We began a five month phone conversation that concluded with a SECOND date, 5o years after the first one. What are the odds, you ask? Astronomical. But it happened. And then we fell in love for good. So, as I approach my 70th birthday, my attitude toward aging is colored by my ...
However, from a Marxist perspective, I argue that such developments might be Trojan horses for new forms of subjugation, alienation, and inauthentic being-in short, contra Western Orientalist universalism, the very injustices that China's modernity project has aimed to overc...
While Virtual Light was concerned with the sense of post-millennial shock, the disintegration of California and the US and the massive privatization thereof – calling to mind other books by Gibson and Stephenson’s Snow Crash –Idoru dealt mainly with the concept of celebrity and the nature of ...
stating that "The absence of a scientific attitude, that is, the absence of the Marxist-Leninist approach of uniting theory and practice, means that Party spirit is either absent or deficient." The learning methods above are still applicable for how we should study the classical works of Marxis...
Between socialism and capitalism, I’m socialist, and furthermore, I always describe myself as a Marxist…. But not a Leninist. In my mind, Marxism is the only economic theory that expresses a sense of concern about equal distribution. That’s a moral thing. Whereas capitalism…. Is about...
Public officials share responsibility for the level of citizen wellbeing with these private controllers, but these officials cannot command economic performance.” (Elkin, 1987: 18). 1. Introduction SMEs, businesses with fewer than 250 employees (Storey, 2000), make up 99.9% of UK enterprises, ...
In 1956 John McCarthy coined the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ to refer to the symbol processing approach. This was seized upon by journalists, particularly as this approach began to have successes with the Logic Theory Machine (Newell & Simon) and General Problem Solver (Newell, Shaw, and ...
Vice President Kamala Harris’ approach to artificial intelligence would balance the U.S.'s desire to outcompete other countries with the need to protect people from deepfakes and other harmful uses of the technology, a key adviser said Tuesday. “She has always come at this issue...
“This is outrageous,” the alliance wrote. “For the mayor of Chicago to stand there—cloaked in a symbol now synonymous with Jewish bloodshed, flanked by an organization that justifies it—is more than tone-deaf. It’s a betrayal.” ...
we address different kinds of assemblages within which the participants operated—families, school education, culture, and higher education—and through which their desires for English were activated and mediated. They interacted with these assemblages at different times. Furthermore, the size and duratio...