Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1. Part I: Transmission of Buddhism before the seventh century1. Networks for Long-distance Transmission of Buddhism in South Asian Transit Zones, /by Jason Neelis -- 2. Truth and Scripture in Early Buddhism: Categorial Reduction as Exegetical Method in Ancient Gandhara and Beyond, /by Stefan Baums -- 3. Now You Hear it, Now You Don't: The Phrase "Thus Have I Heard" in Early Chinese Buddhist Translations, /by Jan Nattier -- 4. The First Agama Transmission to China, /by Elsa Legittimo -- 5. What is a "Hinayana Zealot" Doing in Fifth-Century China?, /by Daniel Boucher -- 6. Meditation Traditions in Fifth-Century Northern China: With a Special Note on a Forgotten "Kasmiri Meditation Tradition Brought to China by Buddhabhadra (359-429), / by Chen Jinhua -- 7. Transmission of the Dharma and Reception of the Text: Oral and Aural Features in the Fifth Chapter of the Book of Zambasta, /by Giuliana Martini. Part II: Buddhism across Asia between the seventh and fifteenth centuries -- 8. On Kuiji's Sanskrit Compound Analyses: Transmission of Sanskrit Grammar in the Early Tang Dynasty, /by Teng Weijen -- 9. Abridged Teaching (Lue Jiao): Monastic Rules between India and China, /by Ann Heirman -- 10. From Nalanda to Chang'an: A Survey of Buddhist Libraries in Medieval China (618-907), /by Wang Xiang -- 11. Multiple Traditions in One Ritual: A Reading of the Lantern-Lighting Prayers in Dunhuang Manuscripts, /by Chen Huaiyu -- 12. The Idea of India (Tenjiku) in Pre-Modern Japan: Issues of Signification and Representation in the Buddhist Translation of Cultures, /by Fabio Rambelli -- 13. The Buddhist Image Inside-Out: On the Placing of Objects Inside Statues in East Asia, /by James Robson -- 14. Indian Abhidharma Literature in Tibet: A Study of the Vijnana Section of Sthiramati's Pancaskandhakavibhasa, /by Jowita Kramer -- 15. From Asoka to Jayavarman VII: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Buddhism and the State in India and Southeast Asia, /by Hermann Kulke -- 16. The Theravada Buddhist Ecumene in the Fifteenth Century: Intellectual Foundations and Material Representations, /by Tilman Frasch. Part III: Buddhist connections after the fifteenth century -- 17. The Sphere of the Sasana in the Context of Colonialism, /by Anne M Blackburn -- 18. Patronage and Place: The Shwedagon in Times of Change, /by Elizabeth Howard-Moore -- 19. Wang Hongyuan and the Import of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism to China during the Republican Period, /by Erik Schicketanz -- 20. Buddhist Practices and Institutions of the Chinese Community in Kolkata, India, /by Zhang Xing.

Description / Table of Contents: Nonhuman Witnessing -- Witnessing Violence -- Witnessing Algorithms -- Witnessing Ecologies -- Witnessing Absence -- Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Witnessing.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to videogames and the extremist ecosystem / Constance Steinkuehler & Kurt Squire -- Theories of digital games and radicalization / Galen Lamphere-Englund -- Extremist games and modifications - the "metapolitics" of anti-democratic forces / Mick Prinz -- Digital games as vehicles for extremist recruitment and mobilization / Alex Newhouse & Rachel Kowert -- Extremism on gaming (-adjacent) platforms / Jacob Davey -- Hate and extremism on gaming platforms : insights from surveys with the gaming community / Amarnath Amarasingam & Daniel Kelley -- Beauty is power : the use of gaming references and gaming aesthetics in extremist propaganda / Ashton Kingdon -- A is for Apple, B is for bullet : the gamification of (violent) extremism / Suraj Lakhani -- Level up : policies, practices & positive interventions to counter terrorism and violent extremism in gaming spaces / Erin Saltman & Nagham El Karhili -- Preventing and countering extremism in gaming spaces / Linda Schlegel.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. Photographing : or, the future of the image / Christopher Pinney -- "The truth is in the soil" : the political work of photography in northern Sri Lanka / Vindhya Buthpitiya -- Visual citizenship in Cambodia : from apocalypse to visual "political emancipation" / Sokphea Young -- Photography, citizenship, and accusatory memory in the Greek crisis / Konstantinos Kalantzis --Insurgent archive : the photographic making and unmaking of the Nicaraguan revolutionary state / Ileana L. Selejan -- "We are moving with technology" : photographing voice and belonging in Nigeria / Naluwembe Binaisa -- Citizenship, contingency, and futurity : photographic ethnographies from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh / Christopher Pinney.