Mit press sep 2026 (46 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How a unique form of working together has builtand is critical to sustainour age of information.Peer production describes a unique form of global collaboration that is responsible for creating some of the most vital parts of the internet. Information ecosystem powerhouses like Wikipedia and the Linux operating system were founded on principles of open cooperation, and only exist today due to the contributions of thousands, and in some cases, millions of people. In Peer Production, Benjamin Mako Hill, Christian Pentzold, and Aaron Shaw describe the central role that peer production plays in today's information environment, and how it is a much broader phenomenon than the handful of famous projects that are now household names.The book offers three core ideas: peer production functions as a critical mode of collaborative knowledge production; represents a novel type of social collaboration; and has unique advantages over previous forms of collaboration. The authors show that peer production is not just the foundation of the internet as we know it, but also the engine driving the global digital economy to generative AI. Finally, the book also charts the uncertain future of peer production as it confronts new threats and a changing digital landscape.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A disorienting portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta.On September 11, 2001, Mohamed Atta piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Two years before the explosion, Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East. Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek's novel ATTA offers a psychedelic biography that circles around one question: What if the ideological roots of 9/11 were as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism Following the development of a socially awkward boy into one of history's great villains, Kobek dissects our assumptions about the root causes of stochastic violence. Are all of us, perpetrators and victims alike, seeking an explanation that is not there Presented in a new edition with an introduction by Alan Moore, ATTAreads less like a novel of its moment and more like an autopsy performed on our century of fear.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How to fix the tech we depend on to empower, rather than endanger, the people who use it. From an award-winning pioneer in data infrastructure and leader in tech policy, lauded by the Library of Congress, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Newsweek.Technology powers our world. But we often give it the upper hand, treating tech solutions as right by default and accepting online risk as the price we have to pay. Rampant security breaches, unwanted surveillance, predators, and misinformation are just a normal part of cyberspace. But what if tech was designed and managed to empower and protect the people who use it In Better Tech, Francine Berman explores this question and argues that for society to advance and humanity to thrive, technology must put people first.Berman focuses on the riskiest and most essential technologiessocial media, AI chatbots, search enginesall of which serve as digital critical infrastructure. She argues that the risk-mitigation strategies for critical infrastructure like roads, bridges, food systems, and the electrical grid can also be used for cyberspace because we should be able to expect that our technology is similarly safe, dependable, and trustworthy. Better Tech goes beyond identifying the problems of technology and provides an actionable playbook of responsible design, development, use, and regulatory strategies that can be used by everyone from policymakers to students and general readers to reduce technology's risks and advance the public good.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunitiesand how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore the many unpredictable, and often surprising, ways in which data surveillance, AI, and the constant presence of algorithms impact our culture and society in the age of global networks. The authors build on this basic premise: no matter what form data takes, and what purpose we think it's being used for, data will always have a secret life. How this data will be used, by other people in other times and places, has profound implications for every aspect of our livesfrom our intimate relationships to our professional lives to our political systems.With the secret uses of data in mind, Sinnreich and Gilbert interview dozens of experts to explore a broad range of scenarios and contextsfrom the playful to the profound to the problematic. Unlike most books about data and society that focus on the short-term effects of our immense data usage, The Secret Life of Data focuses primarily on the long-term consequences of humanity's recent rush toward digitizing, storing, and analyzing every piece of data about ourselves and the world we live in. The authors advocate for "slow fixes" regarding our relationship to data, such as creating new laws and regulations, ethics and aesthetics, and models of production for our datafied society.Cutting through the hype and hopelessness that so often inform discussions of data and society, The Secret Life of Data clearly and straightforwardly demonstrates how readers can play an active part in shaping how digital technology influences their lives and the world at large.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social changeand the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The dilemma is that there is no way to make structural change without individual people making differentmore structure-facingdecisions. In Somebody Should Do Something, Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly show us how we can connect our personal choices to structural change and why individual choices matter, though not in the way people usually think.The authors paint a new picture of how social change happens, arguing that our most powerful personal choices are those that springboard us into working together with otherswarehouse worker Chris Smalls's unionization at Amazon is one powerful example. Taking inspiration from the writer Bill McKibben, they stress how one "important thing an individual can do is be somewhat less of an individual."Organized into three main parts, the book first diagnoses the problem of "either/or" thinking about social change, which stems from the false choice of making better personal choices or changing the system. Then it offers a different way to think about social change, anchored in a new picture of human nature emerging across the social sciences. Finally, the authors explore ways of putting this picture into practice. Neither a how-to manual nor an activist's guide, Somebody Should Do Something pairs stories with science (plus some jokes) to help readers recognize their own power, turning resignation about climate change and racial injustice into actions that transform the world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A story of growing toward motherhood via chosen family, sickness, literature, and nature. When Amra Brooks' parents split, so did her life--half lived with her queer, punk, addict dad in Los Angeles, and half with her struggling mom in Santa Cruz. With a poetic tone and an eye for rough beauty, Mother is a Place details one girl's dogged search for safety and care, a pursuit that brings her from idyllic literary studies to nannying for an iconic, out-of-control rock star, from her mysteriously collapsing body to the defiant tenderness of motherhood. Says Girlhood author Melissa Febos, Mother Is a Place is 'a beautiful and finely told story of becoming, this memoir is both map and guide--to bearing what we are given, the path to home, and all that is possible to build ourselves.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them.The human brain hasn't changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of the Screen Age. That's why, according to neurologist Richard Cytowicwho, Oliver Sacks observed, "changed the way we think of the human brain"our brains are so poorly equipped to resist the incursions of Big Tech: They are programmed for the wildly different needs of a prehistoric world. In Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age, Cytowic explains exactly how this programming worksfrom the brain's point of view. What he reveals in this book shows why we are easily addicted to screen devices; why young, developing brains are particularly vulnerable; why we need silence; and what we can do to push back.In the engaging storytelling style of his popular TED Talk, Cytowic draws an easily comprehensible picture of the Stone Age brain's workingsthe function of neurotransmitters like dopamine in basic instincts for survival such as desire and reward; the role of comparison in emotion, and emotion in competition; and, most significantly, the orienting reflex, one of the unconscious circuits that automatically focus, shift, and sustain attention. Given this picture, the nature of our susceptibility to digital devices becomes clear, along with the possibility of how to break their spell.Full of practical actions that we can start taking right away, Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age offers compelling evidence that we can change the way we use technology, resist its addictive power over us, and take back the control we have lost.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Poems and essays by the late revolutionary geographer.Leijia Hanrahan (19872022) was a revolutionary, geographer, essayist and poet. This collection of poems and essays, a sequence of places lived and traversed, of avenues and cartographies, traces the human geography of lives enabled, contorted, limited or destroyed by capital. In lucid prose and luminous verse, Hanrahan writes of cities, bodies and movement through urban space and across distant borders. Daring, vulnerable and irreverent, she is an impeccable guide through landscapes beautiful and terrible, both real and imagined.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The true, inspiring story of the new parents who spearheaded an unlikely climate victory. From the rising climate advocate named to the Time100 Next list, for political junkies and anyone who cares about the environment.They were perhaps an unlikely trio: the professor Leah Stokes, the policy wonk Sonia Aggarwal in the White House, and the DC insider Adrian Deveny in the Senate, but together, they crafted the boldest climate legislation of our time. In The Carbon Wave, Stokes chronicles the turbulent path of their climate bill as it veered between breakthrough and collapsefrom the hopeful beginnings of the Green New Deal in 2018, to the bill's near-certain defeat by Senator Joe Manchin in the winter of 2021, to the surprise passage of the landmark legislation in August 2022. During this critical time, the author was pregnant or in the NICU with her premature twins, and Aggarwal and Deveny were new parents too.Interlacing personal narratives with stories from Congress, the White House, and outside activists, Stokes shows how dogged perseverance and collective action can still bend the course of history. The book concludes with an update from the second Trump administration, explaining the parts of the bill that wereand were notrolled back, and why we should remain hopeful that progress is still being made.Everyone has been told to shrink their carbon footprint and lighten their load on our planet by changing their behavior. But what if instead of making ourselves smaller, we joined with others to maximize our impact That's the carbon wave. And this book shows us how to make it.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How the ground-breaking discovery of a new material form in chemistrymatter in a dynamic kinetic stateis helping to explain life's unique characteristics.The materialist view of nature has guided scientific thinking since Galileoreality can be measured, modeled, and explained. Nature is objective. But our everyday life experiences just don't seem to fit in with that view. Purpose, desire, and consciousness are real, but not objective. How could natural processes have led to such unnatural consequences The physical nature of living matter, a material form that has totally overwhelmed our planet, remains inexplicably unresolved. Biology, never mind psychology, simply does not make basic physical sense. Until now.In Life's Chemical Secret, Addy Pross offers at last a scientific explanation for life's greatest puzzle. Through the discovery of a new dimension in chemical possibility, Pross and his collaborators have opened a new door to understanding life's fundamental nature. The emergence of cognition, mind, and purpose is now comprehensible through the existence of dynamic kinetic states of matter. Some four billion years after life on earth first appeared, living forms can now understand how the universe was able to discover itself.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a haltbut ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation. From a veteran science writer, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and the coauthor of the acclaimed How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog).In the 1870s, horses were the lifeblood of North American cities. New York, Boston, Chicago, and Toronto relied on tens of thousands of workhorses to power daily life. Then, in late 1872 and into 1873, a devastating outbreak of horse fluknown as The Great Epizooticswept across the continent.In Nary a Horse Left Standing, Lee Dugatkin chronicles this little-known crisis, revealing how the epidemic disrupted nearly every aspect of urban life. From coast to coast, livelihoods collapsed as horses lay sick, or worse dying, on stable floors, fires raged unchecked without horse-drawn wagons, and city development stalled for lack of horsepower. Just as the Gilded Age was dawning and industrialists were poised to amass fortunes, the flu slowed progress to a crawl.Yet the tragedy also catalyzed revolutions in medicine, animal rights, and transportation. Veterinary science in the U.S. was still emerging, but detailed medical reports from the epidemic helped validate germ theory and discredit outdated beliefs. The crisis also spotlighted early animal welfare efforts, with fledgling groups like the ASPCA advocating for sick horses forced to work. Finally, the sheer vulnerability of relying on animals for transport spurred a shift toward mechanized systems.As illuminating as it is humbling, the book brings to life a critical account of a crisis that still speaks to the complex public health and transportation challenges we face today.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How artists challenge blockchain's financial logics to reimagine value, community, and futures beyond capitalism.White Papers on Dissent explores blockchain technology beyond its economic narratives and technical promises, framing it as a social device to rehearse post-capitalist imaginaries. Far from being a neutral infrastructure, blockchain has become a contested terrain where governance, value, and cooperation are redefined. Barbara Cueto moves beyond market-driven interpretations to explain how blockchain can function as a tool for radical imaginationa structure that, despite its entanglements with finance, holds the potential to support alternative forms of social organization.Bridging art history, political theory, and technology studies, and inspired by David Graeber, Joseph Beuys, and J.K. Gibson-Graham, the book introduces Critical Blockchain Art as an artistic practice that appropriates blockchain as both a conceptual framework and a technical infrastructure for political experimentation. Rather than reproducing speculative markets or technological spectacle, these projects engage with the social and material conditions of blockchain to question how value is produced, how cooperation is organized, and how dissent can be enacted. In doing so, they build on the legacy of socially engaged art and institutional critique, while opening new spaces for testing alternative modes of governance and rethinking the infrastructures that shape collective life.