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Beyond machines of loving grace

Author : Rafael Evangelista
Publisher : Edições Sesc
ISBN 13 : 8594931026
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Beyond machines of loving grace written by Rafael Evangelista and published by Edições Sesc. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a historical cross section dating back to the 1950s, the journalist and social scientist with a PhD in Anthropology Rafael Evangelista presents an original approach to hackers, those individuals passionate about technology who acquire prestige among their peers facing complex problems and acting creatively in software development. The author shows how hacking became consolidated in the free software movement and how this technological mobilization, rooted in collaborative practices and in the production of the common, found in Brazil a fertile ground for its expansion. According to Evangelista, hacking action and ethics were decisive in building systems that organize digital communication networks and in how we use them today. Far from being an apology for the potentials of the great calculators that were named computers at the time, Rafael Evangelista devotes part of the book to the risks to democracy posed by possibilities of control and surveillance of citizens. With a title that alludes to the poem by Richard Brautigan ("All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"), this book is the second volume of the Digital Democracy series, edited by professor and sociologist Sergio Amadeu da Silveira and published exclusively in digital format.

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace written by Richard Brautigan and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Comics

Author : Rogério de Campos
Publisher : Edições Sesc SP
ISBN 13 : 6586111099
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Comics written by Rogério de Campos and published by Edições Sesc SP. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book of the Movements series, journalist Rogério de Campos reconstructs the history of this centuries-old art of narrating myths, fables, exploits, social conflicts, existential chasms or even everyday scenes: comic books. Starting out from 5th-century BC storytellers of illustrated sagas, Campos retraces the course of the language he encountered in the 1827 book Les Amours de Mr. Vieux Bois, by Switzerland's Rodolphe Töpffer, the birth of modern comics. Panel by panel the book parades Sun Wukong, Popeye, Angelo Agostini, Krazy Kat, Wonder Woman, Mad magazine, Hugo Pratt, linus magazine, H.G. Oesterheld, Guido Crepax, Crumb, Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, Garo magazine, Moebius, Zap magazine, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Marjane Satrapi, Frigidaire magazine, Akira, Taiyo Matsumoto, Marcelo D'Salete... As the author states about the early days of modern comics: "When we start looking into the 19th century, we find talents all around the world. Caran D'Ache hailed from Russia but found in Paris an ideal environment, so great was the number of magazines and artists. London also had its magazines and artists, such as George Cruikshank and George du Maurier. Portugal boasted the talent of Bordalo Pinheiro. And Spain had Mecachis. Anywhere in the world where there were magazines and newspapers, somebody was drawing cartoons and comics. One might even call the 19th century the 'golden age' of comics, so numerous were the talents and innovations". And further ahead, about the place of comics: "They [comics] play a key role in public health by narrating the country's life, by helping to link dreams to the real lives of people." Published in Portuguese and English, the Movements series is edited by the writer Tiago Ferro.

A Multiple Community

Author : Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Publisher : Edições Sesc
ISBN 13 : 8594931255
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book A Multiple Community written by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and published by Edições Sesc. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposal of this second volume of Leituras is to address the debate on the global South from other models of constructing reality and to speculate on the potential impact of alternative forms of organization on current times. To this end, it compiles a series of non-Western cosmologies which, while not new, present renewed interest and originality for their reduced visibility. Such forms of organization condense a more integrated kind of involvement of the individual with the collective, but also with his symbolic and natural environment; therefore, they have a direct impact on how reality is understood and constructed. This e-book features images that are best viewed on tablets.

The origin and end of time

Author : Ulisses Capozzoli
Publisher : Edições Sesc SP
ISBN 13 : 8594932146
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book The origin and end of time written by Ulisses Capozzoli and published by Edições Sesc SP. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third volume of the Science in Everyday Life series, journalist and PhD in science Ulisses Capozzoli deals with the question of time, resorting to knowledge in areas such as physics, astronomy, philosophy and history. Capozzoli writes: "Time has been a fascinating mystery ever since the earliest man". In chapters such as "The magical time nurtured by the Mayas", "The distinct times of physics and philosophy", "The time of humankind" and "Intriguing possibilities of time travel", the author investigates the nature and presence of time, that, in spite of "not revealing itself", marks every form of life. This collection is published exclusively as ebook – in English and Portuguese editions.

