![]() We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. Distinctive Features of the Contemporary Model for Russian Propaganda ![]() Its tools and channels now include the Internet, social media, and the evolving landscape of professional and amateur journalism and media outlets. Russia has taken advantage of technology and available media in ways that would have been inconceivable during the Cold War. 1 In other ways, it is completely new and driven by the characteristics of the contemporary information environment. In some ways, the current Russian approach to propaganda builds on Soviet Cold War–era techniques, with an emphasis on obfuscation and on getting targets to act in the interests of the propagandist without realizing that they have done so. ![]() It continues to be demonstrated in support of ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Syria and in pursuit of nefarious and long-term goals in Russia's “near abroad” and against NATO allies. This new approach was on full display during the country's 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Since its 2008 incursion into Georgia (if not before), there has been a remarkable evolution in Russia's approach to propaganda. ![]() Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with journalists after a live broadcast nationwide call-in, Moscow, April 14, 2016 ![]()
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Foer's signature motif of 'holes' alludes not only to trauma but also to post-structural theories of language and a postmodern sense of the absence of an all-synthesising paradigm of truth. This paper argues that these novels give rise to implications that are difficult to reconcile with that theory. Abstract: Jonathan Safran Foer's novels Everything is illuminated and Extremely loud and incredibly close are commonly read as trauma fiction-works that incorporate insights from literary trauma theory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Affirmations can be used to anchor and reinforce emotional balance. Visualizations can be used to alter negative emotions and strengthen the experience of positive emotions. Meditations are valuable tools to improve awareness and quiet the mind. New materials expand the skills taught in the original text, making it easy to practice these tools. While these meditations may be used independently, they are intended to complement the work begun with the books in this series. 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She returns to Edenbrooke, where Philip declares his perfect love for her. Towards the end of the book Marianne is taken hostage, because of her fortune, but is saved by Philip and her father, who has come out of hiding. However, Marianne's twin sister desires to marry Philip and Marianne feels that it is her duty to forget her own feelings and allow her sister, Cecily, to be happy first, even if it means pain for her. ![]() They each learn about each other deeply, and some would even say that they fall in love. Through the course of the novel Philip and Marianne grow as friends. In the morning when she later arrives at Edenbrooke she finds that Philip is the son of Lady Caroline. While at the inn Miss Daventry meets a rather dashing but arrogant man, who only reveals himself as Philip. On her journey to Edenbrooke, Marianne's carriage is overcome by a highway man, but she and her maid escape to an inn. ![]() ![]() She is sent away to spend her summer at the lovely, English, countryside estate of Edenbrooke, the home of her late mother's friend, Lady Caroline. Marianne Daventry has never been much of an elegant lady, but when her grandmother declares Marianne the heiress of her fortune she must learn to become one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Animals see our technologies and machines as invasive beings and, in a nonlinguistic but nonetheless intensive mode of communicating with us, resist our attempts to control them and diminish their habitats. We can try to frame such disruptions as environmental intervention or through the lens of philosophy or biopolitics, but regardless the animals persist beyond our comprehension in reminding us that we too are part of an animal world. Ron Broglio reveals how fur and claw and feather and fin are jamming the gears of our social machine. Animal Revolution is a passionate, provocative, cogent call for us to do so. If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we should pay attention to how we bump up against animal worlds and how animals will push back. ![]() ![]() From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, this book threads together news accounts and more in a powerful and timely work of creative, speculative nonfiction that imagines a revolution stirring and asks how humans can be a part of it. Animals are staging a revolution-they’re just not telling us. ![]() |