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The AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of our daily lives and subjecting us to unparalleled surveillance and control. But at ground level, even the most advanced 'smart' technologies are not as smart or as all-powerful as either their corporate owners or their critics would have us believe. Everyday life is messy, imperfect, and full of friction - and so too are everyday data cultures. Covering ...

The AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of our daily lives and subjecting us to unparalleled surveillance and control. But at ground level, even the most advanced 'smart' technologies are not as smart or as all-powerful as either their corporate owners or their critics would have us believe. Everyday life is messy, imperfect, and full of friction - and so too are everyday data cultures. Covering ...

Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter.

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Ein großer Roman als Jahrhundertrevue, kolportiert, erfunden und in Szene gesetzt von einem der garstigsten und unverdrossensten Schriftsteller der Gegenwart. Die Heiligen und die Dämonen des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts geben sich ein Stelldichein zu einer Verwechslungskomödie. Eine Art katholischer Teufel scheint die oberste Regie zu führen, der seinen Kunden die glänzendsten und verrufensten Orte der Welt präsentiert: Monte Carlo und das amerik...

The Collected Poems of the acclaimed Manchester-born poet, novelist, screenwriter and composer Anthony Burgess.

A terrifying tale about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom, A Clockwork Orange became an instant classic when it was published in 1962 and has remained so ever since. Anthony Burgess takes us on a journey to a nightmarish future where sociopathic criminals rule the night. Brilliantly told in harsh invented slang by the novel's main character and merciless droog, fifteen-year-old Alex, this influential novel is now available in a st...

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In these eleven interconnected essays, Anthony Burgess explores the complex relationship between literature and music. Drawing on his experience as both a writer and composer, Burgess not only asks what literature can contribute to the art of composition, but how music can influence the process of writing. From the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, to the prose of James Joyce, to the lyrics of Lorenz Hart, Burgess takes the reader on a journey ...

Alex ist Anführer einer Londoner Jugendbande und begeisterter Beethoven-Fan. Seine Gang lebt in einem trostlosen Vorort und benutzt eine eigenwillige Sprache, einen von russischen Brocken durchsetzten Slang. Ihr Leben dreht sich um Schlägereien mit anderen Gangs, Raubüberfälle und Vergewaltigungen. Alex' Eltern kriegen ihn nicht in den Griff, denn er hat keinerlei Respekt vor ihnen. Aber auch Alex' Freunde sind mit ihrem Anführer nicht mehr zu...

Mozart and the Wolf Gang is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of Anthony Burgess's fictions.. With its sizzying swirl of formal and thematic invention, this slim book may strike one as something even more impossible that any of Burgess' earlier tours de force. -- .

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends' intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the co...