This inspired bio musical about The One and Only begins with Groucho as an old man doing his famous Carnegie Hall show. It then goes back to the beginnings of the Marx Brothers and their struggles to make it in vaudeville, their rise to stardom and their eventual break up. All classic Groucho songs are included. One actor plays Groucho, another plays Chico and Harpo, and one actress plays all the wives, girlfriends and Margaret Dumont. A hit in New York, across the U.S. and in London, this show will delight Marx Brothers fans and the as yet uninitiated.
This book argues that the dialectic of Marx's Capital has a systematic, rather than historical, character. It sheds new light on Marx's great work, while going beyond it in many respects.
A psychiatrist is writing about teenagers, with daughters of his own constantly underfoot. The 17 year-old has a menagerie that includes a Greenwich Village beatnik and a Peace Corps reject. He discovers that the girl has married in another state under an assumed name. The trouble is, she won't say who is her husband, leading the harried father some sleepless nights. The younger daughter is reading "Fanny Hill" and concludes that it is tamer than her own household."--Publisher's description.
In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Arthur Kroker explores the future of the 21st century in the language of technological destiny. Presenting Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche as prophets of technological nihilism, Kroker argues that every aspect of contemporary culture, society, and politics is coded by the dynamic unfolding of the 'will to technology.' Moving between cultural history, our digital present, and the biotic future, Kroker theorizes on the relationship between human bodies and posthuman technology, and more specifically, wonders if the body of work offered by thinkers like Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche is a part of our past or a harbinger of our technological future. Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche intensify our understanding of the contemporary cultural climate. Heidegger's vision posits an increasingly technical society before which we have become 'objectless objects'– driftworks in a 'culture of boredom.' In Marx, the disciplining of capital itself by the will to technology is a code of globalization, first announced as streamed capitalism. Nietzsche mediates between them, envisioning in the gathering shadows of technological society the emergent signs of a culture of nihilism. Like Marx, he insists on thinking of the question of technology in terms of its material signs. In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Kroker consistently enacts an invigorating and innovative vision, bringing together critical theory, art, and politics to reveal the philosophic apparatus of technoculture.
This is a revision of one of the newest books in the very popular Exploring Windows Series. Assuming no prior knowledge of the Internet, this book will appeal to persons from a variety of disciplines including liberal arts, physical and life sciences, social science, and business. Concepts are presented in non-technical terms, but with sufficient detail so the reader will gain real understanding of the Internet and how it works. Provides hands-on experiences in addition to the rationale behind what is being done. Covers the World Wide Web, Netscape, E-mail, URLs, HTML, special appendix "Hot sites on the Internet".
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