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This book is an attempt to save "the sexual" from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory. It takes a journey from Sigmund Freud to Mario Mieli and Guy Hocquenghem, from Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to Teresa de Lauretis, Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, and Tim Dean, and from all of these thinkers back to Immanuel Kant and Thomas Hobbes. At the end, through readings of Bruce LaBruce's movies on gay zombies, the elitism of antisocial queer theory is brought into contact with popular culture. The living dead come to represent a dispossessed form of subjectivity, whose monstrous drives are counterposed to predatory desires of liberal individuals. The reader is thus lead into the interstitial spaces of the Queer Apocalypses, where the past and the future collapse onto the present, and sexual minorities resurrect to the chance of a non-heroic political agency

1. Introduction -- 2. The Balkans and South Caucasus – Eurasia Minor -- 3. Patriarchies, Femininities and Masculinities -- 4. Producers, Agents, and Transmitters -- 5. Veiling-chic Cultures -- 6. Porno-Chic Cultures -- 7. Conclusions – Realia and Utopia.

Die Maschine: Metapher, Mythos, Objekt -- Der Mensch als "Gehirnmaschine" -- Die schöne neue Cyborg-Welt im japanischen Anime -- Autonome Systeme, Roboter und ethische Implikationen -- Digitaler Feudalismus -- Computer gegen Arbeiter: Digitale Technologien und das Verschwinden der Arbeit -- "Hochinvasive Überwachung" -- Autonome Waffensysteme und die Imagination menschlicher Kontrolle -- Internetsucht -- Die Digitalisierung menschlicher Reproduktion

A genuine revolution is on everyone's lips. New forms of artificial intelligence are entering into all areas of social and cultural life: machines are learning to recognize pictures and language and are mastering the autonomous control of vehicles as well as financial investments and medical diagnoses. In the digital age, learning is no longer the privilege of humans. On the contrary, machine learning is shifting the relations between possibilities of knowledge, technical environments and human actors. This volume provides the first ever overview of the media, infrastructural and historical conditions for machine learning in a German-language context.

Chapter HighlightsAction and Time Imperative; Fixation and Focus; Organization Versus Disorganization; Legacy Token; Costuming; Objectification and Depersonalization; Summary; Questions for Further Discussion; Chapter 5: Additional Threat Concepts; Chapter Highlights; Knowledge of and Access to Weapons and Bombs; Evidence of Attack Plans; Attitude Toward Authority and Society; Judicial and Arrest History; Past Impulsivity; Substance Abuse/Dependency; Attitudes Toward Authority; Fading Supports; Absence of Friends and Family; Lack of Finances; Additional Loss of Supports; Another Example.

Hundert Jahre Rieplsches Gesetz! Wolfgang Riepl, der erfahrene Chefredakteur einer Nürnberger Zeitung hat dieses so genannte Gesetz der Medienkomplementarität in seinem 1913 erschienenen bahnbrechenden Werk über »Das Nachrichtenwesen des Altertums« formuliert. Es wird bis heute jeweils emsig hervorgeholt, wenn neue Medien zu alten in Konkurrenz treten. Tatsächlich aber reichen die Erkenntnisse Riepls über das Nachrichtenwesen und seine Entwicklung viel weiter. Er hat die Schritte der Kommunikationsevolution beschrieben, Kriterien zur Bestimmung von Kommunikationsrevolutionen entwickelt und überhaupt die Kommunikationsgeschichte auf ein festes, immer noch tragfähiges Fundament gestellt. Die vorliegende Textauswahl stellt Riepls wichtigste Ergebnisse mit Kommentierung vor

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes diskutieren aus den Perspektiven der Medienwissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaft, Soziologie und Kunstgeschichte kulturelle Konzepte von Räumen, Identitäten sowie Fragen der Re/Präsentation. Die aktuelle Beschäftigung mit dem Thema 'Re/Präsentation' setzt die Untersuchung der Geschichte und Bedeutung des Begriffs voraus, insbesondere seine Beziehung zu den Kategorien Subjekt und Kultur sowie den hiermit zusammenhängenden Handlungsformen. Thematisch steht der Diskurs über Re/Präsentation daher im Zusammenhang mit Fragen zur Hybridität von Räumen und Identitäten unter Berücksichtigung zeitgenössischer Mediennutzungen und der Veränderung der Kategorie des Raumes in seiner kulturellen, sozialen und geographisch-politischen Bedeutung.

Digital technology is changing our politics. The World Wide Web is already a powerful influence on the public's access to government documents, the tactics and content of political campaigns, the behavior of voters, the efforts of activists to circulate their messages, and the ways in which topics enter the public discourse. The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse about democracy and cyberspace. Some contributors offer front-line perspectives on the impact of emerging technologies on politics, journalism, and civic experience. What happens, for example, when we increase access to information or expand the arena of free speech? Other contributors place our shifting understanding of citizenship in historical context, suggesting that notions of cyber-democracy and online community must grow out of older models of civic life. Still others consider the global flow of information and test our American conceptions of cyber-democracy against developments in other parts of the world. How, for example, do new media operate in Castro's Cuba, in post-apartheid South Africa, and in the context of multicultural debates on the Pacific Rim? For some contributors, the new technologies endanger our political culture; for others, they promise civic renewal.