Everything about Every@ne

Author : Sergio Amadeu da Silveira
Publisher : Edições Sesc
ISBN 13 : 8594930291
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Everything about Every@ne written by Sergio Amadeu da Silveira and published by Edições Sesc. This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing cybernetic technologies as technologies of communication but also of control, the sociologist and professor Sergio Amadeu da Silveira addresses in this book the implications of the growth of digital networks and the establishment of a market for personal data collection and sale that encroaches on those environments. Referencing both prestigious authors and practical examples, the book brings to light the way in which this so-called "data market" – represented by companies and systems – has strived to approach individual privacy as an obstacle to be removed. Closely linked to the content, the book is published exclusively in digital format.

Grace and Grit

Author : Lilly Ledbetter
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307887944
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Grace and Grit written by Lilly Ledbetter and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation Lilly Ledbetter always knew that she was destined for something more than what she was born into: a house with no running water or electricity in the small town of Possum Trot, Alabama. In 1979, when Lilly applied for her dream job at the Goodyear tire factory, she got the job. She was one of the first women hired at the management level. Nineteen years after her first day at Goodyear, Lilly received an anonymous note revealing that she was making thousands less per year than the men in her position. When she filed a sex-discrimination case against Goodyear, Lilly won--and then heartbreakingly lost on appeal. Over the next eight years, her case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where she lost again. But Lilly continuted to fight, becoming the namesake of President Barack Obama's first official piece of legislation. Both a deeply inspiring memoir and a powerful call to arms, Grace and Grit is the story of a true American icon.

AI Narratives

Author : Stephen Cave
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192586041
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book AI Narratives written by Stephen Cave and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed and regulated. It is therefore a crucial social and ethical issue. Part I of this book provides a historical overview from ancient Greece to the start of modernity. These chapters explore the revealing pre-history of key concerns of contemporary AI discourse, from the nature of mind and creativity to issues of power and rights, from the tension between fascination and ambivalence to investigations into artificial voices and technophobia. Part II focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first-centuries in which a greater density of narratives emerge alongside rapid developments in AI technology. These chapters reveal not only how AI narratives have consistently been entangled with the emergence of real robotics and AI, but also how they offer a rich source of insight into how we might live with these revolutionary machines. Through their close textual engagements, these chapters explore the relationship between imaginative narratives and contemporary debates about AI's social, ethical and philosophical consequences, including questions of dehumanization, automation, anthropomorphisation, cybernetics, cyberpunk, immortality, slavery, and governance. The contributions, from leading humanities and social science scholars, show that narratives about AI offer a crucial epistemic site for exploring contemporary debates about these powerful new technologies.

Love, Technology and Theology

Author : Scott A. Midson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567689964
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Love, Technology and Theology written by Scott A. Midson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores love in the context of today's technologies. It is difficult to separate love from romanticist ideals of authenticity, intimacy and depth of relationship. These ideals resonate with theological models of love that highlight the way God benevolently created the world and continues to love it. Technologies, which are designed in response to our desires, do not necessarily enjoy this romanticist resonance, and yet they are now remodelling the world. Are technologies then antithetical to love? In this volume, leading theologians have brought together themes of theology, technology and love for the first time, exploring different areas where notions of love and technology are problematized. In a world where algorithms and artificial intelligences interact with us and shape our lives in ever more intricate and even intimate ways, we might feel attachments to and through machines that suggest sentiments of love while also changing how we think about love. Does love always have to be reciprocal? How can we enact love and care for others with technologies? Whose desires do technologies serve – consumers, corporations, creatures? This volume offers a systematic review of the challenges of living in a technologically saturated world, by means of critical application of, as well as reflection on, theological discussions about love.

Teaching Contemporary Themes in Secondary Education: Technology, Culture and Communication

Author : Jonathan Savage
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136327371
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Contemporary Themes in Secondary Education: Technology, Culture and Communication written by Jonathan Savage and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The media has a huge impact on how we view society and the world, and new technologies continue to transform the way in which we work and learn. It is therefore essential that young people can engage critically in their consumption of media and the internet and are able to make informed decisions about the technologies they use. This book explores

Technology, Culture and Communication

Author : Jonathan Savage
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415620309
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Technology, Culture and Communication written by Jonathan Savage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing clear guidance on the underpinning theory and policy and drawing upon current initiatives in schools, this book is essential reading for trainee and practising teachers wanting to know how the technology and media dimension can be delivered in practice.

