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  • Digressions in Deep Time

    Ecocritical Approaches to Literature and the Arts

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    “Deep time” is a term which attempts to capture temporal scales far beyond human comprehension. These are stretches of time epitomised by geological and cosmic scale processes, vast enough to make the entirety of human existence appear as little more than a footnote. The past few years have seen a boom in texts dedicated to the study of deep time, extending across a broad range of disciplines ... Read more

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  • Consumerism and Prestige

    The Materiality of Literature in the Modern Age

    Edited by Anthony Enns, Bernhard Metz ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture
    This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status. In many cases, for example, the distinctions between “highbrow” and “lowbrow” taste have little to do with the content ... Read more

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  • Chronopoetics

    The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media

    Translated by Anthony Enns ...
    Series series Media Philosophy
    Wolfgang Ernst has demonstrated that the knowledge of time-giving (‘chrono-poetical’) media and their temporal essence enriches the tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature of ‘time’. This book, a translated and abridged edition of Ernst’s two major volumes, Chronopoetik and Gleichursprünglichkeit, undertakes this on three levels: a close analysis of time-critical moments within media ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Computing, second edition

    Series series History of Computing
    From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations.This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late ... Read more

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  • Software Theory

    A Cultural and Philosophical Study

    Series series Media Philosophy
    The cultural and philosophical study of software is crucial, both within and outside of the university, at an international level and across disciplines. Software is increasingly considered the focus of digital media studies because of the perceived need to address the invisibility, ubiquity, and power of digital media. Yet software remains quite obscure to students and scholars in media studies, ... Read more

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  • Global "Body Shopping"

    An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry

    by Xiang Biao ...
    Series series In-Formation
    How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are ... Read more

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  • CALL Dimensions

    Options and Issues in Computer-Assisted Language Learning

    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    This volume gives language teachers, software designers, and researchers who wish to use technology in second or foreign language education the information they need to absorb what has been achieved so far and to make sense of it. It is designed to enable the kind of critical reading of a substantial literature that leads to a balanced and detailed knowledge of the field.Chapter by chapter, the ... Read more

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  • Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

    by Fengshu Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young people under thirty ... Read more

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  • Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations

    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    Since the Chinese were officially plugged into the virtual community in 1994, the usage of the internet in the country has developed at an incredible rate. By the end of 2008, there were approximately 298 million netizens in China, a number which surpasses that of the U.S. and ranks China the highest user in the world. The rapid development of the online Chinese community has not only boosted the ... Read more

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  • A Political Economy of the Senses

    Neoliberalism, Reification, Critique

    by Anita Chari ...
    Series Book 2 - New Directions in Critical Theory
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  • The Metaphysics of Technology

    by David Skrbina ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    What is technology? Why does it have such power in our lives? Why does it seemingly progress of its own accord, and without regard to social or environmental well-being? The quest for the essence of technology is an old one, with roots in the pre-Socratic philosophy of ancient Greece. It was then that certain thinkers first joined the ideas of technê and logos into a single worldview. The Greeks ... Read more

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