Media Hot And Cold

Author : Nicole Starosielski
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021841

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Media Hot and Cold by Nicole Starosielski Pdf

In Media Hot and Cold Nicole Starosielski examines the cultural dimensions of temperature to theorize the ways heat and cold can be used as a means of communication, subjugation, and control. Diving into the history of thermal media, from infrared cameras to thermostats to torture sweatboxes, Starosielski explores the many meanings and messages of temperature. During the twentieth century, heat and cold were broadcast through mass thermal media. Today, digital thermal media such as bodily air conditioners offer personalized forms of thermal communication and comfort. Although these new media promise to help mitigate the uneven effects of climate change, Starosielski shows how they can operate as a form of biopower by determining who has the ability to control their own thermal environment. In this way, thermal media can enact thermal violence in ways that reinforce racialized, colonial, gendered, and sexualized hierarchies. By outlining how the control of temperature reveals power relations, Starosielski offers a framework to better understand the dramatic transformations of hot and cold media in the twenty-first century.

Author : Tom Miller
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816535866

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Cuba, Hot and Cold by Tom Miller Pdf

"A collection of renowned travel writer Tom Miller's best musings on the history and culture of Cuba"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Maryam Yavari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030809836

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Hot and Cold Theory: The Path Towards Personalized Medicine by Maryam Yavari Pdf

This book is about the theory of Hot and Cold, a mutual fundamental base of traditional medicines all around the world. The theory describes the dynamic balance state of the body on the axis of hot and cold for each individual and proposes the fact that deviation from this equilibrium is a predisposing factor for diseases. Such an approach helps practitioners to provide treatments tailored to the patient’s condition, not the disease. This book, for the first time, has gathered native descriptions of Hot and Cold theory in different traditional medicines, including traditional Chinese medicine, Persian (Humoral, Unani) medicine, Ayurvedic medicine and Latin American and Caribbean medicines. After defining the common ground, contemporary research - in nutrition, pharmacology, physiology and systems biology - has been explored using scientific methodology. This work is the result of an international collaboration of more than 30 scientists and scholars with high reputations in their fields. Hot and Cold theory, as a holistic individualized approach in prevention, diagnosis and treatment, can be merged into the novel fast-paced concepts in systems biology and precision medicine. Through this bridge, the authors propose that the Hot and Cold theory should be revisited more deeply by medical scientists, who are the main audience of this book, to pave the way towards integrated holistic personalized medicine.

Author : Bjarke Ingels
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3836557398

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Hot to Cold by Bjarke Ingels Pdf

Architecture is the art and science of accommodating the lives we want to live. Our cities and buildings aren't givens; they are the way they are because that is as far as we have come to date. They are the best efforts of our ancestors and fellow planetizens, and if they have shortcomings, it is up to us to continue that effort, pick up where they left off. Bjarke Ingels Group's (BIG) grand mission is to find a pragmatic utopia, shaping not only a particular structural entity, but the kind of world we wish to inhabit. This book examines BIG's odyssey of architectural adaptation

Author : S. Fred Singer,David R. Legates,Anthony R. Lupo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1598133411

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Hot Talk, Cold Science by S. Fred Singer,David R. Legates,Anthony R. Lupo Pdf

Are the often alarming claims about global warming based on science and justified by the facts? Is the human race really facing a major crisis due to emissions from fossil fuels? Would the proposed Climate Treaty solve a real environmental threat or would it create worldwide economic and social harm? S. Fred Singer is a distinguished astrophysicist who has taken a hard, scientific look at the evidence. In this new book, Dr. Singer explores the inaccuracies in historical climate data, the limitations of attempting to model climate on computers, solar variability and its impact on climate, the effects of clouds, ocean currents, and sea levels on global climate, and factors that could mitigate any human impacts on world climate.Singer's masterful analysis decisively shows that the pessimistic, and often alarming, global warming scenarios depicted in the media have no scientific basis. In fact, he finds that many aspects of any global warming, such as a longer growing season for food and a reduced need to use fossil fuels for heating, would actually have a positive impact on the human race. Further, Singer notes how many proposed "solutions" to the global warming "crisis" (like "carbon" taxes) would have severe consequences for economically disadvantaged groups and nations.According to Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hot Talk, Cold Science dares to point out that 'the Emperor has no clothes.' Is there evidence to suggest discernible human influence on global climate? Of great interest, this book demonstrates that, at best, the evidence is sketchy and incomplete. Hot Talk, Cold Science is essential reading for anyone who wants to be fully informed about the global warming debate.

Author : Thomas Doherty
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231503273

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Cold War, Cool Medium by Thomas Doherty Pdf

Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant place. Although many books have been written about this period, Cold War, Cool Medium is the only one to examine it through the lens of television programming. To the unjaded viewership of Cold War America, the television set was not a harbinger of intellectual degradation and moral decay, but a thrilling new household appliance capable of bringing the wonders of the world directly into the home. The "cool medium" permeated the lives of every American, quickly becoming one of the most powerful cultural forces of the twentieth century. While television has frequently been blamed for spurring the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was also the national stage upon which America witnessed—and ultimately welcomed—his downfall. In this provocative and nuanced cultural history, Doherty chronicles some of the most fascinating and ideologically charged episodes in television history: the warm-hearted Jewish sitcom The Goldbergs; the subversive threat from I Love Lucy; the sermons of Fulton J. Sheen on Life Is Worth Living; the anticommunist series I Led 3 Lives; the legendary jousts between Edward R. Murrow and Joseph McCarthy on See It Now; and the hypnotic, 188-hour political spectacle that was the Army-McCarthy hearings. By rerunning the programs, freezing the frames, and reading between the lines, Cold War, Cool Medium paints a picture of Cold War America that belies many black-and-white clichés. Doherty not only details how the blacklist operated within the television industry but also how the shows themselves struggled to defy it, arguing that television was preprogrammed to reinforce the very freedoms that McCarthyism attempted to curtail.

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153743005X

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Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan Pdf

When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

Author : Miryam Sas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023098

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Feeling Media by Miryam Sas Pdf

In Feeling Media Miryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan. Opening media studies and affect theory up to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside Euro-America, Sas offers a framework of analysis she calls the affective scale—the space where artists and theorists work between the level of the individual and larger global and historical shifts. She examines intermedia, experimental animation, and Marxist theories of the culture industries of the 1960s and 1970s in the work of artists and thinkers ranging from filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, photographer Nakahira Takuma, and the Three Animators' Group to art critic Hanada Kiyoteru and landscape theorist Matsuda Masao. She also outlines how twenty-first-century Japanese artists—especially those responding to the Fukushima disaster—adopt and adapt this earlier work to reframe ideas about collectivity, community, and connectivity in the space between the individual and the system.

Author : Caroline Arnold
Publisher : Charlesbridge Pub Incorporated
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1580892760

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Too Hot? Too Cold? by Caroline Arnold Pdf

The award-winning author of Wiggle and Waggle explains how people and animals living in different parts of the world survive in hotter and colder climates using remarkable adaptive strategies and behaviors. Simultaneous.

Author : Rebecca Crowell,Jerry McLaughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Artists' materials
ISBN : 0997296305

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Cold Wax Medium by Rebecca Crowell,Jerry McLaughlin Pdf

More than just a technical guide, this book provides comprehensive information for those new to cold wax medium, as well as technical expertise and inspiration to those with experience. Featuring nearly 100 artists from around the world, Cold Wax Medium will strengthen your work and studio practice, suggest new directions, and support thoughtful self-critique.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780544716247

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Author : Harald Mehling,Luisa F. Cabeza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540685579

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Heat and cold storage with PCM by Harald Mehling,Luisa F. Cabeza Pdf

The years 2006 and 2007 mark a dramatic change of peoples view regarding c- mate change and energy consumption. The new IPCC report makes clear that - mankind plays a dominant role on climate change due to CO emissions from en- 2 ergy consumption, and that a significant reduction in CO emissions is necessary 2 within decades. At the same time, the supply of fossil energy sources like coal, oil, and natural gas becomes less reliable. In spring 2008, the oil price rose beyond 100 $/barrel for the first time in history. It is commonly accepted today that we have to reduce the use of fossil fuels to cut down the dependency on the supply countries and to reduce CO emissions. The use of renewable energy sources and 2 increased energy efficiency are the main strategies to achieve this goal. In both strategies, heat and cold storage will play an important role. People use energy in different forms, as heat, as mechanical energy, and as light. With the discovery of fire, humankind was the first time able to supply heat and light when needed. About 2000 years ago, the Romans started to use ceramic tiles to store heat in under floor heating systems. Even when the fire was out, the room stayed warm. Since ancient times, people also know how to cool food with ice as cold storage.

Author : James R. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135211622

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Climate Change and Armed Conflict by James R. Lee Pdf

This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter over the next half century even if drastic action is taken now. Changes in climate will produce unique types and modes of conflict, redefine the value of important resources, and create new challenges to maintaining social order and stability. This book examines the consequences of climate change and argues that it has and will produce two types of different types of conflict: 'cold wars' and 'hot wars'. Cold wars will occur in northern and southern latitudes as warming draws countries into possible conflict due to expanding interests in exploiting new resources and territories (inter-state conflict). Hot wars will break out around the equator as warming expands and intensifies dry areas, increasing competition for scarce resources (intra-state conflict). Conflict is not inevitable, but it will also be a consequence of how states, international institutions and people react to changes in climate. Climate change and conflict have always shaped human experiences. This book lays out the parameters of the relationship, shows its history, and forecasts its trends, offering future conditions and opportunities for changing the historical path we are on. This book will be of great interest for students of climate change and environmental security, peace and conflict studies, and IR/security studies in general. James R. Lee is a Professor in the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC and Associate Director of American University's Center for Teaching Excellence. He is author of several books on international relations, including, most recently, Exploring the Gaps: Vital Links Between Trade, Environment and Culture (2000).

Author : Laughey, Dan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335218134

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Key Themes In Media Theory by Laughey, Dan Pdf

Key Themes is a critical introduction to key theories of media for undergraduate students.

Author : Marshall MacLuhan,Quentin Fiore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Communication
ISBN : OCLC:490300437

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The Medium is the Massage by Marshall MacLuhan,Quentin Fiore Pdf