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![]() ![]() Mythological retellings or reimaginings, are very popular right now and I’ve read quite a lot in the last 12 months. After reading and loving Ariadne I was very excited for whatever Jennifer Saint was going to release next. This was one of my most anticipated releases for this year. But, can she escape the curse, or is her own destiny also bound by violence? The youngest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, Elektra is horrified by the bloodletting of her kin. She is powerless in her knowledge that the city will fall. Princess of Troy, and cursed by Apollo to see the future but never to be believed when she speaks of it. Her husband raises a great army against them, and determines to win, whatever the cost. The sister of Helen, wife of Agamemnon – her hopes of averting the curse are dashed when her sister is taken to Troy by the feckless Paris. ![]() This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and the fickle nature of men and gods. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Christian is also director of technology at McSweeney’s Publishing and scientific communicator in residence at Simon’s Institute for the Theory of Computing.He believes this group is evolving into a new interdisciplinary field. The Alignment Problem features insights from hundreds of interviews Christian did with those he calls “first responders” to the ethical and scientific concerns surrounding the issue.Listen to the full podcast to hear about this and more - including Christian’s book club experience with Elon Musk and why he chose to double major in philosophy and computer science. As AI takes on a variety of tasks, from medical diagnostics to parole sentencing decisions, machine learning researchers are expressing concern over the problem. The alignment problem can be caused by a range of reasons - such as data bias, or datasets used incorrectly and out of context. Making Machines More Human: Best-Selling Author Brian Christian on the Alignment Problem – Ep. ![]() ![]() ![]() The declining environmental conditions in the present world and a much similar one in the novel provide an optimal space to study critical dystopia alongside ecocriticism. The critical dystopian enclaves in the novel closely encircle the facets of the current world’s disturbed environment, which is why the novel becomes appropriate to be analyzed as an ecological dystopia. ![]() Added, a critical dystopia offers the eutopian impulse-hope, which is concealed in traditional dystopias. Critical dystopia unlike the conventional dystopian literary genre discards the genre constraints the latter encounters and becomes laudable for endless critical examination. The article explores the perspectives of critical dystopia along with ecological speculations in order to deal with the socio-political and cultural aspects of the novel. The present article deals with an analysis of the eco-dystopian elements in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour. ![]() ![]() Fearing they’ll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and pretend to be human-just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. ![]() Ahmad is a jinni, a perpetually restless and free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man. ![]() In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I- the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Golem and the Jinni-Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world.Ĭhava is a golem, a woman made of clay, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. ![]() |