13 Ergebnisse.

Perceptively explores the shifting intersections between algorithmic systems and human practices in the modern era. How have algorithmic systems and human practices developed in tandem since 1800? This volume of Osiris deftly addresses the question, dispelling along the way the traditional notion of algorithmic “code� and human “craft� as natural opposites. Instead, algorithms and humans have always acted in concert, depending on eac...

The Science of Reading is the surprisingly unsung history of scientific research into reading practices, from the origin of the field in German psychophysics to its current extension into digital and online areas. Starting in the late nineteenth century and continuing through to the present, the practice of reading has been made the subject of extensive scientific investigation, and historian Adrian Johns here explores the questions that motiv...

What is the difference between thongs and flip flops? To a Brit, flip flops are worn in the summer to the beach. To an Australian, thongs are all-purpose, all-terrain footwear worn 365 days a year. If they could climb mountains, fight fires in their thongs, they would give it a damn good go.True stories you just never hear! Covering over thirty years from my service in the British Army to migrating to Australia and becoming an underground coal...

What is the difference between thongs and flip flops? To a Brit, flip flops are worn in the summer to the beach. To an Australian, thongs are all-purpose, all-terrain footwear worn 365 days a year. If they could climb mountains, fight fires in their thongs, they would give it a damn good go.True stories you just never hear! Covering over thirty years from my service in the British Army to migrating to Australia and becoming an underground coal...

VERSAMMLUNG DES BÖSEN Die Watchmen sind in die Realität von Superman und Batman eingedrungen und suchen dort das übermächtige Wesen Dr. Manhattan, das ihre Welt retten könnte. Doch auch die Erde der DC-Superhelden befindet sich in Aufruhr, haben doch die Menschen den Glauben an ihre übermächtigen Beschützer verloren. Nicht nur der Joker will die Gunst der Stunde nutzen, um sein Verbrecherimperium zu festigen, der Riddler versammelt die schlimm...

DIE RÜCKKEHR DER WATCHMEN! Zwei Erden, getrennt durch die Dimensionen, mit zwei unterschiedlichen Gruppen Superwesen: Die eine ist die Welt der Helden der Justice League um Batman und Superman, die andere die der Watchmen um den genialen, aber ebenso berechnenden Ozymandias und den psychopathischen Comedian. Doch die gesellschaftliche Ordnung beider Erden gerät aus den Fugen und droht zu zerbrechen! Um seine Welt zu retten, sucht Ozymandias a...

Tempo di pirati globali, il nostro. Hanno i tratti ipertecnologici degli hackers che trovano un varco in bastioni informatici, o l'aspetto proteiforme dei contraffattori su scala planetaria. Però dietro il loro sfuggente anonimato, la loro incerta identità politica e la loro destrezza clandestina preme un albero genealogico antico e gremito di fuorilegge a viso scoperto: i briganti contemporanei vi compaiono solo come gli ultimi discendenti de...

When the pirate operator Oliver Smedley shot and killed his rival Reg Calvert in Smedley's country cottage on June 21, 1966, it was a turning point for the outlaw radio stations dotting the coastal waters of England. Situated on ships and offshore forts like Shivering Sands, these stations blasted away at the high-minded BBC's broadcast monopoly with the new beats of the Stones and DJs like Screaming Lord Sutch. For free-market ideologues like...

Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. This title explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet.

This book is about trust as a political and cultural phenomenon set in the UK during the New Labour administrations of 1997-2010. There is a temptation to see the period between 2007 and 2010 as post-New Labour and that New Labour neatly corresponds with the stewardship of Tony Blair. We are not working with this understanding, rather we see the whole period defined by 'New Labourism' for want of a better term. Having tried to be as clear as p...

Keine Beschreibung.

Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas--commercial, intellectual, political, and individual. "The Nature of the Book" is a tour de force of cultural history. 125 halftones.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Conventions1: Introduction: The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book 2: Literatory Life: The Culture and Credibility of the Printed Book in Early Modern London 3: "The Advancement of Wholesome Knowledge": The Politics of Print and the Practices of Propriety 4: John Streater and the Knights of the Galaxy: Republicanism, Natural Knowledge, and the Politics of Printing 5: Faust and the Pirates: T...