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... ofthe key environments in which this work formed and developed These include the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (and especially the Interact Lab) at the University of Sussex, UK; the ... Space The year is 1960 The pulse of space travel beats insistently within the temples of research and power, andthe journal Astronautics publishes the paper that gave the term “cyborg” to the ... bypass, rather than penetrate, the old biological borders of skin and skull To see what I mean, let us return to the realms ofthe concrete andthe everyday, scene-shifting to the flight deck of a...
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... The gist of their response was that, while they had their finger on the pulse and their eye on the data, they had made two related diagnostic mistakes: the error of extrapolation andthe (rather ... his close study ofthe history ofthe Arab states of Spain and North Africa, he told a story ofthe rise and fall of regimes, in which rulers play the role ofthe predator and there is something ... characteristic ofthe global political economy was the reversal ofthe flow of trade and capital surpluses between the United States andthe rest ofthe world The hegemon, for the first time...
... issue, the ability of member states ofthe Eurozone to leave the monetary union, either voluntarily or involuntarily The presentation ofthe two facets ofthe crisis, the financial andthe sovereign ... examples of reform, exploring the reasons behind policy changes, and enquires into the origin (and likely destination) of current shifts in our perception ofthe role of law andthe place ofthe state ... into the will ofthe market? One ofthe key problems we have in understanding the relationship between the state andthe market is the obscuring effects of ‘economism’ We can define economism as the...