How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myt...(展开全部)

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among soc...(展开全部)

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In his ground-breaking book, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective, examining the problem of sta...(展开全部)

Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises, Wendy Brown pursues a central question: how does a sense of woundedness become the basis for a sense of identity? Brown argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography powerfully legitimize the state: such apparen...(展开全部)

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management strategies that still visibly shape our ...(展开全部)

著者： 卡尔·贝内迪克特·弗雷（Carl Benedikt Frey），牛津马丁花旗会士，牛津新经济思维研究所高级研究员。在牛津大学马丁学院主持有关工作之前景的项目。他是一位知名的经济学家和经济史学家，同时担任二十国集团、经合组织、联合国、欧盟以及多家大企业的顾问。 著作也散见于《金融时报》《科学人》《华尔街日报》等著名媒体。他于2013年作为联合作者发表的“就业之前景：计算机化对工作的影响程度”得到了4000多次学术引用，其所用的研究方法被巴拉克·奥巴马的经济顾问委员会、英格兰银行以及世界银行采用。 译者： 贺笑，自由译者，本科毕业于湖南师范大学外国语学院，研究生毕业于北京大学软件与微电子学院。

Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar

The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)

Available in English for the first time, "Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns" rejuvenates discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's thought. Domenico Losurdo, one of the world's leading Hegelians, reveals the philosopher as having been fully engaged with the political co...(展开全部)