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Sensation Machines

Author : Adam Wilson
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641291656
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Sensation Machines written by Adam Wilson and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a near-future New York City, where the ubiquity of automation has caused mass unemployment and a major market crash, Sensation Machines is by turns a portrait of a marriage in decline, a murder mystery, and a panoramic vision of a post-Trump economic dystopia. Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Jewish Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of their daughter's stillbirth. Michael, a Wall Street trader, has secretly lost the couple's life savings. Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a Cambridge Analytica--style data mining project, whose mysterious owner has ambitions to reshape America's social and political landscapes. When Michael's best friend is murdered, the evidence leads back to Wendy's client, setting off a dangerous chain of events that will profoundly change the couple--and the country. Sensation Machines inhabits the perspectives of the Wall Street bros, the marketing mad men, the Silicon Valley sociopaths--and uncomfortably humanizes them, while considering the ways everyone is complicit in the consequences of late capitalism. Sensation Machines is a novel of big ideas, intricate plotting, and keenly observed human drama.

Machine Sensation

Author : Tessa Leach
Publisher : Open Humanities Press
ISBN 13 : 9781785420825
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Machine Sensation written by Tessa Leach and published by Open Humanities Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasising the alien qualities of anthropomorphic technologies, Machine Sensation makes a conscious effort to increase rather than decrease the tension between nonhuman and human experience. In a series of rigorously executed cases studies, including natural user interfaces, artificial intelligence as well as sex robots, Leach shows how object-oriented ontology enables one to insist upon the unhuman nature of technology while acknowledging its immense power and significance in human life. Machine Sensation meticulously engages OOO, Actor Network Theory, the philosophy of technology, cybernetics and posthumanism in innovative and gripping ways.

Sensing Machines

Author : Chris Salter
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262368757
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Sensing Machines written by Chris Salter and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we are tracked, surveilled, tantalized, and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and Roombas to immersive art installations. Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the orientation of an image when we rotate our phones. There are more of these electronic devices in the world than there are people—in 2020, thirty to fifty billion of them (versus 7.8 billion people), with more than a trillion expected in the next decade. In Sensing Machines, Chris Salter examines how we are tracked, surveilled, tantalized, and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and mood trackers to massive immersive art installations. Salter, an artist/scholar who has worked with sensors and computers for more than twenty years, explains that the quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with the surveillance capitalism practiced by Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the nineteenth century. He describes the emergence of the “sensed self,” investigating how sensor technology has been deployed in music and gaming, programmable and immersive art environments, driving, and even eating, with e-tongues and e-noses that can taste and smell for us. Sensing technology turns our experience into data; but Salter’s story isn’t just about what these machines want from us, but what we want from them—new sensations, the thrill of the uncanny, and magic that will transport us from our daily grind.

Essentials of Sensation and Perception

Author : George Mather
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317723015
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Sensation and Perception written by George Mather and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of sensation and perception looks at how we acquire, process, and interpret information about the outside world. By describing key ideas from first principles, this straightforward introduction provides easy access to the basic concepts in the subject, and incorporates the most recent advances with useful historical background. The text takes a uniquely integrative approach, highlighting fundamental findings that apply across all the senses - including vision, hearing, touch, pain, balance, smell and taste - rather than considering each sense in isolation. Several pedagogical features help students to engage with the material. ‘Key Term’ and ‘Key Concept’ boxes describe technical terms and concepts whilst ‘Question’ boxes relate the material to everyday questions about perception. Each chapter ends with suggestions for further reading, and the final chapter draws together the material from the previous chapters, summarizing the broad principles described, and outlining some major unresolved issues. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book is an accessible and up-to-date overview of the processes of human sensation and perception. Presented in full color, it is an ideal introduction for pre-undergraduate and first year undergraduate students on courses in psychology, as well as neuroscience and biology.

Animals

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199375968
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Animals written by Peter Adamson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical controversy over non-human animals extends further back than many realize -- before Utilitarianism and Darwinism to the very genesis of philosophy. This volume examines the richness and complexity of that long history. Twelve essays trace the significance of animals from Greek and Indian antiquity through the Islamic and Latin medieval traditions, to Renaissance and early modern thought, ending with contemporary notions about animals. Two main questions emerge throughout the volume: what capacities can be ascribed to animals, and how should we treat them? Notoriously ungenerous attitudes towards animals' mental lives and ethics status, found for instance in Aristotle and Descartes, are shown to have been more nuanced than often supposed, while remarkable defenses of benevolence towards animals are unearthed in late antiquity, India, the Islamic world, and Kant. Other chapters examine cannibalism and vegetarianism in Renaissance thought, and the scientific testing of animals. A series of interdisciplinary reflections sheds further light on human attitudes towards animals, looking at their depiction in visual artworks from China, Africa, and Europe, as well as the rich tradition of animal fables beginning with Aesop.

Telexistence (2nd Edition)

Author : Susumu Tachi
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981461808X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Telexistence (2nd Edition) written by Susumu Tachi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telexistence is a fundamental concept which refers to the general technology that enables a human being to have the real-time sensation of being at a place other than where he or she actually exists, while being able to interact with the remote environment, which may be real, virtual, or a combination of both. It also refers to an advanced type of teleoperation system that enables an operator at the control to perform remote tasks dexterously with the feeling of existing in a surrogate robot working in a remote environment. Telexistence in the real remote environment through a virtual environment is also possible.This book is the second edition of the original Telexistence; new contents cover recent advancements of the technology in areas such as human augmentation, autostereoscopy, tangible visuo-haptic 3D display, face-to-face communication, and haptic sensations and technologies. Case studies of the mobile mutual telexistence system TELESAR IV and haptic telexistence avatar system TELESAR V are also included. Written by the inventor of the concept of this emerging technology, it introduces the concept of telexistence, explains how this concept can be realized, illustrates precisely real examples of the realization of the concept, and determines its future advancement. Readers will be inspired by the concept, and acquire appropriate knowledge on this emerging technology and the fundamental skills to contribute in further development of telexistence.

