Conspiracy and Contingency Popular culture

Conspiracy and Contingency Popular cultureWhat do conspiracy theories, algorithms and meritocracy have in common? All three avoid contingency and frantically look for necessities. Contingency phobia is not only manifest in conspiratorial thinking. It is the cause of a variety of other phenomena that have become emblematic for liberal democracies.

This book analyses British attitudes on southeastern Europe in the period between 1870-1930

Moving beyond the oft-discussed perceptual elements of vision and hearing

New chapters 'Postdigital Perspectives: Rediscovering Ten Fingers' and 'Wiki Perspectives: Multiform Unity and Global Tribes' have been added to chapters on semiotic

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African countries on the contrary took the low road in exporting minerals and raw agricultural commodities with little value addition

This is the very first edited collection on ICERD

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can be considered a 'documentary on documentation'

and to address spatial representation and urbanity through art

written by Nobel Prize winner

Connectionism is a new information-processing paradigm which attempts to imitate the architecture and process of the brain and brings together researchers from disciplines as diverse as Computer Science

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