Acclaimed one of the "seminal books...comparable in ultimate importance to...Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill", Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists, educators, and philosophers to be one of those books published during the "past four decades," which may have a substantial impact on public thought and action in the years ahead." -- Saturday Review...(展开全部)

Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanticism, respond with silence...But what if they didn't? This pamphlet ponders...(展开全部)

One of the lost classics of French philosophy, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information has never before been published in English. Raymond Ruyer – who was a major influence on Simondon and Deleuze, among others – originally wrote this book, the first philosophical work on the concept of information written by a philosopher, in 1954. At once critical and analytical, it is a de...(展开全部)

One of the lost classics of French philosophy, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information has never before been published in English. Raymond Ruyer – who was a major influence on Simondon and Deleuze, among others – originally wrote this book, the first philosophical work on the concept of information written by a philosopher, in 1954. At once critical and analytical, it is a de...(展开全部)

A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, bringing into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in architecture alongside the new possibilities made available through digital technologies. The book firstly examines how the body and its ordering has served as a central site of architectural discourse in ...(展开全部)

In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the language of cybernetics as a language of objectivity and truth. With this new objectivity, they challenged ...(展开全部)

〔德〕托马斯•瑞德（Thomas Rid） 伦敦国王学院军事研究系教授，毕业于德国洪堡大学；因其对战争中的信息技术历史和风险方面的研究而闻名于世；主要研究领域包括：赛博安全与冲突、新技术与不规则冲突、战争与媒体等；被《经济学人》杂志评为“赛博战领域的权威”；所著《机器崛起》除本书中文版外，已被翻译为英文、德文、俄文、日文、土耳其文等多种语言。

〔德〕托马斯•瑞德（Thomas Rid） 伦敦国王学院军事研究系教授，毕业于德国洪堡大学；因其对战争中的信息技术历史和风险方面的研究而闻名于世；主要研究领域包括：赛博安全与冲突、新技术与不规则冲突、战争与媒体等；被《经济学人》杂志评为“赛博战领域的权威”；所著《机器崛起》除本书中文版外，已被翻译为英文、德文、俄文、日文、土耳其文等多种语言。