1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785997803321

Autore

Hansen Mark B. N

Titolo

Bodies in Code [[electronic resource] ] : Interfaces with Digital Media

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012

ISBN

0-203-94239-6

9786611136055

1-135-87886-2

1-281-13605-0

1-283-64335-9

1-135-87887-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Disciplina

006.8

Soggetti

Body schema

Human figure in art

Virtual reality in art

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Speculative Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Bodies in Code; Copyright Page; Contents; The Author; Preface; Introduction: From the Image to the Power of Imaging:Virtual Reality and the "Originary" Specularity ofEmbodiment; 1. All Reality Is Mixed Reality; 2. The Power of Imaging and the Privilege of the Operational; 3. Virtual Reality as Embodied Power of Imaging; Part I: Toward a Technics of the Flesh; 1. Bodies in Code, or How Primordial Tactility Introjects Technics into Human Life; 1. "Make Use of What Nature Has Given Us!"; 2. Body Schema As Potentiality; 3. Technics and the Dissolution of the Body Image

4. Specularitybeyond the Mirror-Image5. All Exteriorizations Are Exteriorizations of the Skin; 6. Primordial Tactility; 7. Seeing through the Hand; 8. Worldskin; 9. The Tele-Absent Body; Part II: Locating the Virtual in Contemporary Culture; 2. Embodying Virtual Reality: Tactility



andSelf-Movement in the Work of Char Davies; 1. The Primacy of Self-Movementin Conferring Reality on Perception; 2. Beyond the Body-Image:Embodying Psychasthenia; 3. Digitizing the Racialized Body, or the Politics of Common Impropriety; 1. Beyond Symbolic Interpellation: Understanding Digital Performativity

2. Beyond Visibility: the Generalization of Passing3. "Corporeal Malediction" and the "Racial- Epidermal Schema"; 4. From Negrophobia to Negrophilia; 5. Mobilizing Affectivity beyond the Image; 6. Forging the Affection-Body; 4. Wearable Space; 1. Encountering the Blur; 2. The Architectural Body; 3. The"Interiority" of Architecture; 4. Internal Resonance; 5. A New Organicism; 6. Wearing the Blur; 5. The Digital Topography of House of Leaves; 1. The Digital; 2. Media; 3. Body; Notes; References; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body--not high-tech computer graphics--that allows a person to feel like they are really ""moving"" through virtual reality. Of course these virtual experiences are also profoundly affecting our very understanding of what it means to live as embodied beings. Hansen draws up



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557390103321

Autore

Holappa Lauri

Titolo

Challenges and Prospects of Steelmaking Towards the Year 2050

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The world steel industry is strongly based on coal/coke in ironmaking, resulting in huge carbon dioxide emissions corresponding to approximately 7% of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions. As the world is experiencing a period of imminent threat owing to climate change, the steel industry is also facing a tremendous challenge in next decades. This themed issue makes a survey on the current situation of steel production, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions, as well as cross-sections of the potential methods to decrease CO2 emissions in current processes via improved energy and materials efficiency, increasing recycling, utilizing alternative energy sources, and adopting CO2 capture and storage. The current state, problems and plans in the two biggest steel producing countries, China and India are introduced. Generally contemplating, incremental improvements in current processes play a key role in rapid mitigation of specific emissions, but finally they are insufficient when striving for carbon neutral production in the long run. Then hydrogen and electrification are the apparent solutions also to iron and steel production. The book gives a holistic overview of the current situation and challenges, and an inclusive compilation of the potential technologies and solutions for the global CO2 emissions problem.