Impact of science and technology on society Books
Brill Fink Differenz Und Wiederholung: 3. Auflage
Book Synopsis
£37.32
Prestel Graphic Design for Art, Fashion, Film,
Book SynopsisThis guide explores ways in which graphic designers can successfully collaborate with other creative professionals and sectors, whether it be a more sophisticated logo for a product, a better-designed lookbook for a fashion brand, or a more intuitive wayfinding system for a museum. The book features exceptionally conceived design solutions across a variety of industries—from architecture and product design to art, fashion, and film. Through dynamic spreads, readers will discover the Berlin-based studio Hort's transformative campaign for Nike; Base's responsive, flexible logo for Munich’s Haus der Kunst museum; how design agency Bond worked with ArtRabbit, a website and app that catalogs contemporary art exhibitions, on a clever identity rollout; and how John Haslam, managing director of bespoke paper company G.F Smith, feels about the process of working with designers. Each example illustrates the significance of the graphic designer’s role in making a campaign marketable and successful. Insights from clients and the designers themselves reveal the inner workings of the design process. An indispensable reference for the graphic design industry, this visually arresting and informative volume shows how excellence can be achieved when creative minds work together.Trade Review"Beautiful color spreads illustrate the works of various designers and agencies while discussions provide insights into the collaborative process, its marketing and organization, and how designers work together. The result is a fine reference for the industry which shows how creative and promotional forces can collaborate towards a greater end result for all. " -Donovan’s Literary Services
£21.24
Universitatsverlag Winter Scientific Cultures - Technological Challenges: A
Book Synopsis
£40.85
Lit Verlag From System Transformation to European
Book Synopsis
£33.30
Transcript Verlag Ageing and Technology: Perspectives from the
Book SynopsisThe booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the "human factor" is often largely ignored. The ageing individual is rather seen as a malfunctioning machine whose deficiencies must be diagnosed or as a set of limitations to be overcome by means of technological devices. This volume aims at focusing on the perspective of human beings deriving from the development and use of technology: this change of perspective - taking the human being and not technology first - may help us to become more sensitive to the ambivalences involved in the interaction between humans and technology, as well as to adapt technologies to the people that created the need for its existence, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of senior citizens.
£37.79
Transcript Verlag On the Threshold of Knowing – Lectures and
Book SynopsisIn this in-depth analysis of artistic and academic lectures and performances, Lucia Rainer features an innovative conceptual and methodological tool that augments Goffman's Frame Analysis with a praxeological perspective. This way, she gives profound insight into how knowledge - as a practice and a concept - is associated with clarity rather than truth. Based on four case studies - including John Cage's unpublished and unabridged audio recording of Lecture on Nothing - the study explores how the concept of lecture performances, which adheres to two frames that never entirely blend, provides a space to (re-)negotiate the artistic-academic relationship.
£33.14
Transcript Verlag Cultures of Video Game Concerns – The Child
Book SynopsisThe same computer games are played by youths all over the world, and worldwide games become matters of concern in relation to children: worries rise about addiction, violence, education, time, and economy. Yet, these concerns vary depending upon where they are situated: in families, legal contexts, industry or science. They also play out differently across countries and cultures. This situated nature of computer game concerns is generally neglected. Not in this book: It gives a detailed mosaic of the complex and multiple everyday realities of computer game concerns in relation to children, as they are variably situated throughout society and across cultures.Trade ReviewBesprochen in CHOICE, 56, 6 (2019)
£38.24
Transcript Verlag Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? – Facing
Book SynopsisEthnic diversity, race, and racism have been subject to discussion in American Studies departments at German universities for many years. It appears that especially in the past few decades, ethnic minorities and 'new immigrants' have increasingly become objects of scholarly inquiry. Such research questions focus on the U.S. and other traditionally multicultural societies that have emerged out of historical situations shaped by (settler) colonialism, slavery, and/or large-scale immigration. Paradoxically, these studies have overwhelmingly been conducted by white scholars born in Germany and holding German citizenship. Scholars with actual experience of racial discrimination have remained largely unheard. Departing from a critique of practices employed by the German branch of American Studies, the volume offers (self-)reflective approaches by scholars from different fields in the German Humanities. It thereby seeks to provide a solid basis for thorough and candid discussions of the mechanisms behind and the implications of racialized power relations in the German Humanities and German society at large.
