Author: Michel Laguës
Publisher: CNRS
ISBN: 9782271089335
Category : Knowledge representation (Information theory)
Languages : fr
Pages : 383
Book Description
Pérenniser la mémoire est certainement l'une des plus grandes aventures d'Homo sapiens. En complément de l'évolution biologique fort lente des capacités cérébrales – dont il a particulièrement bénéficié – il lui faut inventer. D'abord dessiner et peindre, puis construire des écritures, avec des symboles et des règles. Sur des tablettes d'argile, de bois, de feuilles, de papyrus, de soie, de parchemin, de papier... En enregistrant ainsi ses idées et ses textes, ses nombres et ses équations, ses chants et ses philosophies, il démontre et développe son agilité intellectuelle, son désir de surmonter sa finitude, de transmettre une trace à ses descendants. Puis l'aventure s'emballe. La machine mesure, des automates enregistrent, mieux et bien plus vite que la main ne peut écrire. Enfin, la machine, encore, convertit toute information en nombres. Désormais la mémoire se blottit au coeur des atomes et s'évapore dans les nuages. Elle est traitée, se transforme et se communique instantanément dans le monde entier. Un être humain peut disposer du savoir de l'Humanité dans la paume de sa main. Une telle accélération exponentielle de la croissance des techniques nous promet des transformations radicales du monde au coeur du XXIe siècle. Cet ouvrage propose ainsi une fresque continue depuis le génome, registre de notre personne et de notre espèce, jusqu'aux promesses et aux risques des Big Data. Préface de Yves Quéré Postface de Hubert Reeves
L'invention de la mémoire
Author: Michel Laguës
Publisher: CNRS
ISBN: 9782271089335
Category : Knowledge representation (Information theory)
Languages : fr
Pages : 383
Book Description
Pérenniser la mémoire est certainement l'une des plus grandes aventures d'Homo sapiens. En complément de l'évolution biologique fort lente des capacités cérébrales – dont il a particulièrement bénéficié – il lui faut inventer. D'abord dessiner et peindre, puis construire des écritures, avec des symboles et des règles. Sur des tablettes d'argile, de bois, de feuilles, de papyrus, de soie, de parchemin, de papier... En enregistrant ainsi ses idées et ses textes, ses nombres et ses équations, ses chants et ses philosophies, il démontre et développe son agilité intellectuelle, son désir de surmonter sa finitude, de transmettre une trace à ses descendants. Puis l'aventure s'emballe. La machine mesure, des automates enregistrent, mieux et bien plus vite que la main ne peut écrire. Enfin, la machine, encore, convertit toute information en nombres. Désormais la mémoire se blottit au coeur des atomes et s'évapore dans les nuages. Elle est traitée, se transforme et se communique instantanément dans le monde entier. Un être humain peut disposer du savoir de l'Humanité dans la paume de sa main. Une telle accélération exponentielle de la croissance des techniques nous promet des transformations radicales du monde au coeur du XXIe siècle. Cet ouvrage propose ainsi une fresque continue depuis le génome, registre de notre personne et de notre espèce, jusqu'aux promesses et aux risques des Big Data. Préface de Yves Quéré Postface de Hubert Reeves
Publisher: CNRS
ISBN: 9782271089335
Category : Knowledge representation (Information theory)
Languages : fr
Pages : 383
Book Description
Pérenniser la mémoire est certainement l'une des plus grandes aventures d'Homo sapiens. En complément de l'évolution biologique fort lente des capacités cérébrales – dont il a particulièrement bénéficié – il lui faut inventer. D'abord dessiner et peindre, puis construire des écritures, avec des symboles et des règles. Sur des tablettes d'argile, de bois, de feuilles, de papyrus, de soie, de parchemin, de papier... En enregistrant ainsi ses idées et ses textes, ses nombres et ses équations, ses chants et ses philosophies, il démontre et développe son agilité intellectuelle, son désir de surmonter sa finitude, de transmettre une trace à ses descendants. Puis l'aventure s'emballe. La machine mesure, des automates enregistrent, mieux et bien plus vite que la main ne peut écrire. Enfin, la machine, encore, convertit toute information en nombres. Désormais la mémoire se blottit au coeur des atomes et s'évapore dans les nuages. Elle est traitée, se transforme et se communique instantanément dans le monde entier. Un être humain peut disposer du savoir de l'Humanité dans la paume de sa main. Une telle accélération exponentielle de la croissance des techniques nous promet des transformations radicales du monde au coeur du XXIe siècle. Cet ouvrage propose ainsi une fresque continue depuis le génome, registre de notre personne et de notre espèce, jusqu'aux promesses et aux risques des Big Data. Préface de Yves Quéré Postface de Hubert Reeves
