Infinity Curve Lamentations To Unseen Friends Across The Vastness Of Space

Author : Blade Cort
Publisher : Blade Cort
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Infinity Curve - Lamentations to Unseen Friends Across the Vastness of Space by Blade Cort Pdf

Infinity Curve [FREE eBook: #postapocalyptic #dystopian #longevityscience] Book 4 of 7 in the Predictable Paths series] ________ Rick has but one objective before he dies – to broadcast a brilliant, momentous laser signal to warn alien civilizations about humanity's tragic decline. In 2075, the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation-state in which he lives is ruled by tech-enriched oligarchs who monitor every human activity to ensure that a second apocalypse will not occur. Rick knows that the punishment for unwanted surprises will likely be fatal, and he's clearly gone over the line already by secretly constructing a petawatt laser in the barn and disgorging a furious criticism of the present state of society. But suspicion is growing fast, and he's running out of time... https://bladecort.com PREDICTABLE PATHS episodes, in sequential order: 1. AGENESS - A Longevity / Age Engineering Science Fiction Play on Our Imminent Ageless Dystopia ; Six Acts, Episodes -22 to -17 2. AMYGDALA HIJACK - A Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi Novel of Impending Dystopia (a Trilogy) 2.1 - Amygdala Hijack - The Waening, Part 1 of 3; Episodes 1 - 9 2.2 - Amygdala Hijack - The Warning, Part 2 of 3; Episodes 10 - 18 2.3 - Amygdala Hijack - The Wasting, Part 3 of 3, Episodes 19 - 28 3. THREE GUYS IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC BAR - A Longevity / Age Engineering and Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi Novella ; Episodes 47 - 54 4. INFINITY CURVE - Lamentations to Unseen Friends Across the Vastness of Space ; Episodes 56 - 78 5. PATH TO ENTROPY - An Apocalyptic Climax ; Episodes 79 - 93 6. SORD IN PROSPERITY - Hope Beyond the Apocalypse ; Episodes 118 - 159 7. DAISY THE DUMPSTER DOG - A Sordid Tale of Dystopian Hubris and Convenient Canine Rationalizations (But Not a Supreme Court Satire or Parody) ; Episodes 311 - 337

Author : Blade Cort
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798797205814

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Infinity Curve - Lamentations to Unseen Friends Across the Vastness of Space by Blade Cort Pdf

Rick has but one objective before he dies - to secretly broadcast a bright, momentous laser signal to warn unseen aliens how to avoid humanity's tragic decline. But it's 2075, and time is running out. Post-apocalyptic Earth is ruled by tech-enriched oligarchs who monitor nearly every human activity - and they don't like being embarrassed. SAMPLES FROM A FEW CHAPTERS: 58 - UNSEEN FRIENDS: "Please forgive the lack of excitement that you might otherwise find in an action novel. This is not an interesting story or adventure, unless you consider the birth and death of a sentient species such a thing. An adventure develops a plot line and does character development, tying you emotionally to the protagonists and antagonists." "To your misfortune, I'm the driest character on the planet and a Stoic to boot, so I am riled nominally by the emotions of humankind. In my life, emotions are for the careless. Emotions are food for the ruthless. Thus, don't look for much excitement in what I impart." "It's sad we weren't granted emotions once our psyches were capable of tolerating them. Instead, humans are birthed with emotions first and foremost. By some effort, a few humans grow to manage them. Too few. I hope your species is different and more disciplined." 59 - ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN BEINGS: "We became oxen and our nose rings were the devices we used, knotted to the information ropes that tugged at us. This constant assault on the senses ensured that we'd miss the larger purpose of our existence." "Over time, those sources were managed by fewer and fewer control entities, and finally the oligarchs. Humans became products of those entities, tools and chattel for the profit of others. Our brains were sponges, and we were too enamored with the continuous supply of content, sponging it up feed by feed, to recognize what was happening to us." 60 - ON UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES: "We had no agreed upon plan for managing ourselves as a species. You might think it's impossible to attain such a thing in any sentient society, particularly one as fractionalized and disparate as ours. But I think not. I believe people can agree on a few very simple tenets, rules, and ethical constructs. There are so few. In fact, some are encoded into the old Constitution, the poor thing, as it inhales its last gasps of air." "Some rules and norms exist there that transcend human differences, that we could have gotten everybody to agree upon. The same goes for holy books and other teachings. If I count them, I'd say there are no more than a dozen basic tenets. Surely we might have gotten everyone to agree on twelve tenets." 63 - ON OUR ASSUMED PRIMACY: "This assumed primacy percolated throughout our societies. As we became more science-oriented, some began to wonder how we could be the only sentient beings in the universe, but that required a fair understanding of our solar system, galaxies, and the universe at large. This idea grew roots within the last few centuries, but that tiny seedling of curiosity was already overshadowed by the massive forest of long-established primacy." "Our assumed primacy was an outgrowth of our belief that we were special in God's eyes. Interestingly, we encoded our religious texts such that they would not allow other societies to exist in other places in God's universe. We believed God was unique to us and we held a special position above all creatures in the vastness of infinity. To consider otherwise would have extricated us from our prime position as an entitled collection of beings guided by the invisible hand of God."

