Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Author : Caitlin Johnstone,Timothy Foley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645022128

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Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone,Timothy Foley Pdf

We each inhabit two very different worlds simultaneously: the real world, and the narrative world.The real physical world of matter, of atoms and molecules and stars and planets and animals wandering around trying to bite and copulate with each other often has very little to do with the narrative world, which is made of stories and mental chatter. Powerful people have long understood that if you control the stories people tell about themselves, then you can control their resources and their reality. From priests to politicians, CEOs to the architects of war, all have deeply understood the importance of maintaining control of the narrative. We have reached a crisis point where the disconnect between narrative and reality is threatening all life on earth. The narrative world is getting more and more chimerical while the real world is headed toward disaster due to the military and ecological pressures created by our status quo. There are only a few ways this can possibly break, with the most obvious being mass scale ecological disaster or nuclear war. There is also the possibility that the human species goes the other way and adapts, and wakes up to the way narrative has been used to manipulate us into consenting to our own extinction. Throughout recorded history, all around the globe, wise humans have been attesting that it is possible to transcend our delusion-rooted conditioning and come to a lucid perception of the narrative world and reality. There are many names for this lucid perception, but the one that caught on most widely is enlightenment. We all have this potential within us. It has been gestating in us for many millennia. As we approach our adaptation-or-extinction juncture, we are very close indeed to learning if that potential will awaken in us or not.This book rests on the meniscus of that possibility.

Author : Tamara I. Hammond
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781665575256

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How to Avoid a Phd (Penalty for Hardworking Dummies): Wishing I Were an Autodidact by Tamara I. Hammond Pdf

This book is the result of decades-long academic research and 25 years of emergence in the myth of the American dream. In reality, a small minority of ultra-rich corporations have complete control over the government and mercilessly exploit the majority of Americans. The author debunks the illusion of meritocracy, heavily promoted by ubiquitous propaganda. Through the mainstream media, PR, and academia, the legend is sold to the American people and the world as an equal opportunity for all. Packaged in glamorous fabricated stories, the myth is glorified by Hollywood and legitimized by multiple mainstream news channels that are owned by five companies, which control the narrative. At the same time, higher education is designed to enslave graduates with enormous debts in order to keep them obedient. In the complete absence of adequate opposition, these institutions create and maintain a plutocracy while purporting to represent freedom and democracy.

Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781949762730

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America on the Brink by David Ray Griffin Pdf

The American government, through its media, has convinced most Americans to support the Ukrainian government. This books shows why this is a mistake: The United States promised Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand “one inch eastward”; and there had been ample warnings, by George Kennan and others, that moving NATO eastward, especially moving into Georgia and Ukraine, would cause problems for Russia. In Ukraine prior to 2014, Ukrainian and Russian speakers were coexisting tolerably well. But in 2013 and 2014, neocons in Obama’s administration engineered a coup, with help from neo-Nazis, turning Ukraine into a Russia-hating nation. The war in Ukraine began that year (not in 2022, when Russia attacked in order to protect the Russian-speaking regions under attack by the new coup government in Kiev). Although this book is primarily about the war in Ukraine, it also shows how, in one sense, the war in Ukraine is simply one more instance in the trajectory of American imperialism. as illustrated by previous US interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, Brazil, Greece, Dominican Republic, Panama and Iraq. In another sense, this war reveals just how committed America is to maintaining a unipolar world order: Because this war illustrates that America is willing to threaten nuclear holocaust. it is almost as if people in the U.S. State Department and military believe that life is not worth living unless the US can control the world.

Author : Andy Lee Roth,Mickey Huff
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781644213339

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Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2024 by Andy Lee Roth,Mickey Huff Pdf

Highlighting the year’s most significant independent journalism—including reports on toxic chemicals, climate disinformation, and union victories—Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2024 illuminates issues and raises voices that the establishment press have throttled. Includes a Foreword by Alan MacLeod, independent investigative journalist and editor of Propaganda in the Information Age. State of the Free Press 2024 shows how independent journalism can promote civic engagement and reconnect people who have otherwise lost interest in sensational “news” that distracts and polarizes us. Balancing critical analysis with optimistic vision, the book’s diverse contributors champion press freedom and critical media literacy to hold the powerful accountable and promote a more just and inclusive society. State of the Free Press 2024 is a joint production of The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press.

Author : Daniel R Altschuler
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811253638

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Last Call: Humanity Hanging From A Cross Of Iron And Our Escape To Another Planet by Daniel R Altschuler Pdf

This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned throughout his career to go beyond science. After an introduction setting the scene and a review of the 'scientific temper' and the inexcusable ignorance of science by some leaders and many followers, the author turns his sharp vision to look at other issues. The most significant challenges are critical and global: climate change caused by our activities, stockpiles of nuclear weapons that are a constant threat, population growth, and increasing inequality at all levels. These problems do have a profound ethical character and threaten to end forever with our misery, producing a 'catastrophic convergence'.Written with rigor for all readers, with many references and infused with relevant quotations, the author's message is clear: we need to change our ways drastically and urgently, now or never. But he offers not much in terms of a solution, something done by many authors to sweeten the pill, because as he argues, beyond lofty declarations, there is no real solution as the clock runs down, leading to his dystopian view of the future.

Author : Caitlin Johnstone,Timothy Foley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645022179

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JOHNSTONE October 23 by Caitlin Johnstone,Timothy Foley Pdf

The October '23 edition of a monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions. This month includes: a Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix version of the unfolding events in the Palestine-Israel conflict; the burgeoning popularity of the word "unprovoked" both in Ukraine (p60) and Israel (p70); the great argument for revolution a wealthy capitalist accidentally made (p14); and the island calling into question whether the US gains enthusiastic consent for inserting its military bases into foreign countries (p23); and more.

