Stephen King, the absolute master of horror and fantasy literature, on his official website announced the plot of Under the Dome, that is "Under the dome," for release in November. This synthesis in the translation: on a given day Chester Mill, a charming town in Maine, is suddenly and inexplicably separated from the rest of the world from a force field. Airplanes crashing on the barrier and fall from the sky in flames, the hand of a gardener is a clean break when it appears the dome, shattered people wander aimlessly around, because they have been separated from their families. Nobody can tell what this curvilinear barrier, where it came from and when, and especially if it never disappears. Protagonists of the story is Barbara Dale, a veteran of the war in Iraq, Julia Shumway, owner of the local newspaper, three brave children (in the King's books are almost always strong boys), Big Jim Rennie, a policy that does not stop before nothing, not even after death, and several other characters must unravel the mystery of a technology incomprehensible alien certainly threatening. It must do it quickly, because time flies.
As always Stephen King surprised his audience not only for the planetarium proverbial ability to stimulate curiosity, to ensnare the thirst for suspense, but also for the unfathomable ability to sense the mood but hardly translatable into words. It does so by returning to the science fiction genre, though the anticipation Internet users also suggests some supernatural intervention. But back to the subject. What is the true protagonist of the novel? Obviously a pure geometric shape: the sphere, or rather a section of a sphere that contains something - in this case a city - separating permanently from the rest of the world.
The fictional King, divining trends hidden in the collective unconscious, always taken very seriously. So what is this dome? And why King used a vision so simple yet so powerful? From a technological point of view dome is a structure to other engineering would create a controlled environment. The unorthodox scientist Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic domes, imagine how you know you play with one of these plates the lower part of Manhattan, in order to produce a micro-climate controlled. The idea, similar in some respects to the tombs of space projects, was taken up years later with the combination of Synergia Ranch, near Santa Fe, New Mexico, and later in the experiment with large-scale Biosphere 2, Oracle, Arizona.
But this, to King, is merely the pretext of science. The unconscious response to the image of a mammoth dome energy is associated with the idea of \u200b\u200ba defensive structure, built of huge shield, which can isolate entire communities from the action of external agents of destruction, if not by the impact of a meteorite or of a nuclear warhead. Of course King, who is a formidable player, use plenty of material already tested.
In its infinite variety of literature almost always inside the dome stands a city, a symbol of the community human, but also the dependence on technology. The sci-fi version is perhaps more shocking A Crack in the Sky , 1976, Richard A. Lupoff, author of the hit series Buck Rogers in the twenty-fifth century . Lupoff imagination of the Earth is minimized pollution madman, so that waste mankind can only survive in thirty domes housing each thirty million inhabitants. But the end, a horrible end, it is at the door.
short, insulation technology and final catastrophe always go hand in hand. Yesterday and today. Jumping nearly a decade - we are in 1984 - we find the horrors of the city "cupolizzate" in another cult like this: The Peace War, Vernor Vinge. Here is a unique technology of "imbollamento" energy is used by a select committee to ensure world peace, of course, to the prohibitive cost of the arrest of any form of progress. And if we want to refer to the fantastic newly minted coins, no shortage of other examples, although it is necessary to change the continent and move to Japan, where the genius of Hiroki Endo does begin and end the saga of Eden in a structure that is an exact copy of Biosphere 2. Well, Eden, one of the most interesting manga generation, is precisely the description of a game cosmic and hyper, which is being fought between heaven and earth, where at stake is the destiny of humanity, unity between itself and the overcoming of the regression without remission.
around the corner of a civilization that has reached the maximum point of global expansion is in fact possible is always the risk of total destruction, and there are only two options. Or close, withdraw, isolate themselves, or expand, explore, disseminate. This is the formidable point of no return identified by King, who will publish his new book in the same year that marks the fourth decade of the landing on the moon.
We do not know how many have felt the strange aftertaste that accompanied like a shadow, the endless commemorations of the fourth decade of the landing. Still, that feeling bitter was the terminus here and there, despite all good intentions. Certainly something leaked, despite everything, graying at the sight of American astronauts intent to sign autographs with a lot of fare meter. Many children and young people, seeing these scenes almost pathetic on TV, then you will be requested if it is true that these old people there were really nice up there in the open firmament. And if you really have had the experience of a new world.
History teaches that man has left to move the ball land on the surface of a sphere entirely new. But history is not passionate about anybody. Can teach, of course, but can not speed up the blood. The question today is: we will be back? We will have to wait for the challenge of China to review remnants of the beautiful blue obstacle course of the Sixties between the U.S. and USSR? Or maybe the moon has become unattractive?
