Book Review – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Surveillance capitalists like Google and Amazon will do whatever they can to corner supply routes to data about us and our actions. In Zuboff’s lengthy book The age of surveillance capitalism, we learn about the strategic and often underhand means by which these data are captured, and the ‘instrumentarian’ ideology that provides the logic for this enterprise. Zuboff shows that the aim of advertisers and ‘people analytics’ advocates is to use our personal data to determine our behavior. At stake is free will and our ‘right to the future tense’. In this book review, I reflect on Zuboff ’s analysis of how Big Tech, as Big Other, is controlling our lives. I first highlight the prescience of the book’s arguments. I then compare aspects of the book with earlier tomes that were critical of new technology, to argue that taking a deterministic view of peoples’ relationship with technology may inadvertently support the hyped narrative that data analytics and algorithms are all-powerful.

Morphological Analysis on Affixes in Tombulu Language

This study aimed to reveal affixes' form and meaning in Tombulu language tenses, especially on past, present, and future tenses. Descriptive qualitative method used with applying Arikunto's procedure of collecting data which were interview and documentation. While, in analyzing data used Miles & Huberman which consisted of data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. This study showed that there were different functions of Affixes in the tenses of Tombulu language and English. The simple past tense was Infix -im- and -in-, which were placed after vocal or consonant phonemes. Simple present tense with Prefix mah- which was located to the beginning of the word. Simple future tense with Infix -um-, which was placed after vocal or consonant phonemes.

Regulations of Peter the Great in the Aspect of Imperativeness

In the era of Peter the Great, a new genre of regulations appeared in the Russian official language, with the help of which the authorities tried to introduce new, European principles of governing the country in Russia. The authors of the regulations were faced with the difficult task of finding speech means adequate to the new genre, corresponding both to the communicative tasks and to the addressee of the regulations. The performed analysis demonstrates a significant update of the means of the official language used in the Peter's regulations. In particular, the ways of expressing imperative have undergone a significant transformation. Along with the independent infinitive, which was inherited from pre-Petrine official speech, imperativeness begins to be expressed by various lexical means – both Russian and borrowed in origin (Polonisms, Germanisms, Latinisms): modifiers dolzhen 'must', imet' 'have to', nadlezhit 'should', prinuzhden 'be forced', etc. in combination with the infinitive, a particle da 'let' in combination with a verb in the present or future tense, etc. The models differed not only in origin and stylistic coloring, but also in their compatibility. Changes in the system of imperative means were due to various reasons – semantic (the need to more accurately express the imperative meaning), stylistic (the desire to make a business text more bookish, to tear it away from the colloquial basis), socio-cultural (the influence of European text patterns and socio-cultural models).

Memory politics in the future tense: Exceptionalism, race, and insurrection in America

The grounding myth of American collective memory is built on the idea of America as a promise, what it shall be. Crises place futures in doubt. Against these two considerations, this article examines how the future can be used to shape the past. In the American context, the future as a general promise is invoked in times of crisis to reassure a nation by way of laundering difficult pasts so as to fit a narrative of progress in spite of the continued presence and recursive nature of these pasts. In the immediate wake of the 2021 Capitol Insurrection, another crisis (itself a harbinger of crises to come), the 2000 Bush v Gore decision, was rewritten as an exemplar of American exceptionalism rather than a stain on it. Beyond displaying the intricate relationship between future and past in collective memory, the case highlights how this operation only works to further neglect the racism and unresolved pasts entrenched in the myth of exceptionalism that motivated the Capitol Riot.

Active participles in Jordanian Arabic

This study examines the categorial status, syntactic derivation, and tense of active participles in an urban variety of Jordanian Arabic. It is shown that unlike in other Arabic varieties, active participles in Jordanian Arabic fall into three distinct categories (namely, nominal, adjectival, and verbal) with respect to their morphophonological, syntactic and semantic structures. Moreover, it is argued that active participles are not lexically underspecified or homophonous, but are rather derived distinctively in the syntax. This study also explores tense in active participle clauses. Verbless clauses with adjectival and nominal active participles as the only predicates solely project present tense; a past or future tense is available only if a copula is involved. In contrast, clauses with verbal active participles, which are morphologically unmarked for tense, are shown to license temporal adverbs of different time references. It is argued that such clauses project a covert agreement tense whose time frame is established by time adverbs.

