1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910477001803321

Autore

Soon Winnie

Titolo

Aesthetic Programming : A Handbook of Software Studies / / Winnie Soon, Geoff Cox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Open Humanities Press, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 pages)

Disciplina

001.642

Soggetti

Computer programming

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Aesthetic Programming explores the technical as well as cultural imaginaries of programming from its insides. It follows the principle that the growing importance of software requires a new kind of cultural thinking -- and curriculum -- that can account for, and with which to better understand the politics and aesthetics of algorithmic procedures, data processing and abstraction. It takes a particular interest in power relations that are relatively under-acknowledged in technical subjects, concerning class and capitalism, gender and sexuality, as well as race and the legacies of colonialism. This is not only related to the politics of representation but also nonrepresentation: how power differentials are implicit in code in terms of binary logic, hierarchies, naming of the attributes, and how particular worldviews are reinforced and perpetuated through computation. Using p5.js, it introduces and demonstrates the reflexive practice of aesthetic programming, engaging with learning to program as a way to understand and question existing technological objects and paradigms, and to explore the potential for reprogramming wider eco-socio-technical systems. The book itself follows this approach, and is offered as a computational object open to modification and reversioning.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813486903321

Autore

Halbrook Stephen P.

Titolo

Bas les armes! : le désarmement des Juifs et des "ennemis intérieurs" du IIIe Reich / / Stephen P. Halbrook ; traduit de l'anglais par Antoine Bourguilleau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Genève : , : Éditions Slatkine, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

2-8321-0802-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

363.33094309043

Soggetti

Firearms - Law and legislation - Germany - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966623203321

Titolo

Becoming eloquent : advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures / / edited by Francesco d'Errico, Jean-Marie Hombert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009

ISBN

9786612444845

9781282444843

1282444840

9789027288714

9027288712

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 289 p

Altri autori (Persone)

D'ErricoFrancesco

HombertJean Marie

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Anthropological linguistics

Linguistic paleontology

Language and languages - Origin

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Jean-Marie Hombert and Francesco d'Errico -- Language and archaeology -- From the origin of language to the diversification of languages : what can archaeology and palaeoanthropology say? / Francesco d'Errico ... [et al.] -- Early diffusion of domestic bovids in Europe : an indicator for human contacts, exchanges and migrations? / Anne Tresset ... [et al.] -- Language and genes -- Linguistic, cultural and genetic perspectives on human diversity in west-central Africa / Lolke van der Veen, Lluis Quintana-Murci and David Comas -- The Berber and the Berbers : genetic and linguistic diversities / Jean-Michel Dugoujon ... [et al.] -- East meets West : the Assam corridor / François Jacquesson -- Genetic and linguistic diversity in Central Asia / Evelyne Heyer and Philippe Mennecier -- Genetic and linguistic borders in the Himalayan Region / Thirsa Kraaijenbrink ... [et al.] -- Language acquisition and language universals -- From babbling to first words in four languages : common trends across languages and individual



differences / Sophie Kern, Barbara Davis and Inge Zink -- Language and animal communication -- The primate roots of human language : primate vocal behaviour and cognition in the wild / Klaus Zuberbühler ... [et al.] -- Language evolution and computer modeling -- Can agent-based language evolution contribute to archeology? / Luc Steels -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A growing scala of computational and robotic experiments are trying to pin down the cognitive and social prerequisites that may have given rise to human language. From humble beginnings showing how a lexicon may self-organize in a population of artificial agents, these research efforts are now exploring how grammatical languages about complex scenes may emerge. This paper introduces this field of inquiry and then explores whether a dialog with archeologists might be useful.