Author: Don Ihde
Publisher: Automatic Press / VIP
Keywords: technics, ironic
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 8792130186
ISBN-13: 9788792130181
Even before we humans became modern as homo sapiens we were busy inventing technologies. But our technologies also invent us as humans. And as we reflect upon this process, too often our interpretations have taken utopian or dystopian directions: our technologies will make life infinitely better and lead us into utopian realms, or our technologies will condemn us to alienation or even destroy our humanity itself. This set of essays, however, looks at the ironic dimensions of human-technology relations, at unpredicted, unexpected, surprizing outcomes. Are we today in a ‘knowledge society
Author: C. AQ. Libra
Publisher: Laing Press
Keywords: ethics, technics, astrology
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2008-11-20
List price: $29.45
ISBN-10: 1443781029
ISBN-13: 9781443781022
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Lewis Mumford
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: civilization, technics
Number of Pages: 495
Published: 1963-11-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 015688254X
ISBN-13: 9780156882545
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy). Index; illustrations.
Author: Carl Mitcham
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: technics, meta, foundations
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2004-07-15
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0761829059
ISBN-13: 9780761829058
The Foundations of Meta-Technics is a rigorous phenomenological analysis of the transcendence of anthropomorphic, anthropocentric, and geocentric technology in terms of the new meta-technical forms of space and time. The book draws out the epistemological and ontological implications of an emerging meta-technical supernature in which space and time are perceived by trans-human means and from trans-terrestrial perspectives. This book is especially valuable to philosophers in either the phenomenological or continental tradition.
Author: Percy A. Scholes
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: technics, history, appreciation, music
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2005-05-04
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1417995955
ISBN-13: 9781417995950
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Author: Giovanni Battista Lamperti
Publisher: lulu.com
Keywords: canto, bel, technics
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 2010-01-13
List price: $16.96
ISBN-10: 0557097355
ISBN-13: 9780557097357
"Die Technik des Bel Canto" (1905) -- Extended Edition. As the last of the great master-teachers of the "old Italian school" of singing, Giovanni Battista Lamperti taught his students virtuosic vocal techniques handed down from the great castrati of the 17th century: exquisitely rich chiaroscuro tone, seamless flowing legato phrasing, undetectable passaggi register transitions and the delicately poised appoggio breath technique that allowed the astonishingly rapid coloratura typical of baroque music. In the only treatise he ever wrote, Lamperti the younger shares with all students, teachers
Authors:Lewis Mumford, Casey Nelson Blake,
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: technics, art
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2000-05-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0231121059
ISBN-13: 9780231121057
Lewis Mumford -architectural critic, theorist of technology, urbanologist, city planner, cultural critic, historian, biographer, and philosopher -was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban sprawl and a society obsessed with "technics." Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford´s views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man´s overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonaliz
