Alienation

An investigation of the role of educational privatization and technology in the crises of truth and agency.Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective agency unravels. The Alienation of Fact explains the educational, technological, and ideological preconditions for these contemporary crises of truth and agency and explores the contradictions and competing visions for the future of education that lie at the center of the problem. Schools are increasingly reimagined as businesses, and high-stakes standardized testing and curricula, for-profit charter schools, and the rise of educational AI put capital and technology at the center of education. Yet even as our society demands measure, data, and facts, politicians and news outlets regularly make unfounded assertions. How should we make sense of the contradictions between the demand for radical data-driven empiricism and the flight fro

Janette H. Ok argues that 1 Peter characterizes Christian identity as an ethnic identity, as it holds the potential to engender a powerful sense of solidarity for readers who are experiencing social alienation as a result of their conversion. The epistle describes and delineates a communal identity based on Jewish traditions, and in response to the hostility its largely Gentile Anatolian addressees are experiencing as religious minorities in the Roman empire. In order to help construct a collective understanding of what it means to be a Christian in contrast to non-Christians, Ok argues that the author of the epistle employs “ethnic reasoning” or logic. Consequently, the writer of 1 Peter makes use of various literary and rhetorical strategies, including establishing a sense of shared history and ancestry, delineating boundaries, stereotyping and negatively characterizing “the other,” emphasizing distinct conduct or a common culture, and applying ethnic categories to his addressees. Ok

✽南美洲備受期待的超級新星 Sandro Bassi，2019年波隆那插畫展入圍之作✽繪本×無聲漫畫，靈巧切換的分鏡，流暢且扣人心弦的無字圖像敘事✽以石墨鉛筆描繪科技異化的超現實光景，宛如闖入《駭客任務》般的世界身為數位上癮的科技新世代，我們終將變成沒有網路便無法生存的異形？當網路斷訊後，專注於掌中螢幕的異形，是否就能回歸日常？▋委內瑞拉最受期待的繪本新星，帶來科技世界下對於人性的現象反思。▋抬眼望見封面的地鐵站牌，隨著角色走進站內，搭上手扶梯，黑暗頁面浮現網路的指示燈。接著，月台大廳滿滿人潮，各個擁有造型相異的畸形頭部，卻人手一機沉浸在掌上的虛擬世界。一場由「科技網路」所引起的突異插曲，就要在後來短短幾分鐘的車程中展開。車廂座椅上一隻舊式大哥大突兀出現，擾動了網路因而斷訊，啟動人們的腦部解離，馬戲團般地短暫打亂現實常態。一段看似無傷大雅的插曲，或許也是一種提醒或暗示：科技異化是否已化為人體的自然天性？此書帶領我們進入一個看似與現實不同的畸形世界，然而卻又恰恰呼應真實社會。究竟《異形世界》是一則未來的科幻奇想，還是日常遭受科技異化的現實縮影？《異形世界》為一本結合繪本和無聲漫畫的圖像作品，在五十六頁的篇幅中展演出一則當代科技異化的奇觀現象。作者桑德羅・巴希（Sandro Bassi）為委內瑞拉的視覺藝術家，此為其第一本繪本創作，入圍了2019年波隆納插畫展。美國100 Scope Notes童書評論家認為其視覺效果令人驚艷，風格可說是結合繪本作家陳志勇、克利斯．凡．艾斯伯格（ Chris Van Allsburg）的特色，以鉛筆細膩的素描筆觸，描繪出超現實的魔幻光景，具有謎樣的懸疑氛圍。而作者在書名也設下雙關巧思，原文「La Nacionalien」以其暗示當代社會中的「異化、疏離」（alienation）現象。得獎紀錄：․2021 學校圖書館期刊最為驚人不凡的選書推薦․2021 加泰隆尼亞插畫家專業協會榮格達獎（Junceda）Adult Fiction Book類別、Gran Junceda獎․ 2020 德國國際青少年圖書館白烏鴉獎․2021 入選科克斯評論的年度最佳圖文書共同推薦：․王登鈺｜漫畫家「厲害的點子跟畫功，當這兩件事適時碰撞在一起造成了這本書，令我震撼，我的腦子霎時間也要變形分裂了。」․ 安哲｜視覺藝術家․紀金慶｜臺灣師範大學助理教授․吳平稑｜漫畫