roomservices: VROOM – Vehicles of Registration and Omniscient Observational Mechanics (2007)

VROOM was an internventionist inquiry during the Istanbul Fragmented Conference 2005 exploring how mechanical senses re-read and compare globally distributed localities and urban situations. The all-seeing Google Earth cartographic god perspective of writing the landscape [geo-graphy], was replaced with a street level mongrel horde of situated dei ex machinis in an attempt to further socio-mechanic prostheses for understanding the world.

Produced by roomservices (Evren Uzer, Otto von Busch) and Klas Ruin
Published by Roomservices Publishing, Istanbul
ISBN 978-91-976356-2-2
90 pages

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Félix Guattari: Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics (1984)

A collection of essays on social psychiatry includes discussions of the capitalist system, class struggle, and institutional psychotherapy. Selected from Psychanalyse et transversalité (1972) and La révolution moléculaire (1977).

Publisher Penguin, 1984
A Peregrine Book
ISBN 0140551603, 978-0140551600
308 pages

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Ernst Martin: The Calculating Machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their History and Development (1925/1992)

This final volume in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint series brings to light an extremely rare German account of the calculating machine industry in the first quarter of this century when the use of office machines became common in American and European business, government, and science.

Ernst Martin wrote Die Rechenmaschinen to address the issues and questions that the public had raised about the many calculating devices that were appearing on the market in the early 1920s. His little book is, in fact, a developmental history of calculating machines in catalog form – invaluable for collectors of old machines. The introduction describes the seven major types of machines that had been produced by 1925. The corpus of the book consists of a running list of specific calculating machines, arranged by the date the device was first patented or produced.

Stephan Weiss maintains a list of comments and corrections of the book.

Originally published in German as Die Rechenmaschinen und ihre Entwicklungsgeschichte by Johannes Meyer, Pappenheim, 1925.
Translated and edited by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Michael R. Williams
Publisher MIT Press, 1992
Volume 16 of The Charles Babbage Institute reprint series for the history of computing
ISBN 0262132788, 9780262132787
367 pages

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via rechenmaschinen-illustrated.com

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View online (web version; includes machines made after 1925; maintained by Herbert Schneemann and Walter Szrek)