From Mud to Chaos

Author : José Teles
Publisher : Edições Sesc SP
ISBN 13 : 8594931816
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book From Mud to Chaos written by José Teles and published by Edições Sesc SP. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the album's 25th anniversary, the journalist and critic José Teles reviews the trajectory of the record that transformed Brazilian music by inserting its "satellite dish" of samples and heavy guitars into the popular rhythms of Pernambuco: Da Lama ao Caos (From Mud to Chaos) by Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, released in April 1994. A music columnist at Jornal do Commercio in Recife since 1987, Teles was an eyewitness to the birth of the album and the manguebeat scene, headed by Chico Science & Nação Zumbi and Mundo Livre S/A. In the book he interviews musicians, producers, managers, record label executives, designers, photographers and journalists to retell the story and behind-the-scene details of the record that put Recife – the "fourth worst city in the world" according to a 1991 UN report – at the center of the Brazilian cultural scene of the 1990s. The book is the first volume of the Brazilian Music Records series. In Teles's words: "Contemporaneity was starting to show its face, coming from the least expected quarter. Until then, musical movements in Recife had sprung from the city's middle class or elite. The exception stemming from the city's outskirts, which was never really a movement, was frevo, born from the people but already gentrified by the 1960s. The movement that emerged to 'contemporaneize' Pernambuco music was a metaphor of the mangrove swamp, the crab men, who gathered their arsenal of ideas on Rua da Aurora in the downtown area of the capital of Pernambuco, in buildings located in a stretch that can be viewed as an emblem of the city's stagnation." Further on he continues: "No one could imagine that this group, which called itself "crabs with brains", played to small audiences and exchanged ideas in trendy bars, would smash boundaries, borders and frontiers to reinvigorate Pernambuco culture, influence Brazilian music and achieve international recognition." The group's guitarist, Lúcio Maia, states to the author in the book: "I think Da lama ao caos is a great album, better than Afrociberdelia [the band's second album], because Chico, I, Jorge, Gilmar, everybody had an entire lifetime to think about it". The Brazilian Music Records series, published in Portuguese and English, is edited by the music critic Lauro Lisboa Garcia.

Acabou chorare

Author : Marcio Gaspar
Publisher : Edições Sesc SP
ISBN 13 : 6586111129
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Acabou chorare written by Marcio Gaspar and published by Edições Sesc SP. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book of the Brazilian Music Records series features Acabou chorare, a mix of Jimi Hendrix's distorted rock and João Gilberto's bossa nova beat, with Novos Baianos at their best. In the book, the journalist Marcio Gaspar interviews musicians and other artists linked to the large Novos Baianos community to review the history of the album that blended rock, samba, bossa nova, experimentalism... and had an unprecedented impact on social behavior. As Paulinho Boca states in the book: "We were perhaps the first opinion leaders of Brazilian youth. Leaving the buildings for the squares, a new race". The Brazilian Music Records series, published in Portuguese and English, is edited by the music critic Lauro Lisboa Garcia.

Labor's End

Author : Jason Resnikoff
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053214
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Labor's End written by Jason Resnikoff and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor from industry. But the real substance of the term reflected industry's desire to hide an intensification of human work--and labor's loss of power and protection--behind magnificent machinery and a starry-eyed faith in technological revolution. The rhetorical power of the automation ideology revealed and perpetuated a belief that the idea of freedom was incompatible with the activity of work. From there, political actors ruled out the workplace as a site of politics while some of labor's staunchest allies dismissed sped-up tasks, expanded workloads, and incipient deindustrialization in the name of technological progress. A forceful intellectual history, Labor's End challenges entrenched assumptions about automation's transformation of the American workplace.

