Category: English
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Book Review: The Cybernetic Brain, by Andrew Pickering
Download the COMPLETE book review: The Cybernetic Brain, by Pickering In this critical review I try to point out the flaws of the book and expose the weak arguments of Pickering. The book is awful. It is probably one of the worst books I have read. Aside from the egotistic and narcissistic tone of Pickering,…
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Book Review: Aramis or the love for technology, Bruno Latour.
By Javier de Rivera In this book, Latour addresses the social and political factors implicated in the development of technological projects. To such an end, he uses the case study of a failed technological project: Aramis, an innovative public transportation system developed in France between 1972 and 1987 that, despite its apparent technological interest and…
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The Modern Invention of Information – Ron Day
This links to the literary review of Ron Day\’s Works where I try to synthesize the most relevant points of his oeuvre. Ron Day has been one of the best discoveries I made during the time I am spending in the PhD program of the UCLA Information Studies department. \”The Modern Invention of Information\” was…
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Opening a new blog
Why am I opening a new blog? It\’s not easy to define how you are presenting your projects online. What do you want to communicate? What\’s the best way to do it? First, I started Sociologia y Redes sociales as a resource to help me think about my thesis project of producing a sociological account…