£38.24
Transcript Verlag The Transformation of Humanities Education – The
Book SynopsisThis first comprehensive study of Norwegian humanities education employs systems theory to analyze its transformation from a form of teacher training to its modern status as research-oriented generalist education.Using historical documents and statistical analyses, Vidar Grøtta shows that the expansion of the post-war research system in Norway led to an increase in admissions to humanities education in the 1960s and an ensuing research drift in humanities curricula. Interacting with certain political dynamics and the knowledge economy that has emerged since the 1970s, this research drift resulted in a shift in humanists' career patterns and a transformation of the societal functions of the humanities.The most recent developments in Norwegian humanities education, from 2000 to 2018, are outlined and discussed in the afterword to this volume.
£56.94
Transcript Verlag Subjectivity and Synchrony in Artistic Research –
Book SynopsisArtistic research has become an established mode of inquiry and knowledge production in many fields. Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative practices of two artistic research projects in the fields of digital musical instrument design and responsive environments. How are individual research modes organized? Which forms of knowledge are at stake? And what sort of influence do institutional settings, spatial arrangements, and boundary objects have on the emerging research dynamics? Schindler's ethnographic study explores these questions and suggests concrete measurements that can be utilized to adapt the research environments, funding structures, and evaluation criteria of artistic research projects to the specific needs of this emerging field.Trade Review"Schindlers ethnography of artistic research infrastructures offers a welcome critical distance from the commonplace celebrations of the potentials of artistic research, pointing to a promising discussion on the politics of its infrastructures." Manuel Angel-Macia, Journal of Artistic Research, 23.06.2019
£33.14
Transcript Verlag The Techno–Apparatus of Bodily Production – A New
Book SynopsisWhat if the terms "technology" and "the body" did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another? What if we understood their relationship as far more intimate - technologies as always already embodied, material bodies as always already technologized? What would it mean, then, to understand the relationship between technology and the body as a relation of indeterminacy? Expanding on the concept of the apparatus of bodily production in the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Josef Barla explores how material bodies along with their boundaries, properties, and meanings performatively materialize at sites where technological, biological, technoscientific, (bio-)political, and economic forces intra-act.
£38.24
Transcript Verlag The Plausibility of Future Scenarios –
Book SynopsisWhat does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Despite the concept's ubiquity, its epistemological and empirical foundations remain unexplored in previous research. Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele offers an interdisciplinary perspective: she presents approaches from philosophy of sciences, cognitive psychology, narrative theory and linguistics, and tests key hypotheses in an experimental study. A conceptual map lays out indicators for scenario plausibility and explains how assessments vary across scenario methods. This helps researchers and practitioners to better understand the implications of their methodological choices in scenario development.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Tables; Summary of the book; Introduction; Scenario planning: characteristics and current issues; Scenario plausibility: emerging debates in research and practice; Conceptual explorations: plausibility across disciplines; Empirical research: Methodology to study scenario plausibility; Experimental study: quantitative research findings; Experimental study: qualitative research findings; Synthesis: A conceptual map of scenario plausibility; Conclusions and outlook; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; References.
£45.04
Transcript Verlag AI - Limits and Prospects of Artificial
Book SynopsisThe emergence of artificial intelligence has triggered enthusiasm and promise of boundless opportunities as much as uncertainty about its limits. The contributions to this volume explore the limits of AI, describe the necessary conditions for its functionality, reveal its attendant technical and social problems, and present some existing and potential solutions. At the same time, the contributors highlight the societal and attending economic hopes and fears, utopias and dystopias that are associated with the current and future development of artificial intelligence.
£46.74
Transcript Verlag Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces
Book SynopsisAre robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation - it is not an industrial revolution by other means. Sabine Pfeiffer searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive force with the idea of distributive force. From the platform economy to artificial intelligence, Pfeiffer shows that digital capitalism is less about the efficient production of value, but rather about its fast, risk-free, and permanently secured realisation on the markets. The examination of this dynamic and its consequences also leads to the question of how destructive the distributive forces of digital capitalism might be.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Digital Capitalism Revisited: again?; The First Blind Spot: Value in Digital Capitalism; Transformation and the Productive Forces; The Second Blind Spot: The Realisation of Value in (Digital) Capitalism; The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: What is New?; The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: Some Clarifications; The Distributive Forces in Digital Capitalism: Some Empirical Illustrations; Digitalisation: Distributive Force or Destructive Force?; Bibliography; List of Figures.
£56.09
Transcript Verlag Digital Culture & Society (DCS): Vol. 2, Issue
Book SynopsisDo models of a ground-breaking art of the information age, an "algorithmic revolution", or of a democratization of art production still have any mileage? How do contemporary art practitioners cope with the political situation and with the attempts of the Silicon Valley giants to appropriate algorithmic generation of art-like artefacts? This issue aims to discuss how computer art from the pioneering days is now being reframed as digital, post-digital or algorithmic art under the prevailing conditions of big data, smart AI, an almost all-encompassing surveillance technology and a political state of neo-liberalism.
£28.89
Transcript Verlag Academics in Exile: Networks, Knowledge Exchange
Book SynopsisRestrictions on academic freedom, persecution and armed conflict have forced many scholars into exile. So far, the professional trajectories of these scholars and their contributions to knowledge exchange have not been studied comprehensively. The contributors to this volume address the situations and networks of scholars in exile, the challenges they face in their host countries and the opportunities they use. These issues are highly relevant to discussions about the moral economies of higher education institutions and support programs. Although the contributions largely focus on Germany as a host country, they also offer telling examples of forced mobility in the Global South, including both contemporary and historical perspectives.
£33.14
Bielefeld University Press Communicative AI in InterAction
Book Synopsis
£34.00
V&R Unipress The Quantum Relations Principle: Managing Our
Book SynopsisA vision for the sustainable future of our planet
£50.34
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Rationality in an Uncertain World
Book Synopsis
£21.00
Transcript Verlag Tensions and Convergences – Technological and
Book SynopsisThis book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of contemporary society. The contributions discuss the production of time and space, self and nature, individual and society in the image of technology. They focus on the productive tensions and convergences between aesthetic and technological concepts when implemented in everyday life. The volume contains - among others - texts about technologies of visualisation, the aesthetics of warfare and the design of technological lifeworlds.
£34.19
Next Factory Ottensen Parallelwelten: We are now in a different world
Book SynopsisThe joint forces of digital and analogue allow for a myriad of different worlds for us to live in. In German they are called Parallelwelten (= parallel worlds). This book investigates these parallel worlds from different angles: technological, corporate, scientific, cultural, economic and political.
£27.00
Next Factory Ottensen The Great Redesign: Frameworks for the Future
Book SynopsisWe live in a world that's constantly redesigned. Today's redesign is tomorrow's vintage look. But times of crisis rapidly change the picture. Suddenly, the whole world is in dire need of a proper redesign. From capitalism to communication, from work to supply chains, from cities to office space - it's hard to find an area of our lives that's not due for an overhaul. This is a challenge, but also a huge opportunity: to design a better world.
£27.00
Next Factory Ottensen Parallelwelten: We are now in a different world
Book SynopsisThe joint forces of digital and analogue allow for a myriad of different worlds for us to live in. In German they are called Parallelwelten (= parallel worlds). This book investigates these parallel worlds from different angles: technological, corporate, scientific, cultural, economic and political.
£18.00
Sternberg Press The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning
Book Synopsis
£17.55
£12.43
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Expuestos / Exposed
Book Synopsis
£15.96
Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V. Sigamos Siendo Humanos Cómo Recuperar Las 12
Book Synopsis
£17.52
New India Publishing Agency Internet of Things (Iot) Enabled Automation in
Book SynopsisThe primary intention of composing this book is to offer a basis for automating agricultural fields using various sensors and transmitting the data to the cloud through the internet of things. This book supplies the fundamental knowledge required for programming and connecting devices to an IoT modem, as well as the essential steps for comprehending IoT and its application in the agricultural field. It serves as a useful resource for postgraduate and undergraduate engineering students, particularly those studying Electronics, Electrical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Mechanical, and Computer Science. The distinctive feature of this book is that it provides programming-based real-time project prototypes, which are based on the practical experiences of the authors while working on projects with students and industries.
£64.24
Prabhat Prakashan You are Born to Blossom
Book Synopsis
£11.99
Tapir Academic Press Embodied Minds -- Technical Environments:
Book SynopsisThe deep integration of technology in our modern society forces us to rethink the relationship humans have to their surroundings. The rise of complex sociotechnical systems denotes how humans and technology have entered a symbiotic relationship where the co-ordinated and fluent interaction between us and technology is a crucial condition for modern societies to function. The disharmony in the relationship between humans and technology has immediate and serious consequences. Accidents and failed operations in transport, incomprehensible user interfaces, and failure to learn from experience are all examples from everyday life suggesting that the understanding of human-technology relationships is not sufficient. This book investigates how humans relate to technology in our modern society, and how our basic assumption of human thought and behaviour guide our efforts to improve and control technology. The fact is that the skilled use of technology in expert systems and everyday life challenges the traditional conception of humans and technology as two separate elements in the analysis of work. This book shows how this dualism is evident and problematic in a wide range of areas, such as investigation of human error in accidents, case studies of innovative interface solutions, simulator training strategies, analysis of work practices in complex systems, and traffic safety research. This book is written for researchers, students and professionals, to supplement the ongoing effort to understand how technology can be integrated with more confidence in modern society.
£39.95
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Más allá del big bang / Beyond the Big Bang
£22.17
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Entiende la tecnología Desde la caída de Megaupload hasta los secretos de la In teligencia Artificial The Digital Revolution
£20.52
Editorial Kairos Emociones Destructivas: Cómo Entenderlas Y
Book Synopsis
£25.03
Editorial Kairos La Ciencia de la Mente: Cuando La Ciencia Y La
Book Synopsis
£26.68
Fragmenta Editorial Cerebro y Trascendencia
Book Synopsis
£18.13
Automatic Press / VIP Embodied Technics
£15.06
Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki On the Interplay of Images: Imaginaries and
Book Synopsis
£58.93
Gregorian & Biblical Press Beyond the Limits: Consequences of Technological
Book Synopsis
£28.50
Bocconi University Press In Data Time and Tide: A Surprising Philosophical
Book SynopsisThe book is a short philosophical guide to our data and algo new world. It’s a cultural journey into our living quantifiable society through the unusual viewpoint of digital philosophy. In 5 easy chapters, the book unveils: the hidden nature of software data code, the artificial dawn of a new data sensorium, the invisible power of data algorithm, the datum as the new human experience, the emergence of accidental megastructures called data platforms. Beyond engineers, programmers and coders tech narratives of data revolution, philosophers have their own provocative thinking on current and future technology. This book popularizes and intertwines speculative visions from untold and surprising approaches to tech businesses such as the shift from feedback to feedforward, the new living sensorial environment, the end of experience as we know it, the digital space as transduced space, the programmable everything from money, to law to society.
£28.45
Brill Challenging Future Practice Possibilities
Book Synopsis“What might the futures of practice be like?” is far from a straightforward question. Emphasising "the" before the word future, implies one future. But futures thinkers have identified a range of futures that people think about. In this book we reflect on possible, probable, and preferable futures in relation to practice and work. Readers are invited to consider how their own engagement in shaping possible futures will support ways of working that they deem preferable, even those they can hardly imagine. Challenging Future Practice Possibilities also examines influences that are maintaining the status quo and others that are pushing interest-driven change. Authors consider the major challenges that practice and practitioners face today such as wicked problems, fears for the future and complex demands and opportunities posed by the digital revolution. A number of examples of future-oriented work directions such as protean careers and artificial intelligence enhancing or even replacing human workforces, are considered along with concerns like the vulnerability of many work situations and workers. In some cases workers and employers alike are unprepared for these challenges, while others see adapting to these situations as yet another pathway of practice futures evolution.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Part 1: Grappling with Practice Futures 1 Exploring Practice in Context Joy Higgs 2 Thinking the Unthinkable: Challenges of Imagining and Engaging with Unimaginable Practice Futures Steven Cork and Debbie Horsfall 3 Plausible Practice Futures Steven Cork and Kristin Alford 4 The Impact of Practice on Wicked Problems and Unpredictable Futures Peter Goodyear and Lina Markauskaite 5 The Changing Face of Work: Considering Business Models and the Employment Market Paul Whybrow and Asheley Jones Part 2: Practice and the Common Good 6 Re-claiming Social Purpose and Adding Values to the World around Us Debbie Horsfall and Joy Higgs 7 Our Place in Society and the Environment: Opportunities and Responsibilities for Professional Practice Futures Steven Cork 8 Practice Futures for Indigenous Agency: Our Gaps, Our Leaps Sandy O’Sullivan 9 Changing Work Realities: Creating Socially and Environmentally Responsible Workplaces Rosemary Leonard and Margot Cairnes 10 Towards Future Practice in Socio-political Contexts Megan Conway and Joy Higgs Part 3: Pursuing Practice Futures 11 The Place of Agency and Related Capacities in Future Practices Franziska Trede and Joy Higgs 12 Employability and Career Development Learning through Social Media: Exploring the Potential of LinkedIn Ruth Bridgstock 13 Re-imagining Practice Structures and Pathways: Starting to Realise Tomorrow’s Practices Today Joy Higgs and Daniel Radovich 14 Freelancing, Entrepreneurship and Inherent Career Risk: An Exploration in the Creative Industries Noel Maloney 15 Young People’s Hopes and Fears for the Future Steven Cork and Jennifer Malbon 16 Facing Recruitment Challenges: Entering Workplace Practices James Cloutman and Graham Jenkins 17 PhDs and Future Practice Bernadine Van Gramberg 18 Educational Innovations: Preparing for Future Work Asheley Jones 19 Otherness in Practice (in the Health Professions) Janice Orrell and Julie Ash 20 Workplace Innovations and Practice Futures Thomas Carey, Farhad Dastur and Iryna Karaush Part 4: Reflections 21 Reflections about Work: What Might Be My Future Practice Roles? Joy Higgs Notes on Contributors
£110.20
BIS Publishers B.V. Offline Matters: The Less-Digital Guide to
Book SynopsisOffline Matters is a handbook for anybody experiencing digital overload in their lives and creative work."For any creative who has had to cater to corporate dimwits in order support their art, here's a terrific guide to bringing your best work into the commercial sphere without selling out or compromising your craft. This is a book about how to break free from the data-driven expectations of your client's spreadsheet, and retrieve the true novelty that makes you valuable in the first place." - Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human"Offline Matters is a much needed take-down of the whole 'cult of creativity' from the inside. This rattle gun attack on the perniciousness of the creative digital work will leave you aghast and amused in equal measure." - Oli Mould, author of Against CreativityWhen did creative work become so boring?How did 'digital-first' come to dominate everything?...and why is nobody talking about it?Part insider exposé, part worker-manual, this book is for any creative seeking help on: Navigating the possibility of offline alternatives Countering overwork culture, exploitation, and dulled-down ideas Recovering what you loved about your creative calling ...away from the confines of our screens. We are dreaming of offline. Not as a romanticised past, a punishment, a quick detox, or a WiFi-free café. Offline is not a lifestyle. It's a space of opportunity.By the end of Offline Matters, you'll have a new perspective on the dry digitality that defines creative work today - and a set of strategies for going beyond it.Trade Review"Offline Matters is a much needed take-down of the whole 'cult of creativity' from the inside. This rattle gun attack on the perniciousness of the creative digital work will leave you aghast and amused in equal measure." - Oli