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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A call to imagine a less deadly future, written in the shadow of genocide and "ferocious optimism."After Gaza, it is time to recognize that the attempt to humanize history has failed, and that there will not be a second try. It is time to recognize that the experiment called "civilization" has failed The abyss is wide open and we cannot help but see it. We must gaze into the abyss, we must gauge the breadth and depth of the abyss. We must draw a map of the abyss, while precipitously falling into it."Thinking Gaza" means recognizing the collapse of universal reason and democracy, the humanistic values that were the famedand fragilepromise of modernity. But it also means searching for ways to escape the grim future awaiting those born in this disenchanted century: this century that promises to be the last, in which thought has lost all political power and the survival instinct struggles to withstand the ferocity of techno-military extermination machines. To the generation born in the twilight of Western civilization, we owe this last act of thinking, so as to imagine the desertion of our barbaric present, along pathways that have yet to be illuminated.The latest essay by renowned Italian autonomist theorist Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Thinking Gaza is a reflection on the multivalent consequencespolitical, philosophical, civilizationalof the current genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Bearing sober witness to the conditions on the ground in the Occupied Territories, while tracking the "ferocious optimism" that has replaced Enlightenment ideals, this book is addressed not only to activists but also to pacifist philosophers, historians, and theologians. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A call to imagine a less deadly future, written in the shadow of genocide and "ferocious optimism."After Gaza, it is time to recognize that the attempt to humanize history has failed, and that there will not be a second try. It is time to recognize that the experiment called "civilization" has failed The abyss is wide open and we cannot help but see it. We must gaze into the abyss, we must gauge the breadth and depth of the abyss. We must draw a map of the abyss, while precipitously falling into it."Thinking Gaza" means recognizing the collapse of universal reason and democracy, the humanistic values that were the famedand fragilepromise of modernity. But it also means searching for ways to escape the grim future awaiting those born in this disenchanted century: this century that promises to be the last, in which thought has lost all political power and the survival instinct struggles to withstand the ferocity of techno-military extermination machines. To the generation born in the twilight of Western civilization, we owe this last act of thinking, so as to imagine the desertion of our barbaric present, along pathways that have yet to be illuminated.The latest essay by renowned Italian autonomist theorist Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Thinking Gaza is a reflection on the multivalent consequencespolitical, philosophical, civilizationalof the current genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Bearing sober witness to the conditions on the ground in the Occupied Territories, while tracking the "ferocious optimism" that has replaced Enlightenment ideals, this book is addressed not only to activists but also to pacifist philosophers, historians, and theologians. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A call to imagine a less deadly future, written in the shadow of genocide and "ferocious optimism."After Gaza, it is time to recognize that the attempt to humanize history has failed, and that there will not be a second try. It is time to recognize that the experiment called "civilization" has failed The abyss is wide open and we cannot help but see it. We must gaze into the abyss, we must gauge the breadth and depth of the abyss. We must draw a map of the abyss, while precipitously falling into it."Thinking Gaza" means recognizing the collapse of universal reason and democracy, the humanistic values that were the famedand fragilepromise of modernity. But it also means searching for ways to escape the grim future awaiting those born in this disenchanted century: this century that promises to be the last, in which thought has lost all political power and the survival instinct struggles to withstand the ferocity of techno-military extermination machines. To the generation born in the twilight of Western civilization, we owe this last act of thinking, so as to imagine the desertion of our barbaric present, along pathways that have yet to be illuminated.The latest essay by renowned Italian autonomist theorist Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Thinking Gaza is a reflection on the multivalent consequencespolitical, philosophical, civilizationalof the current genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Bearing sober witness to the conditions on the ground in the Occupied Territories, while tracking the "ferocious optimism" that has replaced Enlightenment ideals, this book is addressed not only to activists but also to pacifist philosophers, historians, and theologians.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -What cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is harmful.What exactly is cultural appropriation At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any borrowing of elements outside of one's own culture is cultural appropriation, and therefore, always wrong; at the other extreme, are those who argue that the history of human civilization just is cultural exchange, and therefore, never wrong. This book offers a clear and straightforward account of what cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is wrong.Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint define cultural appropriation as the non-consensual, knowing (or culpably ignorant) taking of something of cultural value, usually a symbol or a practice, to others. Alleged acts of cultural appropriation generate substantial contestation in public discourse. But the fact of contestation, over whether an act is in fact cultural appropriation, is not sufficient to mean that someone has done something wrong and thereby merits criticism. The authors show that there are particular conditionsincluding power imbalances and potential profit at the expense of the cultural groupunder which cultural appropriation is inarguably wrong, and therefore, worthy of criticism. 238 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -What cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is harmful.What exactly is cultural appropriation At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any borrowing of elements outside of one's own culture is cultural appropriation, and therefore, always wrong; at the other extreme, are those who argue that the history of human civilization just is cultural exchange, and therefore, never wrong. This book offers a clear and straightforward account of what cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is wrong.Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint define cultural appropriation as the non-consensual, knowing (or culpably ignorant) taking of something of cultural value, usually a symbol or a practice, to others. Alleged acts of cultural appropriation generate substantial contestation in public discourse. But the fact of contestation, over whether an act is in fact cultural appropriation, is not sufficient to mean that someone has done something wrong and thereby merits criticism. The authors show that there are particular conditionsincluding power imbalances and potential profit at the expense of the cultural groupunder which cultural appropriation is inarguably wrong, and therefore, worthy of criticism. 238 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A pioneering feminist adventure in an alternate worldbefore the concept of gender.Introduced by Lucy Sante, author of the acclaimed memoir of transition I Heard Her Call My Name, this pioneering 1909 feminist utopia is productively discombobulating. When Mary Hatherley, an intrepid British explorer, is kicked in the head by the camel she was riding through the Arabian desert, she finds herself transported to what seems to be an alternate version of Earth. Arriving in Armeria, she discovers a society in which the very concept of gender is unknown. Like Mary, the reader will become disoriented, but enjoyably so: By avoiding the use of gendered pronouns, the story's authorherself a gender-fluid activistchallenges our assumptions about gendered social paradigms. 342 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A pioneering feminist adventure in an alternate worldbefore the concept of gender.Introduced by Lucy Sante, author of the acclaimed memoir of transition I Heard Her Call My Name, this pioneering 1909 feminist utopia is productively discombobulating. When Mary Hatherley, an intrepid British explorer, is kicked in the head by the camel she was riding through the Arabian desert, she finds herself transported to what seems to be an alternate version of Earth. Arriving in Armeria, she discovers a society in which the very concept of gender is unknown. Like Mary, the reader will become disoriented, but enjoyably so: By avoiding the use of gendered pronouns, the story's authorherself a gender-fluid activistchallenges our assumptions about gendered social paradigms. 342 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A pioneering feminist adventure in an alternate worldbefore the concept of gender.Introduced by Lucy Sante, author of the acclaimed memoir of transition I Heard Her Call My Name, this pioneering 1909 feminist utopia is productively discombobulating. When Mary Hatherley, an intrepid British explorer, is kicked in the head by the camel she was riding through the Arabian desert, she finds herself transported to what seems to be an alternate version of Earth. Arriving in Armeria, she discovers a society in which the very concept of gender is unknown. Like Mary, the reader will become disoriented, but enjoyably so: By avoiding the use of gendered pronouns, the story's authorherself a gender-fluid activistchallenges our assumptions about gendered social paradigms.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -What cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is harmful.What exactly is cultural appropriation At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any borrowing of elements outside of one's own culture is cultural appropriation, and therefore, always wrong; at the other extreme, are those who argue that the history of human civilization just is cultural exchange, and therefore, never wrong. This book offers a clear and straightforward account of what cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is wrong.Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint define cultural appropriation as the non-consensual, knowing (or culpably ignorant) taking of something of cultural value, usually a symbol or a practice, to others. Alleged acts of cultural appropriation generate substantial contestation in public discourse. But the fact of contestation, over whether an act is in fact cultural appropriation, is not sufficient to mean that someone has done something wrong and thereby merits criticism. The authors show that there are particular conditionsincluding power imbalances and potential profit at the expense of the cultural groupunder which cultural appropriation is inarguably wrong, and therefore, worthy of criticism.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard ofand what it means.If you're injuring someone, you should stopand pay for the damage you've caused. Why does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what's at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they livewhich means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life.We are all cyborgs, relying on technologywhether it's Alexa, a pacemaker, or a titanium kneefor our quotidian existence. In our deep connection to a technological world, from robots to augmented and virtual realities, metaverses, and gaming, Candi Cann sees an opportunity, and good reason, to question our ideas about accessibility and inclusion. In augmented, she asks us to reconsider traditional notions of biology and death.Having relied on hearing aids from the age of four, Cann uses her experience to challenge readers to reconsider their assumptions about technologies and their role in lifeand death. She also focuses on what it means that most of us are living longer with the intervention of medical technologies, and how a better understanding of our relationship to technology will grant us greater control as we age. Drawing on her life experience in Asia, the author explains how cultural and religious views of machines and artificial intelligence vary globallyin particular, how a Western fear of machines contrasts with an animistic worldview that can see machines as conduits of care for others, embedding spiritual possibilities. 228 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life.We are all cyborgs, relying on technologywhether it's Alexa, a pacemaker, or a titanium kneefor our quotidian existence. In our deep connection to a technological world, from robots to augmented and virtual realities, metaverses, and gaming, Candi Cann sees an opportunity, and good reason, to question our ideas about accessibility and inclusion. In augmented, she asks us to reconsider traditional notions of biology and death.Having relied on hearing aids from the age of four, Cann uses her experience to challenge readers to reconsider their assumptions about technologies and their role in lifeand death. She also focuses on what it means that most of us are living longer with the intervention of medical technologies, and how a better understanding of our relationship to technology will grant us greater control as we age. Drawing on her life experience in Asia, the author explains how cultural and religious views of machines and artificial intelligence vary globallyin particular, how a Western fear of machines contrasts with an animistic worldview that can see machines as conduits of care for others, embedding spiritual possibilities. 228 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard ofand what it means.If you're injuring someone, you should stopand pay for the damage you've caused. Why does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what's at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they livewhich means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A timely, practical guide to AIits strengths, weaknesses, and real-world applicationsfor business professionals and policymakers.Artificial intelligence, or AI, can recognize a pattern from any set of data it is given, which is what makes it such an extraordinarily powerful tool. But because not all patterns are authentic or reliable, AI's pattern-finding superpower can lead to spurious patternsand to disastrous results for business and government entities that rely on them. Hence the conundrum at the heart of AI: its greatest strength can also be its greatest weakness. Targeting the businessperson who needs to know how to use AI profitably and responsibly, Caleb Briggs and Rex Briggs offer in this book a foundational understanding of AI that is easy to grasp yet thorough enough to be used effectively. 264 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A timely, practical guide to AIits strengths, weaknesses, and real-world applicationsfor business professionals and policymakers.Artificial intelligence, or AI, can recognize a pattern from any set of data it is given, which is what makes it such an extraordinarily powerful tool. But because not all patterns are authentic or reliable, AI's pattern-finding superpower can lead to spurious patternsand to disastrous results for business and government entities that rely on them. Hence the conundrum at the heart of AI: its greatest strength can also be its greatest weakness. Targeting the businessperson who needs to know how to use AI profitably and responsibly, Caleb Briggs and Rex Briggs offer in this book a foundational understanding of AI that is easy to grasp yet thorough enough to be used effectively. 264 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life.We are all cyborgs, relying on technologywhether it's Alexa, a pacemaker, or a titanium kneefor our quotidian existence. In our deep connection to a technological world, from robots to augmented and virtual realities, metaverses, and gaming, Candi Cann sees an opportunity, and good reason, to question our ideas about accessibility and inclusion. In augmented, she asks us to reconsider traditional notions of biology and death.Having relied on hearing aids from the age of four, Cann uses her experience to challenge readers to reconsider their assumptions about technologies and their role in lifeand death. She also focuses on what it means that most of us are living longer with the intervention of medical technologies, and how a better understanding of our relationship to technology will grant us greater control as we age. Drawing on her life experience in Asia, the author explains how cultural and religious views of machines and artificial intelligence vary globallyin particular, how a Western fear of machines contrasts with an animistic worldview that can see machines as conduits of care for others, embedding spiritual possibilities.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard ofand what it means.If you're injuring someone, you should stopand pay for the damage you've caused. Why does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what's at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they livewhich means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A timely, practical guide to AIits strengths, weaknesses, and real-world applicationsfor business professionals and policymakers.Artificial intelligence, or AI, can recognize a pattern from any set of data it is given, which is what makes it such an extraordinarily powerful tool. But because not all patterns are authentic or reliable, AI's pattern-finding superpower can lead to spurious patternsand to disastrous results for business and government entities that rely on them. Hence the conundrum at the heart of AI: its greatest strength can also be its greatest weakness. Targeting the businessperson who needs to know how to use AI profitably and responsibly, Caleb Briggs and Rex Briggs offer in this book a foundational understanding of AI that is easy to grasp yet thorough enough to be used effectively.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles that have defined the digital age and shaped the internet as we know it. From a seasoned leader in the field of digital privacy rights.Throughout her career, Cindy Cohn has been driven by a fundamental question: Can we still have private conversations if we live our lives online Privacy's Defender chronicles her thirty-year battle to protect our right to digital privacy and shows just how central this right is to all our other rights, including our ability to organize and make change in the world.Shattering the hypermasculine myth that our digital reality was solely the work of a handful of charismatic tech founders, the author weaves her own personal story with the history of Crypto Wars, FBI gag orders, and the post-9/11 surveillance state. She describes how she became a seasoned leader in the early digital rights movement, as well as how this work serendipitously helped her discover her birth parents and find her life partner. Along the way, she also details the development of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which she grew from a ragtag group of lawyers and hackers into one of the most powerful digital rights organizations in the world.Part memoir and part legal history for the general reader, the book is a compelling testament to just how hard-won the privacy rights we now enjoy as tech users are, but also how crucial these rights are in our efforts to combat authoritarianism, grow democracy, and strengthen other human rights. 248 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles that have defined the digital age and shaped the internet as we know it. From a seasoned leader in the field of digital privacy rights.Throughout her career, Cindy Cohn has been driven by a fundamental question: Can we still have private conversations if we live our lives online Privacy's Defender chronicles her thirty-year battle to protect our right to digital privacy and shows just how central this right is to all our other rights, including our ability to organize and make change in the world.Shattering the hypermasculine myth that our digital reality was solely the work of a handful of charismatic tech founders, the author weaves her own personal story with the history of Crypto Wars, FBI gag orders, and the post-9/11 surveillance state. She describes how she became a seasoned leader in the early digital rights movement, as well as how this work serendipitously helped her discover her birth parents and find her life partner. Along the way, she also details the development of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which she grew from a ragtag group of lawyers and hackers into one of the most powerful digital rights organizations in the world.Part memoir and part legal history for the general reader, the book is a compelling testament to just how hard-won the privacy rights we now enjoy as tech users are, but also how crucial these rights are in our efforts to combat authoritarianism, grow democracy, and strengthen other human rights. 