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Earth and Reveries of Will, by Gaston Bachelard— acclaimed as one of the most significant modern French thinkers.
From 1929 to 1962 he authored twenty-three books addressing his dual concerns, the philosophy of science and the analysis of the imagination of matter. The influence of his thought can be felt in all disciplines of the humanities - art, architecture, literature, language, poetics, philosophy, and depth psychology. His teaching career included posts at the College de Bar-sur-Aube, the University of Dijon, and from 1940 to 1962 the chair of history and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne. One of the amphitheaters of the Sorbonne is called “L’Amphi Gaston Bachelard,” an honor Bachelard shared with Descartes and Richelieu. He received the Grand Prix National Lettres in 1961-one of only three philosophers ever to have achieved this honor. The influence of his thought can be felt in all disciplines of the humanities-art, architecture, literature, poetics, psychology, philosophy, and language.
![Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, by William J. Mitchell: …”With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi—the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. …hand-held devices can be seen as extensions of the human body… transformation has, in turn, changed our relationship with our surroundings and with each other. …the “trial separation” of bits (the elementary unit of information) and atoms (the elementary unit of matter) is over. With increasing frequency, events in physical space reflect events in cyberspace, and vice versa; digital information can, for example, direct the movement of an aircraft or a robot arm. In Me++ Mitchell examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization, and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, and our uses of space and time. ….[indicative] of a dramatic new urban condition—that of ubiquitous, inescapable network inter-connectivity. He argues that a world governed less and less by boundaries and more and more by connections requires us to re-imagine and reconstruct our environment and to reconsider the ethical foundations of design, engineering, and planning practice.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp8d6pGlbz1qzvi5uo1_500.png)
Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, by William J. Mitchell: …”With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life.
William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi—the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. …hand-held devices can be seen as extensions of the human body… transformation has, in turn, changed our relationship with our surroundings and with each other.
…the “trial separation” of bits (the elementary unit of information) and atoms (the elementary unit of matter) is over. With increasing frequency, events in physical space reflect events in cyberspace, and vice versa; digital information can, for example, direct the movement of an aircraft or a robot arm.
In Me++ Mitchell examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization, and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, and our uses of space and time. ….[indicative] of a dramatic new urban condition—that of ubiquitous, inescapable network inter-connectivity.
He argues that a world governed less and less by boundaries and more and more by connections requires us to re-imagine and reconstruct our environment and to reconsider the ethical foundations of design, engineering, and planning practice.
Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement, by Gaston Bachelard.
