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  • Communicative AI

    A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models

    by Mark Coeckelbergh, David J. Gunkel ...
    Large Language Models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA, are not only the most disruptive and controversial technologies of our time, but also offer an unprecedented opportunity to examine human cognition and philosophically question the very nature of language, communication, and intelligence. What is consciousness? What is language? Are LLMs authors? Are LLMs the end of writing as ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Legends of Genesis

    by Hermann Gunkel ...
    ARE the narratives of Genesis history or legend? For the modern historian this is no longer an open question; nevertheless it is important to get a clear notion of the bases of this modern position.The writing of history is not an innate endowment of the human mind; it arose in the course of human history and at a definite stage of development. Uncivilised races do not write history; they are ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Futures and Fictions

    Edited by Simon O'Sullivan, Henriette Gunkell, Ayesha Hameed ...
    Futures and Fictions is a book of essays and conversations that explore possibilities for a different ‘political imaginary’ or, more simply, the imagining and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of our neoliberal present.In particular, the book contributes to prescient discussions around decolonization, post-capitalism and new kinds of social ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Žižek Studies

    The Greatest Hits (So Far)

    Edited by David J. Gunkel, Paul A. Taylor ...
    Series Book 1 - Žižek Studies
    Žižek Studies: The Greatest Hits (So Far) assembles and presents the best work published in the field of Žižek Studies over the last ten years, providing teachers, students, and researchers with a carefully curated volume of leading-edge scholarship addressing the unique and sometimes eclectic work of Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek. The chapters included in this collection ... Read more

    $117.99 USD

  • Gaming the System

    Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds

    by David J. Gunkel ...
    Series series Digital Game Studies
    Gaming the System takes philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower and into the virtual worlds of video games. In this book, author David J. Gunkel explores how philosophical traditions—put forth by noted thinkers such as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, and Žižek—can help us explore and conceptualize recent developments in video games, game studies, and virtual worlds. Furthermore, Gunkel ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Gaze Regimes

    Film and feminisms in Africa

    Edited by Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann, Max Annas, Beti Ellerson, Henriette Gunkel ...
    Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Deconstruction

    by David J. Gunkel ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    An accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century.This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a clear and concise introduction to a topic often considered difficult and abstruse: deconstruction. David Gunkel sorts out the concept, terminology, and practices of deconstruction, not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Changing Face of Alterity

    Communication, Technology, and Other Subjects

    Edited by David J. Gunkel, Ciro Marcondes Filho, Dieter Mersch ...
    Series series Media Philosophy
    The figure of the 'other' is fundamental to the concept of communication. Online or offline, communication, which is commonly defined as the act of sending or imparting information to others, is only possible in the face of others. In fact, the reason we communicate is to interact with others—to talk to another, to share our thoughts and insights with them, or to respond to their needs and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Minoan Archaeology

    Perspectives for the 21st Century

    Edited by Sarah Cappel, Ute Günkel-Maschek, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos ...
    Series series AEGIS
    More than 100 years ago Sir Arthur Evans' spade made the first cut into the earth above the now well-known Palace at Knossos. His research at the Kephala hill as well as contemporary fieldwork at further sites on Crete saw the birth of a new discipline: Minoan Archaeology. Since these beginnings in the first decades of the 20th century, the investigation of Bronze Age Crete has experienced ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Minoan Realities

    Approaches to Images, Architecture, and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age

    Edited by Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Ute Günkel-Maschek ...
    Series series AEGIS
    What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each other? These and other crucial issues on the social significance of imagery and built structures in Neopalatial Crete were the subject of a workshop which took place on November 16th, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Creature of Dark and Light

    by Hans Günkel ...
    A city at night is full of witnesses.Most choose not to see.In the concrete canyons after dark, violence moves unseen-until something older and more deliberate begins to hunt it.When predators strike, they vanish.When victims survive, they do not talk.When bodies are found, they are arranged with purpose.Told through shifting points of view-witnesses on a balcony, a woman in an alley, detectives, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Legends of Genesis

    by Hermann Gunkel ...
    "The Legends of Genesis," Hermann Gunkel applies his expertise in literary analysis to the narratives found in the book of Genesis in the Bible. Gunkel examines the stories from a perspective that considers their oral and literary origins, their cultural contexts, and the ways they were shaped and transmitted over time.Key features of "The Legends of Genesis" include:Form Criticism: Gunkel is ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus