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Harmonies of Disorder
This book presents the entire body of thought of Norbert Wiener (1894–1964), knowledge of which is essential if one wishes to understand and correctly interpret the age in which we live. The focus is in particular on the philosophical and sociological aspects of Wiener’s thought, but these aspects are carefully framed within the context of his scientific journey. Important biographical events, including some that were previously unknown, are also highlighted, but while the book has a biographical structure, it is not only a biography. The book is divided into four chronological sections, the first two of which explore Wiener’s development as a philosopher and logician and his brilliant...
The Polymath
The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements. In this engaging, erudite account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view. Identifying 500 western polymaths, Burke explores their wide-ranging successes and shows how their rise matched a rapid growth of knowledge in the age of the invention of printing, the discovery of the New World and the Scientific Revolution. It is only more recently that the further acceleration of knowledge has led to increased specialisation and to an environment that is less supportive of wide-ranging scholars and scientists. Spanning the Renaissance to the present day, Burke changes our understanding of this remarkable intellectual species.
From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities
From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique and Byzantine worlds, focusing specifically on urban aspects of this paradigm. Spanning from the fourth to thirteenth centuries, and ranging from the later Roman empires to the early Caliphate and medieval New Rome, the chapters reveal the range of factors involved in the dialectic between City, cities, and frontier. Including contributions on political, social, literary, and artistic history, and covering geographical areas throughout the central and eastern Mediterranean, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic view of how human actio...
La diplomatie byzantine, de l’Empire romain aux confins de l’Europe (Ve-XVe s.)
In La Diplomatie byzantine, de l’Empire romain aux confins de l’Europe (Ve-XVe s.), twelve studies explore from novel angles the complex history of Byzantine diplomacy. After an Introduction, the volume turns to the period of late antiquity and the new challenges the Eastern Roman Empire had to contend with. It then examines middle-Byzantine diplomacy through chapters looking at relations with Arabs, Rus’ and Bulgarians, before focusing on various aspects of the official contacts with Western Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. A thematic section investigates the changes to and continuities of diplomacy throughout the period, in particular by considering Byzantine alertness to external political developments, strategic use of dynastic marriages, and the role of women as diplomatic actors. Contributors are are Jean-Pierre Arrignon, Audrey Becker, Mickaël Bourbeau, Nicolas Drocourt, Christian Gastgeber, Nike Koutrakou, Élisabeth Malamut, Ekaterina Nechaeva, Brendan Osswald, Nebojša Porčić, Jonathan Shepard, and Jakub Sypiański.
Comprehending the Complexity of Countries
This book argues for computer-aided collaborative country research based on the science of complex and dynamic systems. It provides an in-depth discussion of systems and computer science, concluding that proper understanding of a country is only possible if a genuinely interdisciplinary and truly international approach is taken; one that is based on complexity science and supported by computer science. Country studies should be carefully designed and collaboratively carried out, and a new generation of country students should pay more attention to the fast growing potential of digitized and electronically connected libraries. In this frenzied age of globalization, foreign policy makers may – to the benefit of a better world – profit from the radically new country studies pleaded for in the book. Its author emphasizes that reductionism and holism are not antagonistic but complementary, arguing that parts are always parts of a whole and a whole has always parts.
Cibernetica. Prospettive sul pensiero sistemico
«Ce n’est plus d’une libération universalisante que l’homme a besoin, mais d’une médiation», scriverà Gilbert Simondon nel 1958 a proposito dell’ideale enciclopedico della cibernetica, cogliendone appieno lo spirito. Questo ideale enciclopedico si accompagnava a una dichiarata volontà di rinnovamento delle categorie filosofiche e di superamento di molte dicotomie metafisiche. È il carattere spettrale e disseminato della cibernetica, il suo insistere negli interstizi dell’enciclopedia, che ci ha spinto a dedicarle questo numero con l’obiettivo di cartografare i luoghi del sapere in cui possono ravvisarsi le tracce lasciate dalla cibernetica, seguirne le piste, ricostruirne le trame, farne emergere i modi d’essere, interrogarne l’eredità e l’attualità.
La scienza fra etica e polica
Una raccolta di riflessioni originali sul rapporto tra la scienza e la nostra società, a partire dal pensiero del grande fisico e intellettuale Carlo Bernardini.
Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories, 1450–1750
Inspired by Deborah Howard’s leading role in fostering a historically grounded and interdisciplinary approach to the art and architecture of Venice, the essays here examine the connections and rapports between art and identity through the discussion of patronage, space (domestic and ecclesiastical), and dissemination of architectural knowledge as well as models within Venice, its territories and beyond.
Aspetti e problemi dei processi comunicativi
Il nostro tempo e con esso la società contemporanea sono sempre più influenzati e quasi plasticamente plasmati dai mezzi di comunicazione di massa. Grazie al portentoso sviluppo della tecnologia, di cui il fenomeno Internet rappresenta il più sofisticato dei prodotti, la comunicazione, nelle forme più diversificate, ha raggiunto livelli mai prima sperimentati. Ci troviamo di fronte ad una vera e propria rivoluzione, culturale prima di ogni altra cosa, i cui effetti si riverberano in ogni ambito della nostra quotidianità. Ne sono artefici e paladini soprattutto le generazioni più giovani, i cosiddetti nativi digitali. Il fenomeno è complesso e complicato; quasi inafferrabile perché continuamente mutevole nelle forme espressive e cangiante nelle modalità del suo stesso manifestarsi. Per conoscerlo fino in fondo e per scovarne gli aspetti più reconditi, è necessario procedere ad un’indagine a tutto tondo, senza pregiudizi od orientamenti ideologici precostituiti. D’altronde, interrogarsi sugli attuali processi comunicativi, significa soprattutto interrogarsi sulla condizione esistenziale dell’uomo nella post-modernità.
"Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories, 1450?750 "
Cities are shaped as much by a repertoire of buildings, works and objects, as by cultural institutions, ideas and interactions between forms and practices entangled in identity formations. This is particularly true when seen through a city as forceful and splendid as Venice. The essays in this volume investigate these connections between art and identity, through discussions of patronage, space and the dissemination of architectural models and knowledge in Venice, its territories and beyond. They celebrate Professor Deborah Howard?s leading role in fostering a historically grounded and interdisciplinary approach to the art and architecture of Venice. Based on an examination and re-interpreta...
