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The Cultural Logic of Computation
Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution. In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, confronts this orthodoxy, arguing instead that computers are cultural “all the way down”—that there is no part of the apparent technological transformation that is not shaped by historical and cultural processes, or that escapes existing cultural politics. From the perspective of transnational corporations and governments, c...
Cross-Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Translations
The book specifies a corpus architecture, including annotation and querying techniques, and its implementation. The corpus architecture is developed for empirical studies of translations, and beyond those for the study of texts which are inter-lingually comparable, particularly texts of similar registers. The compiled corpus, CroCo, is a resource for research and is, with some copyright restrictions, accessible to other research projects. Most of the research was undertaken as part of a DFG-Project into linguistic properties of translations. Fundamentally, this research project was a corpus-based investigation into the language pair English-German. The long-term goal is a contribution to the...
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William Shakespeares »King Lear« in seinen Fassungen
Die Neueinschätzung der Überlieferungssituation bei Shakespeares »King Lear« hat in jüngerer Zeit zahlreiche Einzeleditionen der »Lear«-Fassungen hervorgebracht. Ausgehend von der Überlieferungsproblematik, der Editionsgeschichte und der gegenwärtigen Editionspraxis unternimmt die Studie eine umfassende Neukonzeption der methodologischen Grundlagen zur Fassungsedition bei Shakespeares »King Lear«. Dabei werden in Auseinandersetzung mit den Optionen der anglo-amerikanischen und der neugermanistischen Editionswissenschaft editorische Begrifflichkeiten wie Fassung, Variante und Textfehler erstmals grundlegend für die Edition von Shakespeare-Fassungen systematisiert. Zugleich wird ei...
A Companion to Digital Humanities
This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving. Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion.
Electronic Commerce: Opportunity and Challenges
Some analysts predict that electronic commerce will grow to more than $300 billion in the next five years. With electronic commerce growing in exponentially, staying competitive through an effect e-business strategy is a tough challenge. Electronic commerce represents one of the most promising directions for generating competitive advantage at the micro level of the organization and for increasing productivity at the macro level of the economy. Electronic Commerce: Opportunity and Challenges looks at the critical fundamental elements that could impact a user's perception of business-to-business and business-to-consumer electronic commerce. It presents a study of key components and concepts of e-commerce, evaluating the critical success factors for global e-commerce, the economics of e-commerce and the practical issues involved with e-commerce in various applications.
Moving into Mass Customization
Mass Customization leads the strategy of today`s well succeeded companies. It indulges the customer with the so long yearned for product and/or service that exactly fits his desires and specifications. This book compiles a hand-selected variety of testimonies from Mass Customization experts worldwide with different experiences both on an academic research basis as well as on practical case studies. This diversity makes it a compulsory guide to use in any enterprise throughout the world that wants to take its business into new and more ambitious dimensions. Furthermore, its contents are structured in a way that will help everyone that wants to learn, teach or put into practice the concepts of Mass Customization.
Ecritures de soi
Par "écritures de soi", il faut entendre non seulement l'autobiographie, le roman autobiographique, l'autoportrait, les mémoires, l'autofiction..., mais encore toute forme d'inscription de l'auteur, fût-elle implicite, voire inconsciente, dans des écrits considérés dans un champ littéraire large (roman, essai, poésie, théâtre, préface, épigraphe et autres paratextes, récit historique, journal intime et / ou littéraire...). Sont étudiés des auteurs comme Montaigne, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Julio Cortazar, Jean Rouaud, Flaubert, Charles Dickens, Julien Green, Blaise Cendrars...