Author : Blade Cort
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798797238249

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Path to Entropy - An Apocalyptic Climax by Blade Cort Pdf

A narcissistic, psychotic oligarch rules over a second-rate, post-apocalyptic domain in the western part of what was once America. Sara, his communications minister, proudly supports him despite his insanity. She tells her team: "Work is work, and you should take pride in it, even when your job is to deny, divert, distract, detract, and deceive." SAMPLES FROM A FEW DYSTOPIAN EPISODES: 79 - TRANSGRESSIONS: No one at the table dared move. They knew what was coming next, and they had enough experience with Ron's histrionics to know not to dive into the middle of his torrential whirlpool of vitriol. Sara's heart was beating furiously, and Imp knew it all. Imp sensed her physical reactions. Her pulse. Sweat. Pupil dilation. Chemicals emitted from her breath and skin. Imp analyzed her eye movements. Facial tics. The number of times she licked her lips and blinked. And she knew Imp constantly monitored her thoughts, to the degree that such tech had been perfected. Ron turned to sneer at Sara. "Not picking on you, sweet child, though it's partially your fault. Maybe much your fault. You understand, little one? I can't have events like this happen. If mine was the strongest or the richest of the domains, then I'd have the power. But people are jealous of me, so they come after me. They salivate for openings like this." 81 - PROPOSAL: "Of course!" she responded. "We know from our prior comms to this cohort that they can be volatile, easily aroused to anger and fear, and highly vindictive and judgmental. We love them for all these traits. But we know we can only go so far." 83 - FOSSILS: To Edgar, Sara was an anachronism in the current context of AI. Who needed a human to create narratives when his AI was more effective? More prolific? His AI could churn-out a thousand narratives to her one. His AI could confuse the world on a whim, creating mindless, meaningless sludge to be farted across the toilet bowl of human networks. Misinformation was kid stuff, but mass misinformation - now that was AI magic. 85 - ARRANGEMENTS: Rasha smacked her lips. "You just identified the problems we are having in gathering data about them. We hoped they'd congregate like other cohorts, create consistent narratives, and develop deep complexity and fervor in their belief systems. If they did this, we could infiltrate them, manipulate the narratives, and put into effect our subtle coercion that all good things in the world always begin and end with Ron, just like what we do with the other cohorts. But we see none of this." 86 - LEVERAGE: "It sounds like something different, though. It sounds like you and your team and other ministers spend most of their time serving Ron's needs. His distorted and disgusting whimsies. His rages and torments. His threats and narcissistic demands. Look, the people I communicate with believe the Earth is in its last days of rotation, at least for humanity. There's far too much tech, too much risk in tech, and too many people or AIs who have too much capability to annihilate us. All this annihilation tech in so many incapable hands like Ron's, without any ethical construct for the race? Imagine that."

