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  • Predicted Humans

    Emerging Technologies and the Burden of Sensemaking

    by Simona Chiodo ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect
    Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that predict our professional success (or failure) to biomarkers that predict how long (or short) our healthy (or unhealthy) life will be. Yet, much in Western culture, from scripture to mythology to philosophy, suggests that knowing one’s future may not be in the subject’s best ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Science of Valuations

    Natural Structures, Technological Infrastructures, Cultural Superstructures

    Edited by Salvatore Giuffrida, Maria Rosa Trovato, Paolo Rosato, Enrico Fattinnanzi, Alessandra Oppio, Simona Chiodo ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This volume collects the best papers presented at the 2019 Conference SIEV (Italian Society of Appraisal and Valuation) on the Science of Evaluation foundations, actuality, and prospects. The book consists of twenty-six papers and is organized into four parts: the first one collects reflections on the nature of the value judgement, on the truth of the evaluative statement, and on the authenticity ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Improving Technology Through Ethics

    Edited by Simona Chiodo, David Kaiser, Julie Shah, Paolo Volonté ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book deals with the ethics of technology and addresses specific ethical problems related to some emerging technologies, mainly in the field of computer science (from machine learning models to extracting value from data to human–robot interaction). The contributions are authored mainly by scholars in ICT and other engineering fields who reflect on ethical and societal issues emerging from ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Technology and Anarchy

    A Reading of Our Era

    by Simona Chiodo ...
    Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
    In Technology and Anarchy: A Reading of Our Era, Simona Chiodo argues that our technological era can be read as the most radical form of anarchism ever experienced. People are not only removing the role of the expert as a mediator, but also trying, for the first time in history, to replace the role of a transcendent god itself by creating, especially through information technology, a totally ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Technology and the Overturning of Human Autonomy

    by Simona Chiodo ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers an extensive historical, philosophical and ethical discussion on the role of autonomous technologies, and their influence on human identity. By connecting those different perspectives, and analysing some practical case studies, it guides readers to dissect the relationship between machine and human autonomy, and machine and human identity. It analyses how the relationship between ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Italian Philosophy of Technology

    Socio-Cultural, Legal, Scientific and Aesthetic Perspectives on Technology

    Edited by Simona Chiodo, Viola Schiaffonati ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This is the first volume about the Italian philosophy of technology written in English and including novel and translated contributions. The volume presents original research on emerging topics in the field, as well as an overview of the most distinguished Italian approaches to the philosophy of technology. While offering both historical and political perspectives and the contributions of the ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    Anticipation in the 21st Century

    Edited by Riel Miller ...
    People are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life.This book presents the results of significant research undertaken by UNESCO with a number of partners to detect and define the theory and practice ... Read more

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  • #Accelerate

    The Accelerationist Reader

    Edited by Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian ...
    An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy.Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, ... Read more

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  • Automatic Society, Volume 1

    The Future of Work

    Translated by Daniel Ross ...
    by Bernard Stiegler ...
    In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Non-Representational Theory

    Space, Politics, Affect

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • New Metropolitan Perspectives

    Knowledge Dynamics, Innovation-driven Policies Towards the Territories’ Attractiveness Volume 1

    Edited by Carmelina Bevilacqua, Francesco Calabrò, Lucia Della Spina ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020.Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic ... Read more

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  • The Interface Effect

    by Alexander R. Galloway ...
    Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western thought has long construed media as a grand choice between two kinds of interfaces. Following the optimistic path, media seamlessly ... Read more

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