Theodore Roszak

Teodor Roshak - avtor znamenitogo konspirologicheskogo trillera "Kinomanija". Vse znajut istoriju o doktore Frankenshtejne i ego chudovische; za minuvshie pochti dva stoletija ona uspela obrasti beschislennymi novymi smyslami i tolkovanijami, prodolzhenijami i ekranizatsijami. No Elizabet Frankenshtejn poluchaet slovo vpervye. Istorija ee polna misticheskikh ritualov i seksualnykh eksperimentov, v nej splelis drevnjaja magija i narozhdajuschajasja nauka novogo vremeni, i rasskazana ona golosom silnoj zhenschiny, stolknuvshejsja s obstojatelstvami nepreodolimoj sily. Roman rasshirjaet vselennuju, sozdannuju Meri Shelli. Legenda napolnjaetsja novym soderzhaniem. V vospominanijakh vse otlazheno kak chasy. Vy smozhete zagljanut v dushu zhenschiny, porazmyshljat nad sovremennymi problemami cherez prizmu istorii.

In the wake of The Making of a Counter Culture Theodore Roszak established himself as the pre-eminent critic of twentieth-century American society and technocracy. Roszak later published The Cult of Information, a word of caution to a world that would soon be inundated by computing devices and data driven industries. Even more relevant today than at its original publication, The Cult of Information stands as a prophetic work; one of the first attempts at an analysis of the dangers of big data in a world dominated by the digital. Roszak's predictions of a world for which the foundations were being laid in 1986 are eerily accurate from our twenty-first-century vantage point. One reads of a two-tier society wherein a class of 'data merchants' rule most industries via a stranglehold on marketing and demand data. Those at the bottom of the pile will watch as traditional jobs are automated or disappear abroad. We even get a glimpse of the effect data collection could have (read 'has had'?) on the way elections are won across the world. The Cult of Information endures as an alarm bell from the birth of the Information Age.

Teodor Roshak - avtor znamenitogo konspirologicheskogo trillera "Kinomanija". Vse znajut istoriju o doktore Frankenshtejne i ego chudovische; za minuvshie pochti dva stoletija ona uspela obrasti beschislennymi novymi smyslami i tolkovanijami, prodolzhenijami i ekranizatsijami. No Elizabet Frankenshtejn poluchaet slovo vpervye. Istorija ee polna misticheskikh ritualov i seksualnykh eksperimentov, v nej splelis drevnjaja magija i narozhdajuschajasja nauka novogo vremeni, i rasskazana ona golosom silnoj zhenschiny, stolknuvshejsja s obstojatelstvami nepreodolimoj sily. Roman rasshirjaet vselennuju, sozdannuju Meri Shelli. Legenda napolnjaetsja novym soderzhaniem. V vospominanijakh vse otlazheno kak chasy. Vy smozhete zagljanut v dushu zhenschiny, porazmyshljat nad sovremennymi problemami cherez prizmu istorii.

Viktor Frankenshtejn - genialnyj uchenyj, sozdavshij monstruoznoe tvorenie, geroj velikogo romana Meri Shelli. No chto, esli opisannoe v ee knige "Frankenshtejn, ili Sovremennyj Prometej" - lish chast istorii? Chto, esli svoe nachalo ona beret za mnogo let do etogo? Teodor Roshak napisal neverojatnye memuary Elizabet Frankenshtejn, sestry i nevesty Viktora. Otkrovennaja i provokatsionnaja, eta kniga snova pogruzit nas v tu nezabyvaemuju istoriju i priotkroet dveri, o suschestvovanii kotorykh my dazhe i ne dogadyvalis.

Student kafedry kinovedenija, a vposledstvii vidnyj kinokritik Dzhonatan Gejts stanovitsja oderzhim legendarnym rezhisserom-ekspressionistom Maksom Kaslom, kotoryj snjal neskolko skandalnykh shedevrov v 1920-e gg. v Germanii i neskolko filmov uzhasov uzhe v Gollivude, prezhde chem ischeznut bez vesti v 1941 g. Filmy Kasla proizvodjat strannoe, gipnoticheskoe vozdejstvie, porozhdajut oschuschenie bukvalno osjazaemogo zla. I tajna ikh okazyvaetsja soprjazhena s odnoj iz samykh zagadochnykh stranits istorii Srednevekovja." Kinomanija" - znamenityj konspirologicheskij bestseller, po mneniju kritikov, analog "Majatnika Fuko" Umberto Eko, dlja ljubitelej kino.

V komplekt voshli knigi "Frankenshtejn, ili Sovremennyj Prometej" Meri Shelli i "Vospominanija Elizabet Frankeshtejn" Teodora Roshaka. Pugajuschaja i mrachnaja istorija o genialnom uchenom i ego strashnom tvorenii. Viktor Frankenshtejn postig tajnu zarozhdenija zhizni i nauchilsja ozhivljat bezzhiznennuju materiju. On mechtal pobedit smert i sozdal monstra iz chastej trupov. Odnako stremlenie k slave i priznaniju privelo k uzhasajusche tragicheskim posledstvijam... Teodor Roshak daet vpervye slovo nezametnomu prezhde personazhu Elizabet Frankenshtejn. Istorija ee polna misticheskikh ritualov i seksualnykh eksperimentov, v nej splelis drevnjaja magija i narozhdajuschajasja nauka novogo vremeni, i rasskazana ona golosom silnoj zhenschiny, stolknuvshejsja s obstojatelstvami nepreodolimoj sily. Roman rasshirjaet vselennuju, sozdannuju Meri Shelli. Legenda napolnjaetsja novym soderzhaniem.

