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The Utopian Crescendo of Hope!

Author : Ronald Alan Duskis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780595003761

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This book reveals the hope that all of us need to know: that everything will eventually work out together for our common good as a human race! God guarantees it! This book not only gives the events that will lead up to the Utopia or Paradise that we all want; but it also gives us how to obtain it in a personal way! The reader will see that God loves everyone and wants them to know that a Utopia and Paradise is not too far off into the future that will be their HOME forever! This book goes through every verse of the Book of Revelation showing what events will take place in what order. It also shows that all the events such as Armageddon, the Great Tribulation, and the Day of the Lord do not have to take place if everyone on earth will turn to God with all their heart and mind. It also shows in Revelation, Chapters 2 and 3, what every human needs to change in their lives for the betterment of the human race! This book shows the crescendoing hope towards Paradise in nearly every sentence or every verse! Please, please, please sit back and enjoy your journey of hope that will become reality someday as we as a human family journey to Utopia as our final destiny that no one can stop!

The Divine Nature

Author : Ronald Alan Duskis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595124688

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This book reveals the hope that all of us need to know: that everything will eventually work out together for our common good as a human race! God guarantees it! We will all end up loving, cherishing, and trusting one another by having the Divine Nature. This book gives us how to obtain it in a personal way! The reader will see that God loves everyone and shows us how we can love everyone, too! God wants us to know that a Utopia and Paradise is not too far off into the future and will be our HOME forever! This book goes through the ways to achieve those results and just what part you and I have in developing the Divine Nature! Please please please sit back and enjoy your journey of hope that will become reality someday as we as a human family journey to Utopia as our final destiny that no one can stop!

Hope Isn't Stupid

Author : Sean Austin Grattan
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609385217

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Hope Isn’t Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects circulate within utopian texts. Moving away from science fiction—the genre in which utopian visions are often located—author Sean Grattan resuscitates the importance of utopianism in recent American literary history. Doing so enables him to assert the pivotal role contemporary American literature has to play in allowing us to envision alternatives to global neoliberal capitalism. Novelists William S. Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, John Darnielle, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, and Colson Whitehead are deeply invested in the creation of utopian possibilities. A return to reading the utopian wager in literature from the postmodern to the contemporary period reinvigorates critical forms that imagine reading as an act of communication, friendship, solace, and succor. These forms also model richer modes of belonging than the diluted and impoverished ones on display in the neoliberal present. Simultaneously, by linking utopian studies and affect studies, Grattan’s work resists the tendency for affect studies to codify around the negative, instead reorienting the field around the messy, rich, vibrant, and ambivalent affective possibilities of the world. Hope Isn’t Stupid insists on the centrality of utopia not only in American literature, but in American life as well.

The Privatization of Hope

Author : Peter Thompson,Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822377115

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The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), especially in his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope (1959). The "speculative materialism" that he first developed in the 1930s asserts a commitment to humanity's potential that continued through his later work. In The Privatization of Hope, leading thinkers in utopian studies explore the insights that Bloch's ideas provide in understanding the present. Mired in the excesses and disaffections of contemporary capitalist society, hope in the Blochian sense has become atomized, desocialized, and privatized. From myriad perspectives, the contributors clearly delineate the renewed value of Bloch's theories in this age of hopelessness. Bringing Bloch's "ontology of Not Yet Being" into conversation with twenty-first-century concerns, this collection is intended to help revive and revitalize philosophy's commitment to the generative force of hope. Contributors. Roland Boer, Frances Daly, Henk de Berg, Vincent Geoghegan, Wayne Hudson, Ruth Levitas, David Miller, Catherine Moir, Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Welf Schröter, Johan Siebers, Peter Thompson, Francesca Vidal, Rainer Ernst Zimmermann, Slavoj Žižek

Invoking Hope

Author : Phillip E. Wegner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Hope
ISBN : 1517908868

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"Invoking Hope: Reading Theory and Utopia in Dark Times argues for the undiminished importance of the practices of theory, utopia, and deep, close, and even critical reading in our current situation of what Brecht refers to as finsteren Zeiten, dark times. Written during 2016, an extraordinarily consequential year, Wegner reflects on the question: what does any particular theory allow us to do, what is the value of so doing, and, most importantly, who benefits?"--

Utopia Method Vision

Author : Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 303910912X

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Utopia Method Vision by Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini Pdf

This collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and practices have shaped their intellectual work and research perspectives.

