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The Beauty of Detours

Author : Yoni Van Den Eede
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438477112
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty of Detours written by Yoni Van Den Eede and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes an innovative, holistic understanding of technology. The Beauty of Detours proposes a new way of understanding and defining technology by reading systems thinker Gregory Bateson in the framework of contemporary philosophy of technology. Although “technology” was not an explicit focus of Bateson’s oeuvre, Yoni Van Den Eede shows that his thought is permeated with insights directly relevant to contemporary technological concerns. This book provides a systematic reading of Bateson that reveals these under-investigated elements of his thought. It also critiques the field of philosophy of technology for still reifying “technology” too much despite its attempt to de-reify it, arguing instead that it should incorporate Bateson’s insights and focus more on processes of human knowing. Sketching a Batesonian philosophy of technology, Van Den Eede calls for greater attentiveness to the purpose of technology and its role in our lives. “This book offers a thorough and well-researched dive into Bateson’s thinking on purpose, instrumentalism, technology, and epistemology. It is an important contribution to the discourse on AI and on the rapid development of the tech sector. Philosophically the book tackles difficult systemic questions about technology and addresses them at a much more sophisticated level than most books of its kind.” — Nora Bateson, The International Bateson Institute

The Constitution of Algorithms

Author : Florian Jaton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262362333
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Constitution of Algorithms written by Florian Jaton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence. Algorithms--often associated with the terms big data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence--underlie the technologies we use every day, and disputes over the consequences, actual or potential, of new algorithms arise regularly. In this book, Florian Jaton offers a new way to study computerized methods, providing an account of where algorithms come from and how they are constituted, investigating the practical activities by which algorithms are progressively assembled rather than what they may suggest or require once they are assembled.

Voice & Vision

Author : Mick Hurbis-Cherrier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317808932
Total Pages : 991 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Voice & Vision written by Mick Hurbis-Cherrier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop your creative voice while acquiring the practical skills and confidence to use it with this new and fully updated edition of Mick Hurbis-Cherrier’s filmmaking bible, Voice & Vision. Written for independent filmmakers and film students who want a solid grounding in the tools, techniques, and processes of narrative film, this comprehensive manual covers all of the essentials while keeping artistic vision front and center. Hurbis-Cherrier walks the reader through every step of the process—from the transformation of an idea into a cinematic story, to the intricacies of promotion and distribution—and every detail in between. Features of this book include: Comprehensive technical information on video production and postproduction tools, allowing filmmakers to express themselves with any camera, in any format, and on any budget An emphasis on the collaborative filmmaking process, including the responsibilities and creative contributions of every principal member of the crew and cast A focus on learning to work successfully with available resources (time, equipment, budget, personnel, etc.) in order to turn limitations into opportunities Updated digital filmmaking workflow breakdowns for Rec. 709 HD, Log Format, and D-Cinema productions Substantial coverage of the sound tools and techniques used in film production and the creative impact of postproduction sound design An extensive discussion of digital cinematography fundamentals, including essential lighting and exposure control tools, common gamma profiles, the use of LUTs, and the role of color grading Abundant examples referencing contemporary and classic films from around the world Indispensible information on production safety, team etiquette, and set procedures. The third edition also features a robust companion website that includes eight award-winning example short films; interactive and high-resolution figures; downloadable raw footage; production forms and logs for preproduction, production, and postproduction; video examples that illustrate key concepts found within the book, and more. Whether you are using it in the classroom or are looking for a comprehensive reference to learn everything you need to know about the filmmaking process, Voice & Vision delivers all of the details in an accessible and reader-friendly format.

The Ends of the World

Author : Déborah Danowski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 150950401X
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Ends of the World written by Déborah Danowski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these visions have been given a new lease on life. Information and analyses concerning the human causes and the catastrophic consequences of the planetary ‘crisis’ have been accumulating at an ever-increasing rate, mobilising popular opinion as well as academic reflection. In this book, philosopher Déborah Danowski and anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro offer a bold overview and interpretation of these current discourses on ‘the end of the world’, reading them as thought experiments on the decline of the West’s anthropological adventure Ð that is, as attempts, though not necessarily intentional ones, at inventing a mythology that is adequate to the present. This work has important implications for the future development of ecological practices and it will appeal to a broad audience interested in contemporary anthropology, philosophy, and environmentalism.

Transductions

Author : Adrian MacKenzie
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826481696
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Transductions written by Adrian MacKenzie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory series. Through a critical analysis of the widely accepted notion that technology speeds everything up, this book argues that there are only ever differences in speed. The question for us is how can such differences be represented?