Upaya Meningkatkan Kemampuan Bahasa Inggris Kelas X IPS SMAN 1 Tanjung Selor dengan Mind Mapping

Latar belakang: Mind mapping adalah cara mencatat yang kreatif, efektif dan secara harfiah yang akan “memetakan” pikiran dan menuntut anak kreatif dan efektif. Tujuan penelitian: Untuk mengetahui penerapan metode mind mapping dapat meningkatkan kemampuan belajar siswa kelas X IPS SMA Negeri 1 Tanjung Selor pada Materi Bahasa Inggris dengan pokok bahasan Future Tense Metode Mind Mapping Tahun Pelajaran 2017/2018. Metode penelitian: Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas (Classroom Action Research) dan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif. Hasil penelitian: Pengajaran metode diskusi memiliki dampak positif dalam meningkatkan hasil belajar siswa. Hal ini dapat dilihat dari semakin membaiknya pemahaman dan penguasaan siswa terhadap materi yang telah disampaikan guru selama ini. Kesimpulan: Pendekatan metode mind maping pada pelajaran Bahasa Inggris materi future tense pada siswa X SMA Negeri 1 Tanjung Selor ditunjukkan dengan hasil belajar siswa pada tahap pra siklus, Siklus I dan Siklus II mengalami kenaikan hasil belajar. Pada tahap pra siklus yaitu dari 35 siswa diperoleh data bahwa terdapat 27% atau 77% anak yang memperoleh nilai kurang dari KKM 75 dan 8% atau 23% anak yang nilainya lebih dari KKM dengan nilai rata-rata sebesar 67, Selanjutnya siklus I dari 35 siswa diperoleh data bahwa terdapat 24% atau 69% anak yang memperoleh nilai kurang dari KKM 75 dan 11% atau 31% anak yang nilainya lebih dari KKM 75 dengan nilai rata-rata sebesar 71.86 dan pada siklus II 35 siswa diperoleh data bahwa terdapat 8 siswa atau 31% yang memperoleh nilai kurang dari KKM 75 dan 27% atau 77% anak yang nilainya lebih dari KKM dengan nilai rata-rata sebesar 76,57%.

Reflections on a Verbatim Approach to Staging Age

A Future Tense est un projet en cours dont l’objectif est de créer une pièce de théâtre verbatim intergénérationnelle à partir d’entretiens réalisés avec des adultes dans la vingtaine et des octogénaires. Robert Motum s’en sert comme étude de cas pour explorer les points de rencontre du théâtre verbatim, des pratiques en matière de soutien et des notions d’empathie, ainsi que pour montrer que la forme verbatim est un véhicule qui permet de représenter l’âge sur scène de manière responsable. Motum trouve un écho opportun dans les travaux de Margaret Morganroth Gullette et Anne Basting, des chercheures en études de l’âge, qui lui permettent d’analyser des questions d’ordre éthique survenues au cours du projet réalisé durant la pandémie de COVID-19.

EXPRESSION OF INDUCEMENT IN KOREAN AND BULGARIAN

This article attempts to present some means of expressing inducement in Korean and Bulgarian and to suggest some features discovered in the translation corpus, composed of five original Korean novels and their translations in Bulgarian. Unlike imperative mood, which is a grammatically concretized notion of deontic modality, inducement is a complex unity formed by various elements such as morphological, syntactic and lexical elements. Therefore, it can be realized both directly and indirectly through the means, which express / do not express inducement in its own form. As for the direct way, Bulgarian has a synthetic and an analytic form. Korean has only a synthetic form, but it has six imperative endings, differing in terms of formality and politeness. Regarding the indirect way, some means like interrogative sentences with the verb in indicative mood and declarative sentences with modal verb are actively used in both languages, while others are used only in Bulgarian. For example, the use of a declarative sentence with a future tense verb in the indicative mood for the purpose of expressing inducement is clearly confirmed in Bulgarian, but in Korean this kind of sentence does not perform the same function at all. From the studied translation materials five main asymmetric features have been found – in the person of the addressee, the voice of the sentence, the way of expressing the inducement, the sentence structure and the way of strengthening the persistence.