scholarly journals The well‐tempered city: What modern science, ancient civilizations, and human nature teach us about the future of urban life Edited by Jonathan F. P.Rose, New York: Harper Wave. 2016. 480 pp. ISBN 978 006 223 474 2

2018 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 1261-1262
Author(s):  
Elisabet Viladecans‐Marsal
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ancient Civilizations

Final Chord and ‘Die Neue Welt’: The Mise-en-scène of Aufbruch1

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria L. Evans
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The Future ◽  
Vexed Question ◽  
Architectural Symbolism

Chapter 5 ("Final Chord and 'Die Neue Welt': The Mise-en-Scène of Aufbruch")examines the only film from Sirk's German period to depict twentieth-century urban life. In the prologue that the director added to the existing script, two antithetical aesthetics appear to underscore the philosophical and political disparities that distinguish a democratic New York from a Fascist Berlin. Because the architectural symbolism of each of these cities may be read both positively and negatively (from a Modernist and a National Socialist point of view), after outlining the main arguments on either side, the author then attempts to resolve the vexed question of which metropolis offers the most desirable "New World" of the future, based upon the formal and narrative evidence that is provided by the film.

Author Processing Charges: Barriers to Open Research, Barriers to Progress

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin O’Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Research ◽  
The Future

Presentation slides from Metropolitan New York Library Council Open Access Symposium: "The Future Is Open Access, but How Do We Get There?: A Symposium." September 12-13, 2019. New York. NY.

The Nature of Degrowth: Theorising the Core of Nature for the Degrowth Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasi Heikkurinen
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Radical Reduction ◽  
Nature Experience ◽  
Matter Energy

This article investigates human–nature relations in the light of the recent call for degrowth, a radical reduction of matter–energy throughput in over-producing and over-consuming cultures. It outlines a culturally sensitive response to a (conceived) paradox where humans embedded in nature experience alienation and estrangement from it. The article finds that if nature has a core, then the experienced distance makes sense. To describe the core of nature, three temporal lenses are employed: the core of nature as ‘the past’, ‘the future’, and ‘the present’. It is proposed that while the degrowth movement should be inclusive of temporal perspectives, the lens of the present should be emphasised to balance out the prevailing romanticism and futurism in the theory and practice of degrowth.

Urban Life and Citizenship: The Future of Freedom

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Urban Life ◽  
The Future

La Bête humaine

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Émile Zola
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
The Future

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his ‘most finely worked’ novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.

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