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UNINA9910791564303321 |
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Dirks Nicholas B. <1950-> |
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The scandal of empire [[electronic resource] ] : India and the creation of imperial Britain / / Nicholas B. Dirks |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006 |
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1 online resource (xviii, 389 p. ) : ill., ports |
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Political corruption - India - History - 18th century |
India Colonization History 18th century |
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Monografia |
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Originally published: 2006. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. Scandal -- 2. Corruption -- 3. Spectacle -- 4. Economy -- 5. Sovereignty -- 6. State -- 7. History -- 8. Tradition -- 9. Empire -- Notes. Illustration Credits. Index -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
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The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond. In this powerfully written critique, Nicholas Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable, we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world. |
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UNINA9910828677703321 |
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Autore |
Critchley Simon |
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ABC of impossibility / / Simon Critchley |
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Minneapolis, MN : , : Univocal Publishing, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (89 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; pharmakon; Title Page; Copyright; ABC of Impossibility; Introduction; Fragments; World; Happiness; Life; Hegel; Tourism; Surfaciality; Indirection; Suicide; New York City; Death; Critchley; Augustine; Poetry; Emptiness; Patti Smith; Relationships; Money I; America; Languor; Marx; Impossibility; Eccentricity; Being; Possibly dolorous tropical lyrical coda |
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An experimental text of para-philosophical fragments working toward a poetic ontology. How does one write an experimental ABC: an impossible theory that would deal with a series of phenomena, concepts, places, sensations, persons, and moods? A para-philosophy? Returning to a once abandoned project of fragmented thoughts where the author's voice moves from the serious, to the pathetic, to the absurd, to the cynical, Simon Critchley's ABC of Impossibility finds new life in the form of this small encyclopedic and aphoristic text where the reader bears witness to the slow emergence of an attempt at a poetic ontology. ABC of Impossibility is a unique undertaking that returns to the poetic site of the fragment as thought. Following a heritage of fragmented, aphoristic thinkers including Pascal, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Pessoa, Critchley revitalizes a para-philosophical thinking that can only be uttered by way of another, as he declares in the opening pages, "In writing this, I promise to tell the truth, but not to be myself." |
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UNINA9910557343203321 |
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Autore |
Gams M (Matjaž) |
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Artificial Intelligence and Ambient Intelligence |
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Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
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1 online resource (142 p.) |
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Information technology industries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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This book includes a series of scientific papers published in the Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Ambient Intelligence at the journal Electronics MDPI. The book starts with an opinion paper on "Relations between Electronics, Artificial Intelligence and Information Society through Information Society Rules", presenting relations between information society, electronics and artificial intelligence mainly through twenty-four IS laws. After that, the book continues with a series of technical papers that present applications of Artificial Intelligence and Ambient Intelligence in a variety of fields including affective computing, privacy and security in smart environments, and robotics. More specifically, the first part presents usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods in combination with wearable devices (e.g., smartphones and wristbands) for recognizing human psychological states (e.g., emotions and cognitive load). The second part presents usage of AI methods in combination with laser sensors or Wi-Fi signals for improving security in smart buildings by identifying and counting the number of visitors. The last part presents usage of AI methods in robotics for improving robots' ability for object gripping manipulation and perception. The language of the book is rather technical, thus the intended audience are scientists and researchers who have at least some basic knowledge in computer science. |
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