The Empire Of Non Sense

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Papadakis Dist A/C
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art and technology
ISBN : 190650640X

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The Empire of Non-sense by Jacques Ellul Pdf

Many modern artists and architects continue to imagine and build the world technologically. Their beliefs remain firmly rooted in their assumption that the liberating forces of technology freed them from previous artistic traditions while making available vast means of production and a plethora of materials. All artistic traditions were seemingly put aside by the paintings of Cézanne, the poetry of Baudelaire, and the architecture of Le Corbusier. Behind this apparent freedom French critic Jacques Ellul, author of the classic The Technological Society, found an absolute slavery. The artist was the handmaiden of technology, a relation the artist no longer understood, like other citizens of technological culture. Artists acclaimed their unbridled individualism while being intensely determined by the forces of technological culture. Ellul examines this process in modern art from the beginning of the 20th century where the sense of art - its meaning and embodiments - is reduced to non-sense. Ellul's study is in the tradition of Guy Debord's The Society of Spectacle and Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory but moves significantly beyond their Marxist perspectives that were, from Ellul's view, co-opted by technique.

Author : Chris Brazier
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771131018

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No-Nonsense Guide to World History, 3rd Edition by Chris Brazier Pdf

Who was the first black queen? How much do you know about China's history? Most people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. This updated No-Nonsense Guide gives a full picture, revealing the hidden histories and communities left out of conventional textbooks from the civilizations of Africa, Asia and Latin America to the history of women. This updated and revised edition of one of the best-selling No-Nonsense Guides includes a new chapter from the perspective of the end of the first decade of the 21st century and includes material on the financial crisis and the world response to climate change. A perfect read for someone who wants to embrace the whole of history, rather than disconnected dynasties and events all in one slim volume.

Author : Jonathan Barker
Publisher : New Internationalist
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781906523572

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The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism by Jonathan Barker Pdf

This is a highly accessible history of terrorism that looks at core examples from the Middle East, instances of state terrorism, and terrorist fringes of political movements. It covers the theories justifying and guiding terrorist acts and the battle of images that accompanies them. Jonathan Barker has taught political science at the universities of Toronto, Arizona, and Dar es Salam. He has researched local politics in Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and India. His other books include Street-Level Democracy and Rural Communities under Stress.

Author : Carter Daniel
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071782869

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Reader-Friendly Reports: A No-nonsense Guide to Effective Writing for MBAs, Consultants, and Other Professionals by Carter Daniel Pdf

The book that has taught thousands of students how to write winning business reports For more than 30 years, Carter A. Daniel has been teaching MBA students at Rutgers University the art of effective business communication with the aid of his eminently practical guide Reader-Friendly Reports. Now available to the public for the first time, this beloved resource gives you everything you need to translate your hard-won figures, conclusions, and insights into concise and powerful reports. No definition of communication, no history, no theory, no diagrams Reader-Friendly Reports simply shows you how to: Target your audience Determine your purpose Develop your points Organize your ideas Make smooth transitions Conduct research Illustrate with clear graphs and charts Reader-Friendly Reports (the “Daniel Manual”) is the A to Z guide to ensuring you meet your first priority: making sure people can understand and remember your report from beginning to end.

Author : Sally Blundell
Publisher : New Internationalist
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780261331

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The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade by Sally Blundell Pdf

A completely new investigation of the fair trade phenomenon, from its origins to what it is likely to become.

Author : George Boyce
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349277551

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Decolonisation and the British Empire, 1775–1997 by George Boyce Pdf

This book combines an analysis of the ideas and policies that governed the British experience of decolonization. It shows how the British, perhaps more correctly the English, political tradition, with its emphasis on experience over abstract theory, was integral to the way in which the empire was regarded as being transformed rather than lost. This was a significant aspect of the relatively painless British loss of empire. It places the process of decolonization in its wider context, tracing the twentieth-century domestic and international conditions that hastened decolonization, and, through a close analysis of not only the policy choices but also the language of British imperialism, it throws new light on the British way of managing both the expansion and contraction of empire.