The Little Prince
Author: Antoine de Saint−Exupery
Publisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 0369406370
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Little Prince and nbsp;(French: and nbsp;Le Petit Prince) is a and nbsp;novella and nbsp;by French aristocrat, writer, and aviator and nbsp;Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the US by and nbsp;Reynal and amp; Hitchcock and nbsp;in April 1943, and posthumously in France following the and nbsp;liberation of France and nbsp;as Saint-Exupéry's works had been banned by the and nbsp;Vichy Regime. The story follows a young prince who visits various planets in space, including Earth, and addresses themes of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss. Despite its style as a children's book, and nbsp;The Little Prince and nbsp;makes observations about life, adults and human nature. The Little Prince and nbsp;became Saint-Exupéry's most successful work, selling an estimated 140 million copies worldwide, which makes it one of the and nbsp;best-selling and nbsp;and and nbsp;most translated books and nbsp;ever published. and nbsp;It has been translated into 301 languages and dialects. and nbsp;The Little Prince and nbsp;has been adapted to numerous art forms and media, including audio recordings, radio plays, live stage, film, television, ballet, and opera.
Publisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 0369406370
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Little Prince and nbsp;(French: and nbsp;Le Petit Prince) is a and nbsp;novella and nbsp;by French aristocrat, writer, and aviator and nbsp;Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the US by and nbsp;Reynal and amp; Hitchcock and nbsp;in April 1943, and posthumously in France following the and nbsp;liberation of France and nbsp;as Saint-Exupéry's works had been banned by the and nbsp;Vichy Regime. The story follows a young prince who visits various planets in space, including Earth, and addresses themes of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss. Despite its style as a children's book, and nbsp;The Little Prince and nbsp;makes observations about life, adults and human nature. The Little Prince and nbsp;became Saint-Exupéry's most successful work, selling an estimated 140 million copies worldwide, which makes it one of the and nbsp;best-selling and nbsp;and and nbsp;most translated books and nbsp;ever published. and nbsp;It has been translated into 301 languages and dialects. and nbsp;The Little Prince and nbsp;has been adapted to numerous art forms and media, including audio recordings, radio plays, live stage, film, television, ballet, and opera.
Corpus
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823229637
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
How have we thought “the body”? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the “mystical body of Christ”—all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy’s masterwork. Corpus is a work of literary force at once phenomenological, sociological, theological, and philosophical in its multiple orientations and approaches. In thirty-six brief sections, Nancy offers us at once an encyclopedia and a polemical program—reviewing classical takes on the “corpus” from Plato, Aristotle, and Saint Paul to Descartes, Hegel, Husserl, and Freud, while demonstrating that the mutations (technological, biological, and political) of our own culture have given rise to the need for a new understanding of the body. He not only tells the story of this cultural change but also explores the promise and responsibilities that such a new understanding entails. The long-awaited English translation is a bold, bravura rendering. To the title essay are added five closely related recent pieces—including a commentary by Antonia Birnbaum—dedicated in large part to the legacy of the “mind-body problem” formulated by Descartes and the challenge it poses to rethinking the ancient problems of the corpus. The last and most poignant of these essays is “The Intruder,” Nancy’s philosophical meditation on his heart transplant. The book also serves as the opening move in Nancy’s larger project called “The deconstruction of Christianity.”
