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Machine Learning for Managers

Machine Learning for Managers

Machine learning can help managers make better predictions automate complex tasks and improve business operations. Managers who are familiar with machine learning are better placed to navigate the increasingly digital world we live in. There is a view that machine learning is a highly technical subject that can only be understood by specialists. However many of the ideas that underpin machine learning are straightforward and accessible to anyone with a bit of curiosity. This book is for managers who want to understand what machine learning is about but who lack a technical background in computer science statistics or math. The book describes in plain language what machine learning is and how it works. In addition it explains how to manage machine learning projects within an organization. This book should appeal to anyone that wants to learn more about using machine learning to drive value in real-world organizations. | Machine Learning for Managers

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Machine Learning in Translation

Machine Learning in Translation

Machine Learning in Translation introduces machine learning (ML) theories and technologies that are most relevant to translation processes approaching the topic from a human perspective and emphasizing that ML and ML-driven technologies are tools for humans. Providing an exploration of the common ground between human and machine learning and of the nature of translation that leverages this new dimension this book helps linguists translators and localizers better find their added value in a ML-driven translation environment. Part One explores how humans and machines approach the problem of translation in their own particular ways in terms of word embeddings chunking of larger meaning units and prediction in translation based upon the broader context. Part Two introduces key tasks including machine translation translation quality assessment and quality estimation and other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in translation. Part Three focuses on the role of data in both human and machine learning processes. It proposes that a translator’s unique value lies in the capability to create manage and leverage language data in different ML tasks in the translation process. It outlines new knowledge and skills that need to be incorporated into traditional translation education in the machine learning era. The book concludes with a discussion of human-centered machine learning in translation stressing the need to empower translators with ML knowledge through communication with ML users developers and programmers and with opportunities for continuous learning. This accessible guide is designed for current and future users of ML technologies in localization workflows including students on courses in translation and localization language technology and related areas. It supports the professional development of translation practitioners so that they can fully utilize ML technologies and design their own human-centered ML-driven translation workflows and NLP tasks.

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Machine Learning and Music Generation

Machine Learning and Music Generation

Computational approaches to music composition and style imitation have engaged musicians music scholars and computer scientists since the early days of computing. Music generation research has generally employed one of two strategies: knowledge-based methods that model style through explicitly formalized rules and data mining methods that apply machine learning to induce statistical models of musical style. The five chapters in this book illustrate the range of tasks and design choices in current music generation research applying machine learning techniques and highlighting recurring research issues such as training data music representation candidate generation and evaluation. The contributions focus on different aspects of modeling and generating music including melody chord sequences ornamentation and dynamics. Models are induced from audio data or symbolic data. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and Music. | Machine Learning and Music Generation

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The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant. But providing aid to those affected by disasters and crises is more complex than ever. In The Humanitarian Machine aid workers reflect on their own experiences of working in crisis. As they write about their work and the ways in which they each approach the challenges of helping people they comment on some of the most vexing issues facing the humanitarian sector. Each speaks from their own perspective asking tough questions sharing thoughtful reflections about their ongoing work and unpacking what it really means to be a humanitarian worker. The stories they tell whether recounting a specific experience or reflecting on years of practice reveal the dilemmas they face and demystify the overly romanticized aura that sometimes surrounds humanitarian practice. Complementing the candid accounts that humanitarian leaders contribute in this book the editors examine how their stories perceptions and understandings align with similar conversations that take place in other settings. Viewed together in this way the insights and reflections provided in this book will be invaluable for humanitarian practitioners students and researchers alike. | The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

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Computer A History of the Information Machine

Computer A History of the Information Machine

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited information-processing potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written this fully updated fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of information technology the rise of social media fake news and the gig economy and the regulatory frameworks being put in place to tame the ubiquitous computer. Computer is an insightful look at the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way computers are integrated into the modern world. The authors examine the history of the computer including the first steps taken by Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century and how wartime needs and the development of electronics led to the giant ENIAC the first electronic computer. For a generation IBM dominated the computer industry. In the 1980s the desktop PC liberated people from room-sized mainframe computers. Next laptops and smartphones made computers available to half of the world’s population leading to the rise of Google and Facebook and powerful apps that changed the way we work consume learn and socialize. The volume is an essential resource for scholars and those studying computer history technology history and information and society as well as a range of courses in the fields of computer science communications sociology and management. | Computer A History of the Information Machine

