Uncertain Histories

Author : Kate Palmer Albers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520285279

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The compulsion to dwell on historyÑon how it is recorded, stored, saved, forgotten, narrated, lost, remembered, and made publicÑhas been at the heart of artistsÕ engagement with the photographic medium since the late 1960s. Uncertain Histories considers some of that work, ranging from installations that incorporate vast numbers of personal and vernacular photographs by Christian Boltanski, Dinh Q. L�, and Gerhard Richter to confrontations with absence in the work of Joel Sternfeld and Ken Gonzales-Day. Projects such as these revolve around a photographic paradox that hinges equally on knowing and not knowing, on definitive proof coupled with uncertainty, on abundance of imagery being met squarely with its own inadequacy. Photography is seen as a fundamentally ambiguous medium that can be evocative of the historical past while at the same time limited in the stories it can convey. Rather than proclaiming definitively what photography is, the work discussed here posits photographs as objects always held in suspension, perpetually oscillating in their ability to tell history. Yet this ultimately leads to a new kind of knowledge production: uncertainty is not a dead end but a generative space for the viewerÕs engagement with the construction of history.

Author : Andriy Zayarnyuk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487505196

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Lviv’s Uncertain Destination by Andriy Zayarnyuk Pdf

This book re-examines the history of twentieth-century Lviv by focusing on the city's main railway terminal. It approaches the terminal as an embodiment of the city's built environment and a microcosm of society.

Author : Kate Palmer Albers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art and history
ISBN : 0520356012

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Uncertain Histories by Kate Palmer Albers Pdf

"The compulsion to dwell on history--on how it is recorded, stored, saved, forgotten, narrated, lost, remembered, and made public--has been at the heart of artists' engagement with the photographic medium since the late 1960s. Uncertain Histories considers some of that work, ranging from installations that incorporate vast numbers of personal and vernacular photographs by Christian Boltanski, Dinh Q. Lê, and Gerhard Richter to confrontations with absence in the work of Joel Sternfeld and Ken Gonzales-Day. Projects such as these revolve around a photographic paradox that hinges equally on knowing and not knowing, on definitive proof coupled with uncertainty, on abundance of imagery being met squarely with its own inadequacy. Photography is seen as a fundamentally ambiguous medium that can be evocative of the historical past while at the same time limited in the stories it can convey. Rather than proclaiming definitively what photography is, the work discussed here posits photographs as objects always held in suspension, perpetually oscillating in their ability to tell history. Yet this ultimately leads to a new kind of knowledge production: uncertainty is not a dead end but a generative space for the viewer's engagement with the construction of history"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Richard MacLean Smith
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781492697725

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Unexplained by Richard MacLean Smith Pdf

Chilling stories of unexplained events, perfect for true crime fans! In every corner of this earth there are secrets. They are hidden in the dark edge of the woods, nestled in the cold stars, and staring out from a stranger's eyes. And whether they be demonic possession or an unsolved murder, the unknown has always haunted our dreams. From the hit podcast Unexplained comes a volume perfectly crafted for the curious, the cynical, and the not-easily-frightened. Richard Maclean Smith is the expert in the unknown, and humbly offers up ten tales of real-life events that continue to evade explanation. With these chilling stories comes the missing key: a connection to our own beliefs in science, superstition, and perception. From cryptic accounts of spectral sightings to peculiar tales of time anomalies, Smith delves into each case with meticulous research, thoughtful insights, and a respectful approach. Unexplained encourages readers to question the boundaries of our understanding, proving that reality can be more extraordinary than we ever imagined. Embark on this gripping journey into the unknown with Unexplained: Supernatural Stories for Uncertain Times. Key Features: Thought-Provoking: Challenges readers to question their understanding of reality and embrace the inexplicable. Well-Researched: Offers meticulously researched accounts of paranormal phenomena and unexplained events. Engaging Storytelling: Features a narrative style that is both engaging and respectful, based on the popular Unexplained podcast. Wide Range of Topics: Explores a diverse range of phenomena from spectral sightings to time anomalies. Cultural Perspective: Includes historical, cultural, and scientific context for each story, adding depth to the mystery.