The Oriented Gesture

Author : Ivaldo Bertazzo
Publisher : Edições Sesc
ISBN 13 : 8594930240
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book The Oriented Gesture written by Ivaldo Bertazzo and published by Edições Sesc. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oriented Gesture completes the trilogy of the Method of the Reeducation of Movement, by Brazilian choreographer and corporal educator Ivaldo Bertazzo, comprising the books Corpo vivo [The Living Body] (2010) and Cérebro ativo [The Active Brain] (2012). With photographs and illustrations, this volume discusses the role of the skin in the functions of sustaining the skeleton and organizing the muscles. For this purpose, it signals the importance of the skin for motor re-education as a messenger of the locomotor system, exploring esthetic issues and presenting strategies to know the body through its relation with the skin that covers it. Then it features exercises for the musculature in the form of ludic activities, rhythmic games, and group work, enabling the re-education both through sport and physiotherapy. Finally, it offers strategies for the articular organization of the bones, a fundamental condition for the good working of the muscles and of the body as a whole. This ebook contains images that are best viewed on tablets.

Drone

Author : Ethel Baraona Pohl
Publisher : dpr-barcelona
ISBN 13 : 8494487345
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book Drone written by Ethel Baraona Pohl and published by dpr-barcelona. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drone brings together researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds whose work seeks to understand and represent the nature and extent of drone operations. The book investigates the relationship between drone technology, cultural production, and forms of surveillance and violence. It analyses and speculates upon how these technological developments affect life in cities. Drone is the the first volume of Unmanned. Architecture and Security Series, a research and publishing project which examines architecture’s role in the construction of the contemporary security regimes. The series discusses the consequences of the civilian appropriation of military technologies, and sets an agenda for design professionals to engage on a technological, cultural, and political level by putting forward forms of resistance.

África Brasil

Author : Kamille Viola
Publisher : Edições Sesc SP
ISBN 13 : 6586111366
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book África Brasil written by Kamille Viola and published by Edições Sesc SP. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the long string of historical albums he created, África Brasil, from 1976, is a milestone in Jorge Ben's career. It is the record in which he definitely swaps the acoustic for the electric guitar. Narrating Jorge Ben's journey, album by album, to África Brasil, the 14th studio LP of his career, the journalist Kamille Viola interviews musicians, producers, researchers and even soccer stars like Zico (honored in the track "Camisa 10 da Gávea" to review the artist's life story and the background details of the album's production. Considered to be the high point in the career of the author of "Umbabarauma", África Brasil comprises alongside A tábua de esmeralda (1974) and Solta o pavão (1975) Ben's inspired "musical alchemy" trilogy. As Jorge Ben recalls in an interview to author of the book: "This guitar was amazing because I was still playing on the Ovation [guitar], and one day one of my musicians, the bass player Dadi, showed up with it and I liked the guitar, I found it beautiful, and I said: 'Dadi, do you want to swap that guitar or sell it or something?' He said 'No, no'. I said: 'Dadi, you're a bass player and I have a Fender bass guitar. We could swap'. And he agreed immediately. So I got the guitar and that was it, we started to 'electrify' (laughs)". Among artists like Gilberto Gil, Marcelo D2, Lúcio Maia, Jorge Du Peixe, Dadi, Gustavo Schroeter and BNegão, interviewed by the author for the book, Mano Brown, leader of the group Racionais MC's and an outspoken admirer, summarizes Jorge Ben's importance: "He's like James Brown, Marvin Gaye, these great artists with a large body of work, from time to time they come to you. The music comes back. I listened to Jorge Ben at several moments of my life, several moments of his career. I recall many phases. [...] In samba sessions, we would sing Jorge Ben. Whoever could sing Jorge Ben in a samba rhythm was doing ok (laughs)." Kamille Viola, a journalist with over 10 years' research on Ben's work, stresses in the book: "Gilberto Gil, Mano Brown, Chico Science and Nação Zumbi: Jorge Ben was a beacon to all of them. Tropicalism, Brazilian rap and manguebeat, three of the most important musical expressions in Brazil, looked to the alchemist for inspiration. If it were not for Jorge Lima Menezes, the Babulina of Rio Comprido, the history of Brazilian music would certainly be different." The Brazilian Music Records series, published in Portuguese and English, is edited by the music critic Lauro Lisboa Garcia.