Meinongian Logic

Author : Dale Jacquette
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110879743
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Meinongian Logic written by Dale Jacquette and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art as Abstract Machine

Author : Stephen Zepke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135465835
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Art as Abstract Machine written by Stephen Zepke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to understand what Deleuze and Guattari mean by art. Stephen Zepke argues that art, in their account, is an ontological term and an ontological practice that results in a new understanding of aesthetics. For Deleuze and Guattari understanding what art is means understanding how it works, what it does, how it becomes, and finally, how it lives. This book illuminates these philosophers' discussion of ontology from the viewpoint of art-and vice versa-in a thorough questioning of aesthetic criteria as they are normally understood.

Man a Machine

Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Man a Machine written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man a Machine is a book on philosophy by Julien Offray de La Mettrie. The author was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment movement.

Descartes' Philosophical Revolution: A Reassessment

Author : H. Ben-Yami
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137512024
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Descartes' Philosophical Revolution: A Reassessment written by H. Ben-Yami and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben-Yami shows how the technology of Descartes' time shapes his conception of life, soul and mind–body dualism; how Descartes' analytic geometry helps him develop his revolutionary conception of representation without resemblance; and how these ideas combine to shape his new and influential theory of perception.

Dermatotoxicology Methods

Author : Francis N. Marzulli
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429526105
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Dermatotoxicology Methods written by Francis N. Marzulli and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents and evaluates methods employed to identify the potential of certain types of chemicals to adversely affect the skin. A variety of test methods are included such as tests for skin penetration, metabolism, irritation, the skin immune system, photo effects, skin cancer, and topical effects of retinoids and depigmenting chemicals. Tests for chemicals that affect the reproductive and nervous system are also included. Both animal and human tests that have been standardised and tests that are under development and employ animal alternatives are addressed in this book. Besides different testing methods, a rationale for accepting non-animal models and a review of some regulatory agency discussions about animal alternative tests are included.

Death

Author : Shelly Kagan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300180845
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Death written by Shelly Kagan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the myriad of questions that arise when confronting the meaning of mortality, challenging many widely-held views about death and inviting readers to take a fresh look at the fact that they will die.

Telexistence

Author : Susumu Tachi
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814469432
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Telexistence written by Susumu Tachi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telexistence is a fundamental concept which refers to the general technology that enables a human being to have a real-time sensation of being at a place other than where he or she actually exists, while being able to interact with the remote environment, which may be real, virtual, or a combination of both. It also refers to an advanced type of teleoperation system that enables an operator at the control to perform remote tasks dexterously with the feeling of existing in a surrogate robot working in a remote environment. Telexistence in the real remote environment through a virtual environment is also possible.This book is the first book on telexistence written by the inventor of the concept of this emerging technology. It introduces the concept of telexistence, explains how this concept can be realized, illustrates precisely real examples of the realization of the concept, and determines its future advancement.

Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-century French Literature

Author : Jennifer Robin Perlmutter
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823362210
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-century French Literature written by Jennifer Robin Perlmutter and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to the variety of relationships that defined France and ist citizens. Man's connection with God is explored, the travel raelation and the particular hierarchy that exists between a director and a dramatist, respectively. These themes are further addressed in the articles that follow on relationships of authority, Catholics and Protestants, books and Illustrations, literary genres, travel relations, aesthetics and ethics and family relationships.

John Grote

Author : Lauchlin D. MacDonald
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401192391
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book John Grote written by Lauchlin D. MacDonald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An objective of this book is to discuss some of the contributions made by John Grote to philosophy. This work is an extension of a dissertation written for the doctorate at Boston University. The author wishes to acknowledge the invaluable assistance in many places to Professor Peter A. Bertocci and the late Professor Edgar S. Brightman both of whom read the entire manuscript in its original form. Also, the author acknowledges the encouraging interest and support of his wife, Helen, whose many suggestions have improved the writing and without whose assistance this work would not have been accomplished. The author assumes complete responsibility for whatever errors or deficiencies appear in the book. All known writings of Grote are listed and the more important ones analyzed. LAUCHLIN D. MACDONALD CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1. JOHN GROTE'S LIFE i. Sketch of his life John Grote will remain best known by reason of the thought formu lated in the Exploratio Philosophica, or Rough Notes on Modern I ntellectu al Science. To the philosophical world of his own time he was well known as the teacher who ably held the chair of Moral Philosophy in the University of Cambridge from r855 until the year of his death, r866, to the Knightbridge Professor, William Whewell whose in succession Philosophy of Science is the subject of at least one chapter of the Exploratio Philosophica. Grote's birthplace was Beckenham in Kent, and the date, May 5, r8r3.

René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies

Author : Fabrizio Baldassarri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031486633
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies written by Fabrizio Baldassarri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores René Descartes’s attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program. Despite his early rationalistic epistemology, Descartes’s increasing attention to collections, histories, lists of qualities, and particular bodies results in a puzzling ‘short history of all natural phenomena’ contained in the Principles of philosophy (1644). The present book outlines the role of Descartes's observations and experimentation as he aimed to construct a universal science of nature, ultimately revealing the mechanization of nature in detail, and for curious bodies such as the Bologna Stone or the sensitive herb. What results is a theoretical natural history consistent with the mechanical principles of his philosophy, ultimately shedding new light on his attempt to produce a complete philosophy of nature.

The Paper Mill and Wood Pulp News

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Paper Mill and Wood Pulp News written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: