Les golems du numérique


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Le code est parmi nous pour toujours, et le droit n’est pas prêt de nous quitter. En effet, il suffit de voir le code comme l’une des instances d’une architecture plus générale pour comprendre que le code a accompagné la loi depuis très longtemps déjà : que l’on pense seulement aux grands boulevards à Paris, construits afin de mieux protéger le pouvoir contre la Révolution. Il en est de même pour les luttes qui vont définir la prochaine étape des relations entre le code et le droit. C’est ce que montre la métaphore qui est au coeur de ce livre, écrit par l’une des théoriciennes les plus prometteuses de ce nouveau champ. Depuis le début de la science du droit, la loi, sous toutes ses formes, s’est inquiétée de l’application irréfléchie des règles. L’internet a-t-il appelé le Golem à la vie ? Est-il capable d’être plus juste, ou au moins d’apporter plus d’intelligence, que son seul mythe ? Avec ce livre, Mélanie Dulong fait évoluer la théorie et la pratique de cette relation vers sa prochaine étape. Y a-t-il un moyen pour que ces deux forces coexistent, et qu’elles respectent mieux leurs domaines respectifs légitimes ? Y a-t-il des moyens pour que le droit puisse infecter le code, en y (im)portant ses valeurs et aspirations, et en les laissant se développer de manière native ? Quelles sont les limites de cette stratégie ? Quelles en sont les promesses, au delà de la lutte insensée qui a défini tant d’interprétations (au moins de la part des hommes politiques) de cette inéluctable relation ?




Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture


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The paratext framework is now used in a variety of fields to assess, measure, analyze, and comprehend the elements that provide thresholds, allowing scholars to better understand digital objects. Researchers from many disciplines revisit paratextual theories in order to grasp what surrounds text in the digital age. Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture suggests a theoretical and practical tool for building bridges between disciplines interested in conducting joint research and exploration of digital culture. Helping scholars from different fields find an interdisciplinary framework and common language to study digital objects, this book serves as a useful reference for academics, librarians, professionals, researchers, and students, offering a collaborative outlook and perspective.




Global Media


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Describes in detail the most recent rapid growth and cross border activities and linkages of an industry of large global media conglomerates.




Modern Enterprise Data Pipelines


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A Dell Technologies perspective on today's data landscape and the key ingredients for planning a modern, distributed data pipeline for your multicloud data-driven enterprise




Innovate Bristol


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Innovate Bristol highlights and celebrates those companies and individuals that are actively working at building a better tomorrow for all. Innovation Ecosystems thrive through the involvement and support of companies and individuals from all industries, which is why the Innovate series not only focuses on the innovators but also those people whom the Innovation Ecosystem, would not be able to thrive without.




Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1)


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The explosive debut by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth. DIVERGENT – a major motion picture series.




Demography


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Presents an examination of demographic tools. Explains the analytical tools themselves, and also the relationships between general population dynamics and their natural, economic, social, political, and cultural environments. Covers subjects that range from the core building blocks of population change to the consequences of demographic changes in the biological and health fields, population theories and doctrines, observation systems, and the teaching of demography.




Simulacra and Simulation


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Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.




The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States


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The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States marked the beginning of the study of our postindustrial information society. Austrian-born economist Fritz Machlup had focused his research on the patent system, but he came to realize that patents were simply one part of a much bigger "knowledge economy." He then expanded the scope of his work to evaluate everything from stationery and typewriters to advertising to presidential addresses--anything that involved the activity of telling anyone anything. The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States then revealed the new and startling shape of the U.S. economy. Machlup's cool appraisal of the data showed that the knowledge industry accounted for nearly 29 percent of the U.S. gross national product, and that 43 percent of the civilian labor force consisted of knowledge transmitters or full-time knowledge receivers. Indeed, the proportion of the labor force involved in the knowledge economy increased from 11 to 32 percent between 1900 and 1959--a monumental shift. Beyond documenting this revolution, Machlup founded the wholly new field of information economics. The transformation to a knowledge economy has resonated throughout the rest of the century, especially with the rise of the Internet. As two recent observers noted, "Information goods--from movies and music to software code and stock quotes--have supplanted industrial goods as the key drivers of world markets." Continued study of this change and its effects is testament to Fritz Machlup's pioneering work.




Britannicus


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