![]() ![]() Thus Spoke Zarathustra will forever retain its mystery and is a monument to Nietzsche's eccentricity. Many fascinating discussions have explored what could have influenced Nietzsche: the social milieu of late 19th century Europe, the contradictions of Enlightenment thought, etc. ![]() So many things are explored, celebrated or indicted with ambitious and sharp leaps of metaphors: Moral relativism, comparative theology and eternal recurrence, nothing short of the love of life, the will to life. Full of surreal visions, Zarathustra is a challenge to interpret but at the same time, lacks the semantics of conventional philosophy that makes the field inaccessible for many young students. The events in the book are more like Biblical parables than a plot unfolding, except that the lesson is not, "Thou Shalt" but "Why should I?" I wish I could read German well enough to understand the nuances of Nietzsche's original narrative. It was my first encounter with existential thought, a stinging critique of the very nature of values and belief. I was warned that Nietzsche was dangerous for young readers (like Machiavelli) because he went insane. ![]() Reading through Zarathustra as a teenager was a singularly powerful experience the work defies categorization or genre, time or place. Horror movies never frightened me in the same way certain works of literature and film did. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform’s ever-changing terms of service while a supervisor sits behind them, timing and scoring their assessments. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. That’s why she takes a job as a content moderator for a social media platform whose name she isn’t allowed to mention. ![]() until the violence strikes closer to home. 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From the “criminal chromosome” to the “gay gene,” claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Susan Orlean’s The Library Book is ostensibly an investigative report on this catastrophic event and its cultural context. The fire, the cause of which is still inconclusive, destroyed half a million books and damaged another 700,000 more. Fast-forward nearly two millennia to April 29, 1986, the date of the destruction by fire of the Los Angeles Public Library (henceforth LAPL) main branch in the heart of downtown. The story of the Alexandrian fire still speaks loudly to the power of written words and their effect on the fate of humanity. ![]() Scrolls and codices that contained the memory of an entire civilization turned to ash, among them many works by the major Greek dramatists. ![]() The partly mythic destruction by fire of the Library of Alexandria - the greatest in the ancient world - was often said to mark the beginning of the so-called Dark Ages. FEW IMAGES CAN COMPETE in symbolic significance with that of a library on fire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. It is a collection of nine short stories that originally appeared in the magazines Super. Susan Calvin tells each story to a reporter (who serves as the narrator) in the 21st century. I, Robot is a science-fiction fixup novel written by Isaac Asimov. The stories are woven together by a framing narrative in which the fictional Dr. ![]() Related Themes: Page Number and Citation 184. But you see, you just can’t differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 19 and were then compiled into a book for stand-alone publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. Actions such as his could come only from a robot, or from a very honorable and decent human being. ![]() I, Robot is a fixup novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends - academics, social workers, bookstore clerks - fall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents.īechdel fuses high and low culture - from foreign policy to domestic routine, hot sex to postmodern theory - in a serial graphic narrative “suitable for humanists of all persuasions.”Īlison Bechtel’s Fun Home was regarded by the big gorgonzolas of modern literature as probably the best book since the New Testament, but I was profoundly underwhelmed. Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it “half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel”) of the lives, loves, and politics of a cast of characters, most of them lesbian, living in a midsize American city that may or may not be Minneapolis. Here too are sixty of the newest strips, never before published in book form. ![]() Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers a “rich, funny, deep and impossible to put down” (Publishers Weekly) selection from all eleven Dykes volumes. From the author of Fun Home - the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and othersįor twenty-five years Bechdel’s path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. ![]() ![]() Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. ![]() ![]() We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. 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