Автор: Deleon, Diem & Passe Название: Machines ISBN: 162396881X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623968816 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21841.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is about machines: those that have been actualized, fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as metaphorical devices to describe complex social processes. Machines argues that they transcend time and space to emerge through a variety of spaces and places, times and histories and representations. They are such an integral fabric of daily reality that their disappearance would have immediate and dire consequences for the survival of humanity. They are part and parcel to our contemporary social order. From labor to social theory, art or consciousness, literature or television, to the asylums of the 19th century, machines are a central figure; an outgrowth of affective desire that seeks to transcend organic limitations of bodies that whither, age and die.Machines takes the reader on an intellectual, artistic, and theoretical journey, weaving an interdisciplinary tale of their emergence across social, cultural and artistic boundaries. With the deep engagement of various texts, Machines offers the reader moments of escape, alternative ways to envision technology for a future yet to materialize. Machines rejects the notion that technological innovations are indeed neutral, propelling us to think differently about those “things” created under specific economic or historical paradigms. Rethinking machines provides a rupture to our current technocratic impetus, shining a critical light on possible alternatives to our current reality. Let us sit back and take a journey through Machines, holding mechanical parts as guides to possible alternative futures.
Автор: Deleon, Diem & Passe Название: Machines ISBN: 1623968801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623968809 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 7623.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is about machines: those that have been actualized, fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as metaphorical devices to describe complex social processes. Machines argues that they transcend time and space to emerge through a variety of spaces and places, times and histories and representations. They are such an integral fabric of daily reality that their disappearance would have immediate and dire consequences for the survival of humanity. They are part and parcel to our contemporary social order. From labor to social theory, art or consciousness, literature or television, to the asylums of the 19th century, machines are a central figure; an outgrowth of affective desire that seeks to transcend organic limitations of bodies that whither, age and die.Machines takes the reader on an intellectual, artistic, and theoretical journey, weaving an interdisciplinary tale of their emergence across social, cultural and artistic boundaries. With the deep engagement of various texts, Machines offers the reader moments of escape, alternative ways to envision technology for a future yet to materialize. Machines rejects the notion that technological innovations are indeed neutral, propelling us to think differently about those “things” created under specific economic or historical paradigms. Rethinking machines provides a rupture to our current technocratic impetus, shining a critical light on possible alternatives to our current reality. Let us sit back and take a journey through Machines, holding mechanical parts as guides to possible alternative futures.
Автор: Phoebe V. Moore; Martin Upchurch; Xanthe Whittaker Название: Humans and Machines at Work ISBN: 3319863541 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319863542 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; and academic researchers see their labour obscured by a ‘data foam’ that does not benefit them. These cases are couched in historical accounts of identity and selfhood experiments seen in the Hawthorne experiments and the lineage of automation. This book will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of Work and Digital Labour Studies and anyone interested in learning about monitoring and surveillance, automation, the gig economy and the quantified self in the workplace.
Автор: Helmreich Название: The Things They Say behind Your Back ISBN: 1138539104 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138539105 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this groundbreaking book in the dim world of opinion formation Helmreich opens a closet bursting with skeletons and explores the myths and historical roots of stereotypes pertaining to several ethnic groups
Автор: Nolan, Jr Название: What They Saw in America ISBN: 1107146615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107146617 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through the journeys of four foreign visitors - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb - this book provides an intriguing perspective on America. It will be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars dealing with foreign intellectuals` observations of America, American studies, political science, and sociology.
Автор: Nolan, Jr Название: What They Saw in America ISBN: 1316601595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316601594 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through the journeys of four foreign visitors - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb - this book provides an intriguing perspective on America. It will be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars dealing with foreign intellectuals` observations of America, American studies, political science, and sociology.
Автор: Martyn Hudson Название: Species and Machines: The Human Subjugation of Nature ISBN: 0367208202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367208202 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book rethinks the relationship between nature and human beings by describing their entanglements with machines. Reworking central ideas of critical theory, it is particularly concerned with the ways in which human social forms have actively subjugated and destroyed other species in order to enhance their own social power.
