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Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and FashionThe increasing integration of the human body with technology is a topic that has been attracting significant attention of late (for comprehensive reviews, see the works of Fortunati, 1995, 1998, and Maldonado, 1992, 1997, 1998; see also Brooks, 2002; Hayles, 1999; Katz, 2003; Kurzweil, 2000; Moravec, 1999). Scholars, social ... | | Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love PoetryThis book reappraises the work of early-seventeenth-century collectors of English Renaissance poetry in manuscript. The verse miscellanies, or poetry anthologies, of these collectors have long attracted the attention of literary editors looking for texts by individual, major authors, and they have more recently interested historians for their poems... | | Red Wired: China's Internet Revolution
The Chinese share an imprecation (the first of three)—May you live in interesting times.1 The other two are considered even more forbidding—May you come to the attention of those in authority; and May you find what you are looking for. In contrast we, as authors, are blessed to live in interesting times; otherwise our search for... |
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| | Experts and the Will of the People: Society, Populism and Science
The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making. This book explores the differences between populism and pluralist democracy and their relationship with science. Pluralist democracy is characterised by respect for minority choices and a system of checks and balances that... | | |
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