Robocop: The Human Element
Title | Robocop: The Human Element PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Harris |
Publisher | BOOM! Studios |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-06-10 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9781608863891 |
Your move Four anthology-style one-shots exploring the world of the new film, brought to you by some of the freshest voices in the industry -- Joe Harris (GREAT PACIFIC), Frank Barbiere (FIVE GHOSTS), Ed Brisson (SHELTERED), and Michael Moreci (HOAX HUNTERS). When Alex Murphy goes under the knife, his memories converge with reality. Perception is blurred and his mind tries to cope with the changes forced upon his very soul. Through a distortion of the past, his present horrors loom over him. The man within must be corrupted to make way for the future of America.
Terminator/Robocop
Title | Terminator/Robocop PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Connor, John (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | 9781606902608 |
The ultimate killing machine meets the future of law enforcement! In the future, humanity has been wiped out and the machines are triumphant. Traumatised by his Skynet-influenced actions, Robocop looks to travel back in time and change the course of history. But when he emerges in the middle of Jon and Sarah Connor's assault on Cyberdyne Systems, he comes face-to-face with the second time-travelling Terminator. Bullets will fly! And the T-1000 can't be far behind! Collecting the four-issue series in one volume along with bonus material, and a cover gallery with art by Walt Simonson and Tom Feister.
Alternate Americas
Title | Alternate Americas PDF eBook |
Author | M. Keith Booker |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2006-02-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0313025142 |
For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the genre has reflected important themes, concerns and developments in American society, so that a history of science fiction film also serves as a cultural history of America over the past half century. M. Keith Booker has selected fifteen of the most successful and innovative science fiction films of all time, and examined each of them at length—from cultural, technical and cinematic perspectives—to see where they came from and what they meant for the future of cinema and for America at large. From Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Star Wars, from Blade Runner to The Matrix, these landmark films have expressed our fears and dreams, our abilities and our deficiencies. In this deep-seeking investigation, we can all find something of ourselves that we recognize, as well as something that we've never recognized before. The focus on a fairly small number of landmark films allows detailed attention to genuinely original movies, including: Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Robocop, The Abyss, Independence Day, and The Matrix. This book is ideal for general readers interested in science fiction and film.
The End of Black Studies
Title | The End of Black Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Clovis E. Semmes |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2016-08-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317200616 |
Following a history of racial oppression and segregation, Black Americans were able to move in greater numbers into previously all- or predominantly-White colleges and universities. However, they encountered normative structures that excluded or distorted the Black experience and denied Black perspectives. As a result, Black studies grew up reconstructing the humanity of a historically oppressed, devalued, and exploited group. Knowledge production in Black studies offers distinct insights into the strength and resiliency of the human spirit and poses exemplary models for enlightened social change. This book examines the foundational parameters and historical mission of the field of African-American Studies, which emerged from a broad-based Black intellectual tradition defined by the metaproblem of cultural hegemony. Semmes seeks to broaden our thinking about the scope and content of Black studies. The End of Black Studies identifies Afrocentric or Black-centered approaches to knowledge production that are distinctly different from, yet inclusive of, a historiographical emphasis on ancient Egypt, but alternative to the claim of a singular African worldview. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in the field of Black Studies, including African American studies, Africana studies, Africology, and Pan-African studies. It will be a source of critical discussion for graduate seminars examining theory building and/or knowledge production (research and writing) in Black studies. The End of Black Studies has received the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Council for Black Studies. Read the Introduction for free online using our eBook widget ”
Clive Barker's Next Testament #10
Title | Clive Barker's Next Testament #10 PDF eBook |
Author | Clive Barker |
Publisher | BOOM! Studios |
Pages | 63 |
Release | 2014-06-18 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1681590999 |
Tristan and Elspeth believe they’ve figured out how to finally end Wick’s reign, but the disciples of the Lord Of Colors have reached Providence, determined to stop that from happening...
Carceral Capitalism
Title | Carceral Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Jackie Wang |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2018-02-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1635900026 |
Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing. What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police? —from Carceral Capitalism In this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,” as well as essays on RoboCop, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. Parasitic governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence. While these techniques of governance often involve physical confinement and the state-sanctioned execution of black Americans, new carceral modes have blurred the distinction between the inside and outside of prison. As technologies of control are perfected, carcerality tends to bleed into society.
Hoax Hunters
Title | Hoax Hunters PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Moreci |
Publisher | Image Comics |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2014-02-12 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1607069768 |
Mix X-Files with Mythbusters and you get HOAX HUNTERS, the series about a reality show that is out to cover up the dark, mysterious corners of the world. THE BOOK OF MOTHMAN collects the final arc of the acclaimed first season dig deeper into the mysteries of JackÍs dad and the multiverse, ReganÍs powers, and what the heck is going on with Murder. Collects HOAX HUNTERS #10-13 and CASE FILES #1