The Principle of Hope

Author : Ernst Bloch
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01
Category : Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN : 0262022508

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The Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is Ernst Bloch's comprehensive account of human strivings for utopia throughout history, coupled with the philosopher's own vision of the possibilities for a real utopia.

Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope

Author : Mark S. Ferrara
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476603391

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Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope by Mark S. Ferrara Pdf

The historical and literary antecedents of the President's campaign rhetoric can be traced to the utopian traditions of the Western world. The "rhetoric of hope" is a form of political discourse characterized by a forward-looking vision of social progress brought about by collective effort and adherence to shared values (including discipline, temperance, a strong work ethic, self-reliance and service to the community). By combining his own personal story (as the biracial son of a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya) with national mythologies like the American Dream, Obama creates a persona that embodies the moral values and cultural mythos of his implied audience. In doing so, he draws upon the Classical world, Judeo-Christianity, the European Enlightenment, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, the presidencies of Jefferson, Lincoln, and FDR, slave narratives, the Black church, the civil rights movement and even popular culture.

A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard

Author : Tom Conley,T. Jefferson Kline
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118587010

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A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard by Tom Conley,T. Jefferson Kline Pdf

This compendium of original essays offers invaluable insights intothe life and works of one of the most important and influentialdirectors in the history of cinema, exploring his major films,philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics anddirectors. Presents a compendium of original essays offering invaluableinsights into the life and works of one of the most important andinfluential filmmakers in the history of cinema Features contributions from an international cast of major filmtheorists and critics Provides readers with both an in-depth reading ofGodard’s major films and a sense of his evolution from theNew Wave to his later political periods Brings fresh insights into the great director’sbiography, including reflections on his personal philosophy,politics, and connections to other critics and filmmakers Explores many of the 80 features Godard made in nearly 60years, and includes coverage of his recent work in video

Radio Utopia

Author : Matthew C. Ehrlich
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780252093005

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As World War II drew to a close and radio news was popularized through overseas broadcasting, journalists and dramatists began to build upon the unprecedented success of war reporting on the radio by creating audio documentaries. Focusing particularly on the work of radio luminaries such as Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly, Norman Corwin, and Erik Barnouw, Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest traces this crucial phase in American radio history, significant not only for its timing immediately before television, but also because it bridges the gap between the end of the World Wars and the beginning of the Cold War. Matthew C. Ehrlich closely examines the production of audio documentaries disseminated by major American commercial broadcast networks CBS, NBC, and ABC from 1945 to 1951. Audio documentary programs educated Americans about juvenile delinquency, slums, race relations, venereal disease, atomic energy, arms control, and other issues of public interest, but they typically stopped short of calling for radical change. Drawing on rare recordings and scripts, Ehrlich traces a crucial phase in the evolution of news documentary, as docudramas featuring actors were supplanted by reality-based programs that took advantage of new recording technology. Paralleling that shift from drama to realism was a shift in liberal thought from dreams of world peace to uneasy adjustments to a cold war mentality. Influenced by corporate competition and government regulations, radio programming reflected shifts in a range of political thought that included pacifism, liberalism, and McCarthyism. In showing how programming highlighted contradictions within journalism and documentary, Radio Utopia reveals radio's response to the political, economic, and cultural upheaval of the post-war era.

Hope and Wish Image in Music Technology

Author : David P. Rando
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783319340159

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This book proposes that new music technologies attract unconscious desires for socialism and collectivity, enabling millions of people living under capitalism to dream of repressed social alternatives. Grounded in the philosophical writings of Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin, the book examines file sharing technologies, streaming services, and media players, as well as their historical antecedents, such as the player piano, cassette tape, radio and compact disc, alongside interpretations of fiction, memoir, and albums. Through the concept of wish images—the unconscious hopes and desires for social alternatives that gather around new technologies—the book identifies the repressed pre- and post-capitalist urges that attend our music technologies. While these desires typically remain unconscious and tend to pass away not only unmet but also unrecognized, Hope and Wish Image in Music Technology attempts to bring wishes for social alternatives to the surface at an auspicious moment of technological transition.

