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Book SynopsisAri Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production—from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"— to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.Trade Review“A compelling account of how the aesthetics of corporeal politics has come to condition the rhetorics and epistemologies of life, realism, existence, authenticity, technology, reproduction, and the body itself, Chinese Surplus will forever change the way we think about the power of visual embodiment in an age of increasing angst over property/propriety rights, technological determinism, and human’s role in their imbricated historical legacy.” -- Howard Chiang * Journal of the History of Biology *"Chinese Surplus is an ambitious project that weaves together a transnational and transhistorical consideration of aesthetic production and biomedical commodification. . . . Heinrich’s project does the groundbreaking work of connecting the global power dynamics of contemporary cultural productions engaged with fragmentation and labeled inauthentic with longer histories of imperialism." -- Kathryn Cai * Catalyst *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus 1 1. Chinese Whispers: Frankenstein, the Sleeping Lion, and the Emergence of a Biopolitical Aesthetics 25 2. Souvenirs of the Organ Trade: The Diasporic Body in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art 49 3. Organ Economics: Transplant, Class, and Witness from Made in Hong Kong to The Eye 83 4. Still Life: Recovering (Chinese) Ethnicity in the Body Worlds and Beyond 115 Epilogue. All Rights Preserved: Intellectual Property and the Plastinated Cadaver Exhibits 139 Notes 159 Bibliography 227 Index 239

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Book SynopsisIn the industrialized nations of the global North, well-funded agencies like the CDC attend to citizens'' health, monitoring and treating for toxic poisons like lead. How do the under-resourced nations of the global South meet such challenges? In Edges of Exposure, Noémi Tousignant traces the work of toxicologists in Senegal as they have sought to warn of and remediate the presence of heavy metals and other poisons in their communities. Situating recent toxic scandals within histories of science and regulation in postcolonial Africa, Tousignant shows how decolonization and structural adjustment have impacted toxicity and toxicology research. Ultimately, as Tousignant reveals, scientists'' capacity to conduct research—as determined by material working conditions, levels of public investment, and their creative but not always successful efforts to make visible the harm of toxic poisons—affects their ability to keep equipment, labs, projects, and careers goiTrade Review"Edges of Exposure has much to recommend it and belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in postcolonial and African science, toxic exposure and risk, global health, or contemporary Africa. At a brisk 149 pages of readable prose and relatively accessible academic language, it would also fit well on graduate or upper-level undergraduate reading lists." -- Kirsten Moore-Sheeley * Journal of the History of Medicine *"Edges of Exposure is a powerful contribution to ethnographically grounded STS research focused on toxicology, global environmental health science, and what might be termed postcolonial laboratory life. . . . It is a unique contribution to the broader anthropology of toxics and global environmental health science studies." -- Peter C. Little * Anthropological Quarterly *"Edges of Exposure . . . drives home the starkness of our uneven global economy of health. . . . Tousignant offers a much-needed ethnography of the ways that scientists can perform an emerging state, coupled with an in-depth exploration of the ramifications therein, and leaves us with the fundamental question of how to address global inequities that demand such precarious performances." -- Marlee Tichenor * Somatosphere *"Tousignant makes the consequences of precariousness, uncertainty, and lack of autonomy in research concrete and tangible. In this regard, Edges of Exposure provides a timely warning of the dangers to which, as inhabitants of an increasingly toxic, interconnected, and unequal world, we are all exposed, both as citizens and as public scientists." -- Agata Mazzeo * Isis *"Edges of Exposure is certainly important reading for those interested in the history and anthropology of African health, science and technology studies in Africa, environmental health, and the growing literature on toxicologies. It is a great addition to these fields and greatly contributes to growing concerns over toxins in Africa." -- Kristin Peterson * Catalyst *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Poisons and Unprotection in Africa 1 1. After Interruption: Recovering Movement in the Polyrhythmic Laboratory 25 2. Advancement: Futures of Toxicology during "la Coopération" 59 3. Routine Rhythms and the Regulatory Imagination 85 4. Prolonging Project Locustox, Instrastructuring Sahelian Ecotoxicology 105 5. Waiting/Not Waiting for Poison Control 125 Epilogue. Partial Privileges 143 Notes 151 Bibliography 179 Index 205

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Book SynopsisFollowing Senegalese toxicologists as they struggle to keep equipment, labs, and projects operating, Noémi Tousignant explores the impact of insufficient investments in scientific capacity in postcolonial Africa.Trade Review"Edges of Exposure has much to recommend it and belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in postcolonial and African science, toxic exposure and risk, global health, or contemporary Africa. At a brisk 149 pages of readable prose and relatively accessible academic language, it would also fit well on graduate or upper-level undergraduate reading lists." -- Kirsten Moore-Sheeley * Journal of the History of Medicine *"Edges of Exposure is a powerful contribution to ethnographically grounded STS research focused on toxicology, global environmental health science, and what might be termed postcolonial laboratory life. . . . It is a unique contribution to the broader anthropology of toxics and global environmental health science studies." -- Peter C. Little * Anthropological Quarterly *"Edges of Exposure . . . drives home the starkness of our uneven global economy of health. . . . Tousignant offers a much-needed ethnography of the ways that scientists can perform an emerging state, coupled with an in-depth exploration of the ramifications therein, and leaves us with the fundamental question of how to address global inequities that demand such precarious performances." -- Marlee Tichenor * Somatosphere *"Tousignant makes the consequences of precariousness, uncertainty, and lack of autonomy in research concrete and tangible. In this regard, Edges of Exposure provides a timely warning of the dangers to which, as inhabitants of an increasingly toxic, interconnected, and unequal world, we are all exposed, both as citizens and as public scientists." -- Agata Mazzeo * Isis *"Edges of Exposure is certainly important reading for those interested in the history and anthropology of African health, science and technology studies in Africa, environmental health, and the growing literature on toxicologies. It is a great addition to these fields and greatly contributes to growing concerns over toxins in Africa." -- Kristin Peterson * Catalyst *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Poisons and Unprotection in Africa 1 1. After Interruption: Recovering Movement in the Polyrhythmic Laboratory 25 2. Advancement: Futures of Toxicology during "la Coopération" 59 3. Routine Rhythms and the Regulatory Imagination 85 4. Prolonging Project Locustox, Instrastructuring Sahelian Ecotoxicology 105 5. Waiting/Not Waiting for Poison Control 125 Epilogue. Partial Privileges 143 Notes 151 Bibliography 179 Index 205

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a major contribution to the interpretation of Heideggerian philosophy! In five carefully developed and scrupulously documented chapters, Glazebrook (Colgate Univ.) traces Heidegger's view of science beginning with his earliest phase, extending into the 1930s, when he regarded philosophy as "scientific," through a transitional phase, when he turned away from "metaphysics" to "physics," to the 1950s onward, when he asserted that modern natural science is already the basic form of technological thinking. Heidegger's critique of science, Glazebrook shows in detail, forms the backdrop for his evolving understanding of the history of metaphysics. In her final paragraph, Glazebrook accurately summarizes: "I have argued that the issues pertaining to science lie behind Heidegger's rejection of metaphysics, his entanglement with the university, his nostalgia for the Greeks, and his critique of modernity. I have further shown that Heidegger's thinking can be put constructively into dialogue with the analytic tradition of philosophy of science." Clearly written and free of jargon, this reliable account of Heidegger's philosophy of science will take its place alongside the major studies of his philosophy and should be in every library where Heidegger's writings themselves have a place. This reviewer read it with great excitement and learned from every page. Highly recommended; all academic levels and professionals." -Choice

