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Author : Emanuel Herold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783835338067
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Utopien in utopiefernen Zeiten written by Emanuel Herold and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter R. Werder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783037770771
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Utopien der Gegenwart written by Peter R. Werder and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ist die Utopie tot? Oder ist Utopie zeitlos? Was kann, wenn die Utopie weiter lebt, Utopie in der heutigen Zeit bedeuten? Im ersten Teil des Buches schafft Peter R. Werder mit einem Überblick über die problemgeschichtliche Entwicklung des Utopiebegriffs seit dem 16. Jahrhundert die Grundlage, um solche Fragen anzugehen. Den Fokus legt er dabei auf die Rolle der Utopien im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Der Autor geht auf die Utopiegeschichten sowie die Theorie der Utopie ein und grenzt diese gegen den Begriff “Schlaraffenland” aber auch gegen verschieden Begriffe, die oft als Utopien bezeichnet werden, ab. Im zweiten Teil wird die Analyse der Gegenwart vorgenommen: Der These von Marcuse, die Utopie sei heute tot, wird widersprochen. Dies ist mit Beispielen verdeutlicht, wie etwa die fokussierenden Entwürfe (Ökologie, Feminismus, Architektur) oder die Entwürfe des Raumes (Cyberspace, zum Beispiel Second Life). Etwas genauer erläutert wird die Utopie “bolo bolo” vom Schweizer Autor P.M., die als eine der wenigen Werke der Gegenwart auf traditionelle Art inhaltlich neue Ansätze liefert. Im dritten Teil wird die gängige Utopiedefinition aufgebrochen. Die Grundüberlegung: Die eigentliche Utopie ist ausserhalb des kapitalistischen Systems zu finden, da die Alternative innerhalb dieses Systems das System nur stärkt und nicht ein anderes neues hervorbringt. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob das Ziel des widerspruchsfreien Handelns als Utopie formuliert werden müsste, da bei so kurzen Halbwertszeiten von Wissen und der praktisch absoluten Informationstransparenz der Gegenwart der Widerspruch im Alltag ebenso transparent ist.
Author : Sina Farzin
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271090111
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Under the Literary Microscope written by Sina Farzin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the Literary Microscope examines the implications of the discourse taking place in and around this creative space. Exploring works by authors as disparate as Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Powers, Ian McEwan, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Crichton, these essays address the economization of scientific institutions; ethics, risk, and gender disparity in scientific work; the reshaping of old stereotypes of scientists; science in an evolving sci-fi genre; and reader reception and potential contributions of the novels to public understandings of science. Under the Literary Microscope illuminates the new ways in which fiction has been grappling with scientific issues—from climate change and pandemics to artificial intelligence and genomics—and makes a valuable addition to both contemporary literature and science studies courses. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Anna Auguscik, Jay Clayton, Carol Colatrella, Sonja Fücker, Raymond Haynes, Luz María Hernández Nieto, Emanuel Herold, Karin Hoepker, Anton Kirchhofer, Antje Kley, Natalie Roxburgh, Uwe Schimank, Sherryl Vint, and Peter Weingart.
Author : Catherine Bush
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773101057
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Blaze Island written by Catherine Bush and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For those who loved Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior comes a new climate-themed, Shakespeare-inspired novel from bestselling author Catherine Bush. The time is now or an alternate near now, the world close to our own. A mammoth Category Five hurricane sweeps up the eastern seaboard of North America, leaving devastation in its wake, its outer wings brushing over tiny Blaze Island in the North Atlantic. Just as the storm disrupts the present, it stirs up the past: Miranda's memories of growing up in an isolated, wind-swept cove and the events of long ago that her father will not allow her to speak of. In the aftermath of the storm, she finds herself in a world altered so quickly and so radically that she hardly knows what has happened. As Miranda says, change is clear after it happens."--
Author : Pippa Goldschmidt
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 190875415X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Falling Sky written by Pippa Goldschmidt and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blackly comic campus satire combined with a heart-breaking family mystery, The Falling Sky brilliantly mixes fiction and astronomy into a fascinating, compelling and moving narrative. Jeanette is a young, solitary post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university department dominated by egos and incompetents, and caught in a cycle of brief and unsatisfying affairs, she travels to a mountain-top observatory in Chile to focus on her research. There Jeanette stumbles upon evidence that will challenge the fundamentals of the universe, drawing her into conflict with her colleagues and the scientific establishment, but also casting her back to the tragic loss that defined her childhood. As the implications of her discovery gather momentum, and her relationships spiral out of control, Jeanette's own grip on reality is threatened, finally forcing her to confront the hidden past. Pippa Goldschmidt's bittersweet debut novel blends black comedy, heart-breaking tragedy and fascinatingly accessible science, in this intricate and beautiful examination of one woman's disintegration and journey to redemption.
