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Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play.
Video games vastly outpace all other mediums of entertainment in revenue and in global reach. On the surface, games do not appear ideological, nor are they categorized as national products. Instead, they seem to reflect the open and uncontaminated reputation of information technology.
Video games are undeniably imperial products. Their very existence has been conditioned upon the spread of militarized technology, the exploitation of already-existing labor and racial hierarchies in their manufacture, and the utopian promises of digital technology. Like literature and film before it, video games have become the main artistic expression of empire today: The open world empire, formed through the routes of information technology and the violences of drone combat, unending war, and overseas massacres that occur with little scandal or protest.
Though often presented as purely technological feats, video games are also artistic projects, and as such, they allow us an understanding of how war and imperial violence proceed under signs of openness, transparency, and digital utopia. But the video game, as Christopher B. Patterson argues, is also an inherently Asian commodity: Its hardware is assembled in Asia; its most talented e-sports players are of Asian origin; Nintendo, Sony, and Sega have defined and dominated the genre. Games draw on established discourses of Asia to provide an “Asiatic” space, a playful sphere of racial otherness that straddles notions of the queer, the exotic, the bizarre, and the erotic. Thinking through games like Overwatch, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Shenmue II, and Alien: Isolation, Patterson reads against empire by playing games erotically, as players do - seeing games as Asiatic playthings that afford new passions, pleasures, desires, and attachments.
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So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just great
- De Kristi Strong en 12-14-21
De: Maggie Nelson
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Culture and Imperialism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism, this book explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. This classic study, the direct successor to Said's main work, is read by Peter Ganim ( Orientalism).
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5 out of 5 stars
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BRAVO, AUDIBLE!! WE NEED MORE SAID!! REAL BOOKS!!
- De AnthonyStevens en 02-27-11
De: Edward Said
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High Weirdness
- Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
- De: Erik Davis
- Narrado por: Erik Davis
- Duración: 20 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality - but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Weirdness
- De Amazon Customer en 09-17-20
De: Erik Davis
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- De: Paul Ortiz
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 464
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 404
Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I had to return
- De Andrew Alvarez en 05-19-20
De: Paul Ortiz
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Not Gay
- Sex Between Straight White Men
- De: Jane Ward
- Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 113
Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: There's fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other's penises and stick fingers up their fellow members' anuses; online personal ads, where straight men seek other straight men to masturbate with; and, last but not least, the long and clandestine history of straight men frequenting public restrooms for sexual encounters with other men.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Extreme Feminism and Liberalism
- De David McDougall en 01-17-18
De: Jane Ward
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Irrationality
- A History of the Dark Side of Reason
- De: Justin E. H. Smith
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal”. But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today - from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump - Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good brain workout
- De ThomasC en 04-09-19
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The Romantic Manifesto
- A Philosophy of Literature
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 171
In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, she demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let conventional ideas define her sense of the truth. Rand eloquently asserts that one cannot create art without infusing it with one's own value judgments and personal philosophy - even an attempt to withhold moral overtones only results in a deterministic or naturalistic message.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential AYN
- De Mica en 07-15-08
De: Ayn Rand
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How to Save the West
- Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises
- De: Spencer Klavan
- Narrado por: Spencer Klavan
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 179
It has been proclaimed many times, but perhaps never more convincingly than now, when every news cycle seems to deliver further confirmation of a world gone mad. Is this the endgame? Author Spencer Klavan is a classicist, with a Ph.D. from Oxford, and a deep understanding of the West. His analysis: The situation is dire. But every crisis we face today, we have faced before. And we can surmount each one. Klavan brings to the West’s defense the insights of Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and the Founding Fathers to show that in the wisdom of the past lies hope for the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spectacular! A must read!
- De M.A. en 02-15-23
De: Spencer Klavan
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The Art Instinct
- Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
- De: Denis Dutton
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived. Aesthetic taste, argues Denis Dutton, is an evolutionary trait, and is shaped by natural selection. It's not, as almost all contemporary art criticism and academic theory would have it, "socially constructed".
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5 out of 5 stars
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A breath of fresh air!
- De Michael en 02-19-14
De: Denis Dutton
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A Secular Age
- De: Charles Taylor
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 42 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 218
What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needs Guest Narrators for French and German
- De Norman en 06-13-15
De: Charles Taylor
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Nothing Ever Dies
- Vietnam and the Memory of War
- De: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the best-selling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good, probably should be read and not listened to via audible for the best experience.
- De Tanya en 10-24-16
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The Story Paradox
- How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
- De: Jonathan Gottschall
- Narrado por: Joshua Kane
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore. Storytelling, the very tradition that built human civilization, may be the thing that destroys it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A bit of a mixed bag with some amazing discussion
- De Justin en 04-27-22
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The Master and His Emissary
- The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
- De: Iain McGilchrist
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
- Duración: 27 h y 15 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 488
This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the "rational" side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true? Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a very poor master.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Master and His Emissary
- De Michael en 11-07-20
De: Iain McGilchrist
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Civilization and Its Discontents, Totem and Taboo
- De: Sigmund Freud
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is remembered as the father of psychoanalysis. Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) is one of his key works, written three decades after his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams. In it he considers the conflict between the needs of the individual acting both egotistically and altruistically in the pursuit of happiness and the myriad demands of civilised society and the ensuing tensions this clash of needs and demands generates.
De: Sigmund Freud
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The Art of the Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative and Inspiring
- De Mo en 11-27-21
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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The Rise of the New Puritans
- Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun
- De: Noah Rothman
- Narrado por: Noah Rothman
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 152
The Left used to be the party of the hippies and the free spirits. Now it’s home to woke scolds and humorless idealogues. The New Puritans can judge a person’s moral character by their clothes, Netflix queue, fast food favorites, the sports they watch, and the company they keep. No choice is neutral, no sphere is private. Not since the Puritans has a political movement wanted so much power over your thoughts, hobbies, and preferences every minute of your day. In the process, they are sucking the joy out of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fighting the culture wars
- De Dee Arnold en 07-08-22
De: Noah Rothman
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A Time to Build
- From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream
- De: Yuval Levin
- Narrado por: Ford Enlow
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 146
Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life. And for too many Americans, alienation can descend into despair, weakening families and communities and even driving an explosion of opioid abuse. Left and right alike have responded with populist anger at our institutions, and use only metaphors of destruction to describe the path forward: cleaning house, draining swamps. But, as Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incisive and Illuminating
- De Jakob en 01-26-23
De: Yuval Levin
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Democracy Matters
- Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
- De: Cornel West
- Narrado por: Cornel West
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 220
Democracy Matters is Cornel West's bold and powerful critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in this threatening post-9/11 age of terrorist rage and imperial overreach, and an inspiring call for a resurgence of the deep democratic tradition in our country, which has waged war on the forces of imperialist corruption throughout our history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well written, a refreshing voice of inspiration
- De Gabriel en 07-06-05
De: Cornel West