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823229637
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
How have we thought “the body”? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the “mystical body of Christ”—all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy’s masterwork. Corpus is a work of literary force at once phenomenological, sociological, theological, and philosophical in its multiple orientations and approaches. In thirty-six brief sections, Nancy offers us at once an encyclopedia and a polemical program—reviewing classical takes on the “corpus” from Plato, Aristotle, and Saint Paul to Descartes, Hegel, Husserl, and Freud, while demonstrating that the mutations (technological, biological, and political) of our own culture have given rise to the need for a new understanding of the body. He not only tells the story of this cultural change but also explores the promise and responsibilities that such a new understanding entails. The long-awaited English translation is a bold, bravura rendering. To the title essay are added five closely related recent pieces—including a commentary by Antonia Birnbaum—dedicated in large part to the legacy of the “mind-body problem” formulated by Descartes and the challenge it poses to rethinking the ancient problems of the corpus. The last and most poignant of these essays is “The Intruder,” Nancy’s philosophical meditation on his heart transplant. The book also serves as the opening move in Nancy’s larger project called “The deconstruction of Christianity.”
The Fault in Our Stars
Author: John Green
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101569182
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The beloved, #1 global bestseller by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down “John Green is one of the best writers alive.” –E. Lockhart, #1 bestselling author of We Were Liars “The greatest romance story of this decade.″ –Entertainment Weekly #1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller • #1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 International Bestseller Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. From John Green, #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down, The Fault in Our Stars is insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw. It brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101569182
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The beloved, #1 global bestseller by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down “John Green is one of the best writers alive.” –E. Lockhart, #1 bestselling author of We Were Liars “The greatest romance story of this decade.″ –Entertainment Weekly #1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller • #1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 International Bestseller Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. From John Green, #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down, The Fault in Our Stars is insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw. It brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt
Author: Shannon Mattern
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452955425
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for millennia? In Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Shannon Mattern advances the provocative argument that our urban spaces have been “smart” and mediated for thousands of years. Offering powerful new ways of thinking about our cities, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt goes far beyond the standard historical concepts of origins, development, revolutions, and the accomplishments of an elite few. Mattern shows that in their architecture, laws, street layouts, and civic knowledge—and through technologies including the telephone, telegraph, radio, printing, writing, and even the human voice—cities have long negotiated a rich exchange between analog and digital, code and clay, data and dirt, ether and ore. Mattern’s vivid prose takes readers through a historically and geographically broad range of stories, scenes, and locations, synthesizing a new narrative for our urban spaces. Taking media archaeology to the city’s streets, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452955425
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for millennia? In Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Shannon Mattern advances the provocative argument that our urban spaces have been “smart” and mediated for thousands of years. Offering powerful new ways of thinking about our cities, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt goes far beyond the standard historical concepts of origins, development, revolutions, and the accomplishments of an elite few. Mattern shows that in their architecture, laws, street layouts, and civic knowledge—and through technologies including the telephone, telegraph, radio, printing, writing, and even the human voice—cities have long negotiated a rich exchange between analog and digital, code and clay, data and dirt, ether and ore. Mattern’s vivid prose takes readers through a historically and geographically broad range of stories, scenes, and locations, synthesizing a new narrative for our urban spaces. Taking media archaeology to the city’s streets, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt reveals new ways to write our urban, media, and cultural histories.
Noise
Author: Alex Preda
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022642751X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There’s another side to finance, though—the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make their own trades. The shocking truth, however, is that less than 2% of these amateur traders make a consistent profit. Why, then, do they do it? In Noise, Alex Preda explores the world of the people who trade even when by all measures they would be better off not trading. Based on firsthand observations, interviews with traders and brokers, and on international direct trading experience, Preda’s fascinating ethnography investigates how ordinary people take up financial trading, how they form communities of their own behind their computer screens, and how electronic finance encourages them to trade more and more frequently. Along the way, Preda finds the answer to the paradox of amateur trading—the traders aren’t so much seeking monetary rewards in the financial markets, rather the trading itself helps them to fulfill their own personal goals and aspirations.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022642751X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There’s another side to finance, though—the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make their own trades. The shocking truth, however, is that less than 2% of these amateur traders make a consistent profit. Why, then, do they do it? In Noise, Alex Preda explores the world of the people who trade even when by all measures they would be better off not trading. Based on firsthand observations, interviews with traders and brokers, and on international direct trading experience, Preda’s fascinating ethnography investigates how ordinary people take up financial trading, how they form communities of their own behind their computer screens, and how electronic finance encourages them to trade more and more frequently. Along the way, Preda finds the answer to the paradox of amateur trading—the traders aren’t so much seeking monetary rewards in the financial markets, rather the trading itself helps them to fulfill their own personal goals and aspirations.
