The Closed Space

The Closed Space
Title The Closed Space PDF eBook
Author Manuel Aguirre
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 248
Release 1990
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780719032073

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The Closed World

The Closed World
Title The Closed World PDF eBook
Author Paul N. Edwards
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 468
Release 1996
Genre Computers
ISBN 9780262550284

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The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology--and were transformed, in turn, by information machines. The Closed World explores three apparently disparate histories--the history of American global power, the history of computing machines, and the history of subjectivity in science and culture--through the lens of the American political imagination. In the process, it reveals intimate links between the military projects of the Cold War, the evolution of digital computers, and the origins of cybernetics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. Edwards begins by describing the emergence of a "closed-world discourse" of global surveillance and control through high-technology military power. The Cold War political goal of "containment" led to the SAGE continental air defense system, Rand Corporation studies of nuclear strategy, and the advanced technologies of the Vietnam War. These and other centralized, computerized military command and control projects--for containing world-scale conflicts--helped closed-world discourse dominate Cold War political decisions. Their apotheosis was the Reagan-era plan for a " Star Wars" space-based ballistic missile defense. Edwards then shows how these military projects helped computers become axial metaphors in psychological theory. Analyzing the Macy Conferences on cybernetics, the Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, and the early history of artificial intelligence, he describes the formation of a "cyborg discourse." By constructing both human minds and artificial intelligences as information machines, cyborg discourse assisted in integrating people into the hyper-complex technological systems of the closed world. Finally, Edwards explores the cyborg as political identity in science fiction--from the disembodied, panoptic AI of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the mechanical robots of Star Wars and the engineered biological androids of Blade Runner--where Information Age culture and subjectivity were both reflected and constructed. Inside Technology series

The Visual Story

The Visual Story
Title The Visual Story PDF eBook
Author Bruce Block
Publisher CRC Press
Pages 308
Release 2013-04-02
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1136043462

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If you can't make it to one of Bruce Block's legendary visual storytelling seminars, then you need his book! Now in full color for the first time, this best-seller offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, animated piece, or video game. You'll learn how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or a composer structures music. Understanding visual structure allows you to communicate moods and emotions, and most importantly, reveals the critical relationship between story structure and visual structure. The concepts in this book will benefit writers, directors, photographers, production designers, art directors, and editors who are always confronted by the same visual problems that have faced every picture maker in the past, present, and future.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Title Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office PDF eBook
Author United States. Patent Office
Publisher
Pages 1428
Release 1964
Genre Patents
ISBN

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Spaces

Spaces
Title Spaces PDF eBook
Author Oscar Riera Ojeda
Publisher
Pages 200
Release 2004
Genre Space (Architecture)
ISBN 9781610597166

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Code of Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations
Title Code of Federal Regulations PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 302
Release 1979
Genre Administrative law
ISBN

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Recent research on radioactivity

Recent research on radioactivity
Title Recent research on radioactivity PDF eBook
Author Pierre Curie
Publisher Good Press
Pages 46
Release 2023-07-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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"Recent research on radioactivity" by Pierre Curie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.