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Numbered Lives

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Author : Jacqueline Wernimont
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01

Numbered Lives written by Jacqueline Wernimont and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Social Science categories.

A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily steps with fitness trackers and quantify births and deaths with digitized data. How are these present-day methods for measuring ourselves similar to those used in the past? In this book, Jacqueline Wernimont presents a new media history of western quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Numbered Lives is the first book of its kind, a feminist media history that maps connections not only between past and present-day “quantum media” but between media tracking and long-standing systemic inequalities. Wernimont explores the history of the pedometer, mortality statistics, and the census in England and the United States to illuminate the entanglement of Anglo-American quantification with religious, imperial, and patriarchal paradigms. In Anglo-American culture, Wernimont argues, counting life and counting death are sides of the same coin—one that has always been used to render statistics of life and death more valuable to corporate and state organizations. Numbered Lives enumerates our shared media history, helping us understand our digital culture and inheritance.

Numbered Lives

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Author : Jacqueline Wernimont
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01

Numbered Lives

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Author : Brian Michael Jenkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977

Numbered Lives written by Brian Michael Jenkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Hostages categories.

In the following pages we examine 77 international hostage incidents and make a number of observations that are pertinent to the formulation of policy and procedures for handling episodes.

The Social Life Of Numbers

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Author : Gary Urton
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 1997-11

The Social Life Of Numbers written by Gary Urton and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11 with Social Science categories.

Unraveling all the mysteries of the khipu—the knotted string device used by the Inka to record both statistical data and narrative accounts of myths, histories, and genealogies—will require an understanding of how number values and relations may have been used to encode information on social, familial, and political relationships and structures. This is the problem Gary Urton tackles in his pathfinding study of the origin, meaning, and significance of numbers and the philosophical principles underlying the practice of arithmetic among Quechua-speaking peoples of the Andes. Based on fieldwork in communities around Sucre, in south-central Bolivia, Urton argues that the origin and meaning of numbers were and are conceived of by Quechua-speaking peoples in ways similar to their ideas about, and formulations of, gender, age, and social relations. He also demonstrates that their practice of arithmetic is based on a well-articulated body of philosophical principles and values that reflects a continuous attempt to maintain balance, harmony, and equilibrium in the material, social, and moral spheres of community life.

The Numbers Of Life

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Author : Kevin Quinn Avery
language : en
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-26

The Numbers Of Life written by Kevin Quinn Avery and has been published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-26 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

Easily the most comprehensive and detailed guide to practical and theoretical numerology on the market, Kevin Quinn Avery's The Numbers of Life stands alone as the definitive work in its field. Drawing on a long and storied career advising New York's celebrities, intelligentsia, and politicians, as well as years of professional study in the areas of astronumerology, astrology, and kabala, Avery has neatly compiled a lifetime of knowledge in this one useful volume. If you are just beginning to dip your toes into the waters of numerology or if you are a seasoned expert, Avery's wisdom is guaranteed to help as you endeavor to derive meaning from the numbers that surround you. The Numbers of Life combines practical instruction with years of collected wisdom about the nature of numerology, astrology, and the occult. Replete with charts and figures about personality, habits, and soul urge, this book will help you to deepen your own understanding of yourself and the world around you. Equipped with knowledge about the details of your future, you can prepare to meet your destiny with positivity and strength.

How Our Days Became Numbered

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Author : Dan Bouk
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-02-06

How Our Days Became Numbered written by Dan Bouk and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Business & Economics categories.

Classing -- Fatalizing -- Writing -- Smoothing -- A modern conception of death -- Valuing lives, in four movements -- Failing the future.

The Mystery Of Numbers

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Author : Annemarie Schimmel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1994-04-07

The Mystery Of Numbers written by Annemarie Schimmel 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 1994-04-07 with History categories.

In this fascinating book Schimmel shows that numbers have been filled with mystery and meaning since the earliest times, and across every society. She conducts an illuminating tour of the mysteries attributed to numbers and their symbolism. 45 halftones; 64 linecuts.