It then promises that the next will be landing on Mars, because it is more interesting, more like Earth. The magazine "Wired" cult publication of high-technology enthusiasts, has seized upon this dilemma, much deeper than it appears, opening his last number with ten good reasons to proceed immediately to conquer the red planet. Ten good reasons, all scientific. Plus one, the most important: the need to dream of somewhere else, to go further, to leave behind the old to chase the new, the unknown. In short, the need to set challenges that are physical and mental. The elsewhere is another first place, and unknown. It is the unreachable becomes reachable. Physical place, then, and denial of any "non-place", but because of this spiritual place par excellence.
It is also prudent philosophy, although in the wake of the imagination. Thus one can understand the ultimate meaning of a titanic undertaking theoretical
what is that addressed by Peter Sloterdijk, the famous philosopher of the media, Rector of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, and author of the trilogy balls, which appeared between 1998 and 2004. Finally a few months in the library is the translation of the first volume of the trilogy, titled Blasen or Bolle (Meltemi, 576 pages).
But this is not about to enter a text immensely complex, which speaks of membranes, shells, mirrors and symmetries, but rather requires you to remember that the establishment of a true "sferologia", seemingly so far from common sense , can in fact help to unravel the deep anxiety that with which they are enlightened interpreters writers like Stephen King. Indeed
Sloterdijk dwells at length on quell'involucro complex made up of cities, highways, and also made especially for communications networks. Offensive space absolutely monumental and semantics, which is only meant to avoid the gaze position on that universe now naked and unlawfully considered unwise, given wrong inaccessible. This replacement of the correlation between the highest and the horizontal plane of the 'earth' with a falsely reassuring and protective casing, which actually have a bubble insulation, is in many ways and is called by many names: the world market, global communication, Welfare State.
In another writing ( Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals of 2005), Sloterdijk defines the same language from Armageddon 'ball end' the world of international financial speculation. It was light years away from the collapse of world markets and the global crisis. Yet it was a logical corollary to the theorem that similar protective domes are invariably all ephemeral, all intended to explode, or implode, as the phenomenal Dyson sphere described by Gordon Eklund in one of the best screenplays of the series Star Trek. In that case to be 'imbollato' is even an entire solar system, and with this trick the alien civilization encountered by the crew of the Enterprise thought it well to escape the eternal cycle of war, reconstruction and destruction. Condition ultimately very similar to ours. Unless
also recognize that the only solution is just to get rid of barriers, to break the sky, generally by means of space travel, in each case by means of the push to rise, to fly away.
do not want to admit it, but we almost lost the idea of \u200b\u200bthe voyage without return, we may finally sentenced to a state of perpetual 'cupolizzazione', averting his eyes from the wings of Icarus. Ali unnecessary, perhaps even fatal, but without which mankind renounce part of its sublime essence.
As always Stephen King surprised his audience not only for the planetarium proverbial ability to stimulate curiosity, to ensnare the thirst for suspense, but also for the unfathomable ability to sense the mood but hardly translatable into words. It does so by returning to the science fiction genre, though the anticipation Internet users also suggests some supernatural intervention. But back to the subject. What is the true protagonist of the novel? Obviously a pure geometric shape: the sphere, or rather a section of a sphere that contains something - in this case a city - separating permanently from the rest of the world.
The fictional King, divining trends hidden in the collective unconscious, always taken very seriously. So what is this dome? And why King used a vision so simple yet so powerful? From a technological point of view dome is a structure to other engineering would create a controlled environment. The unorthodox scientist Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic domes, imagine how you know you play with one of these plates the lower part of Manhattan, in order to produce a micro-climate controlled. The idea, similar in some respects to the tombs of space projects, was taken up years later with the combination of Synergia Ranch, near Santa Fe, New Mexico, and later in the experiment with large-scale Biosphere 2, Oracle, Arizona.
But this, to King, is merely the pretext of science. The unconscious response to the image of a mammoth dome energy is associated with the idea of \u200b\u200ba defensive structure, built of huge shield, which can isolate entire communities from the action of external agents of destruction, if not by the impact of a meteorite or of a nuclear warhead. Of course King, who is a formidable player, use plenty of material already tested.
In its infinite variety of literature almost always inside the dome stands a city, a symbol of the community human, but also the dependence on technology. The sci-fi version is perhaps more shocking A Crack in the Sky , 1976, Richard A. Lupoff, author of the hit series Buck Rogers in the twenty-fifth century . Lupoff imagination of the Earth is minimized pollution madman, so that waste mankind can only survive in thirty domes housing each thirty million inhabitants. But the end, a horrible end, it is at the door.
short, insulation technology and final catastrophe always go hand in hand. Yesterday and today. Jumping nearly a decade - we are in 1984 - we find the horrors of the city "cupolizzate" in another cult like this: The Peace War, Vernor Vinge. Here is a unique technology of "imbollamento" energy is used by a select committee to ensure world peace, of course, to the prohibitive cost of the arrest of any form of progress. And if we want to refer to the fantastic newly minted coins, no shortage of other examples, although it is necessary to change the continent and move to Japan, where the genius of Hiroki Endo does begin and end the saga of Eden in a structure that is an exact copy of Biosphere 2. Well, Eden, one of the most interesting manga generation, is precisely the description of a game cosmic and hyper, which is being fought between heaven and earth, where at stake is the destiny of humanity, unity between itself and the overcoming of the regression without remission.
around the corner of a civilization that has reached the maximum point of global expansion is in fact possible is always the risk of total destruction, and there are only two options. Or close, withdraw, isolate themselves, or expand, explore, disseminate. This is the formidable point of no return identified by King, who will publish his new book in the same year that marks the fourth decade of the landing on the moon.
We do not know how many have felt the strange aftertaste that accompanied like a shadow, the endless commemorations of the fourth decade of the landing. Still, that feeling bitter was the terminus here and there, despite all good intentions. Certainly something leaked, despite everything, graying at the sight of American astronauts intent to sign autographs with a lot of fare meter. Many children and young people, seeing these scenes almost pathetic on TV, then you will be requested if it is true that these old people there were really nice up there in the open firmament. And if you really have had the experience of a new world.
History teaches that man has left to move the ball land on the surface of a sphere entirely new. But history is not passionate about anybody. Can teach, of course, but can not speed up the blood. The question today is: we will be back? We will have to wait for the challenge of China to review remnants of the beautiful blue obstacle course of the Sixties between the U.S. and USSR? Or maybe the moon has become unattractive?
It then promises that the next will be landing on Mars, because it is more interesting, more like Earth. The magazine "Wired" cult publication of high-technology enthusiasts, has seized upon this dilemma, much deeper than it appears, opening his last number with ten good reasons to proceed immediately to conquer the red planet. Ten good reasons, all scientific. Plus one, the most important: the need to dream of somewhere else, to go further, to leave behind the old to chase the new, the unknown. In short, the need to set challenges that are physical and mental. The elsewhere is another first place, and unknown. It is the unreachable becomes reachable. Physical place, then, and denial of any "non-place", but because of this spiritual place par excellence.
It is also prudent philosophy, although in the wake of the imagination. Thus one can understand the ultimate meaning of a titanic undertaking theoretical
what is that addressed by Peter Sloterdijk, the famous philosopher of the media, Rector of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, and author of the trilogy balls, which appeared between 1998 and 2004. Finally a few months in the library is the translation of the first volume of the trilogy, titled Blasen or Bolle (Meltemi, 576 pages).
But this is not about to enter a text immensely complex, which speaks of membranes, shells, mirrors and symmetries, but rather requires you to remember that the establishment of a true "sferologia", seemingly so far from common sense , can in fact help to unravel the deep anxiety that with which they are enlightened interpreters writers like Stephen King. Indeed
Sloterdijk dwells at length on quell'involucro complex made up of cities, highways, and also made especially for communications networks. Offensive space absolutely monumental and semantics, which is only meant to avoid the gaze position on that universe now naked and unlawfully considered unwise, given wrong inaccessible. This replacement of the correlation between the highest and the horizontal plane of the 'earth' with a falsely reassuring and protective casing, which actually have a bubble insulation, is in many ways and is called by many names: the world market, global communication, Welfare State.
In another writing ( Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals of 2005), Sloterdijk defines the same language from Armageddon 'ball end' the world of international financial speculation. It was light years away from the collapse of world markets and the global crisis. Yet it was a logical corollary to the theorem that similar protective domes are invariably all ephemeral, all intended to explode, or implode, as the phenomenal Dyson sphere described by Gordon Eklund in one of the best screenplays of the series Star Trek. In that case to be 'imbollato' is even an entire solar system, and with this trick the alien civilization encountered by the crew of the Enterprise thought it well to escape the eternal cycle of war, reconstruction and destruction. Condition ultimately very similar to ours. Unless
also recognize that the only solution is just to get rid of barriers, to break the sky, generally by means of space travel, in each case by means of the push to rise, to fly away.
do not want to admit it, but we almost lost the idea of \u200b\u200bthe voyage without return, we may finally sentenced to a state of perpetual 'cupolizzazione', averting his eyes from the wings of Icarus. Ali unnecessary, perhaps even fatal, but without which mankind renounce part of its sublime essence.
