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The Technological Society
ISBN: 9780394703909 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed.
Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society... As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its...
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Mobilising Modernity: The Nuclear Moment
ISBN: 9780415047913 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the nuclear heyday of the post-war years advocates of atomic power promised cheap electricity and a prosperous future. From the present, however, this promise seems tarnished by accidents, leaks and a lack of public confidence. Mobilising Modernity traces this journey from confidence in technology to the anxieties of the Risk Society questioning a number of conventional wisdoms en route.
Paying close attention to social, political and policy aspects throughout, this book considers: * the nuclear moment from global collaborative project at Los Alamos to fragmented,... During the nuclear heyday of the post-war years advocates of atomic power promised cheap electricity and a prosperous future. From the present, howeve...
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Soft Edge: Nat Hist&future Info
ISBN: 9780415157858 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Soft Edge is a one-of-a-kind history of the information revolution. In his lucid and direct style, Paul Levinson, historian and philosopher of media and communications, gives us more than just a history of information technologies. The Soft Edge is a book about theories on the evolution of technology, the effects that human choice has on this (r)evolution, and what's in store for us in the future. Paul Levinson's engaging voice guides us on a tour that explains how communications media have been responsible for major developments in history and for profound... The Soft Edge is a one-of-a-kind history of the information revolution. In his lucid and direct style, Paul Levinson, historian and philos... |
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710,17 |
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Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations
ISBN: 9780415168274 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how htese, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity.
Virtual Geographies explores how new communication technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space. Leading contributors from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, philosophy and literature:... This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the ...
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Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations
ISBN: 9780415168281 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the possibilities and dangers brought by the revolution in communication technologies, this text outlines how these technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space. The contributors reveal that new communication technologies open up whole new vistas. Leading contributors drawn from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, English and philosophy investigate how particular visions of cyberspace have been constructed and articulated through the influence of literature and gender, and how the experience of online interaction is expressed....
Exploring the possibilities and dangers brought by the revolution in communication technologies, this text outlines how these technologies are being u...
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279,12 |
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Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium
ISBN: 9780415192514 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marshall McLuhan, whose insights about the impact of media have been compared in importance to the work of Darwin, Einstein, and Freud, died at the doorstep of the digital age in 1980. Paul Levinson - author of The Soft Edge - delves into the lessons McLuhan holds for the new millennium. This text highlights and explains the prophetic nature of McLuhan's theories. Levinson shows us why and how the Wired generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to better understand a global village in a digital age. We see how the Internet, in which every computer is a centre for producing as well as...
Marshall McLuhan, whose insights about the impact of media have been compared in importance to the work of Darwin, Einstein, and Freud, died at the do...
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Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age
ISBN: 9780415197380 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice.
The growth of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, alongside growing concerns about the failure of advanced societies to live up to the democratic idea, has produced much interest in the prospects for a digital democracy. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying social policy, politics and sociology as well as for policy analysts, social... Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce...
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Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology
ISBN: 9780415200769 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This, the first book in the series, explores cities from the earliest earth built settlements to the dawn of the industrial age exploring ancient, Medieval, early modern and renaissance cities. Among the cities examined are Uruk, Babylon, Thebes, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Siena, Florence, Antwerp, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Timbuktu, Great Zimbabwe, Hangzhou, Beijing and Hankou Among the technologies discussed are: irrigation, water transport, urban public transport, aqueducts, building materials such as brick and Roman concrete, weaponry and fortifications, street...
This, the first book in the series, explores cities from the earliest earth built settlements to the dawn of the industrial age exploring ancient, Med...
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Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity
ISBN: 9780415201179 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies through which we make sense of the world. Drawing on the insights of Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Michel Serres, the author elaborates an innovative methodology through which new hybrid objects of study are creatively constructed, tracing the ways in which the cultural, the natural and the technological interweave in the production of order and disorder. This book critically engages with and draws...
In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to quest...
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Research and Knowledge at Work: Prospectives, Case-Studies and Innovative Strategies
ISBN: 9780415213387 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating and controversial text makes sense of the complexities of research in the workplace and how 'working' knowledge is constructed. Featuring experts from Britain, Japan, North America and Australia, it is an outstanding contribution to the literature of Human Resource Management (HRM). It's interdisciplinary approach addresses key issues and debates such as:
* the influences of new technology, language, power, culture and gender upon the 'construction' of knowledge * the impact of globalization * working knowledge into the 21st century * practice and performance... This fascinating and controversial text makes sense of the complexities of research in the workplace and how 'working' knowledge is constructed. Featu...
