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Authors@Google: Junot Díaz
Authors@Google: Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." This event took place September 26, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google Series.
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Authors@Google: Slajov Zizek
Authors@Google: Slajov Zizek
The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome Slavoj Žižek to Google's New York office to discuss his latest book, "Violence". From Wikipidea: "Slavoj Žižek is a Post-Marxist sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic. In 1989, with the publication of his first book written in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Žižek achieved international recognition as a major social theorist. Since then, Žižek he has continued to develop his status as an intellectual outsider and confrontational maverick. Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia, London Consortium, Princeton, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London" This event took place on September 12, 2008.
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Authors@Google: Tim Keller
Authors@Google: Tim Keller
Tim Keller visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his book, "The Reason for God." This event took place on March 5, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.
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26. The "Afterlife" of the New Testament and Postmodern Interpretation
26. The "Afterlife" of the New Testament and Postmodern Interpretation
Introduction to New Testament (RLST 152) How did a small group following an apocalyptic prophet in Palestine become Christianity - what is now called a "world religion"? This small movement saw many changes in the second, third, and fourth centuries, from the development of different sects, philosophical theologies, and martyrology, to the rise of monasticism, and finally to the ascension of Constantine to the throne and the Christian Roman Empire. It was not until the nineteenth century, however, that the term "world religion" came to be used and Christianity was categorized as such. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Christianity in the Second Century: Gnostics, Philosophers, Martyrs, and Apologists 20:26 - Chapter 2. Christianity in the Third Century: Asceticism, Monasticism, and Persecution 26:20 - Chapter 3. Christianity in the Fourth Century: Constantine and the Church Councils 30:36 - Chapter 4. Christianity as a "World Religion" 36:36 - Chapter 5. The Growth of Christianity before Constantine and Q&A Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2009.
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Sexism, Lesbians, & Chris Brown Grammys Controversy (The Point)
Sexism, Lesbians, & Chris Brown Grammys Controversy (The Point)
Rob Delaney (comedian, writer) explains that reducing sexism and misogyny can help the world, and Mollie Thomas explains why she decided to be the first openly lesbian Miss California competitor. Finally, is there an issue with Chris Brown performing at the Grammys 3 years after his infamous assault of his then girlfriend Rihanna? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur leads this week's panel discussion on The Point with guests Kelly Carlin (host of The Kelly Carlin Show on Sirius XM Radio, and daughter of George Carlin), Andrea Meyerson (producer, director, and president of StandOut Productions), and James Golden (author and journalist). Watch More Points: www.youtube.com Rob Delaney: www.robdelaney.com Rob on Twiter: twitter.com Mollie Thomas: www.molliethomasformissca.com Mollie on Twitter: twitter.com Kelly Carlin: www.kellycarlin.com Kelly on Twitter: twitter.com Andrea Meyerson: www.alloutfilms.com James Golden: www.jamesbgolden.com James on Twitter: twitter.com
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Robert Kroetsch won the U of As Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003
Robert Kroetsch won the U of As Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003
The opening poem of Robert Kroetschs new collection of verse brilliantly captures the authors dilemma. Called On tour, it describes an awkward radio interview in which Kroetsch is asked, Tell us again, who are you? I knew I was in trouble, writes the poet. Ill get you a printout of my DNA, he says to his interviewer, who is baffled by this refusal to conform to the unspoken rules of self-promotion. I was clutching at straws, confesses Kroetsch. He looked disappointed again, my radio host. Thus begins a series of sketches toward a self-portrait called Too Bad by the renowned poet and novelist. Published by University of Alberta Press, it straddles the line between memoir and self-creation, replete with Kroetschs trademark playfulness and ambiguity. In his long and successful literary career—which includes such beautifully rendered postmodern works as What the Crow Said and The Studhorse Man, for which he won the Governor-Generals Award for fiction in 1969—the Heisler, Alberta, native and U of A English graduate has always resisted assignment to tidy category or transparent meaning. Now living in Leduc, he has penned nine internationally acclaimed novels, 13 books of poetry and five books of non-fiction essays. He won the U of As Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003.
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Josh Bernstein: Realistic Fiction in the Post-Modern Era - Part 4
Josh Bernstein: Realistic Fiction in the Post-Modern Era - Part 4
During the 2007 Embarrass Valley Film Festival (EVFF) at Eastern Illinois University, speaker Josh Bernstein discusses James Jones' war writings.
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MONU #15 - POST-IDEOLOGICAL URBANISM
MONU #15 - POST-IDEOLOGICAL URBANISM
This new MONU issue on the topic of Post-Ideological Urbanism probably touches on one of the most fascinating and biggest issues of our time and in our culture, or what is left of it: the non-ideological - or better post-ideological - conditions of our society when it comes to cities. Today, ideology appears to have become, and to have been reduced to, something merely aesthetic, something you can buy yourself into as Wouter Vanstiphout explains in an interview with us entitled "Acrobatic Narratives". In that sense cities have become suspicious territories where hypocrisy and fakery prevail when it comes to urban ideologies and one wishes to have some kind of optical device that detects all the lies, similar to a kind of night vision infrared technology that Thomas Ruff used in his "Nacht Series" applying the same technology that was used during the Gulf War. But the usage of alibi ideologies does not seem to be just a contemporary phenomenon and the inference that, for example, the heroic Modernist architects and urban designers were able to work without succumbing to the moral ambiguities of dealing with external political or economic contingencies is probably a fallacy as Brendan M. Lee states in his contribution "Lean Urbanism". He furthermore explains that we, architects and urban designers, are sometimes envious of our Modernist forebears for their supposed ability to remain true believers in the revolutionary ideologies they proselytized, but that perhaps we have <b>...</b>
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20. The Classical Feminist Tradition
20. The Classical Feminist Tradition
Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300) In this lecture on feminist criticism, Professor Paul Fry uses Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own as a lens to and commentary on the flourishing of feminist criticism in the twentieth century. The structure and rhetoric of A Room of One's Own is extensively analyzed, as are its core considerations of female novelists such as Austen, Eliot, and the Brontës. The works of major feminist critics, such as Ann Douglas, Mary Ellman, Kate Millett, Elaine Showalter, and Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, are mentioned. The logocentric approach to gender theory, specifically the task of defining female language as something different and separate from male language, is considered alongside Woolf's own endorsement of literary and intellectual androgyny. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Transition into Feminist Theory: Tony the Tow Truck 06:35 - Chapter 2. Overlapping Identities 15:29 - Chapter 3. The Structure of A Room of One's Own 22:32 - Chapter 4. Feminist Criticism and A Room of One's Own 28:23 - Chapter 5. Women's Language and the Male Sentence 39:18 - Chapter 6. Complications and Implications of Classical Feminism Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2009.
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25. Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.)
25. Students' Choice Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont.)
The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) In her final lecture of the course, Professor Hungerford evaluates Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated with respect to one of her areas of expertise, American writing about the Holocaust. She points out how the novel takes on some of the questions of trauma theory in its examination of both the pain and the healing power of repetition. The most innovative characteristic of Foer's novel is, for Hungerford, the way it addresses the inheritance of the Holocaust for third-generation Jews in America. The novel finds new ways to provide witness for and connection to their grandparents' experiences in Europe, but also displaces a traditional Holocaust discovery narrative from the Jewish child of survivors to the Eastern European grandchild of those complicit in the destruction of shtetl life. 00:00 - Chapter 1. How to Define a Period of Literature: Locating Foer's Significance 05:57 - Chapter 2. Trauma Theory and the Holocaust: Foer's Use of the Witness 16:40 - Chapter 3. The Double Remove: A Third Generation of Memory 31:54 - Chapter 4. Metafictional Authorship 38:32 - Chapter 5. From Victims to Perpetrators Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on getting big stuff done
Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on getting big stuff done
Solve for X is a forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork. www.wesolveforx.com G+ goo.gl For thousands of years the imagination of storytellers has been a guiding light for people trying to change the world. In the last decade or two science fiction has almost fallen behind the work of technologists and entrepreneurs. For the sake of a more interesting tomorrow, we need to get the proverbial horse back out in front of the cart with our imagination professionals building a vision of the future to inspire the builders of the new world. Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic "The Baroque Cycle" (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) and the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. www.wesolveforx.com
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22. Edward P. Jones, The Known World
22. Edward P. Jones, The Known World
The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) In the first of her two lectures on Edward P. Jones's The Known World, Professor Hungerford begins from the novel's title, asking what counts as knowledge in the novel and why knowledge is central to the story. This leads to related questions: who is a knower, and what can be known? Highlighting several different versions of how knowledge of the past is communicated through storytelling within the novel, she draws distinctions between Jones's model of historical knowledge and that of other writers on the syllabus. Professor Hungerford suggests that Jones revives a nineteenth-century form of the novel when his narrator takes on a God-like omniscience, but unlike the nineteenth-century novel's narrators, Jones's omniscient narrator provides little in the way of God-like consolation. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Initial Student Reactions: The Known World in the Wake of Morrison 06:31 - Chapter 2. A Historical Novel: Reactions to Postmodern Historical Theory 17:09 - Chapter 3. Threadlike Narratives and the Grand Tapestry: Modes of Telling Truth 34:19 - Chapter 4. The Question of Knowing: A Syllabus Retrospective 39:59 - Chapter 5. Jones's Anti-modernist Return to an Omniscient Narrator Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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Feminism Now Symposium: Part 6: Karen Shimakawa
Feminism Now Symposium: Part 6: Karen Shimakawa
Highlighting the work of emerging scholars, including graduate and postgraduate students, Feminism Now presents groundbreaking contemporary research reflecting new directions and perspectives in feminist scholarship on a wide range of feminist issues and topics.
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20. Contemporary Communitarianism (I)
20. Contemporary Communitarianism (I)
Moral Foundations of Politics (PLSC 118) In addition to the traditionalist-conservative view covered last time, the other anti-Enlightenment school the course explores is contemporary communitarianism. While Burke and Devlin appealed to tradition as the basis for our values, communitarians appeal to the community-accepted values as the basis for what should guide us. Communitarian Richard Rorty criticizes the Enlightenment endeavor of justifying philosophy from the ground up from indubitable premises as a fool's errand and a dangerous mug's game. The main focus of today's class is the communitarianism of Alasdair MacIntyre. Professor Shapiro introduces this school by exploring the symptoms of the problem wrought by the Enlightenment. One is the rise of emotivism and complete moral subjectivism; that is, the abandonment of the instruments for making moral judgments as a consequence of trying to justify philosophy from the ground up. The second symptom is the triumph of instrumentalism and the rejection of teleology, which is actually a coping mechanism for society's deep pluralism of values. Professor Shapiro discusses MacIntyre's two symptoms, as well as introduces his conceptions of practices and virtues. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Alasdair MacIntyre and Contemporary Communitarianism 05:25 - Chapter 2. Alasdair MacIntyre and Other Anti-enlightenment Thinkers 12:13 - Chapter 3. A Closer Look at MacIntyre's Book 16:18 - Chapter 4. Emotivism: From Subjective Certainty <b>...</b>
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Digital Arts@Google: W. Bradford Paley, Martin Wattenberg, and Fernanda Viegas
Digital Arts@Google: W. Bradford Paley, Martin Wattenberg, and Fernanda Viegas
Three artists talks were hosted as part of the "Data Poetics: Digital Art @ Google" art show hosted by Google's Chelsea office in New York. www.chelseaartmuseum.org This video is the third talk in the series. In this talk Fernanda Viergas and Martin Wattenberg talk about their projects blending art and data visualization, including Flickr Flow which is included in the exhibition. In the second half (at 31:26) W. Bradford Paley presents his work in art and visualization, including pieces from the show such as Text Arc and Code Profiles
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Narrative and Authenticity 11-16-09
Narrative and Authenticity 11-16-09
GU Bookstore sponsor a panel discussion about narrative and authenticity.
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On Girls, Boys, and IT Careers
On Girls, Boys, and IT Careers
Google TechTalks April 06, 2006 Dr. Cornelia Brunner Associate Director, Center for Children & Technology Education Development Center Dr. Brunner has been involved in the research, production, and teaching of educational technology in a variety of subject areas for thirty years. In addition to conducting research projects about the relationship between learning, teaching, and technology, she has designed and implemented educational materials incorporating technologies to support inquiry-based learning and teaching in science, social studies, media literacy, and the arts. ABSTRACT Research over the past two decades has pointed to a strong, persistent, gendered difference in technological desire...
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Interviste con il futuro
Interviste con il futuro
Titolo originale: Interviste con il futuro Lingua originale: Italiano Paese: Italia Giorno/Mese/Anno: 2006 Durata h/m/s: 03:02:11 Colore: Colore Audio: Sonoro Rapporto: 1,33:1 (4:3) Genere: Documentario Regia: Igor Pardini Produttore: CASALEGGIO ASSOCIATI Casa di produzione: CASALEGGIO ASSOCIATI Distribuzione: CASALEGGIO ASSOCIATI Per maggiori informazioni visitare i siti Giuseppe Piero Grillo: it.wikipedia.org Blog di Beppe Grillo: www.beppegrillo.it Biografia di Beppe Grillo: www.beppegrillo.it Marangoni Spettacolo: www.marangonispettacolo.it CASALEGGIO ASSOCIATI: www.casaleggio.it
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RULE OF MAN (CHRISTIAN MUSIC VIDEO) by NEW INDIE ARTIST BRANDT MORAIN (song is best in top HD audio)
RULE OF MAN (CHRISTIAN MUSIC VIDEO) by NEW INDIE ARTIST BRANDT MORAIN (song is best in top HD audio)
THIS VIDEO / SONG SOUNDS BEST WHEN VIEWED IN HD (High Definition-the hottest video resolution). We use HD to give you the best Christian music video experience possible. A free MP3 of this Christian song is available for download at www.BrandtMorain.com in the best music format possible (True CD quality -- 320Kbps). YouTube formats do NOT give you the best music video quality. YouTube is not CD quality. Sample audio of our other songs are also available. In order to bring you the best Christian music possible, our recording philosophy omits recording industry "innovations" such as Autotune. These devices damage a recording artists performance in our opinion, producing sterile results that have destroyed the quality of some of the best Christian songs and other great music in the industry. Eddie and Jared wish to extend a special thanks to our fans & all the great folks who work with Brandt Morain for their love and support! Best Wishes Everyone. Thanks for listening! Enjoy! Jared Brandt & Eddie Morain Brandt Morain Studios, LLC Status: Independent Artists / Unsigned Artists
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Michael Lerner Sam Botta Atlas Shrugged April 15 Movie Release Oscars
Michael Lerner Sam Botta Atlas Shrugged April 15 Movie Release Oscars
ATLAS SHRUGGED Michael Lerner Ayn Rand Scott Brick Audible Amazon The Bachelor when there's genuinely romantic, genuinely sweet (and did we mention genuine?) televised proposals like this? Sam Botta IMDB search Tonya Roberts Charlies Angels, of two years, accountant Jesse Sloan, popped the...
