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Book The Replaceability Paradigm

Download or read book The Replaceability Paradigm written by Niall Martin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trope of humans being ‘replaced’ by ‘AI’ is one of the most familiar examples of the rhetoric of replaceability. Not only have questions about what is unique and what is replaceable gained momentum in digital culture, but notions of ‘fungibility’ have emerged in many other contexts as well such as ecology, management theory, and, more sinisterly, in racist and conspiracist thinking. This volume argues that there is a ‘replaceability paradigm’ at work throughout the culture of modernity, from the European Renaissance, through Freudian psychoanalysis, Chinese science fiction and postcolonial theory, all the way to neural network programs such as Google’s DeepDream. This collection will be of interest to anybody engaged with the conceptual architecture of contemporary culture, whether through film, literature, or new digital media.

Book The Replaceability Paradigm

Download or read book The Replaceability Paradigm written by Niall Martin and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trope of humans being 'replaced' by 'AI' is one of the most familiar examples of the rhetoric of replaceability. Not only have questions about what is unique and what is replaceable gained momentum in digital culture, but notions of 'fungibility' have emerged in many other contexts as well such as ecology, management theory, and, more sinisterly, in racist and conspiracist thinking. This volume argues that there is a 'replaceability paradigm' at work throughout the culture of modernity, from the European Renaissance, through Freudian psychoanalysis, Chinese science fiction and postcolonial theory, all the way to neural network programs such as Google's DeepDream. This collection will be of interest to anybody engaged with the conceptual architecture of contemporary culture, whether through film, literature, or new digital media.

Book Interpreting Physics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward MacKinnon
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2011-11-23
  • ISBN : 9400723695
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Interpreting Physics written by Edward MacKinnon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian orthodoxy stresses the indispensability of classical concepts and the functional role of mathematics. This book analyses ways of extending, and then going beyond this orthodoxy orthodoxy. Finally, the book analyzes how a revised interpretation of physics impacts on basic philosophical issues: conceptual revolutions, realism, and reductionism.

Book Geomorphology  Pure and Applied

Download or read book Geomorphology Pure and Applied written by M.G. Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique treatment of geomorphology, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive work to enable students to see the subject as a whole. Taking the concepts that run through the subject and cut across its standard divisions, the book summarises the history of intellectual debate in geomorphology and then describes modern developments, both pure and applied.

Book Stateless Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helge Dedek
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-03-03
  • ISBN : 1317050207
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Stateless Law written by Helge Dedek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of ’stateless’ law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance - that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition. From common, civil and international law perspectives, the collection focuses on the definition and role of law as an academic discipline, and hybridity in the practice and production of law. With contributions by a diverse and international group of scholars, the collection includes fourteen chapters written in English and three in French. Confronting the ’transnational challenge’ posed to the traditional theoretical and institutional structures that underlie the teaching and study of law in the university, the seventeen authors of Stateless Law: Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline bring new insight to the ongoing and crucial conversation about the future shape of legal scholarship, education and practice that is emblematic of the early twenty-first century. This collection is essential reading for academics, institutions and others involved in determining the future roles, responsibilities and education of jurists, as well as for academics interested in Law, Sociology, Political Science and Education.

Book The Development of Component based Information Systems

Download or read book The Development of Component based Information Systems written by Sergio de Cesare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a comprehensive overview of research and practical issues relating to component-based development information systems (CBIS). Spanning the organizational, developmental, and technical aspects of the subject, the original research included here provides fresh insights into successful CBIS technology and application. Part I covers component-based development methodologies and system architectures. Part II analyzes different aspects of managing component-based development. Part III investigates component-based development versus commercial off-the-shelf products (COTS), including the selection and trading of COTS products.

Book Development of Component based Information Systems

Download or read book Development of Component based Information Systems written by Sergio De Cesare and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This work provides a comprehensive overview of research and practical issues relating to component-based information systems (CBIS). Spanning the organizational, developmental, and technical aspects of the subject, the original research included here provides fresh insights into successful CBIS technology and application, including the selection and trading of commercial off-the shelf products (COTS).

Book The Journal of the Polynesian Society

Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.

Book A General Theory of Entropy

Download or read book A General Theory of Entropy written by Kofi Kissi Dompere and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an epistemic framework for dealing with information-knowledge and certainty-uncertainty problems within the space of quality-quantity dualities. It bridges between theoretical concepts of entropy and entropy measurements, proposing the concept and measurement of fuzzy-stochastic entropy that is applicable to all areas of knowing under human cognitive limitations over the epistemological space. The book builds on two previous monographs by the same author concerning theories of info-statics and info-dynamics, to deal with identification and transformation problems respectively. The theoretical framework is developed by using the toolboxes such as those of the principle of opposites, systems of actual-potential polarities and negative-positive dualities, under different cost-benefit time-structures. The category theory and the fuzzy paradigm of thought, under methodological constructionism-reductionism duality, are used in the fuzzy-stochastic and cost-benefit spaces to point to directions of global application in knowing, knowledge and decision-choice actions. Thus, the book is concerned with a general theory of entropy, showing how the fuzzy paradigm of thought is developed to deal with the problems of qualitative-quantitative uncertainties over the fuzzy-stochastic space, which will be applicable to conditions of soft-hard data, fact, evidence and knowledge over the spaces of problem-solution dualities, decision-choice actions in sciences, non-sciences, engineering and planning sciences to abstract acceptable information-knowledge elements.

Book Internet and Distributed Computing Systems

Download or read book Internet and Distributed Computing Systems written by Giancarlo Fortino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, IDCS 2014, held in Calabria, Italy, in September 2014. The 23 revised full and 15 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: ad-hoc and sensor networks; internet and Web technologies; network operations and management; multi-agent systems; cloud-based information infrastructures.

Book Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Download or read book Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery written by Djamel A. Zighed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, PKDD 2000, held in Lyon, France in September 2000. The 86 revised papers included in the book correspond to the 29 oral presentations and 57 posters presented at the conference. They were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. The book offers topical sections on new directions, rules and trees, databases and reward-based learning, classification, association rules and exceptions, instance-based discovery, clustering, and time series analysis.

Book Analytical Techniques In DNA Sequencing

Download or read book Analytical Techniques In DNA Sequencing written by Brian K. Nunnally and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While one marvels at the DNA generated by the Human Genome Project, perhaps just as significant and fascinating is the development of the amazing analytical technology that has permitted us entry into the genomic era and a whole new level of scientific understanding. Analytical Techniques in DNA Sequencing takes a look at the various DNA

Book Sustainable Urban Environments

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen M. van Bueren
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2011-09-15
  • ISBN : 9400712944
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Sustainable Urban Environments written by Ellen M. van Bueren and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urban environment – buildings, cities and infrastructure – represents one of the most important contributors to climate change, while at the same time holding the key to a more sustainable way of living. The transformation from traditional to sustainable systems requires interdisciplinary knowledge of the re-design, construction, operation and maintenance of the built environment. Sustainable Urban Environments: An Ecosystem Approach presents fundamental knowledge of the built environment. Approaching the topic from an ecosystems perspective, it shows the reader how to combine diverse practical elements into sustainable solutions for future buildings and cities. You’ll learn to connect problems and solutions at different spatial scales, from urban ecology to material, water and energy use, from urban transport to livability and health. The authors introduce and explore a variety of governance tools that support the transformation process, and show how they can help overcome institutional barriers. The book concludes with an account of promising perspectives for achieving a sustainable built environment in industrialized countries. Offering a unique overview and understanding of the most pressing challenges in the built environment, Sustainable Urban Environments helps the reader grasp opportunities for integration of knowledge and technologies in the design, construction and management of the built environment. Students and practitioners who are eager to look beyond their own fields of interest will appreciate this book because of its depth and breadth of coverage.

Book Language and Language Behavior Abstracts

Download or read book Language and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Experience and Content

Download or read book Experience and Content written by W. Martin Davies and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts a 'continuum' account of experience and content taking account of a range of issues in the philosophy of science, ontology, epistemology and the philosophy of mind and perception.

Book Shifting Journalistic Paradigms

Download or read book Shifting Journalistic Paradigms written by Joseph Man Chan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: