Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081667020X
An examination of the promise and peril of digital communication technologies.
Author : Horst Bredekamp
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 022625884X
In science and technology, the images used to depict ideas, data, and reactions can be as striking and explosive as the concepts and processes they embody—both works of art and generative forces in their own right. Drawing on a close dialogue between the histories of art, science, and technology, The Technical Image explores these images not as mere illustrations or examples, but as productive agents and distinctive, multilayered elements of the process of generating knowledge. Using beautifully reproduced visuals, this book not only reveals how scientific images play a constructive role in shaping the findings and insights they illustrate, but also—however mechanical or detached from individual researchers’ choices their appearances may be—how they come to embody the styles of a period, a mindset, a research collective, or a device. Opening with a set of key questions about artistic representation in science, technology, and medicine, The Technical Image then investigates historical case studies focusing on specific images, such as James Watson’s models of genes, drawings of Darwin’s finches, and images of early modern musical automata. These case studies in turn are used to illustrate broad themes ranging from “Digital Images” to “Objectivity and Evidence” and to define and elaborate upon fundamental terms in the field. Taken as a whole, this collection will provide analytical tools for the interpretation and application of scientific and technological imagery.
Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1780232446
Media philosopher Vilém Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser showed how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the two-dimensionality of magic) and of industrial into post-industrial society (from work into leisure) went hand in hand, and how photography allows us to read and interpret these changes with particular clarity.
Author : Travis Rector
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1602232733
With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture; we find them on billboards, in commercials, and on our computers. But they also invite questions: Is this what outer space really looks like? Are the colors real? How are these images made? "Coloring the Universe" uses accessible language to describe how these giant telescopes work, what scientists learn with them, and how they are used to make color images. Both informative and beautiful, this book is filled with brilliant images of deep space as well as an insider s perspective by the people who make them."
Author : Kimberly K. Arcand
Publisher :
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1588343758
"Easy-to-read guide to the universe. Includes information on the planets, and other astrological entities"--
Author : Terence Dickinson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2017
Category : PHOTOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9781770859975
Presents an overview of the Hubble Space Telescope, describing its initial launch in 1990 and impact on our understanding of the universe, along with some of its latest images of galaxies, stars, planets, and nebulas.
Author : Rodman Philbrick
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545303877
This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems, Spaz is the rare human being who can see life as it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about Earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off an unlikely quest to save his dying sister -- and in the process, perhaps the world.
Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Vampire squid
ISBN : 9780816678228
Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) was born in Prague. He emigrated to Brazil, where he taught philosophy and wrote a daily newspaper column in Sao Paulo, then later moved to France. He wrote several books in Portuguese and German. Writings (2004), Into the Universe of Technical Images (2011), and Does Writing Have a Future? (2011) have been published by the University of Minnesota Press, and the Shape of Things, Towards a Philosophy of Photography, and The Freedom of the Migrant have also been translated into English.
Author : Giovanni Maddalena, Fabio Ferrucci, Michela Bella, Matteo Santarelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2024-04-11
Category :
ISBN : 3110785900
Author : Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691177813
An essential companion to the New York Times bestseller Welcome to the Universe Here is the essential companion to Welcome to the Universe, a New York Times bestseller that was inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course for non science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton. This problem book features more than one hundred problems and exercises used in the original course—ideal for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of the original material and to learn to think like an astrophysicist. Whether you’re a student or teacher, citizen scientist or science enthusiast, your guided tour of the cosmos just got even more hands-on with Welcome to the Universe: The Problem Book. The essential companion book to the acclaimed bestseller Features the problems used in the original introductory astronomy course for non science majors at Princeton University Organized according to the structure of Welcome to the Universe, empowering readers to explore real astrophysical problems that are conceptually introduced in each chapter Problems are designed to stimulate physical insight into the frontier of astrophysics Problems develop quantitative skills, yet use math no more advanced than high school algebra Problems are often multipart, building critical thinking and quantitative skills and developing readers’ insight into what astrophysicists do Ideal for course use—either in tandem with Welcome to the Universe or as a supplement to courses using standard astronomy textbooks—or self-study Tested in the classroom over numerous semesters for more than a decade Prefaced with a review of relevant concepts and equations Full solutions and explanations are provided, allowing students and other readers to check their own understanding
