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Small Cinemas of the Andes

New Aesthetics, Practices and Platforms

Edited by Diana Coryat, Christian León, Noah Zweig ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book examines the emergence of small cinemas of the Andes, covering digital peripheries in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. The volume critically assesses heterogeneous audiovisual practices and subaltern agents, elucidating existing tensions, contradictions and resistances with respect to established cinematic norms. The reason these small cinematic sectors are of interest is twofold: ... Read more

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This book examines the emergence of small cinemas of the Andes, covering digital peripheries in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. The volume critically assesses heterogeneous audiovisual practices and subaltern agents, elucidating existing tensions, contradictions and resistances with respect to established cinematic norms. The reason these small cinematic sectors are of interest is twofold:
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Awkward Intelligence

Where AI Goes Wrong, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do about It

by Katharina A. Zweig ...

Translated by Noah Harley ...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: An artificial intelligence expert reveals the good—and the bad—about AI decision making, exploring the basics of AI ethics and AI design.Before we know it, artificial intelligence (AI) will work its way into every corner of our lives, making decisions about, with, and for us. Is this a good thing? There’s a tendency to think that machines can be more “objective” than ... Read more

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: An artificial intelligence expert reveals the good—and the bad—about AI decision making, exploring the basics of AI ethics and AI design.Before we know it, artificial intelligence (AI) will work its way into every corner of our lives, making decisions about, with, and for us. Is this a good thing? There’s a tendency to think that machines can be more “objective” than
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Viva la historieta

Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

by Bruce Campbell ...

¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an economic accord that institutionalized the free ... Read more

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¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an economic accord that institutionalized the free
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Radical Technologies

The Design of Everyday Life

by Adam Greenfield ...

A “tremendously intelligent and stylish” guide to the new technologies that are transforming our everyday lives, in ways both good and bad (Guardian)Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with ... Read more

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A “tremendously intelligent and stylish” guide to the new technologies that are transforming our everyday lives, in ways both good and bad (Guardian)Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with
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Cosmopolitanisms

by Bruce Robbins, Paulo Lemos Horta, Kwame Anthony Appiah ...

An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world."Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of ... Read more

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An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world."Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of
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Singular and Plural

Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

by Kathryn A. Woolard ...

Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn ... Read more

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Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn
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Artificial intelligence And life in 2030

Report Of The 2015 Study Panel

by Stanford University ...

This is the ebook version of the report. PDF version is accessible on Stanford website.-Detailed "table of contents" was added-Footnotes are bi-directional hyperlinks-Reference links are clickable ... Read more

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This is the ebook version of the report. PDF version is accessible on Stanford website.-Detailed "table of contents" was added-Footnotes are bi-directional hyperlinks-Reference links are clickable
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Spanish National Cinema

by Nuria Triana-Toribio ...

Series series National Cinemas
This study examines the discourses of nationalism as they intersected or clashed with Spanish film production from its inception to the present. While the book addresses the discourses around filmmakers such as Almodóvar and Medem, whose work has achieved international recognition, Spanish National Cinema is particularly novel in its treatment of a whole range of popular cinema rarely touched on ... Read more

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This study examines the discourses of nationalism as they intersected or clashed with Spanish film production from its inception to the present. While the book addresses the discourses around filmmakers such as Almodóvar and Medem, whose work has achieved international recognition, Spanish National Cinema is particularly novel in its treatment of a whole range of popular cinema rarely touched on
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Delete

The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (New in Paper)

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger ...

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when. The ... Read more

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Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when. The
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Cumbia!

Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre

Edited by Pablo Vila, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste ...

Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes ... Read more

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Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes
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A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

by John Zerilli, John Danaher, James Maclaurin, Colin Gavaghan, Alistair Knott ...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR BEGINNERS: Get a concise, informative overview of AI ethics and policy—and how it could impact our society.Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so, how is it changing the game? How is it likely to affect us as customers, tenants, aspiring home ... Read more

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR BEGINNERS: Get a concise, informative overview of AI ethics and policy—and how it could impact our society.Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so, how is it changing the game? How is it likely to affect us as customers, tenants, aspiring home
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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger ...

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when. The ... Read more

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Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when. The
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