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)

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)

Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno—affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument—developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photography from the Weimar period up to the 1960s. Miriam Bratu Hansen brings to life an impr...(展开全部)

马克·费罗：法国年鉴学派史学家，第一次世界大战史、俄国史专家，将电影作为文献和媒介进行历史研究的先锋。著作甚丰，除本书外，其他主要著作有：《法国史》（2001）、《历史的禁忌》（2002）、《伊斯兰教的冲击》《电影，对历史的一种解读》（2003）等。

Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

马克·费罗：法国年鉴学派史学家，第一次世界大战史、俄国史专家，将电影作为文献和媒介进行历史研究的先锋。著作甚丰，除本书外，其他主要著作有：《法国史》（2001）、《历史的禁忌》（2002）、《伊斯兰教的冲击》《电影，对历史的一种解读》（2003）等。

Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

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)