La vie algorithmique
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Les technologies numériques imposent un mode de rationalité fondé sur la définition chiffrée de toute situation et sur une maîtrise indéfiniment accrue du cours des choses. Une connaissance sans cesse approfondie s’instaure, orientant les décisions individuelles et collectives au prisme d’algorithmes visant les plus hautes optimisation, fluidification et sécurisation des(...)
La vie algorithmique
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Les technologies numériques imposent un mode de rationalité fondé sur la définition chiffrée de toute situation et sur une maîtrise indéfiniment accrue du cours des choses. Une connaissance sans cesse approfondie s’instaure, orientant les décisions individuelles et collectives au prisme d’algorithmes visant les plus hautes optimisation, fluidification et sécurisation des existences et des sociétés. Ce livre, qui examine la quantification et la marchandisation intégrales de la vie, est le premier volet d’une trilogie devenue la référence sur la compréhension de la nouvelle condition humaine à l’ère numérique. Suivront « La Silicolonisation du monde » et « L’Intelligence artificielle ou l’enjeu du siècle ».
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In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What structures of power and control operate over a self-organising system(...)
Network culture: Politics for the information age
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In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of information overload and media saturation? What structures of power and control operate over a self-organising system like the internet? In this highly original new work, Tiziana Terranova investigates the political dimension of the network culture in which we now live, and explores what the new forms of communication and organisation might mean for our understanding of power and politics. Terranova engages with key concepts and debates in cultural theory and cultural politics, using examples from media culture, computing, network dynamics, and internet activism within the anti-capitalist and anti-war movements.
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L'envers de la tech
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L'industrie technologique a opéré le tour de magie le plus réussi à ce jour : faire croire qu'internet est dématérialisé, que le numérique n'est qu'un agent de fluidification des échanges de services et de marchandises via le cloud. C'est pourtant méconnaître le cycle de l'eau que considérer comme nul l'impact des nuages sur le sol qu'ils ombragent, les terres qu'ils(...)
L'envers de la tech
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L'industrie technologique a opéré le tour de magie le plus réussi à ce jour : faire croire qu'internet est dématérialisé, que le numérique n'est qu'un agent de fluidification des échanges de services et de marchandises via le cloud. C'est pourtant méconnaître le cycle de l'eau que considérer comme nul l'impact des nuages sur le sol qu'ils ombragent, les terres qu'ils arrosent, l'électricité qu'ils amassent puis déchargent dans l'air. » . À l'heure de l'explosion de l'intelligence artificielle, les paradoxes environnementaux et sociétaux du numérique sont de plus en plus visibles : là où les géants de la tech assurent oeuvrer pour le bien commun, les effets de leurs activités sur la planète, les écosystèmes, mais aussi sur les liens sociaux et la démocratie elle-même montrent qu'ils amplifient en réalité les risques - naturels autant que politiques - auxquels nous sommes confronté es aujourd'hui.
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The Holocaust: a history
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''Holocaust'' illuminates the long march of events, from the Middle Ages to the modern era, which led to this great atrocity. It is a story of all Europe, of Nazis and their allies, the experience of wartime occupation, the suffering and strategies of marked victims, the failure of international rescue, and the success of individual rescuers. ''Holocaust'' uniquely makes(...)
The Holocaust: a history
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''Holocaust'' illuminates the long march of events, from the Middle Ages to the modern era, which led to this great atrocity. It is a story of all Europe, of Nazis and their allies, the experience of wartime occupation, the suffering and strategies of marked victims, the failure of international rescue, and the success of individual rescuers. ''Holocaust'' uniquely makes use of oral histories recorded by the authors over fifteen years across Europe and the United States, as well as never-before-analyzed archival documents, letters, and diaries; it contains in addition seventy-five illustrations and sixteen original maps, each accompanied by an extended caption.
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Impulse: Archeology
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Eldon Garnet was the editor and publisher of "Impulse" from 1975 to 1990, when it ceased publication, and with "Impulse Archaeology", he brings the magazine’s spirit back to life. The book is an eclectic collection of original and groundbreaking interviews, articles, and artwork that ranges in scope from pieces on Punk rock to early discussions on postmodernism, and that(...)
