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Book Synopsis Everything about Every@ne by : Sergio Amadeu da Silveira
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 109 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.
Book Synopsis Machines of Loving Grace by : John Markoff
Download or read book Machines of Loving Grace written by John Markoff and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robots are poised to transform today's society as completely as the Internet did twenty years ago. Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff argues that we must decide to design ourselves into our future, or risk being excluded from it altogether. In the past decade, Google introduced us to driverless cars; Apple debuted Siri, a personal assistant that we keep in our pockets; and an Internet of Things connected the smaller tasks of everyday life to the farthest reaches of the Web. Robots have become an integral part of society on the battlefield and the road; in business, education, and health care. Cheap sensors and powerful computers will ensure that in the coming years, these robots will act on their own. This new era offers the promise of immensely powerful machines, but it also reframes a question first raised more than half a century ago, when the intelligent machine was born. Will we control these systems, or will they control us? In Machines of Loving Grace, John Markoff offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers. In recent years, the pace of technological change has accelerated dramatically, posing an ethical quandary. If humans delegate decisions to machines, who will be responsible for the consequences? As Markoff chronicles the history of automation, from the birth of the artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation communities in the 1950s and 1960s, to the modern-day brain trusts at Google and Apple in Silicon Valley, and on to the expanding robotics economy around Boston, he traces the different ways developers have addressed this fundamental problem and urges them to carefully consider the consequences of their work. We are on the brink of the next stage of the computer revolution, Markoff argues, and robots will profoundly transform modern life. Yet it remains for us to determine whether this new world will be a utopia. Moreover, it is now incumbent upon the designers of these robots to draw a bright line between what is human and what is machine. After nearly forty years covering the tech industry, Markoff offers an unmatched perspective on the most drastic technology-driven societal shifts since the introduction of the Internet. Machines of Loving Grace draws on an extensive array of research and interviews to present an eye-opening history of one of the most pressing questions of our time, and urges us to remember that we still have the opportunity to design ourselves into the future—before it's too late.
Book Synopsis A Multiple Community by : Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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 231 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.
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 89 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.
Book Synopsis The origin and end of time by : Ulisses Capozzoli
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 151 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.
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 156 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.
Book Synopsis Access Denied by : Maria Caramez Carlotto
Download or read book Access Denied written by Maria Caramez Carlotto and published by Edições Sesc. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fourth title of the Digital Democracy series, Professor Maria Carlotto addresses a subject that is dear to the new forms of production, publishing and distribution of content driven by the advent of digital networks: intellectual property. The author reviews the history of the idea of intellectual property, from legislation passed in Venice in 1474, which for the first time protected the monopoly on the exploitation of inventions, to recent discussions. With chapters such as "The history of intellectual property", "Prevalence of the utilitarian view", and "The moral issue of the tension between protection and access", the author retraces the path of what she calls the "judicialization" of industrial property, copyright and the protection of plant varieties (living beings, such as medicinal plants). As Maria Caramez Carlotto argues in the book: "The advent of information and communication technologies has radically altered the way humanity produces and exchanges content [...]. This marks the emergence of a new form of producing culture, in which each individual becomes a potential cultural producer. [...] Due to this growing and decisive importance, decision making on intellectual property legislation should be as democratic as possible, effectively involving the political community composed of all citizens. Nevertheless, what we have seen over the past 50 years – a period in which intellectual property laws have been significantly reinforced worldwide – is quite the opposite". The Digital Democracy series, edited by the sociologist Sergio Amadeu da Silveira, is published in English and Portuguese exclusively in digital format.
Book Synopsis A Ghost Takes You to Dinner by : Ulisses Capozzoli
Download or read book A Ghost Takes You to Dinner written by Ulisses Capozzoli and published by Edições Sesc SP. This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what way could using a GPS to circulate in city traffic be connected to cosmic stars lying a billion light-years away from planet Earth? The intriguing answer is that they are irrevocably bound by a relation that traverses centuries of scientific knowledge, quasars located billions of light-years away from the Milky Way and names like Galileo Galilei, Max Planck, Tycho Brahe, Newton, Kepler, Copernicus , Herschel and Albert Einstein. In an inventive and information-rich narrative, the journalist and Master and Doctor of Science Ulisses Capozzoli starts out from the commonplace use of satellite-based geolocation systems to illustrate how science reveals itself in much of our daily lives. The book is the first title of the Science in Everyday Life series, published exclusively in digital format.
Book Synopsis The Oriented Gesture by : Ivaldo Bertazzo
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 488 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.
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 118 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.
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.
Book Synopsis Democracy and invisible codes by : Sergio Amadeu da Silveira
Download or read book Democracy and invisible codes written by Sergio Amadeu da Silveira and published by Edições Sesc SP. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series features in this fifth title the work of the professor and sociologist Sergio Amadeu da Silveira on the social implications of the technological development of algorithms. The author discusses the relationship between the advance of digital systems based on algorithms and the democratic debate. In an effort to understand how digital networks organize our daily lives, Amadeu looks into the role of algorithms in mediating and modulating public opinion. Citing key authors and practical examples, the book is organized into chapters such as "Democratic theory and the information society," "Freedom of speech and freedom of viewing," and "Can algorithms serve democracy?" The Digital Democracy series is published in Portuguese and English exclusively in digital format.
Book Synopsis Thinking of Questions by : Peter Limm
Download or read book Thinking of Questions written by Peter Limm and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a conventional book. It is designed to stimulate and challenge all people who are curious to find out about the world they inhabit and their place within it. It does this by suggesting questions and lines of questioning on a wide range of topics. The book does not provide answers or model arguments but prompts people to create their own questions and a reading log or journal. To this end, almost all questions have a list of books or articles to provide a starter for stimulating further reading. Once you start, you will be hooked! Never stop questioning.
Book Synopsis Urban Platforms and the Future City by : Mike Hodson
Download or read book Urban Platforms and the Future City written by Mike Hodson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title takes the broadest possible scope to interrogate the emergence of “platform urbanism”, examining how it transforms urban infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday life, and brings together leading scholars and early-career researchers from across five continents and multiple disciplines. The volume advances theoretical debates at the leading edge of the intersection between urbanism, governance, and the digital economy, by drawing on a range of empirically detailed cases from which to theorize the multiplicity of forms that platform urbanism takes. It draws international comparisons between urban platforms across sites, with attention to the leading edges of theory and practice and explores the potential for a renewal of civic life, engagement, and participatory governance through “platform cooperativism” and related movements. A breadth of tangible and diverse examples of platform urbanism provides critical insights to scholars examining the interface of digital technologies and urban infrastructure, urban governance, urban knowledge production, and everyday urban life. The book will be invaluable on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as for academics and researchers in these fields, including anthropology, geography, innovation studies, politics, public policy, science and technology studies, sociology, sustainable development, urban planning, and urban studies. It will also appeal to an engaged, academia-adjacent readership, including city and regional planners, policymakers, and third-sector researchers in the realms of citizen engagement, industrial strategy, regeneration, sustainable development, and transport.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge squatter by : Carla Caffé
Download or read book The Cambridge squatter written by Carla Caffé and published by Edições Sesc. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrapolating the boundaries between art and education, Carla Caffé portrays the art direction work of the award-winning feature film The Cambridge Squatter (2016) through the comics format. With the help of architecture students of Escola da Cidade, Carla worked on the composition of the art direction of the film from the architectural improvements that could be left in the building for the families living in the Cambridge squat in downtown São Paulo. Merging collective work and creation and the problem of homelessness and refuge in the great metropolises, the book also includes texts by Eliane Caffé, Jorge Lobos, Lucia Santaella, Nabil Bonduki and Raquel Rolnik, as well as an enlightening interview with Carmen Silva, leader of Frente de Luta por Moradia (FLM – Housing Struggle Front). This ebook contains images that are best viewed on tablets.
Book Synopsis Imagining the Internet by : Robin Mansell
Download or read book Imagining the Internet written by Robin Mansell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together and reviews different disciplinary approaches to digital information and communication systems across the social sciences. It synthesises the developments of the Internet Age, and the micro and macro consequences of these developments.
Book Synopsis Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence by : Mizue Aizeki
Download or read book Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence written by Mizue Aizeki and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress with far-reaching and ever-evolving new technologies. This pathbreaking volume exposes these insidious means of surveillance, control, and violence. In the name of “smart” borders, the U.S. and Europe have turned to private companies to develop a neocolonial laboratory now deployed against the Global South, borderlands, and routes of migration. They have established immigrant databases, digital IDs, electronic tracking systems, facial recognition software, data fusion centers, and more, all to more “efficiently” categorize and control human beings and their movement. These technologies rarely capture widespread public attention or outrage, but they are quietly remaking our world, scaling up colonial efforts of times past to divide desirables from undesirables, rich from poor, expat from migrant, and citizen from undocumented. The essays and case studies in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence shed light on this new threat, offering analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and inspiring stories of resistance to it. The organizers, journalists, and scholars in these pages are charting a new path forward, employing creative tools to subvert the status quo, organize globally against high-tech border imperialism, and help us imagine a world without borders.
