Me++ : the cyborg self and the networked city / / William J. Mitchell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783136303321
• Autore: Mitchell William J (William John), <1944-2010.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2003
• ISBN: 1-282-89915-5; 9786612899157; 0-262-28002-7; 1-4175-7469-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetti: Telecommunication; Computer networks; Cyberspace; Information superhighway - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Prologue; 1 Boundaries / Networks; 2 Connecting Creatures; 3 Wireless Bipeds; 4 Dowsized Dry Goods; 5 Shedding Atoms; 6 Digital Doublin'; 7 Electronic Mnemotechnics; 8 Footloose Fabrication; 9 Post-Sedentary Space; 10 Against Program; 11 Cyborg Agonistes; 12 Logic Prisons; Epilogue; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi: the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. He examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization, and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, and our uses of space and time."--Jacket.

Global rebellion [[electronic resource] ] : religious challenges to the secular state, from Christian militias to al Qaeda / / Mark Juergensmeyer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779541503321
• Autore: Juergensmeyer Mark
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-520-93476-8
• Edizione: [Rev. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Collana: Comparative studies in religion and society ; ; 16
• Classificazione: 89.41; 89.30
• Disciplina: 322/.1
• Soggetti: Religions; Radicalism - Religious aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rise of Religious Rebellion -- Chapter 1: The Religious Challenge to the Secular State -- Chapter 2: The Front Line of Religious Rebellion: The Middle East -- Chapter 3: Political Targets of Rebellion: South, Central, and Southeast Asia -- Chapter 4: Post-Cold War Rebels: Europe, East Asia, and the United States -- Chapter 5: Transnational Networks: Global Jihad -- Chapter 6: The Enduring Problems of Violence, Democracy, and Human Rights -- Conclusion: Religious Rebellion and Global War -- Notes -- List of Interviews -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, Mark Juergensmeyer here provides an up-to-date road map through this complex new religious terrain. Basing his discussion on interviews with militant activists and case studies of rebellious movements, Juergensmeyer puts a human face on conflicts that have become increasingly abstract. He revises our notions of religious revolution and offers positive proposals for responding to religious activism in ways ; that will diminish the violence and lead to an accommodation between radical religion and the secular world.