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new book arrival!

José van Dijck
Mediated Memories in the Digital Age
Paper $180
ISBN: 9780804756242 Published 2007

我們存放在各種媒介的間接記憶(mediated memories):數碼相片、博客、webcam、podcast等究竟如何改變了我們對過去的認知? 科技如何滲透我們的生活日常,親密時刻,以至於影響公共與私密、記憶與經驗、自我與他者的關係?這本書將會對這一連串問題提供答案。

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Published by aco on 14/12/2008

new book arrival!

Fred Turner
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

Paper $140
ISBN: 9780226817422 Published May 2008


電腦、互聯網是現代人賴以溝通的工具。但在60年代的越戰及冷戰時期,電腦卻是公眾忌諱之物,因為這種發明當時普遍認為只能夠用於強化工業、軍事、器械等發展。直至90年代互聯網面世,電腦卻締造了一個虛擬的烏托邦,那是一個協作互利與分享的世界,這些正是60年代嬉皮士所追求的理念。

這是首本探討這個出乎意料的大轉變的讀物。作者深入追蹤Stewart Brand(六七十年代美國次文化期刊The Whole Earth Catalog創辦人)那三十年間的故事,看看他如何洞識先機,扭轉世界對電腦潛能的態度,帶領群眾從次文化,步向虛擬文化。

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Published by aco on 14/12/2008

new book arrival!

Peter Dear
The Intelligibility of Nature
How Science Makes Sense of the World

Paper $140
ISBN: 9780226139494 Published March 2008

科學作為一種概念或紀律如何在歷史中演化?
從力學哲理、牛頓引力、化學革命、自然歷史啟蒙、生物進化、磁場動力、量子理論……等等範疇,美國康乃爾大學科技及歷史教授Peter Dear 將揭示「知」、「行」兩大科學原則如何合而為一架構,並為世世代代科學家所遵從、實踐。


Scientists who wish to reflect on their vocation will gain valuable insights from this beautifully contrived book, and all readers will be prompted to think more carefully about the nature and ethos of science.
– Richard Yeo, Nature

In The Intelligibility of Nature, Peter Dear considers how science as an idea and a discipline has evolved and positioned itself. His intellectual journey begins with a crucial observation: that scientific ambition is, and has been, directed toward two distinct but frequently conflated ends—doing and knowing.

Teasing out this tension between doing and knowing during key episodes in the history of science—mechanical philosophy and Newtonian gravitation, elective affinities and the chemical revolution, enlightened natural history and taxonomy, evolutionary biology, the dynamical theory of electromagnetism, and quantum theory—Dear reveals how the two principles became formalized into a single enterprise, science, that would be carried out by a new kind of person, the scientist.

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Published by aco on 07/09/2008