After capitalism : horizons of finance, culture, and citizenship / / edited by Kennan Ferguson and Patrice Petro

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465282503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, New Jersey ; ; London, [England] : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-8135-8429-9; 0-8135-8428-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 pages)
• Collana: New Directions in International Studies
• Disciplina: 330.12/2
• Soggetti: Capitalism; Democracy; Citizenship; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction / Petro, Patrice / Ferguson, Kennan -- Part I: Financialization, Creditocracy, Austerity -- 1. Capital, after Capitalism / Mann, Geoff -- 2. Restoration of the Rentier and the Turn to Lifelong Extraction / Ross, Andrew -- 3. The Subprime Subject of Ideology / Ascher, Ivan -- 4. Social Democracy and Its Discontents: The Rise of Austerity / Sommers, Jeffrey -- Part II: Media/Art -- 5. Austerity Media / Petro, Patrice -- 6. Imagining Beyond Capital: Representation and Reality in Science Fiction Film / Vint, Sherryl -- 7 Mistaken Places: Unemployment, Avant-Gardism, and the Auto-da-Fé / Bullock, Marcus -- 8. Liquid, Crystal, Vaporous: The Natural States of Capitalism / Leslie, Esther -- Part III: Belonging -- 9. Cuban Filmmaking and the Postcapitalist Transition / Venegas, Cristina -- 10. "Neither Eastern nor Western": Economic and Cultural Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran / Akhavan, Niki -- 11. Differentiating Citizenship / Aneesh, A. -- 12. Gaming the System: Imperial Discomfort and the Emergence of Coyote Capitalism / Perley, Bernard C. -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: From Thomas Piketty to David Harvey, scholars are increasingly questioning whether we are entering into a post-capitalist era. If so, does this new epoch signal the failure of capitalism and emergence of alternative systems? Or does it mark the ultimate triumph of capitalism as it evolves into an unstoppable entity that takes new forms as it engulfs its opposition? After Capitalism brings together leading scholars from across the academy to offer competing perspectives on capitalism's past incarnations, present conditions, and possible futures. Some contributors reassess classic theorizations of capitalism in light of recent trends, including real estate bubbles, debt relief protests, and the rise of a global creditocracy. Others examine Marx's writings, unemployment, hoarding, "capitalist realism," and coyote (trickster) capitalism, among many other topics. Media and design trends locate the key ideologies of the current economic moment, with authors considering everything from the austerity aesthetics of reality TV to the seductive smoothness of liquid crystal. Even as it draws momentous conclusions about global economic phenomena, After Capitalism also pays close attention to locales as varied as Cuba, India, and Latvia, examining the very different ways that economic conditions have affected the relationship between the state and its citizens. Collectively, these essays raise provocative questions about how we should imagine capitalism in the twenty-first century. Will capitalism, like all economic systems, come to an end, or does there exist in history or elsewhere a hidden world that is already post-capitalist, offering alternative possibilities for thought and action?

Psychology of Human Thought / / edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Edward E. Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910476939903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Heidelberg : , : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (399 pages)
• Disciplina: 153
• Soggetti: Association of ideas; Stereotypes (Social psychology)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: The psychology of human thought: Introduction / Robert J. Sternberg & Joachim Funke -- History of the field of the psychology of human thought / Robert J. Sternberg -- Methods for studying human thought / Arndt Bröder -- Concept: structure and acquisition / Kimery R. Levering & Kenneth J. Kurtz -- Knowledge representation and acquisition / Art Graesser, Anne M. Lippert, & Keith T. Shubeck -- Metacognition: monitoring and controlling one's own knowledge, reasoning and decisions / Klaus Fiedler, Rakefet Ackerman & Chiara Scarampi -- Deductive reasoning / Jonathan St. B.T. Evans -- Inductive reasoning / Janet E. Davidson -- Problem solving / Joachim Funke -- Decision making / Julia Nolte, David Garavito & Valerie Reyna -- Nature of language / Lisa von Stockhausen & Joachim Funke -- Language and thought / Andrea Bender -- Expertise / David Z. Hambrick -- Intelligence / Oliver Wilhelm & Ulrich Schroeders -- Creativity: an overview of 7C's of creative thought / Todd Lubart & Branden Thornhill-MIller -- Wisdom / Judith Glück -- Development of human thought / Kathleen M. Galotti -- Affect and thought: the relationship between feeling and thinking / Joseph Forgas - Culture and thought / Mary Gauvain.
• Sommario/riassunto: The "Psychology of Human Thought" is an "open access" collection of peer-reviewed chapters from all areas of higher cognitive processes. The book is intended to be used as a textbook in courses on higher process, complex cognition, human thought, and related courses. ; Chapters include concept acquisition, knowledge representation, inductive and deductive reasoning, problem solving, metacognition, language, expertise, intelligence, creativity, wisdom, development of thought, affect and thought, and sections about history and about methods. The chapters are written by distinguished scholarly experts in their respective fields, coming from such diverse regions as North America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Israel, and Australia. The level of the chapters is addressed to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students.

Human Enhancement Technologies and Our Merger with Machines

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557334203321
• Autore: Barfield Woodrow
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Soggetti: Technology: general issues
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: A cross-disciplinary approach is offered to consider the challenge of emerging technologies designed to enhance human bodies and minds. Perspectives from philosophy, ethics, law, and policy are applied to a wide variety of enhancements, including integration of technology within human bodies, as well as genetic, biological, and pharmacological modifications. Humans may be permanently or temporarily enhanced with artificial parts by manipulating (or reprogramming) human DNA and through other enhancement techniques (and combinations thereof). We are on the cusp of significantly modifying (and perhaps improving) the human ecosystem. This evolution necessitates a continuing effort to re-evaluate current laws and, if appropriate, to modify such laws or develop new laws that ; address enhancement technology. A legal, ethical, and policy response to current and future human enhancements should strive to protect the rights of all involved and to recognize the responsibilities of humans to other conscious and living beings, regardless of what they look like or what abilities they have (or lack). A potential ethical approach is outlined in which rights and responsibilities should be respected even if enhanced humans are perceived by non-enhanced (or less-enhanced) humans as "no longer human" at all.