An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs.
The question concerning technology and romanticism -- Romanticism -- Romanticism against the machine -- Romanticism with the machine -- Romanticism with the machine (1) : from Frankenstein's monster to hippie computing -- Romanticism with the machine (2) : cyber romanticism, unc…
An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs.
"This book discusses the problem of freedom and the limits of liberalism considering the challenges of governing climate change and artificial intelligence. It mobilizes resources from political philosophy to make an original argument about the future of technology and the envir…
This book discusses the problem of freedom and the limits of liberalism considering the challenges of governing climate change and artificial intelligence (AI). It mobilizes resources from political philosophy to make an original argument about the future of technology and the e…
1. Introduction : the question concerning financial technologies and distance -- 2. From clay tablets to computational finance : a brief history of financial technologies and distancing -- 3. The pure tool that distances : Simmel's phenomenology of money and its relation to phil…
While we have become increasingly vulnerable to the ebb and flow of global finance, most of us know very little about it. This book focuses on the role of technology in global finance and reflects on the ethical and societal meaning and impact of financial information and commun…