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"Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals...
2) Creepiness
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A specter is haunting contemporary television-the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea that we ourselves might be creeps. And yet, when we sit down to watch TV, we are increasingly entranced by creepy characters. In this follow-up to Awkwardness and Why We Love Sociopaths, Adam Kotsko tries to account for the strange fascination of creepiness....
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¿Qué es y para qué sirve la cultura? Más allá de definiciones simplistas e inveteradas que hacen de ella ora el mero producto intelectual y artístico de la elite, ora la manifestación de la humanidad en sentido antropológico, este iluminador ensayo pone el foco en la dimensión colectiva de los fenómenos culturales, es decir, en la relevancia social que, con independencia de consideraciones personales, nos involucra a todos, pues ¿qué sentido...
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The western is arguably the most iconic and influential genre in American cinema. The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West render the genre popular yet lead it to offer a view of America's history that is sometimes inaccurate. For many, the western embodies America and its values. In recent years, scholars had declared the western genre dead, but a steady resurgence of western themes in literature,...
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A collection of think pieces on a variety of topics: the environment, business, rights and responsibilities, social issues, ethics, education, sports, religion, and so on.
An omnibus of the four Shit that Pisses Me Off volumes,* plus over a hundred additional pieces.
* minus the pieces that address sexism, which are anthologized in Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off, along with a great many additional pieces.
Includes pieces previously published in...
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How is knowledge measured? How long does it take us to reflect on something and how long to express our thoughts? Such is the dilemma that the human, social and economic sciences go through, since they face the challenge of understanding complex processes when confronting the urgency of standards, measurements and forms of qualitative and quantitative evaluation that respond to notions of utility, productivity and viability, defined within social,...
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A few years ago, globalism seemed to be both a known and inexorable phenomenon. With the end of the Cold War, the opening of the Chinese economy, and the ascendancy of digital technology, the prospect of a unified flow of goods and services and of people and ideas seemed unstoppable. Political theorists such as Francis Fukuyama proclaimed that we had reached "the end of history." Yes, there were pockets of resistance and reaction, but these, we were...
10) On war
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"Carl von Clausewitz's theories of war have influenced generations of military leaders and policy makers throughout the Western world. On War is widely regarded as Clausewitz's premier work on the philosophy of war and the first modern book of military strategy. The work is controversial -- Clausewitz's argument that war cannot be waged in a limited way has been blamed for the massive casualties in World Wars I and II -- yet it remains required reading...
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"Belcaro - Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions" is an 1881 collection of essays on the subject of aestheticism written by Vernon Lee. Contents include: "The Book and its Title", "The Child in the Vatican", "Orpheus and Eurydice - The Lesson of a Bas-Relief", "Faustus and Helena - Notes on the Supernatural in Art", "Chapelmaster Kreisler - A Study of Musical Romanticists", "Cherubino - A Psychological Art Fancy", "In Umbria - A Study of Artistic...
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There is an agenda to replace the current collapsing global narratives with a new consensus reality. To achieve this, a 'consensus reality paradigm' must be socially managed and, if necessary, manipulated. The belief is that a global 'Great Reset' is necessary, so why not take the upper hand and steer it into place? However, there are almost eight billion people upon the planet, and that is a lot of people to convince. Instead of trying to force the...
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Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent
The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse - cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios - in contemporary entertainment.
In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories - from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game...
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Philosophy is about our lives and how we live them. Using a unique, visual approach to explore philosophical concepts, Adam Ferner shows how philosophy is one of our best tools for responding to the challenges of the modern world. From philosophical 'people skills' to ethical and moral questions about our lifestyle choices, philosophy teaches us to ask the right questions, even if it doesn't necessarily hold all the answers. With 20 dip-in sessions...
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This documentary tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US goes behind the highly...
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Pregnant men, paying stay-at-home moms, advertising, income tax deductions, people skills, boy books, speech codes, porn, god, testicular battery and tranquilizer guns, the Academy Awards, intelligent design and evolution...
Philosophy with an attitude. Because the unexamined life is dangerous.
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Should you need a license in order to become a parent? What's wrong with calling people Ms. and Mr.? Why is casual day at the office insulting? Why should you take down the flag? Is women's fiction really women's fiction? Should we have professional jurors? Why should you boycott marriage? Why shouldn't athletes take performance-enhancing drugs?
Philosophy with attitude.
Because the unexamined life is dangerous.
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Michael 'DUZAC' Worrell is a graduate of the University of the Arts located in Philadelphia, PA. His novel, The Harmony of Humanity, is a fascinating story about a college student who uses art, science, spirituality and ancient wisdom to solve modern day problems. With profound vision the student creates a concept of humanity that expresses how life and nature entwine with the cycles of consciousness and the principles of the universe. The story proclaims...
20) The Battle for Art: How the Popular Cultural Misappropriation Movement Views Art, and Why it Matters
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The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing new to the western art world. However, the term and general knowledge of the concept seem to have exploded in the last ten to fifteen years. This recent visibility has brought about both awareness and misuse of the concept, and has created a chasm in opinions on the subject, leading to the mire of argumentative factionalism the western art world finds itself in today.
The Battle for Art is an attempt...
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