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    Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Art? : Human-Machine Interaction and Creative Practice (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Art? An Introduction -- Man‐Machines from Ancient Greece to ChatGPT -- AI Art, AI Literature - The Re‑Invention of Creativity? -- AI and Popular Music Studies -- AI Aesthetics and AI Ethics -- Bibliography -- AI, Automation, Creativity, Cognitive Labor -- Introduction -- Art, de‑automatization, automatism - at the beginning of the 20th century -- A constellation in the 1960s -- Some theoretical reflections: Why can artistic work not be automated? -- Style without museums -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Dumb Meaning: Machine Learning and Artificial Semantics -- Free‐floating and grounded systems -- Gradated meaning -- Text and image and world -- Promptological investigations -- Bibliography -- Artist‐Guided Neural Networks - Automated Creativity or Tools for Extending Minds? -- Introduction -- Historical overview of deep learning development -- Artist‐Guided Neural Networks -- Synthetic Image -- Synthetic Text -- Translation models -- Synthetic Form -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Embodied Voice and AI: a Techno‐Social System in Miniature -- Motivations -- Strand One: Augmentation of performative practice through an AI wearable design -- Methodological framework -- Embodied voice in post‐Grotowskian practice -- Team -- The AI‑based motion capture wearable device -- Input: Motion capture through sensors -- Output: Synthesised sound -- Augmentation of practice: In‑tensions -- Gesture to sound mapping -- An example of training the system: "push" action against the wall -- Step One: Marking a "push" action -- Step Two: Explore "push" action mapped to sound -- Task‐based improvisation with all actions -- Potential for augmentation -- Strand Two: Reflections on the studio‐based work and on perceptions of the AI -- Conclusions and Areas of Further Research -- Bibliography.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (293 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839469224
    Series Statement: Digitale Gesellschaft Series
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    The Capitalist Economy and Its Prosthetics : Necessity, Evolution and Dilemmas of a Brotherhood (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- -- Foreword -- A deep‐level and long‐term understanding of capitalist society -- The theoretical approach of this book and mainstreams' economics -- Marx and other predecessors, truisms, banalities, centaurs and pans in economics -- Productive and sterile economy -- Deficient producive spending -- Prosthetics, their evolution and dilemmas -- Money creation vs no money creation, fiat money vs commodity money -- Novelty in this book -- Credentials -- Part I: Introduction to elementary economics of profit economies -- Chapter I. Praeter‐Economics: Wealth procurement by violence -- Chapter II. Value, money and the economic system -- Section 1. Value and value attribution -- Value‐in‐use‐attribution -- Use‐relatedness of objects -- Subject‐relatedness and the systemic character of values‐in‐use -- The state and time horizons for values‐in‐use -- Value‐in‐exchange‐attribution -- The state, owner power, and value‐in‐exchange -- Theory of value and theory of "deal‐making" and pricing -- (Monomial) theory of value: Seller's value, buyer's value and bystander's value -- (Binomial) theory of deal‐making and pricing -- Nominalism and reflexivity in the theory of value‐in‐exchange -- Attribution of value‐in‐exchange and "esoteric", "effectual", and "effective" demand -- Merchant heroes and trade systems -- The pacegeneticity and bellogeneticity of trade systems -- Section 2. Money and money creation -- Money -- Indirect exchange, media of exchange, and the origin of commodity money -- Commodity money, credit money, and fiat money -- The value of state fiat money and the reasons for its acceptance -- State taxes, legal tender, and fiat money -- Additional comments on state fiat money -- Money creation -- Creation of commodity money, credit money and fiat money -- Money creation and reserve holding vs credit money and solvency.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (533 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839472781
    Series Statement: Edition Transcript Series