The Server

Author : Markus Krajewski
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300186800
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Server written by Markus Krajewski and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting†‘edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic, which attempts to answer the crucial question: Who is in charge, the servant or the master?†‹ Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp, mail, and others perform their daily drudgery, going about their business noiselessly and unnoticed. Why then are current†‘day digital drudges called servers? Markus Krajewski explores this question by going from the present back to the Baroque to study historical aspects of service through various perspectives, be it the servants’ relationship to architecture or their function in literary or scientific contexts. At the intersection of media studies, cultural history, and literature, this work recounts the gradual transition of agency from human to nonhuman actors to show how the concept of the digital server stems from the classic role of the servant.

Technical Detours

Author : Oliver Arpad Istvan Botar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781599713571
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Technical Detours written by Oliver Arpad Istvan Botar and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voice and Vision

Author : Mick Hurbis-Cherrier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136067655
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Voice and Vision written by Mick Hurbis-Cherrier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voice & Vision is a comprehensive manual for the independent filmmakers and film students who want a solid grounding in the tools, techniques, and processes of narrative film in order to achieve their artistic vision. This book includes essential and detailed information on relevant film and digital video tools, a thorough overview of the filmmaking stages, and the aesthetic considerations for telling a visual story. The ultimate goal of this book is to help you develop your creative voice while acquiring the solid practical skills and confidence to use it. Unlike many books that privilege raw technical information or the line-producing aspects of production, Voice & Vision places creativity, visual expression, and cinematic ideas front and center. After all, every practical decision a filmmaker makes, like choosing a location, an actor, a film stock, a focal length, a lighting set-up, an edit point, or a sound effect is also an expressive one and should serve the filmmaker's vision. Every decision, from the largest conceptual choices to the smallest practical solutions, has a profound impact on what appears on the screen and how it moves an audience. "In Practice" sidebars throughout connect conceptual, aesthetic and technical issues to their application in the real world. Some provide a brief analysis of a scene or technique from easily rentable films which illustrate how a specific technology or process is used to support a conceptual, narrative, or aesthetic choice. Others recount common production challenges encountered on real student and professional shoots which will inspire you to be innovative and resourceful when you are solving your own filmmaking challenges.

Secrets of Economics Editors

Author : Michael Szenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262525461
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Economics Editors written by Michael Szenberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editors of academic journals are often the top scholars in their fields. They are charged with managing the flow of hundreds of manuscripts each year -- from submission to review to rejection or acceptance -- all while continuing their own scholarly pursuits. Tenure decisions often turn on who has published what in which journals, but editors can accept only a fraction of the papers submitted. In this book, past and present editors of economics journals discuss navigating the world of academic journals. Their contributions offer essential reading for anyone who has ever submitted a paper, served as a referee or associate editor, edited a journal -- or read an article and wondered why it was published The editors describe their experiences at journals that range from the American Economic Review to the Journal of Sports Economics. The issues they examine include late referee reports, slow resubmission of manuscripts, and plagiarism -- as well as the difficulties of herding cats and the benefits of husband-wife editorial partnerships. They consider the role of the editor, as gatekeeper or developer of content; and they advise authors to write more carefully and clearly, to include citations that locate their articles in the context of the existing literature, and to update their work after it has been submitted and rejected elsewhere. The chapters also offer a timely, insider's perspective on the general effectiveness of the system of academic journals in economics.

Biocentrism and Modernism

Author : OliverA.I. Botar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135157373X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Biocentrism and Modernism written by OliverA.I. Botar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the complex intersections between art and scientific approaches to the natural world, Biocentrism and Modernism reveals another side to the development of Modernism. While many historians have framed this movement as being mechanistic and "against" nature, the essays in this collection illuminate the role that nature-centric ideologies played in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century Modernism. The essays in Biocentrism and Modernism contend that it is no accident that Modernism arose at the same time as the field of modern biology. From nineteenth-century discoveries, to the emergence of the current environmentalist movement during the 1960s, artists, architects, and urban planners have responded to currents in the scientific world. Sections of the volume treat both philosophic worldviews and their applications in theory, historiography, and urban design. This collection also features specific case studies of individual artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Jackson Pollock.

Moralizing Technology

Author : Peter-Paul Verbeek
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226852903
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Moralizing Technology written by Peter-Paul Verbeek and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do and how we experience the world. And because technology plays such an active role in shaping our daily actions and decisions, it is crucial, Peter-Paul Verbeek argues, that we consider the moral dimension of technology. Moralizing Technology offers exactly that: an in-depth study of the ethical dilemmas and moral issues surrounding the interaction of humans and technology. Drawing from Heidegger and Foucault, as well as from philosophers of technology such as Don Ihde and Bruno Latour, Peter-Paul Verbeek locates morality not just in the human users of technology but in the interaction between us and our machines. Verbeek cites concrete examples, including some from his own life, and compellingly argues for the morality of things. Rich and multifaceted, and sure to be controversial, Moralizing Technology will force us all to consider the virtue of new inventions and to rethink the rightness of the products we use every day.

Exploring the Internet

Author : Carl Malamud
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1892628007
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Internet written by Carl Malamud and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the Internet is a technical travelogue, chronicling 3 trips around the world during the early days of the Internet. The author visits the people creating the emerging global network, and uses the trip to help liberate key technical standards that govern the use of the underlying telephone network. " A] consistent ... strategy of terrorism" - The General Assembly of Georgia and the State of Georgia "Malamud is one crazy Gaijin " - Professor Jun Murai, Keio University (Paperback Edition, 25th Anniversary Reissue.)

Chance And Choice: Memorabilia

Author : Kai Lai Chung
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814482013
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Chance And Choice: Memorabilia written by Kai Lai Chung and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a historical essay entitled “Will the Sun Rise Again?” and ends with a general address entitled “Mathematics and Applications”. The articles cover an interesting range of topics: combinatoric probabilities, classical limit theorems, Markov chains and processes, potential theory, Brownian motion, Schrödinger-Feynman problems, etc. They include many addresses presented at international conferences and special seminars, as well as memorials to and reminiscences of prominent contemporary mathematicians and reviews of their works. Rare old photos of many of them enliven the book.

Chance & Choice

Author : Kai Lai Chung
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789812567130
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Chance & Choice written by Kai Lai Chung and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a historical essay entitled OC Will the Sun Rise Again?OCO and ends with a general address entitled OC Mathematics and ApplicationsOCO. The articles cover an interesting range of topics: combinatoric probabilities, classical limit theorems, Markov chains and processes, potential theory, Brownian motion, SchrAdingerOCoFeynman problems, etc. They include many addresses presented at international conferences and special seminars, as well as memorials to and reminiscences of prominent contemporary mathematicians and reviews of their works. Rare old photos of many of them enliven the book. Contents: On Mutually Favorable Events; On Fluctuations in Coin-Tossing; On a Stochastic Approximation Method; On the Martin Boundary for Markov Chains; A Cluster of Great Formulas; Probabilistic Methods in Markov Chains; Markov Processes with Infinities; Probability Methods in Potential Theory; Plya''s Work in Probability; Probability and Doob; In Memory of L(r)vy and Fr(r)chet; and other papers. Readership: Graduate students, teachers and researchers in probability and statistics."

Potential Theory, Surveys and Problems

Author : Josef Kral
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540459529
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Potential Theory, Surveys and Problems written by Josef Kral and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume comprises eleven survey papers based on survey lectures delivered at the Conference in Prague in July 1987, which covered various facets of potential theory, including its applications in other areas. The survey papers deal with both classical and abstract potential theory and its relations to partial differential equations, stochastic processes and other branches such as numerical analysis and topology. A collection of problems from potential theory, compiled on the occasion of the conference, is included, with additional commentaries, in the second part of this volume.

A Companion to Dada and Surrealism

Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119238226
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Dada and Surrealism written by David Hopkins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender. This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming scholars in the field Offers historical coverage as well as in–depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender One of the first studies to produce global coverage of the two movements, it also includes a section dealing with the critical and cultural aftermath of Dada and Surrealism in the later twentieth century Dada and Surrealism are arguably the most popular areas of modern art, both in the academic and public spheres

Objects in Exile

Author : Robin Schuldenfrei
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691254958
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Objects in Exile written by Robin Schuldenfrei and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernism In the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists and architects emigrated from continental Europe to the United States and Britain. The experience of exile infused their modernist ideas with new urgency and forced them to use certain materials in place of others, modify existing works, and reconsider their approach to design itself. In Objects in Exile, Robin Schuldenfrei reveals how the process of migration was crucial to the development of modernism, charting how modern art and architecture was shaped by the need to constantly face—and transcend—the materiality of things. Taking readers from the prewar era to the 1960s, Schuldenfrei explores the objects these émigrés brought with them, what they left behind, and the new works they completed in exile. She argues that modernism could only coalesce with the abandonment of national borders in a process of emigration and resettlement, and brings to life the vibrant postwar period when avant-garde ideas came together and emerged as mainstream modernism. Examining works by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Herbert Bayer, Anni and Josef Albers, and others, Schuldenfrei demonstrates the social impact of art objects produced in exile. Shedding critical light on how the pressures of dislocation irrevocably altered the course of modernism, Objects in Exile shows how artists and designers, forced into exile by circumstances beyond their control, changed in unexpected ways to meet the needs and contexts of an uncertain world.