Культурология
Различные книги в жанре КультурологияAmerica 3.0
America’s greatest days are yet to come. We are in a painful transition period. Our government is crushingly expensive, failing at its basic functions, and unable to keep its promises. It does not work and it cannot continue as it is. But the inevitable end of big government does not mean the end of America. It only means the end of one phase of American life. America is poised to enter a new era of freedom and prosperity. The cultural roots of the American people go back at least fifteen centuries, and make us individualistic, enterprising, and liberty-loving. The Founding generation of the United States lived in a world of family farms and small businesses, America 1.0. This world faded away and was replaced by an industrialized world of big cities, big business, big labor unions and big government, America 2.0. Now America 2.0 is outdated and crumbling, while America 3.0 is struggling to be born. This new world will bring immense productivity, rapid technological progress, greater scope for individual and family-scale autonomy, and a leaner and strictly limited government. America has made one major transition already, and industrial America became an economic colossus. We are now making a new transition, which will surprise many Americans, and astonish the world.
Duchamp Is My Lawyer
In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out as a site to share works from a relatively obscure literary movement grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. Visitors around the world now have access to both obscure and canonical works, from artists such as Kara Walker, Yoko Ono, Pauline Oliveros, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Duchamp, Cecil Taylor, Glenn Ligon, William Burroughs, and Jean-Luc Godard.In Duchamp Is My Lawyer , Goldsmith tells the history of UbuWeb, explaining the motivations behind its creation and how artistic works are archived, consumed, and distributed online. Based on his own experiences and interviews with a variety of experts, Goldsmith describes how the site navigates issues of copyright and the ways that UbuWeb challenges familiar configurations and histories of the avant-garde. The book also portrays the growth of other “shadow libraries” and includes a section on the artists whose works reflect the aims, aesthetics, and ethos of UbuWeb. Goldsmith concludes by contrasting UbuWeb’s commitment to the free-culture movement and giving access to a wide range of artistic works with today’s gatekeepers of algorithmic culture, such as Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify.
Friends, Followers and the Future
There’s a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business and engage in politics. Share and share alike—the numbers say it all as billions of people worldwide flock to online media and use social networks to discover and spread news and information. In the process, ever-growing networks of “ordinary people” are using these powerful new tools to trim the influence long held by Big Business, Big Government and Big Media. No longer just passive recipients, participants in social networks now regularly make and break news while organizing civic and political actions that bypass censors, outpace traditional media, attract massive audiences and influence the rise and fall of brands, industries, politicians and even governments. In this insider’s look at how social media are transforming our world, Rory O’Connor explains the trends and explores what tech visionaries, media makers, political advisers and businesspeople are saying about the meteoric rise of the various social networks of friends and followers, and what they bode for our future. "Rory O'Connor is one of the smartest media guys around. He knows who's spinning, who's pandering, and who's putting money in his own pocket at the expense of logic, reason, and the public good."—Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair media critic "This is a timely book about a vital subject: How do we get information and is it reliable? With a 'cold eye,' author Rory O'Connor shows how traditional journalism cheapened its value by sabotaging its trust, and how the digital revolution wonderfully democratizes information yet often removes the journalistic curator, creating more noise, more ME and less WE news. If you want to understand the future of news, its opportunities and its pitfalls, read this book."—Ken Auletta, author and New Yorker media writer Rory O’Connor, co-founder of MediaChannel.org, is the author of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio . He has won two Emmys and a George Orwell Award, among many other honors.
The Peep Diaries
Niedzviekci's previous book, «Hello, I’m Special,» received much critical recognition and praise. It is now in its third printing, having sold over 10,000 copies. Publications that critically examine pop culture, fame, and digital life will be likely to review this title or publish an interview with Niedzviecki. Niedzviecki's new book will find an audience with readers seeking to understand their place in today's internet-saturated, fame-obsessed society. Niedzviecki examines cultural phenomena that, to date, have yet to be named and truly understood. There is also a personal interest story here: The Peep Diaries documents Niedzviecki’s own “life experiment,” in which he started his own video blog, sold his secrets to Craigslist, and monitored the movements of his toddler. Radio shows like This American Life or The Story may be interested in this angle.
Know Thyself
The third of five books in the groundbreaking new series <i>The Human Equation Toolkit</i>. <br><br>In Books 1 and 2 of The Human Equation Toolkit series, mime Wayne Constantineau and scholar Eric McLuhan explore the four postures and the four modes of action. They show how the postures (standing, lying down, kneeling, sitting) combine with the modes of action (isometric pressure, displacement, configuration, articulation) to provide the basis of all developments in culture, science, activity, and media. <br><br>Now, in Book 3 of the series, they investigate the interplay between these modes and the modes of perception. «Know yourself» becomes a journey that Socrates – and perhaps even the Delphic Oracle – never could have imagined: a sense-opening odyssey into the pathological and physiological effects of the media – or extensions – of humanity.
Модусы идентификации русской языковой личности в эпоху перемен
В книге исследуются на примере системы образования вопросы гуманитарного кризиса в России постсоветского периода. Анализ проводится с помощью психолингвистических экспериментальных методик на новейших материалах, собранных в последние десятилетия коллективом ученых из ИЯз РАН и ИФЛ СО РАН в сотрудничестве с ведущими вузами регионов России. Показываются приемы выявления динамики смысловых акцентуаций (психоглосс) в содержании процессов идентификации русской языковой личности по данным ассоциативно-вербальной сети. Автор ставит вопрос о стратегических просчетах реформы образования, связанных с непреодоленными последствиями ее разрушительной части, в особенности создавшимися условиями для размывания социокультурной (цивилизационной), гражданской и профессиональной идентичностей. Предлагаются к осмыслению возможности выхода из сложившейся ситуации. Рассматриваются дискуссионные вопросы, связанные с общей приложимостью психолингвистических методов к системному анализу сложных социальных процессов, потенциалом практикующихся в отечественной и зарубежной лингвистике междисциплинарных подходов к исследованию процессов порождения субъективности, а также теоретической разработкой моделей описания языка. Книга адресована специалистам гуманитарного профиля и широкой аудитории читателей, которых интересуют затронутые в ней научные, научно-методические и общественно значимые проблемы.
Приближение и окружение: Очерки о Германском Логосе, Традиции и Ничто
Автор рассматривает различные аспекты Германского Логоса и германо-скандинавской традиции в свете фундаменталь-онтологии М. Хайдеггера и вопрошающего поиска Ничто как Иного. Книга ориентирована на широкий круг интеллектуальных читателей, представителей академических религиоведческих, культурологических, исторических, философских и других наук.