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    My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence (eBook, ePUB)
    A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum. Is it possible that creative artists have more in common with machines than we might think? Employing an improvisational call-and-response writing performance coauthored with an AI text generator, remix artist and scholar Mark Amerika, interrogates how his own "psychic automatism" is itself a nonhuman function strategically designed to reveal the poetic attributes of programmable worlds still unimagined. Through a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum, Amerika critically reflects on whether creativity itself is, at root, a nonhuman information behavior that emerges from an onto-operational presence experiencing an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility. Amerika engages with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations. He draws from jazz performance, beatnik poetry, Buddhist thought, and surrealism to suggest that his own artificial creative intelligence operates as a finely tuned remix engine continuously training itself to build on the history of avant-garde art and writing. Playful and provocative, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence flips the script on contemporary AI research that attempts to build systems that perform more like humans, instead self-reflexively making a very nontraditional argument about AI's impact on society and its relationship to the cosmos.
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    Musical subcultures
    Musical subcultures ab 26.49 € als Taschenbuch: Goth subculture Rave Emo Beatnik Freetekno Cassette culture Filk music Juggalo Punk subculture Rockabilly New Romanticism Riot grrrl Northern soul Deadhead Poseur Romo Straight edge Free party Universal Zulu Nation. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Culture of San Francisco California
    Culture of San Francisco California ab 39.99 € als Taschenbuch: Jerry Garcia Beatnik Dim sum Chan Is Missing Burning Man Redstone Building Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Folsom Street Fair Bay to Breakers San Francisco Opera Bullitt Bay Area Improv Scene Exploratorium Stanlee Gatti. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Emmett Miller: An Obscure Minstrel Yodeler Who Changed Music Forever , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 41min
    One of the strangest, most obscure, and intriguing stories from the last century of popular music is that of Emmett Miller. He helped define the popular music of the last 75 years, and for the most part, today he is all but forgotten. Emmett Miller left many legacies which influenced the American musical landscape for generations. Certainly his singing style - the odd nasal pitch tone, along with the breaking of lines and bars in a song to a high yodel-like yelp - has been imitated by scores of singers since Miller first waxed his signature style to record in 1924. Jimmie Rodgers, Gene Autry, Lefty Fritzell, the Rhythm Wreckers, Bob Wills, Woody Guthrie, Howlin' Wolf, and Bob Dylan all have been influenced by Miller's one-of-a-kind vocal abilities. Of equal importance was Miller's visionary fusion of blues and jazz, country and swing, black and white, comedy and crooning.Whether he knew what he was doing at the time or not, Miller almost single-handedly tore down the strict boundaries of musical ideas of the era. Here was a young, white, Christian man from the south, singing hot-jazz and black music in the north. Performing as a blackface with some of the most influential jazz musicians of all time (Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Eddie Lang, Jack Teagarden, and more). He created an entirely new style of country: pop. Country which swung. Country that was equally parts white and black, urban and rural. Country that was slurred through whiskey, girls, the road, and came out as the earliest forms of beatnik jive. Listening to Miller's music today, one can hear the startling sound of a man perfectly in sync with the present: he's influenced by the past, while he anticipated what was coming just around the bend. For fans of music history, musicology, americana, country music, hillbilly, minstrelsy and vaudeville. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Norton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/168670/bk_acx0_168670_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Denver LoDo Audio Tours, Hörbuch, Digital, 72min
