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A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests by the reporter who broke the story.In a series of cover stories for "The Nation" magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York City's most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York(...)
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A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests by the reporter who broke the story.In a series of cover stories for "The Nation" magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York City's most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York(...)
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Patience and fortitude: power, real estate, and the fight to save a public library
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A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests by the reporter who broke the story.In a series of cover stories for "The Nation" magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York City's most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York Public Library. In the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, the library's leaders forged an audacious plan to sell off multiple branch libraries, mutilate a historic building, and send millions of books to a storage facility in New Jersey. Patience and Fortitude is at once a readable history of the library's secret plans, and a stirring account of a rare triumph against the forces of money and power.
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A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests by the reporter who broke the story.In a series of cover stories for "The Nation" magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York City's most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York Public Library. In the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, the library's leaders forged an audacious plan to sell off multiple branch libraries, mutilate a historic building, and send millions of books to a storage facility in New Jersey. Patience and Fortitude is at once a readable history of the library's secret plans, and a stirring account of a rare triumph against the forces of money and power.
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Archive, library and the digital
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A prehistory of the cloud
A prehistory of the cloud
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We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and(...)
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We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and(...)
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A prehistory of the cloud
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We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and cultural norms, all working to keep us from noticing their existence. In this book, Tung-Hui Hu examines the gap between the real and the virtual in our understanding of the cloud.
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We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and cultural norms, all working to keep us from noticing their existence. In this book, Tung-Hui Hu examines the gap between the real and the virtual in our understanding of the cloud.
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August 2015
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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.
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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November 2015
November 2015
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v, 39 pages illustrations 23 cm
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Boston, National Fire Protection Association [1970]
Boston, National Fire Protection Association [1970]
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Protecting our heritage; a discourse on fire protection and prevention in historic buildings and landmarks. Edited by Joseph F. Jenkins.
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v, 39 pages illustrations 23 cm
Protecting our heritage; a discourse on fire protection and prevention in historic buildings and landmarks. Edited by Joseph F. Jenkins.
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Boston, National Fire Protection Association [1970]
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20 pages 23 cm
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[New York], [Educational Facilities Laboratories], [1967]
[New York], [Educational Facilities Laboratories], [1967]
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The Impact of technology on the library building.
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20 pages 23 cm
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[New York], [Educational Facilities Laboratories], [1967]
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130 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.
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Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje, 1997.
Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje, 1997.
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Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main : ein Dialog zwischen Architekten und Bibliothekaren / herausgegeben von Klaus-Dieter Lehmann und Ingo Kolasa, in Zusammenarbeit mit Arat-Kaiser-Kaiser.
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130 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.
Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main : ein Dialog zwischen Architekten und Bibliothekaren / herausgegeben von Klaus-Dieter Lehmann und Ingo Kolasa, in Zusammenarbeit mit Arat-Kaiser-Kaiser.
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Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje, 1997.
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London : Batsford, 1894.
London : Batsford, 1894.
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Reference books on architecture and decoration, with hints on the formation of an architectural library : a paper read before The Society of Architects on December 11th, 1894 / by Herbert Batsford.
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Reference books on architecture and decoration, with hints on the formation of an architectural library : a paper read before The Society of Architects on December 11th, 1894 / by Herbert Batsford.
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London : Batsford, 1894.
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viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Medford, N.J. : Published for the American Society for Information Science by Learned Information, 1992.
Medford, N.J. : Published for the American Society for Information Science by Learned Information, 1992.
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Studies in multimedia : state-of-the art solutions in multimedia and hypertext / edited by Susan Stone and Michael Buckland.
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Studies in multimedia : state-of-the art solutions in multimedia and hypertext / edited by Susan Stone and Michael Buckland.
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Medford, N.J. : Published for the American Society for Information Science by Learned Information, 1992.
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vii, 147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
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Fantasies of the library / edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin.
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vii, 147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Fantasies of the library / edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1991.
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The Carnegie library in Illinois / text by Raymond Bial and Linda LaPuma Bial ; photographs by Raymond Bial ; foreword by George S. Bobinski.
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The Carnegie library in Illinois / text by Raymond Bial and Linda LaPuma Bial ; photographs by Raymond Bial ; foreword by George S. Bobinski.
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Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1991.
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