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    Sufficiency in Business : The Transformative Potential of Business for Sustainability (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- References -- Introduction -- References -- Part A - Viewpoints on Sufficiency in Business -- Towards a Characterization of Sufficiency‑Oriented Businesses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Systematic literature review -- 2.2 Expert interviews -- 3. Findings -- 3.1 General understanding of corporate sufficiency -- Corporate sufficiency as a principle for absolute reduction of environmental impacts -- Conceptualizations of corporate sufficiency -- Corporate sufficiency frameworks -- 3.2 Characteristics of sufficiency‐oriented businesses -- Purpose -- Guiding principles -- Business model -- Business infrastructure and operations -- Corporate growth -- Collaborative advancement of sufficiency transitions -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A: Final sample of the systematic literature review -- A Taxonomy of Corporate Sufficiency Strategies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Possible goals and motives for corporate sufficiency -- 3. The role of entrepreneurs and purpose for corporate sufficiency -- 4. Method -- Selection of companies (Section 5.1 and 5.2) -- Data collection for selected business cases (Section 5.2) -- Evaluation of selected business cases (Section 5.2) -- 5. Empirical results -- 5.1 Taxonomy of sufficiency in business -- 5.2 Business cases -- 5.2.1 Sufficiency by limiting output -- 5.2.2 Sufficiency by limiting technical means -- 5.2.3 Sufficiency by limiting company size regarding the number of employees -- 5.2.4 Sufficiency by product range policy -- 5.2.5 Sufficiency through moderate profits -- 5.2.6 Sufficiency through the limitation of entrepreneurial wages -- 5.2.7 Sufficiency by limiting shareholders' profit expectations -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The Future of Organizations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Organizational shift from profit to purpose.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (349 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839469101
    Series Statement: Neue Ökonomie Series
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    Bally - a History of Footwear in the Interwar Period (2021)
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    Pages: 1 online resource (196 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839457382
    Series Statement: Fashion Studies v.10
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    Beyond Neoliberalism and Neo-Illiberalism : Economic Policies and Performance for Sustainable Democracy (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Inhalt -- Editorial -- Introductions -- I The Connection Between Economy and Democracy -- After Neoliberalism -- Illiberal Political Economics after Neoliberalism -- Pursuing a Human Rights Economy -- Markets and Democracy -- II Drivers of Neo-illiberalism -- Why and How Precarious Workers Support Neo-Illiberalism -- Austerity: Why, What and How - Lessons from the UK's Failed Experiment -- The Enduring Social and Economic Consequences of the China Trade Shock -- III Policy and Performance in the Illiberal Turn: Money and Growth -- Populist Leadership and Economic Decline -- The Politics and Limits of Monetary Policy Under Growing Authoritarianism: The Case of Turkey -- Illiberalism on Europe's Periphery: A Critical Macrofinance Tale -- IV Policy and Performance in the Illiberal Turn: Labor Market and Social Protection -- The Labor and Social Policies of Neo-authoritarian Populist Governments: A Comparative Analysis of Hungary, Poland, and Türkiye -- Corporate Majoritarianism in India -- Conclusion: Towards a Democratic Economics -- List of Contributors.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (233 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839474877
    Series Statement: The New Series
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    Digital Transformation in Design : Processes and Practices (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Making Sense of the Digital Transformation in Design -- Part 1: Essays on Equitable Processes and Practices -- Digital Design for Trust and Trustworthiness -- Gaps and Key Questions -- What is trust-in digital design? -- The Importance of Trust in Digital Design -- Design and Ethical Considerations of Trust and Trustworthiness -- Toward an Interdisciplinary Research of Trust -- Delegated Power -- Fairness -- Openness -- Respect -- Goals and Options -- Opinions -- Delegation -- Bias as Our Default -- Rejecting the "Right to Comfort" -- Step Outside Yourself -- Question the "Master Approach" -- Reassess Innovation -- Reassess Success -- A Provocation, not a Panacea -- DialecTikTok -- Equality of Fit in Digital Typography -- Responsiveness to Devices -- Responsiveness to Physical Spaces -- Responsiveness to Cognition -- Development of Measurement Instruments -- Is One‐Size‐Fits‐All Digital Typography Valid? -- Applying Machine Learning to Typography -- Implication for Design Ethics -- Decision‐Making in Design -- Consequences of Algorithms in Design -- Equitable Digital Access in an Era of Uncertainty -- Digital Divide Challenges and Misconceptions -- Going Virtual in a Time of Crisis -- Design, Digital Equity, and a Way Forward -- Learning from FemTech to Inform the Design of Healthcare Technologies -- A Note on Language -- Defining FemTech as a Duality -- A Critical Analysis of FemTech -- Introducing FemTech in the Context of Digital Health -- A Profit Ecosystem Around Menstruation -- FemTech on the Horizon of Gender Equality and Bodily Autonomy -- Design, Gender, and Healthcare: How to Do Things Differently -- 1. FemTech design is about healthcare systems, not isolated digital apps -- 2. Design teams not only need to be diverse, but ideologically aligned.