    Look cool while secretly feeding your inner geek. Blend in with the LoDo scene wearing your iPod or with your phone to your ear and listen to Denver's most entertaining walking tour. Professional actors and narrators guide you through historic Denver, while interviewing interesting and fun characters along the way. Giving you the flavor of the Old West, storytelling is interspersed with re-enacted scenes that occurred throughout the decades and shaped the Queen City of the Plains.The entire LoDo tour takes about two hours to walk, and it's divided up into five smaller tours if you want to spread it over several adventures. With the entire LoDo Tour, you get all five of the LoDo Mini-tours listed here for one low price. Larimer Square: Meet folks like General Larimer, Soapy Smith, and Jack Keroauc in this jam-packed tour that takes you from Denver's early years through the beatnik period. 16th Street Mall: ride the bus or walk along Denver's famous pedestrian mall and hear about the city's claims to fame, including the D&F Tower, the original Denver mint, and the Sugar Building. Wazee Corner: learn about how furry four-legged friends have played into Denver's history as you visit places like the Wazee Super Club, the Elephant Corral, and the Acme Building. Union Station: jump aboard the train to learn how the Queen City of the Plains almost became a ghost town - and visit real ghosts at the Oxford Hotel. Ballpark and Red Light District: find out how the phrase "the sporting life" can mean different things in different places, like the ballpark neighborhood and the old red light district.So what are you waiting for? Enjoy the fresh air, get a little exercise, and learn a few tidbits that will come in handy during your next competitive trivia game. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Vajtay, Ron Bostwick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/gume/000001/sp_gume_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Trickle Up Poverty: Stopping Obama's Attack on Our Borders, Economy, and Security , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 743min
    No longer can we be Barack Obama's sheeple and let the American Dream be trampled, beaten, and burned to the ground. Trickle Up Poverty, by best-selling author and revered radio host Dr. Michael Savage, is your best defense against the Obamanomics that are dragging the middle class, and everyone else, into a Marxist-Socialist death spiral. The Savage manifesto you hold in your hands shows how Obama is circumventing the Constitution to push through his radical agenda - and, most important, how we can restore our country to the power and prestige that Barack Obama and his corrupt and degenerate "czars" are trying to destroy. The Naked Marxist can and must be stopped. Obama's trickle up poverty is infecting all that we hold to be true and self-evident. Here's how: Impoverishing the Middle Class: Obama's confiscatory taxes, the socializing of our health-care system, and other legislative initiatives are taking away our earnings and our power to choose how we live our lives and putting it in the hands of corrupt and pro-Socialist cohorts. Erasing Our Border with Mexico: The Homeland Security department that can't shoot straight is gutting the Constitution in the name of protecting illegal aliens when it should be focusing on keeping out the terrorists and drug dealers. Defunding the Military and Putting Our Troops in Harm's Way: Obama's beatnik policy of taking apart our nuclear arsenal and destroying NASA, while implementing PC Rules of Engagement that don't allow our troops to protect themselves, is dangerously weakening our security and ending our military dominance. Lining the Pockets of His Wall Street Buddies: While our 401(k)'s suffer, Obama and his Wall Street heavy contributors are creating their own legislation that is driving down stock prices while allowing his biggest campaign contributors to make trillions of dollars. Propagandizing the Medi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Louis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002312/bk_harp_002312_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Janis
    It's been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the 'creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation's mythology'. But how did a middle-class girl from Texas become a '60s countercultural icon?Janis' parents doted on her and promoted her early talent for art. But the arrival of a brother shattered the bond she had with her intellectual maverick of a father, an oil engineer. And her own maverick instincts alienated her from her socially conformist mother. That break with her parents, along with the rejection of her high school peers, who disapproved of her beatnik look and racially progressive views, and wrongly assumed she was sexually promiscuous, cemented her sense of herself as an outcast. She found her tribe with a group of offbeat young men a year ahead of her, who loved her intellectual curiosity, her passion for conversation, and her adventurous search for the blues. Although she never stopped craving the approval of her parents and hometown, she left Port Arthur at seventeen determined to prove she could be loved.She tried college twice, and dropped out both times. She ran off to California, but came back when her heavy drug use scared her into it. She almost signed up for a life as a domesticated, hang-the-curtains wife. But instead, during a second stint on the West Coast, she launched a career that would see her crowned the queen of rock and roll.What no one besides Holly George-Warren has captured in such intimate detail is the way Janis Joplin teetered between the powerful woman you hear in her songs and the little girl who just wanted to go home and feel emotionally safe there. The pain of that dichotomy fuelled her music - and ultimately killed her.
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    Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1695min
    Home Fires is the powerful saga of the Gordon family - real people, names unchanged. Spanning nearly five decades, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, their story has the scope, depth, wealth of incident, and emotional intensity of a great novel, and an abundance of humor, scandal, warmth, and trauma - the recognizable components of family life. This is also a masterful chronicle of the turbulent postwar era, illuminating the interplay between private life and profound cultural changes. Donald Katz begins his account in 1945, when Sam Gordon comes home from the war to his young wife, Eve, and their two-year-old, Susan, eager to move his family into the growing middle class. After a few years in the Bronx, Sam and Eve move to a new Long Island subdivision and have two more children. As the '50s yield to the '60s, the younger Gordons fly out into the culture like shrapnel from an artillery shell, each tracing a unique trajectory: Susan, early into rock 'n' roll and civil rights, Vassar girl, feminist, author of "The Politics of Orgasm", and recovering drug addict; Lorraine, teenage beatnik and leftie, one-time member of a women's rock band, longtime follower of an Indian religious teacher; Sheila, the "good" daughter who married then remarried, with a big suburban house, two kids, and a therapist; and Ricky, the youngest, witness to the family traumas and cause of a few himself, openly gay, eclectically New Age, and a successful songwriter and composer. And all Sam and Eve ever wanted - like millions of others who had experienced the Depression and the war - was a "normal family". Katz tells the Gordons' story - the unraveling of Sam's and Eve's American dream, to the slow, hopeful reknitting of the family - marshaling a vivid cast of supporting characters. Deftly juxtaposing day-to-day family life with landmark public events, Katz creates a rich and revealing portrait of the second half of the 20th century in America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett, Jonathan Alter - introduction, Ricky Ian Gordon - afterword. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018773/bk_acx0_018773_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 643min
    The remarkable story of rising to the top of the music charts, a second act as a tech pioneer, and the sustaining power of creativity and art. Thomas Dolby's hit songs "She Blinded Me with Science" and "Hyperactive!" catapulted him to international fame in the early '80s. A pioneer of New Wave and Electronica, Thomas combined a love for invention with a passion for music, and the result was a new sound that defined an era of revolutionary music. But as record company politics overshadow the joy of performing, Thomas finds a surprising second act. Starting out in a rat-infested London bedsit, a teenage Thomas Dolby stacks boxes by day at the grocery and tinkers with a homemade synthesizer at night while catching the Police at a local dive bar, swinging by the pub to see the unknown Elvis Costello, and starting the weekend with a Clash show at a small nightclub. London on the eve of the 1980s is a hotbed for music and culture, and a new sound is beginning to take shape, merging technology with the musical energy of punk rock. Thomas plays keyboards in other bands' shows and, with a bit of luck, finds his own style, quickly establishing himself on the scene and recording breakout hits that take radio, MTV, and dance clubs by storm. The world is now his oyster, and sold out arenas, world tours, even a friendship with Michael Jackson become the fabric of his life. But as the record industry flounders and disillusionment sets in, Thomas turns his attention to Hollywood. Scoring films and computer games eventually leads him to Silicon Valley and a software start-up that turns up the volume on the digital music revolution. His company barely survives the dot-com bubble, but finally even the mavericks at Apple, Microsoft, Netscape, and Nokia see the light. By 2005 two thirds of the world's mobile phones embed his Beatnik software. Life at the zenith of a tech empire proves to be just as full of big personalities, battling egos, and roller-coas ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Dolby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028057/bk_adbl_028057_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Now, Voyager: Femmes Fatales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min
    Don’t let’s ask for the moon! We have the stars!” The film that concludes with Bette Davis’s famous word reaffirmed Davis’s own stardom and changed the way Americans smoked cigarettes. But few contemporary fans of this story of a woman’s self-realization know its source. Olive Higgins Prouty’s 1941 novel Now, Voyager provides an even richer, deeper portrait of the inner life of its protagonist and the society she inhabits. Viewed from a distance of more than 60 years, it also offers fresh and quietly radical takes on psychiatric treatment, traditional family life, female desire, and women’s agency. Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Lonely, dowdy, repressed, and pushing 40, Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruise and finds herself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusion of the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a new life for herself. While Now, Voyager is a tear-jerking romance, it is at the same time the empowering story of a woman who finds the strength to chart her own course in life; who discovers love, sex, and even motherhood outside of marriage; and who learns that men are, ultimately, dispensable in the quest for happiness and fulfillment. UNKNOWN N N ©2004 Olive Higgins Prout;(P)2012 Audible, Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AM1T8LE?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AM1T8LE?