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Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literature and thought. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's Dionysus became a symbol of the irrational forces of culture that cannot be contained, and explores the presence of Nietzsche's Greeks in the diverse writings of Jane Harrison, D. H. Lawrence, Martin Heidegger, Richard Schechner and Wole Soyinka (amongst others). From Jane Harrison's controversial ideas about Greek religion in an anthropological modernity, to Wole Soyinka's reimagining of a postcolonial genre of tragedy, each of the writers under discussion used the Nietzschean vision of Greece to develop subversive discourses of temporality, identity, history and classicism. In this way, they all took up Nietzsche's call to disrupt pre-existing discourses of classical meaning and create new modes of thinking about the Classics that speak to the immediate concerns of the present.

Closing the Gap is an accessible overview of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and the impact it is set to have on various sectors in South Africa and Africa. It explores the previous industrial revolutions that have led up to this point and outlines what South Africa's position has been through each one. With a focus on artificial intelligence as a core concept in understanding the 4IR, the book uses familiar concepts to explain artificial intelligence is, how it works and how it can be used in banking, mining, medicine and many other fields. Written from an African perspective, Closing the Gap addresses the challenges and fears around the 4IR by pointing to the opportunities presented by new technologies and outlining some of the challenges and successes seen with it

Chapter 1. Introduction: Digital Ethics Lab (Dr Christopher Burr and Dr Silvia Milano) -- Chapter 2. Semantic Capital (Professor Luciano Floridi) -- Chapter 3. Regulational State Behaviour in Cyberspace (Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo) -- Chapter 4. What does the 'explainable' in 'explainable AI' mean? (David Watson) -- Chapter 5. Artificial Intelligence and the Good Society (Corinne Cath) -- Chapter 6. The Digital Afterlife Industry (Carl Öhman) -- Chapter 7. An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society (Josh Cowls and Luciano Floridi) -- Chapter 8. Regulatory theory and autonomous computing systems (Nikita Aggarwal) -- Chapter 9. Risk and Artificial Intelligence (Dr Silvia Milano) -- Chapter 10. Towards an e-nvironmental understanding of well-being (Dr Christopher Burr) -- Chapter 11. Smart Cities: How can technology be used to improve the lives of citizens (Tony Hart) -- Chapter 12. From Social Interaction to Ethical AI (Nigel Crook) -- Chapter 13. Governing an Ocean (Paul Galwas) -- Chapter 14. Cybersecurity and sovereignty in Europe and the role of digital industrial policy (Paul Timmers).

Introducing a largely neglected area of existing interactions between Greco-Roman antiquity and media theory, this book addresses the question of why interactions in this area matter, and how they might be developed further. The volume seeks to promote more media attentiveness among scholars of Greece and Rome. It also aims to create more awareness of the presence of the classics in media theory. It foregrounds the persistency of Greco-Roman paradigms across the different strands of media theory. And it calls for a closer consideration of the conceptual underpinnings of scholarly practices around the transformation of ancient Greece and Rome into 'classical' cultures.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Desperately Seeking Ariadne - the Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete1 -- 2 Sons of Europa: From Medical Remedies for Constipation to Bestiality, Sexually Transmitted Death, and the Dawn of the 'Minoan Age' (from Antiquity to the Mid-Nineteenth Century) -- Ancient responses to Minoan Crete -- From Arab to Ottoman: Responses to Minoan material culture c. 824-1860, and the dawn of the 'Minoan Age' -- 3 Rediscovering European Origins: Ariadne as the Great Mother Goddess (Mid-Nineteenth Century-First World War) -- The Schliemann factor -- From the tomb of Agamemnon to the palace of Minos -- 'Little Evans - son of John Evans the Great' and the road to Knossos45 -- From the Palace of Minos to the Palace of Ariadne: Κρητική Πολιτεία (Cretan State) (1898-1913) and the Heroic Age of Cretan excavations -- All aboard! The Minoans in the late Belle Époque -- Cretomania in the late Belle Époque: The Minoans in modern cultural practices c. 1900-1918 - Neo-Minoans from Crete to Paris and beyond -- Conclusions: The romance and triumph of Minoan Crete, the decadence of Mycenaean Greece -- 4 Minoans and the World Wars (c. 1915-49): The Aryan Revenge -- Crete from the Kritiki Politeia to the Second World War and its aftermath -- From pan-Minoan Aegean to 'Minoans go home!' - the return of the Aryans and the decline and fall of the Minoan Empire -- Cretomania amidst World and Civil Wars: The Minoans in modern cultural practices c. 1918-1949 - from decadence to hope for the future -- Conclusions: The Minoans in an age of extremes and catastrophes -- 5 The Minoans in the Cold War and Swinging Sixties: From the End of the Greek Civil War to the End of the Colonels' Dictatorship (c. 1949-74).

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Piecework -- 2. Thinking Barbarism Today -- 3. It's All Greek to Me -- 4. A Positive Barbarism? -- 5. Barbarism in Repetition -- 6. Another "Kind of Solution" -- 7. New Barbarians -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index

What is culture? What can we learn from art, architecture, and fashion about how people relate? Can cultures embody ethical and moral ideals? These are just some of the questions addressed in this book on the cultural philosophy of three preeminent Japanese philosophers of the early twentieth century, Nishida Kitarō, Watsuji Tetsurō and Kuki Shūzō.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Introduction: Globalization, knowledge and the Atlantic world -- Key issues -- Globalization -- Knowledge -- The Atlantic world, c. 1660-1860 -- Globalizing forces -- Approach and argument -- Part 1: Globalizing forces and the growth of maritime knowledge in the Atlantic world, c. 1660-1730 -- Introduction: Globalization between c. 1660 and 1730 -- Chapter 1: Globalizing forces and the growth of maritime knowledge -- Machines and the making of infrastructure -- Self-organization and social networks -- Chapter 2: Growing maritime knowledge and globalization -- Designing ships, navigating the ocean and probing the depths -- Observing living creatures in and above the water -- Keeping the humans on board alive -- Conclusion -- Capabilities and limitations -- Changes -- Part 2: Maritime knowledge and globalization in the Atlantic world, c. 1730-1800 -- Introduction: Globalization between c. 1730 and 1800 -- Chapter 3: The maritime knowledge supporting globalization -- Faster ships -- Improving the chances of survival: Mortality and health care -- Chapter 4: The globalizing forces supporting maritime knowledge -- Imperial and commercial machines and the growth of infrastructure for maritime knowledge -- Self-organized networks and the circulation of maritime knowledge -- Conclusion -- Capabilities and limitations -- Changes -- Part 3: The reshaping of the Atlantic world and the collectivization of maritime knowledge, c. 1800-60 -- Introduction: Globalization between c. 1800 and 1860 -- Chapter 5: Maritime knowledge and globalization: Advances and lags -- Increasing speed, lagging safety -- Improving the chances of survival: Mortality and health care -- Growing harvests from the sea: Fishing, sealing and whaling.