Automatons, Robots, and Capitalism in a Very Wrong Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay on Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie

Contrary to prevailing opinions, Neill Blomkamp’s recent feature film Chappie is not a movie about robots or artificial intelligence. It is not Robocop. It is not Short Circuit. It is also not District 9 or Elysium. Chappie is a movie about humanity’s dialectically creative and destructive potential. It is a movie about how it is that humans come to behave how they do through their social and material circumstances, as well as the barbaric results when the two are mixed under the thoroughly undemocratic conditions of neoliberal capitalism.

Da tradução para o palco : o caso de long day's journey in to night de Eugene O'Neill

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Tradução (Área de Especialização em Inglês)

Mourning becomes Electra d'Eugene O'Neill: Èsquil i Plató per a crear un drama fosc?

The fundamental debt of E. O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra to Aeschylus, and to a lesser degree to Sophocles and Euripides, has been always recognised but, according to the author's hypothesis, O'Neill might have taken advantage of the Platonic image of the cave in order to magnify his both Greek and American drama. It is certainly a risky hypothesis that stricto sensu cannot be proved, but it is also reader's right to evaluate the plausibility and the possible dramatic benefit derived from such a reading. Besides indicating to what degree some of the essential themes of Platonic philosophy concerning darkness, light or the flight from the prison of the material world are not extraneous to O'Neill's work, the author proves he was aware of the Platonic image of the cave thanks to its capital importance in the work of some of his intellectual mentors such as F. Nietzsche or Oscar Wilde. Nevertheless, the most significant aim of the author's article is to emphasize both the dramatic benefits and the logical reflections derived, as said before, from reading little by little O'Neill's drama bearing in mind the above mentioned Platonic parameter.

Mourning becomes Electra de Eugene O'Neill: ¿Esquilo y la caverna de Platón para crear un drama oscuro?

The fundamental debt of E. O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra to Aeschylus, and to a lesser degree to Sophocles and Euripides, has been always recognised but, according to the author's hypothesis, O'Neill might have taken advantage of the Platonic image of the cave in order to magnify his both Greek and American drama. It is certainly a risky hypothesis that stricto sensu cannot be proved, but it is also reader's right to evaluate the plausibility and the possible dramatic benefit derived from such a reading. Besides indicating to what degree some of the essential themes of Platonic philosophy concerning darkness, light or the flight from the prison of the material world are not extraneous to O'Neill's work, the author proves he was aware of the Platonic image of the cave thanks to its capital importance in the work of some of his intellectual mentors such as F. Nietzsche or Oscar Wilde. Nevertheless, the most significant aim of the author's article is to emphasize both the dramatic benefits and the logical reflections derived, as said before, from reading little by little O'Neill's drama bearing in mind the above mentioned Platonic parameter.

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Sous-titre de l'article dans le corps du texte : « Un grand risque ». Compte rendu critique du livre d'Anne Legault « O'Neill : théâtre » (Outremont : VLB, 1990, 158 p.).

Crítica a la Filosofía de la Educación de A.S. Neill.

Estudio teórico de la obra de Neill dentro de su contenido pedagógico y filosófico. Para ello se trata la biografía del autor y las influencias mas sobresalientes que recibio, además del análisis de una práctica educativa donde se analizan los detalles y actuaciones de la vida diaria en la escuela Summerhill, acompañado todo esto de una crítica a los principios educativos de Neill. Modelo de enseñanza que se sigue en la escuela Summerhill. Análisis teórico del pensamiento y la Filosofía de la Educación de A.S. Neill. Bibliografía. A lo largo de la obra de Neill es palpable la falta de sistematización que presenta su pensamiento. Tiene el mérito de mostrar su fe definitiva en la capacidad de desarrollo de la persona, pero ésta misma fe le hace caer en un determinismo naturalista. Su concepto de libertad no pasa de ser un concepto vagamente liberal, sin proyección social. Sostiene que la moral y la religión no tienen ningún carácter absoluto. Su teoría y filosofía educativas no puede ser llamada anarquista ni libertaria. Establece una necesaria correlación entre vida feliz y vida equilibrada en el individuo.

Llibertat educativa i control conductual : apunts per a una aproximaci?? entre A.S. Neill i B.F. Skinner. 'Libertad educativa y control conductual : apuntes para una aproximaci??n entre A.S. Neill y B.F. Skinner'

Se establecen comparaciones y se buscan las diferencias entre los conceptos de libertad creadora de Summerhill y Neill, a partir del an??lisis experimental del comportamiento y las ideas mecanicistas y restrictivas de Skinner. Se pretende establecer un puente entre ambas, a trav??s de la libertad educativa, y plantear algunas sugerencias para entender la oposici??n de base entre los citados autores.

Terrorism, cosmopolitanism and globalization: Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

This paper examines two “9/11 novels,” Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland (2008) and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). Written by writers of different backgrounds but with similarly cosmopolitan career paths, both novels attempt to achieve a transnational perspective on the climate of fear created by the 9/11 attacks. Both novels unveil a history of violence which links colonial legacy and new imperial formations resulting from neoliberal capitalism, ultimately highlighting difficulties in forging an encompassing cosmopolitan perspective at a time of international insecurity.

Ellen Daub, Heinrich Heilinger, Robert Taube, Lothar Rewalt, Szenenfoto, Gruppenbildnis, in: Eugene O'Neill: Seltsames Zwischenspiel

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{[N.N.], Szenenfoto, Doppelbildnis, Hüftbild, in: Eugene O'Neill: Seltsames Zwischenspiel

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Acerca de la debilidad de los que piden cambio : "Justicia, sexo y fronteras internacionales" de Onora O' Neill

Fil: De Santo, Magdalena. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.