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Author : Bruno Latour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Petites leçons de sociologie des sciences written by Bruno Latour and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philippe Pignarre
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509555528
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Latour-Stengers written by Philippe Pignarre and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy – and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they wrote very few texts together, their intellectual companionship lasted for over thirty years, and their respective work can be fully understood only when the many interconnections of their thought are brought to the fore. Latour and Stengers occupy the same starting place, one which remains at the heart of their work: scientific practice, which is the pride of modernity. Why do we Moderns define ourselves as those who know, while others are condemned to be only believers? This question led Latour and Stengers to the same fundamental question: how to understand and live in what Latour calls "the new climatic regime” and what Stengers calls “catastrophic times"? Philippe Pignarre's aim is not to try to sort out which ideas belong to whom but rather to interweave their thought even more. In so doing, he sheds new light on the origins and development of their work at the same time as he documents an exceptional intellectual adventure between two of the leading thinkers of our age.
Author : Luca M. Possati
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000806073
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Unconscious Networks written by Luca M. Possati and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an original theoretical framework for understanding human-technology relations. The author’s approach, which he calls technoanalysis, analyzes artificial intelligence based on Freudian psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and Latour’s actor-network theory. How can we communicate with AI to determine shared values and objectives? And what, ultimately, do we want from machines? These are crucial questions in our world, where the influence of AI-based technologies is rapidly growing. Unconscious dynamics influence AI and digital technology and understanding them is essential to better controlling AI systems. This book’s unique methodology— which combines psychoanalysis, biosemiotics, and actor-network theory—reveals a radical reformulation of the problem of the human mind. Technoanalysis views the mind as a hybrid network of humans and nonhuman actants in constant interaction with one another. The author argues that human unconscious dynamics influence and shape technology, just as technology influences and shapes human unconscious dynamics. He proceeds to show how this conception of the relationship between the unconscious and technology can be applied to social robotics and AI. Unconscious Networks will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in philosophy of technology, philosophy of artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, and science and technology studies.
Author : Tatnall, Arthur
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466615605
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Social Influences on Information and Communication Technology Innovations written by Tatnall, Arthur and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been over twenty years since developments in actor-network theory were first written on paper. Since then, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) community has begun to discover the power of using actor-network theory as an explanatory framework for much of its research. This research community has come to an understanding that information systems are, of necessity, socio-technical in nature and require a socio-technical approach to their investigation. Thanks to developments in actor-network theory, researchers can now approach people and technology as one single entity that gives support to social influences on technological innovations. Social Influences on Information and Communication Technology Innovations discusses in great detail the use of actor-network theory in offering explanations for socio-technical phenomena, focusing greatly on information communication technologies. Implementation and use of information and communication technologies inevitably involves the interactions of both technology and people. This publication facilitates international growth in the body of research investigating the value of using actor-network theory as a means of understanding socio-technical phenomena and technological innovation.
Author : Patrick Giraudoux
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1394150512
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (941 download)
Download or read book Socioecosystems written by Patrick Giraudoux and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of socioecosystems answers the growing need to understand, in the context of the Anthropocene, how adaptive processes interact, and how that interplay results in the coevolution of living beings. Studying socioecosystems means taking into account the diversity of temporal and physical scales in order to grasp how ecological, social and economic forces are interwoven. Based on these drivers, the complex dynamics that determine the habitability of the Earth emerge. This book analyzes, through concrete cases from regional socioecosystems on several continents, how research action has provided answers to problems related to agriculture, health and the conservation of biodiversity. It demonstrates that these undertakings could not have succeeded without the combined efforts of the communities of living beings and objects, the community of knowledge and the communities of action. These examples are accompanied by a reflection on the conditions that make it possible to bring this research to completion.
