The Conservative Futurist

Author : James Pethokoukis
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781546006107

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The Conservative Futurist by James Pethokoukis Pdf

Discover the surprising case for how conservatism can help us achieve the epic sci-fi future we were promised. America was once the world’s dream factory. We turned imagination into reality, from curing polio to landing on the Moon to creating the internet. And we were confident that more wonders lay just over the horizon: clean and infinite energy, a cure for cancer, computers and robots as humanity’s great helpers, and space colonies. (Also, of course, flying cars.) Science fiction, from The Jetsons to Star Trek, would become fact. But as we moved into the late 20th century, we grew cautious, even cynical, about what the future held and our ability to shape it. Too many of us saw only the threats from rapid change. The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Great Downshift in technological progress and economic growth, followed by decades of economic stagnation, downsized dreams, and a popular culture fixated on catastrophe: AI that will take all our jobs if it doesn’t kill us first, nuclear war, climate chaos, plague and the zombie apocalypse. We are now at risk of another half-century of making the same mistakes and pushing a pro-progress future into the realm of impossibility. But American Enterprise Institute (AEI) economic policy expert and long-time CNBC contributor James Pethokoukis argues that there’s still hope. We can absolutely turn things around—if we the people choose to dream and act. How dare we delay or fail to deliver for ourselves and our children. With groundbreaking ideas and sharp analysis, Pethokoukis provides a detailed roadmap to a fantastic future filled with incredible progress and prosperity that is both optimistic and realistic. Through an exploration of culture, economics, and history, The Conservative Futurist tells the fascinating story of what went wrong in the past and what we need to do today to finally get it right. Using the latest economic research and policy analysis, as well as insights from top economists, historians, and technologists, Pethokoukis reveals that the failed futuristic visions of the past were totally possible. And they still are. If America is to fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, take full advantage of emerging tech from generative AI to CRISPR to reusable rockets, and launch itself into a shining tomorrow, it must again become a fully risk-taking, future-oriented society. It’s time for America to embrace the future confidently, act boldly, and take that giant leap forward.

Author : N. Late Publisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0964144883

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Conservative Futurist by N. Late Publisher Pdf

Author : Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498564373

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The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein Pdf

Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic State is “futurist.” ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern, techno-oriented, and optimistic attitude propagated by Italian Futurism in the early twentieth century.

Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : BUSINESS and ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780691180960

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A Culture of Growth by Joel Mokyr Pdf

Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to today's unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebrated economic historian Joel Mokyr argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the scientific advances and pioneering inventions that would instigate explosive technological and economic development. Bringing together economics, the history of science and technology, and models of cultural evolution, Mokyr demonstrates that culture--the beliefs, values, and preferences in society that are capable of changing behavior--was a deciding factor in societal transformations. Mokyr looks at the period 1500-1700 to show that a politically fragmented Europe fostered a competitive "market for ideas" and a willingness to investigate the secrets of nature. At the same time, a transnational community of brilliant thinkers known as the "Republic of Letters" freely circulated and distributed ideas and writings. This political fragmentation and the supportive intellectual environment explain how the Industrial Revolution happened in Europe but not China, despite similar levels of technology and intellectual activity. In Europe, heterodox and creative thinkers could find sanctuary in other countries and spread their thinking across borders. In contrast, China's version of the Enlightenment remained controlled by the ruling elite. Combining ideas from economics and cultural evolution, A Culture of Growth provides startling reasons for why the foundations of our modern economy were laid in the mere two centuries between Columbus and Newton.

Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110465952

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2016 by Günter Berghaus Pdf

Volume 6 (2016) is an open issue with an emphasis on Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Iceland). Four essays focus on Russia, two on music; other contributions are concerned with Egypt, USA and Korea. Furthermore there are sections on Futurist archives, Futurism in caricatures and Futurism in fiction.

Author : Emilio Gentile
Publisher : Enigma Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Fascism
ISBN : 9781929631186

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The Origins of Fascist Ideology 1918-1925 by Emilio Gentile Pdf

This is the first detailed and definitive study of the development and initial success of fascism as it originated in Italy right after the First World War.

Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110273564

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Handbook of International Futurism by Günter Berghaus Pdf

The Handbook of International Futurism is the first reference work ever to presents in a comparative fashion all media and countries in which the movement, initiated by F.T. Marinetti in 1909, exercised a particularly noteworthy influence. The handbook offers a synthesis of the state of scholarship regarding the international radiation of Futurism and its influence in some fifteen artistic disciplines and thirty-eight countries. While acknowledging the great achievements of the movement in the visual and literary arts of Italy and Russia, it treats Futurism as an international, multidisciplinary phenomenon that left a lasting mark on the manifold artistic manifestations of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. Hundreds of artists, who in some phase in their career absorbed Futurist ideas and stylistic devices, are presented in the context of their national traditions, their international connections and the media in which they were predominantly active. The handbook acts as a kind of multi-disciplinary, geographical encyclopaedia of Futurism and gives scholars with varying levels of experience a detailed overview of all countries and disciplines in which the movement had a major impact.

