The exhaustion of neoliberal globalization is marked by three great tendencies or inflections: the first is the scornful failure of the South-American attempt to construct a neo-developmentalist exit; the second is the increasingly unavoidable Chinese-effect macro and micro dynamics within globalization; the third is the combination of austerity policies and monetary emissions (Quantitative Easing) that characterize, for instance, the financial conduct of the Central European Bank. The dra...

The book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in contemporary capitalism with a plethora of alternatives to radical creative practices. In the first part, titled “Creative Capitalism”, five authors analyze the forms of contemporary capitalism: on the one hand, there are new ways of working which include flexibility, mobility, and especially precarity; on the other, there are new forms of recovery and accumulation.In the second part, titled “Multitudinous Creativit...

With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) comes the potential both for new social and economic equalities and new forms of inequalities. Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates that ICTs can act as an impetus for democratizing information and knowledge, while at the same time new institutional frameworks can limit one's use of and access to strategic information and knowledge. The volume's contributors ad...

"Em O Making da Metrópole, Barbara Szaniecki e Giuseppe Cocco nos conduzem num fluxo vertiginoso de informações, leituras, insights e desconstruções de grande relevância, urgência e atualidade. Revisitam literatura referencial para o campo de estudos urbanos contemporâneo, trazendo atualizações, confrontações e aberturas de terrenos de exploração promissores para todos os que se interessam pela perigosa e apaixonante aventura das grandes aglomerações urbanas. Nesta leitura, nos sentimos em...

Este livro trata das novas dinâmicas e espaços constituintes que se potencializam nas redes digitais de informação e comunicação, em meio à crise do capitalismo cognitivo.Aborda os desafios à construção de uma democracia em rede no contexto de crise global os conflitos e novas dinâmicas metropolitanas nesse cenário as lutas pela afirmação de uma nova agenda de direitos e o papel da cultura viva e do trabalho vivo na inovação social e colaborativa versus os novos cercamentos e formas de apr...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease where the body’s immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord, causing debilitating side effects that last a lifetime for those affected. There is currently no cure.Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an established tool in the diagnosis and monitoring of MS because of its ability to depict the pathological features of the disease in high detail. Over the past few decades, MRI-based visualization of demyelinated CNS lesions has become...

Poetici Orizzonti- I Poeti Italiani Contemporanei esibisce il panorama attuale della produzione in versi, identifica percorsi individuali che sono testimoniati attraverso la silloge degli autori partecipi a questa collana editoriale, e al contempo dichiara l’appartenenza a una comunità: i poeti con cui condividiamo il nostro arco vitale.