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  • The Revenge of the Real

    Politics for a Post-Pandemic World

    by Benjamin Bratton ...
    The future of politics after the pandemicCOVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In contrast, many Asian countries were able to make much more precise interventions. Everywhere, lockdown transformed everyday life, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Stack, 10th anniversary edition with new preface by the author

    On Software and Sovereignty

    by Benjamin H. Bratton ...
    Series series Software Studies
    **Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times.A tenth anniversary edition of the comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation, with a new preface from the author.**What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Stack

    On Software and Sovereignty

    by Benjamin H. Bratton ...
    Series series Software Studies
    A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Machine Decision Is Not Final

    China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Benjamin H. Bratton, Anna Greenspan, Amy Ireland, Bogna Konior ...
    An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection that decenters familiar narratives to provide a fresh perspective on what artificial intelligence is today, and what it might become.Historians, media theorists, science-fiction writers, philosophers, and artists from China and elsewhere reexamine the nation’s intense engagement with AI, moving beyond the clichés that still dominate contemporary ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Adversarial Design

    by Carl Disalvo ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products.In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice, which he terms “adversarial design,” that uses the means and forms of design to challenge beliefs, values, and what is ... Read more

    $21.99 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

  • Runaway Technology

    Can Law Keep Up?

    by Joshua A. T. Fairfield ...
    In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change. To listen to Silicon Valley barons, there's nothing any of us can do about it. In this riveting work, Joshua A. T. Fairfield calls their bluff. He provides a fresh look at law, at what it actually is, how it works ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Computer Games and the Social Imaginary

    by Graeme Kirkpatrick ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    In this compelling book, Graeme Kirkpatrick argues that computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital age.Tracing the origins of gaming to the revival of play in the 1960s counter culture, Computer Games and the Social Imaginary describes how the energies of that movement transformed computer technology from something ugly and machine-like into a world ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Exits to the Posthuman Future

    by Arthur Kroker ...
    Exits to the Posthuman Future is media theory for a global digital society which thrives, and sometimes perishes, at the intersection of technologies of speed, distant ethics and a pervasive cultural anxiety. Arthur Kroker’s incisive and insightful text presents the emerging pattern of a posthuman future: life at the tip of technologies of acceleration, drift and crash. Kroker links key concepts ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Critical Digital Studies

    A Reader, Second Edition

    Edited by Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker ...
    Since its initial publication, Critical Digital Studies has proven an indispensable guide to understanding digitally mediated culture. Bringing together the leading scholars in this growing field, internationally renowned scholars Arthur and Marilouise Kroker present an innovative and interdisciplinary survey of the relationship between humanity and technology. The reader offers a study of our ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Digital Humanism

    For a Humane Transformation of Democracy, Economy and Culture in the Digital Age

    by Julian Nida-Rümelin, Nathalie Weidenfeld ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a “digital humanism”. This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment with the way digitalization is being used in the world, particularly formulated by former heroes of Internet, social media and search engine companies, philosophical as well as ... Read more

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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

    $9.99 USD

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