899 research outputs found
O Ser da técnica conforme Martin Heidegger e Jacques Ellul
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em FilosofiaMartin Heidegger e Jacques Ellul sao geralmente considerados como pensadores que entenderam a tecnica moderna como uma entidade autonoma com relacao a vida humana, por mais que o homem seja o criador das tecnicas e artefatos. Heidegger parece ver na tecnica moderna uma sorte de destino a que o homem nao pode escapar. Ellul denuncia o #\fenomeno tecnico. como uma realidade que, uma vez instalada, escapa ao controle humano. Este trabalho analisa as ideias de ambos os pensadores e mostra que, no entanto, nao e facil atribuir a nenhum deles a crenca num determinismo tecnologico. Esperamos assim contribuir, nao apenas para a melhor compreensao desses autores, como tambem para saber ate que ponto somos donos da nossa vida ao vivermos num mundo quase totalmente tecnologico
Biotech and innovative breeding for the new Agri-Food System CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs)
No full text10th Asia-Pacific Biotech Congress, Bangkok Thailand. By P. Ellul, Senior Officer, CGIAR System Organization, 25-27 July 201
A Dynamic Size Distributed Program Image Cache for Wireless Sensor Networks
No full textReprogramming node software over-the-air is an essential requirement in many wireless sensor network applications due to the inaccessibility of the deployed sensor nodes. Transmitting whole software images consumes a high amount of energy in proportion to updates, especially when they are small in size. Incremental updates have addressed this; however introduce the potential of a sensor node becoming out of sync when it misses an update. In this paper we present a dynamic size distributed program image cache that provides increased efficiency in reprogramming out of sync nodes and multi-purpose wireless sensor networks
Field deployment of low power high performance nodes
No full textWhen deploying a sensor network into a harsh environment the need for high levels of fault tolerance and maximising the usage of available resources become extremely important. This has been achieved by implementing a highly fault tolerant system based on our Gumsense boards. These combine an ARM-based Linux system with an MSP430 for sensing and power-control. It also allows for dynamic schedule modifications based on the available power and can be synchronised with other systems without relying on direct communication, autonomous behaviour in case of total communications failure is also supported. A deployment on Vatnajökull, the largest ice-cap in Europe, has provided a longterm test for the systems and revealed strengths and weaknesses in the design decisions
Technocratic Consciousness in the Thought of Jacques Ellul
No full textDegree awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of AmericaThe dissertation is about Jacques Ellul, a French philosopher and theologian of the second half of the twentieth century. A critic of modernity, Ellul focuses on the ill effects of our obsession with technology, leading to its idolization. The technological development has created a new type of consciousness in the modern person, a technocratic consciousness, which Ellul calls "technique." Technique leads to spiritual degradation, replacing fundamental human values with a single value of efficiency. The main target of Ellul's criticism is the modern state, which is the fullest expression of technique's social aspect. It is through the state, pervasive and omnipresent, that technique controls the totality of human life, leading to complete and inescapable objectification, entrapment, and subjugation of the human being. A Christian theologian, Ellul hopes to solve this crisis by showing the way to personal spiritual growth and thereby helping restore our autonomy from technique. Although his solution is to the point, Ellul fails to demonstrate how such personal transformation translates into social change. Consequently, he lacks a true social theory. The dissertation offers a friendly critique of Ellul's theory by focusing on his dialectical method. Considering himself a dialectician, Ellul does not see that dialectic operates as an organizing principle of reality reflecting contradictions within his target social phenomena, such as the state, and thus revealing their potential for transformation. If he had seen that, he would not have limited his solution to personal spiritual growth but rather would have put it in a broader context of social change. Influenced by anarchism, Ellul is distrustful of conventional politics. His proposed social action is nonviolent direct action similar to the movements led by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. As a result of such action, desacralizing technique and the state, Ellul hopes to form an alternative social organization, resembling a mutualist federation envisioned by classical anarchism. His theory foresees environmental and anti-globalization movements as well as other popular movements for democratization and transfer of power from the state to civil society.Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-20T16:22:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Frédéric Rognon, Générations Ellul. Soixante héritiers de la pensée de Jacques Ellul, Genève, Labor et Fides, 2012
No full textRognon Frédéric. Frédéric Rognon, Générations Ellul. Soixante héritiers de la pensée de Jacques Ellul, Genève, Labor et Fides, 2012. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 92e année n°2, Avril-Juin 2012. p. 369
Greenman, J. P., Schuchardt, R. M., Toly, N. J., Understanding Jacques Ellul [Reseña]
No full textReseña de la obra Greenman, Jeffrey P., Schuchardt, Read M. And Toly, Noah J., Understanding Jacques Ellul, James Clarke, Cambridge, 2013, 174 pp
The chances of Revolution in Ellul
No full textThe author, based on the work Change of Revolution, analyzes what Jacques Ellul understand as structural and existential in a Marxist revolution. Analyzing the main experiences of this type, the French thinker finds its by technification of the society. However, it also notes the validity of Marx’s objectives of overcoming the proletariat and the alienation. Thus, a revolutionary and libertarian socialism would be possible under certain conditions. On an existential level, Ellul questions in each one of us the permanence of efficiency values, of power and the pursuit of money as the main purpose of life, offering an authentic and radical transformation before the seizure of power. Thus, the author develops the Ellulian concept of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ as a lever and fulcrum of Revolution.O autor, tendo como base a obra Mudar de Revolução, analisa, neste texto, em caráter preliminar, o que Jacques Ellul entende como sendo o estrutural e o existencial numa revolução marxista. Analisando as principais experiências desse tipo, o pensador francês constata o seu fracasso a partir da opção pela tecnicização da sociedade. Entretanto, constata também a validade dos objetivos de Marx de superação do proletariado e da alienação. Assim, um socialismo revolucionário e libertário seria possível dentro de determinadas condições. No plano existencial, Ellul questiona em cada um de nós o arraigo dos valores da eficácia, do poderio e da busca do dinheiro como principais finalidades da vida, propondo uma autêntica e radical transformação antes da tomada do poder. Dessa forma, o autor desenvolve o conceito elluliano da revelação de Deus em Jesus Cristo como alavanca e ponto de apoio da revolução.Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Departamento de Administração Pública, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Araraquara, Araraquara, Rodovia Araraquara-Jaú - Km 01, Campus, CEP 14800-901, SP, BrasilUniversidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Departamento de Administração Pública, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Araraquara, Araraquara, Rodovia Araraquara-Jaú - Km 01, Campus, CEP 14800-901, SP, Brasi
As possibilidades da Revolução em Ellul
No full textThe author, based on the work Change of Revolution, analyzes what Jacques Ellul understand as structural and existential in a Marxist revolution. Analyzing the main experiences of this type, the French thinker finds its by technification of the society. However, it also notes the validity of Marx’s objectives of overcoming the proletariat and the alienation. Thus, a revolutionary and libertarian socialism would be possible under certain conditions. On an existential level, Ellul questions in each one of us the permanence of efficiency values, of power and the pursuit of money as the main purpose of life, offering an authentic and radical transformation before the seizure of power. Thus, the author develops the Ellulian concept of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ as a lever and fulcrum of Revolution.O autor, tendo como base a obra Mudar de Revolução, analisa, neste texto, em caráter preliminar, o que Jacques Ellul entende como sendo o estrutural e o existencial numa revolução marxista. Analisando as principais experiências desse tipo, o pensador francês constata o seu fracasso a partir da opção pela tecnicização da sociedade. Entretanto, constata também a validade dos objetivos de Marx de superação do proletariado e da alienação. Assim, um socialismo revolucionário e libertário seria possível dentro de determinadas condições. No plano existencial, Ellul questiona em cada um de nós o arraigo dos valores da eficácia, do poderio e da busca do dinheiro como principais finalidades da vida, propondo uma autêntica e radical transformação antes da tomada do poder. Dessa forma, o autor desenvolve o conceito elluliano da revelação de Deus em Jesus Cristo como alavanca e ponto de apoio da revolução
Job_Centre_Overhearing_(1) – Supplemental material for Listening otherwise: attuning to the caring-chaos of a refugee and asylum drop-in service
No full textSupplemental material, Job_Centre_Overhearing_(1) for Listening otherwise: attuning to the caring-chaos of a refugee and asylum drop-in service by Ben Ellul-Knight in Cultural Geographies</p
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