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Marx\u27s Materialist Sociology of Knowledge: Colliding Empirical Frameworks of Consciousness
No full text‘Consciousness’ is among the more problematic and ambiguous terms in social science. In response to modernity, Karl Marx provided a new view of consciousness. The dissertation engages in Marx’s work beyond the confining frameworks of economism, history and philosophy. As we await the dawn of Marx’s proletarians revolution, the contemporary sciences continue to grapple with explaining consciousness. The dissertation examines how the sciences think about consciousness. What’s more, this project illustrates that explaining ‘consciousness’ will require more than rethinking our conceptualizations of ‘consciousness.’ Today’s understanding of ‘consciousness’ is such that new analysis is possible, but only in considering how scientific traditions stymie progress; all for the sake of tradition rather than truth
The Digital Incunabula: The Future of Storytelling in the Digital Age
No full textThe term incunabula refers to the transition period that took place 50 years after Johannes Gutenberg introduced his printing press to the publishing world (1455 to 1505). In this thesis, I compare the first incunabula to the current Digital Incunabula, which I believe is the 50-year transition underway as we assimilate traditional storytelling practices to a digital platform (1996 to 2046). To illustrate this, I review the histories of the literal age, the secondary orality and the digital orality before making some observations about our transition into multimedia storytelling. The paper reviews several key experiments in multimedia storytelling produced by The New York Times, The Rocky Mountain News and The Guardian among others. The paper reviews the influences of consumer electronic devices including tablet computers, augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. It also reflects upon nonfiction narrative forms for written and oral communication media. The paper also considers aspects of copyright policy, public media policy and the influences of the digital disruption. The paper concludes with some observations about the future of long-form, nonfiction storytelling as we move through the 21st century
Through the Lens of Accelerationist Utopia: The Critical Role of Science Fiction in the Transition to a Post-Capitalist World in Kim Stanley Robinson\u27s Mars Trilogy
No full textSince the advent of neoliberalism in the late 1970s, growing gaps in income and wealth inequality have left many thinking that there is no alternative to the global hegemony of late capitalism. By contrast, the contemporary social and political theory of accelerationism posits that the only way out of neoliberalism is through it. Accelerationists propose to expand, repurpose and accelerate through neoliberalism in order to establish post-capitalism as quickly as possible, yet an analysis of accelerationism as social and political theory reveals that it falls short of fully articulating how such a transition to post-capitalism may be achieved. This study asserts the value of an accelerationist aesthetics. In particular, an accelerationist utopia provides an authoritative, interpretive lens through which to examine how a transition from neoliberalism to post-capitalism may affect the techno-human condition. Through the lens of accelerationist utopia, an analysis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s vision of a post-capitalist world in the Mars trilogy assists the reader to envision and prepare for a post-capitalist future in an era of exponential technological growth. Most importantly, in the face of the impending existential risk of artificial intelligence becoming super intelligent, an accelerationist utopia compels the reader to move beyond critique to actively participate in shaping the future of the humanity/technology nexus toward the benefit of humankind
The Namibian Genocide: Reframing the Conflict to Explore Intercultural Connectivity, Inclusiveness and Accurate Memorialization
No full textThis study examines how technology used by the German colonizers of South West Africa affected native peoples during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More specifically, the research shows how German attitudes and misclassification of native people, of not only the Herero and Nama tribes, but multiple tribes throughout Namibia, affected the levels of violence shown toward all the indigenous tribes, and not just the two listed in the official documentation of the 1904–1908 genocide. German theories about race, power, and civilization affected the actions of the colonizers toward each of the indigenous groups of people in what is today Namibia. Essential to the reframing of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama people to a broader application to include the San, Ovambo, and Damara tribes are the interviews with perpetrators, court reports, victim testimonies, and archival photographs from the National Achieves of Namibia. The author applies the framework of Michel Foucault’s bio-power and Lonnie Athens’ violentization theory to show the effects of a German imperial organization directing missionaries, settlers, and military in methods to control native tribes. The ensuing violence linked to the takeover of native lands, displacement of the people, and assignment to forced labor camps, with shackling, torture and mutilation accompanied by deaths of the innocent. This form of exploitation was completed under the guise of scientific racism, and was used to exploit precious minerals from the area. This study contributes new insights into the experiences of Namibian people subject to technologies applied by violence to attain power. Finally, the lasting legacy of the genocide is presented in the form of memorialization. Not only does the research show that different tribes have been removed from the previous stories of the genocide, but in a literal sense, the names of the indigenous casualties have been removed from the historical record
Salve Regina Oral History Project: George Andy Andrade [audio]
No full textOral History interview with Andy Andrade who was a former professor in the political science department, former Assistant Director of Admissions, the Director of Physical Education, and a baseball coach at Salve Regina. The interview was conducted on July 26, 2018
Reunion 2018 Exhibit, Case Two
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