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Book SynopsisOffers a series of epistemological histories that seek to establish and clarify the stakes, ambiguities, and emergence of philosophical and biological concepts that defined the rise of modern biology. This title explains how the movements of knowledge and life come to rest upon each other.Trade Review"It is invaluable that this important set of essays by France's premier historian of science is now available in English. They are sure to have a major impact on a wide range of disciplines." -- -Paul Rabinow University of California, Berkeley "After reading these essays, one might well ask, as Canguilhem did, 'What are the presuppositions that drive contemporary interpretations of science?' Currently, few seem to be asking that question ... Canguilhem presents a metaphysical quandary that remains as vital today as when he wrote 60 years ago." -Isis "Fordham University Press has done a splendid job in making available to the English-speaking public as an affordable paperback one of Canguilhem's most important contributions to the history and philosophy of biology... Each essay [in Knowledge of Life] presents a detailed epistemological history of a specific biological problem, concept, or idea in order to advance a particular philosophical thesis... Canguilhem's writing is truly exemplary in its seamless integration of deep historical insight and subtle philosophical argumentation... What strikes the contemporary reader upon reading these essays, besides their remarkable erudition and scholarly depth, is how pertinent they continue to be half a century after they were written. The epistemological lessons that Canguilhem draws from his detailed excursions into the history of biology resonate strongly with the current philosophy of biology agenda. Moving beyond its traditional concern with evolutionary biology, and with population genetics in particular, Anglophone philosophy of biology is increasingly engaging with areas of biological inquiry specifically concerned with the constitution and organization of living systems. In this context, Canguilhem's plea for the autonomy of biological method as well as biological theory has never been more relevant. Those who decide to pick up Knowledge of Life will find the writing dense, the arguments subtle, but the effort extremely worthwhile." -Annals of Science "An exceptional grasp of the enduring philosophical problems of biological research." -- -Harry Marks The Johns Hopkins University

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Book SynopsisSituating itself within the context of current debates in continental philosophy, and through a series of readings of Aristotle, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida to recent developments in life sciences, this book offers a critical enquiry concerning the traditional way of understanding life in the history of metaphysics.Trade Review"A new and compelling voice in philosophy. Garrido develops a profoundly interesting and compelling investigation of the senses of being and temporality. In doing so, he moves beyond philosophies that emphasize traditional ontology and their correlative concept of time." -- -Alejandro Vallega University of Oregon "Garrido makes a real, and highly significant intervention in the ways we commonly think about the phenomenon of life." -- -Rodolphe Gasche University at Buffalo, The State University of New York "Juan Manuel Garrido renews in an impressive way the question concerning 'life.' By the term 'life' we usually mean a sort of immediacy, a self-presence through auto-affection and transmission through self-perpetuation. Garrido, however, opens life -- simply, if I may say so -- to the infinity of a 'being-towards' and a 'hunger': this infinity is not the indefinition of a life that simply 'continues,' but the elevation of life - or its hollowing out, which is the same thing - to being-out-of-itself. This is, in one word, a philosophical revolution." -- -Jean-Luc Nancy

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Book SynopsisProvides an international perspective on theoretical approaches to data-based communications policymaking in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and AfricaTrade Review"Making communications policy is difficult because policymakers are constantly forced to select one among multiple policy alternatives when neither principles nor theory can provide a definitive answer. Ideally data-based analysis could be used to resolve such uncertainties, but all too frequently the data available and empirical methods employed to analyze it are not up to the task. Beyond Broadband: Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies tackles this problem head-on. Chapters by leading communications policy scholars identify problems with the data and empirical methods currently employed to address communications policy problems, offer suggestions for improving both, and recommend process improvements to improve the way data-based analysis is used to inform policy decisions. Communications policy scholars and policy officials should both find this book to be a helpful resource." -- -Steven Wildman Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Numbers That Matter Richard D. Taylor and Amit M Schejter PART I: Theory 1. Beyond Broadband Access: What Do We Need to Measure and How Do We Measure It Catherine Middleton 2. Understanding Digital Gaps: A Quartet of Empirical Methodologies Bin Zhang and Richard D. Taylor 3. Broadband Nicrofoundations: The Need for Traffic Data Steven Bauer, David Clark, and William Lehr 4. Ubiquitous Broadband Deployment: Examination of Adoption Factors, Network Competition, and Network Effects Sangwon Lee and Justin S. Brown 5. Approaches to Overcoming Data Challenges in International Comparisons Johannes Bauer and Sungjoong Kim 6. Data, Policy, and Democracy Jorge Reina Schement 7. "Rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens": Does Democracy Count? Amit M. Schejter PART II: The Use and Abuse of Data in Information Policymaking 8. Ph.D. Heal Thyself: In Search of Evidence Based Research for Evidence Based Policy Eli Noam 9. Case Studies in Abandoned Empiricism and Peer Review at the Federal Communication Commission Rob Frieden 10. The Determinants of Disconnectedness: Understanding US Broadband Unavailability Kenneth Flamm 11. Is European Broadband Spending a Sensible Project? The Opportunity Cost Concept and Implications of Input-Output Analysis Ibrahim Kholilul Rohman and Erik Bohlin 12. Using Data for Policy Development: Designing a Universal Service Fund for Tanzania Heather Hudson Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBeing in Creation asks about the role of humans in the more-than-human world from the perspective of human creatureliness, a perspective that accepts as a given human finitude and limitations, as well as responsibility toward other beings and toward the whole of which they are a part.Trade Review"Being-in-Creation, edited by Benson, Treanor, and Wirzba is a well-conceived and beautifully-executed collection of essays on a vitally important topic. In a situation of acute ecological crisis, we require the resources of all of our philosophical, theological and religious traditions, including the rich veins opened up for us here by the contributors, to offer us new ways of thinking about and living in the world." -- -Clayton Crockett University of Central Arkansas "This is a marvelous collection of essays with immense creative potential. Indeed, Being-in-Creation is opening up the doors of continental philosophy to shape a rich ecological theology. A groundbreaking contribution!" -- -Mary Evelyn Tucker Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Human Place in the Natural World Brian Treanor 2. Creation, Creativity and Creatureliness Rowan Williams 3. Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality Jarrod Longbons 4. The Art of Creaturely Life Norman Wirzba 5. Face of Nature, Gift of Creation Bruce Foltz 6. Creativity as Call to Care for Creation Christina M. Gschwandtner 7. Creature Discomforts Jeffrey Hanson 8. Reflections from Thoreau's Concord Ed Mooney 9. Creation and the Glory of Creatures Janet Martin Soskice 10. Care of the Soil, Care of the Self T. Wilson Dickenson 11. Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World Susan Pyke Notes List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisScience, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary provides an introduction to a legacy of philosophical and social scientific thinking about sciences, and their integral role in shaping modernities, a legacy that has contributed to a specifically anthropological form of inquiry.Trade Review"Science, Reason, Modernity offers an introduction to an anthropological engagement with the epistemologies, the ethical possibilities and limitations, and the practical impact of the sciences-one that has no real precedent and stands as an important and generative alternative to the analytical frameworks that prevail in contemporary science and technology studies." -- -James Faubion Rice UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Contemporary Equipment for Anthropological Problems of Modern Sciences Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett, and Lyle Fearnley I. Problems What Is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant Science as a Vocation Max Weber Reconstruction as Seen Twenty-five Years Later John Dewey What Is Enlightenment? Michel Foucault II. Historical Problematizations The "Trial" of Theoretical Curiosity Hans Blumenberg Justifications of Curiosity as Preparation for the Enlightenment Hans Blumenberg The Question of Normality in the History of Biological Thought Georges Canguilhem The Living and Its Milieu Georges Canguilhem III. Ethics: Truth and Subjectivity The Hermeneutics of the Subject Michel Foucault The Courage of the Truth Michel Foucault Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment Paul Rabinow Notes Index

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Book SynopsisScience, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary provides an introduction to a legacy of philosophical and social scientific thinking about sciences, and their integral role in shaping modernities, a legacy that has contributed to a specifically anthropological form of inquiry.Trade Review"Science, Reason, Modernity offers an introduction to an anthropological engagement with the epistemologies, the ethical possibilities and limitations, and the practical impact of the sciences-one that has no real precedent and stands as an important and generative alternative to the analytical frameworks that prevail in contemporary science and technology studies." -- -James Faubion Rice UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Contemporary Equipment for Anthropological Problems of Modern Sciences Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett, and Lyle Fearnley I. Problems What Is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant Science as a Vocation Max Weber Reconstruction as Seen Twenty-five Years Later John Dewey What Is Enlightenment? Michel Foucault II. Historical Problematizations The "Trial" of Theoretical Curiosity Hans Blumenberg Justifications of Curiosity as Preparation for the Enlightenment Hans Blumenberg The Question of Normality in the History of Biological Thought Georges Canguilhem The Living and Its Milieu Georges Canguilhem III. Ethics: Truth and Subjectivity The Hermeneutics of the Subject Michel Foucault The Courage of the Truth Michel Foucault Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment Paul Rabinow Notes Index