Energy consumption is a critical issue for the communications network operators, impacting deeply the cost of the services, as well as the ecological footprint. Network slicing architecture for 5G mobile communications enables multiple independent virtual networks to be created on top of a common shared physical infrastructure. Each network slice needs different types of resources, including energy, to fulfill the demands requested by each application, operator, or vertical market. The existing literature on network slicing is mainly targeted at the partition of network resources; however, the corresponding management of energy consumption is an unconsidered critical concern. This paper analyzes the requirements for an energy-aware 5G network slicing provisioning according to the 3GPP specifications, proposes an architecture, and studies the strategies to provide efficient energy consumption in terms of renewable and non-renewable sources. NFV and SDN technologies are the essential enablers and leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity provided by 5G networks. This paper also presents the technical 5G technology documentation related to the proposal, the requirements for adaptive energy management, and the Integer Linear Programming (ILP) formulation of the energy management model. To validate the improvements, an exact optimal algorithmic solution is presented and some heuristic strategies ; This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of the Spanish Government under project PID2019-108713RB-C51 ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (published version)

"In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, corporate collapses, accounting scandals and concerns around competition and auditor choice, the European Commission (EC) promoted the preparation of various reports on audit policy to support a harmonisation process of European auditing regulation. Consequently, the European Union Audit Regulation and Directive was implemented from 2016. This book provides a timely picture of the audit sector and how it responds to regulatory and technological challenges. It analyses the impact of EU reforms on audit practices by comparing the U.K. and Italy, which, representing two very different regulatory and cultural contexts, will offer insight into how the efforts at standardising audit regulation may lead to very different organisational firm responses within Europe. It addresses issues relating to public policy work and the concerns faced by the market for audit and assurance services, in promoting audit quality, better communication about the role of the auditor, capital market stability and confidence, and auditor independence. Moreover, it highlights what the future of auditing might look like in the EU particularly after the U.K. has left, and how meeting public expectations will continue to be a struggle for the accounting profession given the many problems ahead. The book encourages a deeper awareness of the challenges faced by those that monitor and certify the financial statements of the world's largest public companies and contributes to the general understanding of this controversial industry. It will serve as a useful guide to the recent EU audit reforms, not only for academics, and research students but also to regulators, policymakers, standard setters, industry professionals, and business executives worldwide"--

Intro -- GLOBAL TRENDS 2030 TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAJECTORIES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS -- GLOBAL TRENDS 2030 TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAJECTORIES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 GLOBAL TRENDS 2030: ALTERNATIVE WORLDS -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- Megatrends and Related Tectonic Shifts -- 1. Individual Empowerment -- 2. Diffusion of Power -- 3. Demographic Patterns -- 4. Growing Food, Water, and Energy Nexus -- Game-Changers -- 1. The Crisis-Prone Global Economy -- 2. The Governance Gap -- 3. Potential for Increased Conflict -- 4. Wider Scope of Regional Instability -- 5. The Impact of New Technologies -- 6. The Role of the United States -- Alternative Worlds -- Stalled Engines -- Fusion -- Gini Out-of-the-Bottle -- Nonstate World -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. MEGATRENDS -- 1. Individual Empowerment -- Poverty Reduction -- An Expanding Global Middle Class -- Education and the Gender Gap -- Role of Communications Technologies -- Improving Health -- A More Conflicted Ideological Landscape -- 2. Diffusion of Power -- Aggregate Power of Developing States Set to Surpass US Power by 2030 -- The Rise and Fall of Countries: Not the Same Old Story -- The Limits of Hard Power‡ in the World of 2030 -- 3. Demographic Patterns -- Widespread Aging -- Shrinking Number of Youthful Countries -- A New Age of Migration?* -- Globalized Flows of Workers -- The World as Urban -- 4. Growing Food, Water, and Energy Nexus -- Food, Water, and Climate -- A Brighter Energy Outlook -- Alternatives-The Weak Player in the Natural Gas Explosion -- 2. GAME-CHANGERS -- 1. The Crisis-Prone Global Economy -- The Plight of the West -- Crunch Time Too for the Emerging Powers -- A Multipolar Global Economy: Inherently More Fragile? -- 2. The Governance Gap -- Governance Starts at Home: Risks and Opportunities -- Countries in the Awkward Mid-Range

Salaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S. participation in voluntary war efforts as well as to a decentering of the predominant euro-centric versions of the war in Spain and of history in general. The impetus of many African Americans to join the fight against fascism in Spain stemmed directly from the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, and the Spanish war in 1936 symbolized racial freedom from fascist oppression for many Black volunteers. For many female nurses, the war in Spain was a chance to actively participate in anti-fascist politics and work side by side with men on the front lines. Through a close textual analysis of papers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives housed at New York University's Tamiment Library, this article examines the intersectional experience of Kea as a Black woman in Spain and uncovers the textual violence that has silenced her story in the archives.

Statistical tests are conducted on two explanations of soft power. One is Joseph Nye's argument that political values, foreign policy, and cultural appeals shape soft power, and the other is the positive peace argument which suggests the significant effect of the Global Peace Index (GPI) on soft power. Two measures of soft power are employed-the favorability of major powers in global public opinion polls and the Soft Power 30 index. The latter gauges the magnitude of soft power. When the former measure which indicates the positiveness of soft power is adopted, the three soft power resources provide less explanatory power than per capita GDP and especially the GPI. When the Soft Power 30 index is used, only foreign policy independent of the US contributes positively to soft power. The GPI and non-soft-power related cultural exports (NSPCE) take on a negative role because a number of nations in the index achieved very high rankings with a relatively poor GPI or small NSPCE.