Asking whether there is any way to make the United States responsible to a global constituency, this deconstruction of America's international relations following the World Trade Center attacks of 2001 fearlessly critiques the Bush administration. Based on the premise that the war on terrorism became the justification for intensifying America's pursuit of global domination, this book predicts that if America's leaders achieve their goal, they will impose the values of this country's corporate elite and evangelical Christian population on the world at large. Preguntando si hay alguna manera de conseguir que los Estados Unidos sean responsables ante un electorado global, este argumento de las relaciones internacionales de los Estados Unidos hasta los ataques a las Torres Gemelas de 2001 critica sin miedo la administraci n de Bush. Basado en la premisa que la llamada "guerra al terrorismo" se convirti en la coartada para intensificar el af n norteamericano de dominaci n global, este libro predice que estas fuerzas neoconsevadoras controlan la riqueza y el poder electoral suficientes para dominar la agenda pol tica de la naci n durante la pr xima generaci n.

Jonathan Gates finds himself on an unwitting quest to discover the secret life of a forgotten director of silent movies, only to discover that the truth behind the director's strange films may be more sinister than he could ever imagine. Reprint.

Imagine having the power to observe the dreams of others -- to have intimate knowledge of the most secret desires, the most dreaded terrors, the childish delights, the sexual fantasies of anyone you might choose. Then imagine having the power to enter those dreams and reshape them. Deirdre Vale is a dreamwatcher, one of a select group whose extraordinary talent could be a boon to medical science. But as she discovers to her horror, her powers have become the focus of malicious intrigue whose purpose is not to heal the soul, but to torment it with lethal nightmares. Theodore Roszak's "Dreamwatcher" is a haunting psychological thriller, a story that finds both terror and heroism in the depths of the dreaming mind.

Nobody could have imagined that information technology, the towering colossus that dominates our world, would meet its match in an innocent, six-year-old girl named Daphne. Yet the vengeful horror that this psychically gifted child lures out of the secret recesses of the world's computers rapidly grows into a global calamity. As the crisis deepens, powers darker and more mysterious than modern science can understand must be invoked in order to defend a threatened humanity. In "Bugs," Theodore Roszak offers a "tour de force" exercise in science fiction. He ingeniously combines the divergent worlds of high tech, the occult, and feminist psychology. With admirable ambiguity, he leaves us to wonder if Daphne's "bugs" -- these arcane forces that stubbornly resist the advance of technology -- are mankind's enemies or allies.

What is the bond between the human psyche and the living planet that nurtured us, and all of life, into existence? What is the link between our own mental health and the health of the greater biosphere? In this "bold, ambitious, philosophical essay" (Publishers Weekly), historian and cultural critic Roszak explores the relationships between psychology, ecology, and new scientific insights into systems in nature. Drawing on our understanding of the evolutionary, selforganizing universe, Roszak illuminates our rootedness in the greater web of life and explores the relationship between our own sanity and the largerthanhuman world. The Voice of the Earth seeks to bridge the centuriesold split between the psychological and the ecological with a paradigm which sees the needs of the planet and the needs of the person as a continuum. The Earth's cry for rescue from the punishing weight of the industrial system we have created is our own cry for a scale and quality of life that will free us to become whole and healthy. This second edition contains a new afterword by the author.

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels - and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in their mutual rejection of what he calls the technocracy - the regime of corporate and technological expertise that dominates industrial society. He traces the intellectual underpinnings of the two groups in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, "Allen Ginsberg" and "Paul Goodman". In a new introduction, Roszak reflects on the evolution of counter culture since he coined the term in the sixties. Alan Watts wrote of "The Making of a Counter Culture" in the "San Francisco Chronicle" in 1969, 'If you want to know what is happening among your intelligent and mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. The generation gap, the student uproar, the New Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic movement, rock music, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest against our involvement in Vietnam, and the seemingly odd reluctance of the young to buy the affluent technological society - all these matters are here discussed, with sympathy and constructive criticism, by a most articulate, wise, and humane historian.

As we devote ever-increasing resources to providing, or prohibiting, access to information via computer, Theodore Roszak reminds us that voluminous information does not necessarily lead to sound thinking. "Data glut" obscures basic questions of justice and purpose and may even hinder rather than enhance our productivity. In this revised and updated edition of "The Cult of Information", Roszak reviews the disruptive role the computer has come to play in international finance and the way in which "edutainment" software and computer games degrade the literacy of children. At the same time, he finds hopeful new ways in which the library and free citizens' access to the Internet and the national data-highway can turn computer technology into a democratic and liberating force. Roszak's examination of the place of computer technology in our culture is essential reading for all those who use computers, who are intimidated by computers, or who are concerned with the appropriate role of computers in the education of our children.