Volume 37 Issue 2 (2021)
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Editorial
In May 2014, Prometheus published one of its occasional debates on innovation, this one about the academic publishing industry. The industry’s product has become less academic knowledge than the indicators…
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Cultural exploitation in Chinese politics: reinterpreting Liu Sanjie
Liu Sanjie is a typical Chinese legendary figure, adapted from folk custom and transformed during many historical and political stages. By comparing the musical film Liu Sanjie with the landscape…
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An Australian newspaper campaign and government vaccination policy
News Corp Australia recently initiated a campaign to pressure the Australian government to amend its childhood vaccination policies. In 2015, the government legislated amendments in accord with the campaign’s demands…
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Disruptive innovation, the episteme and technology enhanced learning in higher education
This paper combines the theory of disruptive innovation with Foucault’s concept of the episteme, in order to analyse the extent to which the integration of Foucauldian analysis clarifies understandings of…
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Kate Darling, The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots
By Ryan Calo The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots byKate Darling (2021) 336 pp., £20 (hardback) Henry Holt & Co., New York,…
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Max Liljefors, Gregor Noll and Daniel Stor (eds) War and Algorithm
By Antoine Bousquet War and Algorithm edited by Max Liljefors, Gregor Noll and Daniel Stor (2019) 232pp., £28 (paperback) Rowman & Littlefield, London, ISBN 978-1-78661-364-6 War and Algorithm offers a…
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Steve Fuller, Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era
By Adam Briggle and Tang Yueming Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era, Steve Fuller (2019) 240pp., CHF108 (hardback), Schweiz, Schwabe Verlag, Basel, ISBN: 978-3796540608 In…
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Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon (eds) AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
By Madeleine Chalmers AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon (2020) 448pp., £55 (hardback) Oxford University Press, Oxford,…
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Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb (eds) The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda
By Ekkehard Ernst The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda edited by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb (2019) 648pp., $US150 (hardback) University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ISBN 9780226613338…
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Jan van Dijk, The Digital Divide
By Amy Gonzales The Digital Divide, Jan van Dijk (2020) 208pp., £18 (paperback) Polity Press, Cambridge, ISBN: 978-1-509-53445-6 Publication of The Digital Divide could not be more timely. The 2020…