1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790324603321

Autore

Pugliese Joseph <1959-, >

Titolo

Biometrics : bodies, technologies, biopolitics / / Joseph Pugliese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-95518-6

1-283-52012-5

9786613832573

0-203-84941-8

1-136-95519-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in science, technology, and society ; ; 12

Disciplina

006.4

306.46

Soggetti

Biometric identification

Anthropometry

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

Cover; Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Biopolitics of Biometrics; 1 A Genealogy of Biometric Technologies; 2 The Biometrics of Infrastructural Whiteness; 3 "Identity Dominance": Biometrics, Biosurveillance, Terrorism and War; 4 Identity Fraud and Imposture: Biometrics, the Metaphysics of Presence and the Alleged Liveness of the "Live" Evidentiary Body; 5 Neurotechnologies of Truth: Brain Fingerprinting's Neurognomics and No Lie MRI's Digital Phrenology

Epilogue: Biometrics' Infrastructrual Normativities and the Biopolitics of Somatic SingularitiesReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns about security and screening have increased. This book analyses biometric systems in terms of the application of biopolitical power - corporate, military and governmental - on the human body. It deploys cultural theory in examining the



manner in which biometric technologies constitute the body as

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790128103321

Autore

George Alexandra

Titolo

Constructing intellectual property / / Alexandra George [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-33433-6

1-107-22988-X

1-280-39408-0

9786613572004

1-139-33776-9

1-139-34021-2

1-139-34179-0

1-139-33689-4

1-139-33863-3

1-139-03536-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 405 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

LAW050000

Disciplina

346.04/8

Soggetti

Intellectual property - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The difficulty of defining 'intellectual property' -- The metaphysics of intellectual property -- Intellectual property's core criteria -- 'Family resemblance' and intellectual property -- Concluding remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

What is 'intellectual property'? This book examines the way in which this important area of law is constructed by the legal system. It argues that intellectual property is a body of rules, created by the legal system, that regulate the documented forms of abstract objects, which are also defined into existence by the legal system. Intellectual property law thus constructs its own objects of regulation and it does so through the



application of a collection of core concepts. By analyzing the metaphysical structure of intellectual property law and the concepts the legal system uses to construct 'intellectual property', the book sheds new light on the nature of this fascinating area of law. It explains anomalies between social and intellectual property uses of concepts such as authorship - here dubbed 'creatorship' - and originality and it helps to explain the role of intellectual property from a structural (rather than the traditional normative) perspective.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971639703321

Titolo

Connectionism : theory and practice / / edited by Steven Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773507-X

1-280-44253-0

0-19-536035-4

1-4237-6479-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

322 p. : ill

Collana

Vancouver studies in cognitive science ; ; v.3.

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Connectionism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a conference held in 1990 at Simon Fraser University, sponsored by the university's Cognitive Science Programme.

Previously issued in print: 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Using Coherence Assumptions to Discover the Underlying Causes of the Sensory Input -- Comment -- 2. A Deeper Unity: Some Feyerabendian Themes in Neurocomputational Form -- Comment -- 3. Towards a Microstructural Account of Human Reasoning -- 4. Connectionism without Tears -- Comment -- 5. Grammatical Structure and Distributed Representations -- Comment -- 6. Structured Representations in Connectionist Systems? -- 7. Local Modelling in Phonology -- 8. Connectionism and the Philosophy of



Mental Representation -- 9. Connectionism and the Computional Neurobiology of Curve Detection -- 10. PDP Learnability and Innate Knowledge of Language.

Sommario/riassunto

Part of a series on cognitive behaviour and science, based on a 1990 conference sponsored by the Cognitive Science Program and the Linguistics Department of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.