Bart van der Heide plädiert mit dieser Publikation dafür, dass Techno-Musik nicht nur als ekstatisches sowie kollektives Erlebnis fungieren, sondern auch als Plattform für gesellschaftskritische Diskurse dienen kann. Welche kulturellen Phänomene und sozialen Veränderungen lassen sich anhand der Techno-Szene ablesen? Wie lassen sich Identitäten erleben bzw. wie greifen diese ineinander? Die Autor*innen dieser Anthologie untersuchen Techno-Musik und ihre Szene anhand aktueller gesellschaftli...

An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection that decenters familiar narratives to provide a fresh perspective on what artificial intelligence is today, and what it might become.Historians, media theorists, science-fiction writers, philosophers, and artists from China and elsewhere reexamine the nation’s intense engagement with AI, moving beyond the clichés that still dominate contemporary debate.Today, visions of the contested future of AI veer between ...

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world’s collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In her series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism.This collection of twenty-six essays includes twenty by Ayn Rand as we...

This book constitutes the proceedings from the workshops LDTM 2024, MMMI/ML4MHD 2024, and ML-CDS 2024 which were held in conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco, in October 2024.The papers included in this book stem from the following workshops:- LDTM 2024, Workshop on Longitudinal Disease Tracking and Modeling with Medical Images and Data, which accepted 13 papers f...