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Book SynopsisRenaissance Posthumanism brings together two historical periods—“Renaissance” signifying a rebirth of the ancient and “Posthumanism” a death of the modern—to ponder each through the possibilities of the other. This collection rethinks the humanities under the auspices of the posthumanities of the posthumanities under the auspices of Renaissance humanism.Trade Review"Fiery flint and weeping marble, hairy mandrakes and ardent monkeys, flayed skins and inky parchments, chimp-like sheep and one-eyed cows: these are among the quirky and vibrant actors assembled in this exciting and timely new volume. In search of Renaissance posthumanism, the authors examine unfamiliar archives in response to current environmental and technological urgencies, and their inventive and thoughtful readings will spur new lines of inquiry." -- -Julia Reinhard Lupton University of California, Irvine "Exciting, scholarly and untimely in the best way, the essays in Renaissance Posthumanism cross-multiply history and theory into bracingly new forms." -- -Drew Daniel Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Joseph Campana and Scott Maisano 1. What Posthumanism Isn't: On Humanism and Human Exceptionalism in the Renaissance Kenneth Gouwens 2. Titian's Flaying of Marsyas: Thresholds of the Human and the Limits of Painting Stephen Campbell 3. Rabelais' Silenic Regime: The Fundamentals of Gargantua Judith Roof 4. A Natural History of Ravishment Holly Dugan 5. Farmyard Choreographies in Early Modern England Erica Fudge 6. Oves et Singulatim: A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 7. Wooden Actors on the English Renaissance Stage Vin Nardizzi 8. Beyond Human: Visualizing the Sexuality of Abraham Bosse's Mandrake Diane Wolfthal 9. Shakespeare's Mineral Emotions Lara Bovilsky Epilogue: H Is for Humanism Joseph Campana Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDeath, light, figuration and, especially, analogical expressions of figuration, are the primary subjects of this book. They generate associated interests: the relation of literature and science, the methodology of thought and argument, and the processes of narrative, discovery, and interpretation. Creativity, optics, rhetoric, and language are focal as well.Trade Review"Analogy, 'the connector of the known to the unknown,' is given in-depth exploration in this fascinating study of life and death, darkness and light, language and meaning; a learned, richly textured study that contributes immeasurably to early modern studies." -- -Regina M. Schwartz Professor of English, Northwestern University "This fascinating book is above all a contribution to the history of early modern science that helps an ongoing critical process of revisionism by showing how both scientific and poetic thought use analogy in similar ways. It is also fascinating in its unusual structure: it allows us access to Anderson's subtle critical mind in the process of building interpretations." -- -Leah Marcus Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Issues of Death, Light, and Analogy 1. “The Body of This Death”: Donne’s Sermons, Spenser’s Maleger, Milton’s Sin and Death 2. Mutability and Mortality in The Faerie Queene 3. Satanic Ethos: Evil, Death, and Individuality in Paradise Lost 4. Connecting the Cultural Dots: Classical to Modern Traditions of Analogy 5. Proportional Thinking in Kepler’s Science of Light 6. Analogy, Proportion, and Death in Donne’s Anniversaries 7. Milton’s Twilight Zone: Analogy, Light, and Darkness in Paradise Lost Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A probing and theoretically rich study on the history of linguistics, replete with impeccable research, insightful analyses, and daring but compelling conclusions, The Writing of Spirit is a brilliant accomplishment, certain to have a major impact on our understanding of language, physiological psychology, and the limits of structuralism." -- -John T. Hamilton Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Eternal Etymology: From Sprachgeist to Ferdinand de Saussure 1. Language Ensouled Grammatical Life * Life Science * Kosmon Psychon * How Inflection Unfolds * Etymology: the Method * Spirit Superfluous? * The Demise of Analysis 2. Saussure's Dream In Search of the Literal * Neither Flesh nor Spirit * But Rather Writing * Postmeditation 3. Verse Origins Through the Letters Wafts the Spirit * 2 L, 2 P, 4 R (=2+2) * Little Sticks, Letter Rhymes * The Rhythm of Geist * The Cult of Cancellation Part II. Tending Toward Zero: From Runes to Phonemes 4. Wagner's Poetry of the Spheres Philology + Harmony * Wotan's Staff 5. Pythagoras in the Laboratory The Wagnerian Sound of Sense * Wave Systems (Acoustics) * The Undulating All (Psychophysics) * A Philology of the Ear (Poetics) 6. Jakobson's Zeros Analogy: the Method * Zero Degree Rhyme * The Silent "e" * Mama and Papa * In Retrospect: The Future Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A probing and theoretically rich study on the history of linguistics, replete with impeccable research, insightful analyses, and daring but compelling conclusions, The Writing of Spirit is a brilliant accomplishment, certain to have a major impact on our understanding of language, physiological psychology, and the limits of structuralism." -- -John T. Hamilton Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Eternal Etymology: From Sprachgeist to Ferdinand de Saussure 1. Language Ensouled Grammatical Life * Life Science * Kosmon Psychon * How Inflection Unfolds * Etymology: the Method * Spirit Superfluous? * The Demise of Analysis 2. Saussure's Dream In Search of the Literal * Neither Flesh nor Spirit * But Rather Writing * Postmeditation 3. Verse Origins Through the Letters Wafts the Spirit * 2 L, 2 P, 4 R (=2+2) * Little Sticks, Letter Rhymes * The Rhythm of Geist * The Cult of Cancellation Part II. Tending Toward Zero: From Runes to Phonemes 4. Wagner's Poetry of the Spheres Philology + Harmony * Wotan's Staff 5. Pythagoras in the Laboratory The Wagnerian Sound of Sense * Wave Systems (Acoustics) * The Undulating All (Psychophysics) * A Philology of the Ear (Poetics) 6. Jakobson's Zeros Analogy: the Method * Zero Degree Rhyme * The Silent "e" * Mama and Papa * In Retrospect: The Future Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Everything is in flux, as we are told over and over again. And yet, these are fluxes in which nothing ever really changes... Other thinkers have characterized globalized and financialized capitalism in this way; Neyrat sees it as a dilemma for critical thought as well... In a world where anything can be anyplace, and anything can switch places with anything else, philosophy must insist on its power to be, not everyplace, but noplace. It must never fit in, but always disturb its context, ... maintaining a relation with the very Outside that our dominant social, economic, and intellectual conditions seek to deny or suppress... Above all, Atopias is a work of ethics, exhorting us to recognize and find room for the many forms of existence with whom we share our planet." -- -from Steven Shaviro's ForewordTable of ContentsCritique of pure madness Book I: Toposophy 1.1 The undamaged and the contagious 1.2 Saturated immanence and transcendence x 1.3 Socratic divergence Book II: Theory of the trans-ject 2.1 Being-outside 2.2 Coalitions 2.3 Ab-solved freedom 2.4 Language and dis-joining 2.5 On the subject of animals Book III: The metaphysical proposition 3.1 The transgression of the principle of the excluded middle 3.2 The leap and the loop 3.3 The unlocatable 3.4 The madwoman of the out-of-place 3.5 Science(s), art, politics What cries out

