In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process that creates ecologically uncertain environments, Jerome Whitington reveals how new forms of managerial care have emerged in the context of a privatized dam project successfully targeted by transnational activists. Based on ethnographic work inside the hydropower company, as well as with Laotians affected by the dam, he investigates how managers, technicians and consultants grapple with unfamiliar environmental obligations through new infrastructural configurations, locally-inscribed ethical practices, and forms of flexible experimentation informed by American management theory.
Far from the authoritative expertise that characterized classical modernist hydropower, sustainable development in Laos has been characterized by a shift from the risk politics of the 1990s to an ontological politics in which the institutional conditions of infrastructure investment are pervasively undermined by sophisticated ‘hactivism.’ Whitington demonstrates how late industrial environments are infused with uncertainty inherent in the anthropogenic ecologies themselves. Whereas ‘anthropogenic’ usually describes human-induced environmental change, it can also show how new capacities for being human are generated when people live in ecologies shot through with uncertainty. Implementing what Foucault called a "historical ontology of ourselves," Anthropogenic Rivers formulates a new materialist critique of the dirty ecologies of late industrialism by pinpointing the opportunistic, ambitious and speculative ontology of capitalist natures.
Автор: Curington John, Whitington Mitchel Название: H.L. Hunt: Motive & Opportunity ISBN: 1939306248 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939306241 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Whitington John Название: More Ocaml: Algorithms, Methods, and Diversions ISBN: 0957671113 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957671119 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8620.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
In More OCaml John Whitington takes a meandering tour of functional programming with OCaml, introducing various language features and describing some classic algorithms. The book ends with a large worked example dealing with the production of PDF files. There are questions for each chapter together with worked answers and hints.
More OCaml will appeal both to existing OCaml programmers who wish to brush up their skills, and to experienced programmers eager to explore functional languages such as OCaml. It is hoped that each reader will find something new, or see an old thing in a new light. For the more casual reader, or those who are used to a different functional language, a summary of basic OCaml is provided at the front of the book.
Chapters:
Summary of Basic OCaml
Our Working Environment
Unravelling "Fold"
Being Lazy
Named Tuples with Records
Generalized Input/Output
Streams of Bits
Compressing Data
Labelled and Optional Arguments
Formatted Printing
Searching for Things
Finding Permutations
Making Sets
Playing Games
Representing Documents
Writing Documents
Pretty Pictures
Adding Text
Answers to Questions
Hints for Questions
Coping with Errors
Автор: Whitington John Название: Ocaml from the Very Beginning ISBN: 0957671105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957671102 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8620.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
In OCaml from the Very Beginning John Whitington takes a no-prerequisites approach to teaching a modern general-purpose programming language. Each small, self-contained chapter introduces a new topic, building until the reader can write quite substantial programs. There are plenty of questions and, crucially, worked answers and hints.
OCaml from the Very Beginning will appeal both to new programmers, and experienced programmers eager to explore functional languages such as OCaml. It is suitable both for formal use within an undergraduate or graduate curriculum, and for the interested amateur.
Chapters:
Getting Ready
Starting Off
Names and Functions
Case by Case
Making Lists
Sorting Things
Functions upon Functions upon Functions
When Things Go Wrong
Looking Things Up
More with Functions
New Kinds of Data
Growing Trees
In and Out
Putting Things in Boxes
The Other Numbers
The OCaml Standard Library
Building Bigger Programs
Answers to Questions
Hints for Questions
Coping with Errors
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