The Future Is Not Fixed

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493064663

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The Future Is Not Fixed by Anonim Pdf

For all of the political, economic, and technological obstacles that stand in the way of addressing climate change, perhaps the greatest challenge is in the realm of imagination. Can we envision a better world? What might an equitable, sustainable, decarbonized, and just society look like? What if the concept of a Green New Deal—the initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while addressing interwoven social problems like economic inequality and racial injustice—could become reality? The Future Is Not Fixed presents a dazzling variety of answers to these questions in the form of fifty plays—from writers representing all inhabited continents—commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2021, a global participatory theatre festival that brings communities together around climate issues. The pieces gathered here feature a wide range of styles and perspectives, from realist dramas to experimental works, encompassing the dangers that we face as well as ecstatic possibilities for a renewed social contract. With contributions suitable for both conventional and nonstandard theatrical settings, these plays can be performed in intimate readings, staged productions with extensive sets and props, and everything in between. Climate Change Theatre Action plays have been performed on street corners, at the foot of glaciers, in churches, schools, libraries, backyards, community centers, and bars. They have been enjoyed by audiences as diverse as water treatment workers in Montana; homeless youth in London; refugees in Denmark; children in New York City, Iran, and Nigeria; faith communities in Florida and Washington State; unsuspecting passersby in Brazil and New Zealand; and students in every corner of the world. Regardless of style, audience, or venue, each play offers a bracing, affecting vision of how we might come together to face the challenge of global climate change.

Author : Alan B. Albarran,Angel Arrese Reca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135638429

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Time and Media Markets by Alan B. Albarran,Angel Arrese Reca Pdf

This volume, arising from the Time and Media Markets conference, offers perspectives on time and its relationship to and impact upon media industries. For libraries, scholars, comm. research centers, and grad-level seminars in media mgmt. & economics.

Author : Nigel Dower
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745658315

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The Ethics of War and Peace by Nigel Dower Pdf

This book presents a clear and comprehensive introduction to the diverse and wide-ranging ethical aspects of war and peace. In a fair-minded and engaging analysis, Nigel Dower introduces the different ethical theories in traditional and contemporary debates ? realism, just war theory and pacifism ? and subjects each to detailed critical scrutiny. He frames these debates within a related but distinct framework of three approaches to international relations, namely skeptical realism, internationalism and cosmopolitanism. The book also identifies and evaluates two further important perspectives, militarism and pacificism. Whilst analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the different outlooks, Dower makes a strong case for a cosmopolitan pacificist position, arguing that we need to see peace in more positive terms than merely the absence of war. The book uses a wide range of examples from across the world and includes discussion of nuclear weapons, new wars, terrorism, humanitarian intervention and human security. Written as a textbook for students who have no prior knowledge of philosophical ethics, The Ethics of War and Peace is designed to help students understand and see the relevance of how a professional philosopher can engage ethically with the world. Each chapter contains a helpful survey of its contents at the beginning and a set of questions for individual reflection or group discussion at the end. This book will be essential reading for students of security studies, conflict resolution, peace studies, philosophy and political theory and anyone interested in the ethical questions which arise from the study of war and peace.

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780008434052

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What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen Pdf

The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : UIUC:30112059128766

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Federal Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christiaan Mostert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567262431

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God and the Future by Christiaan Mostert Pdf

An introduction to the theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg.Pannenberg's extensive works, especially his recently published Systematic Theology, are increasingly regarded as of major importance. Professor Mostert here provides not only a general introduction to Pannenberg's theology, and many keys to enable the serious reader of theology to access Pannenberg's individual works, but also sets Pannenberg's complex thought in the broadest context of contemporary philosophical and theological thought.

Author : Egbert van Wyngaarden
Publisher : epubli
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783758418341

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Storytelling Futures by Egbert van Wyngaarden Pdf

It's "Code Red" for humanity. How do the media respond to that? This book is for anyone who's interested in using storytelling and media with the aim to shape desirable futures for humanity and all other forms of life on Earth. We're facing a host of serious, global, complex, entangled problems. Nuclear weapons, runaway technology, indestructible waste, resource depletion, overpopulation, pandemics, radicalization, species extinction, ecosystem loss, climate change. It's breathtaking, life-threatening and truly existential. How can anyone look such challenges in the eye without feeling desperate? If humans are the cause of these problems, being as inventive and ambitious as we are, we can also solve them. It's being tried, with some positive effects. But that is not enough. The obstacle seems to be less of a practical nature than a matter of awareness. It's our collective incapacity to feel and act according to what is genuinely beneficial for us and the world we're part of. Humanity lacks a vision of what a livable future – pluralistic livable futures – could look like. There are hardly any convincing, aspirational myths for people to root for. More often than not, stories about tomorrow are dystopias. In the hour of danger our imagination fails us. This is not accidental. It's critical. There is no longer any doubt that we'll only be able to survive on this planet if we radically change our way of life, our economies, our societies. To achieve this, stories and media need to lead the way. We must get better at working with probable, possible and desirable futures. This would be a useful skill for anyone. It's a duty for all those who shape and create realities in the media. As journalists, writers, filmmakers, game designers or XR-creators we can present what we care about to many different audiences. We reach people. We touch them. Our projects can be starting points for collective sensemaking and inspire citizens to become agents of change.

Author : Siri Hustvedt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982102852

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Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt Pdf

A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World. A young woman, S.H., moves to New York City in 1978 to look for adventure and write her first novel, but finds herself distracted by her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite. As S.H. listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, she carefully transcribes the woman’s bizarre monologues about her daughter’s violent death and her need to punish the killer. Forty years later, S.H. stumbles upon the journal she kept that year and writes a memoir, Memories of the Future, in which she juxtaposes the notebook’s texts, drafts from her unfinished comic novel, and her commentaries on them to create a dialogue among selves over the decades. She remembers. She misremembers. She forgets. Events of the past take on new meanings. She works to reframe her traumatic memory of a sexual assault. She celebrates the legacy of the wild and rebellious Dada artist-poet, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. As the book unfolds, you witness S.H. write her way through vengeance and into freedom. Smart, funny, angry, and poignant, Hustvedt’s seventh novel brings together the themes that have made her one of the most celebrated novelists working today: the strangeness of time, the brutality of patriarchy, and the power of the imagination to remake the past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OSU:32435027896448

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Science, Technology, and Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : PSU:000066479673

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Praxis; Edition Internationale by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Future life
ISBN : BL:A0021757917

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The Future Life by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf

Author : Carlo Rovelli
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780735216112

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The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Pdf

One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Literature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924079601005

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tennessee. Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101065140798

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Annual Reports of the Railroad Commissioners for the State of Tennessee by Tennessee. Railroad Commissioners Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Research
ISBN : UOM:39015006383874

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RAOP by Anonim Pdf