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BOOKSHELF The Universal Subject of Our Time Darius Nikbin (WUS, 1990-95; HH, 1995-00)
The Passing Tribute Simon Marshall (DD, 1990-95) At the end of WW1 two brothers become entwined in a shadowy plot to assassinate the last Habsburg Emperor. Swept up in revolution and the competing visions for the future of Europe, they find that the end of the war is only the beginning of their struggle.
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The Subject itself is the Subject of the Machine. What does it mean to be human? We live in a technological age, where rapid advances in personal tech and the science of Artificial Intelligence are challenging us in ways never before imagined. A book in two parts, The Universal Subject of Our Time begins with an exploration of 20th Century post-modernism's undermining of subjectivity with thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard and Althusser and continues with a description of the science wars, where physical realists challenged the postmodernists up to the 1990s when the intellectual conflict resulted in an uncompromising stand-off after the Sokal Hoax. In Part II the subject is resurrected by taking a look at arguments for machine intelligence and AI and also, from the perspective of physics, examines what subjectivity means, particularly in relation to black holes or black stars, and look to what lies ahead in the future, in terms of space exploration, Martian habitats and even the possibility of first contact with extra-terrestrials.
Eric Babo Harrach (AHH, 1961-64) The âSternâ a German weekly wrote: Eric will not only appeal to children: For the eight-year-old, his blindness means no shortage, but a challenge â for himself and his friends. Watson comes into his life for enrollment, a smart and greedy Labrador, with whom he now experiences adventures on his own. And suddenly something is going on in his life! The book was transcript in Braille and has a great number of beautiful illustrations.
