Uptime, Downtime, Spacetime, and Power

Uptime, Downtime, Spacetime, and Power
Title Uptime, Downtime, Spacetime, and Power PDF eBook
Author Sharon Traweek
Publisher
Total Pages 306
Release 1985
Genre Nuclear physics
ISBN

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The Ethnomethodological Movement

The Ethnomethodological Movement
Title The Ethnomethodological Movement PDF eBook
Author Pierce J. Flynn
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages 425
Release 2011-06-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110873141

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The Body

The Body
Title The Body PDF eBook
Author Andrew Blaikie
Publisher Psychology Press
Total Pages 466
Release 2003-08-28
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780415266628

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This collection offers a uniquely comprehensive guide to the sociology of the body. With a strong historical scope and conceptual framework, it provides an indispensable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and a robust source for scholars working in the area. The central focus is on understanding sociology through the body; what is often described as re-reading sociology in a 'more corporeal light'. This is an interdisciplinary process, drawing on history, feminism, cultural history, art history, anthropology, social psychology, philosophy, medical sociology and media and communications, as well as sociology. While this has been primarily a Western practice, The Body seeks to broaden the perspective to include references that draw on alternative cultural assumptions, beliefs and practices (including Japan, and South America.)

Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory

Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
Title Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory PDF eBook
Author Various
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 7841
Release 2021-08-07
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1136201513

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Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles ranging from The Liberation of Women to Feminists and State Welfare, from Married to the Job to Julia Kristeva, this set provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources from the diverse field of gender studies.

Coming to Terms

Coming to Terms
Title Coming to Terms PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Weed
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 330
Release 2012-10-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0415635217

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For over a decade, feminist studies have occupied an extraordinary position in the United States. On the one hand, they have contributed to the development of a strong 'identity' politics; on the other, they have been part of the post-structuralist critique of the unified subject - its experience, truth and presence - and of the massive challenge to Western metaphysics and humanism. Along with race and ethnic studies, feminist enquiry has moved beyond the fiction of a unitary feminism to address the differences within the study of difference. The essays in this volume all address feminism's relationships to theory and politics at the level of the criticism and production of knowledge. Readers and students of politics, history, literature, philosophy, sociology and the sciences - anyone with a stake in theory and politics - will benefit from this powerful book.

Coming to Terms (RLE Feminist Theory)

Coming to Terms (RLE Feminist Theory)
Title Coming to Terms (RLE Feminist Theory) PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Weed
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 330
Release 2012-11-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136203796

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For over a decade, feminist studies have occupied an extraordinary position in the United States. On the one hand, they have contributed to the development of a strong ‘identity’ politics; on the other, they have been part of the post-structuralist critique of the unified subject – its experience, truth and presence – and of the massive challenge to Western metaphysics and humanism. Along with race and ethnic studies, feminist enquiry has moved beyond the fiction of a unitary feminism to address the differences within the study of difference. The essays in this volume all address feminism’s relationships to theory and politics at the level of the criticism and production of knowledge. Readers and students of politics, history, literature, philosophy, sociology and the sciences – anyone with a stake in theory and politics – will benefit from this powerful book.

The Second Self, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

The Second Self, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Title The Second Self, Twentieth Anniversary Edition PDF eBook
Author Sherry Turkle
Publisher MIT Press
Total Pages 387
Release 2005-09-30
Genre Computers
ISBN 0262250675

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A new edition of the classic primer in the psychology of computation, with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text. In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. "Technology," she writes, "catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think." First published in 1984, The Second Self is still essential reading as a primer in the psychology of computation. This twentieth anniversary edition allows us to reconsider two decades of computer culture—to (re)experience what was and is most novel in our new media culture and to view our own contemporary relationship with technology with fresh eyes. Turkle frames this classic work with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text. Turkle talks to children, college students, engineers, AI scientists, hackers, and personal computer owners—people confronting machines that seem to think and at the same time suggest a new way for us to think—about human thought, emotion, memory, and understanding. Her interviews reveal that we experience computers as being on the border between inanimate and animate, as both an extension of the self and part of the external world. Their special place betwixt and between traditional categories is part of what makes them compelling and evocative. (In the introduction to this edition, Turkle quotes a PDA user as saying, "When my Palm crashed, it was like a death. I thought I had lost my mind.") Why we think of the workings of a machine in psychological terms—how this happens, and what it means for all of us—is the ever more timely subject of The Second Self.