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  • Algorithmic Intimacy

    The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships

    by Anthony Elliott ...
    Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date.In Algorithmic Intimacy, Anthony Elliott examines the power of predictive algorithms in reshaping ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Algorithms of Anxiety

    Fear in the Digital Age

    by Anthony Elliott ...
    Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals, communities and organizations can at last take control of the future – anticipating, designing and commanding the future, possibly even with mathematical exactitude. Yet, paradoxically, algorithms have ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Making Sense of AI

    Our Algorithmic World

    by Anthony Elliott ...
    Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and cultural consequences?Tracing the changing fortunes of artificial intelligence, Elliott develops a systematic account of how ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Pebbled Friction: The Tribology of Curling Ice

    Granite, Water Droplets, and the Exact Microscopic Thermodynamics of the Roaring Game

    by Anthony Elliott ...
    Curling is often perceived as a slow, peculiar winter sport involving brooms and heavy stones. In reality, it is the most complex manipulation of friction and thermodynamics in all of athletics. A 40-pound solid granite stone cannot simply glide 150 feet across flat ice; it would grind to a halt within yards. The secret lies entirely in the specific tribology of the surface. This educational guide ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Anthony Elliott ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory is fully revised and updated to provide students, teachers and researchers with a comprehensive, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Contemporary Social Theory

    An Introduction

    by Anthony Elliott ...
    Now in its third edition, Anthony Elliott’s comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction continues to be the indispensable guide to social theory. Fully revised and updated, the book examines the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to posthumanism, and from feminism and post-structuralism to globalization theory and beyond.Classical debates in social theory are given ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory

    by Anthony Elliott, Charles Lemert ...
    In this comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digital revolution and beyond. Fully revised and updated, this second edition has been expanded to consider the most recent developments in social theory, including a new chapter on the digital revolution and the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI

    Edited by Anthony Elliott ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI is a landmark volume providing students and teachers with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the major topics and trends of research in the social sciences of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as surveying how the digital revolution – from supercomputers and social media to advanced automation and robotics – is transforming society, culture, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

    Edited by Anthony Elliott ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    In this comprehensive, accessible handbook, acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott brings together internationally distinguished and emergent scholars in the social sciences and humanities to review the major theoretical traditions, trends and trajectories in the hugely popular field of identity studies.The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies set new standards for reference works when first ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Social Theory Since Freud

    Traversing Social Imaginaries

    by Anthony Elliott ...
    In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Examining how pathbreaking theorists such as Adorno, Marcuse, Lacan and Lyotard have deployed psychoanalysis to politicise issues such as desire, sexuality, repression and identity, Elliott assesses the gains and losses arising from this appropriation of psychoanalysis in social ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Reinvention

    by Anthony Elliott ...
    Ours is the era of "reinvention". From psychotherapy to life coaching, from self-help manuals to cosmetic surgery and from corporate rebranding to urban redesign: the art of reinvention is inextricably interwoven with the lure of the next frontier, the breakthrough to the next boundary – especially boundaries of the self.In this new, updated edition of this remarkable book, Anthony Elliott ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Identity in Question

    Edited by Anthony Elliott, Paul du Gay ...
    "A spectacular collection of essays by the most noted theorists of identity. The book well frames the issues around identity that presently are defining living in the early 21st century … A must read."- Patricia Ticineto Clough, City University, New York"A wonderfully disparate and impressively distinguished set of authors to address the question of identity. The result is exciting and fruitful. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD