BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: Can be Profitably Ingored: The Systems View of the World

This paper considers some of the limitations and possibilities of computational models in the context of environmental inquiry, specifically exploring the modes of knowledge production that it mobilizes. Historic computational attempts to model, simulate and make predictions about environmental assemblages, both emerge from and reinforce a systems view on the world. The word eco-system itself stands as a reminder that the history of ecology is enmeshed with systems theory and presup-poses that species entanglements are operational or functional. More surreptitiously, a systematic view of the environment connotes it as bounded, knowable and made up of components operating in chains of cause and effect. This framing strongly invokes possibilities of manipulation and control and implicitly asks: what should an ecosystem be optimized for? This question is particularly relevant at a time of rapid climate change, mass extinction and, conveniently, an unprecedented surplus of computing.

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BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: Physics for Students: The World Of Physics

The Physics Teacher ◽

10.1119/1.2352185 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 224-224

Author(s):

R. Hulsizer ◽

D. Lazarus ◽

Richard A. Marble

Keyword(s):

The World ◽

Film Reviews

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Transitions in the World of Transportation: A Systems View

Perspectives on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) ◽

10.1007/0-387-23260-5_22 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 189-205

Keyword(s):

The World ◽

Systems View

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BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: A High Pressure World: The World of High Pressure

The Physics Teacher ◽

10.1119/1.2351470 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 217-218

Author(s):

John W. Stewart ◽

C. A. Swenson

Keyword(s):

High Pressure ◽

The World ◽

Film Reviews

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Convergence and the Rhetoric of Scientifilm

Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190949655.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 75-102

Author(s):

J. P. Telotte

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Film Industry ◽

The Self ◽

Popular Imagination ◽

Repeated Calls ◽

The World ◽

Sense Of Reality ◽

Different Dimensions ◽

Film Reviews ◽

Common Field

Abstract: Film, Francesco Casetti argues, provided a common “field of convergence for different dimensions” of the popular imagination in the early twentieth century. We can see evidence of the extent of that “convergence” in the sort of discourse that unfolded in various other internal features of the pulps. Editorials, readers’ letters, and film reviews converge to demonstrate a sense of enthusiasm about the ability of films to supplement the work of SF by visualizing or realizing the genre’s ideas for reshaping the world and the self. That enthusiasm would bring repeated calls for the film industry to produce more SF-themed films, even to adapt favorite stories from the pulps. But as reviews of SF films began to proliferate in the pulps, particularly in the late 1930s, they would increasingly attest to a frustration or dissatisfaction with the sense of reality that was being achieved by the SF film and point to a rift beginning between the films and the world of SF literature.

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BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: How to Get There from Here: Transportation in the World of the Future

The Physics Teacher ◽

10.1119/1.2352674 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 8 (7) ◽

pp. 414-415

Author(s):

Hal Hellman ◽

Robert B. Lillich

Keyword(s):

The World ◽

The Future ◽

Film Reviews

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World Systems, Cores, and Peripheries in Prehistoric Europe

European Journal of Archaeology ◽

10.1179/1461957113y.0000000032 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 378-400 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Anthony Harding

Keyword(s):

Systems Theory ◽

Bronze Age ◽

Systems Approach ◽

World Systems ◽

World Systems Theory ◽

Bottom Up ◽

Network Methods ◽

The World ◽

Systems View ◽

The Bronze Age

The paper reviews the rise and utility of World Systems Theory in archaeology, with particular reference to Europe and the Bronze Age. After a consideration of its origins in the 1970s and 1980s, the main aspects of the theory are discussed. The evidence that shows that the Bronze Age world was highly interconnected is presented, and the implications of a World Systems view of the period considered. In an attempt to work towards a new narrative of the European Bronze Age, a brief discussion of network methods is introduced, since these offer an alternative, ‘bottom-up’, approach to the period which, it is argued, is more appropriate to the data than the World Systems approach.

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