Machine Metaphors And Conspicuous Production
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Machine Metaphors And Conspicuous Production
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Author : Richard Badham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Machine Metaphors And Conspicuous Production written by Richard Badham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Technological innovations categories.
The Machine At Work
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Author : Keith Grint
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-06-28
The Machine At Work written by Keith Grint and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-28 with Social Science categories.
This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. Secondly, it examines the implications of these new approaches for existing ideas about the nature of technology and work organization. At the core of much thinking about technology is the assumption that the technical character and capacity of artefacts is given. The enduring image of deus ex machina captures the idea that it is the essential capacity 'within' a technology which, in the end, accounts for the way we organize ourselves, our work and other life experiences. Recent work in the sociology of technology, by contrast, sets out relativist and constructivist accounts of technology, which begin to challenge this central assumption. The Machine at Work includes a reinterpretation of the Luddites; a review of the social processes of development in information technology; a reassessment of theories of the role of technology in work; and an analysis of the common limitations of some constructivist and feminist perspectives on technology. The book argues that only a commitment to a particular conception of constructivism enables the kind of radical rethinking about technology and work relations that is needed. This engaging and informative text will be of interest to students in a range of subject areas - from sociology, organizational theory and behaviour, to industrial relations, management and business studies.
The Machine As Metaphor And Tool
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Author : Anders Karlqvist
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1993
The Machine As Metaphor And Tool written by Anders Karlqvist and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
The machine as metaphor is deeply rooted in western culture, and complex systems in nature and society are often interpreted in such terms. With the advent of electronic computers, the machine metaphor applied to thinking and to the brain has become even more pertinent. The chapters are written in a non-technical fashion accessible to the laymen interested in the machine concept. 18 illustrations.
Machine And Metaphor
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Author : Jennifer C. Cook
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-10-13
Machine And Metaphor written by Jennifer C. Cook and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
American literary realism burgeoned during a period of tremendous technological innovation. Because the realists evinced not only a fascination with this new technology but also an ethos that seems to align itself with science, many have paired the two fields rather unproblematically. But this book demonstrates that many realist writers, from Mark Twain to Stephen Crane, Charles W. Chesnutt to Edith Wharton, felt a great deal of anxiety about the advent of new technologies – precisely at the crucial intersection of ethics and language. For these writers, the communication revolution was a troubling phenomenon, not only because of the ways in which the new machines had changed and increased the circulation of language but, more pointedly, because of the ways in which language itself had effectively become a machine: a vehicle perpetuating some of society’s most pernicious clichés and stereotypes – particularly stereotypes of race – in unthinking iteration. This work takes a close look at how the realists tried to forge an ethical position between the two poles of science and sentimentality, attempting to create an alternative mode of speech that, avoiding the trap of codifying iteration, could enable ethical action.
Technology In A World Of Folklore
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Author : Mithra Mah Moezzi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Technology In A World Of Folklore written by Mithra Mah Moezzi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
International Labour Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
International Labour Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Labor categories.
Metaphors Of Confinement
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Author : Monika Fludernik
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-13
Metaphors Of Confinement written by Monika Fludernik and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive. These imaginings coalesce into a 'carceral imaginary' that determines the way we think about prisons, just as social debates about punishment and criminals feed into the way carceral imaginary develops over time. Examining not only English-language prose fiction but also poetry and drama from the Middle Ages to postcolonial, particularly African, literature, the book juxtaposes literary and non-literary contexts and contrasts fictional and nonfictional representations of (im)prison(ment) and discussions about the prison as institution and experiential reality. It comments on present-day trends of punitivity and foregrounds the ethical dimensions of penal punishment. The main argument concerns the continuity of carceral metaphors through the centuries despite historical developments that included major shifts in policy (such as the invention of the penitentiary). The study looks at selected carceral metaphors, often from two complementary perspectives, such as the home as prison or the prison as home, or the factory as prison and the prison as factory. The case studies present particularly relevant genres and texts that employ these metaphors, often from a historical perspective that analyses development through different periods.
Conspicuous Criticism
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Author : Christopher Shannon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Conspicuous Criticism written by Christopher Shannon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Originally published in 1996 and newly revised, Conspicuous Criticism is a ringing defense of the need for religion and tradition in contemporary society. Writing with moral passion and critical verve, Christopher Shannon offers a convincing indictment of the forces that isolate the individual in modern capitalist society and counters more than a century of efforts by modern intellectuals to displace tradition in favor of a humanism that actually diminishes humanity in the name of freeing its potential. Featuring in-depth analyses of the works of John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, C. Wright Mills, and others, Conspicuous Criticism is a call to reinstate traditional relations to God, nature, and the common good. Scholars in fields from American studies to intellectual history will be forced to grapple with Shannon's trenchant critique, which is well on its way to becoming a classic of Christian thought. "Conspicuous Criticism inspired a concern about the modern world that in the years since I've not been able to brush aside."--Eric Miller, First Things
A New Theory For American Poetry
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Author : Angus FLETCHER
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
A New Theory For American Poetry written by Angus FLETCHER and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Poetry categories.
Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.
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Author : عبد القادر مرزاق
language : ar
Publisher: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات
Release Date : 2023-12-12
written by عبد القادر مرزاق and has been published by المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-12 with Social Science categories.
صدر عن المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات كتاب الاستعارة في علم اجتماع ماكس فيبر وزيغمونت باومان، وهو من تأليف عبد القادر مرزاق. يبحث الكتاب في ظاهرة الاستعارة قديمًا وحديثًا، وآراء العلماء فيها، والتحديات التي قابلتها أو طرحتها، ومدى التغير الذي طرأ على النظرة إليها من لدن أرسطو حتى العصر الحديث. يقع الكتاب في 448 صفحة، شاملةً ببليوغرافيا وفهرسًا عامًّا.