Author : Mikhail Suslov,Per-Arne Bodin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788317061

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The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia by Mikhail Suslov,Per-Arne Bodin Pdf

More than 700 'utopian' novels are published in Russia every year. These utopias – meaning here fantasy fiction, science fiction, space operas or alternative history – do not set out merely to titillate; instead they express very real Russian anxieties: be they territorial right-sizing, loss of imperial status or turning into a 'colony' of the West. Contributors to this innovative collection use these narratives to re-examine post-Soviet Russian political culture and identity. Interrogating the intersections of politics, ideologies and fantasies, chapters draw together the highbrow literary mainstream (authors such as Vladimir Sorokin), mass literature for entertainment and individuals who bridge the gap between fiction writers and intellectuals or ideologists (Aleksandr Prokhanov, for example, the editor-in-chief of Russia's far-right newspaper Zavtra). In the process The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia sheds crucial light onto a variety of debates – including the rise of nationalism, right-wing populism, imperial revanchism, the complicated presence of religion in the public sphere, the function of language – and is important reading for anyone interested in the heightened importance of ideas, myths, alternative histories and conspiracy theories in Russia today.

Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1571818677

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Futurism and Politics by Günter Berghaus Pdf

On futurism and fascism in Italy

Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110804225

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International Futurism in Arts and Literature by Günter Berghaus Pdf

This publication offers for the first time an inter-disciplinary and comparative perspective on Futurism in a variety of countries and artistic media. 20 scholars discuss how the movement shaped the concept of a cultural avant-garde and how it influenced the development of modernist art and literature around the world.

Author : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374706944

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Critical Writings by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Pdf

The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "cultural necrophiliacs" and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece." In the years that followed, up until his death in 1944, Marinetti, through both his polemical writings and his political activities, sought to transform society in all its aspects. As Günter Berghaus writes in his introduction, "Futurism sought to bridge the gap between art and life and to bring aesthetic innovation into the real world. Life was to be changed through art, and art was to become a form of life." This volume includes more than seventy of Marinetti's most important writings—many of them translated into English for the first time—offering the reader a representative and still startling selection of texts concerned with Futurist art, literature, politics, and philosophy.

Author : Jason L. Mast
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107026186

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The Performative Presidency by Jason L. Mast Pdf

A cultural analysis of 1990s politics in the US, detailing the rise of performance oriented politics during Clinton's presidency.

Author : Johan Söderberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135916381

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Hacking Capitalism by Johan Söderberg Pdf

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement. This book is the first to examine a different kind of political activism that consists in the development of technology from below.

Author : Mark Dery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802196125

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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium by Mark Dery Pdf

A wide-ranging collection of essays on millennial American culture that “marshals a vast pop vocabulary with easy wit” (The New York Times Book Review). From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have become a “pyrotechnic insanitarium,” Mark Dery says, borrowing a turn-of-the-century name for Coney Island. Dery elucidates the meaning to our madness, deconstructing American culture from mainstream forces like Disney and Nike to fringe phenomena like the Unabomber and alien invaders. Our millennial angst, he argues, is a product of a pervasive cultural anxiety—a combination of the social and economic upheaval wrought by global capitalism and the paranoia fanned by media sensationalism. The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium is a theme-park ride through the extremes of American culture of which The Atlantic has written, “Mark Dery confirms once again what writers and thinkers as disparate as Nathanael West, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sigmund Freud, and Oliver Sacks have already shown us: the best place to explore the human condition is at its outer margins, its pathological extremes.” “Dery is the kind of critic who just might give conspiracy theory a good name.” —Wired

Author : Barry Bluestone,Bennett Harrison
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520230701

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Growing Prosperity by Barry Bluestone,Bennett Harrison Pdf

"Growing Prosperity could well be as important in shaping our future as Keynes' General Theory. . . . A work as meticulous as it is powerful, as promising as it is persuasive."—Robert Heilbroner, author of The Worldly Philosophers "Bluestone and Harrison have alerted us to the key issue confronting America: how to achieve growth with equity. This country needs a powerful dialogue on how to continue growth while deepening its benefits to all Americans. This is the blueprint for the terms of that debate."—U.S. Representative Richard Gephardt