The Enchantments of Technology

by Lee Bailey

Author	: Lee Bailey
Publisher	: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages	: 262
Release	: 2010-10-01
Genre	: Technology & Engineering
ISBN	: 0252090446

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In The Enchantments of Technology, Lee Worth Bailey erases the conventional distinction between myth and machine in order to explore the passionate foundations concealed in technological culture and address its complex ethical, moral and social implications. Bailey argues that technological society does not simply disenchant the world with its reductive methods and mechanical metaphors, then shape machines with political motives, but is also borne by a deeper, subversive undertow of enchantment. Addressing examples to explore the complexities of these enchantments, his thought is full of illuminating examinations of seductively engaging technologies ranging from the old camera obscura to new automobiles, robots, airplanes, and spaceships. This volume builds on the work of numerous scholars, including Jacques Ellul and Jean Brun on the phenomenological and spiritual aspects of technology, Carl Jung on the archetypal collective unconscious approach to myth, and Martin Heidegger on Being itself. Bailey creates a dynamic, interdisciplinary, postmodern examination of how our machines and their environments embody not only reason, but also desires.

The Enchantments of Mammon

by Eugene McCarraher

Author	: Eugene McCarraher
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Total Pages	: 817
Release	: 2019-11-12
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 0674242777

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“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century

Jungian Arts-Based Research and "The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico"

by Susan Rowland

Author	: Susan Rowland
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 257
Release	: 2020-07-26
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 0429860102

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Jungian Arts-Based Research and "The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico" provides clear, accessible and in-depth guidance both for arts-based researchers using Jung’s ideas and for Jungian scholars undertaking arts-based research. The book provides a central extended example which applies the techniques described to the full text of Joel Weishaus’ prose poem The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico, published here for the first time. Designed as a "how-to" book, Jungian Arts-Based Research and "The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico" explores how Jung contributes to the new arts-based paradigm in psychic functions such as intuition, by providing an epistemology of symbols that includes the unconscious, and research strategies such as active imagination. Rowland examines Jung’s The Red Book as an early example of Jungian arts-based research and demonstrates how this practice challenges the convention of the detached researcher by providing holistic knowing. Arts-based researchers will find here a psychic dimension that also manifests in transdisciplinarity, while those familiar with Jung’s work will find in arts-based research ways to foster diversity for a decolonized academy. This unique project will be essential reading for Jungian and post-Jungian academics and scholars, arts-based researchers of all backgrounds and readers interested in transdisciplinarity.

Funology

by M.A. Blythe

Author	: M.A. Blythe
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages	: 294
Release	: 2006-03-28
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 1402029675

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This book reflects the move in Human Computer Interaction studies from standard usability concerns towards a wider set of problems to do with fun, enjoyment, aesthetics and the experience of use. Traditionally HCI has been concerned with work and task based applications but as digital technologies proliferate in the home fun becomes an important issue. There is an established body of knowledge and a range of techniques and methods for making products and interfaces usable, but far less is known about how to make them enjoyable. Perhaps in the future there will be a body of knowledge and a set of techniques for assessing the pleasure of interaction that will be as thorough as those that currently assess usability. This book is a first step towards that. It brings together a range of researchers from academia and industry to provide answers. Contributors include Alan Dix, Jacob Nielsen and Mary Beth Rosson as well as a number of other researchers from academia and industry.

Modern Enchantments

by Simon During

Author	: Simon During
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Total Pages	: 358
Release	: 2002
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 9780674013711

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Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people?

The Enchantment of Modern Life

by Jane Bennett

Author	: Jane Bennett
Publisher	: Princeton University Press
Total Pages	: 223
Release	: 2016-11-22
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1400884535

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It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics. As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ''narrative of disenchantment,'' one that presents a new ''alter-tale'' that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world.

