Entanglements

Author : James Patrick Kelly,Mary Robinette Kowal,Nancy Kress,Rich Larson,Sam J. Miller,Annalee Newitz,Suzanne Palmer,Cadwell Turnbull,Nick Wolven,Xia Jia,Ken Liu,Lisa Yaszek
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780262539258

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Entanglements by James Patrick Kelly,Mary Robinette Kowal,Nancy Kress,Rich Larson,Sam J. Miller,Annalee Newitz,Suzanne Palmer,Cadwell Turnbull,Nick Wolven,Xia Jia,Ken Liu,Lisa Yaszek Pdf

Science fiction authors offer original tales of relationships in a future world of evolving technology. In a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships—in romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series considers the effects that scientific and technological discoveries will have on the emotional bonds that hold us together. The strange new worlds in these stories feature AI family therapy, floating fungitecture, and a futuristic love potion. A co-op of mothers attempts to raise a child together, lovers try to resolve their differences by employing a therapeutic sexbot, and a robot helps a woman dealing with Parkinson's disease. Contributions include Xia Jia's novelette set in a Buddhist monastery, translated by the Hugo Award-winning writer Ken Liu; a story by Nancy Kress, winner of six Hugos and two Nebulas; and a profile of Kress by Lisa Yaszek, Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech. Stunning artwork by Tatiana Plakhova—"infographic abstracts” of mixed media software—accompany the texts. Contributors James Patrick Kelly, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Rich Larson, KenLiu, Sam J. Miller, Annalee Newitz, Suzanne Palmer, Tatiana Plakhova, Cadwell Turnbull, Nick Wolven, Xia Jia, Lisa Yaszek

Author : Jean Dennison
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807837443

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Colonial Entanglement by Jean Dennison Pdf

From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new government's goals, the Nation's own history, and what it means to be Osage. The primary debates were focused on biology, culture, natural resources, and sovereignty. Osage anthropologist Jean Dennison documents the reform process in order to reveal the lasting effects of colonialism and to illuminate the possibilities for indigenous sovereignty. In doing so, she brings to light the many complexities of defining indigenous citizenship and governance in the twenty-first century. By situating the 2004-6 Osage Nation reform process within its historical and current contexts, Dennison illustrates how the Osage have creatively responded to continuing assaults on their nationhood. A fascinating account of a nation in the midst of its own remaking, Colonial Entanglement presents a sharp analysis of how legacies of European invasion and settlement in North America continue to affect indigenous people's views of selfhood and nationhood.

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Wire obstacles
ISBN : UCAL:$B74187

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Wire Entanglements by United States. War Department Pdf

Author : Barbara Heer
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839447970

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Cities of Entanglements by Barbara Heer Pdf

How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided. Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers and their employers, failed attempts by urban elites to close off their neighborhoods, and entanglements emerging in religious spaces and in shopping malls. Systematizing comparison as an experience-based method, the book makes an important contribution to urban anthropology, comparative urbanism and urban studies.

Author : United States. American Expeditionary Forces
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111215732

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Wire Entanglements by United States. American Expeditionary Forces Pdf

Author : Christiane Voss,Lorenz Engell,Tim Othold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501375132

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Anthropologies of Entanglements by Christiane Voss,Lorenz Engell,Tim Othold Pdf

Media and human modes of existence are always already intertwined and interdependent. The notion of the anthropocene has further stimulated a new examination of ideas about human agency and responsibility. Various approaches all emphasize relational concepts and the situatedness and embodiment of human-and also non-human-existences and experiences. Their common interest has shifted from any so-called 'human nature' to the multitude of cultural, topographical, technical, historical, social, discursive, and media formats with which human existences are entangled. This volume brings together a range of thinkers from international backgrounds and puts these important reflections and ideas in the spotlight. More specifically, the volume explores the concept of "anthropomedial entanglements." It fosters an understanding of human bodies, experiences, and media as being immanently entangled and mutually constituting, prior to any possible distinction between them. The different contributions thus open up a dialogue between empirical case studies and media-historical research on the one hand and the conceptual work of media and cultural philosophies and aesthetics on the other hand.

Author : Ronan Paddison,Chris Philo,Paul Routledge,Joanne Sharp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134668960

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Entanglements of Power by Ronan Paddison,Chris Philo,Paul Routledge,Joanne Sharp Pdf

This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it. The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more abstract perspectives within a wide geographical and cultural spectrum. Case studies include German Reunification; Jamaican Yardies on British Television; Victorian Sexuality and Moralisation in Cremorne Gardens; Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador; Sport as Power; the film Falling Down. Entanglements of Power presents an exciting and challenging account of the symbiotic relationship between domination and resistance, and contextualises this within the parameters of geography with a rich body of case-study material and a respected team of contributors.

Author : Rob Clifton
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191556494

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Quantum Entanglements by Rob Clifton Pdf

Rob Clifton was one of the most brilliant and productive researchers in the foundations and philosophy of quantum theory; he died tragically at the age of 38. Jeremy Butterfield and Hans Halvorson present fourteen of his finest papers, all of which combine exciting philosophical discussion with rigorous mathematical results. Many of these papers break wholly new ground, either conceptually or technically. Others resolve a vague controversy into a precise technical problem, which is then solved; still others solve an open problem that had been in the air for some time. All of them show scientific and philosophical creativity of a high order, genuinely among the very best work in the field. The papers are grouped into four parts. First come four papers about the modal interpretation of quantum mechanics. Part II comprises three papers on the foundations of algebraic quantum field theory, with an emphasis on entanglement and nonlocality. The two papers in Part III concern the concept of a particle in relativistic quantum theories. One paper analyses localization; the other analyses the Unruh effect (Rindler quanta) using the algebraic approach to quantum theory. Finally, Part IV contains striking new results about such central issues as complementarity, Bohr's reply to the EPR argument, and no hidden variables theorems; and ends with a philosophical survey of the field of quantum information. The volume includes a full bibliography of Clifton's publications. Quantum Entanglements offers inspiration and substantial reward to graduates and professionals in the foundations of physics, with a background in philosophy, physics, or mathematics.

Author : Sebastian Gehrig
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800730847

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Legal Entanglements by Sebastian Gehrig Pdf

During the division of Germany, law became the object of ideological conflicts and the means by which the two national governments conducted their battle over political legitimacy. Legal Entanglements explores how these dynamics produced competing concepts of statehood and sovereignty, all centered on citizens and their rights. Drawing on wide-ranging archival sources, including recently declassified documents, Sebastian Gehrig traces how politicians, diplomats, judges, lawyers, activists and intellectuals navigated the struggle between legal ideologies under the pressures of the Cold War and decolonization. As he shows, in their response to global debates over international law and human rights, their work kept the legal cultures of both German states entangled until 1989.

Author : Henry S. Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195388930

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Moral Entanglements by Henry S. Richardson Pdf

Richardson's book is a defense of a position on a neglected topic in medical research ethics. Richardson points out that ethical regulations do not address one of the key dilemmas faced by medical researchers - whether or not they have obligations towards subjects who need care not directly related to the purpose of the study.

Author : Louise Economides,Laura Shackelford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000388343

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Surreal Entanglements by Louise Economides,Laura Shackelford Pdf

This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer’s work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer’s work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which "nature" has become radically uncanny due to global climate change and powerful bio-technologies. The first collection to survey academic engagements with VanderMeer, this book brings together scholars in the fields of environmental literature, science fiction, genre studies, American literary history, philosophy of technology, and digital cultures to reflect on the environmentally, culturally, aesthetically, and politically central questions his fiction poses to predominant understandings of the Anthropocene.

Author : Louise I. Shelley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107015647

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Dirty Entanglements by Louise I. Shelley Pdf

Using lively case studies, this book analyzes the transformation of crime and terrorism and the business logic of terrorism.

Author : Corrinne Harol,Mark Simpson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442630925

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Literary / Liberal Entanglements by Corrinne Harol,Mark Simpson Pdf

In Literary/Liberal Entanglements, Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson bring together ten essays by scholars from a wide range of fields in English studies in order to interrogate the complex, entangled relationship between the history of literature and the history of liberalism. The volume has three goals: to investigate important episodes in the entanglement of literary history and liberalism; to analyze the impact of this entanglement on the secular and democratic projects of modernity; and thereby to reassess the dynamics of our neoliberal present. The volume is organized into a series of paired essays, with each pair investigating a concept central to both literature and liberalism: acting, socializing, discriminating, recounting, and culturing. Collectively, the essays demonstrate the vivid capacity of literary study writ large to reckon with, imagine, and materialize durative accounts of history and politics. Literary/Liberal Entanglements models a method of literary history for the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004679450

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Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic by Anonim Pdf

This book draws together anthropological studies of human-animal relations among Indigenous Peoples in three regions of the Americas: the Andes, Amazonia and the American Arctic. Despite contrasts between the ecologies of the different regions, it finds useful comparisons between the ways that lives of human and non-human animals are entwined in shared circumstances and sentient entanglements. While studies of all three regions have been influential in scholarship on human-animal relations, the regions are seldom brought together. This volume highlights the value of examining partial connections across the American continent between human and other-than-human lives.

Author : Jack Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351347242

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Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide by Jack Palmer Pdf

This book offers a novel sociological examination of the historical trajectories of Burundi and Rwanda. It challenges both the Eurocentric assumptions which have underpinned many sociological theorisations of modernity, and the notion that the processes of modernisation move gradually, if precariously, towards more peaceable forms of cohabitation within and between societies. Addressing these themes at critical historical junctures – precolonial, colonial and postcolonial – the book argues that the recent experiences of extremely violent social conflict in Burundi and Rwanda cannot be seen as an ‘object apart’ from the concerns of sociologists, as it is commonly presented. Instead, these experiences are situated within a specific route to and through modernity, one ‘entangled’ with Western modernity. A contribution to an emerging global historical sociology, Entanglements of Modernity, Colonialism and Genocide will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in postcolonialism, historical sociology, multiple modernities and genocide.