Therefore, a reading of recent bibliographic material (twenty-eight articles, five dissertations, and two theses) was carried out, which addresses the theme of the digital from discussions referenced by Henri Bergson. This article aims to discuss these categories, memory, and perception, in the digital context, taking as reference the complex ontology of philosopher Henri Bergson. From this, categories recurrently approached by areas of knowledge such as psychology, such as, for example, memory and perception, are also revisited and invoked by scholars of media and the digital context. Such hybridity brings the need to constitute categories of analysis to understand these new ways of being in the digital, since what we call “body,” in its modern, unified, closed-form, independent of the outside, would be unable to articulate or explain the experiences in digital networks. The emergence of electronic media conditions this galaxy, where there is a conjuncture of a new tribalism marked by hybridism (man-machine) in which conditions of possibilities of partial identities are presented. According to McLuhan, the Gutenberg galaxy is marked by the emergence of electronic media.
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(I will save my detailed assessment of the shortlist for the Not The Clarke Award panel on Saturday at Eastercon, but I'll just note here that although I enjoyed Rule 34 most, I still think The Testament of Jessie Lamb the best of the bunch. But otherwise it's an effective mix of techno-horror and black humour, and I enjoyed it more than any of the other books on the shortlist. My only serious stylistic quibble is that the second person voice, which was appropriate for Halting State, the game-centred previous novel in this sequence, seems a bit more forced here. Rule 34 by Charles Stross On sale 7th June 2012 Price: £12. Rule 34 ticked a lot of my boxes, dealing with the relationships between small state-like entities (in this case, a near-future Scotland and a fictional Central Asian republic) and also with the relationships between law enforcement, social networks and artificial intelligence, as well as quite deliberately referencing Ian Rankin's excellent Rebus novels. Clarke Award, I am glad to say that I finished on a high note. NwhyteHaving now read all of the novels on the shortlist for this year's Arthur C. I’d clean forgotten about Towles, whose first novel, Rules of Civility, came out in 2011. Should he step outside the Metropol’s door, he will be shot, and so, inside it he remains, for the next 32 years. It isn’t out here until February, but given that it has already been published in the US, I think it’s probably OK for me to say that it tells the story of one Count Alexander Rostov, an elegant Russian aristocrat who in 1922 is sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to house arrest in a luxury hotel. T he other day, my husband strolled into my office bearing major booty in the form of a proof of A Gentleman in Moscow, the new novel by Amor Towles. Campbell County, Wyoming – Public Library ChallengeĬampbell County, Wyoming – the book is currently under challenge at the public libraries. Instead of focusing on how this book teaches lonely, confused kids that there is somewhere they will fit in, that there is hope, and that you have the freedom to make your own choices in life, parents are focusing on the fact that the book tackles some of the issues the black community is facing and *gasp* drag queens. He finds the place he finally feels comfortable in – The Drag Society. This is a book about a teenager that doesn’t quite fit in anywhere he goes. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs-and the Black Flamingo is born. All his life, he’s navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican-but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough.Īs he gets older, Michael’s coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. Readers will find themselves expertly guided on a journey that involves them not only in confronting Christianity but also in confronting themselves-their worldviews, hopes, fears, failures, and search for identity and satisfaction-and, finally, in confronting Christ as the altogether credible source of life as God means it to be.” ~John C. “This book is compelling reading, not only because of its intellectual rigor and the fact that it is beautifully written but also because of its honest, empathetic humanity. She is cofounder of Vocable Communications and former vice president of content at the Veritas Forum, where she spent almost a decade working with Christian academics at leading secular universities. Rebecca McLaughlin holds a PhD in renaissance literature from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill College in London. Chapter 1: Aren’t we better off without religion?Ĭhapter 2: Doesn’t Christianity crush diversity?Ĭhapter 3: How can you say there is only one true faith?Ĭhapter 4: Doesn’t religion hinder morality?Ĭhapter 5: Doesn’t religion cause violence?Ĭhapter 6: How can you take the Bible literally?Ĭhapter 7: Hasn’t science disproved Christianity?Ĭhapter 8: Doesn’t Christianity denigrate women?Ĭhapter 9: Isn’t Christianity homophobic?Ĭhapter 10: Doesn’t the Bible condone slavery?