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All and Nothing - A Digital Apocalpyse by Martin Burckhardt; Dirk Höfer; Erik Butler
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = xn an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication.In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with God, and God was the One.--All and NothingIn 1854, the British mathematician George Boole presented the idea of a ...Show more
German Philosophy - A Dialogue by Alain Badiou; Jean-Luc Nancy; Jan Völker; Richard Lambert
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy--including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger--from a French perspective. In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy from a ...Show more
Inconsistencies by Marcus Steinweg; Amanda DeMarco (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Meditations, aphorisms, maxims, notes, and comments construct a philosophy of thought congruent with the inconsistency of our reality. Those who continue to think never return to their point of departure.--Inconsistencies These 130 short texts--aphoristic, interlacing, and sometimes perplexing--target ...Show more
On Hitler's Mein Kampf - The Poetics of National Socialism by Albrecht Koschorke; Erik Butler
Category: History | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature. Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian Ministry of ...Show more
Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author - On Storytelling, Business, and Literature by Philipp Schönthaler; Amanda DeMarco (Translator)
Category: Business | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations. Corporations love a good story. Microsoft employs a chief storyteller, who heads a team of twenty-five corporate storytellers. IBM, Coca-Cola, and the World B ...Show more
The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas by Roberto Simanowski; Jefferson Chase
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age.In The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas, Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink of a society that views ...Show more
The Terror of Evidence by Marcus Steinweg
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
Marcus Steinweg's capacity to implicate the other is beautiful, bright, precise, and logical, grounded in everyday questions, which to him are always big questions. -- from the foreword by Thomas Hirschhorn The houses of philosophy need not be palaces. -- Marcus Steinweg, "House," The Terror of Evidenc ...Show more
Topology of Violence by Byung-Chul Han; Amanda DeMarco (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.Some things never disappear--violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constella ...Show more
Waste - A New Media Primer by Roberto Simanowski; Amanda DeMarco (Translator); Susan H. Gillespie
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
On Facebook and fake news, selfies and self-consciousness, selling our souls to the Internet, and other aspects of the digital revolution.With these engaging and provocative essays, Roberto Simanowski considers what new media has done to us. Why is digital privacy being eroded and why does society seem ...Show more
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