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Deus in Machina:Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between

Author : Jeremy Stolow
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823249808
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Deus in Machina:Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between written by Jeremy Stolow and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and action--religion and technology--are implicated in each other. Contrary to commonsense understandings of both religion (as an "otherworldly" orientation) and technology (as the name for tools, techniques, and expert knowledges oriented to "this" world), the contributors to this volume challenge the grounds on which this division has been erected in the first place. What sorts of things come to light when one allows religion and technology to mingle freely? In an effort to answer that question, Deus in Machina embarks upon an interdisciplinary voyage across diverse traditions and contexts where religion and technology meet: from the design of clocks in medieval Christian Europe, to the healing power of prayer in premodern Buddhist Japan, to 19th-century Spiritualist devices for communicating with the dead, to Islamic debates about kidney dialysis in contemporary Egypt, to the work of disability activists using documentary film to reimagine Jewish kinship, to the representation of Haitian Vodou on the Internet, among other case studies. Combining rich historical and ethnographic detail with extended theoretical reflection, Deus in Machina outlines new directions for the study of religion and/as technology that will resonate across the human sciences, including religious studies, science and technology studies, communication studies, history, anthropology, and philosophy.

Deus Ex Machina

Author : Andrew Foster Altschul
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582436010
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Deus Ex Machina written by Andrew Foster Altschul and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a distant island, reality show contestants battle for bragging rights and a slot on next week's episode. They've perfected their dramatic roles and are prepared to do whatever it takes to win. There's the take–no–prisoners Marine sergeant, the gay hairdresser, the ruthless lawyer, the brainy poet. But one player refuses to compete—Gloria Hamm, a sullen dental hygienist, voted least likely to win by the show's crew. The higher–ups are desperate for ratings and sensational twists to trump the plots of seasons past. But the producer—haunted by personal tragedies all too real—is losing control of the show and its crew. While he obsesses about Gloria, the crew plots mutiny, a contestant dances with insanity, and disease threatens to halt the show completely. When real catastrophes strike, the producer finds it harder and harder to navigate his surreal landscape, where boundaries of the real, imagined, and orchestrated have blurred beyond recognition. Deus Ex Machina deconstructs our notions of narrative, revealing how tricky it is for any auteur to disappear from his creation. In an age when people will seemingly do anything to be on television, it asks what is the true nature of "reality," and what is its cost?

Deus Ex Machina

Author : Jennifer Pilch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780932716842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Deus Ex Machina written by Jennifer Pilch and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Kelsey Street Press FIRSTS Contest. "Jennifer Pilch's DEUS EX MACHINA pulls the ache from a fractured century, stitching the bloom past artifice into an urgent, prismatic form unlike any we have seen. Each voice 'risks/transforms night' into 'a blossom that punctures that blots.' A book like this, assembled from music and ruin and light, is rare and necessary." Joshua Poteat "In DEUS EX MACHINA, Jennifer Pilch crashes classical tragedy into melodrama, foregrounding the parameters of representation in an analog of early photography's impact. With lush language, she explores the photograph's obviating violence, focusing on the 'taken' part of the picture and the lens's seizure of sensory mechanics. Working at varying distances from the stage, the page, and the photographic image, her historical characters successively worry the line between romance and fidelity, presence and preservation, and contend with a colonizing mode of 'perception stuck to where there's light.'" Kate Colby"

Deus Ex Machina

Author : Charles Matthew Sauer
Publisher : Charles Matthew Sauer
ISBN 13 : 1436314976
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Deus Ex Machina written by Charles Matthew Sauer and published by Charles Matthew Sauer. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling to a ghost town, a software engineer becomes trapped in a mystery -- but she plans a mind-bending escape... Deus ex Machina; Logos is a haunted book. Legends of gold still echo across the Rocky Mountains. When a software engineer for a printing company, takes a vacation and writes about a journey to find a hidden book, will she find gold? Follow the traces to an abandoned train depot in a ghost town. Discover computer innovations of America resonating in a spectral link between the golden legends of New Spain and the metamorphic myths of Pompeii. From the phantasms of software encryption to the geometrical precision of Anasazi ruins, this book keeps you searching far beyond the idea of a fiction. As complex and intriguing as an Umberto Eco novel, Charles Sauer's metafiction is a literary work that operates on several levels. In one aspect an entertaining horror story about the ghost of a woman trapped inside a book, it is also a philosophical inquiry about myths, archetypes, and fiction. It challenges contemporaneous ideas, asking the question: Does a tangible object -- like this novel -- mirror reality in such a way to suggest that essence precedes existence? Or is the question itself a trap? The author seamlessly weaves timeless myths like the tragic love story between Narcissus and Echo with contemporaneous themes like the manipulation of information and identity theft. Further, Sauer unprecedentedly and poetically embeds software source code within the story! Solve the mystery: Read the fascinating Deus ex Machina.