Author : Éric Schaer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1786305534
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Process Engineering Renewal 1 written by Éric Schaer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process engineering emerged at the beginning of the 20th Century and has become an essential scientific discipline for the matter and energy processing industries. Its success is incontrovertible, with the exponential increase in techniques and innovations. Rapid advances in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, as well as current societal needs – sustainable development, climate change, renewable energy, the environment – are developments that must be taken into account in industrial renewal. Process Engineering Renewal 1 – the first volume of three – focuses on training, demonstrating the need for innovation in order for the field to have a framework that is sustainable, in a highly changeable world.
Author : Jenny Helin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191648094
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies written by Jenny Helin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process approaches to organization studies focus on flow, activities, and evolution, understanding organizations and organizing as processes in the making. They stand in contrast to positivist approaches that see organizations and phenomena as fixed, static, and measurable. Process approaches draw on a range of ideas and philosophies. The Handbook examines 34 philosophers and social theorists, both those commonly linked to process thinking, such as Whitehead, Bergson and James, and those that are not as often addressed from a process perspective such as Dilthey and Tarde. Each chapter addresses the background and context of this thinker, their work (with a focus on the processual elements), and the potential contribution to organization and management research. For students and scholars in the field of Organization Studies this book is an entry point into the work of philosophical thinkers and social theorists for whom the world is far from being a solid place.
Author : Eric Schaer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119751241
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Process Engineering Renewal 3 written by Eric Schaer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stacey Hannem
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 177338094X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice: Critical Perspectives written by Stacey Hannem and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice takes students through the evolution of risk technology devices, processes, and prevention. This seminal text unpacks technology’s influence on our understanding of governance and social order in areas of criminal justice, policing, and security. With a foreword by leading scholar Kevin Haggerty, the collection consists of three sections that explore the impact of big data, traditional risk practices, and the increased reliance on technology in criminal justice. Eight chapters offer diverse examples that are linked by themes of preventative justice, calculability of risk, the theatre and reality of technology, and the costs of justice. With both national and international appeal, this vital resource is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in criminology, police studies, or sociology.
Author : Nathalie Mitev
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113730409X
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Materiality and Space written by Nathalie Mitev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact at work. It concentrates on organizational practices and pulls together three separate domains that are rarely looked at together: sociomateriality, sociology of space, and social studies of technology. The contributions draw on and combine several of these domains, and propose analyses of spaces and materiality in a range of organizational practices such as collaborative workspaces, media work, urban management, e-learning environments, managerial control, mobile lives, institutional routines and professional identity. Theoretical insights are also developed by Pickering on the material world, Lyytinen on affordance, Lorino on architexture and Introna on sociomaterial assemblages in order to delve further into conceptualizing materiality in organizations.
Author : Paul Dumouchel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971736
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Living with Robots written by Paul Dumouchel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface to the English edition -- Introduction -- The substitute -- Animals, machines, cyborgs, and the taxi -- Mind, emotions, and artificial empathy -- The other otherwise -- From moral and lethal machines to synthetic ethics
Author : Ignaz Strebel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317179552
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Architecture Competition written by Ignaz Strebel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much valued by design professionals, controversially discussed in the media, regularly misunderstood by the public and systematically regulated by public procurement; in recent years, architecture competitions have become projection screens for various and often incommensurable desires and hopes. Almost all texts on architectural competition engage it for particular reasons, whether these be for celebration of the procedure, or dismissal. Moving on from such polarised views, Architecture Competition is a revelatory study on what really happens when competitions take place. But the story is not just about architecture and design; it is about the whole construction process, from the definition of the spatial programme, to judgement and selection of projects and the realization of the building. This book explores the competition in the building process as it takes place, but also before and after its execution. It demonstrates that competitions are not just one step of many to be taken, but that competitive design procedures shape the entire process. Along the way the book exposes, among others, one of the key evolutions of design competitions – that competition procedures need to be regulated in order to respond to public awarding rules and need to integrate an increasing amount of given standards regarding, for example, efficiency, fire safety and thermal comfort. These notions force competing architects to respond to inflexible and overloaded competition programmes instead of focusing on genuinely crafting an architectural project. If the architecture competition wants to be more highly valued as a design tool, it should pay attention to the iterative nature of design and to the fact that perspectives on the problem often change in process.
