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Practical Philosophy Of Ai-assistants, The: An Engineerin...

Gupta, Suman (The Open Univ, Uk) / Tu, Peter H (General Electric Research, Usa)
Practical Philosophy Of Ai-assistants, The: An Engineering-humanities Conversation
The Practical Philosophy of AI-Assistants presents a formal conversation between an AI engineer, Peter, and a humanities researcher, Suman. The book ensures that specialist concepts in AI research are made comprehensible to a humanities researcher, while humanities theories can be easily grasped by an AI engineer. The authors establish ground rules to design an AI-Assistant, that is, an AI system that could act as a personal friend, consulta...

CHF 135.00

Digital India and the Poor

Gupta, Suman
Digital India and the Poor
Digital India and The Poor examines how the poor are evoked in contemporary Indian political discourse. It studies the ways in which the disadvantaged are accounted for in the increasingly digitized political economy, commercial and public policy, media, and academic research.

CHF 60.90

Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis

Gupta, Suman / Allen, Richard / Basu, Maitrayee / Durão, Fabio Akcelrud / Gupta, Ayan-Yue / Katsarska, Milena / Schuller, Sebastian / Seed, John / Tu, Peter H.
Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis
This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. It features first-hand accounts of the pandemic from around the world, which explore the social and the political through the lens of the outbreak. In doing so, the book also presents us with simultaneous, multiple histories of our time.

CHF 196.00

Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis

Gupta, Suman / Allen, Richard / Basu, Maitrayee / Durão, Fabio Akcelrud / Gupta, Ayan-Yue / Katsarska, Milena / Schuller, Sebastian / Seed, John / Tu, Peter H
Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis
This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. It features first-hand accounts of the pandemic from around the world, which explore the social and the political through the lens of the outbreak. In doing so, the book also presents us with simultaneous, multiple histories of our time.

CHF 68.00

Usurping Suicide

Gupta, Suman / Katsarska, Milena / Spyros, Theodoros A. / Hajimichael, Mike
Usurping Suicide
Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features? This book examines suicide like no other. Unconcerned with the individual dispositions that lead a person to commit such an act, Usurping Suicide focuses on the reception suicides have produced - their political, social and cultural implications. How does a particular act of suicide enable a collective significance to be attached to it...

CHF 139.00

A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader

Gupta, Suman / Johnson, David
A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader
This critical reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide: *a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century *insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century*closer examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critic...

CHF 140.00

Theory and Reality of Democracy

Gupta, Suman
Theory and Reality of Democracy
This is a study of conceptualizations and applications of democracy in international and transnational politics using a politically realist methodology. Ultimately it focuses on the confusions and obfuscations that follow from conflating the normative connotations of democracy with the oligarchic multi-party elective arrangements that are denoted as democratic. The book is divided: initially examining prevailing conceptual positions on democra...

CHF 59.50

Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education

Gupta, Suman / Tutek, Hrvoje / Habjan, Jernej
Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education
Palgrave Critical Universities StudiesSeries Editor: John Smyth, University of Hudderfield, UKThis book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher educ...

CHF 134.00

Marxism, History, and Intellectuals

Gupta, Suman
Marxism, History, and Intellectuals
This book discusses that area of socialist political philosophy that is devoted to conceiving and allocating a role to the intellectual and a reconceptualization of transformative socialism. It examines constructions of intellectuals in different socialist philosophies, with their distinct notions of history. Finally, it offers reflections on the role of intellectuals after the 1960s, ponders the potential and pragmatics of transformative soci...

CHF 145.00

Imagining Iraq

Gupta, Suman
Imagining Iraq
In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature.

CHF 74.00

Imagining Iraq

Gupta, Suman
Imagining Iraq
In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature.

CHF 124.00