Techno

no one has ever heard of before. This song makes me want to get up and dance even though I am awful at dancing. I think it would be really cool to experience a club like the one in the movie Saturday Night Fever because now a days clubs play loud techno music and not cool disco music. One approach of psychology I can relate to this song is social psychology. I know it doesn't show a lot of social psychology but if you put yourself in the mid 70’s this is what the teenagers were doing.…

derived from Homer’s The Illiad and The Odyssey. Other authors theorize that the film is an allegory to Arthur Clarke’s (novelist of the literary version of the film and co-writer of the script) theory that man and machine will someday fuse into a techno-human hybrid while others purport an allegory to the theories of a hyper-sexualized Sigmund Freud, dream-oriented Carl Jung, or “death be to God” Freidrich Nietzsche. Personally, I apt…

known as a politician, business executive and former air force pilot turned author. The first novel in the Great and Terrible series of novels was the 2003 published Prologue: The Brothers that was a departure from his previous works in the Military techno thriller genre. The series of novels is set in a pre-mortal world full of drama, passions, economic disasters, deadly epidemics, and political intrigues. With the author being a Mormon, many of the thematic elements of the novels have been…

With our world progressively becoming more and more “techno-centric”, we are now able to produce far faster than the world imagined just 20 years ago. Nevertheless, despite all of our grand achievements and the relationships that have come as result of it, some would argue that we are still failing to produce smarter in regards to efficiency. A lot of our inventions and alterations are no longer for necessity. With the increase of inventions there has been a push for cleaner and more efficient…

The film Run Lola Run, directed by Tom Tywker in 1998, is a distinctly visual film. The movie focuses on fate and how slight variations change the outcome of an inevitable ending. Before the movie even begins it starts with clock a ticking and its pendulum rocking back and forth. If the title of the movie doesn’t make you think about a timeline, the sound of the tick and tock certainly will. The clock serves as a motif. The movie starts with a timeline: 20 minutes. 20 minutes to come up with…

Standing the Final Watch is the debut novel by William Alan Webb, and is the first book in the Last Brigade series. It is best described as a speculative military techno-thriller (I’ll let you, the reader, fit that into whichever genre you deem appropriate). When I initially spoke with Mr. Webb, he described to me a futuristic Clancy-esque thriller with shades of Mark Greaney; I admit to being both interested and skeptical, as I am a huge fan of both of these authors. Little did Mr. Webb know…

My earlier inquiries ported between Biblical Spirituality, Celtic Spirituality, and City Spirituality. An M. Div. mini-thesis investigated the spirituality of the insular Celts (du Toit, 2007). This study focussed on two Celtic liminality sniglets. For the island Celts, thin designated liminality. Thin Spaces (for instance, beaches and mountaintops) and Thin Times (such as dawn and dusk) thinned the veil between the natural and supernatural. Liminality, as an abstract zeitgeber, makes life and…

In this book, Guattari focus in the three ecologies in his conception of Ecosophy. Guattari’s argument that we have an erroneous conception of ecology of environmental struggle, he proposes ideas such as difference of opinion, political dissidence, Action to stand out again and Result of this action , break-up and the number of components in a system (such as a multiple or a group of energy levels). Also he proposes ideas such as strategies or processes towards a reconstruction of social and…

The Penultimate Truth and 1984 fall under a literary genre that has a wide range of styles and themes. Probably the most popular and interesting style in science fiction novels is the one that deals with future events, where the writer tries to anticipate futuristic changes. The accuracy of an author is of course found out retroactively, when the reader realizes that the author, years before, was able to predict and depict the future. However, The Penultimate Truth (Philip K. Dick) and 1984…

Let’s play word association. Say “minicar” and you’ll probably answer smart fortwo, Scion iQ, or Fiat 500 (since they’re they only ones available in the US). Say “Chevy” and Silverado, Suburban or Impala probably come to mind because everyone knows that GM only makes big cars and trucks. Believe that and you deserve to be associated with the word “misinformed”. Chevrolet has been pumping out great small cars for the past three years in the form of Cruze, Sonic and now the 2013 Spark minicar.…