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Book SynopsisMonkey Trouble explores the turn toward immanence in contemporary posthumanism, which aims to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient things. This book argues that the displacement of anthropocentrism must cultivate a human/nonhuman relationality that affirms the immanent transcendency spawned by our phantasmatic humanness.Trade Review"Posthumanists, new materialists, neovitalists, cosmopoliticians, accelerationists, xenofeminists, post-poststructuralists, and speculative realists will have much to argue with here. But this is an argument they-we-would be well advised to have at this historical moment-a decade or two into the broader 'nonhuman turn'-given the often baroque claims, naive enthusiasms, and extravagant contradictions performed in its name. In Peterson's meticulous and elliptical critique we encounter a forceful Counter-Reformation against the more heretical proclamations of posthumanism; along with a nuanced insistence that-when all is said and done-we are human, all too human, after all." -- -Dominic Pettman The New School for Social ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction (1) The Scandal of the Human: Immanent Transcendency and the Question of Animal Language (2) Sovereign Silence: The Desire for Answering Speech (3) The Gravity of Melancholia: A Critique of Speculative Realism (4) Listing Toward Cosmocracy: The Limits of Hospitality Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting some important strands of his published work, it covers deep epistemological changes in disease concepts and major advances in the life sciences and their historiography.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editor and Translator’s Note Foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Introduction: Mirko Grmek’s Investigative Pathway by Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Université Laval, Québec) Pathocenosis: Diseases in History 1. Preliminaries to the Historical Study of Diseases 2. The Concept of Emerging Disease 3. Some Unorthodox Views and a Selection Hypothesis on the Origin of the AIDS Viruses Experiments and Concepts in Life Sciences 4. First Steps in Claude Bernard’s Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver 5. The Causes and the Nature of Ageing 6. A Survey of the Mechanical Interpretations of Life from the Greek Atomists to the Followers of Descartes History of Science: the Laboratory of Epistemology 7. A Plea for freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth Memoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory 8. A Memoricide 9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting some important strands of his published work, it covers deep epistemological changes in disease concepts and major advances in the life sciences and their historiography.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editor and Translator’s Note Foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Introduction: Mirko Grmek’s Investigative Pathway by Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Université Laval, Québec) Pathocenosis: Diseases in History 1. Preliminaries to the Historical Study of Diseases 2. The Concept of Emerging Disease 3. Some Unorthodox Views and a Selection Hypothesis on the Origin of the AIDS Viruses Experiments and Concepts in Life Sciences 4. First Steps in Claude Bernard’s Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver 5. The Causes and the Nature of Ageing 6. A Survey of the Mechanical Interpretations of Life from the Greek Atomists to the Followers of Descartes History of Science: the Laboratory of Epistemology 7. A Plea for freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth Memoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory 8. A Memoricide 9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire to remake and master it.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reconstructing the Earth? 1 Part I. The Mirror of the Anthropocene: Geoengineering, Terraforming, and Earth Stewardship The Copenhagen Chiasm 25 1. The Screen of Geoengineering 27 2. The Mirror of the Anthropocene 34 3. Terraforming: Reconstructing the Earth, Recreating Life 45 4. The Logic of Geopower: Power, Management, and Earth Stewardship 56 Part II. The Future of Eco-constructivism: From Resilience to Accelerationism Turbulence, Resilience, Distance 71 5. An Ecology of Resilience: The Political Economy of Turbulence 73 6. The Extraplanetary Environment of the Ecomodernists 83 7. The “Political Ecology” of Bruno Latour: No Environments, No Limits, No Monsters (Not Even Fear) 90 8. Anaturalism and Its Ghosts 105 9. The Technological Fervor of Eco-constructivism 118 Part III. An Ecology of Separation: Natured, Naturing, Denaturing Object, Subject, Traject 133 10. Naturing Nature and Natured Nature 135 11. The Real Nature of an Ecology of Separation 146 12. Denaturing Nature 155 13. The Unconstructable Earth 165 Conclusion: What Is to Be Unmade? 179 Notes 189 Index 225

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Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire to remake and master it.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reconstructing the Earth? 1 Part I. The Mirror of the Anthropocene: Geoengineering, Terraforming, and Earth Stewardship The Copenhagen Chiasm 25 1. The Screen of Geoengineering 27 2. The Mirror of the Anthropocene 34 3. Terraforming: Reconstructing the Earth, Recreating Life 45 4. The Logic of Geopower: Power, Management, and Earth Stewardship 56 Part II. The Future of Eco-constructivism: From Resilience to Accelerationism Turbulence, Resilience, Distance 71 5. An Ecology of Resilience: The Political Economy of Turbulence 73 6. The Extraplanetary Environment of the Ecomodernists 83 7. The “Political Ecology” of Bruno Latour: No Environments, No Limits, No Monsters (Not Even Fear) 90 8. Anaturalism and Its Ghosts 105 9. The Technological Fervor of Eco-constructivism 118 Part III. An Ecology of Separation: Natured, Naturing, Denaturing Object, Subject, Traject 133 10. Naturing Nature and Natured Nature 135 11. The Real Nature of an Ecology of Separation 146 12. Denaturing Nature 155 13. The Unconstructable Earth 165 Conclusion: What Is to Be Unmade? 179 Notes 189 Index 225

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Book SynopsisBased on archival translations of Derrida’s as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance’s The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida’s engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity as theorized and performed by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida | ix Introduction | 1 1. Double Helix | 9 2. Schools of Life | 33 3. Institutions of the “Yes” | 51 4. Speaking into a Dead Man’s Ear | 74 5. Life Worth More Than Life | 97 6. The Movement of a Pas | 125 7. Rhythmos | 147 Acknowledgments | 151 Notes | 153 Works Cited | 177 Index | 187

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Book SynopsisBased on archival translations of Derrida’s as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance’s The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida’s engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity as theorized and performed by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida | ix Introduction | 1 1. Double Helix | 9 2. Schools of Life | 33 3. Institutions of the “Yes” | 51 4. Speaking into a Dead Man’s Ear | 74 5. Life Worth More Than Life | 97 6. The Movement of a Pas | 125 7. Rhythmos | 147 Acknowledgments | 151 Notes | 153 Works Cited | 177 Index | 187

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Of Other Petrofictions: Reimagining the Mine in German Romanticism | 17 2 Goethe’s Erratics: Wandering in Deep Time | 36 3 Many Stranded Stones: Stifter’s Spectral Landscapes | 67 4 The Shock of the Earth: Benjamin’s Unarticulated Ground | 93 Epilogue: Dilapidated | 115 Acknowledgments | 139 Notes | 143 Bibliography | 157 Index | 171

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Of Other Petrofictions: Reimagining the Mine in German Romanticism | 17 2 Goethe’s Erratics: Wandering in Deep Time | 36 3 Many Stranded Stones: Stifter’s Spectral Landscapes | 67 4 The Shock of the Earth: Benjamin’s Unarticulated Ground | 93 Epilogue: Dilapidated | 115 Acknowledgments | 139 Notes | 143 Bibliography | 157 Index | 171

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Book SynopsisAn engrossing account of the way religion and the technological imagination come together in the world’s largest religious transhumanist organization.Table of ContentsPreface | ix A Note on Names and Terms | xxiii Series Zero: “Children of God would try to play God” | 1 Part I: Dramatis personae First Series: Mormonisms | 55 Second Series: Transhumanisms | 76 Third Series: Mormon Transhumanism | 94 Part II: Mormon/Transhuman Fourth Series: Kolob runs on Domo | 113 Fifth Series: Discipline, Belief, and Speculative Religion | 136 Part III: Science Fictions Sixth Series: Freezing, Burying, Burning | 161 Seventh Series: “as if awakening from a night’s sleep” | 211 Eighth Series: Worlds without End | 240 Ninth Series: Queer Polygamy | 256 Series: Problems, Planes, and Lines of Flight | 293 Acknowledgments | 303 Notes | 307 Bibliography | 327 Index | 353

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Book SynopsisAn engrossing account of the way religion and the technological imagination come together in the world’s largest religious transhumanist organization.Table of ContentsPreface | ix A Note on Names and Terms | xxiii Series Zero: “Children of God would try to play God” | 1 Part I: Dramatis personae First Series: Mormonisms | 55 Second Series: Transhumanisms | 76 Third Series: Mormon Transhumanism | 94 Part II: Mormon/Transhuman Fourth Series: Kolob runs on Domo | 113 Fifth Series: Discipline, Belief, and Speculative Religion | 136 Part III: Science Fictions Sixth Series: Freezing, Burying, Burning | 161 Seventh Series: “as if awakening from a night’s sleep” | 211 Eighth Series: Worlds without End | 240 Ninth Series: Queer Polygamy | 256 Series: Problems, Planes, and Lines of Flight | 293 Acknowledgments | 303 Notes | 307 Bibliography | 327 Index | 353

