Technopharmacology

Author : Joshua Neves
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452968039
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technopharmacology written by Joshua Neves and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals Being on social media, having pornography or an internet addiction, consciousness hacking, and mundane smartness initiatives are practices embodied in a similar manner to the swallowing of a pill. Such close relations of media technologies to pharmaceuticals and pharmacology is the focus of this book. Technopharmacology is a modest call to expand media theoretical inquiry by attending to the biological, neurological, and pharmacological dimensions of media and centers on emergent affinities between big data and big pharma.

Author : Christina Howells
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748677046
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stiegler and Technics written by Christina Howells and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 17 essays covers all aspects of Bernard Stiegler's work, from poststructuralism, anthropology and psychoanalysis to his work on the politics of memory, 'libidinal economy', technoscience and aesthetics, keeping a focus on his key theory of technics throughout. Stiegler brings together key concepts from Plato, Freud, Derrida and Simondon to argue that the human is 'invented' through technics rather than a product of purely biological evolution. Stiegler is a thinker at the forefront of our contemporary concerns with consumerism, technology, inter-generational division, political apathy and economic crisis. His ambitious project is to go beyond these sources of social distress to uncover and examine precisely 'what makes life worth living'. Contributors include: Stephen Barker, University of California Irvine and translator of Steigler; Richard Beardsworth, American University of Paris and translator of Stiegler; Miguel de Beistegui; University of Warwick; Marc Crepon, Ecole normale superieure and co-founder of Stiegler's think tank, Ars Industrialis and Daniel Ross, co-director of 'The Ister', the award-winning film on Heidegger, and translator of Stiegler.

Author : Andrew Lison
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452961859
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archives written by Andrew Lison and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of “archival” and “retrieval” practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inform the redistribution of power and resources when the concept of the public library as an institution makes knowledge and culture accessible to all members of society regardless of social or economic status? This book sets out to show that archives need our active support and continuing engagement. This volume offers three distinct perspectives on the present status of archives that are at once in disagreement and solidarity with each other, from contributors whose backgrounds cut across the theory–practice divide. Is the increasing digital storage of knowledge pushing us toward a turning point in its democratization? Can archives fulfill their paradoxical potential as utopian sites in which the analog and the digital, the past and future, and remembrance and forgetting commingle? Is there a downside to the present-day impulse toward total preservation?

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Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Author : Alan Petersen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839104759
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine written by Alan Petersen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Handbook provides an essential guide to the major topics, perspectives, and scholars in the sociology of health and medicine. Contributors prove the immense value of a sociological understanding of central health and medical concerns, including public health, the COVID-19 pandemic, and new medical technologies.

Author : John Durham Peters
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452964483
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Action at a Distance written by John Durham Peters and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media? Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an ‘acting at a distance,’ an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality of transmission. This book explores this crucial phenomenon thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial. Three vivid inquiries deal with histories and theories of mediality and materiality: John Durham Peters looks at episodes of simultaneity and synchronization. Christina Vagt discusses the agency of computer models against the backdrop of aesthetic theories by Henri Bergson and Hans Blumenberg, and Florian Sprenger discusses early electrical transmissions through copper wire and the temporality of instantaneity.

Author : Rutvica Andrijasevic
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452966036
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and Management written by Rutvica Andrijasevic and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management practices governing factory labor This book argues that management is enabled by media forms, just as media gives life to management. Media technologies central to management have included the stopwatch, the punch card, the calculator, and the camera, while management theories are taught in printed and virtual textbooks and online through TED talks. In each stage of the evolving relationship between workers and employers, management innovations are learned through media, with media formats producing fresh opportunities for management. Drawing on rich historical and ethnographic case studies, this book approaches key instances of the industrial and service economy—the legacy of Toyotism in today’s software industry, labor mediators in electronics manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe, and app-based food-delivery platforms in China—to push media and management studies in new directions. Media and Management offers a provocative insight on the future of labor and media that inevitably cross geographical boundaries.

Author : Paula Bialski
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452959293
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication written by Paula Bialski and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms Contemporary communication puts us not only in conversation with one another but also with our machinery. Machine communication—to communicate not just via but also with machines—is therefore the focus of this volume. Diving into digital communications history, Finn Brunton brings to the fore the alienness of computational communication by looking at network timekeeping, automated trolling, and early attempts at communication with extraterrestrial life. Picking up this fascination with inhuman communication, Mercedes Bunz then performs a close reading of interaction design and interfaces to show how technology addresses humans (as very young children). Finally, Paula Bialski shares her findings from a field study of software development, analyzing the communicative forms that occur when code is written by separate people. Today, communication unfolds merely between two or more conscious entities but often includes an invisible third party. Inspired by this drastic shift, this volume uncovers new meanings of what it means “to communicate.”

Author : Ben Turner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438492049
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Returning to Judgment written by Ben Turner and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to Judgment provides the first extensive treatment of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler and the first account of his significance for contemporary continental political thought. Ben Turner argues that Stiegler breaks with his predecessors in continental philosophy by advocating for, rather than retreating from, the task of proposing totalizing judgments on political problems that extend beyond the local and the particular. He shows that the reconciliation of judgment with continental political thought's commitment to anti-totalization structures the entirety of Stiegler's philosophy and demonstrates that this theory of the political decision highlights the difficulties that contemporary political ontology faces when addressing global and large-scale political problems. The book provides an overview of Stiegler's philosophy useful for those unfamiliar with his thought, shows how he draws on key influences including Deleuze, Derrida, Freud, and Simondon to develop his conception of judgment, and considers the challenges and consequences of his embrace of totalizing political decisions.

Author : Tero Karppi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452959749
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Undoing Networks written by Tero Karppi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting How do we think beyond the dominant images and imaginaries of connectivity? Undoing Networks enables a different connectivity: “digital detox” is a luxury for stressed urbanites wishing to lead a mindful life. Self-help books advocate “digital minimalism” to recover authentic experiences of the offline. Artists envision a world without the internet. Activists mobilize against the expansion of the 5G network. If connectivity brought us virtual communities, information superhighways, and participatory culture, disconnection comes with privacy tools, Faraday shields, and figures of the shy. This book explores nonusage and the “right to disconnect” from work and from the excessive demands of digital capitalism.