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A geopolitical and legal history of the bestselling videogame Tetristhe stunningly successful game that began in a Soviet research lab monitored by the KGB.Tetristhe game that would take the world by stormwas formally introduced to the West in 1987, at a time when Soviet technology exports were minimal and the Berlin Wall was still standing strong. Far from being a capitalist cultural product, the game had actually been designed in a Soviet computer lab tightly monitored by the KGB, at a time when Ronald Reagan referred to the USSR as the "evil empire." So, how did Tetris jump the wall to become such a blockbuster And why does a US company, The Tetris Company (TTC), now own the game, when it was the property of Mother Russia Why has TTC been able to monopolize both the shape of the pieces which predated Tetris and the very concept of an electronic puzzle game with falling pieces, which flies in the face of traditional copyright law Why and how have Soviet socialists morphed into hardcore capitalists In Soviet Blocks, Julien Mailland answers these questions and more, explaining the fascinating history of Tetris' commercial success as a story of two systems radically opposed in histories, cultures, economics, and politics.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An incredible publishing event: a philosopher draws on his own experience of madness as he takes readers on an unforgettble journey through the philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy.In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosisand the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of textbooks and academia, allowing philosophers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madnessKusters's preferred, non-medicalized termcoexist, one mirroring the other.Kusters draws on his own experience of madnesstwo episodes of psychosis, twenty years apartas well as other first-person narratives of psychosis. Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one into a full-blown acute psychotic episode. Indeed, a certain kind of philosophizing may result in confusion, paradoxes, unworldly insights, and circular frozenness reminiscent of madness. Psychosis presents itself to the psychotic as an inescapable truth and reality.Kusters evokes the mad person's philosophical or existential amazement at reality, thinking, time, and space, drawing on classic autobiographical accounts of psychoses by Antonin Artaud, Daniel Schreber, and others, as well as the work of phenomenological psychiatrists and psychologists and such phenomenologists as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. He considers the philosophical mystic and the mystical philosopher, tracing the mad undercurrent in the Husserlian philosophy of time; visits the cloud castles of mystical madness, encountering LSD devotees, philosophers, theologians, and nihilists; and, falling to earth, finds anxiety, emptiness, delusions, and hallucinations. Madness and philosophy proceed and converge toward a single vanishing point.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -How to fix the tech we depend on to empower, rather than endanger, the people who use it. From an award-winning pioneer in data infrastructure and leader in tech policy, lauded by the Library of Congress, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Newsweek.Technology powers our world. But we often give it the upper hand, treating tech solutions as right by default and accepting online risk as the price we have to pay. Rampant security breaches, unwanted surveillance, predators, and misinformation are just a normal part of cyberspace. But what if tech was designed and managed to empower and protect the people who use it In Better Tech, Francine Berman explores this question and argues that for society to advance and humanity to thrive, technology must put people first.Berman focuses on the riskiest and most essential technologiessocial media, AI chatbots, search enginesall of which serve as digital critical infrastructure. She argues that the risk-mitigation strategies for critical infrastructure like roads, bridges, food systems, and the electrical grid can also be used for cyberspace because we should be able to expect that our technology is similarly safe, dependable, and trustworthy. Better Tech goes beyond identifying the problems of technology and provides an actionable playbook of responsible design, development, use, and regulatory strategies that can be used by everyone from policymakers to students and general readers to reduce technology's risks and advance the public good.Easy Access System Europe Oü, 16879218, EU GPSR Authorised Representative, 266 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A candid and timely celebration of lowrider culture that examines the politics of cruising, the Latinx experience, and the intrepid artwork of Guadalupe Rosales. Gorgeously illustrated, a must-have book for fans of lowriders, art, design, or street culture.Tumbados, or lowriders, are customized, intricately painted cars with a dropped suspension that pay tribute to Chicano pride, artistry, culture, and heritage. Originating in Southern California in the 1940s, lowriders are a vibrant symbol of Latinx street life and the politics of cruisinga term that refers to the cars parading slowly down streets. After a period of public rejection in the 1980s and 90s, lowriders gained recognition as an important form of cultural expression and as an art form.In Tumbados, artist Guadalupe Rosales and her national network of collaborators explore art, craft, collective memory, and displacement through the lens of Latinx and diasporic experience. The book contextualizes Rosales' major public mural commission on lowriders with Lokey Calderon, commissioned by the Storefront for Art and Architecture, while tracing cultural narratives of marginalization and resilience across bodies, objects, walls, and public space.Though lowriders are celebrated in popular culture, little is understood about their social and historic significance. This will be the first book to examine Rosales' comprehensive practice, known for fostering collective storytelling, and to surface a subject often overlooked in the public record and in official memory.Contributors: Leticia Alvarado, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Michael Chavez, Jose Esparza Chong Cuy, Natalie Diaz, rafa esparza, Rita Gonzalez, Raquel Gutiérrez, Estevan Oriol, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Jovanna VenegasGroundworks: a co-publication series with the Storefront for Art and ArchitectureThe Storefront for Art and Architecture is an award-winning independent organization in New York City committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunitiesand how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore the many unpredictable, and often surprising, ways in which data surveillance, AI, and the constant presence of algorithms impact our culture and society in the age of global networks. The authors build on this basic premise: no matter what form data takes, and what purpose we think it's being used for, data will always have a secret life. How this data will be used, by other people in other times and places, has profound implications for every aspect of our livesfrom our intimate relationships to our professional lives to our political systems.With the secret uses of data in mind, Sinnreich and Gilbert interview dozens of experts to explore a broad range of scenarios and contextsfrom the playful to the profound to the problematic. Unlike most books about data and society that focus on the short-term effects of our immense data usage, The Secret Life of Data focuses primarily on the long-term consequences of humanity's recent rush toward digitizing, storing, and analyzing every piece of data about ourselves and the world we live in. The authors advocate for "slow fixes" regarding our relationship to data, such as creating new laws and regulations, ethics and aesthetics, and models of production for our datafied society.Cutting through the hype and hopelessness that so often inform discussions of data and society, The Secret Life of Data clearly and straightforwardly demonstrates how readers can play an active part in shaping how digital technology influences their lives and the world at large. 312 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social changeand the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The dilemma is that there is no way to make structural change without individual people making differentmore structure-facingdecisions. In Somebody Should Do Something, Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly show us how we can connect our personal choices to structural change and why individual choices matter, though not in the way people usually think.The authors paint a new picture of how social change happens, arguing that our most powerful personal choices are those that springboard us into working together with otherswarehouse worker Chris Smalls's unionization at Amazon is one powerful example. Taking inspiration from the writer Bill McKibben, they stress how one "important thing an individual can do is be somewhat less of an individual."Organized into three main parts, the book first diagnoses the problem of "either/or" thinking about social change, which stems from the false choice of making better personal choices or changing the system. Then it offers a different way to think about social change, anchored in a new picture of human nature emerging across the social sciences. Finally, the authors explore ways of putting this picture into practice. Neither a how-to manual nor an activist's guide, Somebody Should Do Something pairs stories with science (plus some jokes) to help readers recognize their own power, turning resignation about climate change and racial injustice into actions that transform the world.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 352 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why we crave enjoyment from news, how our news use divides us, and what we can do to create better news and more informed citizens.TikTok. Short-form reels. Late-night TV monologues. Podcasts. The way news is delivered has changed dramatically and so has the way we consume it. Now, we no longer look to the news just to learn and be informed; we expect enjoyment as well. In Enjoyment Is Breaking News, Jennifer Hoewe explains how and why this shift toward news enjoyment occurred and what we can do to address the information crisis we now face.Evidence shows that enjoyment-driven decisions are leaving us less informeddespite what we might expectbecause they lead us to ignore other news that matters. This book explains why we don't always select the best sources of news, how we respond to the news sources we do select, and how that information impacts our political knowledge and decisions.The author also offers solutions for how to improve news creation and news use moving forward. Specifically, she shows how news consumers can escape their "self-righteous" consumption cycles; how news and social media companies can play a role in curbing our automatic amplification of enjoyable news; and how we can all do better when it comes to the information we seek and share.