Pathways
Author : Perfection Learning (Firm)
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9780756981006
Author : Perfection Learning (Firm)
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9780756981006
Author : David Trotter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192591045
This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to be connected, long before the advent of the technologies and the concentrations of capital necessary to implement a global 'network society'. It investigates the prehistory not of the communications 'revolution' brought about by advances in electronic digital computing from 1950 onwards, but of the principle of connectivity which was to provide that revolution with its justification and rallying-cry. Connectivity's core principle is that what matters most in any act of telecommunication, and sometimes all that matters, is the fact of its having happened. During the nineteenth century, the principle gained steadily increasing traction by means not only of formal systems such as the telegraph, but of an array of improvised methods and signalling devices. These methods and devices fulfilled not just an ever more urgent need, but a fundamental recurring desire, for near-instantaneous real-time communication at a distance. Connectivity became an end in itself: a complex, vivid, unpredictable romance woven through the enduring human desire and need for remote intimacy. Its magical enhancements are the stuff of tragedy, comedy, satire, elegy, lyric, melodrama, and plain description; of literature, in short. The book develops the concepts of signal, medium, and interface to offer, in its first part, an alternative view of writing in Britain from George Eliot and Thomas Hardy to D.H. Lawrence, Hope Mirrlees, and Katherine Mansfield; and, in its second, case-studies of European and African-American fiction, and of interwar British cinema, designed to open the topic up for further enquiry.
Author : David Trotter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192591037
This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to be connected, long before the advent of the technologies and the concentrations of capital necessary to implement a global 'network society'. It investigates the prehistory not of the communications 'revolution' brought about by advances in electronic digital computing from 1950 onwards, but of the principle of connectivity which was to provide that revolution with its justification and rallying-cry. Connectivity's core principle is that what matters most in any act of telecommunication, and sometimes all that matters, is the fact of its having happened. During the nineteenth century, the principle gained steadily increasing traction by means not only of formal systems such as the telegraph, but of an array of improvised methods and signalling devices. These methods and devices fulfilled not just an ever more urgent need, but a fundamental recurring desire, for near-instantaneous real-time communication at a distance. Connectivity became an end in itself: a complex, vivid, unpredictable romance woven through the enduring human desire and need for remote intimacy. Its magical enhancements are the stuff of tragedy, comedy, satire, elegy, lyric, melodrama, and plain description; of literature, in short. The book develops the concepts of signal, medium, and interface to offer, in its first part, an alternative view of writing in Britain from George Eliot and Thomas Hardy to D.H. Lawrence, Hope Mirrlees, and Katherine Mansfield; and, in its second, case-studies of European and African-American fiction, and of interwar British cinema, designed to open the topic up for further enquiry.
Author : Doris Buchanan Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 1992-04-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 006440238X
What do you do without your best friend? Jamie isn't afraid of anything. Always ready to get into trouble, then right back out of it, he's a fun and exasperating best friend. But when something terrible happens to Jamie, his best friend has to face the tragedy alone. Without Jamie, there are so many impossible questions to answer -- how can your best friend be gone forever? How can some things, like playing games in the sun or the taste of the blackberries that Jamie loved, go on without him?
Author : Robert GRAY (Bishop of Bristol.)
Publisher :
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1816
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Nick Couldry
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1503609758
Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participation. Colonialism might seem like a thing of the past, but this book shows that the historic appropriation of land, bodies, and natural resources is mirrored today in this new era of pervasive datafication. Apps, platforms, and smart objects capture and translate our lives into data, and then extract information that is fed into capitalist enterprises and sold back to us. The authors argue that this development foreshadows the creation of a new social order emerging globally—and it must be challenged. Confronting the alarming degree of surveillance already tolerated, they offer a stirring call to decolonize the internet and emancipate our desire for connection.
Author : Liz Rothlein
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN :
Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!
Author : Robert Gray
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 1819
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Perfection Learning Staff
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2008
Category : College readers
ISBN : 9780789171887
A thematic collection of exemplary contemporary literature that blends the uniqueness and the commonalities of all cultures, including African American, Latino, Native American, Asian American, and European. - Back cover.
Author : Laura Gehl
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442453389
Count and share with…underwear! Come along on a zany adventure with this Classic Board Book edition of One Big Pair of Underwear from New York Times bestselling illustrator Tom Lichtenheld! What’s one thing that two bears, three yaks, four goats, and six cats have in common? They hate to share. But look out—here comes a pack of twenty pigs ready to prove that sharing makes everything twice as fun! This seriously silly Classic Board Book with artwork by the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site irresistibly combines the concepts of counting and sharing.