier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781459664364
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Human (Large Print 16pt) written by Jean Vanier and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as a man who inspires the world (Maclean's) and a nation builder (Globe and Mail), Jean Vanier has made a difference in the lives of countless people - including those with disabilities and the many young people who have been moved by his life's work. Becoming Human is a modern classic that continues to resonate among th...

On Becoming Human

Author : Arthur H. Niehoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585002580
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book On Becoming Human written by Arthur H. Niehoff and published by . This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author began writing poems and prose dating back to the early '80's. This book features many of those as well as more recent ones. The Section "From the Heart" has love, romance and heartache as well as inspirational offerings sprinkled throughout. The "Seasons" Section will truly be enjoyed by Nature lovers everywhere. The Section "Angels and Bluebirds" should appeal to those who believe in them. "Musings and Reflections" has dashes of humor and wit. Dead End Streets and The One That Got Away read like real life events. "Regional Thoughts" provides a glimpse of the author's upbringing in Western North Carolina. Hopefully in the pages of this book each reader will find certain events, occasions, thoughts, or insights relevant to experiences and feelings of their own.

Thoughts on the Process of Becoming Human

Author : Rachael D. M. Amos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Thoughts on the Process of Becoming Human written by Rachael D. M. Amos and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Becoming Human

Author : Fr T Joseph Dhanaswamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789354723896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Human written by Fr T Joseph Dhanaswamy and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sparks Amidst the Ashes

Author : Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355466
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Sparks Amidst the Ashes written by Byron L. Sherwin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, Poland served as the epicenter of Jewish life. As a result of the Holocaust, though, Poland has become a "Jewish Atlantis." Yet, the majority of Jews in the world today have their genealogical roots in the historical lands of Poland. In this book, Sherwin demonstrates how the unprecedented works of intellect and spirit produced during the Jewish "Golden Age" in Poland can provide contemporary Jews with the spiritual and intellectual resources required to ensure Jewish continuity in the present and future. Sherwin introduces us to the vast range of mystical speculation, evocative stories, talmudic dialectics, theological ideas, and social realities that were muted by the destruction of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Sherwin critiques the tendency among contemporary Jews to disregard the precious legacy bequeathed by Polish Jewry, and presents a plan for re-creating Jewish life after the Holocaust that draws from the wisdom of the spiritual magnates and from the communal experience that characterized Jewish life in Poland. Sherwin concludes with a controversial proposal for the future of Polish-Jewish relations.

Gadamer's Path to Plato

Author : Andrew Fuyarchuk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498271790
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Gadamer's Path to Plato written by Andrew Fuyarchuk and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gadamer's Path to Plato investigates the formative years of Hans-Georg Gadamer's Plato studies, while studying with Martin Heidegger at Marburg University. It outlines the evolution of Heidegger's understanding of Plato, explains why his hermeneutics and phenomenological method inspired Gadamer, and why Heidegger's argument, that Plato was responsible for Western civilization's forgetting the meaning of existence, provoked him. Heidegger's provocation was crucial to the development of Gadamer's understanding of Plato. This book thus puts forward an argument for Gadamer's having indirectly refuted Heidegger's Plato. This involves a dialogical relationship to the past and a re-examination of the relation of Plato to Aristotle in matters of ethics, physics, and truth. Above all, however, it is Gadamer's concept of Platonic dialectic that refutes Heidegger. This challenge to Heidegger's Plato was commensurate with the origination of Gadamer's positive hermeneutical philosophy. In order to test the alleged openness of that philosophy to the other as other Gadamer's reading of the Republic is scrutinized by using the brilliant scholarship of Stanley Rosen. An examination of their interpretations of the Republic includes an inquiry into their intellectual influences. For Gadamer these include Hegel, the Tubingen school and Jacob Klein; for Rosen, the poetic genius of Leo Strauss. Rosen's mathematical and poetic orientation is then compared to Gadamer's dialectical orientation to Plato. The mathematical approach dovetails with a theory of human nature and procedural rationalism in Gadamer's hermeneutical philosophy that explains why he, in contrast to Rosen, bypasses important dimensions of the Republic such as the significance of particular characters and settings to understanding the whole. In turn, this methodological shortcoming calls into question the truth of Gadamer's method and, with it, the foundations of a truly open and pluralist society.

Walking on Eggshells

Author : Lyssa Chapman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451696159
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Walking on Eggshells written by Lyssa Chapman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empowering memoir that can inspire others to break the cycle of abuse and forge happiness out of extreme adversity. The ninth child of bounty hunter Duane Chapman, made famous on the A&E show Dog the Bounty Hunter, Lyssa Chapman has overcome an upbringing that can only be called tragic. In her piercing memoir, she shares the details of her harrowing childhood and her journey to faith, and offers compassionate guidance, advice, and hope to those who might feel overwhelmed in their own circumstances. As a child, Baby Lyssa’s parents divorced and left her neglected. Things only got worse from there. Walking on Eggshells reveals Lyssa’s nightmare passage from mental and physical abuse to removal from school and confinement at home, flight from protective services, and teen pregnancy. Despite it all, and against incredible odds, Lyssa found her faith. She also found her way out of the spiral of bad decisions to build a healthy relationship with her parents and forge a rewarding, positive life with God. An astonishing true story of one young woman’s trek from poverty and abuse to fulfillment and stardom, Walking on Eggshells is heartrending, powerful, and inspiring.

Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence

Author : Peter Higbie Van Ness
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791412053
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence written by Peter Higbie Van Ness and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a philosophical rethinking of the meaning and nature of spiritual discipline. It offers a new way of describing and justifying practices like praying, meditating, fasting, and yoga, and it provides an innovative case for their contemporary importance. Spiritual discipline is especially effective at combatting Pascalian diversion, the pursuit of activities that occupy the mind just enough to avoid thinking about important things; and Nietzschean decadence, the proclivity for extirpating instinctive drives instead of satisfying or sublimating them. In addition to overcoming diversion and decadence in contemporary consumerist culture, VanNess recommends spiritual discipline as a means of political resistance to powerful institutions which seek to exercise social control in democratic societies by promulgating addictive patterns of consumption. Finally, he argues that regimens of spiritual discipline can serve healthful and liberating purposes, and generally promote fullness of life, only insofar as they are shaped by an ethos of intellectual criticism and aesthetic experimentation.

County & Municipal Record

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book County & Municipal Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ai Weiwei's Blog

Author : Ai Weiwei
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262015218
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Ai Weiwei's Blog written by Ai Weiwei and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009. In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government's “tofu-dregs engineering”), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for “fraud” by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai's notorious online writings translated into English—the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language. The New York Times called Ai “a figure of Warholian celebrity.” He is a leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous “Bird's Nest” stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art “lifetime achievement award” in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his “citizen investigation” of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei's Blog documents Ai's passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China.