Author : Richard Swift
Publisher : Verso
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1859844707

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The No-nonsense Guide to Democracy by Richard Swift Pdf

Swift explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class from Birmingham to Bangalore. Including chapter-length discussions of topics such as eco-democracy, democratizing the economy, and democracy in the southern hemisphere, the book is also a guide to the rich diversity of forms of elected government and contains practical ideas for empowering today's voters around the world.

Author : Willem H. Vanderburg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781487520359

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Our Battle for the Human Spirit by Willem H. Vanderburg Pdf

Our Battle for the Human Spirit is a comprehensive probe into what is happening to human life in the beginning of the 21st century. It explores how culture, experience, and symbolization have been replaced by scientific, discipline-based, approaches.

Author : Michael Morelli
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793625441

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Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio by Michael Morelli Pdf

Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio examines biographical and textual connections between sociologist-theologian Jacques Ellul and philosopher-phenomenologist Paul Virilio. Through an examination of their embeddedness in the socio-historical context of postwar France, Michael Morelli identifies a relationship between these critics of technology that bears the marks of a nascent theological tradition. He shows from various vantage points how Ellul and Virilio’s nascent tradition exposes technology as modernity’s primary idol; and, how these thinkers use multiple disciplines—including history, sociology, philosophy, phenomenology, theology, and ethics—to resist the perilous consequences of the modern world’s worship of power and the kinds of technologies this misdirected worship produces. Jacques Ellul’s death in 1994 and Paul Virilio’s death in 2018 may have prevented the maturation of this nascent theological tradition, but this book will aid in this tradition’s ripening through the presentation of an illuminating way to read these two unique, prophetic intellectuals.

Author : Brian C. Alexander
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504967303

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Nonsense Creatures by Brian C. Alexander Pdf

With poems that range from the freedom of a small gray bird to tales of madness within the minds of men, “Nonsense Creatures” contains a parade of shadowy, lighthearted stories and poems to fit the brightest or dimmest of moods.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Parapsychology
ISBN : OSU:32435064218258

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Light by Anonim Pdf

Author : Willem H. Vanderburg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442699809

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Our War on Ourselves by Willem H. Vanderburg Pdf

Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates (as in mechanical and technical systems), but does not work when many categories of phenomena make significant contributions (as in the biological and cultural spheres). As a result, our civilization succeeds in its scientific and technical endeavours yet fails in dealing with communities and ecosystems. Following his groundbreaking Labyrinth of Technology and Living in the Labyrinth of Technology, Willem H. Vanderburg's Our War on Ourselves explores the type of war we have unleashed on our lives by emphasizing discipline-based processes. The work also illuminates how we can achieve a more balanced, livable, and sustainable future by combining technical and cultural perspectives in our educational and institutional settings.

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0898704014

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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Pdf

Throughout his life, Gilbert Chesterton always had a propensity for throwing his genius around. As a result of this tendency, Chesterton penned articles, essays, stories, and poems for so many periodicals that it was almost impossible to keep track of them. In this volume, Dr. Denis J. Conlon, Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp, has compiled Chesterton's short stories--some of which have never appeared in print. Many stories will be new to Chesterton fans because they were originally published in England and never appeared in U.S. editions, and others published in the U.S. remain unknown on the other side of the Atlantic. Dr. Conlon also includes the lost Father Brown stories, "Fr. Brown and the Donnington Affair" and "The Mask of Midas". There are 43 short stories here, along with a selection of 25 complete and incomplete tales from Chesterton's notebooks, and numerous drawings and illustrations. Some of the stories in this wonderful volume are: "The Coloured Lands," "The Sword of Wood," "The Trees of Pride," "How I Found the Superman," "The Five of Swords," "Homesick at Home," and "The End of Wisdom." With illustrations.

Author : Sidney Finkelstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015073373014

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Sense and Nonsense of McLuhan by Sidney Finkelstein Pdf

Author : Stephen Butler Leacock
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338030528

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Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels by Stephen Butler Leacock Pdf

"Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels" by Stephen Butler Leacock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.