Ĭhapter 11: How could a loving God allow so much suffering?Ĭhapter 12: How could a loving God send people to hell? And even if it did work, how would one test such a thing? Who would dare manufacture it? Who would prescribe it? Thirty states and the federal government still had anti-birth control laws on the books. Such a pill would never work, other scientists had told Sanger. When Pincus met the feminist crusader Margaret Sanger in 1950 and she implored him to go to work on the development of a birth-control pill, he knew the project carried enormous risk. He’d been unceremoniously dumped by Harvard and forced to start his own laboratory in a converted garage. His whole career had been a recovery process, one attempt after another to start over. For years the biologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus had been searching for a project that might establish his greatness, only to watch ideas come and go like love affairs, beginning with promise and ending in hurt feelings. She recently rewatched the first Harry Potter movie, which prompted her to buy the rest of the films, and now wants to read J.K. It goes back to her childhood (birth name, Erika Mitchell) in southeast England, loving the Osmond family on television. This year, a few of James’s dedicated fans flew in from the Dominican Republic just to meet her while she promoted The Mister, her first stand-alone novel without randy provocateur Christian Grey.ĭespite her celebrity status, James, now 56, still feels the seductive pull of fandom. It’s an astonishing scene as lines of eager readers snake around the enormous Javits Convention Center nervously clutching their books in anticipation of those precious moments in front of their favourite writers. In early June, James appeared for the first time at BookCon in New York City, a one-day event where authors are as revered as rock stars. It’s a cheeky reminder that James’s fanfic adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s teen-vamp Twilight series became the cultural phenomenon we now either love or hate as the whip-smarting blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey. The hashtag stands out on her slim Twitter bio, an understatement by any social media measure. E L James may be the world’s most famous #fangirl. It will hurt, a little, but you’ll be fine. If you worry that your head is gonna hurt if you read a book about quantum mechanics, you can relax. But two weeks later, ask me to explain them and I stammer and stutter and say, “The book is really interesting! Really fun!” Carroll explains complex ideas succinctly, holds your hand the entire way, and you get them. Every few pages, I wanted to stop and say, hey listen to this! But in this particular universe, I’m single, so that didn’t work. But I only read Something Deeply Hidden by the theoretical physicist Sean Carroll a few weeks ago. It’s one of an endless string of alternate universes, each one branching off again and again into new universes and in some of them I’m a hugely popular rock star and in others I’m a politician and in most of them I’m only a teensy bit different than the me that I think I am right now.”Īs far as I can tell, that’s not so far off. If you’re a sci-fi fan like me, you read the term “multiverse” and think, “Sure, ok, got it. The story is interesting – a twist on the popular social media question “What would you tell your past self?” And the way it handled suicide and death is very respectful, warm, and loving. The artwork was beautiful, and Takano used the medium to her advantage. While the beginning was harder for me to find interest in, the pace quickened as the story became more complex. While the themes are obviously deep, Orange shows the beauty of friendship and makes you nostalgic for a time and place you never lived. For a heart-wrenching story of saving a boy from suicide, Orange is a very beautiful and graceful tale. Tasked with saving her new friend from a terrible fate, Naho makes it her mission to live life without regrets. First writing the letter off as a prank, Naho begins to realize that all the predictions in the letter become true. Future Naho warns about the death of a boy named Kakeru and wants to change the past. On the first day of 11th grade, sixteen-year-old Naho receives a letter from her future self. Later turned into a TV show and live-action film. Books 1-3 collected in Orange: The Complete Collection 1. It follows the events in a few months following Year One and examines an entire year of Batman's career as a crime fighter, so it could be considered a "Year Two"/"Year Three", in some form. Set early in Batman's career a few months after the events of Year One, the story revolves around the gradual transition of Batman's rogues' gallery from simple mob goons to full-fledged supervillains. The series continues the story of Carmine Falcone introduced in Frank Miller's Batman: Year One. The Long Halloween is a Batman storyline by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, published in the limited series of the same name. I believe someday I will make good on that promise. No matter what that evil looks like or becomes. I made a promise to my parents that I would rid the city of the evil that took their lives. |