In Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies, from sex robots and military drones to sharing-economy platforms, Atanasoski and Vora show how liberal str...(展开全部)

In Networking Peripheries, Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. The evolving digital cultures in the Global South vividly demonstrate that there are more ways than one to imagine what digital practice and global connection could look like. To explore these alternative ...(展开全部)

In a world shaken by ecological, economic and political crises, the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand. How should we name, map and respond to this state of affairs? The rich archive of twentieth-century debates on fascism can steer a path through an increasingly authoritarian present. Developing anti-fascist theory is an urgent and vital task. ...(展开全部)

Explores how the institutional management of children’s sexualities in boarding schools affected children’s future social, political, and economic opportunities Tracing the US’s investment in disciplining minoritarian sexualities since the late nineteenth century, Mary Zaborskis focuses on a ubiquitous but understudied figure: the queer child. Queer Childhoods examines the live...(展开全部)

Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to prove that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime. Reprint.

迈克尔·欧克肖特(Michael Oakeshott，1901—1990)，英国哲学家，政治思想家，20世纪最重要的保守主义知识分子。其思想融英国观念论与休谟的怀疑论于一炉，对伯克等人所建立的英国传统保守主义思想从哲学上做了系统阐述，他对于知识论、政治哲学、历史哲学、宗教哲学和教育哲学都有着深湛的研究和阐发。在英美学术界享有极高声誉，被誉为“20世纪少有的杰出政治哲学家”、“这个世纪最有原创性的学院政治哲学家”、“从密尔或甚至伯克以来盎格鲁-撒克逊传统最伟大的政治哲学家”。 本文集收入了欧克肖特大部分作品，其中包括在他生前发表的著作——《政治中的理性主义》(节选本)(1962)、“论人类行为》(1975)、《论历史及其他论文》(1983)和《人文知识的声音：迈克尔·欧克肖特论教育》(1989)，也包括在他去世后，由别人给他整理出版的著作《宗教、政治与...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 《科学》期刊记者，《自然》期刊和《财富》杂志供稿作家，并为《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等撰写生物学和生物医学专栏。在华盛顿负责生物医学报道近二十年。瓦德曼毕业于斯坦福大学人类生物学专业；于英属哥伦比亚大学医学院学习医学，并以罗兹奖学金从牛津大学国王学院获得医学学位；还拥有哥伦比亚大学新闻学院硕士学位。

Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Swede...(展开全部)

Nationally-specific definitions of citizenship proved decisive for the development of the Tax State in Brazil and South Africa in the twentieth century. Although both countries had been divided along racial and regional lines in the late nineteenth century, watershed constitutions addressed these political problems in very different ways. South Africa's institutionalized white ...(展开全部)

L. Nandi Theunissen develops a non-Kantian account of the value of human beings. Against the Kantian tradition, in which humanity is absolutely valuable and unlike the value of anything else, Theunissen outlines a relational proposal according to which our value is continuous with the value of other valuable things. She takes the Socratic starting point that good is affecting, ...(展开全部)