Richard Sproat: Language, Technology, and Society (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · language, linguistics, literacy, society, speech, technology, translation, writing
This book traces the history of language technology from writing – the first technology specifically designed for language – to digital speech and other contemporary language systems. The book describes the social impact of technological developments over five millennia, and addresses topics such as the ways in which literacy has influenced cognitive and scientific development; the social impact of modern speech technology; the influence of various printing technologies; the uses and limitations of machine translation; how far mass information access is a means for exploitation or enlightenment; the deciphering of ancient scripts; and technical aids for people with language disabilities.
Richard Sproat writes in a clear, readable style, introducing linguistic and other scientific concepts as they are needed. His book offers fascinating reading for everyone interested in how language and technology have shaped and continue to shape our day-to-day lives.
Publisher Oxford University Press, 2010
ISBN 0199549389, 9780199549382
Length 286 pages
Elizabeth Legge: Michael Snow: Wavelength (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, experimental film, film, film theory, structural film
“In 1966 Michael Snow made the film Wavelength, a masterful exploration of the nature of perception. Throughout the film’s forty-five minutes, the camera slowly zooms from one end of a New York City loft space to its far wall, accompanied by the sound of a rising sine wave.
In this critical study, Elizabeth Legge describes Wavelength as a film of expertly managed tensions, sensuous beauty, subtle light and colour and recession into perspectival depth. Wavelength was crucial to critics’ efforts to establish a vocabulary for the experimental film movement emerging a the time, and has functioned ever since as a blue screen in front of which a range of ideological and intellectual dramas have been played.”
Publisher Afterall Books, 2009
One Work series
ISBN 1846380561, 9781846380563
112 pages
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Comments (2)Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, Ulf Wuggenig (eds.): Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’ (2007–) [DE, EN]
Filed under book | Tags: · creative industries, creativity, critique, precariat, precarity, resistance, subjectivity
“Creativity is astir: reborn, re-conjured, re-branded, resurgent. The old myths of creation and creators – the hallowed labors and privileged agencies of demiurges and prime movers, of Biblical world-makers and self-fashioning artist-geniuses – are back underway, producing effects, circulating appeals. Much as the Catholic Church dresses the old creationism in the new gowns of ‘intelligent design’, the Creative Industries sound the clarion call to the Cultural Entrepreneurs. In the hype of the ‘creative class’ and the high flights of the digital bohemians, the renaissance of ‘the creatives’ is visibly enacted. The essays collected in this book analyze this complex resurgence of creation myths and formulate a contemporary critique of creativity.”
With contributions by: Brigitta Kuster, Maurizio Lazzarato, Esther Leslie, Isabell Lorey, Angela McRobbie, Raimund Minichbauer, Monika Mokre, Stefan Nowotny, Marion von Osten, Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, Suely Rolnik, Vassilis Tsianos, Paolo Virno, Ulf Wuggenig
Publisher mayfly, London, in conjunction with the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, 2011
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License
ISBN 9781906948139
234 pages
Publisher (new ed., DE)
Publisher (EN)
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