Ecritures digitales
Author: Claire Clivaz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004399655
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ecritures digitales aims to demonstrate how digital writing, as new technology, contributes to the emergence of a reconfigured relationship between the human body and the machines, and how this transition influences the Jewish-Christian textual corpus referred to as "the Scriptures". Ecritures digitales souhaite démontrer de quelle manière l'écriture digitale, en tant que nouvelle technologie, contribue à l'émergence d'une relation innovante entre le corps humain et les machines, et influence le corpus textuel judéo-chrétien désigné comme «les Ecritures».
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004399655
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ecritures digitales aims to demonstrate how digital writing, as new technology, contributes to the emergence of a reconfigured relationship between the human body and the machines, and how this transition influences the Jewish-Christian textual corpus referred to as "the Scriptures". Ecritures digitales souhaite démontrer de quelle manière l'écriture digitale, en tant que nouvelle technologie, contribue à l'émergence d'une relation innovante entre le corps humain et les machines, et influence le corpus textuel judéo-chrétien désigné comme «les Ecritures».
The Pariahs of Yesterday
Author: Leslie Page Moch
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This work looks at the surge of Bretons who left their homes in Western France in the latter half of the 19th century to live and work in Paris. Portrayed as backward, ignorant peasants they found no welcome until after WWII. Moch positions her work within immigration theory, connecting migration studies to theories about state projects of assimilation and about cultures of inclusion and exclusion.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This work looks at the surge of Bretons who left their homes in Western France in the latter half of the 19th century to live and work in Paris. Portrayed as backward, ignorant peasants they found no welcome until after WWII. Moch positions her work within immigration theory, connecting migration studies to theories about state projects of assimilation and about cultures of inclusion and exclusion.
L'invention de la mémoire. Ecrire, enregistrer, numériser
Author: Georges Chapouthier
Publisher: CNRS éditions
ISBN: 2271117178
Category : Medical
Languages : fr
Pages : 431
Book Description
Pérenniser la mémoire est certainement l'une des plus grandes aventures d'Homo sapiens. En complément de l'évolution biologique fort lente des capacités cérébrales – dont il a particulièrement bénéficié – il lui faut inventer. Pérenniser la mémoire est certainement l'une des plus grandes aventures d' Homo sapiens. En complément de l'évolution biologique fort lente des capacités cérébrales – dont il a particulièrement bénéficié – il lui faut inventer. D'abord dessiner et peindre, puis construire des écritures, avec des symboles et des règles. Sur des tablettes d'argile, de bois, de feuilles, de papyrus, de soie, de parchemin, de papier... En enregistrant ainsi ses idées et ses textes, ses nombres et ses équations, ses chants et ses philosophies, il démontre et développe son agilité intellectuelle, son désir de surmonter sa finitude, de transmettre une trace à ses descendants. Puis l'aventure s'emballe. La machine mesure, des automates enregistrent, mieux et bien plus vite que la main ne peut écrire. Enfin, la machine, encore, convertit toute information en nombres. Désormais la mémoire se blottit au cœur des atomes et s'évapore dans les nuages. Elle est traitée, se transforme et se communique instantanément dans le monde entier. Un être humain peut disposer du savoir de l'Humanité dans la paume de sa main. Une telle accélération exponentielle de la croissance des techniques nous promet des transformations radicales du monde au cœur du XXIe siècle. Cet ouvrage propose ainsi une fresque continue depuis le génome, registre de notre personne et de notre espèce, jusqu'aux promesses et aux risques des Big Data. Préface de Yves Quéré Postface de Hubert Reeves
Publisher: CNRS éditions
ISBN: 2271117178
Category : Medical
Languages : fr
Pages : 431
Book Description
