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Free Download Predicted Humans: Emerging Technologies and the Burden of Sensemaking (Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect) By Simona Chiodo
2024 | 140 Pages | ISBN: 1032656913 | EPUB | 1 MB
Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that predict our professional success (or failure) to biomarkers that predict how long (or short) our healthy (or unhealthy) life will be. Yet, much in Western culture, from scripture to mythology to philosophy, suggests that knowing one’s future may not be in the subject’s best interests and might even lead to disaster. If predicting our future as individuals can be harmful as well as beneficial, why are we so willing to engage in so much prediction, from cradle to grave?This book offers a philosophical answer, reflecting on seminal texts in Western culture to argue that predicting our future renders much of our existence the automated effect of various causes, which, in turn, helps to alleviate the existential burden of autonomously making sense of our lives in a more competitive, demanding, accelerated society. An exploration of our tendency in a technological era to engineer and so rid ourselves of that which has hitherto been our primary reason for being – making life plans for a successful future, while faced with epistemological and ethical uncertainties – Predicted Humans will appeal to scholars of philosophy and social theory with interests in questions of moral responsibility and meaning in an increasingly technological world.

Free Download Ronald C. Egan, "The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China "
English | ISBN: 0674726693 | 2014 | 432 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Widely considered the preeminent Chinese woman poet, Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s) occupies a crucial place in China’s literary and cultural history. She stands out as the great exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were male. But at what price to our understanding of her as a writer does this distinction come? The Burden of Female Talent challenges conventional modes of thinking about Li Qingzhao as a devoted but often lonely wife and, later, a forlorn widow. By examining manipulations of her image by the critical tradition in later imperial times and into the twentieth century, Ronald C. Egan brings to light the ways in which critics sought to accommodate her to cultural norms, molding her "talent" to make it compatible with ideals of womanly conduct and identity. Contested images of Li, including a heated controversy concerning her remarriage and its implications for her "devotion" to her first husband, reveal the difficulty literary culture has had in coping with this woman of extraordinary conduct and ability. The study ends with a reappraisal of Li’s poetry, freed from the autobiographical and reductive readings that were traditionally imposed on it and which remain standard even today.

Free Download Resilience and the Brown Babe’s Burden: Writings by Filipina Philosophers
by Tracy Llanera
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032698691 | 245 Pages | True PDF | 4 MB

Free Download William J. Samarin, "The Black Man’s Burden: African Colonial Labor On The Congo And Ubangi Rivers, 1880-1900"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0813377404, 0367290383, 0367305844 | EPUB | pages: 276 | 0.9 mb
This book is an enquiry into early European colonial expansion in Central Africa especially in upper Zaire (Congo) and Ubangi rivers. It explores the extent to which French and Belgian colonial enterprise were dependent on the African labor and their penetration into Zaire basin.

Free Download 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | April 30, 2024 | ASIN: B0CKLY65XH | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 41m | 393 MB
Author: Abraham Chang | Narrator: Eunice Wong
"Narrator Eunice Wong breathes life into the diverse cast of characters with an energetic precision that gives this audiobook the feeling of a lively radio drama."-AudioFile
"Abraham Chang’s novel, packed with pop culture, is wonderfully alive. This is a beautifully tender and funny examination of love, of identity, of making your way in a world that is getting bigger and smaller at the same time."-Kevin Wilson, bestselling author of Nothing To See Here

Free Download Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKM1XPMZ | 2024 | 12 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 368 MB
Author: Shefali Luthra
Narrator: Shefali Luthra, Suehyla El-Attar Young
An urgent investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and the life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive freedom. "An absolute must-read; tell your friends; buy it for your family; sit with it on your own. This is storytelling we need. On June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned, and the impact was immediate: by 2024, abortion was virtually unavailable or significantly restricted in 21 states. In Undue Burden, reporter Shefali Luthra traces the unforgettable stories of patients faced with one of the most personal decisions of their lives. Outside of Houston, there’s a 16-year-old girl who becomes pregnant well before she intends to. A 21-year-old mother barely making ends meet has to travel hundreds of miles in secret for medical treatment in another state. A 42-year-old woman with a life-threatening condition wants nothing more than to safely carry her pregnancy to term, but her home state’s abortion ban fails to provide her with the options she needs to make an informed decision.

Free Download Anna-Marie de Beer, "Sharing the Burden of Stories from the Tutsi Genocide: Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire"
English | 2020 | pages: 306 | ISBN: 3030420957, 3030420922 | PDF | 2,9 mb
This book deals with literary representations of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled ‘Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire’ (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African authors. This work emphasizes the Afropolitan cultural frame in which the texts were conceived and written. Instead of using Western and Eurocentric tropes, this volume looks at a so-called ‘minority trauma’: an African conflict situated in a collectivist society and written about by writers from African origin. This approach enables a more situated study, in which it becomes possible to draw out the local notions of ubuntu, oral testimonies, mourning traditions, healing and storytelling strategies, and the presence of the ‘invisible’. As these texts are written in French and to date not all of them have been translated into English, most academic research has been done in French. This book thus assists inconnecting English-speaking readers not only to a set of texts written in French with significant literary and cultural value, but also to francophone trauma studies research.

Free Download Matthew Gabriele, "Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: The Burden of Sacred Time and the Making of History in Early Medieval Europe"
English | ISBN: 0199642559 | 2024 | 160 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The tenth and eleventh centuries in medieval Europe are commonly seen as a time of uncertainty and loss: an age of lawless aristocrats, of weak political authority, of cultural decline and dissolute monks, and of rampant superstition. It is a period often judged from its margins, compared (mostly negatively) to what came before and what would follow. We impose upon it both a sense of nostalgia and a teleology, as they somehow knowingly foreshadow what is to come.

Free Download Productivity – Overcoming The Burden Of Wasting Your Life
Published 2/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 2.78 GB | Duration: 2h 22m
Manage your Time. Improve your focus and efficiency. Avoid distractions. Become Organized. Improve your Productivity.

Free Download Robert Schmuhl, "The Glory and the Burden: The American Presidency from the New Deal to the Present, Expanded Edition"
English | ISBN: 0268203776 | 2022 | 240 pages | EPUB | 780 KB