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Infraestructuras

Esta serie profundiza en los sistemas ocultos que sustentan nuestro mundo, desde las redes digitales hasta las estructuras físicas. Explora cómo estos marcos, a menudo pasados por alto, dan forma a nuestra sociedad, economía y vida cotidiana. Cada volumen desvela la complejidad y la interconexión de las infraestructuras críticas, ofreciendo a los lectores una nueva y profunda perspectiva de la era moderna.

System
A Vast Machine
The container principle
  • The container principle

    • 394 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura

    Klose explores a series of "container situations" in their historical, political, and cultural contexts. He examines the container as a time capsule, sometimes breaking loose and washing up onshore to display an inventory of artifacts of our culture. He explains the "Matryoshka principle," explores the history of land-water transport, and charts the three phases of container history. He examines the rise of logistics, the containerization of computing in the form of modularization and standardization, the architecture of container-like housing, and a range of artistic projects inspired by containers. Containerization, spreading from physical storage to organizational metaphors, Klose argues, signals a change in the fundamental order of thinking and things

    The container principle
    3,8
  • A Vast Machine

    • 552 páginas
    • 20 horas de lectura

    The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.

    A Vast Machine
    3,9
  • System

    • 330 páginas
    • 12 horas de lectura

    The role that system has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own computational universe.

    System
    3,4