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Author : G. Garzia
Release : 2018
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 517/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Verità e menzogna nel falso-Truth and lies in fakes and forgeries by : G. Garzia
Download or read book Verità e menzogna nel falso-Truth and lies in fakes and forgeries written by G. Garzia. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : La Civiltà Cattolica
Release : 2022-03-04
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Nothing is as it seems by : La Civiltà Cattolica
Download or read book Nothing is as it seems written by La Civiltà Cattolica. This book was released on 2022-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 14 articles from the July 2021 edition of La Civiltà Cattolica, the highly respected and oldest Catholic journal published from Rome. It’s abundantly clear now that the first step to kick starting the post-covid world is universal vaccination, The Urgency of Universal Access to the Covid-19 Vaccine looks for answers to this problem, what we have learned about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the economics and politics of the issue. “Physics could be seen as a game of chess played by the gods, with us observing the movements of the pieces on the chessboard without being aware of the rules of the game but with a burning desire to discover them”: said the great American physicist and genius Richard Feynman. Paolo Beltrame investigates the “Muon g-2” experiment that has physicists speculating if it is a “new physics”. Argentinian Jesuit Diego Fares reviews a rich body of speeches that the Pope has produced in, for and from the Latin American region in Pope Francis and his Messages to Latin America. Fr Giovanni Sale looks at the Arab Spring ten years on. The aim of these revolutions was greater political and socio-economic participation. Have they succeeded and what are the lasting outcomes?
Author : Massimo Durante
Release : 2021-03-11
Genre : Computers
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Book Rating : 343/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Computational Power by : Massimo Durante
Download or read book Computational Power written by Massimo Durante. This book was released on 2021-03-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We delegate more and more decisions and tasks to artificial agents, machine-learning mechanisms, and algorithmic procedures or, in other words, to computational systems. Not that we are driven by powerful ambitions of colonizing the Moon, replacing humans with legions of androids, creating sci-fi scenarios à la Matrix or masterminding some sort of Person of Interest-like Machine. No, the current digital revolution based on computational power is chiefly an everyday revolution. It is therefore that much more profound, unnoticed and widespread, for it affects our customary habits and routines and alters the very texture of our day-to-day lives. This opens a precise line of inquiry, which constitutes the basic thesis of the present text: our computational power is exercised by trying to adapt not just the world but also our representation of reality to how computationally based ICTs work. The impact of this technology is such that it does not leave things as they are: it changes the nature of agents, habits, objects and institutions and hence it subverts the existing order, without necessarily generating a new one. I argue that this power is often not distributed in an egalitarian manner but, on the contrary, is likely to result in concentrations of wealth, in dominant positions or in unjust competitive advantages. This opens up a struggle, with respect to which the task of reaffirming the fundamental values, the guiding principles, the priorities and the rules of the game, which can transform, or attempt to transform, a fierce confrontation between enemies in a fair competition between opponents rests on us.
Author : Serena Giusti
Release : 2020-12-30
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 819/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Democracy and Fake News by : Serena Giusti
Download or read book Democracy and Fake News written by Serena Giusti. This book was released on 2020-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively changing the information landscape, undermining some of the pillars of democracy. The volume sheds light on some topical questions connected to fake news, thereby contributing to a fuller understanding of its impact on democracy. In the Introduction, the editors offer some orientating definitions of post-truth politics, building a theoretical framework where various different aspects of fake news can be understood. The book is then divided into three parts: Part I helps to contextualise the phenomena investigated, offering definitions and discussing key concepts as well as aspects linked to the manipulation of information systems, especially considering its reverberation on democracy. Part II considers the phenomena of disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics in the context of Russia, which emerges as a laboratory where the phases of creation and diffusion of fake news can be broken down and analysed; consequently, Part II also reflects on the ways to counteract disinformation and fake news. Part III moves from case studies in Western and Central Europe to reflect on the methodological difficulty of investigating disinformation, as well as tackling the very delicate question of detection, combat, and prevention of fake news. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, law, political philosophy, journalism, media studies, and computer science, since it provides a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of post-truth politics.
Author : Michele Battini
Release : 2016-04-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Socialism of Fools by : Michele Battini
Download or read book Socialism of Fools written by Michele Battini. This book was released on 2016-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Socialism of Fools, Michele Battini focuses on the critical moment during the Enlightenment in which anti-Jewish stereotypes morphed into a sophisticated, modern social anti-Semitism. He recovers the potent anti-Jewish, anticapitalist propaganda that cemented the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in the European mind and connects it to the atrocities that characterized the Jewish experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the eighteenth century, counter-Enlightenment intellectuals and intransigent Catholic writers singled out Jews for conspiring to exploit self-sustaining markets and the liberal state. These ideas spread among socialist and labor movements in the nineteenth century and intensified during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Anti-Jewish anticapitalism then migrated to the Habsburg Empire with the Christian Social Party; to Germany with the Anti-Semitic Leagues; to France with the nationalist movements; and to Italy, where Revolutionary Syndicalists made anti-Jewish anticapitalism the basis of an alliance with the nationalists. Exemplified best in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous document that "leaked" Jewish plans to conquer the world, the Jewish-conspiracy myth inverts reality and creates a perverse relationship to historical and judicial truth. Isolating the intellectual roots of this phenomenon and its contemporary resonances, Battini shows us why, so many decades after the Holocaust, Jewish people continue to be a powerful political target.
