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Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real by Bernhard Siegert eBooks & eLearning

Posted by LoveHive at June 10, 2015

Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real by Bernhard Siegert
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0823263762 | PDF | 288 pages | 7.48 MB

In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium's individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics.

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The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle eBooks & eLearning

Posted by denisbul at Sept. 20, 2010

In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also understand intellectual property law. Why? Because intellectual property rights mark out the ground rules of the information society, and today’s policies are unbalanced, unsupported by evidence, and often detrimental to cultural access, free speech, digital creativity, and scientific innovation.

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