1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818421603321

Autore

Passath Niki <1977->

Titolo

Niki Passath : thinking like a machine : an artists journey into robotics / / contributions from Gerald Bast [and nine others] ; translation from German into English, Christopher Barber, Sophie Frühling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany : , : Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

3-11-054379-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Edition Angewandte : book series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Disciplina

700.411

Soggetti

Robots in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Conversation Bast-Reder- Weibel-Passath -- 1. Kurt -- 2. Volker -- 3. Something For The Pain -- 4. Zoe -- 5. Chimera -- 6. Painting Traces -- 7. Thinking Like A Machine -- 8. The Artist As A Machine -- Authors -- Colophon

Sommario/riassunto

In many modes of behavior, people act more and more like machines. In the context of work, people have become a human resource that can be replaced at any time. An existence without purpose cannot be imagined just as a machine without function is absurd. Do humans already think like machines? Do they have a "master-slave" relationship with them? Are humans no longer any more than an organic prosthetic fitted to an inorganic body? With his created robotic beings, Niki Passath breaks with this seemingly rational technological system. By eliminating the predominant rationality of the machine, he gives it a new meaning. This book is the first monograph on the artist's oeuvre. Internationally renowned experts shed light on the many facets of his work.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806911603321

Autore

Ossa Santa Cruz Juan Luis

Titolo

Armies, politics and revolution : Chile, 1808-1826 / / Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, [England] : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78138-744-3

1-78138-490-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : maps (black and white)

Collana

Liverpool Latin American Studies ; ; New Series 13

Disciplina

983.04

Soggetti

Chile History 1810-

Chile History, Military 19th century

Chile Politics and government 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This work studies the political role of the Chilean military during the years 1808-1826. Beginning with the fall of the Spanish monarchy to Napoleon in 1808 and ending immediately after the last royalist contingents were expelled from the island of Chiloe, it does not seek to give a full picture of the participation of military men on the battlefield but rather to interpret their involvement in local politics. In so doing it makes a contribution to the understanding of Chile's revolution of independence, as well as to discuss some of the most recent historiographical contributions on the role of the military in the creation of the Chilean republic.