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (299 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839471425
    Series Statement: Design Series
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    Entangled Future Im/mobilities : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Mobility Studies and Conceptions of the Future -- II. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Futures: Entanglements of Materiality and Meaning -- Moving Forward? -- Coming to a Halt -- Circulating -- Acknowledgments -- Funding -- References -- Moving Forward? -- Astropelagic Afrofuturism -- I. Introduction -- II. Moving towards an Afrofuturist Astropelago: Theoretical Considerations -- III. Astropelagic Poetics of Mobility in "Voodoo Hypothesis" -- IV. Conclusion -- References -- Resurrecting the Past to Save the Future? -- I. Extinction between Ecocide and Genocide -- II. Mobilizing the Thylacine through Cloning and Digital Archives -- III. Breeding Back the Past for the Future -- IV. Genome Editing and the Quest for Future Immortality -- V. Conclusion: Mobile Afterlives, Biopolitics and Necropolitics -- References -- Coming to a Halt -- When the World Comes to a Halt -- I. Disappearing Futures -- II. Acceleration / Polar Inertia -- III. A New Turn to Stillness? -- IV. Imagining Im/mobilized Futures -- E.M. Forster: The Machine Stops (1909) -- Marlen Haushofer: The Wall (1963) -- Thomas Lehr: 42 (2005) -- V. Conclusion -- References -- "You Have to Know How to Wait" -- I. Introduction -- II. Waiting: Im/mobilities, Temporalities and Aspirations -- III. The Uruguayan National Relocation Plan (NRP) -- Setting the Scene: La Chacarita de los Padres -- IV. Methodology and Methods -- V. Living and Waiting in La Chacarita before Relocation -- Waiting to (Be) Relocate(d) -- PCVU - or When the Most Privileged Might Wait the Longest -- The Immobilizing Effect of Announcing Mobility (for Some) -- VI. Post‐Relocation: Formally Waiting for Life to Begin -- Waiting to be Settled Down or "Cada Casa es un Mundo" -- From Partial to Full Relocation? Waiting to be Continued -- VII. Conclusion -- References -- Staying in the Village.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (229 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839473801
    Series Statement: Vernetzen - Bewegen - Verorten. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven Series
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    Mediating the Real : Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mediating Mediatized Realities -- A Postmodern Approach -- The Mediality of Literary Journalism -- Mediatization and Reportage -- The Critique of Technical Mediation -- Writers as Human Media -- Presence and Production -- Self‐Reflection in Recent American Reportage -- 1 Reportage and Mediation -- 1.1 The Complications of 'Literary Journalism' -- Hierarchical Distinctions and Blurred Boundaries -- Against the Idealization of Literary Journalism -- 1.2 The Human Qualities of Reportage -- Perception Against Profession: The Beginnings of Reportage -- Observation and Experiment -- Reportage's Political Turn -- Fascism and the Writer as Producer -- 1.3 The Human Medium Inspecting Itself -- The Mediality of Witness and Reporter -- Self‐Reflection: Embodied Interplay of Confirmation and Critique -- 2 On Real Communing: Mediating Coordinated Experience -- 2.1 Authenticity and Uncertainty in Touristic Experience -- 2.2 The Desperate Medium in David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (1997) -- A Pseudojournalist -- The Recording Human -- The Objectified Human Subject -- The Desperately Dialoguing Narrator -- Self‐Reflection Against Alienation -- 2.3 The Believing Medium in George Saunders's "The New Mecca" (2005) -- Paid-or Not-to Have Fun-or Not -- The Subjective Effect of Objective Experience -- Confusion and Possibility -- Potentially Bonding Text -- Basic Belief -- 2.4 The Incapable Medium in John Jeremiah Sullivan's "Upon This Rock" (2012) -- The Willing Recruit Themselves: Experience as (Near) Accident -- The Accepting Writer Anticipates a Doubtful Reader -- Past and Future to Make Sense of the Present -- Strong Weakness -- 2.5 Uncertainties and the Negotiation of Trust in Communing -- 3 On Real Bodies: Mediating Other Human Media.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (307 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839473269