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -An award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them.The human brain hasn't changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of the Screen Age. That's why, according to neurologist Richard Cytowicwho, Oliver Sacks observed, "changed the way we think of the human brain"our brains are so poorly equipped to resist the incursions of Big Tech: They are programmed for the wildly different needs of a prehistoric world. In Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age, Cytowic explains exactly how this programming worksfrom the brain's point of view. What he reveals in this book shows why we are easily addicted to screen devices; why young, developing brains are particularly vulnerable; why we need silence; and what we can do to push back.In the engaging storytelling style of his popular TED Talk, Cytowic draws an easily comprehensible picture of the Stone Age brain's workingsthe function of neurotransmitters like dopamine in basic instincts for survival such as desire and reward; the role of comparison in emotion, and emotion in competition; and, most significantly, the orienting reflex, one of the unconscious circuits that automatically focus, shift, and sustain attention. Given this picture, the nature of our susceptibility to digital devices becomes clear, along with the possibility of how to break their spell.Full of practical actions that we can start taking right away, Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age offers compelling evidence that we can change the way we use technology, resist its addictive power over us, and take back the control we have lost.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 352 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The true, inspiring story of the new parents who spearheaded an unlikely climate victory. From the rising climate advocate named to the Time100 Next list, for political junkies and anyone who cares about the environment.They were perhaps an unlikely trio: the professor Leah Stokes, the policy wonk Sonia Aggarwal in the White House, and the DC insider Adrian Deveny in the Senate, but together, they crafted the boldest climate legislation of our time. In The Carbon Wave, Stokes chronicles the turbulent path of their climate bill as it veered between breakthrough and collapsefrom the hopeful beginnings of the Green New Deal in 2018, to the bill's near-certain defeat by Senator Joe Manchin in the winter of 2021, to the surprise passage of the landmark legislation in August 2022. During this critical time, the author was pregnant or in the NICU with her premature twins, and Aggarwal and Deveny were new parents too.Interlacing personal narratives with stories from Congress, the White House, and outside activists, Stokes shows how dogged perseverance and collective action can still bend the course of history. The book concludes with an update from the second Trump administration, explaining the parts of the bill that wereand were notrolled back, and why we should remain hopeful that progress is still being made.Everyone has been told to shrink their carbon footprint and lighten their load on our planet by changing their behavior. But what if instead of making ourselves smaller, we joined with others to maximize our impact That's the carbon wave. And this book shows us how to make it.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 328 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -How artists challenge blockchain's financial logics to reimagine value, community, and futures beyond capitalism.White Papers on Dissent explores blockchain technology beyond its economic narratives and technical promises, framing it as a social device to rehearse post-capitalist imaginaries. Far from being a neutral infrastructure, blockchain has become a contested terrain where governance, value, and cooperation are redefined. Barbara Cueto moves beyond market-driven interpretations to explain how blockchain can function as a tool for radical imaginationa structure that, despite its entanglements with finance, holds the potential to support alternative forms of social organization.Bridging art history, political theory, and technology studies, and inspired by David Graeber, Joseph Beuys, and J.K. Gibson-Graham, the book introduces Critical Blockchain Art as an artistic practice that appropriates blockchain as both a conceptual framework and a technical infrastructure for political experimentation. Rather than reproducing speculative markets or technological spectacle, these projects engage with the social and material conditions of blockchain to question how value is produced, how cooperation is organized, and how dissent can be enacted. In doing so, they build on the legacy of socially engaged art and institutional critique, while opening new spaces for testing alternative modes of governance and rethinking the infrastructures that shape collective life.Easy Access System Europe Oü, 16879218, Mustamäe tee 50, 10621, Tallinn, Estonia, Tallinn 214 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A geopolitical and legal history of the bestselling videogame Tetristhe stunningly successful game that began in a Soviet research lab monitored