Volume 39 Issue 3 (2023)
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Editorial
The persistence of our book review editor, Steven Umbrello, has at last resulted in the inclusion of Prometheus in the Italian government’s ANVUR list of approved scientific journals. Since 2010,…
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Propagating ‘Chinese invention’ through landscape performing art: sublimating the arts to nationalism
Landscape performing arts (LPA) is a series of large-scale performances that was developed in China. The performances use natural scenery in open-air theatres, characterized by fixed locality and daily performances,…
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First aid for a badly injured patent system
An academic lifetime of research on patents for invention led to conviction of how unfit for purpose current international arrangements have become, and to the proposal of several reforms (Kingston,…
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Mark Shepard, There are No Facts. Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life
There are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life Mark Shepard (2022), 296pp., $28 hardback, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, ISBN 9780262047470 Mark Shepard’s book, There are…
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Henrik Skaug Sætra (ed.) Technology and Sustainable Development: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism
Technology and Sustainable Development: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism Henrik Skaug Sætra (ed.) (2023) 286pp., £43 paperback, Routledge, Milton Park UK, ISBN 9781032350561 How a problem is framed determines the…
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A. Fejerskov, The Global Lab: Inequality, Technology, and the Experimental Movement
The Global Lab: Inequality, Technology, and the Experimental Movement A. Fejerskov (2022) 224pp., £25 hardback, Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN 0198870272 In The Global Lab: Inequality, Technology, and the Experimental Movement, Adam…
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Elise Bohan, Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century
Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century Elise Bohan (2022) 368pp., $AUS30 paperback, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, ISBN: 9781742236759 ‘The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind’…
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M. Steen, Ethics for People who Work in Tech
Ethics for People Who Work in Tech, M. Steen (2022) 216pp., €128 hardback, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, New York, ISBN 9780367543303 The first thing you notice about this book is…