Автор: Healy, Joseph C. (judo Capital, Australia & Univ Of Queensland, Australia) Название: Chinese firms going global: can they succeed? ISBN: 9813235934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789813235939 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 8712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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China has increased its engagement with the world and is pursuing ambitious economic goals. Much has been written about the economic and social impact of Inbound Foreign Direct Investment (IFDI) on China with the transfer-in of Western resources and expertise. Less has been written, in an accessible way at least, on the unleashing of the entrepreneurial spirit and Outbound Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) of China as Chinese firms have gone global.
The global expansion of Chinese firms is a recent phenomenon, which is not well understood. The book is aimed at providing an important context for understanding the challenges and biases Chinese firms face while going global, using a multi-disciplinary approach weaving themes from history, contemporary Chinese politics, geopolitics, international relations, economics, finance, strategy, culture and society, together with the role of management education in developing entrepreneurs' capabilities for success.
The book also explores the basis upon which Chinese firms can compete outside their domestic market by using a Four Cs' framework -- core capabilities, cultural adaptability, competencies of management and country of origin. The book argues that weaknesses in several of the Four Cs' might be compensated for by the Fifth C -- cooperation from government.
The book will appeal to the growing legion of China-watchers and general readers who are open-minded and keen to better understand the increasing profile of Chinese firms in international markets. Are they a threat? To whom? And why?
Автор: White Merry E. Название: The Japanese Overseas: Can They Go Home Again? ISBN: 0691606137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691606132 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The astonishing success of Japanese corporations throughout the world has transplanted millions of Japanese into foreign lands, but returning families face a crisis--a problematic, sometimes traumatic reunion with an inward-looking culture. Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews, Merry White explores the personal and social consequences of a problem that is fully recognized as a national issue in Japan. She pays particular attention to the plight of the returnee Japanese child--a stranger in his or her own land. In this knowledgeable and perceptive book, Merry White] describes how families who have returned from prolonged sojourns abroad endure damaged careers and spoiled educational prospects.--Joan Cassell, The New York Times Book Review An invaluable source of insights into the problems that Japanese overseas face and the strategies they pursue, both in adjusting to life in foreign countries and in preparing for what may or may not be a hospitable welcome when they arrive back home.--Theodore C. Bestor, The Journal of Asian Studies
Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
-- "The Journal of Asian Studies"
Автор: Hudson, Martyn (newcastle University, Uk) Название: Species and machines ISBN: 1138087971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138087972 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book offers a re-examination of the relationship between humans and nature with a new methodology: by examining our entanglement with machines. Using central ideas of critical theory, it uncovers the suppression of nature through technology, tools and engines. It focuses on the ways in which human social forms have actively subjugated and destroyed other species in order to enhance their own social power and accumulation, leading to a new Anthropocene epoch in which human intervention is signalled in the geological record.
Beginning with account of the interactions between humans and other species, the book moves to explore the hidden history of Marx and his obsession with machines, as well as new attempts to rethink a Marxist ecology, before proceeding to examine the manner in which technologies were used to suppress and destroy one particular species - the Whale of what we call the Cetacean Holocaust. Following this, there is analyses of the emergence of the 'human encampments' of the cities and the rise of mobile, locomotive cultures, and consideration of the relationship between machines of memory, and the 'capturing' of nature.
A radical rethinking of classical social theory that develops new ways of thinking about ecological catastrophe and nature, this book will appeal to scholars of social theory and environmental sociology.
Автор: Dave Holmes, Stuart J. Murray, Thomas Foth Название: Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines ISBN: 0367208148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367208141 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This interdisciplinary collection brings together theory and public health practice to analyse three forms of radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM practices, and public sex.
Автор: Hasegawa, Miki Название: We are not garbage! ISBN: 0415805945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415805940 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. It shows how homeless people and their external supporters in the city combined their scarce resources to generate and sustain the movement, and addresses the origins of increased homelessness in the country
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