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Future of Immortality
Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia
Häftad, 2019
263 kr
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A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries and utopians who are pressing at the very …
Prototype Nation
China and the Contested Promise of Innovation
Häftad, 2020
289 kr
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A vivid look at China’s shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype Nation offers a …
Disruptive Fixation
School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism
Av Christo Sims
Inbunden, 2017
872 kr
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In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital …
Disruptive Fixation
School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism
Av Christo Sims
Häftad, 2017
315 kr
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In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital …
Sounding the Limits of Life
Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond
Häftad, 2015
315 kr
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What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists--biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers--are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and …
Digital Keywords
A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture
Häftad, 2016
281 kr
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In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital …
Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon
Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power
Inbunden, 2016
948 kr
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What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism--popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspective can be. Through …
Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon
Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power
Häftad, 2016
324 kr
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What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism--popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspective can be. Through …
Hidden Heretics
Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Av Ayala Fader
Inbunden, 2020
478 kr
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A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of …
Democracy's Infrastructure
Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid
Inbunden, 2016
897 kr
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In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayment of service …
Democracy's Infrastructure
Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid
Häftad, 2016
324 kr
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In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayment of service …
Biomedical Odysseys
Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China
Häftad, 2017
333 kr
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Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative …
Chasing Innovation
Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India
Av Lilly Irani
Inbunden, 2019
1076 kr
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A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promiseCan entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all while generating economic value? In Chasing Innovation, Lilly Irani …
Prototype Nation
China and the Contested Promise of Innovation
Inbunden, 2020
1034 kr
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A vivid look at China’s shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype Nation offers a …
Hacking Diversity
The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
Inbunden, 2019
897 kr
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A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet surprisingly few women participate in it: rates of involvement by …
Future of Immortality
Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia
Inbunden, 2019
845 kr
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A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries and utopians who are pressing at the very …
Watch Me Play
Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming
Av T. L. Taylor
Häftad, 2018
324 kr
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A look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcastingEvery day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet using popular sites such as Twitch, which reaches more than one hundred million viewers a month. In these new platforms for interactive …
Hydropolitics
The Itaipu Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America
Inbunden, 2019
845 kr
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An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipu Dam, the world’s biggest producer of renewable energyHydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world’s largest power plant and the ways the energy we use shapes politics and economics. Itaipu Binational …
Hydropolitics
The Itaipu Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America
Häftad, 2019
298 kr
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An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipu Dam, the world’s biggest producer of renewable energyHydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world’s largest power plant and the ways the energy we use shapes politics and economics. Itaipu Binational …
Internet for the People
The Politics and Promise of craigslist
Av Jessa Lingel
Inbunden, 2020
392 kr
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How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early webBegun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends about cool events happening around San Francisco, craigslist is now the leading classifieds service on the planet. It is also a throwback to the early …
Hacking Diversity
The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
Häftad, 2019
315 kr
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A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet surprisingly few women participate in it: rates of involvement by …
Government of Emergency
Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Av Stephen J. Collier, Andrew Lakoff
Inbunden, 2021
991 kr
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The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and officials …
Government of Emergency
Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Av Stephen J. Collier, Andrew Lakoff
Häftad, 2021
315 kr
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The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and officials …
Hidden Heretics
Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Av Ayala Fader
Häftad, 2022
203 kr
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A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of …
Internet for the People
The Politics and Promise of craigslist
Av Jessa Lingel
Häftad, 2022
246 kr
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How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early webBegun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends about cool events happening around San Francisco, craigslist is now the leading classifieds service on the planet. It is also a throwback to the early …
Code Work
Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
Inbunden, 2023
905 kr
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How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code …
Code Work
Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
Häftad, 2023
246 kr
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How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code …
Middle Tech
Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough
Inbunden, 2024
905 kr
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Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech companyContrary to much of the popular discourse, not all technology is seamless and awesome; some of it is simply “good enough.” In Middle Tech, Paula Bialski offers an ethnographic study of …
Middle Tech
Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough
Häftad, 2024
263 kr
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Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech companyContrary to much of the popular discourse, not all technology is seamless and awesome; some of it is simply “good enough.” In Middle Tech, Paula Bialski offers an ethnographic study of …
When Blockchain Meets Aid
The Human Costs of Innovation
Inbunden, 2027
862 kr
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Inside a landmark financial technology experiment in humanitarian aidBlockchain—the digital infrastructure behind cryptocurrencies—promises financial freedom and borderless exchange, by circumventing traditional intermediaries like banks. Humanitarian organizations have embraced blockchain as a …
