Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major...(展开全部)

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major...(展开全部)

"This book is comprehensive and magisterial, and at the same time enormously readable. It will undoubtedly become one of the very few definitive texts in the rapidly growing field of media and cultural studies, providing a crucial link to critical theory and to social theory as a whole." Professor William Outhwaite, University of Sussex "An extremely powerful and sustained diag...(展开全部)

This work combines two early pamphlets by F. H. Bradley (1846-1924), the foremost philosopher of the British Idealist movement. The first essay, published in 1874, deals with the nature of professional history, and foreshadows some of Bradley's later ideas in metaphysics. He argues that history cannot be subjected to scientific scrutiny because it is not directly available to t...(展开全部)

布莱德雷（Francis Herbert Bradley，1846－1924），又译布拉德雷，是英国唯心论派（或称新黑格尔学派）最著名、最有原创性的代表。1846年1月30日出生于英国伦敦西南克拉彭的一个牧师家庭。1865年进牛津大学，1870年任牛津大学默顿学院研究员，并保持这一身份到逝世。1924年9月18日死于败血症。布莱德雷是个书斋型的学者，终生未娶。学术上，他以形而上学、伦理学、逻辑学的研究而闻名，在世时即赢得了同时代英国最伟大哲学家的誉称。代表作除本书外，还有《表象与实在》（1893）、《逻辑原理》（1883）、《伦理学研究》（1876）等。

阿萨·布里格斯，1921年生于约克郡的凯利，毕业于剑桥大学悉尼·苏塞克斯学院，1944年任教于牛津大学伍斯特学院。从1976年至1991年，他一直担任该学院院长。从1968年到1976年，他担任苏塞克斯大学的名誉副校长。在1978年至1994年期间，他担任英国开放大学的校长。 阿萨·布里格斯撰写了许多有关19世纪和20世纪英国历史的文章和著作，其中包括维多利亚时代三部曲（《维多利亚时代的城市》《维多利亚时代的人民》和《维多利亚时代的物品》），他还撰写了《改进的时代》和五卷本的《联合王国的广播史》以及合著《传媒的社会史：从古滕堡到互联网》等。阿萨·布里格斯一直担任英国社会史和文化史学会以及维多利亚协会的主席。阿萨·布里格斯已婚，有4个孩子。1976年他被封为终身贵族。 作为英中了解协会的主席，他曾访问中国并对之非常了解。他的作品目前译成中文的除本书外，...(展开全部)

This masterly collection of texts interrogates the raging academic question, What is art history? Editor Preziosi, who directs ground-breaking critical studies of art history and museology, provides introductions to 35 challenging readings gathered in nine chapters. This plethora of alternatives is curiously complicated, even obfuscating. Covered here are the most current and r...(展开全部)

基尔特·洛文克（Geert Lovink），欧洲前卫批判的网络文化批评家，从占屋运动开始迈向激进网络文化的实验，是荷兰网络文化中心的创始主任，荷兰与澳大利亚的媒体理论家、评论者与行动者。他在2003年于墨尔本大学获得博士学位，加入昆士兰大学批判与文化研究中心。2004年被任命为阿姆斯特丹应用科技大学的研究教授及阿姆斯特丹大学的助理教授。他发起网络时钟(nettime)、光纤文化(fibreculture)等网络计划。出版的书籍包括《暗光纤》（Dark Fibre, 2002）、《怪而熟悉的网络》（Uncanny Networks,2002）、《我的第一次经济衰退》（My First Recession, 2003）、《零评论》（Zero Comments, 2007）、《没有原因的网络：对社交媒体的批评》（Networks Without a Cau...(展开全部)

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest “to solve intelligence,” a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. The ...(展开全部)

As the speed of globalization accelerates, world cultures are more closely connected to each other than ever before. But what exactly is culture? It seems to be involved in all psychological processes, but can its psychological consequences be studied scientifically? How can cultural differences be described without reifying culture and reinforcing cultural stereotypes? Culture...(展开全部)