Author : Blade Cort
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798414123392

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Ageness by Blade Cort Pdf

In 2031, four billionaires conspire to limit the distribution of longevity tech, fearful it might become available to the masses and reduce their positions of power and dominance. Mia Seis, one of two scientists responsible for a breakthrough discovery on aging-reversal, stumbles unwittingly across their devious plan while searching for the other scientist who just went missing. Roark, her abusive billionaire boss, seems unstable and is pressing her relentlessly for an injectable solution. New friends suddenly offer to protect her, but from what?

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000134001

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Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

Author : Maurice Blanchot
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803278776

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The Space of Literature by Maurice Blanchot Pdf

Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers--among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international literary consciousness. The Space of Literature, first published in France in 1955, is central to the development of Blanchot's thought. In it he reflects on literature and the unique demand it makes upon our attention. Thus he explores the process of reading as well as the nature of artistic creativity, all the while considering the relation of the literary work to time, to history, and to death. This book consists not so much in the application of a critical method or the demonstration of a theory of literature as in a patiently deliberate meditation upon the literary experience, informed most notably by studies of Mallarmé, Kafka, Rilke, and Hölderlin. Blanchot's discussions of those writers are among the finest in any language.

Author : T. Lucretius Carus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547315872

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Of the Nature of Things by T. Lucretius Carus Pdf

"Of the Nature of Things" is a first-century BCE didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius to explain Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. In this work, T. Lucretius Carus presents the view that the world can be described by the function of material forces and natural laws. So, one should not fear the gods or death.

Author : Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849353984

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Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Pdf

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs’s Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of “vision” and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

Author : Blade Cort
Publisher : Blade Cort
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Path to Entropy - An Apocalyptic Climax by Blade Cort Pdf

Path to Entropy - An Apocalyptic Climax [FREE eBook: #Dystopian, #PostApocalyptic, #GeneticEngineering], Book 5 of 7 in the Predictable Paths series A narcissistic, psychotic oligarch rules over a second-rate, post-apocalyptic domain in the western part of what was once America. Sara, his communications minister, loves her job and proudly supports him despite his insanity. She tells her team: "Work is work, and you should take pride in it, even when your job is to deny, divert, distract, detract, and deceive." Yet this day is not going so well. Ron, her maniacal and probably AI-controlled boss, is screaming at his ministers, raging about a highly visible and clearly embarrassing incident that just occurred in his domain. He orders Sara to immediately develop and lead the response - to gloss over it, blame the locals, or accuse their many regional enemies of stirring up hatreds. But such accusations could lead to frightful backlashes from their belligerent, tech-rich neighbors. Could her response set the world afire? https://bladecort.com PREDICTABLE PATHS episodes, in sequential order: 1. AGENESS - A Longevity / Age Engineering Science Fiction Play on Our Imminent Ageless Dystopia ; Six Acts, Episodes -22 to -17 2. AMYGDALA HIJACK - A Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi Novel of Impending Dystopia (a Trilogy) 2.1 - Amygdala Hijack - The Waening, Part 1 of 3; Episodes 1 - 9 2.2 - Amygdala Hijack - The Warning, Part 2 of 3; Episodes 10 - 18 2.3 - Amygdala Hijack - The Wasting, Part 3 of 3, Episodes 19 - 28 3. THREE GUYS IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC BAR - A Longevity / Age Engineering and Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi Novella ; Episodes 47 - 54 4. INFINITY CURVE - Lamentations to Unseen Friends Across the Vastness of Space ; Episodes 56 - 78 5. PATH TO ENTROPY - An Apocalyptic Climax ; Episodes 79 - 93 6. SORD IN PROSPERITY - Hope Beyond the Apocalypse ; Episodes 118 - 159 7. DAISY THE DUMPSTER DOG - A Sordid Tale of Dystopian Hubris and Convenient Canine Rationalizations (But Not a Supreme Court Satire or Parody) ; Episodes 311 - 337

