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  • Identity, Institutions and Governance in an AI World

    Transhuman Relations

    by Peter Bloom ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The 21st century is on the verge of a possible total economic and political revolution. Technological advances in robotics, computing and digital communications have the potential to completely transform how people live and work. Even more radically, humans will soon be interacting with artificial intelligence (A.I.) as a normal and essential part of their daily existence. What is needed now more ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • CEO Society

    The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Life

    by Carl Rhodes, Professor Peter Bloom ...
    Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have become the cultural icons of the 21st century. Figures like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are held up as role models who epitomise the modern pursuit of innovation, wealth and success. We now live, Bloom and Rhodes argue, in a 'CEO society' – a society where corporate leadership has become the model for transforming not just business, but all spheres of life, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Bad Faith in the Free Market

    The Radical Promise of Existential Freedom

    by Peter Bloom ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Innovatively combining existentialist philosophy with cutting edge post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives, this book boldly reconsiders market freedom. Bloom argues that present day capitalism has robbed us of our individual and collective ability to imagine and implement alternative and more progressive economic and social systems; it has deprived us of our radical freedom to choose ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Ethics of Neoliberalism

    The Business of Making Capitalism Moral

    by Peter Bloom ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Ethics
    The 21st century is the age of "neo-liberalism" – a time when the free market is spreading to all areas of economic, political and social life. Yet how is this changing our individual and collective ethics? Is capitalism also becoming our new morality? From the growing popular demand for corporate social responsibility to personal desire for "work-life balance" it would appear that non-market ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz

    Edited by Peter Bloom ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Still chiefly known as the extravagant composer of the Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz was an artist caught in the crossfire between the academic classicism of the French musical establishment and the romantic modernism of the Parisian musical scene. He was a thinker in an age that invented both the religion of art and the notion of the 'genius' who preached and practised it. This Companion ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Guerrilla Democracy

    Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century

    by Peter Bloom, Owain Smolović Jones, Jamie Woodcock ...
    Series series Organizations and Activism
    The liberating promise of big data and social media to create more responsive democracies and workplaces is overshadowed by a nightmare of election meddling, privacy invasion, fake news and an exploitative gig economy.Yet, while regressive forces spread disinformation and hate, 'guerrilla democrats' continue to foster hope and connection through digital technologies.This book offers an in-depth ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Uncanny Histories in Film and Media

    by Peter Bloom, Alenda Chang, Maria Corrigan, Naomi DeCelles, Hannah Goodwin, Priya Jaikumar, Masha Salazkina, Ellen C. Scott, Jasmine Nadua Trice, Cristina Venegas ...
    Series series Media Matters
    Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns that are often occluded in larger accounts of film and media. Prompted by fresh archival research and new conceptual approaches, the works included here probe the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis that reveals surprising connections and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Disruptive Democracy

    The Clash Between Techno-Populism and Techno-Democracy

    by Peter Bloom, Alessandro Sancino ...
    Series series SAGE Swifts
    Do new "smart" technologies such as AI, robotics, social media, and automation threaten to disrupt our society? Or does technological innovation hold the potential to transform our democracies and civic societies, creating ones that are more egalitarian and accountable?Disruptive Democracy explores these questions and examines how technology has the power to reshape our civic participation, our ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Beyond Power and Resistance

    Politics at the Radical Limits

    by Peter Bloom ...
    Has political resistance has lost its ability to confront political and economic power and achieve social change? Despite its best intentions, resistance has often become incorporated and neutered before it achieves its aims, as new forms of power absorb it and turn it towards their own ends.Since the Enlightenment, the opposing forces of power and resistance have framed our view of society and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Monitored

    Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data

    by Peter Bloom ...
    Our contemporary age is confronted by a profound contradiction: on the one hand, our lives as workers, consumers and citizens have become ever more monitored by new technologies. On the other, big business and finance become increasingly less regulated and controllable.What does this technocratic ideology and surveillance-heavy culture reveal about the deeper reality of modern society? Monitored ... Read more

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  • Capitalism Reloaded

    The Rise of the Authoritarian-Financial Complex

    by Peter Bloom ...
    Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. In Capitalism Reloaded, Peter Bloom charts a pivotal shift from the well-known military-industrial complex to a new ‘Authoritarian-Financial Complex’. Unlike its predecessor, which centred on armaments and defence, this emerging power structure fuses financial interests with advanced surveillance and digital control, turning social ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Creative Industries

    by John Hartley, Stuart Cunningham, Michael Keane, John Banks, Jason Potts, Terry Flew ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work.- Gauti Sigthorsson***, Greenwich University***"There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers ... Read more

    $67.49 USD