Stewart Brand: The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT (1987)
Filed under book | Tags: · artificial intelligence, communication, computer graphics, computing, human-computer interaction, information, media, music, new media, programming, publishing, robotics, science fiction, speech, technology, television
A magical mystery tour through the world of MIT’s Media Laboratory, then headed by Nicholas Negroponte and in its third year of existence. Chapter 11 develops the dictum “information wants to be free.”
Publisher Viking, New York, 1987
ISBN 0670814423
285 pages
Review (Visual Resources, 1989)
Review (AI Magazine, Lee S. Brownston, 1990)
PDF (50 MB, updated on 2014-3-26 to an OCR’d version via Marcell Mars)
Comment (0)Heinrich Goertz: Erwin Piscator in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten (1974) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · biography, epic theatre, theatre
A comprehensive introduction into the work of Erwin Piscator, a German theatre director, producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre.
Publisher Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1974
ISBN 3499502216, 9783499502217
155 pages
Review (Herbert Knust, Brecht-Jahrbuch, 1978)
PDF (56 MB, no OCR)
Comment (0)Isabelle Stengers: The Invention of Modern Science (1993–) [EN, PT]
Filed under book | Tags: · apparatus, epistemology, event, fact, fiction, history of science, mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, politics, science, sociology, theory, truth
The so-called exact sciences have always claimed to be different from other forms of knowledge. How are we to evaluate this assertion? Should we try to identify the criteria that seem to justify it? Or, following the new model of the social study of the sciences, should we view it as a simple belief? The Invention of Modern Science proposes a fruitful way of going beyond these apparently irreconcilable positions, that science is either “objective” or “socially constructed.” Instead, suggests Isabelle Stengers, one of the most important and influential philosophers of science in Europe, we might understand the tension between scientific objectivity and belief as a necessary part of science, central to the practices invented and reinvented by scientists.
First published in French as L’Invention des sciences modernes, La Découverte, Paris, 1993.
English edition
Translated by Daniel W. Smith
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2000
Theory Out of Bounds series, 19
ISBN 0816630569, 9780816630561
185 pages
Review (Robert Evans, Contemporary Sociology, 2002)
Commentary (Stephen Shaviro, 2004)
Publisher (EN)
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The Invention of Modern Science (English, trans. Daniel W. Smith, 2000)
A invenção das ciências modernas (Portuguese, trans. Max Altman, 2002)