Author: Boris EmmetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Catalogues and Counters
Author: Boris EmmetCATALOGUES AND COUNTERS
Author: BORIS EMMET & JOHN E. JEUCKPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Shopping
Author: Deborah C. AndrewsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495180
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
We all shop. The essays in this wide-ranging anthology demonstrates how a material culture perspective—a focus on the mutual creation of people and their things—yields significant insights into multiple aspects of consumption in American culture.
Counter Space
Author: Juliet KinchinPublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870708082
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sept. 15, 2010-May 2, 2011.
Condensed Catalogues of Mechanical Equipment
Author: The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience
Author: H. Roger GrantPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025306435X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Before the widespread popularity of automobiles, buses, and trucks, freight and passenger trains bound the nation together. The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience explores the role of local frontline workers that kept the country's vast rail network running. Virtually every community with a railroad connection had a depot and an agent. These men and occasionally women became the official representatives of their companies and were highly respected. They met the public when they sold tickets, planned travel itineraries, and reported freight and express shipments. Additionally, their first-hand knowledge of Morse code made them the most informed in town. But as times changed, so did the role of, and the need for, the station agent. Beautifully illustrated with dozens of vintage photographs, The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience, brings back to life the day-to-day experience of the station agent and captures the evolution of railroad operations as technology advanced.
Between Truth and Power
Author: Julie E. CohenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190246715
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A work of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship that explores the ways that law and technology interact. Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, as accountability for industrial-age harms became a pervasive source of conflict, the US legal system underwent profound, tectonic shifts. Today, struggles over ownership of information-age resources and accountability for information-age harms are producing new systemic changes. In Between Truth and Power, Julie E. Cohen explores the relationships between legal institutions and political and economic transformation. Systematically examining struggles over the conditions of information flow and the design of information architectures and business models, she argues that as law is enlisted to help produce the profound economic and sociotechnical shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the informational economy, it is too is transforming in fundamental ways. Drawing on elements from legal theory, science and technology studies, information studies, communication studies and organization studies to develop a complex theory of institutional change, Cohen develops an account of the gradual emergence of legal institutions adapted to the information age and of the power relationships that such institutions reflect and reproduce. A tour de force of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship, Between Truth and Power will transform our thinking about the possible futures of law and legal institutions in the networked information era.
Assembling a Black Counter Culture
Author: Deforrest BrownPublisher: Primary Information
ISBN: 9781734489736
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
In this critical history, DeForrest Brown, Jr "makes techno Black again" by tracing the music's origins in Detroit and beyond In Assembling a Black Counter Culture, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr, provides a history and critical analysis of techno and adjacent electronic music such as house and electro, showing how the genre has been shaped over time by a Black American musical sensibility. Brown revisits Detroit's 1980s techno scene to highlight pioneering groups like the Belleville Three before jumping into the origins of today's international club floor to draw important connections between industrialized labor systems and cultural production. Among the other musicians discussed are Underground Resistance (Mad Mike Banks, Cornelius Harris), Drexciya, Juan Atkins (Cybotron, Model 500), Derrick May, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Detroit Escalator Co. (Neil Ollivierra), DJ Stingray/Urban Tribe, Eddie Fowlkies, Terrence Dixon (Population One) and Carl Craig. With references to Theodore Roszak's Making of a Counter Culture, writings by African American autoworker and political activist James Boggs, and the "techno rebels" of Alvin Toffler's Third Wave, Brown approaches techno's unique history from a Black theoretical perspective in an effort to evade and subvert the racist and classist status quo in the mainstream musical-historical record. The result is a compelling case to "make techno Black again." DeForrest Brown, Jris a New York-based theorist, journalist and curator. He produces digital audio and extended media as Speaker Music and is a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign.
Sitting for Equal Service
Author: Melody HerrPublisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0761363564
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Four black college students stage a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC.
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