scholarly journals The Future of Extinction: William S. Burroughs’ The Western Lands

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Steen Ledet Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Ethical Obligations

In this article, I draw on William S. Burroughs’ The Western Lands to think about what François Laruelle has termed a “generic humanity.” This generic humanity broadens and expands our ethical obligations towards those who have not yet been included in humanity. Burroughs’ emphasis in the novel on flattened time, magic, and death as transformation is used to show how we can make Mankind extinct from our way of thinking. Burroughs’ novel is thus an example of a “philo-fiction,” a work of literature that allows us to see the world differently.

scholarly journals Working in the world of the pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Luke Tredinnick ◽  
Claire Laybats
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Way

This paper compiles a series of responses from key information professionals to the novel coronavirus pandemic of 2020. Respondents were invited to answer the questions how the pandemic has impacted on their work, and how it might change the way of working in the future. Contributors to the article include Scott Brown, Steve Dale, Denise Carter, Alison Day, Hal Kirkwood and Emily Hopkins.

scholarly journals Prediction of COVID-19 Pandemic of Top Ten Countries in the World Establishing a Hybrid AARNN LTM Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Padmabati Gahan ◽  
Monalisha Pattnaik ◽  
Agnibrata Nayak ◽  
Monee Kieran Roul
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Warning System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Corporate Leaders ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Scientific Experts ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Out Of Sample

AbstractThe novel COVID-19 global pandemic has become a public health emergency of international concern affecting 215 countries and territories around the globe. As of 28 November 2020, it has caused a pandemic outbreak with a total of more than 6,171,5119 confirmed infections and more than 1,44,4235 confirmed deaths reported worldwide. The main focus of this paper is to generate LTM real-time out of sample forecasts of the future COVID-19 confirmed and death cases respectively for the top ten profoundly affected countries including for the world. To solve this problem we introduced a novel hybrid approach AARNN model based on ARIMA and ARNN forecasting model that can generate LTM (fifty days ahead) out of sample forecasts of the number of daily confirmed and death COVID-19 cases for the ten countries namely USA, India, Brazil, Russia, France, Spain, UK, Italy, Argentina, Colombia and also for the world respectively. The predictions of the future outbreak for different countries will be useful for the effective allocation of health care resources and will act as early-warning system for health warriors, corporate leaders, economists, government/public-policy makers, and scientific experts.

scholarly journals The Issue of Genre in Pekić's Early Opus

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Pticina
Keyword(s):  
Central Point ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Definition Of

The paper presents the analysis of genre definition of Pekić’s prose. Genre definition of the prose work The time of miracles is mainly analysed and explained, which theoreticians define differently, determining it as a chain, stories, but also as a novel. The analysis of the corpus, that is, the works The time of miracles and New Jerusalem is conducted through the prism of Bakhtin’s theory on the novel, with a brief resistance of Lukacs’ theory to Bakhtin’s when it comes to the analysis of Pekić’s prose. After the explanation of the characterisation of The time of miracles as a novel, we deal with chronotope, as genre definition, where the most common chronotopes that we encounter in Pekić’s prose are indicated. The novelties that Pekić brings to Serbian literature are reflected in one complete novelistic image, a parallel world, documented by historical sources, the witness’ stories, archeological sites. Generally speaking, the central point of his work is occupied by problematising man’s position in the world in general – so, also in the past, present, but in the future as well. And precisely that and such his relation towards culture and existence – erudite, problematising, predictive, revealing – is “analogous to the correlations between chronotope within the work“ (Bakhtin, 1989, p. 386).

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW: The Future After Covid: Futurist Expectations For Changes, Challenges, And Opportunities After The Covid-19 Pandemic (Masa Depan Dunia Setelah Covid-19: Perubahan, Tantangan, Dan Peluang Di Berbagai Sektor Kehidupan Pasca Pandemi)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Naufal Priyotomo ◽  
Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
New Perspective

Nowadays, the world has a pandemic called covid-19 that stalled the world progress in most countries. This book writes about changes in every aspect while this covid-19 is happening and some advice from the writers. Aspects covered are Education, economy and business, healthcare, any activity, and country regulation. It was written to give insight and awareness to people about uncertainity that can unfolds also a futuristic way of thinking. Thus, it aims for giving advice to people that need a new perspective of life while Covid-19 pandemic is happening

scholarly journals The Last Day and Brexit: Delusions of Future Past

Porównania ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-177
Author(s):  
Justyna Jajszczok
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ideological Background

The paper aims to show how the traditions of science fiction and, above all, invasion literature provide the ideological background for reading Andrew Hunter Murray’s The Last Day as a novel about Brexit. As it draws on anxious visions of the future, in which the enemy lurks around every corner, and the only salvation is complete isolation from the world, Murray’s work is read here as a Brexit dream come true, in which Britain is once again great, independent and uncontaminated by foreign elements. By evoking the myths that focus only on glory and conveniently “forget” the dark sides of the empire, the novel demonstrates that the fantasies of the past are as distant as the fantasies of the future; the loss of the world that never was is reworked in The Last Day into the loss of ecologically viable planet.

scholarly journals The times and spaces of transplantation: queercrip histories as futurities

2021 ◽  
pp. medhum-2021-012199
Author(s):  
Donna McCormack
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Multiple Selves ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
The Past ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Times

With a focus on Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu, this article explores how transplantation is part of the ongoing transformation of being in a body that is of the world. That is, it examines how we may require other ways of thinking bodies as constituted by histories, spaces and times that may be ignored in the biomedical arena. The Tiger Flu, I argue, calls for an intra- and inter-connected way of thinking how we treat bodies, and thereby ways of working with bodies affected by environmental disasters (both acute and ongoing capitalist and colonial projects), multiple selves and time as more than linear. I turn to queercrip as a way of defying a curative imaginary that dominates transplantation and in so doing examine the colonial, capitalist violence of present day living. I move through Eve Hayward’s and Karen Barad’s work to examine how the cut of transplantation is a transformation, as integral to the ongoing experience of having a body in the world and yet potentially unique in its force of bringing inter- and intra-relatedness to the fore of one’s existence. Rather than sick or cured, I argue that transplantation is a transformation that captures our bodily changes, how the environment constitutes the self, how parts may feel integral to the self or easily disposed of, how viscera may tie us to others, and how the future may only be forged through a re-turn to the past (of the donor and a pre-transplant self). Transplantation is not about loss of self or gaining of an other, but rather about rendering apparent our multispecies, multiworld ties, and thus how we are bound by the histories we forge and the futures we re-member.

scholarly journals La littérature à l'épreuve du réel : les jeux de Pascal Quignard avec les Lettres

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Xavier Martin
Keyword(s):  
Complex Structure ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
French Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
History Of Literature

The novel Les Larmes, by French writer Pascal Quignard, takes place in the ninth century, two twin brothers make totally different choices of life. Hartnid is always on the go. His twin, Nithard, is a pure scholar. His life is devoted to language. It is precisely his involment in language that allows him to write something that was never written before. He writes the Serments de Strasbourg (English: Oaths of Strasbourg, Latin: Sacramenta Argentariae) in 842, first written marks of a language that will become the French language. This novel offers a unique opportunity to sketch a thought on the ability of literature to speak about our relationship to reality.   The first part of the article questions the gesture of the novelist who acts on himself and on reality when writing, he really tries to change the world. The second part of the article studies the notion of realism and shows how Quignard finds a place in the history of literature that, today, stays away from realism, but, maybe, in order to better track down reality. Finally, in order to grasp the specificity of the Works of Quignard, my interest in the aesthetic of Les Larmes is threefold: its complex structure, the fascination for origin that it shows and, the question of identity and splitting with the twin brothers Hartnid and Nithard. The article concludes on the ability of artists to anticipate in their creations and, in advance, to tell about events that will occur in the future. 

scholarly journals Epidemics and Literature (The Novel as A Model)

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Ahmed G. Naef
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Global Memory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Literary Art ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ancient Times

The literature in general and epidemiological literature especially represents the reflection of the health status of society and the health crises that the world has witnessed since ancient times. Those epidemics were the engine for many authors and novelists pens in particular. Thus, many novels touched on those diseases that caused violent shocks in the whole world, which left behind them many tragedies that remain stuck in the global memory. Since the novel is the mostrealistic literary art, it took the initiative to be the most prominent literary art that dealt with these topics and dealt with them, whether they were stories transmitted from reality or imaginary that predicted the future.

The Novel Usage of Nitrocellulose as a Propellant of 5.56 mm Bullet

2018 ◽  
Vol 280 ◽  
pp. 361-367
Author(s):  
Mohd Najib Abdul Ghani Yolhamid ◽  
Farizha Ibrahim ◽  
Mohamad Abu Ubaidah Amir Abu Zarim ◽  
Rushdan Ibrahim ◽  
Sharmiza Adnan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Calorific Value ◽  
Security Level ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Chemical Formula ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Main Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Gun powder is predicted to be more expensive in relation to the world oil shortage crisis in the future. However, cellulose (generic chemical formula (C6H10O5) is the carbohydrate that makes up the main structure of plants. It is more economical especially for countries with a lot of natural resources and rain forests like Malaysia. The finding of the study reveals the capability of nitrocellulose as gunpowder. In this research, a comparison of the same mass of nitrocellulose and gunpowder is made to find out which propellant produce longer distance and greater impact. The main objectives of this study are to find out the performance and capability of nitrocellulose extracted from Rhizophora apiculata compared to gunpowder in terms of velocity, calorific value of bullets and kinetic energy produced. The result shows that the nitrocellulose has better performance than gun powder. The new application of smokeless gun powder ensures troops especially snipers hardly being detected by enemy and at the same time improves safety and security level.

Catalytic nanoparticles and magnetic nanocatalysts in organic reactions: A mini review

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Fouziyeh Mollazehi
Keyword(s):  
World Market ◽  
Catalytic Reactions ◽  
Organic Reactions ◽  
Large Contribution ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Metal Atoms ◽  
Catalytic Nanoparticles ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Novel Applications

Nanocatalysts, as a part of nanotechnology, have been seen very useful for various fileds of applications capturing a large contribution of the world market. Indeed, several unsolved issues of catalysts have been reconsidered by employing the new nanocatalysts including single core metal atoms and ions with surrounding holes. Moreover, it was expected that the future of catalytic reactions, especially those organic ones, will deal with the nanocatalyst applications. To this aim, the features of catalytic nanoparticles and magnetic nanocatalysts regarding evaluation of their advantages and applications in organic reactions were investigated in this work. Developments of catalytic nanoparticles and magnetic nanocatalysts were discussed in this work regarding the novel applications of such materials at the nanoscale for approaching advantageous features. Increased availability, activity, and stability are very important for applications of the catalysts in various organic reactions. Therefore, it is a must to discuss features of such nanocatalytic systems to provide more information about their advantages and even disadvantages of their applications.

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