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Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change. He furthers understanding of the processes driving innovation so that we may gain a deeper insight into the development of economies. Specifically the study explores the concept of innovation potential and the factors that result in variations in innovation potential across metropolitan areas using the US machine tool industry as a case study. To provide a comparison the same models are also estimated for the semiconductor industry. The findings indicate that urbanisation economies localization economies human capital universities and invention-derived knowledge are significant factors. The study assesses the contributions of three different skill levels of human capital; college-educated graduate degree and locally produced PhD’s in mechanical and electrical engineering. Only the graduate and PhD degree measures are found to be significant indicating the importance of having a highly skilled pool of labour within the region. The influences of the factors appear to be similar across industries with some slight differences. The transfer of knowledge through patents is also studied. It is found that the transmission of this knowledge is slower between different industries relative to the transmission within the same industry. | Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U. S. Machine Tool Industry

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Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

Machine Translation (MT) has become widely used throughout the world as a medium of communication between those who live in different countries and speak different languages. However translation between distant languages constitutes a challenge for machines. Therefore translation evaluation is poised to play a significant role in the process of designing and developing effective MT systems. This book evaluates three prominent MT systems including Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr each of which provides translation between English and Arabic. In the book Almahasees scrutinizes the capacity of the three systems in dealing with translation between English and Arabic in a large corpus taken from various domains including the United Nation (UN) the World Health Organization (WHO) the Arab League Petra News Agency reports and two literary texts: The Old Man and the Sea and The Prophet. The evaluation covers holistic analysis to assess the output of the three systems in terms of Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) adequacy and fluency scales. The text also looks at error analysis to evaluate the systems’ output in terms of orthography lexis grammar and semantics at the entire-text level and in terms of lexis grammar and semantics at the collocation level. The research findings contained within this volume provide important feedback about the capabilities of the three MT systems with respect to EnglishArabic translation and paves the way for further research on such an important topic. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of translation studies and translation technology. | Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

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The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

Originally published in 1989 The Industrialization of Intelligence is a spirited blend of the principles of social science and computer technology. Critically praised in the United States and England by leading lights both literary and technological it develops an original and provocative model of the interplay between computer systems and social systems. Noah Kennedy has composed a compelling story from key episodes in the development of the computer and coupled it with a probing analysis of the true role of automation in modem society. The result firmly plants computer technology in the soil of western culture and denies the shrill claims that the information age represents a sudden break with the historical past. He starts with biographical vignettes from the lives of five pivotal thinkers weaving their crucial insights into the larger fabric of contemporary and future society. He then gives a provocative forecast of the role of artificial intelligence in future society and examines the probable impact of new computer technologies on employment and on the relationships between nations. The result is a reasoned understanding of our imminent future through a thoughtful analysis of our historical past. | The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

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The Rise of Metacreativity AI Aesthetics After Remix

The Rise of Metacreativity AI Aesthetics After Remix

This book brings together history and theory in art and media to examine the effects of artificial intelligence and machine learning in culture and reflects on the implications of delegating parts of the creative process to AI. In order to understand the complexity of authorship and originality in relation to creativity in contemporary times Navas combines historical and theoretical premises from different areas of research in the arts humanities and social sciences to provide a rich historical and theoretical context that critically reflects on and questions the implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning as an integral part of creative production. As part of this the book considers how much of postproduction and remix aesthetics in art and media preceded the current rise of metacreativity in relation to artificial intelligence and machine learning and explores contemporary questions on aesthetics. The book also provides a thorough evaluation of the creative application of systematic approaches to art and media production and how this in effect percolates across disciplines including art design communication as well as other fields in the humanities and social sciences. An essential read for students and scholars interested in understanding the increasing role of AI and machine learning in contemporary art and media and their wider role in creative production across culture and society. | The Rise of Metacreativity AI Aesthetics After Remix

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Ceilings and Dreams The Architecture of Levity

Ceilings and Dreams The Architecture of Levity

Where is the space for dreaming in the twenty-first century? Lofty thoughts like dreams are born and live overhead just as they have been represented in Renaissance paintings and modern cartoons. Ceilings are often repositories of stories events and otherwise invisible oneiric narratives. Yet environments that inspire innovative thinking are dwindling as our world confronts enormous challenges and almost all of our thinking debating and decision-making takes place under endless ceiling grids. Quantitative research establishes that spaces with taller ceilings elicit broader more creative thoughts. Today ceilings are usually squat conduits of technology: they have become the blind spot of modern architecture. The twenty essays in this book look across cultures places and ceilings over time to discover their potential to uplift the human spirit. Not just one building element among many the ceiling is a key to unlock the architectural imagination. Ceilings and Dreams aims to correct this blind spot and encourages architects and designers researchers and students to look up through writings organized into three expansive categories: reveries suspensions and inversions. The contributors contemplate the architecture of levity and the potential of the ceiling once again as a place for dreaming. | Ceilings and Dreams The Architecture of Levity

