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A meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.
Palimpsest : a history of the written word
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Archive, library and the digital
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Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical marks in our lives using them as reading lenses to consider a broad range of textual objects and practices across the digital age.
Digital shift: the cultural logic of punctuation
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Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical marks in our lives using them as reading lenses to consider a broad range of textual objects and practices across the digital age.
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The anthrobscene
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Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental wasteland, where media never die. Jussi Parikka critiques(...)
The anthrobscene
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Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental wasteland, where media never die. Jussi Parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a geophysical force, analyzing the material side of the earth as essential for the existence of media and introducing the notion of an alternative deep time in which media live on in the layer of toxic waste we will leave behind as our geological legacy.
Archive, library and the digital
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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(...)
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 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(...)
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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journals and magazines
Madrid : Fundación para el Análisis y Estudios Sociales, 2003-
journals and magazines
Madrid : Fundación para el Análisis y Estudios Sociales, 2003-
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19 nos. illustrations, plates, diagrams 35 cm
Mexico, D.F. 1923-27.
El Arquitecto; revista Mexicana de arquitectura y artes americanas.
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Mexico, D.F. 1923-27.
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323 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 18 cm.
[Zurich] : Migros-Kulturprozent ; [Basel] : Christoph Merian Verlag, [2019], ©2019
Virtual reality / Dominik Landwehr (Hg./Ed.).
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[Zurich] : Migros-Kulturprozent ; [Basel] : Christoph Merian Verlag, [2019], ©2019
Ryoji Ikeda : continuum
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Présentation d'une double installation basée sur deux espaces adjacents, articulant un parcours immersif visuel et sonore. Le visiteur pénètre dans une pièce plongée dans l’obscurité, où flotte une seule immense image, datascape abstrait, où se cristallise un vertige d’événements visuels et sonores impalpables. À travers cette oeuvre, l’artiste rend perceptible un(...)
Ryoji Ikeda : continuum
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Présentation d'une double installation basée sur deux espaces adjacents, articulant un parcours immersif visuel et sonore. Le visiteur pénètre dans une pièce plongée dans l’obscurité, où flotte une seule immense image, datascape abstrait, où se cristallise un vertige d’événements visuels et sonores impalpables. À travers cette oeuvre, l’artiste rend perceptible un au-delà dimensionnel issu d’un champ de forces : l’espace numérique et le brassage illimité et multidirectionnel de l’information qui s’y livre en continu et interroge la place de l’homme (le spectateur) au regard de l’échelle micro- et macroscopique. Ryoji Ikeda transpose cette réalité immatérielle en une esthétique qu’il qualifie de « mathématique », tout à la fois électrisante et onirique.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Le déclin des énergies fossiles, le « bilan carbone » de nos loisirs, les pandémies et la réinvention des migrations saisonnières de masse dans les bookings en dernière minute de l'économie numérique ont mis à mal les prévisions des professionnels du tourisme. Dans le même temps, l'abolition des distances par visio nous éloigne de l'expérience incarnée du voyage aussi(...)
World tour : Voyage, imaginaire et paysage du monde d'après
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Le déclin des énergies fossiles, le « bilan carbone » de nos loisirs, les pandémies et la réinvention des migrations saisonnières de masse dans les bookings en dernière minute de l'économie numérique ont mis à mal les prévisions des professionnels du tourisme. Dans le même temps, l'abolition des distances par visio nous éloigne de l'expérience incarnée du voyage aussi sûrement que s'interpénètrent des socialités publiques, professionnelles et domestiques dans la nouvelle géographie de nos vies. Entre lieux de résidence routiniers et confins aussi dangereux qu'inatteignables se réorganisent la vacance d'un « tourisme intermédiaire » sécurisé et de proximité, mais aussi la réinvention de fictions lointaines, d'utopies terrestres où nous n'irons plus jamais...
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