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  • Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction

    Living on the Edge of Burnout

    by Caroline Alphin ...
    Caroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction.Comprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is guided by four central themes: biopolitics, intensification, resilience, and accelerationism. The first chapters examine the political possibilities of cyberpunk as a genre of science fiction and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Future Spaces of Power

    The Cultural Politics of Digital and Outer Spaces

    Edited by Caroline Alphin, E. Leigh McKagen, Shelby E. Ward ...
    Series series Critical Futures: Creative Interventions and Revolutionary Possibilities
    Future Spaces of Power explores political, cultural, and societal narratives of future space(s) on a global scale to complicate the cultural logic of systemic futures that exist outside the boundaries of dominant political imaginaries.Contributors critically engage with alternative visions found in literature, film, and other cultural artifacts that encourage us to either live with or escape from ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Necrogeopolitics

    On Death and Death-Making in International Relations

    Edited by Caroline Alphin, François Debrix ...
    Series series Interventions
    Necrogeopolitics: On Death and Death-Making in International Relations brings together a diverse array of critical IR scholars, political theorists, critical security studies researchers, and critical geographers to provide a series of interventions on the topic of death and death-making in global politics.Contrary to most existing scholarship, this volume does not place the emphasis on ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • A World Without Work

    Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

    by Daniel Susskind ...
    A World Without Work: A Visionary Account of How AI Will Transform the World of WorkFrom mechanical looms to computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, but as Daniel Susskind demonstrates in A World Without Work, this time is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds ... Read more

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  • Whose Global Village?

    Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World

    by Ramesh Srinivasan ...
    This critical reassessment of digital proliferation calls for a new approach to technology that includes marginalized, non-western communities.In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, they are in fact ... Read more

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  • The Information Society

    Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Seven Ethics Against Capitalism

    Towards a Planetary Commons

    by Oli Mould ...
    Capitalism has become so dominant that it is difficult to ever imagine a world in which its injustices and inequalities are not violently present. In this ambitious and compelling book, Oli Mould turns his diagnosis of capitalism's perversions towards defining the new set of ethics we need to succeed in organizing a more just society.In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, capitalism has been ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Against Reduction

    Designing a Human Future with Machines

    by Noelani Arista, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vafa Ghazavi, Suzanne Kite ...
    Provocative, hopeful essays imagine a future that is not reduced to algorithms.What is human flourishing in an age of machine intelligence, when many claim that the world’s most complex problems can be reduced to narrow technical questions? Does more computing make us more intelligent, or simply more computationally powerful? We need not always resist reduction; our ability to simplify helps us ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • When Science Meets Power

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between the two is muddled and muddied.Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan here calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding authority of science, which sometimes helps politics but often ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Digital Labor

    The Internet as Playground and Factory

    Edited by Trebor Scholz ...
    Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates—leaving their "deep" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Transhumanism

    From Ancestors to Avatars

    by Jennifer Huberman ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    Transhumanists argue that science and technology will enable us to overcome our biological limitations, both mental and physical, and create a radically enhanced posthuman species and society. In this book, Jenny Huberman examines the values and visions animating the Transhumanist Movement in the United States today, whilst at the same time using the study of transhumanism as a way to introduce a ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism

    by Hamid R. Ekbia, Bonnie A. Nardi ...
    Series series Acting with Technology
    An exploration of a new division of labor between machines and humans, in which people provide value to the economy with little or no compensation.The computerization of the economy—and everyday life—has transformed the division of labor between humans and machines, shifting many people into work that is hidden, poorly compensated, or accepted as part of being a “user” of digital technology. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD