1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704411103321

Autore

Reyes Juan C.

Titolo

Should ground-motion records be rotated to fault-normal/parallel or maximum direction for response history analysis of buildings? / / by Juan C. Reyes and Erol Kalkan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2012

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 81 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

Open-file report ; ; 2012-1261

Soggetti

Earthquake resistant design - United States

Earthquake hazard analysis - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 5, 2013).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 15-17).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910427723003321

Autore

Majewski Paweł

Titolo

Between an Animal and a Machine : Stanisław Lem's Technological Utopia / Malgorzata Kowalska, Paweł Majewski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt a.M, : PH02, 2018

Edizione

[1st, New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.) : , EPDF

Collana

Modernity in Question ; 10

Soggetti

Philosophy

Literary theory

Literary studies: general

Gender studies, gender groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Nota di contenuto

Philosophy of Stanisław Lem - Lemology pure and applied - Dialogues - Cybernetics as an anthropology - Summa Technologiae - Technology as Lifeworld - Autoevolution and posthumanism

Sommario/riassunto

The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanisław Lem. The first part contains an analysis and interpretation of one of his early works, The Dialogues. The author tries to show how Lem used the terminology of cybernetics to create a project of sociology and anthropology. The second part examines Lem's essay Summa technologiae, which is considered as the project of human autoevolution. The term «autoevolution» is a neologism for the concept of humans taking control over their own biological evolution and form in order to improve the conditions of their being. In this interpretation, Summa is an example of a liberal utopia, based on the assumption that all human problems can be resolved by science. Various social theories, which can be linked to the project of autoevolution, are presented in the final part.