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¡GUILLEMANIACOS! Un pequeño video sobre la Historia de la sociedad de la información de Armand Mattelart.

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The mobility of troops becomes the surest guarantee of success. A new branch of military science appears: logistics or 'the practical art of moving armies.'

"The development of the road, rail, and telegraphic networks changes the rules of conduct of war and the strategic ways of preparing for it. The mobility of troops becomes the surest guarantee of success. A new branch of military science appears: logistics or 'the practical art of moving armies.'" (198)

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This tower [Patrick Gedde's Outlook Tower] is a symbol. It is the architectural and museographic concretization of a pedagogic project for the social sciences.

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It was through its application to Copernican cosmology that the term 'system' would make its breakthrough at the end of the 17th C, and become common in the philosophical discourse of the 18th C.

(17) Footnote: R. Sasso, "Systeme et discours philosophique," in Recherches sure le XVIIe siecle (Paris: CNRS, 1978)

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First use of "Network" in Science

In 1628, William Harvey discovered a new understanding of blood circulation that overturned the previous understanding which dated back to Claude Galien in the 2nd C A.D. In the mid-17th C, some 40 years later, aided by microscopes - which appeared around 1615 - Marcello Malpighi, performed the first scientific study of an invertibrate, following which he "imported into science the word 'network', which until then had been reserved for lace making. Malpighi's 'network' was at first the 'reticulated matter of the skin,' only observable thanks to the new microoptics." (16)

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In this era, the secular inertia of dogma was challenged and people began to believe in the virtue of movement.

"Francis Bacon (1561-1626), established the principles of a science based on facts. His Novum Organum (1620) is a plea for a theory of scientific progress, and for progress itself through science - a science founded on experiments and observation and capable of inventing the means of 'making us better and more happy' and 'making human life gentler'." In this era, the secular inertia of dogma was challenged and people began to believe in the virtue of movement. The world came to be seen as perfectible." (15-16)

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The translation into mathematics of the movements of a horse will accompany a great change in military strategy: the gradual emergence of the idea of mobility and the mobilization of armies in the field.

Horses were war animals, machines for fighting. The study of their movement underpinned the discovery of the first motor. That is, horses were the first forms of mobility, which manifested first in military combat. (4)

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The advent of communication as a project and a realization of reason descended directly from the ideal of the perfectibility of human societies.

"A first constellation of ideas took shape around the communication routes and the link that united them to the formation of a national space. It's principal home was France in the 17th and 18th centuries, where the transport of people, goods, and messages and the formation of a unified domestic market both faltered on the poor development of canals and roads." (3)