Non Things

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509551712

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Non-things by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things – a constantly expanding ‘infosphere’ of information and communication which displaces objects and obliterates any stillness and calmness in our lives. Byung-Chul Han’s critique of the infosphere highlights the price we are paying for our growing preoccupation with information and communication. Today we search for more information without gaining any real knowledge. We communicate constantly without participating in a community. We save masses of data without keeping track of our memories. We accumulate friends and followers without encountering other people. This is how information develops a form of life that has no stability or duration. And as we become increasingly absorbed in the infosphere, we lose touch with the magic of things which provide a stable environment for dwelling and give continuity to human life. The infosphere may seem to grant us new freedoms but it creates new forms of control too, and it cuts us off from the kind of freedom that is tied to acting in the world. This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.

Author : Rebecca Lee Hammons,Ronald J. Kovac
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000000344

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Fundamentals of Internet of Things for Non-Engineers by Rebecca Lee Hammons,Ronald J. Kovac Pdf

The IoT is the next manifestation of the Internet. The trend started by connecting computers to computers, progressed to connecting people to people, and is now moving to connect everything to everything. The movement started like a race—with a lot of fanfare, excitement, and cheering. We’re now into the work phase, and we have to figure out how to make the dream come true. The IoT will have many faces and involve many fields as it progresses. It will involve technology, design, security, legal policy, business, artificial intelligence, design, Big Data, and forensics; about any field that exists now. This is the reason for this book. There are books in each one of these fields, but the focus was always "an inch wide and a mile deep." There’s a need for a book that will introduce the IoT to non-engineers and allow them to dream of the possibilities and explore the work venues in this area. The book had to be "a mile wide and a few inches deep." The editors met this goal by engaging experts from a number of fields and asking them to come together to create an introductory IoT book. Fundamentals of Internet of Things for Non-Engineers Provides a comprehensive view of the current fundamentals and the anticipated future trends in the realm of Internet of Things from a practitioner’s point of view Brings together a variety of voices with subject matter expertise in these diverse topical areas to provide leaders, students, and lay persons with a fresh worldview of the Internet of Things and the background to succeed in related technology decision-making Enhances the reader’s experience through a review of actual applications of Internet of Things end points and devices to solve business and civic problems along with notes on lessons learned Prepares readers to embrace the Internet of Things era and address complex business, social, operational, educational, and personal systems integration questions and opportunities

Author : Bob Joseph
Publisher : Indigenous Relations Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995266522

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21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act by Bob Joseph Pdf

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer.Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has shaped, controlled, and constrained the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many enduring stereotypes. Bob Joseph's book comes at a key time in the reconciliation process, when awareness from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities is at a crescendo. Joseph explains how Indigenous Peoples can step out from under the Indian Act and return to self-government, self-determination, and self-reliance--and why doing so would result in a better country for every Canadian. He dissects the complex issues around truth and reconciliation, and clearly demonstrates why learning about the Indian Act's cruel, enduring legacy is essential for the country to move toward true reconciliation.

Author : Rebecca Lee Hammons,Ronald J. Kovac
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000007176

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Fundamentals of Internet of Things for Non-Engineers by Rebecca Lee Hammons,Ronald J. Kovac Pdf

The IoT is the next manifestation of the Internet. The trend started by connecting computers to computers, progressed to connecting people to people, and is now moving to connect everything to everything. The movement started like a race—with a lot of fanfare, excitement, and cheering. We’re now into the work phase, and we have to figure out how to make the dream come true. The IoT will have many faces and involve many fields as it progresses. It will involve technology, design, security, legal policy, business, artificial intelligence, design, Big Data, and forensics; about any field that exists now. This is the reason for this book. There are books in each one of these fields, but the focus was always "an inch wide and a mile deep." There’s a need for a book that will introduce the IoT to non-engineers and allow them to dream of the possibilities and explore the work venues in this area. The book had to be "a mile wide and a few inches deep." The editors met this goal by engaging experts from a number of fields and asking them to come together to create an introductory IoT book. Fundamentals of Internet of Things for Non-Engineers Provides a comprehensive view of the current fundamentals and the anticipated future trends in the realm of Internet of Things from a practitioner’s point of view Brings together a variety of voices with subject matter expertise in these diverse topical areas to provide leaders, students, and lay persons with a fresh worldview of the Internet of Things and the background to succeed in related technology decision-making Enhances the reader’s experience through a review of actual applications of Internet of Things end points and devices to solve business and civic problems along with notes on lessons learned Prepares readers to embrace the Internet of Things era and address complex business, social, operational, educational, and personal systems integration questions and opportunities

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : Polity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1509551700

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Non-things by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things – a constantly expanding ‘infosphere’ of information and communication which displaces objects and obliterates any stillness and calmness in our lives. Byung-Chul Han’s critique of the infosphere highlights the price we are paying for our growing preoccupation with information and communication. Today we search for more information without gaining any real knowledge. We communicate constantly without participating in a community. We save masses of data without keeping track of our memories. We accumulate friends and followers without encountering other people. This is how information develops a form of life that has no stability or duration. And as we become increasingly absorbed in the infosphere, we lose touch with the magic of things which provide a stable environment for dwelling and give continuity to human life. The infosphere may seem to grant us new freedoms but it creates new forms of control too, and it cuts us off from the kind of freedom that is tied to acting in the world. This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.

Author : Joaquín Pérez-Remón
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110804164

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Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism by Joaquín Pérez-Remón Pdf

Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Author : Thomas Gornall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521029124

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Summa Theologiae: Volume 4, Knowledge in God by Thomas Gornall Pdf

Paperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509516087

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The Scent of Time by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to linger and the faculty of contemplation. It therefore becomes impossible to experience time as fulfilling. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt, Han argues that we can overcome this temporal crisis only by revitalizing the vita contemplativa and relearning the art of lingering. For what distinguishes humans from other animals is the capacity for reflection and contemplation, and when life regains this capacity, this art of lingering, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness.

Author : Cecilia Wee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134270934

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Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations by Cecilia Wee Pdf

Material Falsity and Error in Descartes’s Meditations approaches Descartes’s Meditations as an intellectual journey, wherein Descartes’s views develop and change as he makes new discoveries about self, God and matter. The first book to focus closely on Descartes’s notion of material falsity, it shows how Descartes’s account of material falsity – and correspondingly his account of crucial notions such as truth, falsehood and error – evolves according to the epistemic advances in the Meditations. It also offers important new insights on the crucial role of Descartes’s Third Meditation discussion of material falsity in advancing many subsequent arguments in the Meditations. This book is essential reading for those working on Descartes and early modern philosophy. It presents an independent reading on issues of perennial interest, such as Descartes’s views on error, truth and falsehood. It also makes important contributions to topics that have been the focus of much recent scholarship, such as Descartes’s ethics and his theodicy. Those working on the interface between medieval and modern philosophy will find the discussions on Descartes’s debt to predecessors like Suárez and Augustine invaluable.

Author : John McClintock,James Strong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Bible
ISBN : NLI:2079592-70

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Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock,James Strong Pdf

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Theology
ISBN : UCBK:C020228174

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The Works of Aurelius Augustine: Writings in connection with the Manichaean heresy, translated by Richard Stothert. 1872 by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Diogenes Laërtius,Sextus Empiricus,Norman MacColl,Mary Mills Patrick,Edwyn Bevan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781329741768

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Stoic Six Pack 4: The Sceptics by Diogenes Laërtius,Sextus Empiricus,Norman MacColl,Mary Mills Patrick,Edwyn Bevan Pdf

A sextet of sceptic texts has been collected in Stoic Six Pack 4 - The Sceptics: Pyrrhonic Sketches by Sextus Empiricus, Life of Pyrrho by Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick, The Greek Sceptics: from Pyrrho to Sextus by Norman MacColl, Stoics and Sceptics by Edwyn Bevan and Life of Carneades by Diogenes Laertius. A key concept for the sceptics was ataraxia (""tranquility""), a Greek term used by Pyrrho to describe a lucid state of robust tranquility, characterized by ongoing freedom from distress and worry. By applying ideas of what he called ""practical skepticism"" to Ethics and to life in general, Pyrrho concluded that ataraxia could be achieved. Arriving at a state of ataraxia became the ultimate goal of the early Skeptikoi."

Author : Alka Rai & Alka Singh
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789385401688

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Aspirations–Semester books Class 3 Semester 1 by Alka Rai & Alka Singh Pdf

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Author : Ismail's Positive Journals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798646215261

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Living Things and Nonliving Things by Ismail's Positive Journals Pdf

For this activity, students will look at what makes something living or not. They will complete the table by going outside and drawing living things in the left column and non-living things in the right column. Drawing items in the table with an extension activity where they must circle the living things.

Author : Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000750928

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Shakespeare’s Things by Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky Pdf

Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.