Author : Dale Pendell
Publisher : Frog Books
ISBN 13 : 9781583941720
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Inspired Madness written by Dale Pendell and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In part a nonfiction discussion of the Burning Man festival, in part a poetic romp through Nevada’s Black Rock desert, Inspired Madness is both an irreverent introduction for those curious about the notorious event and an exhilarating reminiscence for veteran "burners." Loosely structured around a week at Burning Man, the book combines a history of the festival with personal stories and social commentary, juxtaposing images and stories to capture a sense of the wild and unpredictable nature of life on the Playa. Throughout the week, readers are taken on a memorable ride, exploring the festival itself and meeting Owl, an eccentric beatnik and one of the organizers of the Delphic Delirium Camp: Lolo, Jah, Scarlett, and other larger-than-life figures. Interweaving dialogue, anecdotes, and stream-of-consciousness narrative with historical, sociological, and political observation, Inspired Madness evokes the half-waking, half-dreaming quality of the Burning Man experience.
Author : Dale Pendell
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623174023
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Great Bay written by Dale Pendell and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***WINNER, Best Science Fiction, 2010 Green Book Festival Based in scientific reality, Dale Pendell presents a powerful fictional vision of a fast-approaching future in which sea levels rise and a decimated population must find new ways to live. The Great Bay begins in 2021 with a worldwide pandemic followed by the gradual rising of the seas. Pendell’s vision is all encompassing—he describes the rising seas’ impact on countries and continents around the world. But his imaginative storytelling focuses on California. A “great bay” forms in California’s Central Valley and expands during a 16,000-year period. As the years pass, and technology seems to regress, even memory of a “precollapse” world blends into myth. Grizzly bears and other large predators return to the California hills, and civilization reverts to a richly imagined medieval society marked by guilds and pilgrimages, followed even later by hunting and gathering societies. Pendell’s focus is on the lives of people struggling with love, wars, and physical survival thousands of years in California’s future. He deftly mixes poetic imagery, news-reporting-style writing, interviews with survivors, and maps documenting the geographic changes. In the end, powerful human values that have been with us for 40,000 years begin to reemerge and remind us that they are desperately needed—in the present.
Author : Robert Forte
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594777977
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Entheogens and the Future of Religion written by Robert Forte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the importance of psychedelic plants and drugs in religion and society • With contributions by Albert Hofmann, R. Gordon Wasson, Jack Kornfield, Terence McKenna, the Shulgins, Rick Strassman, and others • Explores the importance of academic and religious freedom in the study of psychedelics and the mind • Exposes the need for an organized spiritual context for entheogen use in order to fully realize their transformative and sacred value We live in a time when a great many voices are calling for a spiritual renewal to address the problems that face humanity, yet the way of entheogens--one of the oldest and most widespread means of attaining a religious experience--is forbidden, surrounded by controversy and misunderstanding. Widely employed in traditional shamanic societies, entheogens figure prominently in the origins of religion and their use continues today throughout the world. They alter consciousness in such a profound way that, depending on the set and setting, they can produce the ultimate human experiences: union with God or revelation of other mystical realities. With contributions by Albert Hofmann, Terence McKenna, Ann and Alexander Shulgin, Thomas Riedlinger, Dale Pendell, and Rick Strassman as well as interviews with R. Gordon Wasson and Jack Kornfield, this book explores ancient and modern uses of psychedelic drugs, emphasizing the complementary relationship between science and mystical experience and the importance of psychedelics to the future of religion and society. Revealing the mystical-religious possibilities of substances such as psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline, and LSD, this book exposes the vital need for developing an organized spiritual context for their use in order to fully realize their transformative and sacred value. Stressing the importance of academic and religious freedom, the authors call for a revival of scientific and religious inquiry into entheogens so they may be used safely and legally by those seeking to cultivate their spiritual awareness.
Author : Dale Pendell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556438893
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)
Download or read book Pharmako/Gnosis written by Dale Pendell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final volume of North Atlantic Books’ hard cover edition of Dale Pendell's Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books form an interrelated suite of works that provide the reader with a unique, reliable, and often personal immersion in this medically, culturally, and spiritually fascinating subject. All three books are beautifully designed and illustrated, and are written with unparalleled authority, erudition, playfulness, and range. Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path focuses on plant-based and derivative psychedelic "teachers" (including ayahuasca, peyote, LSD, and DMT) and on the "poison path" of substances such as belladonna, ketamine, and ibogaine. Each substance is explored in detail, not only with information on its history, pharmacology, preparation, and cultural and esoteric correspondences, but also the subtleties of each plant's effect on consciousness in a way that only poets can do. The whole concoction is sprinkled with abundant quotations from famous writers, creating a literary brew as intoxicating as its subject. The Pharmako series includes the predecessor volumes Pharmako/Poeia (which covers tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, opiates, salvia divinorum, and other substances) and Pharmako/Dynamis (focusing on stimulants and empathogens).
Author : Susan M. Gaines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Carbon Dreams written by Susan M. Gaines and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oceanographer Tina Arenas studies climates of the distant geologic past, but her data has unexpectedly modern implications. Thrust into the growing controversy over global warming, Tina struggles to sort out her conflicting responsibilities to science and society. To complicate matters, she finds herself falling for Chip Stevens, a local organic farmer who has his own ideas about responsibility -- and love.
Author : Dale Pendell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781556438875
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Pharmako/Poeia written by Dale Pendell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pharmako poeia: plant powers, poisons, and herbcraft focuses on familiar psychoactive plant-derived substances and related synthetics, ranging from the licit (tobacco, alcohol) to the illicit (cannabis, opium) and the exotic (absinthe, salvia divinorum, nitrous oxide)"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Dale Pendell
Publisher : Three Hands Press
ISBN 13 : 9781945147319
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Language of Birds written by Dale Pendell and published by Three Hands Press. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chance, the great beloved of gamblers, lovers, generals and kings, has long held sway over mortal affairs. Whether assuming the form of the goddess Fortuna and her ever-turning wheel, or the abstract mathematic of 'randomness', her favor is universally sought, and her displeasure feared. To the devotee of Chance, the arts of divination may be regarded as her secret liturgy, providing glimpses of the unknown to those she esteems. Into the retort of the alchemist-poet, Pendell compounds portent, omen, oracle, and the art of prediction to distill The Language of the Birds, a reverie upon the nature of the Goddess of Fortune and the sacred function of Chance. This second Three Hands Press edition contains a new foreword to the work by Andrew Schelling, author of 'Tracks Along the Left Coast' (Counterpoint Press, 2018), as well as one new color frontispiece by the author.
Author : Dale Pendell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pharmakodynamis written by Dale Pendell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dale Pendell reactivates the ancient connection between the bardic poet and the shaman."--Terence McKenna In Pharmako/Dynamis, Dale Pendell continues his exploration of psychoactive plants begun in Pharmako/Poeia. Pharmacognosy is the study of the composition, production, use, and history of drugs of natural origin. Pendell covers these topics and more in this volume, charting a voyage around the world of plant teachers. Through poetry, chemistry, and a generous sprinkling of arcane lore, Pendell weaves and twists the many threads of tradition into a singularly bewitching brew. Pendell's voyage is a true circumnavigation. It divulges what Gary Synder called "dangerous knowledge" that is a formidable weapon against "even more dangerous ignorance." Dale Pendell is a poet, software engineer, and longtime student of ethnobotany. His poetry has appeared in many journals, and he was the founding editor of KUKSU: Journal of Backcountry Writing. He has led workshops on ethnobotany and ethnopoetics for the Naropa Institute and the Botanical Preservation Corps.
Author : Natalie Roxburgh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030535983
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780–1900 written by Natalie Roxburgh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts. Covering several genres, such as novels, poetry, autobiography and non-fiction, individual essays provide insights on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century understandings of drug effects of opium, alcohol and many other plant-based substances. Contributors consider both contemporary and recent medical knowledge in order to contextualise and illuminate understandings of how drugs were utilised as stimulants, as relaxants, for pleasure, as pain relievers and for other purposes. Chapters also examine the novelty of experimentations of drugs in conversation with the way literary texts incorporate them, highlighting the importance of literary and cultural texts for addressing ethical questions.
Author : Reiner Keller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351690612
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse written by Reiner Keller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has reoriented research into social forms, structuration and processes of meaning construction and reality formation; doing so by linking social constructivist and pragmatist approaches with post-structuralist thinking in order to study discourses and create epistemological space for analysing processes of world-making in culturally diverse environments. SKAD is anchored in interpretive traditions of inquiry and allows for broadening – and possibly overcoming – of the epistemological biases and restrictions still common in theories and approaches of Western- and Northern-centric social sciences. An innovative volume, this book is exactly attentive to these empirically based, globally diverse further developments of approach, with a clear focus on the methodology and its implementation. Thus, The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse presents itself as a research program and locates the approach within the context of interpretive social sciences, followed by eleven chapters on different cases from around the world that highlight certain theoretical questions and methodological challenges. Presenting outstanding applications of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse across a wide variety of substantive projects and regional contexts, this text will appeal to postgraduate students and researchers interested in fields such as Discourse Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies and Qualitative Methodology and Methods.
Author : Roslynn D. Haynes
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421423057
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book From Madman to Crime Fighter written by Roslynn D. Haynes and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the scientist in Western culture, from medieval images of alchemists to present-day depictions of cyberpunks and genetic engineers. They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust, Frankenstein, Jekyll, Moreau, Caligari, Strangelove—the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. In From Madman to Crime Fighter, Roslynn D. Haynes analyzes stereotypical characters—including the mad scientist, the cold-blooded pursuer of knowledge, the intrepid pathbreaker, and the bumbling fool—that, from medieval times to the present day, have been used to depict the scientist in Western literature and film. She also describes more realistically drawn scientists, characters who are conscious of their public responsibility to expose dangers from pollution and climate change yet fearful of being accused of lacking evidence. Drawing on examples from Britain, America, Germany, France, Russia, and elsewhere, Haynes explores the persistent folklore of mad doctors of science and its relation to popular fears of a depersonalized, male-dominated, and socially irresponsible pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. She concludes that today’s public response to science and scientists—much of it negative—is best understood by recognizing the importance of such cultural archetypes and their significance as myth. From Madman to Crime Fighter is the most comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film.
Author : Clare Dudman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340823071
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book 98 Reasons for Being written by Clare Dudman and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850s Frankfurt, a Jewish girl named Hannah Meyer enters the town asylum, rumoured to be suffering from nymphomania. She is treated by Dr Heinrich Hoffmann, physician and famed author of the book of children's cautionary tales, Struwwelpeter, who uses every method from ice packs to electrodes in an effort to cure her. Nothing works, until he resorts to talking - telling her anecdotes from his youth, revealing the case histories of Hannah's fellow patients, confessing to his troubled home life. Only then does Hannah begin to yield her haunting tale of love, prejudice and transgression.
