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False Positives author signed

2017réf. 5697Amsterdam: FW: Books 2017. First edition signed in Paris in 2017 by the author Dutch photographer and visual artist Esther Hovers. This photo book is about 'intelligent' surveillance systems; or facial recognition cameras. These are cameras that are said to be able to detect deviant behaviour within public spaces. The book - in leporello / accordion folded format - centres on the question of 'normal' behaviour. It aims to raise this question by basing the project on eight different "anomalies". These anomalies are signs in body language and movement that could indicate criminal intent. It is through these anomalies that the algorithms are built and cameras are able to detect deviant behaviour. The work consists of photographs and pattern drawings forming an analysis of different settings in and around the business district of Brussels. At the time this book was named Best of 2017 by Photobookstore Magazine and was shortlisted for the Aperture Paris Photobook Award 2018. In an as new condition. 48 pages photography in colour. 340 x 240 mm 13½ x 9½ inches. Conforms to OCLC Number:1325192902 Première édition signée à Paris en 2017 par l'auteure la photographe et artiste visuelle néerlandaise Esther Hovers. Cet ouvrage photographique traite des systèmes de surveillance « intelligents » c'est-à-dire des caméras de reconnaissance faciale. Il s'agit de caméras censées être capables de détecter les comportements déviants dans les espaces publics. Le livre présenté au format « leporello » pli accordéon s'articule autour de la question du comportement « normal ». Il vise à soulever cette question en s'appuyant sur huit « anomalies » différentes. Ces anomalies sont des signes dans le langage corporel et les mouvements qui pourraient indiquer une intention criminelle. C'est à partir de ces anomalies que les algorithmes sont élaborés et que les caméras sont capables de détecter les comportements déviants. L'ouvrage se compose de photographies et de dessins schématiques formant une analyse de différents lieux situés dans et autour du quartier des affaires de Bruxelles. À l'époque cet ouvrage a été désigné « Best of 2017 » par le magazine Photobookstore et a été sélectionné pour l'Aperture Paris Photobook Award 2018. En excellent état comme neuf. 48 pages photographies en couleur. 340 x 240 mm 13½ x 9½ pouces. Conforme au numéro OCLC : 1325192902 FW: Books unknown

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Knibbe, Kim EstherABAA

Faith in the Familiar: Religion Spirituality and Place in the South of the Netherlands

2013réf. 52953Leiden: Brill 2013. First edition. Octavo. viii 2 183 3pp. Indices and bibliography. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block. Faith in the familiar is an ethnography of religious change in the Netherlands discussing Catholicism and popular forms of New Age. It focuses on the location of religion in local life and how people relate to religious authority. OCLC Faith in the Familiar is an ethnography of religious change in the Netherlands a country that has moved from strongly pillarized to strongly secularist in the space of fifty years. This book shows how people look back on this but also how Catholic rituals continue to play a role in the reproduction of place. Furthermore it shows how forms of spiritualism and new age have become part of a pluralistic local religious landscape and are used to create new ways of relating to religious authority and to reshape personal relationships. Situating itself within general theories of religious change in Western Europe it offers a contribution to this discussion from an angle that is often neglected focusing on locality rather than on globalization; on what happens to ‘old’ religion rather than on new religious trends on popular forms of ‘spirituality’ rather than on middle class and highbrow spirituality. Publisher Contents: Acknowledgments; Chapter One Situating the Research; 1. Introduction; 2. Secularization Theory: Premises and Predictions; 3. Criticisms and Attempts to Redefine the Field; 4. Conceptualizing the Subject Matter; 5. Description of the Research; Chapter Two Moral Discourses in Dutch Catholicism: from Pillarization via Liberation to Polarization; 1. Introduction; 2. Catholic in Everything: Triumph and Moral Anxiety; 3. From Moralizing to Psychologizing; 4. The Local Church Versus Papal Power Play; 5. Catholicism in Limburg; 6. Concluding Remarks.; Chapter Three Narratives of the Past Progress and Polarization 1. Introduction; 2. Representations of the Past; 3. Changes; 4. Polarization; 5. Comparison of Past and Present; 6. Concluding Remarks; Chapter Four Religious Authority Ritual and the Familiar; 1. Introduction; 2. Rituals Around Death and Dying; 3. Becoming Modern; 4. Re-Signification of the Catholic Tradition; 5. Concluding Remarks; Chapter Five Practicing Spirituality; 1. Introduction; 2. Power and Knowledge; 3. Relationships and the Demands of Individualism; 4. Skeptical Positivism; 5. Spiritual Consumer Culture.; 6. Concluding Remarks Chapter Six Liberal Catholicism: The Burden of the Past and the Problem of the Present; 1. Introduction; 2. The Sacralization of Uncertainty; 3. The Burden of the Past; 4. The Problem of the Present; 5. Gossip and Stereotyping; 6. Concluding Remarks; Chapter Seven Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Subjects and Persons. Volume 143 in the Brill's series "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions. Brill unknown books