Brain Jack

Author : Brian Falkner
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0375843671
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Brain Jack written by Brian Falkner and published by Ember. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Top Ten YALSA Pick for Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults! Fans of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother and M. T. Anderson's Feed will love this high-octane cyber thriller. In a dystopian near-future, neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Just slip on a headset, and it's the Internet at the speed of thought. For teen hacker Sam Wilson, a headset is a must. But as he masters the new technology, he has a terrifying realization. If anything on his computer is vulnerable to an attack, what happens when his mind is linked to the system? Could consciousness itself be hacked? Brian Falkner, author of The Tomorrow Code and The Project, delivers an action-packed and thought-provoking sci-fi thriller in which logging on to a computer could mean the difference between life and death.

Deus Ex Machina Sapiens

Author : David Ellis
Publisher : Elysian Detroit
ISBN 13 : 0615401368
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Deus Ex Machina Sapiens written by David Ellis and published by Elysian Detroit. This book was released on 2011 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watson's win on Jeopardy came as no surprise to those who had read Deus ex Machina sapiens. It was written largely during the 1990s, around the time that another IBM supercomputer--Deep Blue--was trouncing world chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. The book has since been updated on a few points of detail but its primary message remains intact: the Machine is rapidly evolving as Man's rival if not replacement for the job of Steward of the Earth. Building upon the work of some of the world's greatest scientists, philosophers, and religious thinkers, and drawing particularly from developments in the computing and cognitive sciences--particularly, the field of artificial intelligence, or AI--the book reveals the evolutionary emergence of a machine that is not just intelligent but also self-conscious, emotional, and free-willed. In the 1980s and '90s you used to hear grandiose claims about AI. Machines would soon surpass humans in intelligence, it was claimed by some. The Japanese government spent a billion dollars on one project to make it happen. Well, it didn't happen, but that didn't stop the development of intelligence in machines. AI research simply went underground, and has ever since been quietly incorporated into the "ordinary" programs we use every day, without fanfare, without hype. There is still no machine that rivals Homo sapiens in overall intelligence, but today there are machines that far exceed human intellectual capacity in specific domains, from games to engineering to art, and the number of domains is growing exponentially big and exponentially fast. The disappearance of AI from front stage was good insofar as it allowed machines to develop in the right way; that is, through an evolutionary process, which is the only way for something of such complexity to develop. But it was bad insofar as we lost sight of the development of the intelligent machine. Deus brings Machina sapiens back to front stage, where it belongs. After describing the evolutionary development of intelligence in machines it goes on to describe the emotional, intellectual, and ethical attributes of what is no less than an emergent new life form. It asks the Big Question that can only be asked if you accept the very possibility of the new life form: Will it be serpent or savior? The question is answered in the book's title, which is intended to mean "God Emerging From the Intelligent Machine." The author confesses to having never studied Latin and to have concocted the title from two known Latin phrases: "Deus ex Machina" and "Homo sapiens." The concoction could be grammatically incorrect. The author would be pleased to be corrected.

Deus Ex Machina

Author : Mel Croucher
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1783336919
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Deus Ex Machina written by Mel Croucher and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The billion dollar video games industry had to start somewhere, and this is the hilarious, heartbreaking, inside story of how it all began and where it's all headed. And in the middle of it all there was a game hailed as the best ever written. It was called Deus Ex Machina. It was a creative triumph and it was a commercial disaster. Meet the pirates, the nerds, the innovators, the charlatans, the superstars, the winners, the sinners, the good, the bad and the downright ugly. A remarkable story revealed by the founder of the industry himself, with gut-wrenching honesty and merciless humor. If you ever wondered how computer gaming turned us all into willing slaves, you're about to find out in glorious style.

The Deus Machine

Author : Pierre Ouellette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780450603983
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Deus Machine written by Pierre Ouellette and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Sister's Keeper

Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143915726X
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book My Sister's Keeper written by Jodi Picoult and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister Kate can somehow fight the leukemia that has palgued her since childhood.

Swank Rally

Author : Deus Ex Machina
Publisher : Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 13 : 9788836640201
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Swank Rally written by Deus Ex Machina and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hosted in Italy by Australian company Deus Ex Machina, the Deus Swank Rally is a championship for riders of Enduro off-road dirt bikes. Presented here are photographs documenting the championship and the eccentric events surrounding it, including amusing competitions and parties.

Work Done for Hire

Author : Joe Haldeman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101637625
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Work Done for Hire written by Joe Haldeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Haldeman’s “adept plotting, strong pacing, and sense of grim stoicism have won him wide acclaim” (The Washington Post) and numerous honors for such works as The Forever War, The Accidental Time Machine, and the Marsbound trilogy. Now, the multiple Hugo and Nebula award–winning author pits a lone war veteran against a mysterious enemy who is watching his every move—and threatens him with more than death unless he kills for them. Wounded in combat and honorably discharged nine years ago, Jack Daley still suffers nightmares from when he served his country as a sniper, racking up sixteen confirmed kills. Now a struggling author, Jack accepts an offer to write a near-future novel about a serial killer, based on a Hollywood script outline. It’s an opportunity to build his writing career, and a future with his girlfriend, Kit Majors. But Jack’s other talent is also in demand. A package arrives on his doorstep containing a sniper rifle, complete with silencer and ammunition—and the first installment of a $100,000 payment to kill a “bad man.” The twisted offer is genuine. The people behind it are dangerous. They prove that they have Jack under surveillance. He can’t run. He can’t hide. And if he doesn’t take the job, Kit will be in the crosshairs instead.

Animal Man

Author : Grant Morrison
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Animal Man written by Grant Morrison and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this long-awaited second collection of the groundbreaking series Animal Man, .. questions become more and more troubling-and the answers less and less clear."- p .[4] of cover.

In Benzin Veritas

Author : Deus Ex Machina Motorcycles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646835020
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book In Benzin Veritas written by Deus Ex Machina Motorcycles and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of Deus custom bike builds 2005-2020.

The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes

Author : Wade Albert White
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316305278
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes written by Wade Albert White and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling debut novel where fantasy and science fiction meet, dragons aren't as innocent as they look, and nothing is quite what it seems. Anne has spent most of her thirteen years dreaming of the day she and her best friend Penelope will finally leave Saint Lupin's Institute for Perpetually Wicked and Hideously Unattractive Children. When the big day arrives, a series of very curious happenings lead to Anne being charged with an epic quest. Anne, Penelope, and new questing partner Hiro have only days to travel to strange new locales, solve myriad riddles, and triumph over monstrous foes--or face the horrible consequences. Packed with action, humor, and endless heart, this debut novel marks the first volume in an irresistible and original fantasy series.

The Authenticity of Faith

Author : Richard Allan Beck
Publisher : Leafwood Publishers & Acu Press
ISBN 13 : 9780891123507
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Authenticity of Faith written by Richard Allan Beck and published by Leafwood Publishers & Acu Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular strategy among contemporary critics of religion is to explain religiosity as an evolutionary adaptation -- a behavior pattern that exists simply because it helped our early human ancestors thrive. An effective response to this type of argument requires the ability to integrate social scientific research, philosophical viewpoints, and theological beliefs. Using social scientific research, Beck identifies the flaws in Freud's dismissal of religion as a neurotic defense against mortal dread. Instead, Beck draws on the writings of William James to show the complexity of religious belief, which emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual believer. Written in a way that is accessible to readers who aren't trained in social scientific research, but rigorous in meeting the standards of the social sciences, The Authenticity of Faith is a masterful example of the "new apologetics." (Steven V. Rouse).

Deus Ex Machina

Author : J. V. Brummels
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 9780553279771
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Deus Ex Machina written by J. V. Brummels and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1989 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the sun nears nova, David Jones, a writer, is offered a chance to escape via an experimental transmat booth

Batman Detective Comics

Author : Peter Tomasi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781518295645
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Batman Detective Comics written by Peter Tomasi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Joker is waging a war on Batman, and he's going to use every ghost from the Dark Knight's past to win! As the Bat-Family reels from the recent loss of Alfred Pennyworth, no one has taken this death harder than Bruce Wayne. Alfred wasn't just a friend and partner to Gotham's favorite son; he was a father figure and a mentor to Bruce...and the loss has left the dark detective wounded. The Joker knows that now is the time to strike--and strike hard. The Clown Prince of Crime has unleashed a wave of friends, foes, and failures to attack Gotham's protector from the inside out. First up is Harvey Dent, a.k.a. Two-Face, whose violent impulses have been amplified to deadly new heights by the Joker--unleashing a cadre of zealots known as the Church of the Two on Gotham City! But that's not all--Lincoln March, Lucius Fox, Killer Croc, and countless more have been moved around the Joker's diabolical chessboard to bury the Bat once and for all. Will the Dark Knight rise? Or be drowned in laughter?"--