Author : Blade Cort
Publisher : Blade Cort
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ageness: A Longevity / Age Engineering Science Fiction Play on Our Imminent Ageless Dystopia by Blade Cort Pdf

Ageness [eBook: #dystopian #apocalyptic #sciencefictionaudiobooks] - A Longevity / Age Engineering Science Fiction Play on our Imminent Ageless Dystopia by Blade Cort; Book 1 of 7 in the Predictable Paths series (complete, auto-narrated) Four billionaires conspire to control the distribution of new longevity tech, intending to expand their wealth throughout eternity and give access only to those who are most deserving. Mia Seis, a scientist responsible for the breakthrough aging-reversal discovery, stumbles unwittingly across their devious scheme. Her secretive, abusive billionaire boss presses her to find an injectable solution, yet he just placed a death mark on a co-worker who innocently suggested that this stunning, new capability should benefit all of humanity, not just the few. New friends suddenly appear and offer to protect her from a similar fate, but she's torn between hating her boss and loving her work. Will they convince Mia to leave in time? https://bladecort.com PREDICTABLE PATHS episodes, in sequential order: 1. AGENESS - A Longevity / Age Engineering Science Fiction Play on Our Imminent Ageless Dystopia ; Six Acts, Episodes -22 to -17 2. AMYGDALA HIJACK - A Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi Novel of Impending Dystopia (a Trilogy) 2.1 - Amygdala Hijack - The Waening, Part 1 of 3; Episodes 1 - 9 2.2 - Amygdala Hijack - The Warning, Part 2 of 3; Episodes 10 - 18 2.3 - Amygdala Hijack - The Wasting, Part 3 of 3; Episodes 19 - 28 3. THREE GUYS IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC BAR - A Longevity / Age Engineering and Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi Novella ; Episodes 47 - 54 4. INFINITY CURVE - Lamentations to Unseen Friends Across the Vastness of Space ; Episodes 56 - 78 5. PATH TO ENTROPY - An Apocalyptic Climax ; Episodes 79 - 93 6. SORD IN PROSPERITY - Hope Beyond the Apocalypse ; Episodes 118 - 159 7. DAISY THE DUMPSTER DOG - A Sordid Tale of Dystopian Hubris and Convenient Canine Rationalizations (But Not a Supreme Court Satire or Parody) ; Episodes 311 - 337

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300252989

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Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott Pdf

“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University

Author : Peter Dickens,James S. Ormrod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134189809

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Cosmic Society by Peter Dickens,James S. Ormrod Pdf

Space weaponry, satellite surveillance and communications, and private space travel are all means in which outer space is being humanized: incorporated into society’s projects. But what are the political implications of society not only being globalized, but becoming ‘cosmic’? Our ideas about society have long affected, and been affected by, our understanding of the universe: large sections of our economy and society are now organized around humanity’s use of outer space. Our view of the universe, our increasingly ‘cosmic’ society, and even human consciousness are being transformed by new relations with the cosmos. As the first sociological book to tackle humanity’s relationship with the universe, this fascinating volume links social theory to classical and contemporary science, and proposes a new ‘cosmic’ social theory. Written in a punchy, student-friendly style, this timely book engages with a range of topical issues, including cyberspace, terrorism, tourism, surveillance and globalization.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002415170D

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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Pdf

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504083867

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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Pdf

This landmark work of modernist literature explores the inner lives of a typical English family while vividly exploring the nature of loss and memory. Following her celebrated masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf continues to develop her groundbreaking stream-of-consciousness technique in To the Lighthouse. Every summer, the Ramsey family returns to the Isle of Skye for a tranquil holiday, where the imposing lighthouse seems to promise everlasting constancy. But as their idyllic holiday confronts the realities of World War I, the Ramseys must also face the inescapable nature of change. A profound evocation of marriage, parenthood, aging, and grief, To the Lighthouse is regarded as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806448

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ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series) by James Joyce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.