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  • Global Perspectives on Animism and Autonomous Technologies

    Edited by Ralph M. Becker, Antônio Luz Costa, Andrew Ventimiglia ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume provides a timely analysis of the emerging phenomenon of autonomous technology, a topic of intense contemporary importance given the transformative potential and risks posed by rapidly developing AI systems. It utilizes a unique approach by focusing on the ways that these technologies can be understood via the lens of animism and ‘techno-animism,’ a term that denotes how society and ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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  • Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds

    Crisis and emergence in metamodernity

    by Jonathan Rowson, Layman Pascal ...
    Series Book 1 - Dispatches
    No doubt the 21st century will continue to surprise us, but the battle for the soul of humanity appears to be quickening. Do we have what it takes to save ourselves from ourselves? The internet has fundamentally changed our experience of shared life, for good and bad. The spiritual and ecological exhaustion of modernity is watched and discussed in a public realm mostly controlled by private ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Communicative AI

    A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models

    by Mark Coeckelbergh, David J. Gunkel ...
    Large Language Models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA, are not only the most disruptive and controversial technologies of our time, but also offer an unprecedented opportunity to examine human cognition and philosophically question the very nature of language, communication, and intelligence. What is consciousness? What is language? Are LLMs authors? Are LLMs the end of writing as ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Rights for Robots

    Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law

    by Joshua C. Gellers ...
    Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice on animal rights and the rights of nature to assess the status of robots.Through extensive philosophical and legal analyses, the book explores how rights can be applied to nonhuman entities. This task is completed by ... Read more

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  • The Machine Question

    Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics

    by David J. Gunkel ...
    An investigation into the assignment of moral responsibilities and rights to intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making.One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal question"—consideration of the moral status of nonhuman animals. In this book, David Gunkel takes up ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Anime Ecology

    A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media

    by Thomas Lamarre ...
    A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animationWith the release of author Thomas Lamarre’s field-defining study The Anime Machine, critics established Lamarre as a leading voice in the field of Japanese animation. He now returns with The Anime Ecology, broadening his insights to give a complete account of anime’s relationship to television while placing ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Media Life

    by Mark Deuze ...
    Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

    by Bogna Konior ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet investigates how intelligence–human and artificial–manifests under conditions of secrecy, hostility, and concealment.Departing from Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin’s dark forest theory, which frames the universe as a hostile terrain filled with predators where transparent communication is foolish and dangerous, the book portrays the internet as a ... Read more

    $10.00 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

  • Beyond Choices

    The Design of Ethical Gameplay

    by Miguel Sicart ...
    How computer games can be designed to create ethically relevant experiences for players.Today's blockbuster video games—and their never-ending sequels, sagas, and reboots—provide plenty of excitement in high-resolution but for the most part fail to engage a player's moral imagination. In Beyond Choices, Miguel Sicart calls for a new generation of video and computer games that are ethically ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Educating Artists for the Future

    Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture

    by Mel Alexenberg ...
    In Educating Artists for the Future, some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in higher education in art and design offer fresh directions for educating artists for a rapidly evolving post-digital future. Their creative redefinition of art at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific enquiry and new technologies shape aesthetic and cultural values offers groundbreaking guidelines for ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Person, Thing, Robot

    A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond

    by David J. Gunkel ...
    Why robots defy our existing moral and legal categories and how to revolutionize the way we think about them.Robots are a curious sort of thing. On the one hand, they are technological artifacts—and thus, things. On the other hand, they seem to have social presence, because they talk and interact with us, and simulate the capabilities commonly associated with personhood. In Person, Thing, Robot, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD