This book is a journey through our increasingly visual culture. A journey where we consider how technological change has influenced the way we think, the way we see and the way we communicate. We will look at the way that the development of language has gone hand in hand with the development of technology. The rise of alphabetic literacy – reading and writing – has reconfigured...(展开全部)

作者簡介 Wilfred R. Bion（畢昂） 畢昂1897年生於印度，八歲始至英國接受學校教育。第一次世界大戰期間，他於法國服役，擔任戰車指揮官，並獲頒卓越服務勳章以及榮譽勳位。在牛津的皇后學院攻讀歷史之後，他轉往倫敦的大學學院研習醫學。因為對精神分析的興趣日益增加，他開始接受瑞克曼的訓練分析，之後則由克萊因接手。在1940-1950年期間，他專注於團體過程的研究。後來他放棄這個領域而轉向精神分析的實務工作，之後擔任倫敦精神分析診所主任（1956-1962）以及英國精神分析學會會長（1962-1965）。1968年起，他到洛杉磯工作，1979年回到英國，兩個月後過世。 譯者簡介 劉時寧　精神科專科醫師 現任：培靈醫院醫師 仁愛醫院精神科合約醫師 呂旭立紀念文教基金會諮商師

How can we order the world while accepting its enduring ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and categories to disambiguate). The book argues that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through ritual and shar...(展开全部)

Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer a refreshing take on the question of architecture and provocatively rethink many of the accepted tenets of a...(展开全部)

Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer a refreshing take on the question of architecture and provocatively rethink many of the accepted tenets of a...(展开全部)

What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? According to Neil Gershenfeld, the renowned MIT scientist and inventor, the next big thing is personal fabrication-the ability to design and produce your own products, in your own home, with a machine that combines consumer electronics and industrial tools. Personal fabricators ar...(展开全部)

How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting from mate selection. But we now find ourselves binge-viewing, texting while driving, and...(展开全部)