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Race in the Machine - Quincy Thomas Stewart - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Race in the Machine - Quincy Thomas Stewart - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

An intelligent machine built to study methods of social warfare struggles to understand and communicate the lived experience of race In a narrative full of social significance and poetically decorated with monks, vampires, and mythical statistics, Race in the Machine presents a world where the stories we use to explain race all simultaneously exist, within and around us, dictating our interactions and innermost beliefs. The nameless protagonist, an enigmatic social mechanic at Nearbay Institute, living in a population of socially connected intelligent machines, encounters a simple query in the context of an introductory lecture: "What exactly is race? And what is it in the context of the social machine?" This prompt guides the protagonist along a twisting intellectual tale surrounding a series of experiments which explore: How many racists does it take to create systems of inequality? What role do non-racists actors play in upholding them? How is bias learned? How does it spread? The narrator develops a distinct understanding of race through the figurative bending of time, dreams of a "race code" and by confronting a series of mysterious communications that remain just outside comprehension. Over the course of this journey, the answers to important questions about racial inequality quietly emerge for the protagonist. Scholarly encounters with both antagonistic colleagues and unexpected allies, culminate when the hero is forced to reach a devastating conclusion about themself and the world. Stirring and luminous, Race in the Machine deftly oscillates between the allegorically simplified and the impossibly complex to weave an utterly unique and nuanced portrait of race in the modern world.

DKK 246.00
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Paper Machine - Jacques Derrida - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Ad Infinitum... The Ghost in Turing's Machine - Brian Rotman - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Ad Infinitum... The Ghost in Turing's Machine - Brian Rotman - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Jews and the Bible - Jean Christophe Attias - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Locating Capitalism in Time and Space - - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Locating Capitalism in Time and Space - - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The last several decades have witnessed major restructurings—economic, political, and cultural—in the international arena. The depth and scope of these changes have prompted anthropologists to rethink many of their most basic assumptions, to problematize issues that have long gone unexamined, and to grapple with new and unique problems. Doing so has left the discipline profoundly unsettled. Existing standards of scholarship and research methodologies have come under attack, key conceptual categories have been called into question, and truths once considered secure have been subjected to severe scrutiny and even ridicule. Seizing upon the opportunity afforded by the contemporary conjuncture of disciplinary crisis and redefinition, this book raises questions about two interrelated aspects of historical process and academic production. The volume contributes to ongoing debates about the degree to which the developments of recent decades represent the advent of a new historical era, a rupture with the past that requires new conceptualizations and logics in order to be understood. In confronting this question, the contributors to this volume have assembled a range of materials that place the present period of reconstruction in the context of a broader history and geography of other, related restructurings. Locating Capitalism in Time and Space also raises questions about the degree to which the scholarship of recent decades represents a qualitative break with that of the past. At issue here is whether one understands the history of academic production as a linear process of intellectual growth punctuated by major breakthroughs in understanding, or as a political process structured by the same kinds of inequalities and struggles that characterize the social worlds that are the object of anthropological analysis.

DKK 303.00
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Police Aesthetics - Cristina Vatulescu - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Zohar - - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Zohar - - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique, lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of literature, comprising over twenty discrete sections. The bulk of the Zohar consists of a fascinating mystical commentary on the Torah, from Genesis through Deuteronomy. This sixth volume of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition completes the Zohar''s commentary on the book of Exodus. Some of the volume focuses on the Dwelling (or mishkan ) built by Moses and the Israelites in the Sinai Desert. The mishkan symbolizes Shekhinah , the feminine presence of God who "dwells" on earth. The construction of the mishkan is intended to ensure Her intimacy with the people—and especially with Moses, who is actually called Her husband. The dramatic episode of the Golden Calf receives special treatment. The worship of the calf is seen as a rejection of Shekhinah . Normally, She would have restrained the wrath of God''s masculine aspect and prevented Him from striking Israel; but having been rejected, She instead departed, leaving the people vulnerable. Whereupon the blessed Holy One hinted to Moses that it was up to him to defend Israel from divine destruction. By invoking the three patriarchs, Moses pinned God''s arms, as it were, and immobilized Him, saving his people. With the appearance of this volume, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition has reached its halfway point. The projected Volumes VII-IX will complete the Zohar''s main commentary on the Torah. Volumes X-XII will include the Zohar''s commentary on various other books of the Bible (such as Ruth and Song of Songs) as well as several independent compositions.

DKK 537.00
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Marc Chagall on Art and Culture - Benjamin Harshav - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Five Faces of Exile - Augusto Fauni Espiritu - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Five Faces of Exile - Augusto Fauni Espiritu - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Marc Chagall on Art and Culture - Benjamin Harshav - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Image and Presence - Natalie Carnes - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Mathematics as Sign - Brian Rotman - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Mathematics as Sign - Brian Rotman - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Two features of mathematics stand out: its menagerie of seemingly eternal objects (numbers, spaces, patterns, functions, categories, morphisms, graphs, and so on), and the hieroglyphics of special notations, signs, symbols, and diagrams associated with them. The author challenges the widespread belief in the extra-human origins of these objects and the understanding of mathematics as either a purely mental activity about them or a formal game of manipulating symbols. Instead, he argues that mathematics is a vast and unique man-made imagination machine controlled by writing. Mathematics as Sign addresses both aspects—mental and linguistic—of this machine. The opening essay, "Toward a Semiotics of Mathematics" (long acknowledged as a seminal contribution to its field), sets out the author''s underlying model. According to this model, "doing" mathematics constitutes a kind of waking dream or thought experiment in which a proxy of the self is propelled around imagined worlds that are conjured into intersubjective being through signs. Other essays explore the status of these signs and the nature of mathematical objects, how mathematical ideograms and diagrams differ from each other and from written words, the probable fate of the real number continuum and calculus in the digital era, the manner in which Platonic and Aristotelean metaphysics are enshrined in the contemporary mathematical infinitude of endless counting, and the possibility of creating a new conception of the sequence of whole numbers based on what the author calls non-Euclidean counting. Reprising and going beyond the critique of number in Ad Infinitum , the essays in this volume offer an accessible insight into Rotman''s project, one that has been called "one of the most original and important recent contributions to the philosophy of mathematics."

DKK 251.00
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Mathematics as Sign - Brian Rotman - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Mathematics as Sign - Brian Rotman - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Two features of mathematics stand out: its menagerie of seemingly eternal objects (numbers, spaces, patterns, functions, categories, morphisms, graphs, and so on), and the hieroglyphics of special notations, signs, symbols, and diagrams associated with them. The author challenges the widespread belief in the extra-human origins of these objects and the understanding of mathematics as either a purely mental activity about them or a formal game of manipulating symbols. Instead, he argues that mathematics is a vast and unique man-made imagination machine controlled by writing. Mathematics as Sign addresses both aspects—mental and linguistic—of this machine. The opening essay, "Toward a Semiotics of Mathematics" (long acknowledged as a seminal contribution to its field), sets out the author''s underlying model. According to this model, "doing" mathematics constitutes a kind of waking dream or thought experiment in which a proxy of the self is propelled around imagined worlds that are conjured into intersubjective being through signs. Other essays explore the status of these signs and the nature of mathematical objects, how mathematical ideograms and diagrams differ from each other and from written words, the probable fate of the real number continuum and calculus in the digital era, the manner in which Platonic and Aristotelean metaphysics are enshrined in the contemporary mathematical infinitude of endless counting, and the possibility of creating a new conception of the sequence of whole numbers based on what the author calls non-Euclidean counting. Reprising and going beyond the critique of number in Ad Infinitum , the essays in this volume offer an accessible insight into Rotman''s project, one that has been called "one of the most original and important recent contributions to the philosophy of mathematics."

DKK 884.00
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Whose Islam? - Megan Brankley Abbas - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Whose Islam? - Megan Brankley Abbas - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this incisive new book, Megan Brankley Abbas argues that the Western university has emerged as a significant space for producing Islamic knowledge and Muslim religious authority. For generations, Indonesia''s foremost Muslim leaders received their educations in Middle Eastern madrasas or the archipelago''s own Islamic schools. Starting in the mid-twentieth century, however, growing numbers traveled to the West to study Islam before returning home to assume positions of political and religious influence. Whose Islam? examines the far-reaching repercussions of this change for major Muslim communities as well as for Islamic studies as an academic discipline. As Abbas details, this entanglement between Western academia and Indonesian Islam has not only forged powerful new transnational networks but also disrupted prevailing modes of authority in both spheres. For Muslim intellectuals, studying Islam in Western universities provides opportunities to experiment with academic disciplines and to reimagine the faith, but it also raises troubling questions about whether and how to protect the Islamic tradition from Western encroachment. For Western academics, these connections raise pressing ethical questions about their own roles in the global politics of development and Islamic religious reform. Drawing on extensive archival research from around the globe, Whose Islam? provides a unique perspective on the perennial tensions between insiders and outsiders in religious studies.

DKK 267.00
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Whose Islam? - Megan Brankley Abbas - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Whose Islam? - Megan Brankley Abbas - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this incisive new book, Megan Brankley Abbas argues that the Western university has emerged as a significant space for producing Islamic knowledge and Muslim religious authority. For generations, Indonesia's foremost Muslim leaders received their educations in Middle Eastern madrasas or the archipelago's own Islamic schools. Starting in the mid-twentieth century, however, growing numbers traveled to the West to study Islam before returning home to assume positions of political and religious influence. Whose Islam? examines the far-reaching repercussions of this change for major Muslim communities as well as for Islamic studies as an academic discipline. As Abbas details, this entanglement between Western academia and Indonesian Islam has not only forged powerful new transnational networks but also disrupted prevailing modes of authority in both spheres. For Muslim intellectuals, studying Islam in Western universities provides opportunities to experiment with academic disciplines and to reimagine the faith, but it also raises troubling questions about whether and how to protect the Islamic tradition from Western encroachment. For Western academics, these connections raise pressing ethical questions about their own roles in the global politics of development and Islamic religious reform. Drawing on extensive archival research from around the globe, Whose Islam? provides a unique perspective on the perennial tensions between insiders and outsiders in religious studies.

DKK 884.00
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Urban Indians in a Silver City - Dana Velasco Murillo - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Reform Nation - Colleen P. Eren - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence - Jacob Mundy - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk