Control And Freedom
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Control And Freedom
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Author : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2008-09-26
Control And Freedom written by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-26 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones. Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace. The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks—light coursing through glass tubes—as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.
Freedom And Control In Modern Society
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Author : Morroe Berger
language : en
Publisher: Buccaneer Books
Release Date : 1964
Freedom And Control In Modern Society written by Morroe Berger and has been published by Buccaneer Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Political Science categories.
Rationality Control And Freedom
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Author : Curran F. Douglass
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-06-03
Rationality Control And Freedom written by Curran F. Douglass and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-03 with Philosophy categories.
The subject of this book is the controversy—one of the oldest in philosophy—about whether it is possible to have freedom in the face of universal causal determinism. Of course, it is crucial to consider what such freedom might mean—in particular, there is an important distinction between libertarian “free will” and the more naturalistic view of freedom taken by compatibilists. This book provides background for laypersons through a historical survey of earlier views and some discussion and criticism of various contemporary views. In particular, it states and discusses the Consequence Argument, the most important argument challenging human freedom in recent literature. The main feature of the book is the argument for a solution: one that is within the compatibilist tradition, is naturalistic and in accord with findings of science and principles of engineering control theory. Some particular features of the offered solution include an argument for a close tie between freedom and control—where what is meant is the voluntary motion control of our bodies, and this “control” is understood naturalistically, by which the author means in accordance with concepts of engineering control theory and modern science. Such concepts are used to explain and demarcate the concept of “control” being used. Then it develops a working conception of what rationality is (since what is crucial is freedom in choice, and rationality is crucial to that), by reviewing texts on the subject by three expert authors (namely, Nathanson, Nozick, and Searle). It is argued that rationality is a species of biological learning control that involves deliberation; and that our freedom in choice is greatest when our choices are most rational.
Accountability
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Author : Rob LeBow
language : en
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Release Date : 2002-07-10
Accountability written by Rob LeBow and has been published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-10 with Business & Economics categories.
The authors show how to transform a business by replacing the control and manipulation that typically characterize the workplace with personal accountability.
Two Degree Of Freedom Control Systems
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Author : László Kevickzy
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2015-06-18
Two Degree Of Freedom Control Systems written by László Kevickzy and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-18 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book covers the most important issues from classical and robust control, deterministic and stochastic control, system identification, and adaptive and iterative control strategies. It covers most of the known control system methodologies using a new base, the Youla parameterization (YP). This concept is introduced and extended for TDOF control loops. The Keviczky-Banyasz parameterization (KP) method developed for closed loop systems is also presented. The book is valuable for those who want to see through the jungle of available methods by using a unified approach, and for those who want to prepare computer code with a given algorithm. Provides comprehensive coverage of the most widely used control system methodologies The first book to use the Youla parameterization (YP) as a common base for comparison and algorithm development Compares YP and Keviczky-Banyasz (KB) parameterization to help you write your own computer algorithms
Freedom And Control In Modern Society
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Author : Morroe Berger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Freedom And Control In Modern Society written by Morroe Berger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
Trapped By Control
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Author : David Cross
language : en
Publisher: Sovereign World
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Trapped By Control written by David Cross and has been published by Sovereign World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Religion categories.
Controlling behavior is always a symptom of a deeper issue; it's a sinful response to inner wounding and insecurity. Wrongful control spoils relationships and seriously damages lives. This book takes a closer look at who or what can control people's lives and how and why people control.
Immigration And Freedom
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Author : Chandran Kukathas
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-16
Immigration And Freedom written by Chandran Kukathas and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Political Science categories.
A compelling account of the threat immigration control poses to the citizens of free societies Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and national self-determination. In this book, however, Chandran Kukathas argues that the greater threat comes not from immigration but from immigration control. Kukathas shows that immigration control is not merely about preventing outsiders from moving across borders. It is about controlling what outsiders do once in a society: whether they work, reside, study, set up businesses, or share their lives with others. But controlling outsiders—immigrants or would-be immigrants—requires regulating, monitoring, and sanctioning insiders, those citizens and residents who might otherwise hire, trade with, house, teach, or generally associate with outsiders. The more vigorously immigration control is pursued, the more seriously freedom is diminished. The search for control threatens freedom directly and weakens the values upon which it relies, notably equality and the rule of law. Kukathas demonstrates that the imagined gains from efforts to control immigration are illusory, for they do not promote economic prosperity or social solidarity. Nor does immigration control bring self-determination, since the apparatus of control is an international institutional regime that increases the power of states and their agencies at the expense of citizens. That power includes the authority to determine who is and is not an insider: to define identity itself. Looking at past and current practices across the world, Immigration and Freedom presents a critique of immigration control as an institutional reality, as well as an account of what freedom means—and why it matters.
Virtual Decomposition Control
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Author : Wen-Hong Zhu
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-03-29
Virtual Decomposition Control written by Wen-Hong Zhu and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-29 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Driven by the need to achieve superior control performances for robots with hyper degrees of freedom, the virtual decomposition control approach is thoroughly presented in this book. This approach uses subsystem (such as links and joints of a complex robot) dynamics to conduct control design, while guaranteeing the stability and convergence of the entire complex robot without compromising the rigorousness of the system analysis. The central concept of this approach is the definition of the virtual stability. The stability of the entire complex robot is mathematically equivalent to the virtual stability of every subsystem. This fact allows us to convert a large problem to a few simple problems with mathematical certainty. This book comprises fourteen chapters. The first five chapters form the foundation of this approach. The remaining nine chapters are relatively independent. Starting from Chapter 6, each chapter deals with a particular type of systems including motor/transmission assemblies, hydraulic robots, coordinated multiple robots, space robots, humanoid robots, adaptive teleoperation, and modular robot manipulators. At the end, the extensions of this approach to distributed-parameter systems and to electrical circuits are given, paving the way for other applications to follow. This book is intended for practitioners, researchers, and graduate students who have acquired fundamental knowledge on robotics and control systems and have been committed to achieving the best control performances on complex robotics systems and beyond.
Buildings And Power
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Author : Thomas A. Markus
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Buildings And Power written by Thomas A. Markus and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Architecture categories.
The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The battles fought over class, ideology and language are represented most clearly in the explosion of new building types during the Century of Revolutions. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, Buildings and Power analyses architectural form, function and space to explore the reproduction and the subversion of power in the modern city.