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Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our…

Drawing upon research conducted in Europe, America and Australasia, this title investigates the rise and rise of cosmetic surgery, reviewing the various developments in celebrity culture and the consumer industries…

The De Gruyter Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Identity and Technology Studies examines the relationship between artificial intelligence and identity transformations, bridging the gap between technology studies and the social sciences…

This handbook is a landmark volume providing students and teachers with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the major topics and trends of research in the social sciences of artificial…

A comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its uses in the social sciences and humanities, with special emphasis on its relevance for our understanding of political agency.

Through a wide-ranging and impassioned assessment, Elliott unmasks the ever-increasing globalization of reinvention - from reinvention gurus to business reinvention, from personal makeovers to corporate rebrandings.