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Book SynopsisTransnational Culture in the Internet Age draws on a range of disciplines to examine new approaches to regulating communications and cultural production.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Navigating in the Dark When Bits Have No Borders Sean A. Pager and Adam Candeub 1. The Challenge(s) of Cyberlaw David G. Post 2. Copyright, Culture and the Cloud Daniel J. Gervais 3. Addressing ‘Libel Tourism’ Lili Levi 4. YouTube from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: Tyrannize Locally, Censor Globally Hannibal Travis 5. Balkanizing the Internet Kevin W. Saunders 6. Timid Liberalism: A Critique of the Process-Oriented Norms for Internet Blocking Milton Mueller 7. Internet Creativity, Communicative Freedom and a Constitutional Rights Theory Response to ‘Code is Law’ Christoph B. Graber 8. Diminished, Enduring, and Emergent Diversity Policy Concerns in an Evolving Media Environment Philip M. Napoli 9. Cultural Protectionism 2.0: Updating Cultural Policy Tools for the Digital Age Mira Burri 10. Copyright, Complexity, and Cultural Diversity: A Skeptic’s View Michal Shur-Ofry 11. The Nigerian Film Industry and Lessons Regarding Cultural Diversity from the Home-Market Effects Model of International Trade in Films Mark F. Schultz 12. Digital Content Production in Nigeria and Brazil: A Case for Cultural Optimism? Sean A. Pager 13. Decolonizing Networked Technology: Learning from the Street Dance Larisa Mann 14. Balancing Act: The Creation and Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge and Culture Inside and Outside the Legal Frame Kimberley Christen 15. Localism as a Production Imperative: An Alternative Framework for Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage Jon M. Garon 16. Cross-Country Comparison of Audience Tastes in Hollywood Movies: Cultural Distance and Genre Preferences W. Wayne Fu 17. Protecting and Promoting National Cultures in a World Where Bits Want to Flow Freely Sang Yup Lee and Steven S. Wildman Index

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Book SynopsisIn today’s globalised world, modern society is characterized by rapid transitions in space that are in part the result of technological developments of previous decades.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Amnon Frenkel, Peter Nijkamp and Philip McCann PART I: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1. The Spatial Consequences of Autarky in Land-use Regulation: Strategic Interaction or Simply Parallelism? Paavo Monkkonen and John M. Quigley 2. Intra-urban Mobility and Changing Density Functions in Tel Aviv, 1995–2006 Daniel Felsenstein and Shlomie Hazam 3. The Role of Monetary and Financial Factors in Regional Development: An Overview Masagus M. Ridhwan, Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietveld and Henri L.F. de Groot PART II: INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION 4. Spatial Mobility of Firms Piet H. Pellenbarg and Joris Knoben 5. The Location of Knowledge Economy and High-tech in Israel Dafna Schwartz, Gil Avnimelech and Raphael Bar-El 6. University–Industry Technology Transfer: Fostering and Hindering Factors and Programmes Amnon Frenkel and Daniel Shefer PART III: HUMAN CAPITAL, MIGRATION AND LABOUR FORCE 7. The Effect of Asset and Credit Constraint on Interregional Labour Migration Patricio Aroca, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and Michael Sonis 8. Circular Statistics, Migration Models and the Directionality of Job Search Processes Alessandra Faggian, Jonathan Corcoran and Philip McCann 9. Commuting and Migration: Can They be Complementary? Raphael Bar-El and Miki Malul 10. Globalisation, the CEECs and European Policy Daniela Constantin, Zizi Goschin and Philip McCann 11. Spatial Filtering Methods for Tracing Space–Time Developments in an Open Regional System: Experiments with German Unemployment Data Roberto Patuelli, Daniel A. Griffith, Michael Tiefelsdorf and Peter Nijkamp PART IV: SPATIAL MOBILITY 12. The Role of Computing in Urban Travel Forecasting: How Transportation Planning Practice Shaped Software, and Software Impacted Transportation Planning Practice David Boyce and Hillel Bar-Gera 13. Sustainable Transportation Development and Travel Behavior Yoram Shiftan and Daniel Shefer 14. Reinventing the Wheel: Planning the Rail Network to Meet the Mobility Needs of the 21st Century Moshe Givoni and David Banister 15. Are Urban Transportation Benefits Absorbed Fully by Land Values? Haim Aviram and Daniel Shefer Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful Handbook scrutinizes alternative concepts and approaches to the dominant economic or industrial theories of innovation. Providing an assessment of these alternatives, it questions the absence of these neglected types of innovation and suggests diverse theories.This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.Trade Review‘This Handbook truly deserves its designation as such. It provides a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of different conceptual meanings, theories, usages and interpretations of “innovation”. Far beyond the most familiar association with technology and industry, the reader is introduced to “social“, “responsible“, “sustainable“, “disruptive“ and other variations of innovation, their respective rationales, theoretical underpinnings, philosophical and policy implications. This collection of contributions by well-respected authors is a fascinating and unique attempt to capture the many paths covered by “innovation“ as a traveling concept.’ -- Peter Weingart, Bielefeld University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Alternative Theories of Innovation 1 Benoît Godin, Gérald Gaglio and Dominique Vinck PART I VISIONS OF INNOVATION 1 Innovation theology 11 Benoît Godin 2 Imaginaries of innovation 23 Harro van Lente PART II THEORIZING INNOVATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE FOUNDATIONS 3 Theories of innovation 38 Benoît Godin 4 Economic approaches to industrial technological innovation 59 Irwin Feller PART III ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO INNOVATION 5 Mapping innovation diversity 79 Mónica Edwards-Schachter 6 Social innovation: contested understandings of social change 106 Cornelius Schubert 7 Sustainable innovation: analysing literature lineages 122 Frank Boons and Riza Batista-Navarro 8 Responsible innovation: challenging an alternative 135 Lucien von Schomberg PART IV ALTERNATIVE TYPES OF INNOVATION 9 User-centred innovation: from innovative users to user centred programmes 148 Bastien Tavner 10 Open innovation: the open society and its entrepreneurial bias 162 Tiago Brandão 11 Disruptive innovation: an organizational strategy and a technological concept 182 Darryl Cressman 12 Common innovation: the oldest species of innovation? 197 G.M. Peter Swann 13 Grassroots innovation: mainstreaming the discourse of informal sector 212 Fayaz Ahmad Sheikh and Hemant Kumar 14 Frugal innovation: reaching an ‘empowered’ developing-countries end-user 233 Céline Cholez and Pascale Trompette PART V SUPPORTING INNOVATION: REFRAMING THE INSTRUMENTS 15 X-innovation and international organizations narratives 252 Carolina Bagattolli 16 Transformative innovation policy: a novel approach? 276 Markus Grillitsch, Teis Hansen and Stine Madsen 17 Business innovation measurement: history and evolution 292 Giulio Perani PART VI IMMUNE DISCIPLINES AND FORGOTTEN THEORIZATIONS 18 Religion and innovation: charting the territory 310 Boris Rähme 19 Anthropology of and for innovation 334 Ulrich Ufer and Alexandra Hausstein 20 Philosophical reflections on the concept of innovation 354 Vincent Blok PART VII THEORIZING THE THEORIES 21 Ideology, engine or regime. Styles of critique and theories of innovation 369 Brice Laurent 22 Collateral innovation: renewing theory from case-studies 387 Gérald Gaglio and Dominique Vinck Conclusion to the Handbook on Alternative Theories of Innovation 404 Gérald Gaglio, Dominique Vinck and Benoît Godin Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook explores how the trajectory of technology can be predicted and strategically prepared for. It provides insight into the value and application of forecasting and roadmapping, covering foundational theories, method taxonomies and established approaches such as foresight and scenario planning.

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Book SynopsisThis illuminating Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive overview of cryptocurrencies, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, clarifying developing terminology in order to provide a key reference point for navigating this evolving domain.

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Book SynopsisEdited by three of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of technology, this new handbook provides a thoughtful and evidence-driven examination of contemporary technology's impact on society and human behavior.Table of ContentsAbout the Editors viii List of Contributors x Preface xxx Acknowledgments xli Part I The Psychology of Technology 1 1 The Acute and Chronic Impact of Technology on our Brain 3David A. Ziegler, Jyoti Mishra, and Adam Gazzaley 2 Similarities and Differences in Workplace, Personal, and Technology]Related Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes Across Five Generations of Americans 20Larry D. Rosen and José M. Lara]Ruiz 3 Internet Credibility and Digital Media Literacy 56Nancy A. Cheever and Jeffrey Rokkum 4 Gender Digital Divide: Does it Exist and What are the Explanations? 74Richard Joiner, Caroline Stewart, and Chelsey Beaney 5 Access and Attitudes to Digital Technologies Across the Adult Lifespan: Evidence from Distance Education 89John T. E. Richardson and Anne Jelfs 6 Navigating Psychological Ethics in Shared Multi]User Online Environments 105Jeff Gavin and Karen Rodham Part II Children, Teens, and Technology 117 7 Executive Function in Risky Online Behaviors by Adolescents and Young Adults 119L. Mark Carrier, Vanessa Black, Ludivina Vasquez, Aimee D. Miller, and Larry D. Rosen 8 Cyberbullying: Prevalence, Causes, and Consequences 142Robin M. Kowalski and Elizabeth Whittaker 9 A Step Toward Understanding Cross]National and Cross]Cultural Variances in Cyberbullying 158Fatih Bayraktar 10 Sexual Communication in the Digital Age 176Michelle Drouin 11 Mobile Phone Dependency: What’s All the Buzz About? 192Michelle Drouin, Daren Kaiser, and Daniel A. Miller 12 Assessing the Written Language of Text Messages 207Abbie Grace and Nenagh Kemp 13 Texting Behavior and Language Skills in Children and Adults 232Sam Waldron, Nenagh Kemp, Beverly Plester, and Clare Wood 14 Are “Friends” Electric?: Why Those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Thrive in Online Cultures but Suffer in Offline Cultures 250Mark Brosnan and Jeff Gavin Part III Social Media 271 15 Social Networking and Depression 273Brian A. Feinstein, Vickie Bhatia, Jessica A. Latack, and Joanne Davila 16 Sex, Alcohol, and Depression: Adolescent Health Displays on Social Media 287Megan A. Moreno and Megan A. Pumper 17 Exploring Disclosure and Privacy in a Digital Age: Risks and Benefits 301Karin Archer, Emily Christofides, Amanda Nosko, and Eileen Wood 18 The Emergence of Mobile Social Network Platforms on the Mobile Internet 321Andrew Richard Schrock 19 Technology and Self]Presentation: Impression Management Online 339Miriam Bartsch and Kaveri Subrahmanyam 20 Narcissism, Emerging Media, and Society 358Keith W. Campbell and Jean M. Twenge Part IV Multitasking 371 21 Searching for Generation M: Does Multitasking Practice Improve Multitasking Skill? 373L. Mark Carrier, Mike Kersten, and Larry D. Rosen 22 Multitasking and Attention: Implications for College Students 388Laura L. Bowman, Bradley M. Waite, and Laura E. Levine 23 Understanding Multimedia Multitasking in Educational Settings 404Eileen Wood and Lucia Zivcakova 24 Multitasking, Note]Taking, and Learning in Technology]ImmersiveLearning Environments 420 Lin Lin and Chris Bigenho 25 Multitasking and Interrupted Task Performance: From Theory to Application 436Nicole E. Werner, David M. Cades, and Deborah A. Boehm]Davis Part V The Media’s Impact on Audiences 453 26 Cultivation in the Twenty]First Century 455Nancy Signorielli 27 Internet Addiction 469Petra Vondrácǩ ová and David Šmahel 28 Smashing the Screen: Violent Video Game Effects 486Ann Lewis, Sara Prot, Christopher L. Groves, and Douglas A. Gentile 29 What is Known About Video Game and Internet Addiction After DSM]5 502Christopher L. Groves, Jorge A. Blanco]Herrera, Sara Prot, Olivia N. Berch, Shea McCowen and Douglas A. Gentile 30 The Future of Technology in Education 514Candrianna Clem and Reynol Junco Index 533

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Book SynopsisA sweeping history of data and its technical, political and ethical impact on our worldTrade Review"In a tour-de-force, Wiggins and Jones put data in context so that we can see the values, politics, and controversies that shape our present reality. This book is truly a semester-long class bottled into a narrative fit for vacation." -- Danah Boyd, founder and president, Data & Society Research Institute"Sometimes the best way to understand the present and prepare for the future is to look to the past. This insight is at the core of How Data Happened, an ambitious and thoughtful work. Wiggins and Jones have worked together—as data scientist and historian—to write a book that will reshape how you will see the relationship between data and society." -- Matthew J. Salganik, Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, and author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age"A leading data scientist and a historian of science walk into a classroom resulting in this ambitious and bold book packed with stories about the role of data in our society. Wiggins and Jones plainly and forcefully trace why we ended up with the big data mess that we have now and what we might do about it. Instead of platitudes, they argue how today’s fights over surveillance capitalism, government access to data, and Big Tech could shape the future of data’s power in society. How Data Happened is a must read for everyone interested in how data is changing our lives." -- Gina Neff, Executive Director, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge"This is the first comprehensive look at the history of data and how power has played a critical role in shaping the history. It’s a must read for any data scientist about how we got here and what we need to do to ensure that data works for everyone." -- DJ Patil, former U.S. Chief Data Scientist

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Book SynopsisErica Stanford is a crypto and future of money expert. The founder and CEO of the UK's most recommended crypto networking and events organization, Crypto Curry Club, she publishes the weekly Crypto Currier industry newsletter as well as Blockchain Industry Review. The advisor to several crypto start-ups, she is an in-demand speaker and commentator on the potential and use cases of digital currencies. She is the guest associate lecturer in cryptocurrency at Warwick Business School and has featured in The Express, Finance News, Coin Rivet and on the BBC. She is based in London, England.Trade Review"An accessible guide to the confusing and fast-growing world of crypto scams. If you're thinking of investing in cryptocurrency, read this first!" * Jamie Bartlett, host of BBC podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen, author of The People Vs Tech, The Dark Net, Radicals and The Missing Cryptoqueen, presenter and journalist *"Crypto has proved the quickest get-rich scheme in all history. Unfortunately, the easiest people to rip off are those hoping to get rich quick, so scam after inevitable scam has preyed on the sector. Erica Stanford's page turner tells their bitter, but compelling stories." * Dominic Frisby, comedian, actor, MoneyWeek columnist and author of Daylight Robbery *"Erica Stanford covers everything that is oh so wrong and oh so right about the transformational world of cryptocurrencies. Prepare to laugh, cringe or be spooked. This book combines technology, business, mystery, fantasy and popular culture in a fascinating and enlightening way. And the best part: it's all true." * Anthony Day, Blockchain Partner, IBM, and host of Blockchain Won’t Save the World podcast *"Fascinating read on the boom days of crypto's Initial Coin Offerings, analysing the hype that threatened to overshadow the technology. Erica Stanford captures the mood and energy of the time in this greatly entertaining and insightful work." * Caroline Casey, Vice President, Innovation and Consumer Experience, Europe, Mastercard *"In what other book could you read about the biggest Ponzi schemes in the world, espionage, an $800 billion bubble, fake death, cryptoqueens, gambling and porn - literally 50 shades of the dodgiest grey with regulators and the FBI in hot pursuit? Erica Stanford brilliantly analyses the future of crypto in a world where the real future including security-backed tokens and CBDC's is only just beginning." * Bob Wigley, Chair UK Finance, Co-Chair, Cross Market Operational Resilience Group, Bank of England, Board Member, DIT and UK Home Office, NED, adjunct professor and author of Born Digital *"The is a marvellous romp through the crazy world of cryptocurrency and its wackier elements. But as well as the fun, we get a glimpse into what might one day give the global financial system a run for its money." * Mike Butcher MBE, Editor-at-Large, TechCrunch *"Crypto Wars is a fascinating and gripping account of human nature and its demons emerging from the frontiers of the crypto economy. It is mandatory reading for investors, regulators and builders of our financial future" * Lex Sokolin, fintech futurist and philosopher, Founder, The Fintech Blueprint, and Head Economist, ConsenSys *"This book is essential reading, especially for anyone thinking of dipping even their little toe into cryptocurrency." * Sara Vaughan, innovator and creator of global brands with purpose, positive change maker *"Erica Stanford takes readers through the complicated history of crypto hacks, scams and pump and dump schemes with such vivid detail and engaging narrative, you'll find it hard to put the book down." * Leslie Lamb, Head of Institutional Sales, Amber Group, and host of the Crypto Unstacked podcast *"As the market booms it's timely that someone has done justice to the extraordinary story of crypto - this unputdownable book captures the fun and the ups and the downs. It's a mesmeric read." * Charlie Kerrigan, Partner and Global Head of Fintech, CMS *"Erica Stanford's entertaining exploration of the world of scams, grifts, frauds and fantasies serves as a reminder that while on the one hand there is nothing new under the sun, on the other hand we have barely begun to understand the impact of cryptocurrency." * David Birch, author of The Currency Cold War and international adviser and commentator on digital financial services *

