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Is there a cultural logic of what we have come to call the information age? Have the technologies and techniques centered on the computer provided not only tools but also the metaphors through which we now understand the social and economic formation of our world? In Control, Seb Franklin addresses the conditions of knowledge that make the concept of the "information(...)
Control: digitality as cultural logic
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Is there a cultural logic of what we have come to call the information age? Have the technologies and techniques centered on the computer provided not only tools but also the metaphors through which we now understand the social and economic formation of our world? In Control, Seb Franklin addresses the conditions of knowledge that make the concept of the "information economy" possible while at the same time obscuring its effects on material social spaces. In so doing, Franklin traces three intertwined threads: the relationships among information, labor, and social management that emerged in the nineteenth century; the mid-twentieth-century diffusion of computational metaphors; and the appearance of informatic principles in certain contemporary socioeconomic and cultural practices. Drawing on critical theory, media theory, and the history of science, Franklin names control as the episteme grounding late capitalism. Beyond any specific device or set of technically mediated practices, digitality functions within this episteme as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity, as well as for the intensification of older modes of exclusion and dispossession. In tracking the pervasiveness of this logical mode into the present, Franklin locates the cultural traces of control across a diverse body of objects and practices, from cybernetics to economic theory and management styles, and from concepts of language and subjectivity to literary texts, films, and video games.
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L'auteure analyse les codes et les usages des membres de communautés d'internautes amateurs de produits Apple. Elle montre que l'imaginaire déployé découle d'une volonté de la marque de créer un univers technologique au sein duquel les attentes et les rêves des clients sont comblés par une offre de produits informatiques.
Les Fans d'Apple : enquête sur les réseaux sociaux
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L'auteure analyse les codes et les usages des membres de communautés d'internautes amateurs de produits Apple. Elle montre que l'imaginaire déployé découle d'une volonté de la marque de créer un univers technologique au sein duquel les attentes et les rêves des clients sont comblés par une offre de produits informatiques.
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Digital keywords
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In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic 'Keywords', the timely collection 'Digital Keywords' gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history,(...)
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In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic 'Keywords', the timely collection 'Digital Keywords' gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology. 'Digital Keywords' examines and critiques the rich lexicon animating the emerging field of digital studies.
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Manifestly Haraway
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Provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges—of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location—are increasingly complex. The subsequent “Companion Species Manifesto,” which further questions(...)
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Provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges—of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location—are increasingly complex. The subsequent “Companion Species Manifesto,” which further questions the human–nonhuman disjunction, is no less urgently needed in our time of environmental crisis and profound polarization.
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L'être et l'écran
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Les techniques ne sont pas seulement des outils, ce sont des structures de la perception. Elles conditionnent la manière dont le monde nous apparaît et dont les phénomènes nous sont donnés. Depuis près d’un demi-siècle, les technologies numériques nous apportent des perceptions d’un monde inconnu. Ces êtres qui émergent de nos écrans et de nos interfaces bouleversent(...)
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Les techniques ne sont pas seulement des outils, ce sont des structures de la perception. Elles conditionnent la manière dont le monde nous apparaît et dont les phénomènes nous sont donnés. Depuis près d’un demi-siècle, les technologies numériques nous apportent des perceptions d’un monde inconnu. Ces êtres qui émergent de nos écrans et de nos interfaces bouleversent l’idée que nous nous faisons de ce qui est réel et nous réapprennent à percevoir. Quel est l’être des êtres numériques ? Que devient notre être-dans-le-monde à l’heure des êtres numériques ? Le temps est venu d’analyser l’«ontophanie numérique» dans toute sa complexité. La prétendue différence entre le réel et le virtuel n’existe pas et n’a jamais existé. Nous vivons dans un environnement hybride, à la fois numérique et non numérique, en ligne et hors ligne, qu’il appartient aux designers de rendre habitable. -
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L'impératif numérique
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Une invitation, pour les sceptiques et tous ceux qui croient en l’utilité des sciences humaines et sociales, à faire davantage l’expérience de notre environnement numérique...