248 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The follow-up volume to Atlas of Perfumed Botany continues the exploration of nature's most captivating scents, focusing on the botanical elements that shape the world of perfumery.This volume presents a selection of woods, leaves, flowers, fruits, gums, resins, seeds, and roots, each contributing unique aromatic qualities. From the deep, rich notes of rosewood and oud to the fresh, green scents of mint and rosemary, this book by Jean-Claude Ellena, the ''nose'' for Hermès for more than a decade, unveils the diverse origins of fragrance ingredients.Illustrated with vibrant images, this atlas serves as an essential guide for both fragrance enthusiasts and professionals, offering insights into the natural sources of perfumery's most treasured aromas. 160 pp. Englisch. Doering-Froger, Karin (illustratore). …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The follow-up volume to Atlas of Perfumed Botany continues the exploration of nature's most captivating scents, focusing on the botanical elements that shape the world of perfumery.This volume presents a selection of woods, leaves, flowers, fruits, gums, resins, seeds, and roots, each contributing unique aromatic qualities. From the deep, rich notes of rosewood and oud to the fresh, green scents of mint and rosemary, this book by Jean-Claude Ellena, the ''nose'' for Hermès for more than a decade, unveils the diverse origins of fragrance ingredients.Illustrated with vibrant images, this atlas serves as an essential guide for both fragrance enthusiasts and professionals, offering insights into the natural sources of perfumery's most treasured aromas. 160 pp. Englisch. Doering-Froger, Karin (illustratore). …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -How AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life.Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful general-purpose technology that is reshaping the modern economy, but misperceptions about AI stand in the way of harnessing it for the betterment of humanity. In Thrive, Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose counter the backlash by showcasing how AI is positively influencing the aspects of our daily lives that we care about most: our health and wellness, relationships, education, the workplace, and domestic life. In the process the authors help explain the underlying technology and give people the agency they need to shape the debate around how we should regulate AI to maximize its benefits and minimize its risks. 208 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -How AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life.Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful general-purpose technology that is reshaping the modern economy, but misperceptions about AI stand in the way of harnessing it for the betterment of humanity. In Thrive, Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose counter the backlash by showcasing how AI is positively influencing the aspects of our daily lives that we care about most: our health and wellness, relationships, education, the workplace, and domestic life. In the process the authors help explain the underlying technology and give people the agency they need to shape the debate around how we should regulate AI to maximize its benefits and minimize its risks. 208 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles that have defined the digital age and shaped the internet as we know it. From a seasoned leader in the field of digital privacy rights.Throughout her career, Cindy Cohn has been driven by a fundamental question: Can we still have private conversations if we live our lives online Privacy's Defender chronicles her thirty-year battle to protect our right to digital privacy and shows just how central this right is to all our other rights, including our ability to organize and make change in the world.Shattering the hypermasculine myth that our digital reality was solely the work of a handful of charismatic tech founders, the author weaves her own personal story with the history of Crypto Wars, FBI gag orders, and the post-9/11 surveillance state. She describes how she became a seasoned leader in the early digital rights movement, as well as how this work serendipitously helped her discover her birth parents and find her life partner. Along the way, she also details the development of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which she grew from a ragtag group of lawyers and hackers into one of the most powerful digital rights organizations in the world.Part memoir and part legal history for the general reader, the book is a compelling testament to just how hard-won the privacy rights we now enjoy as tech users are, but also how crucial these rights are in our efforts to combat authoritarianism, grow democracy, and strengthen other human rights. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The follow-up volume to Atlas of Perfumed Botany continues the exploration of nature's most captivating scents, focusing on the botanical elements that shape the world of perfumery.This volume presents a selection of woods, leaves, flowers, fruits, gums, resins, seeds, and roots, each contributing unique aromatic qualities. From the deep, rich notes of rosewood and oud to the fresh, green scents of mint and rosemary, this book by Jean-Claude Ellena, the ''nose'' for Hermès for more than a decade, unveils the diverse origins of fragrance ingredients.Illustrated with vibrant images, this atlas serves as an essential guide for both fragrance enthusiasts and professionals, offering insights into the natural sources of perfumery's most treasured aromas. Doering-Froger, Karin (illustratore). …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A call to imagine a less deadly future, written in the shadow of genocide and "ferocious optimism."After Gaza, it is time to recognize that the attempt to humanize history has failed, and that there will not be a second try. It is time to recognize that the experiment called "civilization" has failed The abyss is wide open and we cannot help but see it. We must gaze into the abyss, we must gauge the breadth and depth of the abyss. We must draw a map of the abyss, while precipitously falling into it."Thinking Gaza" means recognizing the collapse of universal reason and democracy, the humanistic values that were the famedand fragilepromise of modernity. But it also means searching for ways to escape the grim future awaiting those born in this disenchanted century: this century that promises to be the last, in which thought has lost all political power and the survival instinct struggles to withstand the ferocity of techno-military extermination machines. To the generation born in the twilight of Western civilization, we owe this last act of thinking, so as to imagine the desertion of our barbaric present, along pathways that have yet to be illuminated.The latest essay by renowned Italian autonomist theorist Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Thinking Gaza is a reflection on the multivalent consequencespolitical, philosophical, civilizationalof the current genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Bearing sober witness to the conditions on the ground in the Occupied Territories, while tracking the "ferocious optimism" that has replaced Enlightenment ideals, this book is addressed not only to activists but also to pacifist philosophers, historians, and theologians.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -How AI can positively impact so many aspects of our daily lives, from health and wellness to work, education, and home life.Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful general-purpose technology that is reshaping the modern economy, but misperceptions about AI stand in the way of harnessing it for the betterment of humanity. In Thrive, Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose counter the backlash by showcasing how AI is positively influencing the aspects of our daily lives that we care about most: our health and wellness, relationships, education, the workplace, and domestic life. In the process the authors help explain the underlying technology and give people the agency they need to shape the debate around how we should regulate AI to maximize its benefits and minimize its risks.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times. Based on practical experiments, Unlearning with Translation posits the act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times. Written by French curator, writer, editor, and self-taught translatress Virginie Bobin, the essay revisits a series of workshops, exhibitions, and other collective activities that took translation as both subject and method to unsettle entrenched conceptions of language, identity, and belonging. In particular, the ambiguous notion of 'untranslatability' is used as a lens through which to examine the power relations at play in those institutional, economic, and political contexts inhabited by art workers. Alongside collaborations with artists including Mercedes Azpilicueta, Serena Lee, and Mounira Al Solh, Bobin's reflections are grounded in her experience co-founding and facilitating the editorial and curatorial platform Qalqalah ?????, which relies on translation as a tool for the production and publication of situated knowledge in three languages--French, Arabic, and English. Informed by feminist genealogies and methodologies throughout, the book maintains that collective labor and relations are key aspects of any critical practice, as exemplified in the concluding correspondence with Andrea Ancira.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is harmful.What exactly is cultural appropriation At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any borrowing of elements outside of one's own culture is cultural appropriation, and therefore, always wrong; at the other extreme, are those who argue that the history of human civilization just is cultural exchange, and therefore, never wrong. This book offers a clear and straightforward account of what cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is wrong.Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint define cultural appropriation as the non-consensual, knowing (or culpably ignorant) taking of something of cultural value, usually a symbol or a practice, to others. Alleged acts of cultural appropriation generate substantial contestation in public discourse. But the fact of contestation, over whether an act is in fact cultural appropriation, is not sufficient to mean that someone has done something wrong and thereby merits criticism. The authors show that there are particular conditionsincluding power imbalances and potential profit at the expense of the cultural groupunder which cultural appropriation is inarguably wrong, and therefore, worthy of criticism.…