Mike McRoberts: Arduino Starter Kit Manual. A Complete Beginners Guide to the Arduino (2009)
Filed under manual | Tags: · arduino, code, interactivity, physical computing, programming
Note: The book is a work in progress and is being added to all the time. However, this will not stop you using it as there are 17 great projects so far and all the information you need to keep you busy for days or weeks with your Arduino. Keep checking back to see if there have been any additions.
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Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Publisher: Earthshine Design, 2009
First Edition – May 2009
Revision 3 – March 2010
David Norman Rodowick: Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy After the New Media (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · cinema, digital culture, film theory, new media, philosophy, philosophy of history, postmodernism, poststructuralism, semiotics, utopia
In Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media D. N. Rodowick applies the concept of “the figural” to a variety of philosophical and aesthetic issues. Inspired by the aesthetic philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, the figural defines a semiotic regime where the distinction between linguistic and plastic representation breaks down. This opposition, which has been the philosophical foundation of aesthetics since the eighteenth century, has been explicitly challenged by the new electronic, televisual, and digital media. Rodowick—one of the foremost film theorists writing today—contemplates this challenge, describing and critiquing the new regime of signs and new ways of thinking that such media have inaugurated.
To fully comprehend the emergence of the figural requires a genealogical critique of the aesthetic, Rodowick claims. Seeking allies in this effort to deconstruct the opposition of word and image and to create new concepts for comprehending the figural, he journeys through a range of philosophical writings: Thierry Kuntzel and Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier on film theory; Jacques Derrida on the deconstruction of the aesthetic; Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin on the historical image as a utopian force in photography and film; and Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault on the emergence of the figural as both a semiotic regime and a new stratagem of power coincident with the appearance of digital phenomena and of societies of control.
Scholars of philosophy, film theory, cultural criticism, new media, and art history will be interested in the original and sophisticated insights found in this book.
Publisher Duke University Press, 2001
Post-Contemporary Interventions series
ISBN 0822327228, 9780822327226
276 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-14)
Comment (1)Federico Biancuzzi, Shane Warden (eds.): Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · algorithm, code, programming, software
Masterminds of Programming features exclusive interviews with the creators of several historic and highly influential programming languages. Think along with Adin D. Falkoff (APL), James Gosling (Java), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), and others whose vision and hard work helped shape the computer industry. You’ll find advice you can apply to systems you’re developing, even if you don’t use the specific languages being discussed.
Publisher O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2009
Theory in Practice (O’Reilly) Series
ISBN 0596515170, 9780596515171
Length 480 pages