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Book SynopsisCommunications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box. Urges scholars in media and communication to return to broader conceptions of the field that include mobility of all kindsinformation, people, and commodities Embraces perspectives from media studies, science and technology studies, sociology, media anthropology, and cultural geography Discusses ideas of virtual and embodied mobility, network geographies, de-territorialization, sedentarism, nomadology, connectivity, containment, and exclusion Integrates the often-neglected transport studies into contemporary communication studies and theories of globalization Trade Review“In sum, this book delivers a rich and nuanced illumination of the impact of the inseparable material and virtual dimensions of media and communications in our contemporary world.” -- Mobile Media and Communication Volume 8 (1) 2020 The book "weaves together perspectives on communication, mobility, territory and transport from various disciplines" and " offers a new and broader theoretical framework... historicizing and culturally contextualising communications, which will deepen and enrich readers` understanding of technologies and mobilities in the contemporary world" – European Journal of Cultural Studies, First Published 13 Jan 2020Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Redefining Communications 1 Part I The Return of Geopolitics 19 1 Communications, Transport, and Territory 21 2 Constituting Europe: Empires, Nations, and Techno]zones 37 Part II Reconceptualizing Communications: Mobilities and Geographies 57 3 Sedentarism, Nomadology, and “New Mobilities” 59 4 Disaggregating Mobilities: Zoning, Exclusion, and Containment 77 5 Geography, Topography, and Topology: Networks and Infrastructures 95 6 The Virtual and the Actual: Being There, Disembodiment, and Deterritorialization 113 Part III The Mobility of People, Information, and Commodities: Case Studies in Communications Geography 131 7 Migration: Changing Paradigms, Embodied Mobilities, and Material Practices 133 8 Mobile Communications and Ubiquitous Connectivity: Technologies of Transformation? 159 9 Containerization as Globalization: The Mobility of Commodities 199 Index 233

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Book SynopsisVan Berkel's account provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of the origins of the mechanical philosophy of nature, the philosophy that culminated in the work of Isaac Newton.Trade ReviewThis is an exceedingly rich book... it should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in the origins of modern science. -- Richard T. W. Arthur HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Van Berkel has uncovered the rich content and historical significance of Beeckman and his journal. -- Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis Metascience Van Berkel has done an admirable job of recreating Beeckman's life and helping us to understand his development and his place in the progress of science in the seventeenth century. -- Sheila J. Rabin Sixteenth Century Journal A thoroughly researched... study of Beeckman's life and scientific achievements. -- Antonio Clericuzio The British Journal for the History of Science In the present book Van Berkel succeeds in revealing the context as well as the content of Beeckman's life and scholarly work... An important contribution to the history of the new science of the seventeenth century, and is a must for every scholar of this period. Renaissance Quarterly ... Van Berkel's book is an important contribution to our understanding of early modern natural philosophy. Early Science and MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Making of a Natural Philosopher, 1588–16192. Schoolteacher and Craftsman, 1619–16273. Among Patricians and Philosophers, 1627–16374. Principles of Mechanical Philosophy I: Matter5. Principles of Mechanical Philosophy II: Motion6. Sources for a Mechanical Philosophy7. Beeckman and the Scientific RevolutionNotesBibliographic EssayIndex

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Book SynopsisScholars and students in political science, public administration, international studies, sociology, and the history of science and technology will find this to be an insightful and indispensable work.Trade ReviewWu has given us an important book of ideas, presented with clarity and originality, that could go a long way toward helping us keep up with - and understand the vast implications of - the technology swirling around us. Hill RagTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I1. Trust Communities from the Telegraph to the InternetActivists Use the Latest Technology AvailableGovernments Use Technology to Define the NationThe Link between Commercial Success and Political UsefulnessSharing and Interaction Create Meaning within a Trust CommunityTrust Communities Can Have Diverse MembersInformation as Political CurrencyThe Trust Community as an Analytical ToolUnpacking the Concept of "Trust Community"2. Blogs, Wikis, and International Collective ActionHow This Case Came to LightFailure of Government, Humanitarian, and Media InstitutionsWhy Individuals Came Together and How They Did ItShock, Grief, and AngerFrustration and the Impulse to HelpCreating the Blog and WikiMaking the Blog Easier to UseCreating the WikiMoving the Wiki to a New HomeThe Egalitarian EthosBlog and Wiki Effectiveness on the GroundDid Volunteers Participate Again in Other Collective Actions?The View through the Lens of a Trust CommunityCreating a Common IdentityBuilding TrustSocial CapitalNetworkTrust CommunityInstitutionPart Two3. Activists Challenge Institutions with Information Technology NetworksChina 1900Philippines 2001Taiwan 1970sGlobal 1990sEgypt and Tunisia 2011Conclusion4. Governments Shape Nations with Communications TechnologyInfrastructure and National IdentityCanada 1927Brazill 1900DiscussionInfrastructure, Economic Development, and National SecurityChina 1979United States 1864United States 1968Information, Ideas, and National SecurityUSSR 1960Russia 1880Information, Ideas, and Delivering Public ServicesGlobal 1990United States 1960Information, Ideas, and National IdentityIndia 1987UK 1938Qatar 1996DiscussionConclusionPart III5. Technology + Trust = Political InfluenceTrust Communities — Opportunities for Individuals and InstitutionsThe Role of CapitalismEngagement, Participation, and InteractivityTrust Communities and DiversityInformation and Ideas as a Source of PowerTrust Community as an Analytical LensFuture ResearchConclusionEpilogueFor the ActivistFor BusinessesFor GovernmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe fascinating stories behind their design, construction, and marketing reveal in rich detail how these buildings became cultural symbols that shaped the urban landscape.Trade ReviewA rigorously researched and elegantly written study of the role of the hotel in shaping and embodying ideals of progress, luxury, and technology in a consumer capitalist society. Berger's monograph is a welcome contribution to the growing scholarly literature on the history of hotels in modern America, and is a must-read for scholars of business history, the history of technology, architectural and urban history, and the history of consumer culture. American Historical Review [Berger's] nuanced interpretation of technology makes her work so important to design historians... Hotels have served as realms of the fantastic that permit guests to escape the everyday and enter into a world of dreams where service and splendour define new experiences. It is this dream world that Berger successfully evokes in this important book and others should follow her lead by exploring this remarkably rich topic. Journal of Design History A salutatory and important book. Hospitality & Society Journal A worthwhile addition to the growing scholarly literature on hotels. Journal of American History In a relatively compact study, Berger has provided a rich, revealing portrayal of her subject that is likely to remain a basic source for scholars examining the history of the city no less than of the hotel itself for some years to come. Journal of Social History Complements and expands on A.K. Sandoval-Strausz's Hotel. Choice A very informative and entertaining read. Past In ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Emergence of the American First-Class Hotel, 1820s2. The Tremont House, Boston, 18293. The Proliferation of Antebellum Hotels, 1830–18604. The Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, 18605. Production and Consumption in an American Palace, 1850–18756. The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, 18757. The "New" Modern Hotel, 1880–19208. The Stevens Hotel, Chicago, 1927ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging history of assisted reproductive technologies and their ethical implications. Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in History of Science, Medicine and Technology by the Association of American PublishersSince the 1978 birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in England, more than eight million children have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies. From the start, they have stirred controversy and raised profound questions: Should there be limits to the lengths to which people can go to make their idea of family a reality? Who should pay for treatment? How can we ensure the ethical use of these technologies? And what can be done to address the racial and economic disparities in access to care that enable some to have children while others go without?In The Pursuit of Parenthood, historian Margaret Marsh and gynecologist Wanda Ronner seek to answer these challenging questions. Bringing their unique expertise in gender history and women's healTrade ReviewMargaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner are clear in what they advocate . . . they are wonderfully level-headed guides.—Michele Pridmore-Brown, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface Introduction. The Past as Prologue Chapter 1. Test-Tube Babies Just around the Corner Chapter 2. From First Dream to First Baby Chapter 3. IVF Comes to America Chapter 4. From Miracle Births to Medical Mainstream Chapter 5. The Elusive Search for National Consensus Chapter 6. A Lot of Money Being MadeChapter 7. Beyond InfertilityChapter 8. Can the Wild West of Reproductive Medicine Be Tamed?Appendix. Assisted Reproductive Technologies by (Some of) the Numbers Acknowledgments NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIndia's global success in the Information Technology industry has also prompted the growth of neoliberalism and the re-emergence of the middle class in contemporary urban areas, such as Bangalore. In her significant study, BITS of Belonging, Simanti Dasgupta shows that this economic shift produces new forms of social inequality while reinforcing older ones. She investigates this economic disparity by looking at IT and water privatization to explain how these otherwise unrelated domains correspond to our thinking about citizenship, governance, and belonging.Dasgupta's ethnographic study shows how work and human processes in the IT industry intertwine to meet the market stipulations of the global economy. Meanwhile, in the recasting of water from a public good to a commodity, the middle class insists on a governance and citizenship model based upon market participation. Dasgupta provides a critical analysis of the grassroots activism involved in a contested water project where different Trade Review“An engaging and important book that re-frames the widely studied field of IT in India in novel and interesting ways. Simanti Dasgupta offers new insights in her juxtaposition of IT and water distribution, and shows how neoliberal politics in India are deeply embedded in gender and caste hierarchies. Illuminative, BITS of Belonging deserves to be widely read.”—Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity“BITS of Belonging is a very timely and important book, with significant theoretical insights and compelling data. Its critique of the rhetoric of IT leaders and professionals in India is rigorous. Dasgupta provides an exploration of lived experience of the IT boom for those on the ground in the city of Bangalore. Her analysis moves fluidly back and forth from slums and governmental water boards, to affluent IT firms and corporate parks. With a geographer’s eye, she shows us firsthand the disconnect between these worlds—which are all affected by the IT boom—and it is extremely powerful.”—Winifred Poster, Washington University, St. Louis