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Real Space: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, on and Off Planet
ISBN: 9780415277433 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cyberspace takes us to any part of the planet we want to visit. But as Paul Levinson shows in this volume, when it comes to essential aspects of life we prefer to take our bodies with us. Whether it's trains, planes, scooters of pogo sticks, we want to really move through our world. Is planet earth the end of the line, or is space itself the next stop? In an inquiry that ranges from robots to religion, Paul Levinson asks why there is a deep-seated human desire to know what's out there. Full of examples, Realspace asks some searching questions about space and the way we think about it. Why,...
Cyberspace takes us to any part of the planet we want to visit. But as Paul Levinson shows in this volume, when it comes to essential aspects of life ...
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636,71 |
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Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice
ISBN: 9780415285711 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where technologies and their risk are debated and handled by individuals, groups or organizations.
Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety wi...
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747,55 |
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Mobile Technologies of the City
ISBN: 9780415374347 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts. This book brings together a carefully selected group of innovative case studies of these mobile technologies of the city, tracing the emergence of both new socio-technical practices of the city and of a new theoretical paradigm for mobilities... Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and ... |
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Cyborgs@cyberspace?: An Ethnographer Looks to the Future
ISBN: 9780415915595 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative analysis of technology is presented from a cultural perspective. The author argues that humans have always been technological as well as cultural beings and calls for a fundamental rethinking of the traditional separation.
This innovative analysis of technology is presented from a cultural perspective. The author argues that humans have always been technological as well ...
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Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots
ISBN: 9780415916035 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of perspectives, from resistance to ethnographic analysis to science fiction. Contributors, who include Sherry Turkle, Joseph Dumit, Lisa Mitchell and Mizuko Ito, offer ethnographies, critiques, and personal narratives of cyborg conceptions (sperm banks, IVF, surrogacy) and prenatal (mis)diagnosis (DES, ultrasound, amniocentesis); the technological de- and reconstruction of birth in the hospital (electronic foetal monitors, epidurals); and the effects of computer simulation games an...
This text tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of perspectives, from resistance to eth...
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Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots
ISBN: 9780415916042 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. From foetuses scanned electronically to wired toddlers, children are being rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. The contributors, who include Sherry Turkle, Emily Martin and Mikuko Ito, discuss the co-development of the human and the machine. While much popular reporting swings between presenting technology as monstrous or science as saviour, this volume argues for a more complex analysis, and provides a range of perspectives from cultural anthropologists...
This text explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. From foetuses scanned elec...
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Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
ISBN: 9780415916448 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing, the most prevalent and routinized of the new reproducing technologies. Based on the author's decade of research and her own personal experiences with amniocentesis, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus explores the "geneticization" of family life in all its complexity and diversity.
Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious ...
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Cyborg Citizen
ISBN: 9780415919784 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to posthuman politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or brighten our technological future. Politics has already been cyborged in ways that touch us all: on-line voting promises to change who participates in the demogratic process. Wars are won on video screens, biotechnological advances - cloning, sexual protheses, gene patents - are redefining life, death, and family in ways that strain the social contract. In the face of these advances, visions of the cyborg future range from the...
The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to posthuman politics, framing the key issues that coul...
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The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers
ISBN: 9780415920216 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his ethnography of computer engineers, Gary Downey investigates the interface between the human body and the machine. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, Downey documents the everyday power of technologys' dominant image in our society. He argues that we need to appreciate how deeply connected we are to the machine, and that it would be hugely beneficial if we could understand ourselves and machines as partially configured of the other - we as part machines, machines as part humans. In this way, we can begin to see both the power and the limitations...
In his ethnography of computer engineers, Gary Downey investigates the interface between the human body and the machine. Drawing on interviews, observ...
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710,17 |
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The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers
ISBN: 9780415920223 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his ethnography of computer engineers, Gary Downey investigates the interface between the human body and the machine. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, Downey documents the everyday power of technologys' dominant image in our society. He argues that we need to appreciate how deeply connected we are to the machine, and that it would be hugely beneficial if we could understand ourselves and machines as partially configured of the other - we as part machines, machines as part humans. In this way, we can begin to see both the power and the limitations...
In his ethnography of computer engineers, Gary Downey investigates the interface between the human body and the machine. Drawing on interviews, observ...
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259,53 |
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