Observing The Observer
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The Assignment
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Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-02-15
The Assignment written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 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 2017-02-15 with Fiction categories.
In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched—including the watchers. After discovering a recent photograph of the supposed murder victim happily reunited with her husband, F. becomes trapped in an apocalyptic landscape riddled with political intrigue, crimes of mistaken identity, and terrorism. F.’s labyrinthine quest for the truth is Dürrenmatt’s fictionalized warning against the dangers of a technologically advanced society that turns everyday life into one of constant scrutiny. Joel Agee’s elegant translation will introduce a fresh generation of English-speaking readers to one of European literature’s masters of language, suspense, and dystopia. “The narrative is accelerated from the start. . . . As the novella builds to its horripilating climax, we realize the extent to which all values have thereby been inverted. The Assignment is a parable of hell for an age consumed by images.”—New York Times Book Review “His most ambitious book . . . dark and devious . . . almost obsessively drawn to mankind’s most fiendish crimes.”—Chicago Tribune “A tour-de-force . . . mesmerizing.”—Village Voice
Observing The Observer
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Author : Shulamit Reinharz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2011
Observing The Observer written by Shulamit Reinharz and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Ego (Psychology) categories.
Ethnography or participant observation research has been performed since the early nineteenth century and is now one of the most common ways for field researchers to gain an in-depth understanding of social life. In Observing the Observer: Understanding Our Selves in Field Research--the only book that covers the issue of "reflexivity" in field research--author Shulamit Reinharz provides a captivating analysis of her yearlong stay in Israel, where she engaged in a study of aging on a kibbutz. Exploring the issue of "reflexivity," this unique volume focuses on the key tool in fieldwork--the self. It discusses how the many facets of the self (or "selves") of a researcher--research selves, personal selves, and situational selves--can affect how research is enacted and reported on. The book addresses many of the current debates on fieldwork, especially those that have arisen in the feminist literature. Ideal for graduate courses in qualitative research methods, ethnographic methods, or ethnography, Observing the Observer can also be used in upper-level undergraduate courses on qualitative methods.
Observing The Observer
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Author : Shulamit Reinharz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2011
Observing The Observer written by Shulamit Reinharz and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Ethnology categories.
The Observer Is The Observed
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Author : J Krishnamurti
language : en
Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundation America
Release Date : 2019-01-01
The Observer Is The Observed written by J Krishnamurti and has been published by Krishnamurti Foundation America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
In these talks, given in Ojai and India, Krishnamurti discusses the nature of the observer. He states in the beginning, "to understand the confusion and misery that exist in ourselves, and in the world, we must first find clarity within ourselves and this clarity comes about through right thinking...Right thinking comes with self knowledge. Without understanding yourself, you have no basis for thought; without self-knowledge what you think is not true
Using Games As A Methodology For Observing The Observer
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Author : José Bermeo Cabrera
language : es
Publisher: Universidad de los Andes
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Using Games As A Methodology For Observing The Observer written by José Bermeo Cabrera and has been published by Universidad de los Andes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Computers categories.
Using Games as a Methodology for Observing the Observer constructs a methodology of active learning for observing the observer. The tool used is the construction of games. The basic questions are: What actions can be taken to allow the subject to observe him or herself? and How can learning activities be used to reconstruct the subject's experience during the observation? The basic reference framework for the qualitative research is constructivism. The conceptual and philosophical analysis of research is second-order cybernetics that gives relevance to the theory of the observer and to the relationship between the observer and what is observed. Games are the constitutive elements of a space of action wherein a world emerges. For the construction of the games the group is organised according to specific structures, which make up a work network within the proposed experimental scenario.Every reflexive discourse (conceptual, informational and descriptive) on the describer's properties system will be formed, at least, of the perspectives, dispositions and distinctions in the language of the observer. In this sense, to observe the observer does not constitute a representation of analysable, controllable and predictable process, but rather, to observe the observer will mean interpreting (or unveiling) the metaphors that constitute him or her in any proposed stage of experimentation. This dissertation contributes to the advancement of second-order cybernetics as a context for improving the effectiveness of learning. The usefulness of games as a methodology for observing the observer means that it is possible to propose a comparison between, on the one hand, the dynamics of the social system built by the methodology's application participants and, on the other, the networks that can be built in terms of the language used. This has been part of the research carried out in the Interdisciplinary Complex Systems Research Center - CeiBA.
Techniques Of The Observer
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Author : Jonathan Crary
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1992-02-25
Techniques Of The Observer written by Jonathan Crary and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-02-25 with Design categories.
Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle. In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new forms of control and standardization of vision. Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices, detailing how they were the product of new physiological knowledge. He also shows how these forms of mass culture, usually labeled as "realist," were in fact based on abstract models of vision, and he suggests that mimetic or perspectival notions of vision and representation were initially abandoned in the first half of the nineteenth century within a variety of powerful institutions and discourses, well before the modernist painting of the 1870s and 1880s.
How Information Creates Its Observer
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Author : Vladimir S. Lerner
language : en
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Release Date : 2019
How Information Creates Its Observer written by Vladimir S. Lerner and has been published by Nova Science Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Computers categories.
Observers are everywhere, from communicating people, animals, and different species, to any interacting subjects that accept, transform, and exchange information. Up to now, common information regularities, emergence, differentiation, and appearance have not been studied through a united approach.This book presents a new approach for understanding the notion of information and its Observers, showing how information creates Observers and generates regularities during observation.The approach is developed from Wheeler's concept in physics, "It from Bit," which has been modified in this text to "Observer-Participator Bit." Studying information comes from probabilistic observations, emerging space-time microprocess, entanglement, qubit, encoding bits, and evolving macroprocess, leading to the creation of the Observer, as well as a geometric information structure.The regularities observed self-organize into information processes that encode information causality, logic, and complexity, and determine the observer's cognition, evolving toward intelligence. The regularities create a double spiral rotating coding structure, which observation self-generates. For the first time, this book establishes the observer's united information mechanism, with self-operating integral logic, transforming an observed uncertainty into physical reality. The book also includes information formalism, which has been applied to solutions for a wide range of computer science and engineering problems implemented in practice.
Observing The Observer
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Author : Zahid Bukhari
language : en
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Observing The Observer written by Zahid Bukhari and has been published by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Religion categories.
THE collection of papers in this volume documents the study of Islam in American Universities. Over the last few decades the United States has seen significant growth in the study of Islam and Islamic societies in institutions of higher learning fueled primarily by events including economic relations of the U.S. with Muslim countries, migration of Muslims into the country, conversion of Americans to Islam, U.S. interests in Arab oil resources, involvement of Muslims in the American public square, and the tragic events of 9/11. Although there is increasing recognition that the study of Islam and the role of Muslims is strategically essential in a climate of global integration, multiculturalism, and political turmoil, nevertheless, the state of Islamic Studies in America is far from satisfactory. The issue needs to be addressed, particularly as the need for intelligent debate and understanding is continuously stifled by what some have termed an “Islam industry” run primarily by fly-by journalists, think tank pundits, and cut-and-paste “experts.”
Classroom Observer
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Author : Ann E. Boehm
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 1997
Classroom Observer written by Ann E. Boehm and has been published by Teachers College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Education categories.
Systematic observation is essential for educators to evaluate properly the effectiveness of curricula and to address the problems of individual students. This new third edition emphasizes early childhood, and focuses on those skills that will enable the observer to make appropriate, valid inferences and to arrive at decisions based on objective observation data gathered in natural learning environments and diverse educational settings. Includes new focuses on: Procedures for observing environmental factors that affect learning and behavior The importance of understanding the cultural and linguistic characteristics of children’s learning environmentsThe key role of observation in the assessment processThe forms of observation, with illustrative examplesThe exploration of reliability, sampling behavior, recording formats, summarizing observational outcomes, and validity Using photographs, sample worksheets, a simple format, and straight-forward language, the authors cite fascinating real-life examples from early childhood that can be applied to a variety of classroom experiences. “The Classroom Observer provides the foundation for learning how to watch children in systematic and child-focused ways. The authors make the critical and often underappreciated point that keen insight into children’s development may be learned, and that while many early childhood educators already watch children, much can be gained from systematic observation. I believe that this book provides a basis for critical reflection upon one’s own observation skills.” —From the Foreword by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
The Weather Observer S Handbook
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Author : Stephen Burt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-30
The Weather Observer S Handbook written by Stephen Burt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with Science categories.
This handbook provides a comprehensive, practical, and independent guide to all aspects of making weather observations. The second edition has been fully updated throughout with new material, new instruments and technologies, and the latest reference and research materials. Traditional and modern weather instruments are covered, including how best to choose and to site a weather station, how to get the best out of your equipment, how to store and analyse your records and how to share your observations. The book's emphasis is on modern electronic instruments and automatic weather stations. It provides advice on replacing 'traditional' mercury-based thermometers and barometers with modern digital sensors, following implementation of the UN Minamata Convention outlawing mercury in the environment. The Weather Observer's Handbook will again prove to be an invaluable resource for both amateur observers choosing their first weather instruments and professional observers looking for a comprehensive and up-to-date guide.