Mould, author of Against Creativity"For any creative who has had to cater to corporate dimwits in order support their art, here's a terrific guide to bringing your best work into the commercial sphere without selling out or compromising your craft. This is a book about how to break free from the data-driven expectations of your client's spreadsheet, and retrieve the true novelty that makes you valuable in the first place." - Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human"This book is extremely timely. The pandemic has obliged everybody to stay online almost all the time. Offline Matters reminds us that life is (also) elsewhere. The neologism 'offline', which did not exist twenty years ago, has philosophical relevance. This book is hoping we can discover it." - Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, philosopher, theorist and activist"Today we are all called upon to be the content providers of our own lives. This can be exhausting and estranging. Fortunately Jess Henderson has arrived to help us get offline, not into the pasts but into the presence of our lives. With compassion and humour Henderson brings us back to ourselves and it turns out we are not predestined to be profiled and branded. Offline Matters is the mutual help book we need right now!" - Stefano Harney, co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study"Jess has written a kind of outsider/artist/creative/inventor SURVIVAL MANUAL for our over-amped, information-overloaded, hypercommunicative age. Anyone seeking encouragement, inspiration, moral support, and IDEAS would do well to study these pages, preferably in a solitary room with no music playing and no laptop showing 'news' (or a cellphone constantly pinging). Electronics in another room, please!" - V. Vale, founder of RE/Search and Search & Destroy"Offline Matters couldn't come at a more important and critical juncture in our human existence...The insights within this book highlight the current creative plight we've gotten ourselves into and the cracks within many cultural and societal pillars.This book is a great step in helping us reclaim and reconsider our roles within the current structures we've all been players within. Many of us can read along nodding in agreement and the examples surely represent thoughts we've embraced at some point. But this book isn't about reprimanding us so much as help us understand how we can move forward. We've become so subservient to other factors out in the world and this is a stern reminder to take back control of something that can provide an immense amount of personal and community value." - Eugene Kan, co-founder of MAEKAN and Hypebeast"Consider this book a rehabilitation program for a creative thinking populace unknowingly addicted to vain online activity. Through these influential pages, Henderson bestows upon their readers the tools necessary to free one's mind from the constraints of the virtual realm so they may focus instead on something much more important...reality." - James T. Padlow, THE PEN NAME"I have followed Jess' writing since she created Outsider; an anarchic newsletter/witty commentary against the establishment, and its pervasive contentment with the same old marketing bullshit. I waited in anticipation, sometimes for months, to receive news from the trenches...Just like the white space between the lines in a book, it was like reading every unspoken truth, every unheard sigh, every roll of the eyes in our industry. Someone had to say it and thank god it was Jess. We need this book." - Alvaro Sotomayor, Creative Director at WEIDEN+KENNEDY
£13.29
Amaryllis Music of the Spinning Wheel: Mahatma Gandhi's
Book SynopsisThe author draws a correlation between the amazing potential of the internet and the moral message of the spinning wheel. The book presents Gandhi's life and mission in an altogether new and integral light.
£20.99
Pentagon Press National Security Challenges: Young Scholars'
Book SynopsisNational security is paramount for an all inclusive development. Along with a holistic approach in place, there is an urgent need to first recognise the challenges to national security of the country. National Security Challenges: Young Scholars’ Perspective – a tribute to Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw from the youth of the country – primarily deals with India`s national security challenges from a hardcore, predominantly traditional security point of view.The main aim of the book is to develop strategic thinking amongst the youth of this country. To provide a suitable platform to the university students, CLAWS has initiated an unprecedented pan-India essay competition – Field Marshal Manekshaw Essay Competition (FMMEC). The book is the outcome of an overwhelming response to the competition over past two years, and 12 select essays have been compiled, edited, and published.Dealing with wide range of subjects from conceptual understandings, threats and challenges emanating from technological advancements, to learning from national, regional and global experiences; the book provides a fresh approach to the subject. It also gives a sneak peek into what the youth of India feels about national security in the form of policy recommendations.To boost the morale of the young authors and university students, the book carries messages from Hon’ble Raksha Mantri, Hon’ble National Security Advisor and Chief of the Army Staff.
