THE MOST DETAILED HISTORY OF MONEY

Samuel A. Chambers

MONEY HAS NO VALUE

10/2023. 224 pages, 8 tables

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“The provocative, counterintuitive title challenges us to think as deeply as Sam Chambers has done in Money Has No Value. In doing so, we see how meticulous scholarship and relentless logic can take us to a new level of understanding beyond the confused debates that have dogged the theory of money for centuries.”

Geoffrey Ingham, Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University, author of The Nature of Money

only is all money credit, but that in an important theoretical sense, all credit is money to the extent any credit/ debt between two parties has the potential to be transferred to another party (thereby functioning as money). Finally, the book links this radical credit theory of money to today’s concrete money practices: this includes global capital flows, national and international monetary policy, and most of all the daily turnover in the money markets. The book therefore develops the needed conceptual framework to ask questions like: what is going on with Bitcoin (much less GameStop) in 2021.

Luca M. Possati (Ed.)

Humanizing Artificial Intelligence

Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Control

October 2023

English, Approx. 140 pp., 4 fig.

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Humanizing AI intends to study AI through a psychoanalytic methodology. Can psychoanalysis be the basis of a new method for controlling AI and its numerous applications? Reflecting on AI means reflecting on the human psyche and personality, and therefore – from a psychoanalytic point of view –conceiving AI as a process of deconstruction and reconstruction of human identity, that is, a permanent dialectic of identification and deidentification.

Psychoanalysis; Artificial Intelligence; Control; Media; New Structuralism

Luca M. Possati, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Kristen Monroe (Ed.)

How Science Engages with Ethics and Why It Should

An Interdisciplinary Approach

December 2023

English, Approx. 270 pp., 2 fig.

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With interdisciplinary contributions from leading thinkers, this book presents cutting edge insights on how science engages with ethics. It explores what the scientific method is, violations of science and ethics, data manipulation, pseudoscience and communication. It highlights the importance of evidence-based science in public policy and decision-making, and how good science can go wrong.

Science; Ethics; Scientific Method; Public Policy; Evidence-Based

Kristen Monroe, University of California, Berkeley.

Xiaobai Shen

The Imitation Paradox

How China Became a Leader in Digital Innovation?

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 15

April 2024

English, Approx. 220 pp.

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The Imitation Paradox – How China Became a Leader in Digital Innovation examines how China has become a technological powerhouse. This book offers a conceptual framework to understand the interplay between technical and social development and dynamic social changes in China.

China; Digital Innovation; The imitation paradox; Socially-oriented applications; Globalisation Xiaobai Shen, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Louis Everuss

Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders

How Digital Technologies Transform Migration and Sovereign Borders

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 5

December 2023

English, Approx. X, 255 pp., 16 fig.

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The integration of digital technology into daily life is making social and political relations reliant on digitally stored and transmitted data. Digital Mobilities studies the impacts of ‘digitisation’ on state borders and global migration, demonstrating how digitisation at the border, including the digital enhancement of migration and growth of smart borders, is changing the dynamics of international travel and the very nature of state territory. Sociology; Politics of Digitisation; State Borders; Global Migration; Digital Enhancement of Migration; Smart Borders; International Travel; Territory; Nation States; Exclusion

Louis Everuss, University of South Australia.

Saladdin Ahmed

The Death of the Home

Aura and Space in the Age of Digitalization

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 26

February 2024

English, Approx. 225 pp.

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Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overcome spatial obstacles that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power. The home as an auratic space is dead, and this alienation has hindered our democratic capacities and created complex crises. The Death of the Home aims to intellectually engage readers via enhancing spatial literacy to critically confront today’s crises. Home; Hominess; Aura; Space; Transparency Saladdin Ahmed, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA.

Emily Lynell Edwards

Digital Islamophobia

Tracking a Far-Right Crisis

Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences 21

January 2024

English, 225 pp., 12 fig.

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The rise of far-right communities on digital platforms is a global crisis. Digital Islamophobia tracks far-right groups, a virtual and vicious threat. It explores how far-right networks grow, develop, and circulate Islamophobic hate-speech on Twitter. Reconstructing this media ecosystem, this book traces the reactionary political ideologies animating these groups through feminist data analytic. Far-Right; Islamophobia; Social Media; Nationalism; Digital Culture

Emily Lynell Edwards, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, USA.