LIBROS DEL AUTOR: nox vale

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  • Data Centers
    Nox Vale
    In an era where artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and digital infrastructure power everything from global finance to everyday conversations, one physical reality remains hidden in plain sight: the vast network of data centers that makes modern civilization possible.This definitive, authoritative volume traces the complete story-from ENIAC’s vacuum tubes and the rise of ...
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    15,50 €

  • KOWLOON WALLED CITY
    Nox Vale
    In the heart of Hong Kong, for nearly a century, a six-and-a-half-acre anomaly existed where two empires refused to govern - and a city built itself anyway.Kowloon Walled City began as a forgotten Qing fort, became a jurisdictional no-man’s-land after the Opium Wars, and evolved into one of the densest human settlements ever recorded: a vertical labyrinth of 350+ buildings, up ...
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    13,36 €

  • THE FEW AND THE MANY
    Nox Vale
    THE FEW AND THE MANYOn the Mechanics of ChangeNox ValeBook DescriptionWhy do world-changing ideas begin with a handful of outsiders, then suddenly reshape everything? From Martin Luther’s theses racing across Europe on newly invented printing presses, to Florentine merchants quietly inventing modern finance, the Copernican revolution that took over a century to win, Picasso’s f...
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    13,38 €

  • Below Replacement
    Nox Vale
    What if the greatest challenge facing modern civilization isn’t war, climate, or technology-but the quiet decision, repeated in millions of households, not to have children?In Below Replacement, Nox Vale delivers a sweeping, unflinching examination of global fertility collapse. From Seoul’s record-low 0.72 births per woman to Japan’s aging society, China’s engineered demographi...
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    16,54 €

  • The Nihilist’s Manifesto
    Nox Vale
    In a world drowning in comforting illusions, self-help optimism, and recycled spiritual promises, The Nihilist’s Manifesto delivers a clear-eyed, unflinching assessment of reality: the universe has no purpose, no moral arc, and no interest in human concerns.Stripped of optimism, spirituality, and moral consolation, this expanded edition confronts the void directly and asks the ...
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    11,74 €

  • UMWELT
    Nox Vale
    What if the world you experience is not the world, but your world-one of countless complete, coherent realities constructed by every living thing?In UMWELT, Nox Vale delivers a masterful exploration of Jakob von Uexküll’s revolutionary concept of the Umwelt-the species-specific perceptual world that each organism inhabits as a fully realized, self-contained reality rather than ...
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    16,54 €

  • Gradient Failures
    Nox Vale
    The catastrophe is not the explosion, but the implosion. We have been watching the wrong horizon.In Gradient Failures, philosopher Nox Vale argues that our standard menu of AI futures-the robot uprisings, the mass unemployment, the total surveillance state-is too legible to be useful. These scenarios assume a clear agent and a clear victim, but the most fundamental risks of mac...
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    13,41 €

  • The Outside That Thinks
    Nox Vale
    This is not a conventional philosophical treatise. It is a series of rigorous incursions into territory where systematic ontology itself comes under interrogation. Beginning with the ancestral rift-events like the Cambrian explosion that occurred without any observer-Vale explores how reality operated for billions of years independently of minds, then moves through hostile obje...
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    11,90 €

  • The Explosion Condition
    Nox Vale
    What happens when a system can no longer contain what it generates? In formal logic, a single contradiction detonates into arbitrary conclusions (the principle of explosion). In intellectual history, paradigms rupture under accumulated anomalies, releasing new conceptual landscapes. In existential experience, the self-a fragile project of relating to itself-breaks down in despa...
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    17,98 €

  • Old Night
    Nox Vale
    In Old Night, Nox Vale delivers a brilliant, haunting meditation on the primordial darkness that precedes, surrounds, and ultimately outlasts every form of order-cosmic, theological, political, psychological, and digital. Drawing on Milton’s Paradise Lost, Blake’s prophetic inversions, Nietzsche’s abyss, Lovecraft’s cosmicism, Heidegger’s concealment, and the strange aesthetics...
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    22,58 €

  • Kintsugi
    Nox Vale
    In a world obsessed with flawless surfaces, seamless narratives, and fresh starts, Kintsugi: The Aesthetics of Ruin offers a profound counter-vision. Drawing on the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer dusted in gold, silver, or platinum, Nox Vale explores how visible repair-making the fracture beautiful and honest-reveals deeper truths about value, ti...
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    13,37 €

  • Hikikomori
    Nox Vale
    What This Book Is Hikikomori: The Architecture of Withdrawal by Nox Vale is a short, immersive nonfiction work that explores extreme social withdrawal as both a psychological condition and a signal from modern civilization. It moves through: The lived reality of isolationThe cultural machinery that produces itThe strange inner world that replaces ordinary life It reads somewhe...
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    10,40 €