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Book SynopsisIndia's global success in the Information Technology industry has also prompted the growth of neoliberalism and the re-emergence of the middle class in contemporary urban areas, such as Bangalore. In her significant study, BITS of Belonging, Simanti Dasgupta shows that this economic shift produces new forms of social inequality while reinforcing older ones. She investigates this economic disparity by looking at IT and water privatization to explain how these otherwise unrelated domains correspond to our thinking about citizenship, governance, and belonging.Dasgupta's ethnographic study shows how work and human processes in the IT industry intertwine to meet the market stipulations of the global economy. Meanwhile, in the recasting of water from a public good to a commodity, the middle class insists on a governance and citizenship model based upon market participation. Dasgupta provides a critical analysis of the grassroots activism involved in a contested water project where different Trade Review“An engaging and important book that re-frames the widely studied field of IT in India in novel and interesting ways. Simanti Dasgupta offers new insights in her juxtaposition of IT and water distribution, and shows how neoliberal politics in India are deeply embedded in gender and caste hierarchies. Illuminative, BITS of Belonging deserves to be widely read.”—Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity“BITS of Belonging is a very timely and important book, with significant theoretical insights and compelling data. Its critique of the rhetoric of IT leaders and professionals in India is rigorous. Dasgupta provides an exploration of lived experience of the IT boom for those on the ground in the city of Bangalore. Her analysis moves fluidly back and forth from slums and governmental water boards, to affluent IT firms and corporate parks. With a geographer’s eye, she shows us firsthand the disconnect between these worlds—which are all affected by the IT boom—and it is extremely powerful.”—Winifred Poster, Washington University, St. Louis

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Book SynopsisCharting the rise and fall of an experimental biomedical facility at a North American university, Culturing Bioscience offers a fascinating glimpse into scientific culture and the social and political context in which that culture operates. Krautwurst nests the discussion of scientific culture within a series of levels from the lab to the global political economy. In the process he explores a number of topics, including: the social impact of technology; researchers'' relationships with sophisticated equipment; what scientists actually do in a laboratory; what role science plays in the contemporary university; and the way bioscience interacts with local, regional, and global governments. The result is a rich case study that illustrates a host of contemporary issues in the social study of science.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Intraduction A Beginning Is Always in the Middle of Something Bioscience in an Out-of-the-Way Place: How It Got Started The Organization of the Book: Magnifying Currents Science Studies: A Brief Outline of Newtonian and Quantum Versions Thirty Years of Bioscience in Action A Theoretical and Methodological Intralude An Indeterminate List of Agential Realist Concepts Thinking through Methods, Thinking Methods through 1. Intra-Action and Doing Science: Experiments, People, and Technology Investigating Neuroscience 2. Re-Visioning Scientific Practice through the ACCBR A Vision: From Cooperation to Collaboration Structure and Practice, or, Space... the Final Frontier? The Near Future of the ACCBR 3. What Can You Do in, to, and with a University? Anthropology and the Call to "Study up" The University in Transformation 4. Science and/as Development Science and/as Science Policy: The Triple Helix, Modes 1 and 2, and Business Clusters Culturing Bioscience on Prince Edward Island 5. Globalizing Bioscience and/as Biocapital Global Biocapital and/as Community Bioscience, Biocapital, and Business Clusters: Intellectual Property on PEI Concluding: Lessons from an Open Concept Lab Appendix 1: A Parable on Changing Assumptions, or, How to Approximate Agential Realism Appendix 2: Fieldwork in the Academy, and the Ethics of Ethics References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested yet sincere evaluation that science and humanism can escape disastrous consequences in the future. Karl W. Deutsch (M.I.T.) deals with the general area of interplay between the sciences and the non-scientific aspects of our culture. F.E.L. Priestley (University of Toronto) discusses the impact of science on English literature. David Hawkins (University of Colorado) surveys the anthropological background of science. Harcourt Brown (Brown University) gives an account of the influence of the scientific outlook in French literary culture, and contributes an introduction explaining how the book came to be written.

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Book SynopsisA study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both. A theoretically innovative book exploring the intersections between law and materiality Offers new perspectives on a variety of high profile controversial subjects, including climate change, public health, genetics, crime, biomedical technology Investigates the futures of both the sociology of law and the study of science and technology from a novel, interdisciplinary vantage point Illustrates a wide range of empirical topics to provide a focus for critical reflection on the nature of cross-disciplinary research Illuminates relationships between transnational regulation and local practices and the relation between social agency and material worlds Table of ContentsIntroduction: Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society (Alex Faulkner, Bettina Lange and Christopher Lawless) 1. The Pragmatic Sanction of Materials: Notes for an Ethnography of Legal Substances (Javier Lezaun) 2. The Regulation of Nicotine in the United Kingdom: How Nicotine Gum Came to Be a Medicine, but Not a Drug (Catriona Rooke, Emilie Cloatre and Robert Dingwall) 3. The Donor-conceived Child's ‘Right to Personal Identity’: The Public Debate on Donor Anonymity in the United Kingdom (Ilke Turkmendag) 4. A Socio-legal Analysis of an Actor-world: The Case of Carbon Trading and the Clean Development Mechanism (Emilie Cloatre and Nick Wright) 5. Nanotechnology and the Products of Inherited Regulation (Elen Stokes) 6. The Emergence of Biobanks in the Legal Landscape: Towards a New Model of Governance (Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag and Anne Cambon-Thomsen) 7. The Legal Landscape for Advanced Therapies: Material and Institutional Implementation of European Union Rules in France and the United Kingdom (Aurélie Mahalatchimy, Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag, Virginie Tournay and Alex Faulkner) 8. Bodies of Science and Law: Forensic DNA Profiling, Biological Bodies, and Biopower (Victor Toom) 9. The Materiality of What? (Alain Pottage)

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Book SynopsisConsidering technological change and linkages between sectors while differentiating across types of services, this book assesses the scope of a services-driven development model and policy directions that maximize its potential.

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