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PVP: 26,92 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52935-8
EAN 9780262529358
Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) (2013), the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and theoretical positions to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52951-8
EAN 9780262529518
A concise overview of machine learning-computer programs that learn from data-which underlies applications that include recommendation systems, face recognition, and driverless cars. Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition-as well as some we don't yet use everyday, including driverless cars. It is the basis ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03486-9
EAN 9780262034869
In Experimental Politics, Maurizio Lazzarato examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market. This is the first book of Lazzarato's in English that fully exemplifies the unique synthesis of sociology, activist research, and theoretical innovation that has generated his best-known concepts, such as "immaterial labor." The book (published ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52980-8
EAN 9780262529808
How adult learners can draw upon skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime to master a foreign language. Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52974-7
EAN 9780262529747
Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike ...
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Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weiman, Joachim
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52976-1
EAN 9780262529761
Can money buy happiness? Is income a reliable measure for life satisfaction? In the West after World War II, happiness seemed inextricably connected to prosperity. Beginning in the 1960s, however, other values began to gain ground: peace, political participation, civil rights, environmentalism. "Happiness economics" -- a somewhat incongruous-sounding branch of what has been called "the ...
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The final volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the phenomenology of community and its spatial peripheries."So the One Orb has imploded -- now the foams are alive." -- from Foams Foams completes Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy: his 2,500-page "grand narrative" retelling of the history of humanity, as related through the anthropological concept ...
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Often approached through their "micropolitics of desire," the joint works of Deleuze and Guattari are rarely part of the discussion when classical and contemporary problems of political thought come under scrutiny. Yet if we follow the trajectory from Anti-Oedipus (1972) to A Thousand Plateaus (1980), it becomes clear that these problems were redeveloped during a ...
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Sharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club -- these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the "sharing economy," is that you are not helping a friend for free; you are providing these services to a stranger for ...
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Blanchard, Olivier; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; Summers, Lawrence H.
What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will it be forced to contend with a post-crisis "new normal"? Have we made progress in addressing these issues, or does confusion remain? In April of 2015, the International Monetary Fund gathered leading economists, ...
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Drones are changing the conduct of war. Deployed at presidential discretion, they can be used in regular war zones or to kill people in such countries as Yemen and Somalia, where the United States is not officially at war. Advocates say that drones are more precise than conventional bombers, allowing warfare with minimal civilian deaths ...
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People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered.Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, ...
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Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day.And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-178-8
EAN 9781584351788
"One day, I was not famous, the next day, I was almost famous and the temptation to go wide with that and reject my past was too great. When I was legit famous, it was hard to tell when the change had occurred...If I had been born famous, the moment I would have started engaging ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02939-1
EAN 9780262029391
In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate -- that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in its theory of how concepts are acquired. McGinn considers the particular case of sensible qualities -- ideas of color, shape, taste, and so on. He argues that these, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,15 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-170-2
EAN 9781584351702
Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book analyzes the contemporary changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility -- changes the author claims are the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the inner resources of the subjective process: our experience of time, our sensibility, the way we relate to each other, and our ability to imagine a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52851-1
EAN 9780262528511
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone calls -- information about the caller, the recipient, the time, the ...
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Bamberger, Kenneth A; Mulligan, Deirdre K
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 43,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02998-8
EAN 9780262029988
Barely a week goes by without a new privacy revelation or scandal. Whether by hackers or spy agencies or social networks, violations of our personal information have shaken entire industries, corroded relations among nations, and bred distrust between democratic governments and their citizens. Polls reflect this concern, and show majorities for more, broader, and stricter ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02932-2
EAN 9780262029322
"McGinn is an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream."--Steven Pinker This book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted: the importance of the hand in everything we do. Drawing on evolutionary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 40,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02953-7
EAN 9780262029537
Is there a cultural logic of what we have come to call the information age? Have the technologies and techniques centered on the computer provided not only tools but also the metaphors through which we now understand the social and economic formation of our world? In Control, Seb Franklin addresses the conditions of knowledge that ...
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