£41.75
Springer Einstein und Die Sowjetphilosophie: Krisis einer Lehre
Book SynopsisDieses Buch soll ein Bericht über den Prozess Einstein sein. Es enthält das Material über die Diskussion um die Relativitätstheorie in der UdSSR seit 1950. Von 1951 bis 1955 wurde Einstein durch die offizielle Parteiphilosophie der UdSSR in den Anklagezustand versetzt. Der Prozess gipfelte in der Aufforderung, die Relativitätstheorie zu verwerfen und durch eine materialistische 'Theorie schneller Bewegungen' zu ersetzen. Selbst der Name 'Relativitätstheorie' sollte aus den physikalischen Lehrbüchern verschwinden. Die Anklage wurde vertreten von der ideologischen Führungsschicht der gewaltigsten irdischen Macht unseres Zeitalters. Der Angeklagte, in der Reife seines Lebens vor die vehementesten Angriffe gestellt, kam nur durch sein Werk zu Wort. Dies genügte jedoch, dass sich unter den sowjetischen Physikern und Philosophen noch zur Zeit Stalins mannhafte Stimmen der Verteidigung fanden. 1955 wurde der Prozess mit der offiziellen Anerkennung der Relativitäts theorie durch die Parteiphilosophie abgeschlossen. Es war ein Sieg der Wahrheit über die Gewalt. Die Folgen mussten das Ansehen der kommunistischen Ideologie erschüttern. Es hatte sich herausgestellt, dass zwischen der angeblich einzig wissenschaftlichen Philosophie und der exaktesten Naturwissen schaft, der Physik, ein Abgrund klafft, den zu überbrücken die Sowjet philosophie bis heute bemüht ist. Andererseits begannen die sowjetischen Physiker, wachgerufen durch die Appelle der Philosophen, ihr eigenes Weltbild mit adäquaten Methoden zu durchdenken. Diese ganze Ent wicklung ist von hohem Wert für eine Diagnose der geistigen Struktur der Sowjetgesellschaft.Table of ContentsErster Abschnitt: Die Grundlagen.- I: Thesen Des Diamat.- 1. Allgemeine Haltung.- 2. Abgrenzung gegen den vormarxistischen Materialismus.- 3. Monismus.- 4. Die Definition der Materie.- 5. Die Attribute der Materie.- 6. Die Bewegung.- 7. Die Determiniertheit des Geschehens.- 8. Erkenntnistheoretische Thesen.- II: Definitionen und Satze Der Relativitats-Theorie.- 1. Die spezielle Relativitätstheorie.- 2. Die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie.- III: Grundriss Der Auseinandersetzung.- 1. Vorgebliche Einheit von Diamat und Wissenschaft.- 2. Die ideologische Missdeutung.- 3. Die Situation der sowjetischen Philosophic der Physik.- 4. Phasen der Auseinandersetzung.- 5. Reaktionsformen und-gruppen.- IV: Relativitatstheorie und Erkenntnis.- 1. Einleitende Bemerkungen.- A. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Physik und Philosophic.- B. Die Philosophic Einsteins in sowjetischer Sicht.- 2. Die Anklage.- A. Zum Motiv einer physikalischen Theorie.- B. Zum Ursprung einer physikalischen Theorie.- a. Die Erstgegebenheit des physikalischen Erkennens.- b. Physikalische Begriffe und Theorien.- c. Die Logik.- d. Die Intuition.- e. Mathematische Begriffe und Sätze.- C. Zum Verfahren der Relativitätstheorie.- a. Empirische Falsifikation der Begriffe und Aussagen.- b. Die Messung als Voraussetzung von Definitionen.- c. Die Deduktion aus Prinzipien.- d. Die mathematische Formalisierung.- D. Zum Erkenntniswert.- a. Grundsätzliches.- b. Wahrnehmungen.- c. Begriffe.- d. Theorien.- E. Das Erkenntniskriterium.- a. Empirische Verifikation.- b. Kovarianz.- c. Denkökonomie.- d. Ausschaltung sinnleerer Aussagen und Begriffe.- F. Die Leugnung der Theorie.- 3. Die Verteidigung.- A. Allgemeine Haltung.- B. Einzelprobleme.- 4. Diskussion der sowjetischen Thesen.- A. Die Erkenntnisprinzipien Einsteins.- B. Wertung der Haltung Einsteins.- C. Das Verfahren der Relativitatstheorie und die Erkenntnistheorie des Diamat.- Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Spezielle Relativitätstheorie.- I: Die Physikalischen Prinzipien Der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie.- 1. Problemstellung.- 2. Die Grundprinzipien.- 3. Das Bezugssystem.- A. Berechtigung.- B. Definition.- 4. Die Absolutheit der Bezugssysteme.- 5. Die Absolutheit der Bewegung.- 6. Die Absolutheit von Raum und Zeit.