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UNINA9910779575903321 |
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Autore |
Parisi Luciana |
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Contagious architecture : computation, aesthetics, and space / / Luciana Parisi |
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Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2013 |
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0-262-31262-X |
1-299-35601-X |
0-262-31261-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (391 p.) |
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Collana |
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Technologies of lived abstraction |
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Space (Architecture) |
Architecture - Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Series Foreword; Preface: Weird Formalism; Acknowledgments; 1 Incomputable Objects in the Age of the Algorithm; 1.0 Metamodeling; 1.1 Background media; 1.2 Metadigital fallacy; 1.3 Discrete objects; 1.4 Algorithmic aesthetics; 1.5 Speculative reason; 2 Soft Extension: Topological Control and Mereotopological Space Events; 2.0 The invariant function; 2.1 Folds or differential relations; 2.2 Parametricism or deep relationality; 2.3 Soft temporalities; 2.4 Extension is what extension doesn't; 2.5 Blind spots: space events; 2.6 Mereotopology of extension |
2.7 Mereotopology of abstraction2.8 Parametric prehensions; 2.9 Extensive novelties; 3 Architectures of Thought; 3.0 Soft thought; 3.1 Cybernetic thought; 3.2 Ecological thought; 3.3 Interactive thought; 3.4 Technoembodied mind; 3.5 Mindware and wetware; 3.6 Synaptic space; 3.7 Transitive computation; 3.8 Thought event; 3.9 Soft thought II; Glossary; Notes; References; Index |
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In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond |
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direct human cognition and control. These include modes of infinity, contingency, and indeterminacy, as well as incomputable quantities underlying the iterative process of algorithmic processing. The main philosophical source for the project is Alfred North Whitehead, whose process philosophy is specifically designed to provide a vocabulary for "modes of thought" exhibiting various degrees of autonomy from human agency even as they are mobilized by it. Because algorithmic processing lies at the heart of the design practices now reshaping our world -- from the physical spaces of our built environment to the networked spaces of digital culture -- the nature of algorithmic thought is a topic of pressing importance that reraises questions of control and, ultimately, power. Contagious Architecture revisits cybernetic theories of control and information theory's notion of the incomputable in light of this rethinking of the role of algorithmic thought. Informed by recent debates in political and cultural theory around the changing landscape of power, it links the nature of abstraction to a new theory of power adequate to the complexities of the digital world. |
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UNINA9910798254103321 |
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War and women across continents : autobiographical and biographical experiences / / edited by Shirley Ardener, Fiona Armitage-Woodward and Lidia Dina Sciama |
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New York : , : Berghahn, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Women in war |
Women and war - Rwanda |
Women and war - Afghanistan |
Women and war - Burma |
Women and war - Kenya |
World War, 1939-1945 - Women |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Women’s Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences of War across Continents: An Introduction -- 1 The Resistance of Francesca Tonetti in German-Occupied Venice 1943–1945 -- 2 Ank Faber-Chabot: A Dutchwoman who Sheltered Jews in the Second World War -- 3 Hildegard Jaschok’s Testimony: Expulsion and Hope in the Second World War -- 4 Mau Mau Women: Sixty Years Later -- 5 Women and Conflict in Burma’s Borderlands -- 6 Rebuilding Family, Body and Soul: New Life on the Cambodian Border -- 7 Rwandan Women at War: Fighting for the Rwandan Patriotic Front (1990–1994) -- 8 Women War Correspondents in 2013 -- 9 Talking Gender, War and Security at NATO -- 10 Military Masculinities and Counter-insurgency Theory and Practice in Afghanistan: An Uneasy Relationship? -- Index |
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Drawing on family materials, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse and often treacherous situations. It relates stories of partisans in Holland, an Italian woman carrying guns and provisions in the face of hostile soldiers, and Kikuyu women involved in the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. A woman displaced from Silesia recalls fleeing with children across war-torn Germany, and women caught up in conflicts in Burma and in Rwanda share their tales. War's aftermath can be traumatic, as shown by journalists in Libya and by a midwife on the Cambodian border who helps refugees to give birth and regain hope. Finally, British women on active service in Afghanistan and at NATO headquarters also speak. |
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