Author : Caitlin Johnstone,Timothy P Foley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0645022101

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Poems For Rebels by Caitlin Johnstone,Timothy P Foley Pdf

Select poems by journalist, essayist and digital street philosopher Caitlin Johnstone.

Author : Caitlin Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645022136

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Woke by Caitlin Johnstone Pdf

For those that look with both eyes -- this book is for you.

Author : Stacy Gillis
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904764320

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The Matrix Trilogy by Stacy Gillis Pdf

This is a collection of essays on the films as well as the websites, games and The Animatrix video and DVD. Among the topics discussed are the new cyberpunk, Baudrillarian simulacra and simulation, gender, race and costume, cyberculture and the body, virtual realities and special effects.

Author : Patrick Ness
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763667672

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More Than This by Patrick Ness Pdf

From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life — or perhaps afterlife — of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world. A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. What’s going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this. . . .

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781680315

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Welcome to the Desert of the Real by Slavoj Zizek Pdf

Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Žižek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the real alternatives are most hidden. Welcome to the Desert of the Real steps back, complicating the choices imposed on us. It proposes that global capitalism is fundamentalist and that America was complicit in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. It points to our dreaming about the catastrophe in numerous disaster movies before it happened, and explores the irony that the tragedy has been used to legitimize torture. Last but not least it analyzes the fiasco of the predominant leftist response to the events.

Author : Denis Jonnes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Análisis del discurso
ISBN : 3110122529

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The Matrix of Narrative by Denis Jonnes Pdf

Author : Chris Steyaert
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845421472

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Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship by Chris Steyaert Pdf

. . . the four books comprising the series would certainly be a valuable addition to any entrepreneurship library. However, each book also stands alone as an individual purchase. Lorraine Warren, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research The book delivers what it promises: a map of the uses of narrative methods in entrepreneurship studies. It is both an interesting contribution to the field and an important methodological handbook for all entrepreneurship researchers who are thinking of adopting qualitative methods in their inquiries. However, it may also be read with advantage by other researchers using ethnography as their main methodological approach to social studies. . . The aim of the book is to show how narratives can enrich entrepreneurship studies, a goal that in my opinion is aptly fulfilled. Monika Kostera, Scandinavian Journal of Management . . . the contributors in this text breathe fresh and imaginative linguistic resources and narrative/discursive frames of reference into the inquiry of entrepreneurial activities. The anecdote, the narrative, the metaphorical, the discursive and the dramaturgical are significant therefore, not only because they bring to the surface voices, emotions, processes and the relationality of (everyday) entrepreneurial activity that have possibly been previously silenced. But also, to paraphrase Steyaert, these approaches highlight the controversial and interactive aspects of the research process. . . The text is welcome because it treats narrative in a serious and scholarly way. Denise Fletcher, International Small Business Journal In their edited book Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship, Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert provide a fascinating glimpse into a perspective on entrepreneurship that will be enlightening for many readers. Entrepreneurship authors typically talk about theory, methods, and data as if a straight-forward linear process united them all, and making sense of entrepreneurship was simply a matter of knowing how to interpret one s findings . By contrast, the authors in this volume propose narrative and discursive approaches in which the contributing authors emphasize rich description, reflexive conceptualization, and interpretations offered as part of the story itself. They draw upon an international set of cases, including Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Venezuela, and North America. The cases themselves make for fascinating reading, quite apart from what we learn about the difficulties of imposing a particular interpretation on a given story. For example, taxi drivers in Caracas, management consultants in Denmark, and women entrepreneurs in northern Norway all make for fascinating narratives from which to understand the entrepreneurial process. Unlike many edited books which have no plot , the editors have included opening and closing sections that link the chapters, offer alternative readings of them, and propose new and expansive ways of thinking about entrepreneurship. Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert set out to advance the study of entrepreneurship by refocusing the lens of discovery from economics, management and marketing to other paradigmatic stances in social sciences and humanities like anthropology and literary studies. The result is a provocative collection of chapters that inspire the reader to consider and explore new ideas and research practice that incorporate both the context and place of entrepreneurship. From the perceptive insights of the editors to the rigorous and provocative discourse of the chapters and thoughtful responses in the conclusion emerges a story, in the best of storytelling tradition, about how a linguistic turn can rouse new insights. The editors ask, how do these texts move you? they entice, provoke, challenge, stimulate and guide. Their implications should be far reaching and required reading for any student of t

Author : Jeff Patton,Peter Economy
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781491904886

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User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton,Peter Economy Pdf

User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features. Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about the project throughout the development process. Your team will learn to come away with a shared understanding of what you’re attempting to build and why. Get a high-level view of story mapping, with an exercise to learn key concepts quickly Understand how stories really work, and how they come to life in Agile and Lean projects Dive into a story’s lifecycle, starting with opportunities and moving deeper into discovery Prepare your stories, pay attention while they’re built, and learn from those you convert to working software

Author : Stuart Henderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844578436

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The Hollywood Sequel by Stuart Henderson Pdf

This illuminating study charts the changing role of the Hollywood film sequel over the past century. Considering a range of sequels in their industrial, historical and aesthetic contexts, from The Son of a Sheik (1926) to Toy Story 3 (2010), this book provides a comprehensive history of this critically-neglected yet commercially-dominant art form.