1: Libri 1.-11. / di Isidoro di Siviglia

• Record Nr.: UNICASMIL0636189
• Autore: Isidorus : Hispalensis <santo>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Torino, : Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, [2004]
• ISBN: 8802059861
• Descrizione fisica: 947 p., [5] c. di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano; Latino
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Trad. italiana a fronte.

Texts from the "Archive" of Socrates, the Tax Collector, and Other Contexts at Karanis : (P. Cair. Mich. II) / / edited by Mohamed Gaber El-Maghrabi and Cornelia Römer ; with contributions by S. El-Masry [and six others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788828203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 3-11-038388-8; 3-11-034570-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 p.)
• Collana: Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Beiheft, , 1868-9337 ; ; 35
• Classificazione: ND 3930
• Disciplina: 913.32
• Soggetti: Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt - Karanis (Extinct city); Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt - Cairo; Karanis (Extinct city)
• 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: Front matter -- TABLE OF CONTENT -- Preface -- Introduction -- A. Literary Texts from the “Archive” of Socrates, the Tax Collector (House B17) -- B. Literary Texts from Street BS1 in Front of B17, and Other Houses -- C. Documents from House B17 and from Street BS1 (House B17) -- D. Documents from Other Locations in Karanis -- Bibliography -- INDEXES
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume of Papyri contains a selection of 25 pieces which were excavated in the village of Karanis in the north-eastern Fayum (Egypt) by American archaeologists between 1924 and 1926. Many of the texts published here come from the archive of a well known figure in the village life of Karanis in the 2nd century AD: Socrates, son of Sarapion, was a tax collector here for many years, serving the Roman Empire collecting taxes due in money and in kind. Besides his successful economic activities - Socrates certainly belonged to the upper stratum of society in Karanis - the tax collector was a lover of Greek literature; for sure, he did not venture into high philosophy and the like, but he read Homer, comedies, and tried to be up to date about mythology in plays. Half of the new texts published here are literary, mostly from Socrates’ library; other texts were found in the immediate neighbourhood of where Socrates lived, such as a surgical treatise about remedies of shoulder dislocations, which perhaps belonged to a doctor. The other half of the papyrus texts in this volume are documents that can shed new light on the activities of the tax collector, or of other inhabitants of Karanis. Altogether they give us a vivid picture of village life in Graeco/Roman Egypt in the 2nd century AD.

Ambient commons : attention in the age of embodied information / / Malcolm McCullough

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779402603321
• Autore: McCullough Malcolm
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts, : The MIT Press, [2013]
• ISBN: 0-262-31348-0; 1-299-44320-6; 0-262-31347-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 720.1/08
• Soggetti: Architectural design - Philosophy; Information commons; Computer-aided design; Human-computer interaction
• 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; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Street Level; I Ideas of the Ambient; 1 Ambient; 2 Information; 3 Attention; 4 Embodiment; 5 Fixity; II Toward an Environmental History of Information; 6 Tagging the Commons; 7 Frames and Facades; 8 Architectural Atmospheres; 9 Megacity Resources; 10 Environmental History; 11 Governing the Ambient; 12 Peak Distraction; Epilogue: Silent Commons; Notes; Name Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Sensors, processors, and memory are not found only in chic smart phones but also built into everyday objects. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able to tune this world out. So it is worth remembering that underneath all these augmentations and data flows, fixed forms persist, and that to notice them can improve other sensibilities. In Ambient Commons, Malcolm McCullough explores the workings of attention though a rediscovery of surroundings. Not all ; that informs has been written and sent; not all attention involves deliberate thought. The intrinsic structure of space -- the layout of a studio, for example, or a plaza -- becomes part of any mental engagement with it. McCullough describes what he calls the Ambient: an increasing tendency to perceive information superabundance whole, where individual signals matter less and at least some mediation assumes inhabitable form. He explores how the fixed forms of architecture and the city play a cognitive role in the flow of ambient information. As a persistently inhabited world, can the Ambient be understood as a shared cultural resource, to be socially curated, voluntarily limited, and self-governed as if a commons? Ambient Commons invites you to look past current obsessions with smart phones to rethink attention itself, to care for more situated, often inescapable forms of information.