Pérenniser la mémoire est certainement l'une des plus grandes aventures d'Homo sapiens. En complément de l'évolution biologique fort lente des capacités cérébrales – dont il a particulièrement bénéficié – il lui faut inventer. Pérenniser la mémoire est certainement l'une des plus grandes aventures d' Homo sapiens. En complément de l'évolution biologique fort lente des capacités cérébrales – dont il a particulièrement bénéficié – il lui faut inventer. D'abord dessiner et peindre, puis construire des écritures, avec des symboles et des règles. Sur des tablettes d'argile, de bois, de feuilles, de papyrus, de soie, de parchemin, de papier... En enregistrant ainsi ses idées et ses textes, ses nombres et ses équations, ses chants et ses philosophies, il démontre et développe son agilité intellectuelle, son désir de surmonter sa finitude, de transmettre une trace à ses descendants. Puis l'aventure s'emballe. La machine mesure, des automates enregistrent, mieux et bien plus vite que la main ne peut écrire. Enfin, la machine, encore, convertit toute information en nombres. Désormais la mémoire se blottit au cœur des atomes et s'évapore dans les nuages. Elle est traitée, se transforme et se communique instantanément dans le monde entier. Un être humain peut disposer du savoir de l'Humanité dans la paume de sa main. Une telle accélération exponentielle de la croissance des techniques nous promet des transformations radicales du monde au cœur du XXIe siècle. Cet ouvrage propose ainsi une fresque continue depuis le génome, registre de notre personne et de notre espèce, jusqu'aux promesses et aux risques des Big Data. Préface de Yves Quéré Postface de Hubert Reeves
Past (Im)Perfect Continuous
Author: Alice Balestrino
Publisher: Sapienza Università Editrice
ISBN: 8893771837
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Past (Im)perfect Continuous. Trans-Cultural Articulations of the Postmemory of WWII presents an international and interdisciplinary approach to the comprehension of the postmemory of WWII, accounting for a number of different intellectual trajectories that investigate WWII and the Holocaust as paradigms for other traumas within a global and multidirectional context. Indeed, by exceeding the geographical boundaries of nations and states and overcoming contextual specificities, postmemory foregrounds continuous, active, connective, transcultural, and always imperfect representations of violence that engage with the alterity of other histories and other subjects. 75 years after the end of WWII, this volume is primarily concerned with the convergence between postmemory and underexamined aspects of the history and aftermath of WWII, as well as with several sociopolitical anxieties and representational preoccupations. Drawing from different disciplines, the critical and visual works gathered in this volume interrogate the referential power of postmemory, considering its transcultural interplay with various forms, media, frames of reference, conceptual registers, and narrative structures.
Publisher: Sapienza Università Editrice
ISBN: 8893771837
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Past (Im)perfect Continuous. Trans-Cultural Articulations of the Postmemory of WWII presents an international and interdisciplinary approach to the comprehension of the postmemory of WWII, accounting for a number of different intellectual trajectories that investigate WWII and the Holocaust as paradigms for other traumas within a global and multidirectional context. Indeed, by exceeding the geographical boundaries of nations and states and overcoming contextual specificities, postmemory foregrounds continuous, active, connective, transcultural, and always imperfect representations of violence that engage with the alterity of other histories and other subjects. 75 years after the end of WWII, this volume is primarily concerned with the convergence between postmemory and underexamined aspects of the history and aftermath of WWII, as well as with several sociopolitical anxieties and representational preoccupations. Drawing from different disciplines, the critical and visual works gathered in this volume interrogate the referential power of postmemory, considering its transcultural interplay with various forms, media, frames of reference, conceptual registers, and narrative structures.