L'impératif numérique
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Une invitation, pour les sceptiques et tous ceux qui croient en l’utilité des sciences humaines et sociales, à faire davantage l’expérience de notre environnement numérique...
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Qu'est-ce que le numérique ?
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Le numérique est un mot qui est passé rapidement dans notre vocabulaire. Mais que désigne-t-il à proprement parler? Comment comprendre et définir cet objet, ce phénomène qui semble destiné à transformer notre quotidien? Les dictionnaires restent un peu perplexes devant le numérique; leurs définitions ne renvoient souvent qu’à l’aspect étymologique et technique – un(...)
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Le numérique est un mot qui est passé rapidement dans notre vocabulaire. Mais que désigne-t-il à proprement parler? Comment comprendre et définir cet objet, ce phénomène qui semble destiné à transformer notre quotidien? Les dictionnaires restent un peu perplexes devant le numérique; leurs définitions ne renvoient souvent qu’à l’aspect étymologique et technique – un secteur associé au calcul, au nombre –, et surtout aux dispositifs opposés à l’analogique. Dans notre usage, le numérique désigne bien autre chose. C’est pourquoi la question de sa définition mérite d’être posée, car elle soulève une difficulté particulière. Une difficulté à la fois épistémologique, institutionnelle et sociale, voire économique et politique, mais qui permet précisément de cerner la complexité du numérique dans son déploiement actuel.
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Earth Moves, Bernard Cache's first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, he offers a new understanding of the architectural image itself. Following Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, he develops an account of the image that is nonrepresentational and constructive—images as constituents of a primary,(...)
Earth moves: the furnishing of territories
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Earth Moves, Bernard Cache's first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, he offers a new understanding of the architectural image itself. Following Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, he develops an account of the image that is nonrepresentational and constructive—images as constituents of a primary, image world, of which subjectivity itself is a special kind of image. Second, Cache redefines architecture beyond building proper to include cinematic, pictoral, and other framings. Complementary to this classification, Cache offers what is to date the only Deleuzean architectural development of the "fold," a form and concept that has become important over the last few years. For Cache, as for Deleuze, what is significant about the fold is that it provides a way to rethink the relationship between interior and exterior, between past and present, and between architecture and the urban.
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Organized by interpretive categories such as space, infrastructure, and imaginaries, this volume uses historical and contemporary examples of how laboratories are fundamentally connected to changes in the contemporary university. The authors cover topics such as the evolution and delineation of lab-based communities, how labs’ tools and technologies contribute to defining(...)
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The lab book: situated practices in media studies
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Organized by interpretive categories such as space, infrastructure, and imaginaries, this volume uses historical and contemporary examples of how laboratories are fundamentally connected to changes in the contemporary university. The authors cover topics such as the evolution and delineation of lab-based communities, how labs’ tools and technologies contribute to defining their space, and a glossary of key hybrid lab techniques.
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World brain
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In a series of talks and essays in 1937, H. G. Wells proselytized for what he called a "World Brain," as manifested in a World Encyclopedia--a repository of scientifically established knowledge--that would spread enlightenment around the world and lead to world peace. Wells, known to readers today as the author of "The War of the Worlds" and other science fiction(...)
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In a series of talks and essays in 1937, H. G. Wells proselytized for what he called a "World Brain," as manifested in a World Encyclopedia--a repository of scientifically established knowledge--that would spread enlightenment around the world and lead to world peace. Wells, known to readers today as the author of "The War of the Worlds" and other science fiction classics, was imagining something like a predigital Wikipedia. The World Encyclopedia would provide a summary of verified reality (in about forty volumes); it would be widely available, free of copyright, and utilize the latest technology. Of course, as Bruce Sterling points out in the foreword to this edition of Wells's work, the World Brain didn't happen; the internet did. And yet, Wells anticipated aspects of the internet, envisioning the World Brain as a technical system of networked knowledge (in Sterling's words, a "hypothetical super-gadget"). Wells's optimism about the power of information might strike readers today as naïvely utopian, but possibly also inspirational.
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