Pattern Recognition Pattern recognition‚ by William Gibson‚ in relation to our class as whole throughout the course of the semester has many interesting ties. Throughout the course‚ we have discussed topics such as knowledge and the self and both of these topics were ones that were hit upon when reading Pattern Recognition. These topics were hit on through various points in the book and they were touched upon in various ways through different characters. Although Pattern Recognition is a postmodern
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In J. Powell and T. Gilbert (eds) Aging and Identity: A Postmodern Dialogue‚ New York: Nova Science Publishers‚ 2009 Clothing‚ Identity and the Embodiment of Age Julia Twigg1 Identity and dress are intimately linked. Clothes display‚ express and shape identity‚ imbuing it with a directly material reality. They thus offer a useful lens through which to explore the possibly changing ways in which older identities are constituted in modern culture. In this chapter I will address three sets of
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Sociology emerged from enlightenment thought‚ shortly after the French Revolution‚ as a positivist science of society. Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge. Social analysis in a broader sense‚ however‚ has origins in the common stock of philosophy and necessarily pre-dates the field. Modern academic sociology arose as a reaction to modernity‚ capitalism‚ urbanization‚ rationalization‚ and secularization‚ bearing a particularly strong
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Autobiographical and Personal Criticism Immanuel Kant was one of the first modern-day philosophers who admitted that there is no such thing as an “objective” interpretation‚ and that every interpreter brings a great deal to the text. Up to very recently almost all scholarly writing has been defined by the absence of the “I” or any reference to the personal situation of the writer or to the writing process. This situation has changed drastically with the introduction of autobiographical criticism
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Chapter 10 Introduction Poverty can be defined as a condition of deprivation due to economic circumstances that is severe enough that the individual in this condition cannot live with dignity in his or her society. The administration of Lyndon Johnson established a wide range of antipoverty programs in the 1960s—programs for education‚ job training and placement‚ housing—as a part of its “War on Poverty.” Within just a few years‚ many of these programs‚ and the whole ideology behind them‚ had
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Recently‚ the deaths of Tamir Rice‚ Eric Gardener‚ and Mike Brown‚ all at the hands of police officers‚ have sparked national protests and conversations around state sanctioned violence and police brutality‚ particularly in Black communities. An underlying component in these discussions and protests has been that of mourning‚ with discussions and protests often acting as physical spaces of cultural Black trauma and collective memory. Cultural Black trauma relies on the historical violence that has
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There are umpteen “novels” which figure in the “must read” lists of books on the city of Delhi- among which Nayantara Sahgal’s This Time of Morning occupies a pre-eminent position. It belongs to the period of the birth of the nation India and yet another re-birth of the city of Delhi as its capital. Marked by violence and dislocation of the partition on the one hand‚ and establishment of government machinery and national culture on the other‚ study of this period is indispensible to any exploration
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Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism In his book‚ Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism‚ author James K.A. Smith takes three postmodern thinkers to school by breaking down ideas they profess and applying them to the postmodern church. Even though the authors cited in Smith’s book come from secular backgrounds‚ the statements are broken down and dissected into ways the Radical Orthodox Church can hearken back to ancient ideals while moving forward in the progressive postmodern age. Smith begins his book by attempting
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How has social media affected the relationship between celebrities and fans? These days it seems that the Internet‚ a post-modern medium‚ something so complex and vital to our society as being reduce to a mere antiquity of personal feuds and interactive relationships (or at least the satisfaction of what seems like a relationship) between people. The rise of social media applications like Twitter and Facebook allows people to voice their opinions to wider audience‚ creating a pluralist‚ postmodern
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