Author : Michela Cozza
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031422767
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory written by Michela Cozza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within and beyond organization studies, an epistemology of practice allows us to view the ongoing interaction between doing and knowing, the knowing subject and the known object, social and material, humans, nonhumans, more-than-humans. This book is a collection of reflections by scholars across the social sciences around epistemological practices and the epistemology of posthumanist practice theory. Practice theories and practice-based studies have developed a rich methodology for studying working practices. This book is an epistemological reflection that challenges the distinction between theory and method, questions the knowing practices that give form to the object of knowledge, how they draw boundaries between what comes to matter and what is excluded from mattering. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of organization studies and beyond, allowing social science researchers to rethink their positioning within their own research practices and leaving them open to a broader, looser and more generous understanding of qualitative methodologies.Chapters 1, 2, 5 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author : Michael C. Brannigan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793649197
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion written by Michael C. Brannigan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you want to be cared for by a robot? Michael C. Brannigan’s Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion explores caring robots’ lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving. As our COVID-19 purgatory lingers on, caring robots will join our nursing and healthcare frontlines. Carebots can perform lifesaving tasks to minimize infection, safeguard vulnerable persons, and relieve caregivers of certain burdens. They also spark profound moral and existential questions: What is caring? How will we relate with each other? What does it mean to be human? Underscoring carebots' hands-on benefits, Brannigan also warns us of perils. They can be a dangerous lure in a culture that settles for substitutes and venerates the screen. Alerting us to the threatening prospect of carebots becoming our surrogate for interpersonal connection, he maintains they are not the culprits. The challenge lies in how we relate to them. While they beneficially complement our caregiving, carebots cannot replace human caring. Caring is a fundamentally human act and lies at the heart of ethics. As humans, we have a binding moral responsibility to care for the Other, and genuine caring demands our embodied, human-to-human presence.
Author : Valerie Larroche
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119610419
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)
Download or read book The Dispositif written by Valerie Larroche and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of the dispositif (dispositive) is particularly relevant for understanding phenomena where one can observe the reproducibility of distributed technical activities, operational or discursive, between human and non-human actors. This book reviews the concept of the dispositive through various disciplinary perspectives, analyzing in turn its technical, organizational and discursive dimensions. The relations of power and visibility enrich these discussions. Regarding information and communication sciences, three main uses of this concept are presented, on the one hand to illustrate the heuristic scope of issues integrating the dispositive and, on the other hand, to demonstrate its unifying aspect in this disciplinary field. The first use concerns the complexity of media content production; the second relates to activity traces using the concept of the “secondary information dispositive”; finally, the third involves the use of the dispositive in contexts of digital participation.
Author : Claudio Canaparo
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039115730
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Geo-epistemology written by Claudio Canaparo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the formation and development of Latin America as name, idea and concept, as well as the wider concepts of location, knowledge and the relationship between them. Latin America is not only a subject or an academic construct, it is also a perspective from which subjectivities are established, knowledge is developed and narratives are produced. This study argues that epistemology cannot exist in abstract terms, despite traditional academic arguments to the contrary. Therefore the author uses 'Latin America' to anchor his more general arguments in a particular location and calls this approach 'geo-epistemology'. The author discusses how the specificity of a particular location can contribute to the establishment of both a method of formulating human knowledge and the boundaries of what can be known. The text explores the relationship between philosophy, geography and geometry, and analyses the notions of science, empire and colonialism. In response to the contemporary debate on 'space of thinking', the author proposes a new concept of 'reversal thinking', which leads to an examination of the roles of language and writing from an epistemic point of view.
Author : Sverre Raffnsøe
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031465334
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book A History of the Humanities in the Modern University written by Sverre Raffnsøe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