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Gendered Capitalism Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico 1850-1940

Gendered Capitalism Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico 1850-1940

Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico 1850–1940 is a history of the gendered corporation a study that examines how ideas and ideals about domesticity and the cultures of sewing and embroidery being gender-specific shaped the US-headquartered Singer Sewing Machine Company’s operations around the world. In contrast to production-driven and culture-neutral analyses of the multinational enterprise this book focuses on both the supply and the demand side to argue that consumers and the cultural worlds of those—mainly women—using the sewing machine for personal purposes or for the market shaped corporate organization. This book is a global history of Singer but it also focuses on the cases of Spain and Mexico to highlight nations where the sewing machine multinational never established manufacturing operations. Casa Singer was a mostly profitable and a long-term selling and marketing operation in both countries. Gendered Capitalism demonstrates that local Spanish and Mexican agents both men and women developed and expanded Singer’s selling system to the extent that the multinational company was seen as domestic both in the location sense and because of its focus on the private sphere of the home. By bringing the cases of Spain and Mexico and the cultural everyday realm of practices related to sewing and embroidery that the sewing machine was part of to the center of the study of international business Gendered Capitalism further reveals the layers of complexities and multitudes that conform the history of global capitalism. This book will be of interest to readers and scholars in the fields of business history economic cultural history management studies international business women’s history gender studies and the history of technology. | Gendered Capitalism Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico 1850-1940

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Philosophy through Computer Science An Introduction

Philosophy through Computer Science An Introduction

What do philosophy and computer science have in common? It turns out quite a lot! In providing an introduction to computer science (using Python) Daniel Lim presents in this book key philosophical issues ranging from external world skepticism to the existence of God to the problem of induction. These issues and others are introduced through the use of critical computational concepts ranging from image manipulation to recursive programming to elementary machine learning techniques. In illuminating some of the overlapping conceptual spaces of computer science and philosophy Lim teaches readers fundamental programming skills and allows them to develop the critical thinking skills essential for examining some of the enduring questions of philosophy. Key Features Teaches readers actual computer programming not merely ideas about computers Includes fun programming projects (like digital image manipulation and Game of Life simulation) allowing the reader to develop the ability to write larger computer programs that require decomposition abstraction and algorithmic thinking Uses computational concepts to introduce clarify and develop a variety of philosophical issues Covers various aspects of machine learning and relates them to philosophical issues involving science and induction as well as to ethical issues Provides a framework to critically analyze arguments in classic and contemporary philosophical debates | Philosophy through Computer Science An Introduction

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Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers Capital Class and Revolution 1830 1890

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers Capital Class and Revolution 1830 1890

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century American business leaders as a social group and this study helps remedy the defect. This book interweaves a history of the social and economic development of the largest centre of machine building in nineteenth-century America with the dramatic political narrative of sectional conflict Civil War and Reconstruction. Crossing and re-crossing the boundary between industrial and political history it throws new light on the process of industrialisation the Civil War conflict and the contested governance of nineteenth-century cities. While this study is firmly rooted in the experience of Philadelphia's machine builders its historiographic significance extends to many of the important themes of mid-century American history. By rejecting the conventional viewpoint that timid manufacturers were conservative supporters of the plantation South and insisting that workshop owners rejected slavery this study reinvigorates one of the Civil War's enduring interpretative battles. Of interest to scholars of business economic social labour education urban and Civil War history it will no doubt stimulate further debate and add a new angle to our understanding of nineteenth-century America. | Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers Capital Class and Revolution 1830�1890

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Artificial Intelligence Research Directions in Cognitive Science: European Perspectives Vol. 5

Artificial Intelligence Research Directions in Cognitive Science: European Perspectives Vol. 5

Originally published in 1992 this title reviews seven major subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming environment; and medicine a major application area of AI. This volume was an attempt primarily to inform fellow AI workers of recent European work in AI. It was hoped that researchers in ‘sister’ disciplines such as computer science and linguistics would gain a deeper understanding of the assumptions techniques and tools of contemporary AI. | Artificial Intelligence Research Directions in Cognitive Science: European Perspectives Vol. 5

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The Contributions of Alexander Hamilton Church to Accounting and Management

The Contributions of Alexander Hamilton Church to Accounting and Management

This book first published in 1986 includes primarily articles written by Church not reprinted in his books. The collection demonstrates the breadth of his work and demonstrate why he was such a renowned expert in the fields of cost accounting and management. He introduced the ‘machine-hour rate’ method the production-centre concept the ‘regulative principles of management’ and distribution cost-analysis. His writings spanned the fields of accounting business management and industrial engineering and this book captures the essence of his work and central themes. | The Contributions of Alexander Hamilton Church to Accounting and Management

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Lexical Ontological Semantics

Lexical Ontological Semantics

Lexical Ontological Semantics introduces ontological methods into lexical semantic studies with the aim of giving impetus to various fields of endeavours which envision and model the semantic network of a language. Lexical ontological semantics (LOS) provides a cognition-based computation-oriented framework in which nouns and predicates are described in terms of their semantic knowledge and models the mechanism in which the noun system is coupled with the predicate system. It expands the scope of lexical semantics updates methodologies to semantic representation guides the construction of semantic resources for natural language processing and develops new theories for human-machine interactions and communications.

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Russia's Military Way to the West Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power 1700-1800

Russia's Military Way to the West Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power 1700-1800

This book provides an historical perspective on the growth of Russian military power studying the emergence of the Russian regular army from 1700 until the end of the eighteenth century. In the process he evaluates the relative importance of Western and native influences on the creation of this formidable military machine and indicates the ways in which Russian power was projected in the West. The book includes general discussions of the Russian soldier the Russian officer and the rapacious Cossacks and concludes by identifying certain important continuities between the Russian past and present. | Russia's Military Way to the West Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power 1700-1800

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Mobilizing U.S. Industry A Vanishing Option For National Security?

Mobilizing U.S. Industry A Vanishing Option For National Security?

Originally published in 1988 this volume outlines the need for a series of organisational reforms new studies and committees to focus attention on mobilization issues and to provide an administrative framework for enhancing the mobilization base. The authors point out that mobilization is becoming a more viable US national security option. Case studies are used around raw materials of petroleum ferroalloys machine tools and semi-conductors which highlight common problems of diminishing domestic market share and growing reliance on foreign sector capacity declining profits research and development expense a decline of skilled labour and economic decline in subsector industries. | Mobilizing U. S. Industry A Vanishing Option For National Security?

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Serious Games in Personalized Learning New Models for Design and Performance

Serious Games in Personalized Learning New Models for Design and Performance

Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems are increasingly integrating serious games machine-learning artificial intelligence models and adaptive technologies. Game-based education provides rare data for measuring assessing and evaluating not just a game’s effectiveness but the acquisition of information and knowledge that a student may gain through playing a learning game. This book synthesizes contemporary research frameworks and models centered on the design and delivery of serious games that truly personalize the learning experience. Scholars of educational technology instructional design human performance and more will find a comprehensive guide to the history practical implications and data-collection potential inherent to these fast-evolving tools. | Serious Games in Personalized Learning New Models for Design and Performance

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Operations Management in Japan The Efficiency of Japanese Manufacturing

Operations Management in Japan The Efficiency of Japanese Manufacturing

This book provides insights into Japanese production and operations management through the roles and human resource management of Japanese manufacturing engineers and how their roles contribute to efficient manufacturing. The book looks at six industries i. e. automobile electronics business machine industries of the parts processing and assembly sector steel chemical and pharmaceutical industries of the material processing sector and 13 Japanese leading multinational companies. It also compares Japanese automotive firms with their German French and American counterparts. The analysis reveals that many managers employees and scholars underappreciate the roles and contributions of manufacturing engineers in the United States. The book will offer invaluable lessons to management scholars interested in operations management and global supply chains especially in the context of the Japanese manufacturing industry. | Operations Management in Japan The Efficiency of Japanese Manufacturing

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Merchants of Death A Study of the International Armament Industry

Merchants of Death A Study of the International Armament Industry

Merchants of death was an epithet used in the USA in the 1930s to attack industries and banks that supplied and funded the First World War (then called the Great War). The term was popular in anti-war circles of both the left and the right and was used extensively regarding the Senate hearings in 1936 by the Nye Committee. Originally published in 1934 this book uses the term to expose the international arms industry at the time. It is a careful and subtle but still passionate attack on those who would use government to profit themselves at the expense of other people's lives and property. The book not only makes the case against the war machine; it provides a scintillating history of war profiteering one authoritative enough for citation and academic study. | Merchants of Death A Study of the International Armament Industry

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A History of Digital Media An Intermedia and Global Perspective

A History of Digital Media An Intermedia and Global Perspective

From the punch card calculating machine to the personal computer to the iPhone and more this in-depth text offers a comprehensive introduction to digital media history for students and scholars across media and communication studies providing an overview of the main turning points in digital media and highlighting the interactions between political business technical social and cultural elements throughout history. With a global scope and an intermedia focus this book enables students and scholars alike to deepen their critical understanding of digital communication adding an understudied historical layer to the examination of digital media and societies. Discussion questions a timeline and previously unpublished tables and maps are included to guide readers as they learn to contextualize and critically analyze the digital technologies we use every day. | A History of Digital Media An Intermedia and Global Perspective

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Bioinformation Worlds and Futures

Bioinformation Worlds and Futures

This book sets out to define and consolidate the field of bioinformation studies in its transnational and global dimensions drawing on debates in science and technology studies anthropology and sociology. It provides situated analyses of bioinformation journeys across domains and spheres of interpretation. As unprecedented amounts of data relating to biological processes and lives are collected aggregated traded and exchanged infrastructural systems and machine learners produce real consequences as they turn indeterminate data into actionable decisions for states companies scientific researchers and consumers. Bioinformation accrues multiple values as it transverses multiple registers and domains and as it is transformed from bodies to becoming a subject of analysis tied to particular social relations promises desires and futures. The volume harnesses the anthropological sensibility for situated fine-grained ethnographically grounded analysis to develop an interdisciplinary dialogue on the conceptual political social and ethical dimensions posed by bioinformation. | Bioinformation Worlds and Futures

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Predictive Policing and Artificial Intelligence

Predictive Policing and Artificial Intelligence

This edited text draws together the insights of numerous worldwide eminent academics to evaluate the condition of predictive policing and artificial intelligence (AI) as interlocked policy areas. Predictive and AI technologies are growing in prominence and at an unprecedented rate. Powerful digital crime mapping tools are being used to identify crime hotspots in real-time as pattern-matching and search algorithms are sorting through huge police databases populated by growing volumes of data in an eff ort to identify people liable to experience (or commit) crime places likely to host it and variables associated with its solvability. Facial and vehicle recognition cameras are locating criminals as they move while police services develop strategies informed by machine learning and other kinds of predictive analytics. Many of these innovations are features of modern policing in the UK the US and Australia among other jurisdictions. AI promises to reduce unnecessary labour speed up various forms of police work encourage police forces to more efficiently apportion their resources and enable police officers to prevent crime and protect people from a variety of future harms. However the promises of predictive and AI technologies and innovations do not always match reality. They often have significant weaknesses come at a considerable cost and require challenging trade- off s to be made. Focusing on the UK the US and Australia this book explores themes of choice architecture decision- making human rights accountability and the rule of law as well as future uses of AI and predictive technologies in various policing contexts. The text contributes to ongoing debates on the benefits and biases of predictive algorithms big data sets machine learning systems and broader policing strategies and challenges. Written in a clear and direct style this book will appeal to students and scholars of policing criminology crime science sociology computer science cognitive psychology and all those interested in the emergence of AI as a feature of contemporary policing.

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Religion and Its Monsters

Religion and Its Monsters

Religious encounters with mystery can be fascinating but also terrifying. So too when it comes to encounters with the monsters that haunt Jewish and Christian traditions. Religion has a lot to do with horror and horror has a lot to do with religion. Religion has its monsters and monsters have their religion. In this unusual and provocative book Timothy Beal explores how religion horror and the monstrous are deeply intertwined. This new edition has been thoughtfully updated reflecting on developments in the field over the past two decades and highlighting its contributions to emerging conversations. It also features a new chapter Gods Monsters and Machines which engages cultural fascinations and anxieties about technologies of artificial intelligence and machine learning as they relate to religion and the monstrous at the dawn of the Anthropocene. Religion and Its Monsters is essential reading for students and scholars of religion and popular culture as well as for any readers with an interest in horror theory or monster theory.

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