by the KGB.Tetristhe game that would take the world by stormwas formally introduced to the West in 1987, at a time when Soviet technology exports were minimal and the Berlin Wall was still standing strong. Far from being a capitalist cultural product, the game had actually been designed in a Soviet computer lab tightly monitored by the KGB, at a time when Ronald Reagan referred to the USSR as the "evil empire." So, how did Tetris jump the wall to become such a blockbuster And why does a US company, The Tetris Company (TTC), now own the game, when it was the property of Mother Russia Why has TTC been able to monopolize both the shape of the pieces which predated Tetris and the very concept of an electronic puzzle game with falling pieces, which flies in the face of traditional copyright law Why and how have Soviet socialists morphed into hardcore capitalists In Soviet Blocks, Julien Mailland answers these questions and more, explaining the fascinating history of Tetris' commercial success as a story of two systems radically opposed in histories, cultures, economics, and politics.Easy Access System Europe Oü, 16879218, Mustamäe tee 50, 10621, Tallinn, Estonia, Tallinn 204 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political moment.In an age when capitalism feels like an unwinnable game, extreme reactionary ideas and politics are on the rise. The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Squid Game and much of reality TV are cultural reflections of a society of relentless, lonely competition, where each of us must become a player: a savvy risk-taker, a miniature corporation of one. But in a gamed economy we players feel played, and new forms of fascism promise harsh justice and revenge. This book theorizes the connections between the financialization of the capitalist economy, the gamification of our lives, and the rising threat of a uniquely twenty-first century form of fascistic politics.From vicious online swarmings to the QAnon conspiracy fantasy, from the siege of the US Capitol to the abuse of "free speech," The Player and the Played analyzes the "playgrom" as a new form of extremist violence. Max Haiven explores how "derivative fascisms" both repeat and reinvent the terrors of the past in a financialized form. How have we learned to love the cheats who have power but loathe the cheats without it It unpacks the worldbuilding (and world-destroying) urge of Silicon Valley. And it poses the urgent question: what is the antifascist game. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A deep dive into electronics repair in Indiaand how economies of skilled labor can offer an alternative way to live with things in our material world.Analog Labor in a Digital World explores an alternative way to live with the things in our world, by tracing the skilled repair labor that repurposes and reinvents high-tech, digital devices otherwise discarded as waste. Through a patchwork ethnography of India's diverse used electronics industries, Julia Corwin examines the often invisible yet vital labor of electronics repair, remanufacturing, and informal trade that makes electronics economies work. This local perspective, gleaned from sitting in scrap shops and wandering through dusty warehouses in India, looks deeply at what can be learned about waste, labor, and supply chain capitalism from the underside of commodity production.From the local electronics repair shop to major electronics manufacturers and e-waste recyclers, the book shows the interdependence of people, materials, communities, and seemingly separate economic systems, revealing a globally connected world of commodity production, wasting, and revaluation. Rather than being composed of peripheral labor processes feeding off the detritus of the formal economy, the author shows how India's electronic "waste" sector is a powerful source of value (and product) creation that is integral to the functioning of global commodity production.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Why we crave enjoyment from news, how our news use divides us, and what we can do to create better news and more informed citizens.TikTok. Short-form reels. Late-night TV monologues. Podcasts. The way news is delivered has changed dramatically and so has the way we consume it. Now, we no longer look to the news just to learn and be informed; we expect enjoyment as well. In Enjoyment Is Breaking News, Jennifer Hoewe explains how and why this shift toward news enjoyment occurred and what we can do to address the information crisis we now face.Evidence shows that enjoyment-driven decisions are leaving us less informeddespite what we might expectbecause they lead us to ignore other news that matters. This book explains why we don't always select the best sources of news, how we respond to the news sources we do select, and how that information impacts our political knowledge and decisions.The author also offers solutions for how to improve news creation and news use moving forward. Specifically, she shows how news consumers can escape their "self-righteous" consumption cycles; how news and social media companies can play a role in curbing our automatic amplification of enjoyable news; and how we can all do better when it comes to the information we seek and share.Easy Access System Europe Oü, 16879218, EU GPSR Authorised Representative, 194 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How AI is transforming pricing decisions, and what opportunities, challenges, and