The Artifice of Eternity

The Artifice of Eternity

Author: Aaron H Arm

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1803412038

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War. Corruption. Overpopulation. Climate change. When Earth reaches a tipping point, the world's wealthiest man decides to reboot civilization on another habitable planet. Deemed "Project Exodus," the voyage includes 4,000 like-minded colonists, a political manifesto, and all the resources they can fit on their ship. But traversing the stars and establishing the first permanent colony on a new planet is merely the first step. The real challenge lies in their attempt at a sustainable utopia. The story spans three generations of colonists on planet Eden, from the first settlers of Project Exodus to the native-born and their own progeny. With each new generation comes an existential threat to their way of life, and one family always finds itself at the center of conflict. Meanwhile, an otherworldly figure lurks in the recesses of time and space, slowly working toward its own designs. The Artifice of Eternity is a sweeping science fiction narrative with elements of mystery, psychological fiction, and political commentary interspersed with media documents from Earth's past. It is an insightful appraisal of humanity's enduring pursuit to escape human nature.


Hobbes and the Artifice of Eternity

Hobbes and the Artifice of Eternity

Author: Christopher Scott McClure

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1107153794

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An original analysis of Hobbes' political and religious thought, arguing that apparent inconsistencies in his work were a rhetorical strategy.


Artifices of Eternity

Artifices of Eternity

Author: Michael C. J. Putnam

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780801483462

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Myth, Language and Tradition

Myth, Language and Tradition

Author: Wit Píetrzak

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2011-05-25

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1443830798

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How can poetry embrace morality through focusing on metaphrasts? What is the relation between an allummette and the alpha rhythm? How come that money has turned into a metonym of goodness? And above all is it still possible to think of the human subject as a viable category in late modernity? These are some of the questions that J. H. Prynne’s poetry deals with. “Levity of Design” voices a critique of the present-day society very much from within and demonstrates how Prynne has contrived to single-handedly overcome the impasse created by the legacy of poststructuralism. In a milieu of avant-garde linguistic experiment developed from modernist techniques of Pound and Olson, but also the early Eliot as well as Velimir Khlebnikov, and against the background of the writings of Heidegger and Adorno, these poems are demonstrated to seek a language in which the notion of man can be restituted.


Religion and Artificial Intelligence

Religion and Artificial Intelligence

Author: Beth Singler

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-31

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1040121799

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news or the public imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental advances in medical diagnosis, facial recognition, natural language processing, and robotics. Such advances are transforming society through measurable impacts on people’s decisions and opportunities. Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction explores an emerging field with a religious studies approach, drawing on cultural and digital anthropological methods to demonstrate the entanglements of religion and AI, our imaginaries of these objects and our ideas about their utopian or dystopian futures. It addresses key topics, including the following: What AI is and is not. How religions are reacting to AI with examples of rejection, adoption, and adaptation. How established religions understand creation and place human-like AI within that. How overtly secular and even ‘new atheist’ groups understand AI as a tool for liberation from human evolution and religion. Religious visions of superintelligent AI. This engaging book is essential for anyone considering the relationship between religion, science and technology, and interested in the questions raised by transhumanism, posthumanism, and new religious movements.


Becoming the Pearl-poet

Becoming the Pearl-poet

Author: Jane Beal

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1793646767

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"From Becoming the Pearl-Poet, students and scholars alike can learn about the Pearl-poet and the five poems attributed to him, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and St Erkenwald, exploring key ideas that will inform a deeper understanding and appreciation of this medieval English writer's work"--


Keats and Negative Capability

Keats and Negative Capability

Author: Li Ou

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1441101039

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"Negative capability", the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book is the first book-length study of this central concept in seventy years. As well as clarifying the meaning of the term and giving an anatomy of its key components, the book gives a full account of the history of this idea. It traces the narrative of how the phrase first became known and gradually gained currency, and explores its primary sources in earlier writers, principally Shakespeare and William Hazlitt, and its chief Modernist successors, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Meanwhile, the term is also applied to Keats's own poetry, which manifests the evolution of the idea in Keats's poetic practice. Many of the comparative readings of the relevant texts, including King Lear, illuminate the interconnections between these major writers. The book is an original and significant piece of scholarship on this celebrated concept.


Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

Author: Gary Lachman

Publisher: Floris Books

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1782504575

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The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation. Until the seventeenth century, the human imagination was celebrated. Since then, with the emergence of science as the dominant worldview, imagination has been marginalised -- depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than knowing it more profoundly -- and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed. Yet as we move further into the strange new dimensions of the twenty-first century, the need to regain this lost knowledge seems more necessary than ever before. This insightful and inspiring book argues that, for the sake of our future in the world, we must reclaim the ability to imagine and redress the balance of influence between imagination and science. Through the work of Owen Barfield, Goethe, Henry Corbin, Kathleen Raine, and others, and ranging from the teachings of ancient mystics to the latest developments in neuroscience, The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination draws us back to a philosophy and tradition that restores imagination to its rightful place, essential to our knowing reality to the full, and to our very humanity itself.


Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

Author: Peter Brown

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-10-25

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780520068001

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With the blend of art and learning that is the hallmark of his work, Peter Brown here examines how the sacred impinged upon the profane during the first Christian millennium.