In her 1973 work, Camera Obscura of Ideology, the French philosopher, Sarah Kofman, synthesizes the common denominator of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.
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But 50 books can sound intimidating, especially for a new reader who does not know where to begin. We must admit that with multiple book series, each with its own set of books, navigating the entire collection of David Baldacci books is daunting. You will be delighted if you are a new reader just about to enter the literary universe Baldacci has created. Not just readers but prolific directors such as Clint Eastwood have read and adapted his work into motion pictures. His work has captured the attention of millions of readers. The author with a subtle and charming smile and a mind to create some of the most thrilling and gripping stories, David Baldacci is a name you’d find in the bookstores of almost every country. “The Boogeyman,” directed by Rob Savage (“Host”) with a screenplay by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (“A Quiet Place”) and Mark Heyman (“Black Swan”) and a screen story by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods based upon the short story by Stephen King, stars Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”), Chris Messina (“Birds of Prey”), Vivien Lyra Blair (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”), Marin Ireland (“The Umbrella Academy”), Madison Hu (“Bizaardvark”), LisaGay Hamilton (“Vice”), and David Dastmalchian (“Dune”). When a desperate patient unexpectedly shows up at their home seeking help, he leaves behind a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families and feeds on the suffering of its victims. High school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister Sawyer are reeling from the recent death of their mother and aren’t getting much support from their father, Will, a therapist who is dealing with his own pain. “The Boogeyman,” a horror-thriller from the mind of best-selling author Stephen King, opens June 2, 2023, in theaters nationwide. But what’s even more powerful to me is her life comes down to a choice: she either has to remember everything, face her past, relive her trauma and *survive*, or choose to forget and die. She gets to be the version of herself that she would have been all along if not for the torture she endured. Despite the world falling apart around her, she feels safe and protected. She gets friends who accept that she’s a bit weird instead of ostracizing or punishing her for it. She gets to be loved for real by a whole slew of guardians who truly have her best interests at heart. Like…Nona gets reborn without the complicated baggage of her past, into a world that while we know is dangerous and terrifying, she gets to experience the simple joyful things like swimming and petting dogs and pretty girls. “what if you were severely traumatized and had experienced undescribable pain for thousands of years, and the deepest sort of betrayal, and loss you could never begin to articulate, but then your consciousness got to be reborn again and you didn’t have to remember any of the bad things?” It is his love for analyzing “The Force of Falsity” in our history (the false not necessarily in the form of lies but also in the form of error) that has motivated Eco to publish his research on how curiosity, imagination, errors, and serendipity are at the foundation of many of the discoveries throughout the centuries. Eco has also had a long history of loving to examine fakes and forgeries – a familiar topic recurring often in both his scientific and creative writings. The numerous colorful illustrations that accompany The Book of Legendary Lands make this recent publication the fourth encyclopedic illustrated text – after The History of Beauty, The History of Ugliness, and The Vertigo of Lists – and another testimonial of Eco’s love for interdisciplinary research. His novels and his essays are all about knowing more about our history, our society, our culture, and our world, including those of imaginary lands. It is all part of his art of docere et delectare. Umberto Eco is at his best when he teaches, entertains, and shows off his interdisciplinary and encyclopedic knowledge. It has something for every kind of reader and a good deal that will please no reader. Such an ending would have been consistent with the personality and character of Juan, who is swept along with the current, who does not seek out but is sought out.ĭon Juan is such a vast creation that it is difficult to judge it as a whole. He could have had Empress Catherine, or her son Paul I, transfer her envoy to France, perhaps as a spy, and have him blunder into the guillotine while being pursued by some beautiful goddess of reason. That would have made a suitable conclusion to a drifting, planless life just as the Greek revolution made a suitable, even immortalizing, conclusion to Byron's drifting, planless life. Byron spoke once or twice of letting Juan be killed off in the French Revolution. All Byron had to do was to change the locale and introduce new episodes. It could have gone on indefinitely like a comic strip as long as the public showed an interest in its continuation. How Byron might have ended it is idle speculation. Like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Byron's Don Juan is an unfinished poem. 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It is therefore not altogether surprising that with this densely researched and delightfully written book, Graham has turned Alfred Maudslay's extraordinary life into a ripping good yarn. Anybody who has had the pleasure of being at a dinner party where Ian Graham is also a guest will know that he is a master raconteur. Indeed, congenitally blind people maintain the ability to produce visual dreams, suggesting that bottom-up mechanisms could be associated with innate body schemes or multisensory integration processes. Blind individuals represent a worthwhile population to clarify the role of perceptual systems in dream generation, and to make inferences about their top-down and/or bottom-up origin. Then, given the strong influence of light perception on sleep regulation and the mostly visual content of dreams, we investigate the effect of blindness on the organization of dreams. However, dreaming in distinct sleep stages maintains relevant differences, suggesting that multiple generators are implicated. The involvement of frontoparietal regions in the dream-retrieval process allows us to discuss it in light of the Global Workspace theory of consciousness. We review neuroscientific studies about dreaming processes, focusing on their cortical correlations. In the 21st century, studies in the field have focused on 3 main topics: functional networks that underlie dreaming, neural correlates of dream contents, and signal propagation. The mechanisms involved in the origin of dreams remain one of the great unknowns in science. James Doucet-Battle begins with a historical overview of how diabetes has been researched and framed racially over the past century, chronicling one company’s efforts to recruit African Americans to test their new diabetes risk-score algorithm with the aim of increasing the clinical and market value of the firm’s technology. But has science gone so far in racializing diabetes as to undermine the search for solutions? In a rousing indictment of the idea that notions of biological race should drive scientific inquiry, Sweetness in the Blood provides an ethnographic picture of biotechnology’s framings of Type 2 diabetes risk and race and, importantly, offers a critical examination of the assumptions behind the recruitment of African American and African-descent populations for Type 2 diabetes research. Decades of data cannot be ignored: African American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. |