“…With insights from some of the greatest creative minds in history, including Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace and Frida Kahlo, Wired to Create shows that we all have access to creative achievement and that, in essence, we are all wired to create…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mediating Mediatized Realities -- 1 Reportage and Mediation -- 1.1 The Complications of ‘Literary Journalism’ -- 1.2 The Human Qualities of Reportage -- 1.3 The Human Medium Inspecting Itself -- 2 On Real Communing: Mediating Coordinated Experience -- 2.1 Authenticity and Uncertainty in Touristic Experience -- 2.2 The Desperate Medium in David Foster Wallace’s “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” (1997) -- 2.3 The Believing Medium in George Saunders’s “The New Mecca” (2005) -- 2.4 The Incapable Medium in John Jeremiah Sullivan’s “Upon This Rock” (2012) -- 2.5 Uncertainties and the Negotiation of Trust in Communing -- 3 On Real Bodies: Mediating Other Human Media -- 3.1 Reflexive Subjectivities and Their Differences -- 3.2 The Mysterious Medium in George Saunders’s “Buddha Boy” (2007) -- 3.3 Aware Media in John Jeremiah Sullivan’s “Getting Down to What is Really Real” (2011) -- 3.4 Different Media in Mac McClelland’s “Delusion is the Thing With Feathers” (2017) -- 3.5 The Possibilities of Reflexivity -- 4 On Real Fragmentation: Mediating Violence -- 4.1 Material and Symbolic Violence -- 4.2 The Fractured Medium in George Saunders’s “Tent City, U.S.A.” (2009) -- 4.3 The Atoning Medium in Michael Paterniti’s “Should We Get Used To Mass Shootings?” …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- How These Stories Were Discovered -- Farming Glossary -- Introduction -- PART 1: Coming of Age Before the Mid-1960s -- Introduction -- Cornelius Utz, Missouri -- Robert Peters, Wisconsin -- Henry Bauer, Minnesota -- Harry Beckner, Nebraska -- Jim Cross, Iowa -- Dennis Lindholm, Iowa -- James Heckman, Indiana -- John Beutel, Wisconsin -- Myron Turk, Wisconsin -- Norm Reed, Ohio -- Ronald Schoen, Minnesota -- PART 2: Coming of Age Between the Mid-1960s and Mid-1970s -- Introduction -- David Foster, Wisconsin -- Doug Edwards, Indiana -- Bill Troxell, Indiana -- Larry Ebmeier, Nebraska -- Martin Scherz, Nebraska -- Richard Kilmer, Wisconsin -- Heinz Koenig, Wisconsin -- Tom Rygh, Wisconsin -- Dale Hesterman, Ohio -- Frank Morse, Wisconsin -- Mark Vanderbeek, Nebraska -- Everett Cooper, Indiana -- John Berg, Minnesota -- PART 3: Coming of Age Between the Mid-1970s and Mid-1980s -- Introduction -- David Campbell, Ohio -- Jahred Boyd, Minnesota -- Steve Gay, Wisconsin -- Rick Noss, Iowa -- Richard Hopkins, Indiana -- Lon Mickelsen, Minnesota -- Steven Preston, Wisconsin -- Connie Sanders, Illinois -- Randy Fleer, Nebraska -- Ken Yliniemi, Minnesota -- Clark Williams, Wisconsin -- Joe Shulka, Wisconsin -- Todd Ruhter, Nebraska -- Afterword -- Postscript…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A manera de prólogo: una conversación inedita con David Foster Wallace -- Primera parte. El país de las últimas cosas (ensayos sobre literatura norteamerica) -- La doble hélice de la literature norteamericana -- Descripción de una lucha (los dos polos de la literatura norteamerica) -- Píxeles en el paraíso de las cibercompras: la correcciones (antes de la traición) -- Truman Capote: la realidad destilada -- Interdudio poético: Acerca de Leer para ti (Siri Hustvedt) -- Ted Hughes y el fantasma de Sylvia Plath -- Tom Wolfe: la sombra de una duda -- Los reyes de mambo leen novelas de ciencia ficción -- A la sombra del lenguaje -- Tres aproximaciones a Pynchon -- El mar de todas las hostorias (John Barth: El plantador de tabaco) -- El mundo es una ficción pendiente de lectura (dos reflexiones sobre el tiempo en clave narrativa: David Mitchell y Ben Lerner) -- Coda: Crónicas de motel (apuntes para un viaje en carretera) -- Segunda parte. …”

“…En ese baile entre lo dicho y lo no dicho transita esta novela magistral, ambiciosa y poética que David Foster Wallace señaló como una de sus obras favoritas. …”

“…From the works of David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway to fanfiction and The Simpsons, from natural disasters to 9/11 and beyond, the essays find the unpopular across media and genres, analysing the politics and aesthetics of a side to culture that has been overlooked by previous theories and methods in cultural studies…”

“…Valiéndose de su sólida formación filosófica, Costantino Esposito advierte y narra en forma de crónica este fenómeno y muestra, al hilo de las distintas cuestiones que toca, cómo se manifiesta en elementos de la cultura actual, tales como los textos de David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth o Alessandro Baricco, o películas y series de televisión como Del revés, True detective y Westworld. …”

“…Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people: Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity - and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives…”

“…Este es un libro sobre el éxito de Nirvana mientras quien vendía discos era Garth Brooks, sobre los incomprensibles dieciocho meses que Michael Jordan dedicó a intentar triunfar en el béisbol, sobre Friends, David Foster Wallace y Titanic, y sobre por qué Matrix es la más perfecta metáfora sobre la televisión, y no sobre internet. …”

“…Desde que se publicó hace cuarenta años, El don se ha convertido en un clásico inapelable que ha influido hondamente en figuras de la talla de David Foster Wallace, Bill Viola o Margaret Atwood. Echando mano de la antropología, la sociología, los cuentos de hadas y la poesía de Walt Whitman y Ezra Pound, Lewis Hyde construye una obra capital, sutil, transformadora, y una emotiva y perdurable reivindicación de los poderes del arte. -- Contracubierta…”

“…Recommended Follow-up Attend: Large Language Models in 3 Weeks by Sinan Ozdemir Attend: Optimizing Large Language Models by Shaan Khosla Read: Quick Start Guide to Large Language Models by Sinan Ozdemir Watch: Quick Guide to ChatGPT, Embeddings and Other Large Language Models by Sinan Ozdemir Read: Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen For technical deep-dives, read David Foster's Generative Deep Learning, 2nd Edition and Lewis Tunstall et al.'…”