Author : Myles Lavan,Daniel Jew,Bart Danon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009302036

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The Uncertain Past by Myles Lavan,Daniel Jew,Bart Danon Pdf

Historians constantly wrestle with uncertainty, never more so than when attempting quantification, yet the field has given little attention to the nature of uncertainty and strategies for managing it. This volume proposes a powerful new approach to uncertainty in ancient history, drawing on techniques widely used in the social and natural sciences. It shows how probability-based techniques used to manage uncertainty about the future or the present can be applied to uncertainty about the past. A substantial introduction explains the use of probability to represent uncertainty. The chapters that follow showcase how the technique can offer leverage on a wide range of problems in ancient history, from the incidence of expropriation in the Classical Greek world to the money supply of the Roman empire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1412839467

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The Uncertain Sciences by Anonim Pdf

This sweeping inquiry into the present condition of the human sciences addresses the central questions: What sort of knowledge do the human sciences claim to be offering? To what extent can that knowledge be called scientific? and What do we mean by "scientific" in such a context? In this wide-ranging book, one of the most esteemed cultural historians of our time turns his attention to major questions about human experience and various attempts to understand it "scientifically." Mazlish considers the achievements, failings, and possibilities of the human sciences--a domain that he broadly defines to include the social sciences, literature, psychology, and hermeneutic studies. In a rich and original synthesis built upon the work of earlier philosophers and historians, Mazlish constructs a new view of the nature and meaning of the human sciences. Starting with the remote human past and moving through the Age of Discovery to the present day, Mazlish discusses the sort of knowledge the human sciences claim to offer. He looks closely at the positivistic aspirations of the human sciences, which are modeled after the natural sciences, and at their interpretive tendencies. In an analysis of scientific method and scientific community, he explores the roles they can or should assume in the human sciences. His approach is genuinely interdisciplinary, drawing upon an array of topics, from civil society to globalization to the interactions of humans and machines.

Author : Nanna Bonde Thylstrup,Daniela Agostinho,Annie Ring,Catherine D'Ignazio,Kristin Veel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262361279

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Uncertain Archives by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup,Daniela Agostinho,Annie Ring,Catherine D'Ignazio,Kristin Veel Pdf

Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate concepts relevant to critical studies of big data--arranged glossary style, from from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability--both challenging conventional usage of such often-used terms as prediction and objectivity and introducing such unfamiliar ones as overfitting and copynorm. The contributors include both leading researchers, including N. Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker and Lisa Gitelman, and such emerging agenda-setting scholars as Safiya Noble, Sarah T. Roberts and Nicole Starosielski.

Author : Daniel Livesay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469634449

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Children of Uncertain Fortune by Daniel Livesay Pdf

By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.

Author : Carol Cohn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745660660

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Women and Wars by Carol Cohn Pdf

Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the (gendered) phenomena of war. Women have participated in the making, fighting, and concluding of wars throughout history, and their participation is only increasing at the turn of the 21st century. Women experience war in multiple ways: as soldiers, as fighters, as civilians, as caregivers, as sex workers, as sexual slaves, refugees and internally displaced persons, as anti-war activists, as community peace-builders, and more. This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers the tools to understood women’s (told and untold) war experiences in the greater context of the gendered nature of global social and political life.

Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013577477

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Unknown to History by Charlotte Mary Yonge Pdf

Author : Senia Pašeta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198748274

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Uncertain Futures by Senia Pašeta Pdf

"Bibliography of the major writings of Roy Foster to 2014"--Pages 283-289.

Author : Dorothea Kolossa,Reinhold Haeb-Umbach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642213175

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Robust Speech Recognition of Uncertain or Missing Data by Dorothea Kolossa,Reinhold Haeb-Umbach Pdf

Automatic speech recognition suffers from a lack of robustness with respect to noise, reverberation and interfering speech. The growing field of speech recognition in the presence of missing or uncertain input data seeks to ameliorate those problems by using not only a preprocessed speech signal but also an estimate of its reliability to selectively focus on those segments and features that are most reliable for recognition. This book presents the state of the art in recognition in the presence of uncertainty, offering examples that utilize uncertainty information for noise robustness, reverberation robustness, simultaneous recognition of multiple speech signals, and audiovisual speech recognition. The book is appropriate for scientists and researchers in the field of speech recognition who will find an overview of the state of the art in robust speech recognition, professionals working in speech recognition who will find strategies for improving recognition results in various conditions of mismatch, and lecturers of advanced courses on speech processing or speech recognition who will find a reference and a comprehensive introduction to the field. The book assumes an understanding of the fundamentals of speech recognition using Hidden Markov Models.

Author : Adrian Vermeule
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674022106

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Judging Under Uncertainty by Adrian Vermeule Pdf

In this book, Adrian Vermeule shows that any approach to legal interpretation rests on institutional and empirical premises about the capacities of judges and the systemic effects of their rulings. He argues that legal interpretation is above all an exercise in decisionmaking under severe empirical uncertainty.

Author : Saxo (Grammaticus)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z313367805

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“The” First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus by Saxo (Grammaticus) Pdf

Author : Claudette Michelle Murphy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0822336715

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Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty by Claudette Michelle Murphy Pdf

DIVAn account of sick building syndrome and the large number of historical conditions--office worker protests, feminism, ventilation engineering, toxicology, etc.--that coalesced to give this phenomenon real existence./div