risks these transformations bring.Pricing in the Age of AI explores the evolution of pricing decisions, with a particular emphasis on recent advancements. In the age of big data and AI, pricing strategies have undergone a dramatic transformation. For instance, in e-commerce, prices can now be adjusted every few seconds, tailored to individual users or personas, and optimized with precision. This transformation has the potential to disrupt pricing decisions on an unprecedented scale.Author Maxime Cohen begins by tracing the history and importance of pricing decisions. He focuses on the transformative changes of the past decade, highlighting how big data and AI have upended traditional pricing strategies. He also examines the psychological and behavioral tactics employed to influence consumer behavior through pricing, as well as how recent advancements in AIand generative AIare revolutionizing pricing practices, enabling managers to automate, optimize, and personalize decisions at scale. Finally, he discusses the challenges and risks associated with these innovations, including ethical concerns such as anticompetitive practices, consumer protection, and discrimination issues.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exploration of the weaponization of language for neocolonialism, specifically the suppression of Haitian Creoleand why mother tongues are indispensable for universal access to quality education.Our Own Language addresses the age-old, intricate, and generative relationship between language, power, and education, with a particular focus on the historical and ongoing suppression of Haitian Creole (Kreyòl) in Haiti in favor of Frenchthe language of the former colonizers. It argues that this linguistic oppression is a tool for neocolonialism, mental slavery, and the entrenchment of social-class divides, thus undermining human rights and nation-building.Michel DeGraff investigates the links between Haiti's colonial and neocolonial history; the joint evolution of Creole languages and Creole studies; and how French in Haiti became a maker and marker of social hierarchies that exclude from education and governance those who speak Kreyòl onlythat is, the majority of Haitians.DeGraff draws on his own personal experience as a child growing up in Haiti, on historical accounts, and on linguistic analyses. The book extends its scope beyond Haiti, examining similar linguistic injustices in other parts of the world and in other sectors of society, and challenges dominant narratives and practices about language and development, even among agencies such as UNESCO and the World Bank.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How active inference and the free energy principle transform our understanding of technology and design.Design for Entropy offers a bold rethinking of human-technology relations by bringing active inference and the Free Energy Principleleading frameworks in neuroscience and cognitive scienceinto dialogue with design theory, as well as the sociology and psychology of technology.Luca Possati argues that any artifactany technologycan be understood as a network of predictions and predictive models about human behavior and its environment. The active inference agent is, by definition, a technological agentone whose survival and adaptation depend on the ability to construct, reshape, and inhabit a predictive niche. This perspective opens the door to a new approach for addressing foundational questions about design and the role of technology in social groups and the psychological dynamics of human-technology interaction.Through in-depth case studiescovering smartphones, adaptive robotics, and smart citiesPossati introduces the Designer-Artifact-User (DAU) software model, an active inference-based tool for UX design. He also confronts psychological and social challenges, including digital addiction, depression, affective modulation, and the role of technology in mentalizing.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -A provocative examination of the ways our economy has been rigged by financialization, and the importance of games to our dangerous political moment.In an age when capitalism feels like an unwinnable game, extreme reactionary ideas and politics are on the rise. The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Squid Game and much of reality TV are cultural reflections of a society of relentless, lonely competition, where each of us must become a player: a savvy risk-taker, a miniature corporation of one. But in a gamed economy we players feel played, and new forms of fascism promise harsh justice and revenge. This book theorizes the connections between the financialization of the capitalist economy, the gamification of our lives, and the rising threat of a uniquely twenty-first century form of fascistic politics.From vicious online swarmings to the QAnon conspiracy fantasy, from the siege of the US Capitol to the abuse of "free speech," The Player and the Played analyzes the "playgrom" as a new form of extremist violence. Max Haiven explores how "derivative fascisms" both repeat and reinvent the terrors of the past in a financialized form. How have we learned to love the cheats who have power but loathe the cheats without it It unpacks the worldbuilding (and world-destroying) urge of Silicon Valley. And it poses the urgent question: what is the antifascist game Easy Access System Europe Oü, 16879218, Mustamäe tee 50, 10621, Tallinn, Estonia, Tallinn 292 pp. Englisch. …