22 research outputs found
Science Fiction, Satire and Postmodern Nostalgia: Arctic Monkeys’ Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Get PDFTraballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2021-2022This dissertation will analyse an album titled ‘Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino’, released in 2018 by the British band Arctic Monkeys as a postmodernism cultural manifestation. The lyrics, imagery, topics and making of this LP exhibit some features normally identified as postmodernist. The album is a satire of contemporary society, and that was generically articulated as a work of science fiction. It has been labelled as concept album whose action is located in a hotel with a casino on the moon. In order to carry out a postmodernist reading of the work, I will have recourse to theoretician of postmodernism such a Zygmunt Bauman and Fredric Jameson, among others.
Common postmodernist topics such as the fluidity of the truth, globalization, technological advances, the power of media, the blurring lines between the private and the public, or the real and the fake, are to be found in this record. Alex Turner, the band’s singer and songwriter, composed Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino while he was living in California, with the more or less implicit intention of criticizing contemporary society at the times Donald Trump was elected for Office. He criticizes the fact that people’s lives, along with politics, seemed to have become, in a way, similar to a show. Reality seems distorted and individuals tend to isolate themselves. In Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino, we come across with recognizable postmodernist concepts, such as hyperreality (J. Baudrillard), mcdonaldization (G. Ritzer) and ‘non-place’ (Marc Augé).
One of the most recurrent themes of this record is nostalgia, which is another postmodernist concern. Linked to temporality, the album revisits the past with nostalgic tone and presents the present in a way that looks more like a dystopian future. It contains many literary and cinematographic references (such as 1984, by G. Orwell), which also makes it interesting from the point of view of intertextualit
KVSC Trivia Answer Book [2022]
Get PDFKVSC, St. Cloud State University, trivia weekend, LITerally Trivia: A Novel Ideahttps://repository.stcloudstate.edu/kvsc_trvansbks/1039/thumbnail.jp
The Anchor, Volume 97.19: February 27, 1985
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). As of Fall 2019 The Anchor has moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
The BG News March 17, 1989
Get PDFThe BGSU campus student newspaper March 17, 1989. Volume 71 - Issue 107https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5921/thumbnail.jp
A survey on acoustic positioning systems for location-based services
Get PDFPositioning systems have become increasingly popular in the last decade for location-based services, such as navigation, and asset tracking and management. As opposed to outdoor positioning, where the global navigation satellite system became the standard technology, there is no consensus yet for indoor environments despite the availability of different technologies, such as radio frequency, magnetic field, visual light communications, or acoustics. Within these options, acoustics emerged as a promising alternative to obtain high-accuracy low-cost systems. Nevertheless, acoustic signals have to face very demanding propagation conditions, particularly in terms of multipath and Doppler effect. Therefore, even if many acoustic positioning systems have been proposed in the last decades, it remains an active and challenging topic. This article surveys the developed prototypes and commercial systems that have been presented since they first appeared around the 1980s to 2022. We classify these systems into different groups depending on the observable that they use to calculate the user position, such as the time-of-flight, the received signal strength, or the acoustic spectrum. Furthermore, we summarize the main properties of these systems in terms of accuracy, coverage area, and update rate, among others. Finally, we evaluate the limitations of these groups based on the link budget approach, which gives an overview of the system's coverage from parameters such as source and noise level, detection threshold, attenuation, and processing gain.Agencia Estatal de InvestigaciónResearch Council of Norwa
Questing for meaningfulness through narrative identity work: The helpers, the heroes and the hurt
Get PDFWhat identity narratives do those engaged in dangerous volunteering fabricate and how do they help satisfy their quest for meaningful lives? Based on a three-year ethnographic study of QuakeRescue, a UK-based voluntary, search and rescue charity, we show that volunteers worked on identity narratives as helpers, heroes and hurt. The primary contribution we make is to analyse how meaningfulness (the sense of personal purpose and fulfilment) that people attribute to their lives is both developed through and a resource for individuals’ narrative identity work. We show how organizationally-based actors attribute significance to their lives through authorship of desired identities that are sanctioned and supplied by societal (master) narratives embedded in and constitutive of local communities. In our case, the helper and hero identities dangerous volunteering offered members were seductive. However, their pursuit had ambiguous and sometimes, arguably, negative consequences for volunteers who had seen action overseas, and our study adds to understanding of how organizational members’ quest for meaningful identities may falter and sometimes fail
