AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding
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Category: Contemporary Thought
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urg ...Show more
Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals by Satyajit Das
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Category: Contemporary Thought
An interrogation of ecotourism, a celebration of animals and an impassioned call for the need to protect our natural world Thirty years ago, two trips to iconic destinations, Africa and the Antarctic, profoundly changed Satyajit Das’s life. Ecotourism — watching wildlife in nature — became his gravitati ...Show more
Culture Is Not an Industry - Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good by Justin O'Connor
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Manchester Capitalism Ser.
Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and c ...Show more
The Relationship Is the Project: A Guide to Working With Communities by Jade Lillie (Editor); Kate Larsen (Editor); Cara Kirkwood (As told to); Jax Brown (As told to)
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Community-engaged practice is not an art form. It’s not an add-on. It’s a way of working; a deep collaboration.The Relationship is the Project features provocations, tools and practical tips for working with communities. This includes the ethics and logistics of working on community-based projects, from ...Show more
Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri
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Category: Contemporary Thought
An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do NextWhat part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are o ...Show more
Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World by Jess Scully
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Category: Contemporary Thought
It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions designed to protect us are strained; technology is disrupting the world of work. We need to upgrade the operating systems of our society. Jess Scully asks, What ...Show more
The Most Important Job In The World by Gina Rushton
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Should we become parents? It's a question that forces us to reckon with what we love and fear most in ourselves, in our relationships, and in the world as it is now and as it will be. When Gina Rushton admitted she had little time left to make the decision for herself, the magnitude of the choice overwh ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
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Category: Contemporary Thought
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
The Second Sex (Vintage Classics) by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Contemporary Thought
"First published in 1949, The Second Sex is a landmark in the history of feminism. Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir s groundbreaking study of women has had the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a scholarlywork of anthropology and sociol ...Show more
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
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Category: Contemporary Thought
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
Rape: A history from 1860 to the present by Joanna Bourke
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists. She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and psychiatrists to analyse what drives the perpetrators of sex ...Show more
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
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Category: Contemporary Thought
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that 'time is money.' . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' EsquireWe're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.Our life is dominated by the corporate clock that s ...Show more