Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first …
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds …
S Segall - Health, Luck, and Justice, 2009 - degruyter.com
" Luck egalitarianism"--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's …
An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children's literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that …
L Grinin, A Grinin, A Korotayev - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2020 - Elsevier
The authors quantitatively analyse the long-term dynamics of technological progress from 40,000 BCE and offer projections through the 22nd century. We provide one method to …
Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines or cyberspace and live forever, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea, affecting …
Preparing to Teach Writing, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive survey of theories, research, and methods associated with teaching composition successfully at the middle, secondary …
Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC- based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance …
Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. Global communications, mobile interfaces and Internet cultures are re-configuring our everyday lives and …