Born in the mid '60s and having grown up in the United States with some stays abroad, Raj Dronamraju has borne witness to the pains of tedious labor, the travesty of a majority of outsiders too often forgotten by media culture, and the delights of the prefect grilled cheese sandwich. Currently teaching English at a university in Malaysia where he lives with his wife, Raj now offers us his marvelous book: THE RETURN OF THE MAGNIFICENT NINNY AND OTHER POEMS. This work marks a critical self-examination with an attempt to forge a sane perspective in an at times almost hopeless, possibly mad world-but it also finds promise in learning to improve perceptive powers; demonstrating to us how we can refine the soul rather than accumulate material and mental baggage on a trip to who we really and already are. This profound book of 50 interrelated poems is filled with humor in the face of despair with much wisdom in and in-between the lines.

The Return Of The Magnificent Ninny And Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Dronamraju, Raj

Poetry

Post Egoism Media

Cybernetic Revelation explores the dual philosophical histories of deconstruction and artificial intelligence, tracing the development of concepts like the "logos" and the notion of modeling the mind technologically from pre-history to contemporary thinkers like Slavoj Žižek, Steven Pinker, Bernard Stiegler and Daniel C. Dennett. The writing is clear and accessible throughout, yet the text probes deeply into major philosophers seen by JD Casten as "conceptual engineers."

Cybernetic Revelation: Deconstructing Artificial Intelligence

Politics & Social Sciences

Casten, JD

Philosophy

The metaphysical age, according to Martin Heidegger, extends from Plato to Husserl, but in this new book by John David Ebert, the middle of the second millenium BC--a time of cultural collapse and disintegration--becomes its essential prelude. By 1300 BC, the Gilgamesh Epic was at the apogee of its popularity, while the utopian reforms of the rebel pharaoh Akhenaten had recently collapsed in failure. Moses was about to lead the Hebrews on the Exodus out of Egypt and the Trojan War, together with the collapse of most of the societies of the eastern Mediterranean, was only a century away. Ebert examines the three figures of Gilgamesh, Akhenaten and Moses as laying down the basic prototypes for rebellion against the reigning authorities of the instituted state religions in favor of the creation of new forms of renegade spirituality that will ultimately establish the foundations for the Western religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In the process, the birth of the metaphysical age is shifted from Greece to the Near East in this short book that examines its earliest origins.

Rage and the Word: Gilgamesh, Akhenaten, Moses and the Birth of the Metaphysical Age

History

Ebert, John David

Ancient Civilizations

In this new scene-by-scene break-down of the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, contemporary culture critic John David Ebert frames the work in reference to an archaeology of the film’s images. At the same time, Ebert connects this ancient history with“postmodern” contemporary critical theory, drawing upon Lacan, Derrida, Gadamer, and Cornelius Castoriadis, unpacking and analyzing Francis Ford Coppola’s classic, one of the most famous and wildly inventive works in cinema history. In 23 chapters, Ebert interprets the longer Apocalypse Now Redux version, delving deep into the film’s complex layers of literary meaning and aesthetic significance. John David Ebert has authored ten previous books, including Art After Metaphysics, Dead Celebrities Living Icons, The New Media Invasion, Post-Classic Cinema, and Gods &amp; Heroes of the Media Age.

Apocalypse Now Scene-by-Scene

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

We are living in an age of rapidly evanescent media transformations. From radio and pulp fiction to cinema, comic books, paperback novels, television and the Internet, the twentieth century has arguably produced more media innovations than in the past five thousand years of recorded history. And whereas Heidegger had announced that the gods were gone and that contemporary modernity was an age of beings abandoned by Being, in this new book by John David Ebert, the ancient gods are found to be still alive and well and living in the various cultural environments configured by new media. Every media innovation, Ebert contends, makes new kinds of heroes possible, and in his book, Gods & Heroes of the Media Age, Ebert demonstrates that though the media reshape society in drastic and sometimes unexpected ways, they can also act to bring forth new heroes who often represent old gods in new guise. In this book, the reader will find essays on heroes like Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Flash Gordon, the Shadow, James Bond, Mad Max and even Breaking Bad's Walter White.

Gods & Heroes of the Media Age: From Captain Nemo to The X-Files

History & Criticism

With this new book by John David Ebert, Blade Runner Scene-by-Scene, Ebert performs an archaeology of Ridley Scott's main thematic concerns: death, origin, genesis and the quest for immortality. In doing so, he compares the film to such ancient and classic texts as The Gilgamesh Epic. Scott's vision of the Los Angeles of 2019 is seen as a type of decaying, late stage cosmopolis; and the Replicants as slave labor manufactured to work their modern latifundia.

Blade Runner Scene-by-Scene

In this new collection of essays cultural critic John David Ebert traces the history of what Jacques Derrida termed "Transcendental Signifieds" as they have evolved from the archetypes of ancient myth through the philosophical Ideas of German Idealist philosophy and on down to their disintegration into the floating signifiers of today's consumer society. From myth to philosophy to science, these ultimate signifieds have undergone many transformations: beginning as the Sumerian gods, Ebert carefully traces the impacts of science and technology upon these Ideas as they changed over the millenia, finally becoming dismantled by Heidegger's "abbau" and then dangerously assaulted by the Unabomber's attempts to assassinate the very men of science who are creating today's mass of consumerist archetypes. Science and popular culture have deconstructed the ultimate signifieds of ancient ritual, symbol and myth, and now we are set adrift in a sea of floating signifiers that are competing with each other to fill the semiotic vacancies left behind by the collapse of such ancient and ultimate referents as God, Soul, Freedom and Immortality. This collection of nine essays, never before published in book form, spans the breadth of Ebert's career from 1997 to 2015.

Myths, Gods, Machines: Illuminations on Mythology, History and Science

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