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Book Timespace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon May
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2003-08-29
  • ISBN : 1134677847
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Timespace written by Jon May and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timespace undermines the old certainties of time and space by arguing that these dimensions do not exist singly, but only as a hybrid process term. The issue of space has perhaps been over-emphasised and it is essential that processes of everyday existence, such as globalisation and environmental issues and also notions such as gender, race and ethnicity, are looked at with a balanced time-space analysis. The social and cultural consequences of this move are traced through a series of studies which deploy different perspectives - structural, phenomenological and even Buddhist - in order to make things meet up. The contributors provide an overview of the history of time and introduce the concepts of time and space together, across a range of disciplines. The themes discussed are of importance for cultural geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural and media studies, and psychology.

Book The Timespace of Human Activity

Download or read book The Timespace of Human Activity written by Theodore R. Schatzki and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that a concept of activity timespace drawn from the work of Martin Heidegger provides new insights into the nature of activity, society, and history. Although the book is a work of theory, it has significant implications for the determination and course, not just of activity, but of sociohistorical change as well. Drawing on empirical examples, the book argues (1) that timespace is a key component of the overall space and time of social life, (2) that interwoven timespaces form an essential infrastructure of important social phenomena such as power, coordinated actions, social organizations, and social systems, and (3) that history encompasses constellations of indeterminate temporalspatial events. The latter conception of history in turn yields a propitious account of how the past exists in the present. In addition, because the concept of activity timespace highlights the teleological character of human action, the book contains an extensive defense of the teleological character of such allegedly ateleological forms of activity as emotional and ceremonial actions. Since, finally, the book's ideas about timespace and activity as an indeterminate event derive from an interpretation of Heidegger, the work furthers understanding of the relevance of his thought for social and historical theory.

Book Chicano Timespace

Download or read book Chicano Timespace written by Miguel R. López and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premature death of Ricardo Sánchez in 1995 marked the passing of an almost legendary figure in Chicano literature and in the Chicano political movement. A troubadour of Chicano Movement poetry, he established an anti-aesthetic that became the norm. Sánchez's autobiographical poetry forges a link between genres of the past and present and establishes him as the first great tragic figure of contemporary Chicano literature.In a body of work that spanned spatial, temporal, and cultural boundaries, Sánchez dealt with issues of power and of linguistic and cultural barriers between Anglo, Native American, and Mexican American peoples in the United States.While he lived, critics showed reluctance to engage Sánchez's work fully, perhaps in part because of his reputation as a confrontational, even outrageous individual. Focusing on Canto y grito mi liberación and Hechizospells, Miguel R. López examines Sánchez's work and places him in the context of the past, present, and future of Chicano literature. López explains clearly the relation of time and space in Sánchez's prolific work and shows him as a writer committed to his craft as well as to his political stance.In the end, the portrait that emerges is of a poet whose work was linguistically and thematically complex and one who was more passionate, controversial, and forthright in his expression than any other contemporary Chicano writer.

Book Timespace and International Migration

Download or read book Timespace and International Migration written by Elizabeth Mavroudi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furthering understanding of the temporalities and spatialities of how people move across international boundaries, this book analyses how timespace intersects with migrant journeys as an integral aspect of the rhythms of daily lives. Individual chapters engage with these concepts by analysing a broad spectrum of migrations and mobilities, from youth mobility, to refugee migration, to gentrification, to food and to the political geography of the border.

Book Timespace

Download or read book Timespace written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany an international exhibition which opened at the Royal College of Art, London, in Mar. 1999.

Book Time Space Compression

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  • Author : Barney Warf
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2008-03-03
  • ISBN : 1134113927
  • Pages : 507 pages

Download or read book Time Space Compression written by Barney Warf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If geography is the study of how human beings are stretched over the earth’s surface, a vital part of that process is how we know and feel about space and time. Although space and time appear as "natural" and outside of society, they are in fact social constructions; every society develops different ways of measuring, organizing, and perceiving them. Given steady increases in the volume and velocity of social transactions over space, time and space have steadily "shrunk" via the process of time-space compression. By changing the time-space prisms of daily life – how people use their times and spaces, the opportunities and constraints they face, the meanings they attach to them – time-space compression is simultaneously cultural, social, political, and psychological in nature. This book explores how various social institutions and technologies historically generated enormous improvements in transportation and communications that produced transformative reductions in the time and cost of interactions among places, creating ever-changing geographies of centrality and peripherality. Warf invokes a global perspective on early modern, late modern, and postmodern capitalism. He makes use of data concerning travel times at various historical junctures, maps of distances between places at different historical moments, anecdotal analyses based on published accounts of people’s sense of place, examinations of cultural forms that represented space (e.g., paintings), and quotes about the culture of speed. Warf shows how time-space compression varies under different historical and geographical conditions, indicating that it is not one, single, homogenous process but a complex, contingent, and contested one. This book will be useful book for those studying and researching Geography, History, Sociology, and Political Science, as well as Anthropology, and Philosophy.

Book Time  Space and Knowledge

Download or read book Time Space and Knowledge written by Tarthang Tulku and published by Dharma Publications. This book was released on 1977 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed for its lucid presentation, TSK blends reasoning and experiential inquiry to offer a unique path of transformation. A deeply exhilarating book, TSK gives readers a language to ask the questions that conventional training teaches us to ignore. Thirty-five exercises reunite philosophy with direct experience.

Book TimeSpace

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  • Author : Dale A. Morrill
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2013-03-01
  • ISBN : 9781482662405
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book TimeSpace written by Dale A. Morrill and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world in political and economic disarray. A world polluted beyond hope. Civilization looked to space to survive and prosper. A privatized International Space Station jumpstarted space research, exploration, and colonization. Led by Dillon Andrews and his team of scientists and engineers, an unimaginable discovery was made. A lost probe, the Vagabond 13, mysteriously returns with a treasure trove of information. A hope of a new start was rekindled. The return of the probe and its valuable data starts a journey into space that pits the good of mankind versus the greed of power. Mankinds instinct to survive is thrust against insurmountable odds of space and laws of physics. Unimaginable new encounters await Dillon and his crew through time, space and the mind.

Book Journeys Through TimeSpace

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  • Author : James Talisman
  • Publisher : JayCeeAshPublishing LLC
  • Release : 2020-03-10
  • ISBN : 1734038853
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Journeys Through TimeSpace written by James Talisman and published by JayCeeAshPublishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a powerful leader of a planet in the vast MultiVerse of time and space begins preparations for implementing his plan, former college students from Earth are dispatched to a magical hidden place in the Himalayas to begin their own preparations. Each side of this battle for the fate of Earth and her inhabitants must secure ancient treasures. Obstacles confront both sides as they work to obtain these powerful artifacts. Not only must our young Earth heroes learn new knowledge and skills associated with ancient wisdom traditions and consciousness, but they must also travel to both Earth’s past and future to find the treasures needed to defend their world against a powerful enemy. These three friends obtain the ability to time-travel. Follow our heroes as they encounter life and death situations from various places in Earth’s past and future. The legendary continent of Atlantis plays an important role as well. Secret Earth organizations are players in this thrilling adventure. These ancient groups have been adversaries for hundreds of years. Their long-term battle becomes intense as Earth’s fate draws closer. As the clock ticks, can Earth’s defenders succeed, or will the powerful reptilian humanoid leader and his followers achieve their plan for reality across the MultiVerse of time and space?

Book Diversity and Super diversity

Download or read book Diversity and Super diversity written by Didem Ikizoglu and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronotopic identities : on the timespace organization of who we are / Jan Blommaert and Anna De Fina -- "Whose story?" : narratives of persecution, flight and survival told by the children of Austrian holocaust survivors / Ruth Wodak and Markus Rheindorf -- Linguistic landscape : interpreting and expanding language diversities / Elana Shohamy -- A competence for negotiating diversity and unpredictability in global contact zones / Suresh Canagarajah -- The strategic use of address terms in multilingual interactions during family mealtimes / Fatma Said and Zhu Hua -- Everyday encounters in the market place : translanguaging in the superdiverse city / Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese, and Rachel Hu -- (In)convenient fictions : ideologies of multi-lingual competence as resource for recognizability / Elizabeth R. Miller -- Constructed dialogue, stance, and ideological diversity in metalinguistic discourse / Anastasia Nylund -- Citizen sociolinguistics : a new media methodology for understanding language and social life / Betsy Rymes, Geeta Aneja, Andrea Leone-Pizzighella, Mark Lewis, Robert Moore -- Recasting diversity in language education in postcolonial, late-capitalist societies / Luisa Martøn Rojo, Christine Anthonissen, Inmaculada Garcia-Sánchez and Virginia Unamuno -- Diversity in school : monolingual ideologies versus multilingual practices / Anna de Fina

Book Time and Space

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  • Author : Barry Dainton
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-15
  • ISBN : 1134944047
  • Pages : 632 pages

Download or read book Time and Space written by Barry Dainton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition (2001) of this title quickly established itself on courses on the philosophy of time and space. This fully revised and expanded new edition sees the addition of chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and dynamic time, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Surveying both historical debates and the ideas of modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way and is careful to keep the conceptual issues throughout comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training. The book makes the philosophy of space and time accessible for anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. With over 100 original line illustrations and a full glossary of terms, the book has the requirements of students firmly in sight and will continue to serve as an essential textbook for philosophy of time and space courses.

Book Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom

Download or read book Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom written by Beverly J. Moss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores the nature of writing groups inside and outside the academic environment. For writing instructors, writing center directors & scholars researching writing groups.

Book Timespace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon May
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2003-08-29
  • ISBN : 1134677855
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Timespace written by Jon May and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timespace argues that the old dimensions of time and space do not exist singly, but only as a hybrid process term. the contributors introduce the concepts of time and space together, across a range of disciplines.

Book Time Space  Spiking Neural Networks and Brain Inspired Artificial Intelligence

Download or read book Time Space Spiking Neural Networks and Brain Inspired Artificial Intelligence written by Nikola K. Kasabov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiking neural networks (SNN) are biologically inspired computational models that represent and process information internally as trains of spikes. This monograph book presents the classical theory and applications of SNN, including original author’s contribution to the area. The book introduces for the first time not only deep learning and deep knowledge representation in the human brain and in brain-inspired SNN, but takes that further to develop new types of AI systems, called in the book brain-inspired AI (BI-AI). BI-AI systems are illustrated on: cognitive brain data, including EEG, fMRI and DTI; audio-visual data; brain-computer interfaces; personalized modelling in bio-neuroinformatics; multisensory streaming data modelling in finance, environment and ecology; data compression; neuromorphic hardware implementation. Future directions, such as the integration of multiple modalities, such as quantum-, molecular- and brain information processing, is presented in the last chapter. The book is a research book for postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners across wider areas, including computer and information sciences, engineering, applied mathematics, bio- and neurosciences.

Book Time  Space  and Society

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. Kellerman
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 9400922876
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Time Space and Society written by A. Kellerman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time and space are two of the most basic dimensions of human life. They envelop all human beings from birth to death. As such, they provide the context for human existence. At the same time, however, time and space also serve as major influencing factors in mankind's actions. Hence, a vast literature has developed on time and space as separate dimensions, and recently on time-space as joint dimensions. Interestingly enough, the social connotations of time and space have mostly been studied with the individual human being in mind. The more societal significance of time and space, whether separately or jointly, have been relatively neglected. It is the purpose of this volume to help fill this lacuna through discussions on some of the many junctions of time, space, and society at large. The discussion will naturally involve concepts and findings from more than just one discipline -- notably, geography, sociology, social history and political science. It is, thus, obvious that the topic may be highlighted from several perspectives. Given my own education and work, the approach will lean more to the geographical perspective. Geography has a special merit as an integrating framework for the study of time, space, and society. It is a discipline that has space at the center of its raison d'etre and, as such, has always striven for integration, holism and comprehensiveness.

Book Time  Space  and the Market

Download or read book Time Space and the Market written by Stephen Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of retroscapes, commercial environments that evoke past times and places, a ubiquitous manifestation of modern marketing. It covers an array of retailing milieux, in a number of different countries, at a variety of spatial scales, and from various evaluative perspectives, both pro and con.

Book Time  Space  and the Market

Download or read book Time Space and the Market written by Stephen Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of retroscapes, commercial environments that evoke past times and places, a ubiquitous manifestation of modern marketing. It covers an array of retailing milieux, in a number of different countries, at a variety of spatial scales, and from various evaluative perspectives, both pro and con.