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Creating a Planetary Culture
Europe, China, and India had distinct world views and inclinations. Europe excelled in science, China tended to art or aesthetics, and India's forte was religion or spirituality. Their mutual influence, which started in earnest in the 19th century, is shaping our planetary culture. The book is well-organized and easy to understand. The author takes concepts that are quite difficult to understand but somehow manages to make them easily digestible for a wide audience. That's an immense talent! This illuminating book shows that Western cultures are intertwined and entangled with Eastern ones and all the richer for it. It is a concise account of slices of cultural history that connects the Easte...
A Futurist for the 21st Century: The Macrohistory of Lawrence Taub (1936-2018)
This book is intended an introduction and a tribute to the visionary work of American futurist Lawrence Taub, author of The Spiritual Imperative: Sex, Age, and the Last Caste. Whether you are a seeker of wisdom, a student of history, or simply curious about humanity's collective journey, Taub provides a new framework for looking at the past, the present, and the future through new eyes. At the heart of Taub's work is his concept of societal "castes"—interpreted not as rigid social hierarchies, but as evolving stages of human development. These stages progress from basic survival and the pursuit of power and wealth to the eventual realization of spiritual purpose. Taub’s thought-provoking macrohistory blends history, psychology, and spiritual philosophy to chart a path for individuals and societies grappling with the complexities of life in the 21st century.
When India Eclispse China: Futurist Lawerence Taub on the Unexpected 21st Century
In the next few decades, the rivalry between China and India will reshape the world as we know it in unexpected ways. This is one of the key take away points from futurist Lawrence Taub's forecast, outlined in his book The Spiritual Imperative: Age, Sex,and the Last Caste (1995). From the beginning of the Christian era up to the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, China and India were the world's two largest economies. Soon they will be the world's two superpowers again, and their influence will be felt around the world. Taub explains the economic, cultural, and spiritual dynamics of the rivalry between the two Asian giants, which he depicts as a clash between two conflicting worldvie...
Japan in the Age of Globalization
The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades. But so, it must be said, has Japan influenced a variety of critical global developments - globalization is not a one-way street, particularly for a nation as economically influential and technologically advanced as Japan. The chapters in this collection examine the impact of globalization on Japan and the impact of Japan on the forces of globalization from the various disciplinary perspectives of business, the economy, politics, technology, culture and society. They also explain the manner in which the nation has responded to the economic and cultural liberalization that has been such a profound force for change around the globe. This comprehensive collected works brings the latest research to bear on this important subject and provides evidence of the long history of global influences on Japan – and Japanese impacts on the rest of the world. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, Japanese Studies, and Asian Studies.
Digital Dragon
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The Stack
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture. What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self—quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geogr...
Diplomacy And The Independence Of Bangladesh: Portrayal Of Mujib's Statesmanship
Diplomacy and the Independence of Bangladesh is unique in itself, penned by a social scientist with extensive upbringing in studies on diplomacy, strategic fields, peace research, modern history, and international relations. A witness to the momentous events of Bangladesh's struggle for emancipation, as they unfolded during Pakistani rule in East Pakistan, the author also sets in conceptual designs for objective appraisals of the farsighted statesmanship of its founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, with added reflections on shifting dimensions of diplomacy and their ramifications for mankind's waning civilizational journey.
The Pleasures of Computer Gaming
This collection of essays situates the digital gaming phenomenon alongside broader debates in cultural and media studies. Contributors to this volume maintain that computer games are not simply toys, but rather circulate as commodities, new media technologies, and items of visual culture that are embedded in complex social practices. Apart from placing games within longer arcs of cultural history and broader critical debates, the contributors to this volume all adopt a pedagogical and theoretical approach to studying games and gameplay, drawing on the interdisciplinary resources of the humanities and social sciences, particularly new media studies. In eight essays, the authors develop rich a...
Computer Games As Landscape Art
This book proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary landscape and offers a synthesis of art history, geography, game studies and play. Like paint on canvas, the game engine is taken as the underlying medium, and using the Valve Source Engine as the primary case study, it analyses landscapes according to the technical, economic and cultural features this medium affords. It presents the single-player first-person shooter (Half-Life 2) as a Promethean safari, examines how the economics of gambling and product placement shaped the eSports landscapes of Counter-Strike and reveals how sandboxes such as Garry’s Mod visualise the radical landscape of Web 2.0. This book explores how our relationship to the environment is changing, how we express this through computer games and how we can move beyond examining artistic influences on games to examining how historical connections flow through games and the history of landscape images.
Annual Report
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