David Gugerli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1064710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Gugerli |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Gugerli |
| SIGNATURE | GUGERLI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8775-1584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Das Zeitalter der Konfigurationen, 1980 bis 2010. Ein Beitrag zur zeithistorischen Debatte
We argue that contemporary history cannot operate as a mere continuation of sociological analysis with the means of historical research. Nor should we try to frame the recent past as the dissolution of a conceptually unified past stumbling through a phase of murky transition into the abyss of the very present problems. While it might be helpful to think about the time between 1980 and 2010 as an ‘age of fracture’ (Daniel T. Rodgers), we stress th…
Diskussionsforum – Betriebssysteme und Computerfahndung
This paper argues that surveillance is a core function of digital computers and a basic operative principle of digital societies. This is tested by exploring the history of operating systems and the development of digital policing. Both surveillance built into the computer and surveillance executed by the computer reveal the shift towards a relational operative mode and a flexible control regime.We propose to follow computers “in action” and to c…
The Value of Risk
This book provides an overview of how today’s reinsurance industry developed. Until recently, reinsurers were only known to a small minority outside the community. Major disasters, especially those caused by natural catastrophes, have moved the industry into the spotlight. Yet, what is perceived today by a wider public still only represents a fraction of the industry, and the mechanisms of reinsurance to deal with global risk exposure are virtual…
Value of Risk
Expansion
In the wake international trade and with the help of emigration the new insurance concept spread globally. It initially met with open markets, especially in the British-dominated regions but also partly chose to and partly was forced to restrict itself to doing business mainly with expatriates. In the nineteenth century, other countries started to adopt the concept and Japan, in particular, soon developed a sophisticated market of its own. The sp…
The World as Database
In the early 1970s, conventional database management systems were challenged by relational database models. Relational search procedures, as proposed by Edgar F. Codd, offered both improved data independence and an enhanced combinatorial freedom for the user. At the same time, late modern concepts of an open text boosted a reader's interpretative independence, bringing to an end the heyday of hermeneutics. This politically significant change of t…
Formans sinnloser Kampf
Sputniks Resonanzen
Sociocultural Aspects of Technological Change
The Argument The impressive growth of the Swiss electricity supply industry in the late nineteenth cestury has usually been explained by Switzerland's abundant waterpower resouces, its well-equipped financial markets, and the mechanical skills of its Swiss workers and engineers. This article does not aim to deny the importance of these factors. Rather it seeks to explain how they developed synergetic effects and how they were knit together. The a…
Protestant Pastors in Late Eighteenth-Century Zurich
Protestant Pastors in Late Eighteenth-Century Zurich: Their Families and Society Stone has described the closed domesticated nuclear as a product of the rise of affective individualism in early modern times, specifically in the eighteenth century. It was a family organized around the principle of personal autonomy, and bound together by strong affective ties. Although the concept of family in the early eighteenth century was not based on the inti…
Sociocultural Aspects of Technological Change
The Argument The impressive growth of the Swiss electricity supply industry in the late nineteenth cestury has usually been explained by Switzerland's abundant waterpower resouces, its well-equipped financial markets, and the mechanical skills of its Swiss workers and engineers. This article does not aim to deny the importance of these factors. Rather it seeks to explain how they developed synergetic effects and how they were knit together. The a…
Protestant Pastors in Late Eighteenth-Century Zurich
Protestant Pastors in Late Eighteenth-Century Zurich: Their Families and Society Stone has described the closed domesticated nuclear as a product of the rise of affective individualism in early modern times, specifically in the eighteenth century. It was a family organized around the principle of personal autonomy, and bound together by strong affective ties. Although the concept of family in the early eighteenth century was not based on the inti…
Sociocultural Aspects of Technological Change
The Argument The impressive growth of the Swiss electricity supply industry in the late nineteenth cestury has usually been explained by Switzerland's abundant waterpower resouces, its well-equipped financial markets, and the mechanical skills of its Swiss workers and engineers. This article does not aim to deny the importance of these factors. Rather it seeks to explain how they developed synergetic effects and how they were knit together. The a…
Sputniks Resonanzen
The World as Database
In the early 1970s, conventional database management systems were challenged by relational database models. Relational search procedures, as proposed by Edgar F. Codd, offered both improved data independence and an enhanced combinatorial freedom for the user. At the same time, late modern concepts of an open text boosted a reader's interpretative independence, bringing to an end the heyday of hermeneutics. This politically significant change of t…
Formans sinnloser Kampf
The Value of Risk
This book provides an overview of how today’s reinsurance industry developed. Until recently, reinsurers were only known to a small minority outside the community. Major disasters, especially those caused by natural catastrophes, have moved the industry into the spotlight. Yet, what is perceived today by a wider public still only represents a fraction of the industry, and the mechanisms of reinsurance to deal with global risk exposure are virtual…
Value of Risk
Expansion
In the wake international trade and with the help of emigration the new insurance concept spread globally. It initially met with open markets, especially in the British-dominated regions but also partly chose to and partly was forced to restrict itself to doing business mainly with expatriates. In the nineteenth century, other countries started to adopt the concept and Japan, in particular, soon developed a sophisticated market of its own. The sp…
Diskussionsforum – Betriebssysteme und Computerfahndung
This paper argues that surveillance is a core function of digital computers and a basic operative principle of digital societies. This is tested by exploring the history of operating systems and the development of digital policing. Both surveillance built into the computer and surveillance executed by the computer reveal the shift towards a relational operative mode and a flexible control regime.We propose to follow computers “in action” and to c…
Das Zeitalter der Konfigurationen, 1980 bis 2010. Ein Beitrag zur zeithistorischen Debatte
We argue that contemporary history cannot operate as a mere continuation of sociological analysis with the means of historical research. Nor should we try to frame the recent past as the dissolution of a conceptually unified past stumbling through a phase of murky transition into the abyss of the very present problems. While it might be helpful to think about the time between 1980 and 2010 as an ‘age of fracture’ (Daniel T. Rodgers), we stress th…
Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Law (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Business (2 works)