In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized--Allende's government...(展开全部)

伊登·梅迪纳（Eden Medina）在麻省理工学院（MIT）取得科学与技术的历史社会研究博士学位，后任印第安纳大学信息、计算与工程学院副教授，历史系助理副教授，以及Maurer法学院兼职副教授。梅迪纳的研究领域为数据科学的社会伦理面向，以及计算机、文化与社会的关系。 2007年，她凭借本书中对智利控制论的研究，获IEEE电气史终身会员奖（IEEE Life Member's Prize in Electrical History）。同时，本书因其在技术史研究中的杰出贡献，获埃德尔斯坦奖（Edelstein Prize），并因其在计算机史研究中的贡献，获计算机历史博物馆奖（Computer History Museum Prize）。 梅迪纳的研究探讨了政治价值如何塑造计算机系统的设计，以及技术系统如何表现社会和政治秩序的配置。她目前的研究兴趣包括欧...(展开全部)

In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that would manage Chile's economy. Neither vision was fully realized--Allende's government...(展开全部)

Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the growth of movements using digital means to connect with broader interest groups and express their points of view. These movements emerge out of distinct contexts and yield different outcomes, but tend to share one thing in common: online and offline solidarity shaped around the public display of emotion. Social media facilitate f...(展开全部)

In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should instead imagine an originary imbrication of nature and machine that begins with a dorsal turn—a turn that takes place behind o...(展开全部)

乔纳森•西蒙斯博士毕业于墨尔本大学社会与政治科学学院，现为澳大利亚麦考瑞大学副教授，在社会科学学院讲授公共政策与国际关系。他目前的研究重点主要集中于环境政治及全球气候政策，包括太阳能地球工程、生物工程和碳消除等。

In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.

Widely regarded as one of the essential Latin American writers of our age, Bolano’s exotic and highly imaginative literary masterpiece takes place over the course of a single night when a priest, believing himself to be dying, recalls some of the crucial events and personages of his life.

Widely regarded as one of the essential Latin American writers of our age, Bolano’s exotic and highly imaginative literary masterpiece takes place over the course of a single night when a priest, believing himself to be dying, recalls some of the crucial events and personages of his life.

In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.