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Bedelia (Unabridged) 20.95 AVAILABLE Bedelia (Unabridged) Bedelia (Unabridged) Vera Caspary Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and adoring as a kitten.... Nicole Vilencia Audible Studios 2012-11-16 08:00:00 459 B00A7DAIW0 English - Mysteries & Thrillers English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/adbl/005755de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005755/bk_adbl_005755_sample.mp3 The Bright List, Femme Fatale, 1940s, Mystery, Film Noir, Pulp Fiction, Serial Killer, Bright List Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and adoring as a kitten. A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can’t believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a kitten with claws of steel a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake. Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her characters are trapped together by a blizzard. The true Bedelia, the woman who chose murder over a life on the street, reveals how she turns male fantasies of superiority into a deadly con. UNKNOWN N N ©2005 Vera Caspary;(P)2012 Audible, Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B00A7DAIW0?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B00A7DAIW0?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true By Cecile: Femmes Fatales (Unabridged) 20.95 AVAILABLE By Cecile: Femmes Fatales (Unabridged) By Cecile (Unabridged) Tereska Torres By Cecile depicts post-World War II France as it reels from war and recovery.... Xe Sands Audible Studios 2012-12-04 15:44:27 365 B00AI9HQ5A English - Fiction English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/adbl/005756de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005756/bk_adbl_005756_sample.mp3 The Bright List, Post Word War II, World War II, Paris, France, Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Polygamy, Trysts, Orphans, Bright List By Cecile depicts post-World War II France as it reels from war and recovery. In Paris, an orphan girl, Cecile, finds refuge with an older man. He introduces her to nightclubs, intellectuals, artists (Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eartha Kitt!), and non-monogamy. When she falls for his mistress, she begins to live a life she deems worthy of writing about...but only under the pseudonym of her husband. UNKNOWN N N ©2012 Tereska Torres;(P)2012 Audible, Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AI9HQ5A?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AI9HQ5A?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true The Girls in 3-B (Unabridged) 22.95 AVAILABLE The Girls in 3-B (Unabridged) The Girls in 3-B (Unabridged) Valerie Taylor Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward independence, self - expression, and sexual freedom.... Julie McKay Audible Studios 2012-12-24 08:00:00 347 B00AFK6QCG English - Fiction English 2012-11-27 05:00:00 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/adbl/005757de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005757/bk_adbl_005757_sample.mp3 The Bright List, Lesbian Pulp, Gay & Lesbian, 1950s, Bohemian, Romance, Feminism, Sexism, Pop Culture, Bright List Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward independence, self - expression, and sexual freedom. From the hip-hang of a bohemian lifestyle to the sophisticated lure of romance with a handsome, wealthy, married boss to the happier security of a lesbian relationship, these three experience firsthand the dangers and limitations of women’s economic -reliance on men. Well-known lesbian pulp author Valerie Taylor skillfully paints a sociological portrait of the emotional and economic pitfalls of heterosexuality in 1950s America and then offers a defiantly subversive alternative. A classic pulp tale showcasing predatory beatnik men, drug hallucinations, and secret lesbian trysts, The Girls in 3-B approaches the theme of sex from the stiffened vantage point of 1950s psychology. UNKNOWN N N ©2003 Valerie Taylor;(P)2012 Audible, Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AFK6QCG?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AFK6QCG?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Women’s Barracks: Femmes Fatales (Unabridged) 20.95 AVAILABLE Women’s Barracks: Femmes Fatales (Unabridged) Women’s Barracks (Unabridged) Tereska Torres Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more millions worldwide.... Heather Wilds Audible Studios 2012-11-16 08:00:00 384 B00A3ET08Q English - Fiction English 2012-11-14 05:00:00 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/adbl/005758de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005758/bk_adbl_005758_sample.mp3 The Bright List, Gay & Lesbian, Free French Forces, London, World War II, Military, Military Barracks, Lesbian Pulp, Bright List Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more millions worldwide. The novel is based on the real-life experiences of the author, Tereska Torres, who escaped from occupied France. She arrived as a refugee in London and joined other exiles enlisting in Charles de Gaulle’s army, then stationed in Britain awaiting an invasion of their homeland by Allied forces. But Women’s Barracks is no ordinary war story. As the Blitz rains down over London, taboos are broken, affairs start and stop and hearts are won and lost. Women’s Barracks was banned for obscenity in several states. It was also denounced by the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials in 1952 as an example of how the paperback industry was promoting moral degeneracy". But in spite of such efforts - or perhaps, in part, because of them - the novel became a record-breaking best seller and inspired a whole new genre: lesbian pulp. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Coleen Marlo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005754/bk_adbl_005754_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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