September 2005, Toronto
Impulse: Archeology
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Eldon Garnet was the editor and publisher of "Impulse" from 1975 to 1990, when it ceased publication, and with "Impulse Archaeology", he brings the magazine’s spirit back to life. The book is an eclectic collection of original and groundbreaking interviews, articles, and artwork that ranges in scope from pieces on Punk rock to early discussions on postmodernism, and that includes contributions from artists, architects, writers, and philosophers. "Impulse Archaeology" honours this important period in Canadian art and cultural history, recalling the early influence of like-minded publications from New York and the import of French theorists and European artists and writers into North America. "Impulse" brought the world into Canada and Canada to the world. Eldon Garnet is an international photographic artist and novelist based in Toronto and a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
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In Eugenic Design, Christina Cogdell charts new territory in the history of industrial design, popular science, and American culture in the 1930s by uncovering the links between streamline design and eugenics, the pseudoscientific belief that the best human traits could be cultivated through selective breeding. Streamline designers approached products the same way(...)
Eugenic design: streamlining America in the 1903's
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In Eugenic Design, Christina Cogdell charts new territory in the history of industrial design, popular science, and American culture in the 1930s by uncovering the links between streamline design and eugenics, the pseudoscientific belief that the best human traits could be cultivated through selective breeding. Streamline designers approached products the same way eugenicists approached bodies.
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Parmi les stigmatisations formulées par l'Internationale situationniste, l'urbanisme occupe une place spécifique en tant que forme spatiale de domination de la marchandise ou comme décor naturel du capitalisme. Ses diatribes et attaques constituent une véritable déclaration de guerre contre l'idéologie dominante du fonctionnalisme et du modernisme, entendue comme voie(...)
February 2008, Paris
Le grand jeu à venir: textes situationnistes sur la ville
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Parmi les stigmatisations formulées par l'Internationale situationniste, l'urbanisme occupe une place spécifique en tant que forme spatiale de domination de la marchandise ou comme décor naturel du capitalisme. Ses diatribes et attaques constituent une véritable déclaration de guerre contre l'idéologie dominante du fonctionnalisme et du modernisme, entendue comme voie royale du progrès économique et social. Nulle part mieux que dans les transformations de l'art de bâtir, la prégnance de cette nouvelle doxa n'est manifeste. En dépit de quelques travestissements culturels, l'architecture renoue avec sa fonction politique d'inscrire la division de la société dans l'espace, imposant à chaque classe sociale sa place.
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Housing has become a key concern in most parts of today’s world, putting social housing again at the centre of public debate. However, it is not clear what the "social" in social housing actually means. This book sets out to increase our knowledge about social housing and stimulate an ongoing discussion about what the social refers to (or is meant to refer to). The book(...)
May 2023
The social dimension of social housing
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Housing has become a key concern in most parts of today’s world, putting social housing again at the centre of public debate. However, it is not clear what the "social" in social housing actually means. This book sets out to increase our knowledge about social housing and stimulate an ongoing discussion about what the social refers to (or is meant to refer to). The book invites you on a journey across continents and concepts, offering up a kaleidoscope of social, political, and cultural realities.
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Contemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island’s treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn’s creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays,this publication distills the artist’s lifelong experience of Iceland’s natural environment.(...)
Island zombie: Iceland writings
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Contemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island’s treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn’s creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays,this publication distills the artist’s lifelong experience of Iceland’s natural environment. Together, these pieces offer an unforgettable exploration of the indefinable and inescapable force of remote, elemental places, and provide a sustained look at how an island and its atmosphere can take possession of the innermost self.
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This volume proposes radical ideas for the future of sustainability in the construction and architectural industries. It asks how, rather than continuing to erect new buildings, we can instead harness the construction industry to make a positive contribution to the environment.
March 2023
Building with a positive footprint
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This volume proposes radical ideas for the future of sustainability in the construction and architectural industries. It asks how, rather than continuing to erect new buildings, we can instead harness the construction industry to make a positive contribution to the environment.