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It's called the necrobiome.

It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.

How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles.The designed ...

An updated edition of a classic: an indispensable companion for a new era in cycling.The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it uses human muscles in a near-optimum way. This essential volume offers a comprehensive account of the history of bicycles, how human beings propel them, what makes them go faster--and what keeps them from going even faster. Over the years, and through three previous editions, Bicycling Science has become the bible of technical bicycling not only for designers and builders of bicycles but also for cycling enthusiasts.After a brief history of bicycles and bicycling that demolishes many widespread myths, this fourth edition covers recent experiments and research on human-powered transportation, with updated material on cycling achievements, human-powered machines for use on land and in air and water, power-assisted bicycles, and human physiology. The authors have also added new information on aerodynamics, rolling drag, transmission of power from rider to wheels, braking, heat management, steering and stability, power and speed, and other topics. This edition also includes many new references and figures.With racks of bikeshare bikes on city sidewalks, and new restrictions on greenhouse gas-emitting cars, bicycle use will only grow. This book is the indispensable companion for a new era in cycling.

A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract--of our ability to work collectively for the public good--and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans. A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them--but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs. Across the U.S. and elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect and the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of these failures. But Chachra maps out a path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. The cost of not being able to rely on these systems is unthinkably high. We need to learn how to see them--and fix them, together--before it's too late.

Critiques (3), citations, extraits de Chronotopie : Réflexions d'un anthropologue sur le de François Laplantine. Merci tout d'abord aux Editions Dépaysage et à Babelio pour l'envoi de...

ISBN: 9781250872968 - Paperback - Picador - 2023 - Condition: New - Dust Jacket Included - Paperback. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. - Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin believes in the liberating power of the imagination. Deadly systems shaped by mass incarceration, ableism, digital surveillance, and eugenics emerged from the human imagination, but they have real-world impacts. To fight these systems and create a world that works for all of us, we will have to imagine things differently. As Benjamin shows, educators, artists, technologists, and more are experimenting with new ways of thinking and tackling seemingly intractable problems. Drawing from the work of these visionaries--including Black feminists, climate activists, Afrofuturists, and troublemakers of all sorts--Imagination: A Manifesto explores the possibility and practices required to imagine and create more just and habitable worlds.

Rittel and Webber argued that scientific and technocratic approaches for tackling the difficult issues of social policy and urban planning were bound to be inadequate. A ‘scientific’ approach to understanding the nature of these problems necessarily...

Fnac : Édition augmentée, La domination policière, Mathieu Rigouste, La Fabrique Eds". .

We were told that the internet would dematerialize society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a massive infrastructure and a rapidly growing energy consumer. In this series of articles, Low-tech Magazine examines the reasons behind the ever-expanding resource use of digital communication and what we can do about it. The internet isn't an autonomous being. Its growing energy use results from decisions made by software developers, web designers, marketeers, publishers, and internet users. By placing communications in a historical context and with the development of its lightweight, off-the-grid, and solar powered website, Low-tech Magazine challenges our high-tech approach to sustainability and highlights the possibilities of alternative solutions. Table of contents: 1. Why we need a speed limit for the internet2. Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph3. How to build a low-tech internet?4. How to build a low-tech website?5. How sustainable is a solar powered website?6. How and why I stopped buying laptops7. Why the office needs a typewriter revolutionThis book contains 70 images in black & white.

An anthropologist looks at the new "crack cocaine" of high-tech gambling

A bold and timely collection that brings feminist theory and critical thinking to life through vital, approachable design methods and practices.

Attached: 1 image Astoundingly good book from @edyong209@mastodon.xyz - I really savoured this one. the title #AnImmenseWorld is not wrong - I wondered as I started it just how much you can write about how animals sense the world. It turns out you can write a lot and every single page glimmers with wonder, delight, new insights and knife sharp writing. I enjoyed his previous book very much too, but this is book of the year if not book of the decade territory. Simply superb. #summerReadingChallenge

This report seeks to build a coherent narrative about the roots of the polycrisis, the signs of its arrival and evolution, and why we should be thinking differently about the future.

Olivier Gloag - Oublier CamusÀ paraître en septembre chez La Fabrique pic.twitter.com/BCwA90CwYM— Florian Louis (@flr_louis) June 9, 2023

Traduction française d'Andreas Malm - Avis de tempêteNature et culture dans un monde qui se réchauffeÀ paraître en octobre chez La Fabrique pic.twitter.com/M1nkrfptSd— Florian Louis (@flr_louis) June 9, 2023

Master the art of user experience design through the 100 laws, guidelines, human biases, and general considerations in this comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia. Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, Universal Principles of UX pairs clear explanations of each concept with visual examples of the ideas appli

In this straight-talking guide to the real world of work, discover genuinely useful advice that will help you find the confidence to go for that promotion, quit your job, break into that industry, nail that pitch or climb over a creative brick wall. With 120 irreverent, unusual but always useful insights, this book wil

Le Black Marxism (1983) de Cedric J. Robinson est désormais disponible en français dans une traduction de Selim Nadi et Sophie Coudray publiée par les éditons Entremonde. pic.twitter.com/EY8m6tyaIB— Florian Louis (@flr_louis) June 4, 2023

Unstaging War, Confronting Conflict and Peace (English Edition) eBook : Fry, Tony: Amazon.de: Kindle Store

Writing Design Fiction: Relocating a City in Crisis (English Edition) eBook : Fry, Tony: Amazon.de: Kindle Store

Becoming Human by Design (English Edition) eBook : Fry, Tony: Amazon.de: Kindle Store

Remaking Cities: An Introduction to Urban Metrofitting (English Edition) eBook : Fry, Tony: Amazon.de: Kindle Store

Design in Crisis: New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices (English Edition) eBook : Fry, Tony, Nocek, Adam: Amazon.de: Kindle Store

Real-world leadership is very different from all that the media would have us believe. Forget the dashing swashbuckler, effective leadership is typically understated. It s the myriad small things that make the big things possible. In Do Lead, Les McKeown demolishes the myths that have paralysed leadership in our modern

The 4-day week is no longer just an idea. Following successful trials in countries as far apart as New Zealand and the United Kingdom (where nearly all companies involved opted to continue beyond the pilot), research now shows that a shorter workweek benefits both companies and employees, increasing productivity, wellb