Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind write by Howard Rheingold. This book was released on 2012-04-21. Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Renowned for exploring the social implications of modern technology, Howard Rheingold has been dubbed by MIT "the first citizen of the Internet." In this collection of funny, prescient, thought-provoking essays, originally published during the 1970s and 1980s, he offers a glimpse into the changes wrought during that explosive period. From the effects of the graphic user interface (GUI) not only on how we work but how we think, to "technarchist" movements that presaged both the hacker mentality and the anarchist idealism of Burning Man today, to a ground-floor view of the very earliest of what Rheingold was the first to dub virtual communities, his Excursions run the gamut from the silly to the profound. These essays remain fascinating, amusing, and relevant. "Most of my work in recent decades," Rheingold says, "has focused on the consequences of digital media and networked publics. Before the digital wave came along, I wrote about a more diverse range of subjects: What causes anger? What’s it like to be in a car crash? What’s insect sex like? Do invisible airborne chemicals affect behavior? Can we control our dreams? How will people get high in the future? Will money evolve into new forms? In the second decade of the twenty-first century, these short pieces re-present my explorations during my think about anything years to a wider public who may be familiar with my work on digital culture."
Computer Scenographics
Computer Scenographics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Computer Scenographics write by Darwin Reid Payne. This book was released on 1994. Computer Scenographics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Darwin Reid Payne's approach to theatrical design is that of a computer advocate and pioneer. With Computer Scenographics, he ushers in a new generation of scenery design by applying state-of-the-art technology to the traditional methods of scenography. Though not a how-to book, Computer Scenographics is a general introduction to, and an affirmation of, the value of computer graphics for both student and working scenographers. Payne acknowledges that many scenographers would not want to use computers exclusively in the preparation of their designs. Today's scenographers continue to value the manual skills of drawing and painting, learned and perfected over time, and would not consider abandoning these skills entirely. And it is unlikely that the most powerful computer or most sophisticated software could ever supplant that intimate interaction of hand and mind provided by traditional tools and materials. Nevertheless, Payne's utilization of the Virtus Walk-Through computer program to facilitate set design expands the tools of the artist to new dimensions. Aided by 129 illustrations, Payne addresses four major topics: (1) how computer studios are set up; (2) how computers serve as storage for visual ideas and as conceptual tools; (3) how technical information needed for producing a scenographer's ideas onstage is created with computers; (4) and how modelmaking has been changed by computer-generated three-dimensional possibilities, especially by the introduction of "virtual reality" onto the computer platform.
Learning in the Age of Digital Reason
Learning in the Age of Digital Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Learning in the Age of Digital Reason write by Petar Jandrić. This book was released on 2017-07-17. Learning in the Age of Digital Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learning in the Age of Digital Reason contains 16 in-depth dialogues between Petar Jandrić and leading scholars and practitioners in diverse fields of history, philosophy, media theory, education, practice, activism, and arts. The book creates a postdisciplinary snapshot of our reality, and the ways we experience that reality, at the moment here and now. It historicises our current views to human learning, and experiments with collective knowledge making and the relationships between theory and practice. It stands firmly at the side of the weak and the oppressed, and aims at critical emancipation. Learning in the Age of Digital Reason is playful and serious. It addresses important issues of our times and avoids the omnipresent (academic) sin of pretentiousness, thus making an important statement: research and education can be sexy. Interlocutors presented in the book (in order of appearance): Larry Cuban, Andrew Feenberg, Michael Adrian Peters, Fred Turner, Richard Barbrook, McKenzie Wark, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, Siân Bayne, Howard Rheingold, Astra Taylor, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Ana Kuzmanić, Paul Levinson, Kathy Rae Huffman, Ana Peraica, Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat?), Christine Sinclair, and Hamish Mcleod.
Mind
Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mind write by . This book was released on 1879. Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A quarterly review of philosophy.
Transactions, Excursions, and Reports
Transactions, Excursions, and Reports - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transactions, Excursions, and Reports write by Birmingham Archaeological Society (Birmingham, England). This book was released on 1907. Transactions, Excursions, and Reports available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
