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Immunity is as old as illness itself, yet historians have only just
begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern
transformation of attempts to protect against disease. Crafting
Immunity assembles in one volume the most recent efforts of an
international group of scholars to place the diverse practices of
immunity in their historical contexts. It is this diversity that
provides the book with its greatest source of strength.
Collectively, the papers in this volume suggest that it was the
craft-like, small-scale, and local conditions of clinical medicine
that turned the immunity of individuals and populations into
biomedical objects. That is to say, the modern conception of
immunity was at least as much the product of the work of healing as
it was the systematic result of discoveries about the immune
system. Working outside the narrow confines of laboratory
histories, Crafting Immunity is the first attempt to set the
problems of immunity into a variety of social, technological,
institutional and intellectual contexts. It will appeal not only to
historians and sociologists of health, but also to social and
cultural historians interested in the biomedical creation of modern
health regimens.
Immunity is as old as illness itself, yet historians have only just
begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern
transformation of attempts to protect against disease. Crafting
Immunity assembles in one volume the most recent efforts of an
international group of scholars to place the diverse practices of
immunity in their historical contexts. It is this diversity that
provides the book with its greatest source of strength.
Collectively, the papers in this volume suggest that it was the
craft-like, small-scale, and local conditions of clinical medicine
that turned the immunity of individuals and populations into
biomedical objects. That is to say, the modern conception of
immunity was at least as much the product of the work of healing as
it was the systematic result of discoveries about the immune
system. Working outside the narrow confines of laboratory
histories, Crafting Immunity is the first attempt to set the
problems of immunity into a variety of social, technological,
institutional and intellectual contexts. It will appeal not only to
historians and sociologists of health, but also to social and
cultural historians interested in the biomedical creation of modern
health regimens.
We are currently riders of the information storm. AI fascinates us,
images mesmerize us, data defines us, algorithms remember us, news
bombards us, devices connect us, isolation saddens us. Deeply
embedded in digital technology, we are the very first inhabitants
of life in the quantum zone. The Quantum Revolution is about life
today – its entanglements, creativity, politics, and artistic
vision. Arthur Kroker and David Cook explore a new way of thinking
drawn directly from the quantum imaginary itself. They explain the
quantum revolution as everyday life, where technology moves fast,
and where, under cover of the digital devices that connect us, the
most sophisticated concepts of technology and science originating
in mathematics, astrophysics, and bio-genetics have swiftly flooded
human consciousness, shaped social behavior, and crafted individual
identity. The book discusses the concept of the quantum zone as a
new way of understanding digital culture, and presents stories
about art, technology, and society, as well as a series of
reflections on art as a gateway to understanding the quantum
imaginary. Richly illustrated with sixty images of critically
engaged photos and artwork, The Quantum Revolution privileges a new
way of understanding and seeing politics, society, and culture
through the lens of the duality that is the essence of the quantum
imaginary.
Exits to the Posthuman Future is media theory for a global digital
society which thrives, and sometimes perishes, at the intersection
of technologies of speed, distant ethics and a pervasive cultural
anxiety. Arthur Kroker s incisive and insightful text presents the
emerging pattern of a posthuman future: life at the tip of
technologies of acceleration, drift and crash. Kroker links key
concepts such as Guardian Liberalism and Obama s vision of the Just
War with a striking account of culture drift as the essence of real
world technoculture. He argues that contemporary society displays
growing uncertainty about the ultimate ends of technological
innovation and the intelligibility of the digital future. The
posthuman future is elusive: is it a gathering storm of cynical
abandonment, inertia, disappearance and substitution? Or else the
development of a new form of critical consciousness - the posthuman
imagination - as a means of comprehending the full complexity of
life? Depending on which exit to the posthuman future we choose or,
perhaps, which exit chooses us, Kroker argues that a very different
posthuman future will likely ensue.
Exits to the Posthuman Future is media theory for a global digital
society which thrives, and sometimes perishes, at the intersection
of technologies of speed, distant ethics and a pervasive cultural
anxiety. Arthur Kroker s incisive and insightful text presents the
emerging pattern of a posthuman future: life at the tip of
technologies of acceleration, drift and crash. Kroker links key
concepts such as Guardian Liberalism and Obama s vision of the Just
War with a striking account of culture drift as the essence of real
world technoculture. He argues that contemporary society displays
growing uncertainty about the ultimate ends of technological
innovation and the intelligibility of the digital future. The
posthuman future is elusive: is it a gathering storm of cynical
abandonment, inertia, disappearance and substitution? Or else the
development of a new form of critical consciousness - the posthuman
imagination - as a means of comprehending the full complexity of
life? Depending on which exit to the posthuman future we choose or,
perhaps, which exit chooses us, Kroker argues that a very different
posthuman future will likely ensue.
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Leipzig
Ernst Kroker
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Discovery Miles 11 660
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++++ Die Tugendlehre Schleiermachers: Mit Spezieller
Berucksichtigung Der Tugendlehre Platos Paul Kroker Junge &
Sohn, 1889 Virtues
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may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
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I. G OLOGY OF CALCIUM CARBO ATE 1 by Jacques Geyssant 1. Features
and characteristics of calcium carbonate 2 1. 1 Calcium carbonate -
a special compound 2 1. 2 The crystal forms of calcium carbonate -
mineralogy 9 2. The limestones - development and classification 15
2. 1 Sedimentation 16 2. 2 Diagenesis - from sediment to rock 23 2.
