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  • Algorithms of Anxiety

    Fear in the Digital Age

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • Concepts of the Self

    de Anthony Elliott ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    This new, updated edition provides a lively, lucid and compelling introduction to contemporary controversies over the self and self-identity in the social sciences and humanities. In an accessible and concise format, the book ranges from classical intellectual traditions of symbolic interactionism, psychoanalysis and Foucauldian theory, through feminism and postfeminism, to postmodernism and the ... Leer más

    $20.00 USD

  • Algorithmic Intimacy

    The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • La cultura dell'intelligenza artificiale

    Vita quotidiana e rivoluzione digitale

    de Anthony Elliott ...
    Traducido por Gianni Pannofino ...
    L'espressione "intelligenza artificiale" richiama di solito un immaginario scientifico (e fantascientifico) fatto di robot, supercomputer e tecnologie più o meno avanguardistiche; un mondo che ha un impatto massiccio su di noi, ma che resta sostanzialmente distaccato. Anthony Elliott ci invita invece a osservare l'intero fenomeno con altri occhi. L'intelligenza artificiale è una questione che oggi ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Pebbled Friction: The Tribology of Curling Ice

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Making the Cut

    How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming our Lives

    de Anthony Elliott ...
    From London to New York, Madrid to Melbourne, Singapore to Tehran, the demand for cosmetic surgery is soaring. Botox injections, collagen fillers, breast implants, microdermabrasion, mini face-lifts: extreme reinvention is all the rage. For better or worse, ours is the era of cosmetic surgical culture.In this captivating book, which draws upon research conducted in Europe, America and Australasia, ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Contemporary Social Theory

    An Introduction

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Making Sense of AI

    Our Algorithmic World

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • Social Theory Since Freud

    Traversing Social Imaginaries

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The Culture of AI

    Everyday Life and the Digital Revolution

    de Anthony Elliott ...
    In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong. The reason? The AI revolution is not so much about cyborgs and super-robots in the future, but rather massive changes in the here-and-now of everyday life.In The Culture of AI, Elliott explores how ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Identity Troubles

    An introduction

    de Anthony Elliott ...
    In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central to everyday life. In this fascinating book, Anthony Elliott shows how global transformations – the new electronic economy, digital worlds, biotechnologies and artificial intelligence - generatesa metamorphosis across the force-field of identities today ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Reinvention

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD