Cyberevolution William Gibson S Evolutionary Ideas
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Cyberevolution William Gibson S Evolutionary Ideas
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Author : Thorsten Felden
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-07
Cyberevolution William Gibson S Evolutionary Ideas written by Thorsten Felden and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Between Chance and Adaptation. Reverberations of the Theory of Evolution in Ethnology, Literature and History, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Classic evolutionary theory always looks backwards. Darwin, his predecessors and successors put forward their theories by comparing present organic records with those of the past. Indeed some ideas of social evolution are imbued with a certain kind of perspective into the future, believing in an ongoing progression of human societies. Still, in order to prove the accuracy of those ideas, one had to rely on evidence taken from history or from cultures which were believed to be primitive and thus representing former states of societies. Science fiction's view goes quite in the opposite direction: Here, the present marks the point of view from where we look into the future of society, the future of mankind. The following paper examines the notions of evolution we can find in William Gibson's work. I will try to deal with the question how we can perceive an evolution of the human race in his novels and what other ideas of evolution Gibson incorporates into his work. Starting off with the query whether there is to find any sort of biological evolution in Gibson's work, the second chapter will deal with the picture of nature Gibson draws. How does he describe nature (meaning organic beings or biological environments), or to put it more correctly, how is nature conceived through the eyes of his protagonists? Then I will take a closer look at the dualistic relationship of nature and technology. What importance has technology for the societies Gibson sketches, and what effect has technology on their inventors? The main topic of this chapter will be the investigation of nature's and technology's evolutionary features in Gibson's work: How does the human species develop and which way doe
Cyberevolution William Gibson S Evolutionary Ideas
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Author : Thorsten Felden
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2006-10-16
Cyberevolution William Gibson S Evolutionary Ideas written by Thorsten Felden and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-16 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Between Chance and Adaptation. Reverberations of the Theory of Evolution in Ethnology, Literature and History, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Classic evolutionary theory always looks backwards. Darwin, his predecessors and successors put forward their theories by comparing present organic records with those of the past. Indeed some ideas of social evolution are imbued with a certain kind of perspective into the future, believing in an ongoing progression of human societies. Still, in order to prove the accuracy of those ideas, one had to rely on evidence taken from history or from cultures which were believed to be primitive and thus representing former states of societies. Science fiction’s view goes quite in the opposite direction: Here, the present marks the point of view from where we look into the future of society, the future of mankind. The following paper examines the notions of evolution we can find in William Gibson's work. I will try to deal with the question how we can perceive an evolution of the human race in his novels and what other ideas of evolution Gibson incorporates into his work. Starting off with the query whether there is to find any sort of biological evolution in Gibson's work, the second chapter will deal with the picture of nature Gibson draws. How does he describe nature (meaning organic beings or biological environments), or to put it more correctly, how is nature conceived through the eyes of his protagonists? Then I will take a closer look at the dualistic relationship of nature and technology. What importance has technology for the societies Gibson sketches, and what effect has technology on their inventors? The main topic of this chapter will be the investigation of nature's and technology's evolutionary features in Gibson's work: How does the human species develop and which way does human made technology take? Finally, the chapter will deal with capitalism as a very own kind of evolutionary concept. Chapter three will take a look at the concept of evolution in Gibson's work from a different angle, treating evolution not as concrete biological-technological development but more as some sort of abstract principle. The focus will shift here from the dualism of biology-technology to the dialectics of chaos and order. Does Gibson see evolution more as a force driven by chaos or as a force that creates structure, patterns and order from mere chaos?
William Gibson S Neuromancer And The Relation Between Mind And Body
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Author : Franz Wegener
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2008
William Gibson S Neuromancer And The Relation Between Mind And Body written by Franz Wegener and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1 (very good), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Institut für fremdsprachliche Philologien), course: Cyborgs (WS 2001/2002), 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper is about William Gibson's famous novel "Neuromancer". Neuromancer was the book that initiated the cyberpunk debate, a debate that was very influential in culture studies and modern literature. The cyberpunk debate created a more suspicious image of new technologies and their effect on the role of the human being as well as the social life and the society. Gibson's position towards the mind-body-problem, i.e. the relation between mind and body, is examined. An overview is given of possible technologies he describes and how they trigger the breakdown between man and machine as well as between individuals. The paper also sketches the effects of those technologies on social interaction, moral values and the structure of the society.
Cosmos Culture
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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Cosmos Culture written by Steven J. Dick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Astronomy categories.
From GPO Bookstore's Website: Authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural evolution affect our thinking about possible cultures in the cosmos? Are life, mind, and culture of fundamental significance to the grand story of the cosmos that has generated its own self-understanding through science, rational reasoning, and mathematics? Book includes bibliographical references and an index.
The Taciturn Man
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Author : Geoffrey Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Loving Healing Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
The Taciturn Man written by Geoffrey Gibson and has been published by Loving Healing Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An immigrant's tale of an untamed country Alexander Gibson, my father, was a young Englishman who with his brother settled in Australiain the 1920s. The brothers each married one of the Solomon sisters just prior to the Great Depression.The Taciturn Man begins just after the Second World War when Alexander took up a roughbush sheep-grazing block in isolation among the tall trees of New England (New South Wales). I was born in 1937, and so I was just three years old when my father went to war, and age eightwhen he returned. Fortunately, by then I was old enough to absorb much of the material for thiscollection which I hope you will now enjoy. Praise for "The Taciturn Man" "A delightful memoir with all the emotions of life itself-seriousness, humor, joy and sadnessand more. The author's observations of people and lively writing style make ita great bedside book to be savored, rather than hurried through." --Deborah K. Frontiera, author of Fighting CPS: Guilty Until Proven Innocentof Child Protective Services Charges "The Taciturn Man is a trip through Australia's countryside that feels like a nostalgic summerbreeze as Gibson's personal narrative reveals its beauty, culture, and history through his ownexperiences and unique voice." --Susan Violante, author of "Innocent War: Behind an Immigrant's Past" About the AuthorGeoffrey Gibson grew up in rural Australia in the 1940s, earned his keep as a jackeroo (farmhand), had a brief stint in the Army, followed by thirty years as a suburban real estate agent inSydney. He has dabbled in politics, and in retirement now spends his time writing, surfing andmucking about with friends on the state's South coast. From the World Voices Series www.ModernHistoryPress.com
Storming The Reality Studio
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Author : Larry McCaffery
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1991
Storming The Reality Studio written by Larry McCaffery and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fiction categories.
The term "cyberpunk" entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, multinational machinations, frenetic bursts of prose, collisions of style, celebrations of texture: although emerging largely from science fiction, these features of cyberpunk writing are, as this volume makes clear, integrally related to the aims and innovations of the literary avant-garde. By bringing together original fiction by well-known contemporary writers (William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, Samuel R. Delany), critical commentary by some of the major theorists of postmodern art and culture (Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard), and work by major practitioners of cyberpunk (William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling), Storming the Reality Studio reveals a fascinating ongoing dialog in contemporary culture. What emerges most strikingly from the colloquy is a shared preoccupation with the force of technology in shaping modern life. It is precisely this concern, according to McCaffery, that has put science fiction, typically the province of technological art, at the forefront of creative explorations of our unique age. A rich opporunity for reading across genres, this anthology offers a new perspective on the evolution of postmodern culture and ultimately shows how deeply technological developments have influenced our vision and our art. Selected Fiction contributors: Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Pat Cadigan, Samuel R. Delany, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Harold Jaffe, Richard Kadrey, Marc Laidlaw, Mark Leyner, Joseph McElroy, Misha, Ted Mooney, Thomas Pynchon, Rudy Rucker, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, William Vollman Selected Non-Fiction contributors: Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Arthur Kroker and David Cook, Timothy Leary, Jean-François Lyotard, Larry McCaffery, Brian McHale, Dave Porush, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Takayuki Tatsumi
Cyber Security Analytics Technology And Automation
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Author : Martti Lehto
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-05-30
Cyber Security Analytics Technology And Automation written by Martti Lehto and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-30 with Computers categories.
The book, in addition to the cyber threats and technology, processes cyber security from many sides as a social phenomenon and how the implementation of the cyber security strategy is carried out. The book gives a profound idea of the most spoken phenomenon of this time. The book is suitable for a wide-ranging audience from graduate to professionals/practitioners and researchers. Relevant disciplines for the book are Telecommunications / Network security, Applied mathematics / Data analysis, Mobile systems / Security, Engineering / Security of critical infrastructure and Military science / Security.
Digital Libraries Current Issues
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Author : Nabil R. Adam
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1995-04-19
Digital Libraries Current Issues written by Nabil R. Adam 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 1995-04-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume is the first book coherently summarizing the current issues in digital libraries research, design and management. It presents, in a homogeneous way, thoroughly revised versions of 15 papers accepted for the First International Workshop on Digital Libraries, DL '94, held at Rutgers University in May 1994; in addition there are two introductory chapters provided by the volume editors, as well as a comprehensive bibliography listing 262 entries. Besides introductory aspects, the topics addressed are administration and management, information retrieval and hypertext, classification and indexing, and prototypes and applications. The volume is intended for researchers and design professionals in the field, as well as for experts from libraries administration and scientific publishing.
Fictioning
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Author : David Burrows
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-22
Fictioning written by David Burrows and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-22 with Art categories.
In this extensively illustrated book containing over 80 diagrams and images of artworks, David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan explore the process of fictioning in contemporary art through three focal points: performance fictioning, science fictioning and machine fictioning.
Surviving Cyberwar
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Author : Richard Stiennon
language : en
Publisher: Government Institutes
Release Date : 2010-05-16
Surviving Cyberwar written by Richard Stiennon and has been published by Government Institutes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-16 with Computers categories.
This book examines in depth the major recent cyber attacks that have taken place around the world, discusses the implications of such attacks, and offers solutions to the vulnerabilities that made these attacks possible. Through investigations of the most significant and damaging cyber attacks, the author introduces the reader to cyberwar, outlines an effective defense against cyber threats, and explains how to prepare for future attacks.