3 Classification of the limestones 24 2. 4 Metamorphism - from
limestone to marble 26 2. 5 Carbonatites - extraordinary limestones
29 3. Limestone deposits 31 3. 1 Recognition of limestones 31 3. 2
Distribution on the Earth's surface 33 3. 3 Limestone deposits in
the geological ages 36 3. 4 CaC0 cycle 42 3 3. 5 Industrially
exploitable CaC0 deposits 3 44 53 II. TH C LT RAt HI TORY F LIME
TONE by Johannes Rohleder 1. The history of chalk 55 2. Marble and
limestone 69 2. 1 Quarrying stones 70 2. 2 Transport, organisation
and trade 80 2. 3 The uses 97 137 III. CALCI M CARBOl\ATE - A MODER
RESOURCE 1. The beginnings: Calcium carbonate in glazing putty and
rubber 138 by Johannes Rohleder 1. 1 A chalk industry is born 139
1. 2 Rubber and glazing putty 142 1. 3 From chalk to calcium
carbonate 156 2. Calcium carbonate - pigment and filler 160 by
Eberhard Huwald 2. 1 Properties and effects of a filler 164 2. 2
Chalk, limestone, marble, pec - common features and differences 165
2. 2.
In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Arthur
Kroker explores the future of the 21st century in the language of
technological destiny. Presenting Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, and
Friedrich Nietzsche as prophets of technological nihilism, Kroker
argues that every aspect of contemporary culture, society, and
politics is coded by the dynamic unfolding of the 'will to
technology.' Moving between cultural history, our digital present,
and the biotic future, Kroker theorizes on the relationship between
human bodies and posthuman technology, and more specifically,
wonders if the body of work offered by thinkers like Heidegger,
Marx, and Nietzsche is a part of our past or a harbinger of our
technological future. Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche intensify our
understanding of the contemporary cultural climate. Heidegger's
vision posits an increasingly technical society before which we
have become 'objectless objects'-driftworks in a 'culture of
boredom.' In Marx, the disciplining of capital itself by the will
to technology is a code of globalization, first announced as
streamed capitalism. Nietzsche mediates between them, envisioning
in the gathering shadows of technological society the emergent
signs of a culture of nihilism. Like Marx, he insists on thinking
of the question of technology in terms of its material signs. In
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Kroker
consistently enacts an invigorating and innovative vision, bringing
together critical theory, art, and politics to reveal the
philosophic apparatus of technoculture.
We are currently riders of the information storm. AI fascinates us,
images mesmerize us, data defines us, algorithms remember us, news
bombards us, devices connect us, isolation saddens us. Deeply
embedded in digital technology, we are the very first inhabitants
of life in the quantum zone. The Quantum Revolution is about life
today – its entanglements, creativity, politics, and artistic
vision. Arthur Kroker and David Cook explore a new way of thinking
drawn directly from the quantum imaginary itself. They explain the
quantum revolution as everyday life, where technology moves fast,
and where, under cover of the digital devices that connect us, the
most sophisticated concepts of technology and science originating
in mathematics, astrophysics, and bio-genetics have swiftly flooded
human consciousness, shaped social behavior, and crafted individual
identity. The book discusses the concept of the quantum zone as a
new way of understanding digital culture, and presents stories
about art, technology, and society, as well as a series of
reflections on art as a gateway to understanding the quantum
imaginary. Richly illustrated with sixty images of critically
engaged photos and artwork, The Quantum Revolution privileges a new
way of understanding and seeing politics, society, and culture
through the lens of the duality that is the essence of the quantum
imaginary.
Smelling the virtual flowers and counting the road-kill on the
digital superhighway are just a couple of things that
Kroker/Weinstein explains. Others include: the theory of the
virtual class; virtual ideology; the will to virtuality; the
political economy of virtual reality; prime time reports; virtual
(photographic) culture; and the virtual history file.
As exemplary representatives of a form of critical feminism, the
writings of Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway
offer entry into the great crises of contemporary society,
politics, and culture. Butler leads readers to rethink the
boundaries of the human in a time of perpetual war. Hayles turns
herself into a “writing machine” in order to find a dwelling
place for the digital humanities within the austere landscape of
the culture of the code. Haraway is the one contemporary thinker to
have begun the necessary ethical project of creating a new language
of potential reconciliation among previously warring species.
According to Arthur Kroker, the postmodernism of Judith Butler, the
posthumanism of Katherine Hayles, and the companionism of Donna
Haraway are possible pathways to the posthuman future that is
captured by the specter of body drift. Body drift refers to the
fact that individuals no longer inhabit a body, in any meaningful
sense of the term, but rather occupy a multiplicity of bodies:
gendered, sexualized, laboring, disciplined, imagined, and
technologically augmented. Body drift is constituted by the blast
of information culture envisioned by artists, communicated by
social networking, and signified by its signs. It is lived daily by
remixing, resplicing, and redesigning the codes: codes of gender,
sexuality, class, ideology, and identity. The writings of Butler,
Hayles, and Haraway, Kroker reveals, provide the critical
vocabulary and political context for understanding the deep
complexities of body drift and challenging the current emphasis on
the material body.
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