The (im)possibility of ethics in the information age - 0 views
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This paper is concerned with the possibility that the ethical claim of the other, that sense of being bound to the other, may becoming more and more difficult to experience as information technology increasingly mediates our social being. The paper will support the supposition of Don Caputo that obligation does not emanate from codes, imperatives or moral arguments. Rather it will argue that obligation takes hold of us from within disaster. Obligation, our being bound-to, finds us when we come face to a face in disaster. The paper will argue that electronic mediation is inducing a sense of hyperreality into our world (Baudrillard). It will argue that this hyperreality is making our ethical sensibility nebulous to the point that we are not coming face to face with our obligations. An analysis of the Baring bank disaster will be used to demonstrate the point. The paper will show that Nick Leeson was in a hyperreal world in which he was not able to come face to face with the victims of the disaster. The electronic hyperreal world of financial markets, where traders deal in abstract numbers, movements on the screen, made it possible for him to look over and past the faces and proper names of the victims; their claim became diffused in the numbers on the screen, not real cash only numbers, not real people with faces and proper names, just numbers. If this supposition seems tenable what are we to do? The paper argues that we do not need more codes, imperatives or moral arguments, as such. Rather we need to keep our lives at the resolution, of faces and proper names-if obligation happens this is where it is likely to be.
NBIC3_report.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
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NSF report on "Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society" 2006 Abstract: This introductory chapter briefly defines the "NBIC" unification that is rapidly taking place today among Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology, and Cognitive science. It then describes how the other chapters address the potential impacts of converging technologies, considers how innovation can be stimulated and steered, and provides a basis for an understanding of the societal implications of NBIC.
plaque militaire francaise - 0 views
Mais les joueurs italiens ont réagi, en l'applaudissant. Un geste suivi par tout le stade pour couvrir les sifflets.L'Américain Lashawn Merritt a résisté au retour de Bralon Taplin pour remporter l...
Gives Life Meaning: Homeless Mind - Modernity's Discontents - 2 - 0 views
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The discontents derived from the bureaucratization of major institutions are very similar to the ones just mentioned. However, they are even broader in scope for the simple reason that bureaucratization has affected nearly every sector of social life.
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A congregation of Tibetan Buddhist monks, let us say, transplanted to the United States, can start using electric razors without thereby altering the character of their social relations. If, however, this monastic community started to bureaucratize its procedures, the very fabric of its social life would change almost immediately.
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The individual is "surrounded" by bureaucracy far more effectively than he is by the technologized economy,
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Landes Bioscience - Home - 0 views
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should be added to either an author's userspace at Wikipedia (preferred route) or added directly to the main Wikipedia space
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Notice that the preferred route is that you ad it as a subpage to your own userpage. I have no idea why that is so, but I think that the reqirement for wikipedia to leave to material is much lower that if added to the main wikipedia space. What do you think, should all university students add their abstract from large papers to wikipedia, and is Media wiki the right software for the job?
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3D map of the mediascape - abstract - 0 views
Religious Authority and the Internet - 0 views
Generation Me - 5 views
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This is an Executive Summary prepared by Steve Eubank "Abstract: Twenge suggests a different interpretation of some of the commonly held conceptions of the generation variously referred to as Generation Y, iGeneration, the Millenials, and in this case, Generation Me. The first half of the book makes the case that this is a generation in which the importance of the individual supersedes all other concerns, focusing on the cultural and demographic forces that have influenced this generational cohort. The second half of the book explores how this individual focus affects members of Generation Me, their relationships with each other and with other generations. Twenge closes the book with a number of suggestions for how institutions can be better prepared to deal with Generation Me"
Remote Control: How the Media Sustain Authoritarian Rule in China - 1 views
sac longchamp pas cher amazon Après - 0 views
Le lendemain, il appelle Nicolas à 17 heures pour s'étonner qu'il donne une interview prétendument surprise à 60 journaux de province : «Il va forcément y avoir des fuites.» «Non, non», assure Sark...
Sac de voyage Longchamp Pliage LM Et - 0 views
Finalement, sa recherche l'aura mené vers des artistes tels que les frères Le Nain, Jean-Baptiste Greuze ou l'Italien Giacomo Ceruti, et jusqu'à la photographie contemporaine, puisque chez les amis...
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