Techno Fantasies

Author : Alan Bunkum
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Techno Fantasies written by Alan Bunkum and published by Schiffer Book for Collectors. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts toy robot design of the last half of the 20th century and explores Japanese aesthetics in tinplate toys, especially robots. Over 200 photographs and original conceptual drawings illustrate this fascinating history. Robotic manufacturers such as Tomy, Horikawa, Waco, and Sony are just a few of the Japanese manufacturers whose robotic designs are featured here. Captions provide much relevant information, including date, size, manufacturer, and current values. An important book for historians, collectors, designers, and students of Japanese studies and popular culture in the golden age of toy production.

Author : Dan Sicko
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814337120
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Techno Rebels written by Dan Sicko and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techno Rebels gives a thorough picture of the music itself and the trailblazing musicians behind it and is a must-read for all fans of techno, popular music, and contemporary culture.

Author : Precarity Lab
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1912685728
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technoprecarious written by Precarity Lab and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity. Technoprecarious advances a new analytic for tracing how precarity unfolds across disparate geographical sites and cultural practices in the digital age. Digital technologies--whether apps like Uber built on flexible labor or platforms like Airbnb that shift accountability to users--have assisted in consolidating the wealth and influence of a small number of players. These platforms have also furthered increasingly insecure conditions of work and life for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, women, indigenous people, migrants, and peoples in the global south. At the same time, precarity has become increasingly generalized, expanding to include even the creative class and digital producers themselves.

Author : Theresa Schilhab
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400723350
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Symbolic Species Evolved written by Theresa Schilhab and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is a compilation of the best contributions from Symbolic Species Conferences I, II (which took place in 2006, 2007). In 1997 the American anthropologist Terrence Deacon published The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain. The book is widely considered a seminal work in the subject of evolutionary cognition. However, Deacons book was the first step – further steps have had to be taken. The proposed anthology is such an important associate. The contributions are written by a wide variety of scholars each with a unique view on evolutionary cognition and the questions raised by Terrence Deacon - emergence in evolution, the origin of language, the semiotic 'missing link', Peirce's semiotics in evolution and biology, biosemiotics, evolutionary cognition, Baldwinian evolution, the neuroscience of linguistic capacities as well as phylogeny of the homo species, primatology, embodied cognition and knowledge types.

Author : Erin McElroy
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478059214
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silicon Valley Imperialism written by Erin McElroy and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Silicon Valley Imperialism, Erin McElroy maps the processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley technocapitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents, and generates extreme income inequality in order to expand its reach. In Romania, dreams of privatization updated fascist and anti-Roma pasts and socialist-era underground computing practices. At the same time, McElroy accounts for the ways Romanians are resisting Silicon Valley capitalist logics, where anticapitalist and anti-imperialist activists and protesters build on socialist-era worldviews not to restore state socialism but rather to establish more just social formations. Attending to the violence of Silicon Valley imperialism, McElroy reveals technocapitalism as an ultimately unsustainable model of rapacious economic and geographic growth.

Author : Darren Tofts
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262701082
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prefiguring Cyberculture written by Darren Tofts and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media critics and theorists, philosophers, and historians of science explore the antecedents of such aspects of contemporary technological culture as the Internet, the World Wide Web, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, virtual reality, and thecyborg.

Author : Laurence A. Rickels
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452905662
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazi Psychoanalysis written by Laurence A. Rickels and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia Vaingurt
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810166526
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde written by Julia Vaingurt and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In postrevolutionary Russia, as the Soviet government was initiating a program of rapid industrialization, avant-garde artists declared their intent to serve the nascent state and to transform life in accordance with their aesthetic designs. In spite of their professed utilitarianism, however, most avant-gardists created works that can hardly be regarded as practical instruments of societal transformation. Exploring this paradox, Vaingurt claims that the artists’ investment of technology with aesthetics prevented their creations from being fully conscripted into the arsenal of political hegemony. The purposes of avant-garde technologies, she contends, are contemplative rather than constructive. Looking at Meyerhold’s theater, Tatlin’s and Khlebnikov’s architectural designs, Mayakovsky’s writings, and other works from the period, Vaingurt offers an innovative reading of an exceptionally complex moment in the formation of Soviet culture.

Author : Gregory Price Grieve
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317293258
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyber Zen written by Gregory Price Grieve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however, count as real Buddhism? If authentic practices must mimic the actual world, then Second Life Buddhism does not. In fact, a critical investigation reveals that online Buddhist practices have at best only a family resemblance to canonical Asian traditions and owe much of their methods to the late twentieth-century field of cybernetics. If, however, they are judged existentially, by how they enable users to respond to the suffering generated by living in a highly mediated consumer society, then Second Life Buddhism consists of authentic spiritual practices. Cyber Zen explores how Second Life Buddhist enthusiasts form communities, identities, locations, and practices that are both products of and authentic responses to contemporary Network Consumer Society. Gregory Price Grieve illustrates that to some extent all religion has always been virtual and gives a glimpse of possible future alternative forms of religion.

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781680582
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Over the Map written by Michael Sorkin and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults “the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.”