An Invention Without a Future

An Invention Without a Future
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9780520279742
ISBN-13 : 0520279743
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis An Invention Without a Future by : James Naremore

Introduction: An invention without a future -- Part 1. Issues -- Authorship, auteurism, and cultural politics -- The reign of adaptation -- Notes on acting in cinema -- Imitation, eccentricity, and impersonation in movie acting -- The death and rebirth of rhetoric -- Part 2. Authors, actors, adaptations -- Hawks, Chandler, Bogart, Bacall: The big sleep -- Uptown folk: blackness and entertainment in Cabin in the sky -- Hitchcock and humor -- Hitchcock at the margins of noir -- Spies and lovers: North by Northwest -- Welles, Hollywood, and Heart of darkness -- Orson Welles and movie acting -- Welles and Kubrick: two forms of exile -- The treasure of the Sierra Madre -- The return of the dead -- Part 3. In defense of criticism -- James Agee -- Manny Farber -- Andrew Sarris -- Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Years as a critic: 2007-2010.

An Invention without a Future

An Invention without a Future
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780520957947
ISBN-13 : 0520957946
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis An Invention without a Future by : James Naremore

In 1895, Louis Lumière supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema in the digital age, and as a way of introducing a wide-ranging series of his essays on movies past and present. These essays include discussions of authorship, adaptation, and acting; commentaries on Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, John Huston, and Stanley Kubrick; and reviews of more recent work by non-Hollywood directors Pedro Costa, Abbas Kiarostami, Raúl Ruiz, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Important themes recur: the relations between modernity, modernism, and postmodernism; the changing mediascape and death of older technologies; and the need for robust critical writing in an era when print journalism is waning and the humanities are devalued. The book concludes with essays on four major American film critics: James Agee, Manny Farber, Andrew Sarris, and Jonathan Rosenbaum.

The Future of Invention

The Future of Invention
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 0791474208
ISBN-13 : 9780791474204
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Future of Invention by : John Muckelbauer

Examines the concept of rhetorical invention from an affirmative, nondialectical perspective.

Films from the Future

Films from the Future
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Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781633539068
ISBN-13 : 1633539067
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Films from the Future by : Andrew Maynard

“Deftly shows how a seemingly frivolous film genre can guide us in shaping tomorrow’s world.” —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and interplanetary travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibilities are very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? This book, by a physicist and expert on responsible technology development, reveals how science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine. Films from the Future looks at twelve movies that take us on a journey through the worlds of biological and genetic manipulation, human enhancement, cyber technologies, and nanotechnology. Readers will gain a broader understanding of the complex relationship between science and society. The movies mix old and new, and the familiar and unfamiliar, to provide a unique, entertaining, and ultimately transformative take on the power of emerging technologies, and the responsibilities they come with.

Inventing the Future

Inventing the Future
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9781784780982
ISBN-13 : 1784780987
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Inventing the Future by : Nick Srnicek

This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism) Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.

The Future of Asian Trade Deals and IP

The Future of Asian Trade Deals and IP
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9781509922796
ISBN-13 : 1509922792
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Future of Asian Trade Deals and IP by : Kung-Chung Liu

The first part of this open access book sets out to re-examine some basic principles of trade negotiation, such as choosing the right representatives to negotiate and enhancing transparency as a cure to the public's distrust against trade talks. Moreover, it analyses how the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) might impact on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership's (RCEP) IP chapter and examines the possible norm setters of Asian IP. It then focuses on the People's Republic of China's (PRC) trade and IP strategy against the backdrop of the power games between the PRC, India and the US. The second part of the book reflects on issues related to investor–state dispute settlement and its relationship with IP, such as how to re-calibrate the balance in international investment arbitration, and whether compulsory license of IP constitutes expropriation in India, the PRC and select ASEAN countries. The third part of the book questions and strives to improve some of the proposed IP provisions of CPTPP and RCEP and to redefine some aspects of international IP norms, such as: pre-grant patent opposition and experimental use exception; patent term extension; patent linkage and data exclusivity for the pharmaceutical sector; plant variety protection; pre-established damages for copyright infringement; and the restructuring of copyright limitations in the public interest. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia, School of Law, Singapore Management University.

The Spectator

The Spectator
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 584
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105132649232
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Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

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The Future of the American Negro

The Future of the American Negro
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105024626546
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Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Future of the American Negro by : Booker T. Washington

Aims to put in more definite & permanent form the ideas regarding the negro & his future which the author expressed many times on the public platform & through the press & magazines.

Future Yet to Come

Future Yet to Come
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780824889609
ISBN-13 : 0824889606
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Future Yet to Come by : Sonja M. Kim

South Korea is home to cutting-edge electronics, state-of-the-art medical facilities, and ubiquitous high-speed internet. The country’s meteoric rise from the ashes of the Korean War (1950–1953) to rank among the world’s most technologically advanced societies is often attributed to state-led promotion of science and technology in nation-building projects. With chapters that discuss Korea’s dynastic past, foreign occupations, Cold War geopolitics, postwar rehabilitation in the twentieth century, and the contemporary neoliberal moment, Future Yet to Come argues that a longer historical arc and broader disciplinary approach better elucidate these transformations. The book’s contributors illuminate the “sociotechnical imaginaries” that promoted, sustained, and contested Korea’s scientific, medical, and technological projects in realizing desired futures. Focusing special attention on visual culture and the life sciences, the essays present competing visions held by individuals and institutions of power in the use and purpose of scientific engagements. They demonstrate Korean specificities in culture and language, and the myriad social, political, spatial, and symbolic arrangements that shaped incorporations of and changes to existing systems of knowledge and material practices. Whether discussing moral epistemologies, imperialist or developmentalist thrusts in public health regimes, or new configurations of the “self” enabled by bio industries and media technologies, the book expands both the regional and global understanding of translation, accommodation, and transfer. Tracing imaginaries across the vicissitudes of Korea’s past recalls their history and makes visible their shifts and resilience in dynamic political economies. Future Yet to Come reminds us how deeply intertwined science, medicine, and technology are to not only our polities, corporations, and societies but also the human condition. Bridging histories of science and medicine with anthropologies of technology and the arts, the book will appeal to students and scholars of Korean and East Asian studies as well as those with interests in the comparative history of medicine, STS (society and technology studies), art history, media studies, transnationalism, diaspora, and postcolonialism.

The Future Control of Food

The Future Control of Food
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781136553912
ISBN-13 : 1136553916
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Future Control of Food by : Geoff Tansey

This book is the first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security. Proceeding from an introduction and overview of the issues, comprehensive chapters cover negotiations and instruments in the World Trade Organization, Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants and various other international bodies. The final part discusses the responses of civil society groups to the changing global rules, how these changes affect the direction of research and development, the nature of global negotiation processes and various alternative futures. Published with IDRC and QIAP.