- 7. Diskussion der sowjetischen Thesen.- A. Das Phänomen.- B. Physikalische Irrtümer.- C. Inertialzustand.- D. Kinematik oder Dynamik?.- E. Das Relativitütsproblem.- F. Bezugssystem.- G. Raum und Zeit.- II: Die Relativitüt Der ‘Eigenschaften’.- 1. Problemstellung.- 2. Grundsützliche sowjetische Thesen.- 3. Die Leugnung der Effekte.- 4. Die Einwertigkeit der ‘Eigenschaften’.- 5. Die Diskussion in Kiev.- 6. Die Erhellung.- 7. Die Anerkennung der Relativitütstheorie.- 8. Diskussion der sowjetischen Thesen.- A. Das Phünomen.- B. Die philosophische Problematik.- III: Masse und Energie.- 1. Zum Begriff der Materie im Diamat.- 2. Der physikalische Sachverhalt.- A. Zerstrahlung und Paarerzeugung.- B. Massendefekt.- 3. Die Anklage.- 4. Die Diskussionsgruppen.- 5. Die Diskussion am Institut für Philosophie in Moskau.- 6. Philosophische Einbauversuche.- 7. Die Deutung der Physiker.- 8. Diskussion der sowjetischen Thesen.- A. Das Phünomen.- B. Einzelprobleme.- Literaturverweisungen.- Quellen.- Personenverzeichnis.- Sachverzeichis.
£41.39
www.bnpublishing.com The World As I See It
£14.24
www.bnpublishing.com World As I See It
£7.58
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Cyberspace & Sovereignty
Book SynopsisHow do you describe cyberspace comprehensively?This book examines the relationship between cyberspace and sovereignty as understood by jurists and economists. The author transforms and abstracts cyberspace from the perspective of science and technology into the subject, object, platform, and activity in the field of philosophy. From the three dimensions of 'ontology' (cognition of cyberspace and information), 'epistemology' (sovereignty evolution), and 'methodology' (theoretical refinement), he uses international law, philosophy of science and technology, political philosophy, cyber security, and information entropy to conduct cross-disciplinary research on cyberspace and sovereignty to find a scientific and accurate methodology. Cyberspace sovereignty is the extension of modern state sovereignty. Only by firmly establishing the rule of law of cyberspace sovereignty can we reduce cyber conflicts and cybercrimes, oppose cyber hegemony, and prevent cyber war. The purpose of investigating cyberspace and sovereignty is to plan good laws and good governance. This book argues that cyberspace has sovereignty, sovereignty governs cyberspace, and cyberspace governance depends on comprehensive planning. This is a new theory of political philosophy and sovereignty law.Table of ContentsNoumenon: Thing-in-Itself: Ontology of Cyberspace; Cyberspace Evolution; Cyberspace Security; Cyberspace Sovereignty; Epistemology: The Consideration of Cyberspace Order; The History of Cyberspace Legislation; The Rule of Law in Cyberspace Sovereignty; Methodology: Cyberspace and Order Coordination; Cyberspace and Overall Planning Entropy; The Overall Planning of Cyberspace Justice;
£112.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Ontological Information: Information In The
Book SynopsisThis book is about the nature of information. It touches on many core issues of philosophy of the mind, ontology, and epistemology, and draws in several domain-specific concepts from physics, mathematics, thermodynamics, computer science, and biology. The terms used in this book, such as the mind, a conscious agent, meaning, and knowledge are used with very precise meanings because they can be easily misinterpreted. A proper understanding of these terms can be gained from the referenced literature. But more specifically, this book is about the concept of information as physical phenomenon.The book is a unique exposition of the concept of information as physical phenomenon. It provides the detailed analysis and synthesis of the current conceptualizations of information demonstrating the lack of common definition and their incompleteness. The detailed argument is provided why information may be defined as a physical phenomenon and why this type of information may be seen as fundamental to our understanding of this concept.
£72.00