Funology 2

by Mark Blythe

Author	: Mark Blythe
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 550
Release	: 2018-07-20
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 331968213X

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How should we understand and design for fun as a User Experience? This new edition of a classic book is for students, designers and researchers who want to deepen their understanding of fun in the context of HCI. The 2003 edition was the first book to do this and has been influential in broadening the field. It is the most downloaded book in the Springer HCI Series. This edition adds 14 new chapters that go well beyond the topics considered in 2003. New chapter topics include: online dating, interactive rides, wellbeing, somaesthetics, design fiction, critical design and participatory design methods. The first edition chapters are also reprinted, with new notes by their authors setting the context in which the 2003 chapter was written and explaining the developments since then. Taken with the new chapters this adds up to a total of 35 theoretical and practical chapters written by the most influential thinkers from academia and industry in this field.

Decadent Enchantments

by Katherine Bergeron

Author	: Katherine Bergeron
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Total Pages	: 366
Release	: 2023-04-28
Genre	: Music
ISBN	: 0520919610

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The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. She draws out the parallels between this longing for a lost liturgy and the postrevolutionary quest for lost monuments that fueled the French Gothic revival, a quest that produced the modern concept of "restoration." Bergeron follows the technological development of the Gregorian restoration over a seventy-year period as it passed from the private performances of a monastic choir into the public commodities of printed books, photographs, and Gramophone records. She discusses such issues as architectural restoration, the modern history of typography, the uncanny power of the photographic image, and the authority of recorded sound. She also shows the extent to which different media shaped the modern image of the ancient repertory, an image that gave rise to conflicting notions not only of musical performance but of the very idea of music history.

WITCHCRAFT: ACTIONABLE WORKBOOK 9 PLUS 1

by Sabrina Cunningham

Author	: Sabrina Cunningham
Publisher	: Benjamin Bautista
Total Pages	: 558
Release	: 2024-05-31
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	:

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Unlock the ultimate guide to modern witchcraft with WITCHCRAFT: ACTIONABLE WORKBOOK 9 PLUS 1, a comprehensive and practical workbook designed to empower you in every aspect of your magical journey. Authored by the renowned Sabrina Cunningham, this essential workbook combines traditional wisdom with cutting-edge techniques, offering step-by-step instructions, actionable exercises, and insightful guidance across ten transformative areas of witchcraft. Why You Need This Workbook: Comprehensive Coverage: Dive into the core practices of Wicca, master the energies of the 4 Elements, and harness the power of Herbal Magic. This workbook provides a holistic approach, covering all the essential aspects of modern witchcraft. Beauty and Self-Care: Discover magical rituals and herbal recipes to enhance your beauty routine and promote self-care. Learn how to create potions, lotions, and charms that nourish your body, mind, and spirit. Love Spells: Attract love and deepen romantic connections with powerful love spells and charms. This workbook includes easy-to-follow instructions for casting effective spells to manifest your heart's desires. Divination Tools: Explore the mystical arts of Tarot Cards and Runes. Gain practical insights on reading the cards, interpreting runes, and using these tools for guidance, self-discovery, and decision-making. Modern Witchcraft: Embrace the future of witchcraft with techniques for using Artificial Intelligence and Social Media to enhance your magical practice. Learn how to integrate technology into your rituals, connect with a global community of witches, and amplify your intentions using digital platforms. Actionable Exercises: Each chapter is packed with hands-on exercises, practical activities, and reflective prompts to deepen your understanding and application of magical principles. This workbook is designed to be interactive, engaging, and transformative. Empower Your Magical Practice: WITCHCRAFT: ACTIONABLE WORKBOOK 9 PLUS 1 is more than just a workbook; it's a dynamic toolkit that empowers you to take action and create real change in your life. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced practitioner, this workbook will guide you step-by-step on your path to mastery. Transform Your Life with Magic: Sabrina Cunningham’s expertise and engaging writing style make this workbook an indispensable resource for any witch looking to elevate their practice. By blending traditional wisdom with modern techniques, you'll unlock new levels of empowerment and possibility in your magical journey. **Ready to transform your magical practice? Click “Add to Cart” now and let WITCHCRAFT: ACTIONABLE WORKBOOK 9 PLUS 1 be your guide to mastering Wicca, the 4 Elements, Herbal Magic, Beauty and Self-Care, Love Spells, Tarot, Runes, and Modern Day Witchcraft. Your journey to empowerment and transformation starts here!