"The Technological Society is one of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself -- unless we take the necessary steps to move ...(展开全部)

Will new information technologies, especially the Internet, bring freedom and democracy to authoritarian China? This study argues that the Internet has brought about new dynamics of socio-political changes in China, and that state power and social forces are transforming in Internet-mediated public space. Its findings are fourfold. First, the Internet empowers both the state an...(展开全部)

From the Palantir co-founder, one of tech’s boldest thinkers and The Economist’s “best CEO of 2024,” and his deputy, a sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambitious view of technology’s potential in Silicon Valley have made the U.S. vulnerable in an era of mounting global threats. “Fascinating...(展开全部)

默里·沙纳汉，伦敦帝国理工学院认知机器人学系教授，负责指导动力学组的研究。毕业于帝国理工学院、剑桥大学，2006起担任帝国理工学院教授至今。 默里·沙纳汉是奥斯卡获奖影片《机械姬》的科学顾问，作品横跨人工智能、机器人学、逻辑学、动力系统、计算神经科学和哲学思想等多领域，经常在媒体上就人工智能和机器人问题发表评论。

These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms?Karl Marx launched the modern debate on determinism with his provocative remark that "the hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-m...(展开全部)

These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms?Karl Marx launched the modern debate on determinism with his provocative remark that "the hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-m...(展开全部)

答谢词 第一章 美国政治中的中介组织 第一节 政治的和管理的环境 第二节 政党的定义和研究政党的方法 一、政党的定义 （一）入党的方法 （二）政党的目标 二、研究政党 政党的组成 第三节 政党的作用系统的功能 （一）支持民主 （二）管理冲突和促成冲突 （三）改善权力的分配 （四）监控“游戏规则” （五）增加选民 （六）征募和训练候选人 （七）增强竞选运动和通知投票人 第四节 党组织和与它们竞争的中介组织 一、利益集团的挑战 二、以候选人为中心的组织 三、媒体 四、顾问 第五节 政党的使命结束了吗？ 一、政党功能的衰微 二、执政党的衰落 三、选民中政党的消退 四、党组织的衰微 第六节 政党会迎来一个新时代吗？ 第七节 技术所扮演的角色 第八节 结论 第二章 美国政党制度的起源和发展． 第一节 1770—1824年：美国政党制度的第一阶段 第二节 182...(展开全部)

Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom , Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society . Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of isolation, and the dangers to which this can lead, The Sane Society took his theories one step further. In doing so it established F...(展开全部)

Avishai Margalit builds his social philosophy on this foundation: a decent society, or a civilized society, is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose citizens do not humiliate one another. What political philosophy needs urgently is a way that will permit us to live together without humiliation and with dignity. Most of the philoso...(展开全部)

A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world. We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information management, fueled by the abundance of personal data and the infrastruct...(展开全部)