Trans/Forming Utopia

Author : Elizabeth Russell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039113488

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Is the utopian project dead? Is it possible to imagine a utopian society or a utopian world in the aftermath of the collapse of ideologies? This book contains eighteen essays which are the result of the 7th International Conference of Utopian Studies held in Spain in 2006, either debating the subject, or suggesting alternative readings to some of the theoretical ideas raised within utopian studies. This volume focuses on the importance of narratives in utopian literature. They define the world we live in and the world we wish to live in. Through narratives of confession, and indeed through silence itself, the unconscious emerges and desire is articulated. The articles in this volume question and challenge the power of the word, the stability of meaning, and the relationship between thought and action in the construction of utopia and dystopia. They also point to the various literary frameworks of utopian and dystopian narratives, thus connecting stories from the past, present and future of both real and imaginary and communities.

Sigur Rós's ( )

Author : Ethan Hayden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781623562939

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Words like "inspiring," "expansive," and "moving" are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós's ( ), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables. The album has no title-or rather, its title is no title: just an empty pair of parentheses. The intention being that listeners will fill in the parentheses with their own title, their own interpretation of the sounds on the record. The CD sleeve consists of twelve pages that are essentially blank, lacking song titles, liner notes or production credits. Instead, it contains only semi-translucent frosted images of abstract natural scenes (tree branches, clouds, etc.), on which the listener is free to inscribe their own notes-or no notes at all. And then there are the lyrics, sung in a deliberately unintelligible tongue called "Hopelandic" which the band invites listeners to interpret freely. Ethan Hayden's book doesn't try to fill in the gaps between the album's parentheses, but instead explores the ways in which listeners might attempt to do so. Examining the communicative powers of asemantic language, the book asks whether music can bring sense to nonsense. What happens to the voice when it stops singing conventional language: does it simply become another musical instrument, or is it somehow more "human"? What role does space play on ( )? And how do we interpret music that we cannot possibly understand, but feel very deeply that we do?

Listening in a Loud World

Author : Robert C. Shippey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532618109

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In this astonishing book, the author's purpose is to help transform individuals by fostering a spirit of holy listening that enriches faith and opens seekers to the fullness of God's presence and of the neighbor's need. The intent is to help the reader develop a faith that seeks understanding and makes real meaning in a world of chatter. In each chapter, a prominent work of art is interpreted, which serves as a focal point for demonstrating how the eyes and heart are integrally involved in hearing the Spirit of God. The book explores why holy listening is so difficult by examining key hermeneutical issues within the biblical text and by considering the nature of God, the journey of faith, and human limits. This illuminating book also examines the spiritual need for holy listening and analyzes critical questions of faith that lead to a greater awareness of self and the church in the mutual calling to be the incarnation of Jesus Christ in a postmodern world. Essential in the task of holy listening is an awareness of the importance of spiritual rest and the role of the Sabbath plays in providing an opportunity to participate in the redeeming work of God. In this regard, the book underscores the need for faith this is both a linear journey toward wholeness and an ability to make home and community along life's way. The need for holy listening is made even more acute by the reality of suffering that accompanies life's pilgrimage, and the book ponders the meaning of suffering and how it can open one to the presence of the divine. More than a theological analysis of suffering, the book addresses the author's effort to listen for redemptive meaning in light of his own daughter's struggle with juvenile diabetes. The book concludes with a discussion of the spiritual value of silence as the way to experience anew the story of Jesus who beckon those who listen to follow through a life of service and love.

Imaginary Communities

Author : Phillip Wegner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520926765

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Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work Utopia to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential history of modernity. As he unravels the dialectics at work in the utopian narrative, Wegner gives an ambitious synthetic discussion of theories of modernity, considering and evaluating the ideas of writers such as Ernst Bloch, Louis Marin, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, Paul de Man, Karl Mannheim, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jürgen Habermas, Slavoj Zizek, and Homi Bhabha.