    Series Statement: Gegenwartsliteratur Series
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    Securitising Decolonisation : The Silencing of Ewe and Togoland Unification under United Nations Trusteeship, 1945-1960 (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- List of Photographs, Figures, and Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Secessionist Conflict in "Western Togoland" -- The Division of Togoland -- A Reawakened Western Togoland Nationalism -- The Division of the Volta Region -- Securitising "Western Togoland" Secessionism -- Final Act? -- 1.2 Research Puzzle &amp -- Goal -- 1.3 Argument &amp -- Approach -- 1.4 Relevance &amp -- Contribution -- 1.5 Outline -- 2. State of the Art -- 2.1 Neo‐Trusteeship &amp -- (In)Security -- 2.1.1 Antecedents: From Transitional to Structural Problems (1960-1970s) -- 2.1.2 The 1st Generation: Of 'Quasi' &amp -- 'Failed States' -- Human Security &amp -- the Responsibility to Protect -- Reactivating the Trusteeship Council? -- 2.1.3 The 2nd Generation: From Peace‐Keeping to State‐Building -- 2.1.4 The 3rd Generation: Colonial Reminiscence -- Post‐Liberal Critique -- Accountability Deficit -- Securitisation of Failed States -- Colonial Reminiscence -- Historical Scholarship -- 2.1.5 The 4th Generation: The Local Turn -- 2.1.6 The 5th Generation? Decolonising State‐Building -- 2.1.7 Postcolonial Security Studies -- Postcolonialism &amp -- Securitisation -- 2.2 Trusteeship &amp -- (De)Colonisation -- 2.2.1 Origins of Trusteeship -- "A Sacred Trust"? Petitioning and Accountability -- 2.2.2 The United Nations Trusteeship System &amp -- Security -- Colonialism &amp -- the Advent of the United Nations -- The 'Colonial Question' &amp -- Global Security -- The 'Colonial Question' &amp -- the Cold War -- Decolonisation &amp -- Nation‐State‐Building -- 2.3 Togoland -- 2.3.1 State‐ &amp -- Nationhood -- German Togoland -- Early Post‐Independence Works -- Constructed Nationalisms: Togoland &amp -- Ewe Nationalism -- 2.3.2 Security -- British Togoland -- French Togoland.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (423 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839473061
    Series Statement: Postcolonial Studies
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    Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine : Imagining the Pragmatics of Medical Potential (2024)
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    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Pragmatics of hope and uncertainty -- The techno‐sphere -- Health management -- Individual and socially distributed emotions -- References -- Part I: Pragmatics of Hope and Uncertainty -- 1 Embracing Uncertainty -- Debates in philosophy -- Uncertainty in the search for certainty -- "Certainty" as a social strategy -- Embracing uncertainty -- Positioning embrace -- References -- 2 Hope, Trust, Medical Action, and Care -- The setting -- Realms of the young -- Clinicians' moral worlds -- A few blind spots -- Realms of the older adults: Are they so different? -- Ms Moretti's story -- The moral threshold of acceptability -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Part II: The Techno‐Sphere -- 3 Self‐Tracking Practices of "Doing Health" -- Introduction -- "Doing health" -- Methods, field sites and theoretical approach -- Self‐tracking in practice: Data discussion -- Introducing the phenomenon of self‐tracking -- Mobilizations of data at the human‐technology interface -- Self‐tracking practices of "doing health" and processes of responsibilization -- Emerging regimes of "doing health" in insurance policy -- Affectivities and uncertainties of self‐tracking practices -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Precarious Lives, Uncertainty and the Politics of Hope -- Introduction -- A note on methods and the field: Setting the scene -- Novel treatment: Controversy, efficacy and safety of thalidomide -- Seeking Jhanduwalla ilaj: Precarity of care, uncertainty and hope -- Reflections on other potential endings, limits of hope -- Therapeutic innovation, private market and the role of medical pioneers -- Concluding reflections -- References -- 5 Between Uncertainty and Routinization -- Introduction -- "A safe test that may relieve your concerns" -- "Reassuringly routinized" technologies of pregnancy care.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (279 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839467626
    Series Statement: Gesundheit, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft Series
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