LEADER 03089nam 2200373 450 001 9910477000203321 005 20230513000339.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000000567940 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000000567940 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000567940 100 $a20230513d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aDecolonising the Human $eReflections from Africa on difference and oppression /$fedited by Melissa E. Steyn, William Mpofu 210 1$aJohannesburg :$cWits University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe trouble with the human / William Mpofu and Milissa Steyn The intervention of blackness on a world scale / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Patricia Pinky Ndlovu To what extent are we all humans?: Of culture, politics, law. and LGBT rights in Nigeria / Olayinka Akanle, Gbenga S. Adejare, and Jojolola Fasuyi Humanness and ableism: Construction and deconstruction of disability / Sibonokuhle Ndlovu Doing the old human / Cary Burnett Being a mineworker in post-apartheid South Africa: a decolonial perspective / Robert Maseko Meditations on the dehumanisation of the slave / Tendayi Sithole 'Language as being" in the politics of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o / Brian Sibanda The underside of modern knowledge: an epistemic break from Western science / Nokuthula Hlabangane The fiction of the juristic person: reassessing personhood in relation to people / C. D. Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara The cultural village and the idea of the 'human' / Morgan Ndlovu A fragmented humanity and monologues: towards a diversal humanism / Siphamandla Zondi Contributors Index. 330 $aThe 'human' emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle, and the degradation, marginalisation and immiseration of those excluded as the different and inferior Other, the less than human.Speaking from Africa, a key site where the category of the human has been used throughout European modernity to control, exclude and deny equality of being, the contributors use decoloniality as a potent theoretical and philosophical tool, gesturing towards a liberated, pluriversal world where human difference will be recognised as a gift, not used to police the boundaries of the human. 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Introduction. 1.1. A brief history of temperature and entropy. 1.2. The association of entropy with disorder. 1.3. The association of entropy with missing information -- 2. Elements of probability theory. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. The axiomatic approach. 2.3. The classical definition. 2.4. The relative frequency definition. 2.5. Independent events and conditional probability. 2.6. Bayes' Theorem. 2.7. Random variables, average, variance and correlation. 2.8. Some specific distributions. 2.9. Generating functions. 2.10. The law of large numbers -- 3. Elements of information theory. 3.1. A qualitative introduction to information theory. 3.2. Definition of Shannon's information and its properties. 3.3. The various interpretations of the Quantity H. 3.4. The assignment of probabilities by the maximum uncertainty principle. 3.5. The missing information and the average number of binary questions needed to acquire it. 3.6. The false positive problem, revisited. 3.7. The urn problem, revisited -- 4. Transition from the general MI to the thermodynamic MI. 4.1. MI in binding systems: one kind of information. 4.2. Some simple processes in binding systems. 4.3. MI in an ideal gas system: two kinds of information. The Sackur-Tetrode equation. 4.4. Comments -- 5. The structure of the foundations of statistical thermodynamics. 5.1. The isolated system; the micro-canonical ensemble. 5.2. System in a constant temperature; the canonical ensemble. 5.3. The classical analog of the canonical partition function. 5.4. The re-interpretation of the Sackur-Tetrode expression from informational considerations. 5.5. Identifying the parameter for an ideal gas. 5.6. Systems at constant temperature and chemical potential; the grand canonical ensemble. 5.7. Systems at constant temperature and pressure; the isothermal isobaric ensemble. 5.8. The mutual information due to intermolecular interactions -- 6. Some simple applications. 6.1. Expansion of an ideal gas. 6.2. Pure, reversible mixing; the first illusion. 6.3. Pure assimilation process; the second illusion. 6.4. Irreversible process of mixing coupled with expansion. 6.5. Irreversible process of demixing coupled with expansion. 6.6. Reversible assimilation coupled with expansion. 6.7. Reflections on the processes of mixing and assimilation. 6.8. A pure spontaneous deassimilation process. 6.9. A process involving only change in the momentum distribution. 6.10. A process involving change in the intermolecular interaction energy. 6.11. Some baffling experiments. 6.12. The second law of thermodynamics. 330 $aThe principal message of this book is that thermodynamics and statistical mechanics will benefit from replacing the unfortunate, misleading and mysterious term "entropy" with a more familiar, meaningful and appropriate term such as information, missing information or uncertainty. 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