Teoría e historia del hombre artificial : de autómatas, cyborgs, clones y otras criaturas PDF Download

Author: Jesús Alonso Burgos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788446044260
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : es
Pages : 384

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Author: Osvaldo Cairó Battistutti
Publisher: Alpha Editorial
ISBN: 6077079774
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : es
Pages : 201

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En esta obra se exponen las tendencias de los avances en ciencia y tecnología que nos permitan inferir la época en la que cohabitaremos con máquinas con una capacidad cognitiva similar a la que tienen los humanos; de súper inteligencia, de nuevos retos, que trascenderán los límites del progreso y transformarán a la humanidad para siempre.

Author: Roberto Abendroth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolució humana
Languages : es
Pages : 302

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Author: Jesús Alonso Burgos
Publisher: Grupo Editor Rca
ISBN: 9788496806306
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 403

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Cuando Mary W. Shelley escribió Frankenstein (1818), una de las obras clave del Romanticismo europeo, no podía ni tna solo imaginar que su delirio novelesco llegaría a ser algún día posible.l su novela pretendía ser, ante todo, una relectura de los viejos mitos de creación a la luz de la estética romántica. Pero acaso, sin darse cuenta, esa relectura remitía fundamentalmente a la técnica y el progreso, nuevos dioses de Occidente. No era el logos místico del Evangelio de San Juan ni el saber hermético de rabino Löv lo que animaba la obra del Dr Victor Frankentein, sino la ciencia.

Author: Vera Tiesler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461487609
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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The artificial shaping of the skull vault of infants expresses fundamental aspects of crafted beauty, of identity, status and gender in a way no other body practice does. Combining different sources of information, this volume contributes new interpretations on Mesoamerican head shaping traditions. Here, the head with its outer insignia was commonly used as a metaphor for designating the “self” and personhood and, as part of the body, served as a model for the indigenous universe. Analogously, the outer “looks” of the head and its anatomical constituents epitomized deeply embedded worldviews and longstanding traditions. It is in this sense that this book explores both the quotidian roles and long-standing ideological connotations of cultural head modifications in Mesoamerica and beyond, setting new standards in the discussion of the scope, caveats, and future directions involved in this study. The systematic examination of Mesoamerican skeletal series fosters an explained review of indigenous cultural history through the lens of emblematic head models with their nuanced undercurrents of religious identity and ethnicity, social organization and dynamic cultural shift. The embodied expressions of change are explored in different geocultural settings and epochs, being most visible in the centuries surrounding the Maya collapse and following the cultural clash implied by the European conquest. These glimpses on the Mesoamerican past through head practices are novel, as is the general treatment of methodology and theoretical frames. Although it is anchored in physical anthropology and archaeology (specifically bioarchaeology), this volume also integrates knowledge derived from anatomy and human physiology, historical and iconographic sources, linguistics (polisemia) and ethnography. The scope of this work is rounded up by the transcription and interpretation of the many colonial eye witness accounts on indigenous head treatments in Mesoamerica and beyond.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900448633X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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The essays in this collection are based on papers given at a conference on detective fiction in European culture, held at the University of Exeter in September 1997. The range of topics covered is designed to show not only the presence and variety of narratives of detection across different European countries and their different media (although there is a predictable emphasis on the novel). It also illustrates the fertility of the genre, its openness to a spectrum of readings with different emphases, formal as well as thematic. Approaches to detective fiction have often tended to confine them-selves to ‘symptomatic’ interpretation, where details of the fictional world represented are used to diagnose a specific set of social preoccupations and priorities operative at the time of writing. Such approaches can yield valuable insights. Nonetheless there is a risk of limiting the value of the genre as a whole solely to its role as a mirror held up to society. In this perspective, issues of structure and style are sidelined, or, if addressed, are praised to the extent that they approach invisibility — concision, spareness, realism are the qualities singled out for praise. The genre also gives much scope for formal innovation — and indeed has often attracted already established ‘mainstream’ writers and filmmakers for just this reason. The eclectic diversity of the detective narratives considered in this volume reveal the malleability of the traditional constraints of the genre. The essays bear rich testimony to the value of considering the interplay of thematic and structural issues, even in the most apparently unselfconscious and popular (or populist) forms of narrative. The patterns of reassurance, the triumph of intellect and the ordered, rational world ‘of old’ are now challenged by the need to foreground the problems, ambiguities and uncertainties of the self and of society. The plurality of meanings and the antithetical imperatives explored in these detective narratives confirm that the most recent forms of the genre are not mere palimpsests of their ‘golden age’ precursors. The subversion of traditional expectations and the implementation of diverse stylistic devices take the genre beyond mere homage and pastiche. The role of the reader/spectator and critic in conferring meaning is a crucial one.

Author: Shane Ralston
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1617354600
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Confirming his moniker as “America’s philosopher of democracy,” John Dewey engaged in a series of public debates over the course of his lifetime, vividly demonstrating how his thought translates into action. These debates made Dewey a household name and a renowned public intellectual during the early to mid-twentieth century, a time when the United States fought two World Wars, struggled through an economic depression, experienced explosive economic growth and spawned a grassroots movement that characterized an entire era: Progressivism. Unfortunately, much recent Dewey scholarship neglects to situate Dewey’s ideas in the broader context of his activities and engagements as a public intellectual. This project charts a path through two of Dewey’s actual debates with his contemporaries, Leon Trotsky and Robert Hutchins, to two reconstructed debates with contemporary intellectuals, E.D. Hirsch and Robert Talisse, both of whom criticized Dewey’s ideas long after the American philosopher’s death and, finally, to two recent debates, one on home schooling and the other on U.S. foreign policy, in which Dewey’s ideas offer a unique and compelling vision of a way forward.

Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781534715059
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 192

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El origen del hombre, uno de los libros señeros de Darwin sobre la teoría evolutiva (junto a El origen de las especies), marcó un punto de inflexión decisivo en la historia de la ciencia con su moderna visión de la naturaleza humana como resultado de la evolución. Darwin argumentó que los rasgos característicamente humanos, como la lengua y el sentido moral, eran el resultado de los mismos procesos naturales que produjeron, por ejemplo, los pétalos de lirio o las colas de escorpión. Esta nueva y cuidada traducción del profesor Joandomènec Ros cuenta con un iluminador estudio preliminar a cargo del mismo profesor Ros y un epílogo de Carles Lalueza, que hace un estado de la cuestión sobre los estudios de evolución humana.

Author: Mar López Ligero
Publisher: Editorial UOC
ISBN: 8490649146
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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El falso documental ha pasado de ser una producción anecdótica a convertirse en una categoría cinematográfica reconocida por el gran público. Aunque su popularidadactual es incuestionable, no se trata de una forma nueva, sino que podemos rastrearla desde el inicio del cinematógrafo. Este libro recopila algunos de los títulos más emblemáticos, buscando a través de su estudio las características y la estructura que lo definen como modelo documental.En sus páginas se mantiene que todo fake puede ser estudiado no solo por los códigos tradicionalmente adscritos a los relatos de realidad que parasita, sino también por el contexto de su producción, su recepción y por la actitud mantenida por el texto. Alguno de los aspectos que mejor definen el falso documental es su falta de vocaciónde engaño y su insistencia en retratar los medios de comunicación de una manera subversiva.

Author: Luzmila Camacho Platero
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351109014
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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Antología de escritoras españolas de la Edad Media y el Siglo de Oro ofrece una selección de obras literarias de ocho escritoras medievales, renacentistas y barrocas. Cada capítulo presenta una extensa introducción sobre la autora y su obra. Esta antología contribuye a mejorar el conocimiento de los estudiantes sobre la lengua, la literatura y la cultura españolas, al igual que ofrece una lectura desde la perspectiva de género de estas escritoras. Acompañada de textos originales modernizados al castellano actual, notas aclaratorias, actividades y una extensa y actualizada bibliografía, Antología de escritoras españolas de la Edad Media y el Siglo de Oro muestra la evolución de voces femeninas a lo largo de estos siglos. Las actividades sugeridas para cada capítulo ayudan a exponer y a reflexionar sobre la relevancia cultural que en la actualidad tienen los argumentos que estas mujeres proponent en sus trabajos. Esta antología será de gran utilidad para estudiantes de literatura y cultura españolas de niveles de grado y graduado e, igualmente, para los estudiantes hispanohablantes de literature comparada y de estudios de género.