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Book Interview: Translator Julie Rose on the Lyrical Power of Émile Zola’s “Doctor Pascal”

Published in August of 2020, Oxford University Press’s English translation of Doctor Pascal marked the first time that Émile Zola’s 20-book Les Rougon-Macquart series was available in print under one publisher.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Doctor Pascal, Earth, Emile Zola, Julie Rose, Oxford University Press

Book Review: Facing Up to the Damage Wrought by Facebook

“Resistance is futile. But resistance seems necessary.”

By: Dan Kennedy Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, Dan Kennedy, Facebook, Oxford University Press, Siva Vaidhyanathan

Book Review: How Science Fared in the Enlightenment — At the Halle Orphanage

Kelly Joan Whitmer does two things very well: she tells a vibrant tale of intellectual reform and shines a light on less prominent historical actors in the history of science.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts Tagged: August Hermann Francke, Early Enlightenment, Eclecticism, Kelly Joan Whitmer, Observation, Pietism, Scientific Community, The Halle Orphanage

Television Review: “Silicon Valley” Gets the Algorithm Right

Peter Gregory (Christopher Evan Welch) contemplates the deep meaning of Burger King.

The creator of the series, Mike Judge, and his team have gone to great lengths to sweat the details of the corporate landscape of San Jose and its environs. Right from the start Silicon Valley rang true.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts, Television Tagged: HBO, Mike Judge, Silicon Valley

Book Review: “Plato at the Googleplex” — A Passionate and Thoughtful Look at Philosophy Today

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s erudition, coupled to her literary skill, makes Plato at the Googleplex inviting and readable without sacrificing complexity.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Visual Arts Review: Cyberarts’s Art on the Marquee — Digital Game Shorts for Now People

Whether art can comfortably exist in this thoroughly commercial frame is a question for the ages. Let’s say that whether this show succeeds is firmly in the eye of the beholder.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Art on the Marquee, Boston Convention & Exhibit Center, Boston Cyberarts, Margaret Weigel, PAX East convention

Book Review: “Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” — Rewriting the History of Ideas

“Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” is a mesmerizing study that will enchant anyone interested in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural explorations of the history of science that transform the way we look at the past and the present.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts, World Books Tagged: Avner Ben-Zaken, cross-cultural, history of science, Johns Hopkins University Press, Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism

Book Review: Building “The Wired City” — Journalism’s Future?

Dan Kennedy could have written a book that extols the “Huffington Post,” WGBH, or Patch as the future of serious community journalism. He doesn’t, which means that he is on the side of the angels rather than the corner-cutting devils.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Dan Kennedy, Media news, The Wired City

Fuse News: Rdio Creates Vdio, An Online Video Service

Yesterday the folks behind Rdio.com, the online music subscription service, started unveiling Vdio, an online video rental and sales service.

By: Charles McEnerney Filed Under: Film, Fuse News, Music, Technology and the Arts, Television Tagged: Rdio.com, Ridio, Vdio

Visual Arts Review: Boston Cyberarts’ “The Game’s Afoot” — Something Clever

None of these games engendered any suffering at all. They were already pre-designed for failure; a player has no chance of success. But isn’t part of the pleasure of gaming the repeated failures that, over time, lead to successes?

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured, Technology and the Arts, Video Games Tagged: Airlock Park, Boston Cyberarts, Campaign Horse, CollisionCollective, Debtris, George Fifield, Into the Void, O.f.f.i.c.e.A.n.t.s., Pax East, Sisyphus, The Game’s Afoot: Video Game Art

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