Pedro Peixoto Ferreira

• Abstract

  In this project, I aim to discuss the speech over technological Singularity, which is characterized by the enthusiasm for the overcoming of humankind by the machine. I intend to analyses a few excerpts written by Raymond Kurzweil, the leading author of this thought, searching to understand his theoretical basis. From this point, I will suggest others points of view over technological deve…

  End of humankind, machine's victory? questionings of technological singularity, BP.MS

• Abstract

  This project aims to investigate the use of blogs by Brazilian men and women who have migrated or are tempted to migrate to Canada through the government program of labor attraction, especially the Federal Skilled Worker Program. This migration is highlighted in the scenario of contemporary international displacements due to its specificity to articulate the intensive use of blogs interse…

  Technology and gender in immigration process to Canada, BP.DR

• Abstract

  This project proposes an investigation of the contemporary relations between capital and technicity in the genesis of micro-processors under free and proprietary licenses between 1997 and 2012. In contemporary capitalism, the microelectronics revolution influenced the emergence of new modes of production and management, new technical objects and new ways of working. In this context, techn…

  Contemporary forms of relationship between capital and technicity: study about the genesis of proprietary and free license micro-processors between 1997-2012, BP.MS

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