AI for Digital Warfare
AI for Digital Warfare explores how the weaponising of artificial intelligence can and will change how warfare is being conducted, and what impact it will have on the corporate world. With artificial intelligence tools becoming increasingly advanc...
AI for Arts
AI for Arts is a book for anyone fascinated by the man-machine connection, an unstoppable evolution that is intertwining us with technology in an ever-greater degree, and where there is an increasing concern that it will be technology that comes o...
Virtual Mind
The Virtual Mind: Designing the Logic to Approximate Human Thinking, through an in-depth and multidisciplinary review, outlines and defines the underpinnings for modelling human thinking through approximating the mind. Whilst there are plenty of e...
New Boss
Any organization, no matter how stolid, may be unsettled by the news that a new boss is about to take over. Talk in the hallways increases, staff worry about their jobs, uncertainty grows. Even when the change has happened, problems emerge when th...
Reality of the Mass Media
In The Reality of the Mass Media Luhmann extends his theory of social systems - applied in his earlier works to the economy, the political system, art, religion, the sciences and law - to an examination of the role of mass media in the constitutio...
Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability
What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made 'citizenship inclusion' their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosoph...
Introduction to Systems Theory
Niklas Luhmann ranks as one of the most important sociologists and social theorists of the twentieth century. Through his many books he developed a highly original form of systems theory that has been hugely influential in a wide variety of discip...
Diplomacy and Security Community-Building
This book contributes to the ongoing debate in IR on the role of security communities and formulates a new mechanism-based analytical framework. It argues that the question we need to ask is how security communities work at a time when armed confl...
Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability
What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made 'citizenship inclusion' their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosoph...
Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary
This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin's philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin's philosophical work. Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of lang...
Vägledning i klinisk funktionell analys
Funktionell analys är väletablerad och i dag högaktuell inom psykologin. Begreppet är grundläggande för flera uppmärksammade moderna psykoterapimodeller, såsom exempelvis acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialektisk beteendeterapi (DBT) och...
History as Knowledge
What do you know when you know something about history? What is important to know and how do you learn? Adolescents encounter history everywhere: at school, in the family, in media and society. But how do adolescents perceive history and in what w...
History in the Plural
Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly inn...
Monsters
Monsters
På väg : motorhistoriska spår i Skåne
I den här boken får vi följa med författaren, etnologen Niklas Ingmarsson, till gamla mackar och verkstäder, somliga övergivna - andra helt nyfixade. Det doftar bensin, spillolja och trassel ända in på boksidorna, det är en skånsk roadmovie ackomp...
Jag springer inte, jag flyr
"En mycket underhållande bok som inte gick att lägga ner när jag väl börjat läsa. Tacklar på ett underhållande sätt mycket av det händer runt många av oss mitt i livet. Karriär, familj, tidsbrist, förväntningar och hälsa." "V...
Reflexioner
I Niklas Karlssons debutbok "Reflexioner" kolliderar analoga och digitala kollage, textfragment, aforismer och oblika påståenden och skapar en helhet som är både oroande och underhållande, kryptisk och materiell. Niklas Karlsson är lärar...
Art of Whittling
Whittling is more than just a way of busying idle hands - it is a pastime for those who love the texture of wood and a way of life for those who feel a special connection between people and trees. This beautiful and practical guide to the art of w...
Hafsorkesterns bravader : jorden runt med 32 gastar
Hafsorkestern är nog den första Bavaria 30 som seglat jorden runt. Men det som skulle ha blivit en segling runt jorden på tre år, tog fem. Emellan kom en stängd värld för ankar på Maldiverna, ett mastbrott på Atlanten och bästa gasten som gick bor...
Language Lost and Found
Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a general loss of concepts." By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light of this difficulty, it offers a detaile...
Havet viskade ditt namn
Känner vi verkligen den vi delar livet med? På djupet? Och vågar vi se bortom alla fasader? "Kristin hade postat breven innan de lämnade Jungfruön, men när barnen läste breven skulle hon vara långt därifrån. Hon hade förkla...
Theories of Distinction
The essays in this volume by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society. The first two essays deal with the modern European philosophical and scientific tradition, notably the ogy of Edmund Husserl. The next four essays concern the crucial notion of observation as defined by Luhmann. They examine the history of paradox as a logical problem and as a historically conditioned feature of rhetoric; deconstruct the thinking of Jacques Derrida, especially his language-centered allegiances; discuss the usefulness of Spencer Brown's Laws of Form; and assess the consequences of observation and paradox for epistemology. The following essays present Luhmann's theory of communication and his articulation of the difference between thought and communication, a difference that makes clear one of Luhmann's most radical and controversial theses, that the individual not only does not form