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents:1. Introducing critical studies of artificial intelligence / Simon Lindgren -- Part I. AI and critical theory: Conceptual discussions -- 2. Recursive power: AI governmentality and technofutures / Fenwick McKelvey and Jonathan Roberge -- 3. The danger of smart ideologies: Counter-hegemonic intelligence and antagonistic machines / Peter Bloom -- 4. The becoming of ai: A critical perspective on the contingent formation of ai / Anna Jobin and Christian Katzenbach -- 5. Artificial intelligence and the problem of radical uncertainty / Robert Holton -- 6. Trading human autonomy for technological automation / Simona Chiodo -- 7. Automation anxiety: A critical history -- the apparently odd recurrence of debates about computation, AI and labour / Caroline Bassett and Ben Roberts -- 8. Ai, critical knowledge and subjectivity / Eran Fisher -- 9. Habits and habitus in algorithmic culture / Stefka Hristova -- 10. Algorithms and emerging forms of intimacy / Tanja Wiehn -- 11. It's incomprehensible: On machine learning and decoloniality / Abeba Birhane and Zeerak Talat -- 12. Pragmatism and ai: A critical approach / Johnathan Flowers -- 13. Digital humanism and ai / Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Hans-Hans-Jörg Kreowski -- 14. Beyond AI solutionism: Toward a multi-disciplinary approach to artificial intelligence in society / Simon Lindgren and Virginia Dignum -- 15. Artificial intelligence and social memory: Towards the cyborgian remembrance of an advancing mnemo-technic / Samuel Merrill -- 16. Making sense of ai-influenced geopolitics using sts theories / Arun Teja Polcumpally -- Part II. AI imaginaries and discourses -- 17. Bothering the binaries: Unruly AI futures of hauntings and hope at the limit / Amanda Lagerkvist and Bo Reimer -- 18. Imaginaries of artificial intelligence / Vanessa Richter, Christian Katzenbach and Mike Schäferr -- 19. Language of algorithms: Agency, metaphors and deliberations in AI discourses / Kaisla Kajava and Nitin Sawhney -- 20. Technological failures, controversies and the myth of ai / Andrea Ballatore and Simone Natale -- 21. Marking the lines of artificial intelligence / Mario Verdicchio -- 22. The critical potential of science fiction / Miroslav Kotásek -- 23. A critical review of news framing of artificial intelligence / Ching-Hua Chuan -- 24. Media representations of artificial intelligence: Surveying the field / Saba Rebecca Brause, Jing Zeng, Mike S.Schäferr and Christian Katzenbach -- 25. Educational imaginaries of ai / Lina Rahm -- Part III. The political economy of ai: Datafication and surveillance -- 26. Critical AI studies meets critical political economy / Pieter Verdegem -- 27. The industry of automating automation: The political economy of the AI industry / James Steinhoff -- 28. Ai, class societies and the social life of reason / Scott Timcke -- 29. Re-imagining democracy: Ai's challenge to political theory / Guy Paltieli -- 30. AI as automated inequality: Statistics, surveillance and discrimination / Mike Zajko -- 31. Digital tracking and infrastructural power / Stine Lomborg, Rasmus Helles and Signe Sophus Lai -- 32. AI and the everyday political economy of global health / Michael Strange and Jason Tucker -- 33. Addressing global inequity in AI development / Chinasa T. Okolo -- Part IV. AI transparency, ethics and regulation -- 34. A critical approach to AI ethics / Rosalie A. Waelen -- 35. Power and inequalities: Lifting the veil of ignorance in AI ethics / Anais Resseguier -- 36. Barriers to regulating ai: Critical observations from a fractured field / Ashlin Lee, Will Orr, Walter G. Johnson, Jenna Imad Harb and Kathryn Henne -- 37. Why artificial intelligence is not transparent: A critical analysis of its three opacity layers / Manuel Carabantes -- 38. How to critique the GDPr: When data protection is turned against the working class / Carl Öhman -- 39. Four facets of AI transparency / Stefan Larsson, Kashyap Haresamudram, Charlotte Högberg, Yucong Lao, Axel Nyström, Kasia Söderlund and Fredrik Heintz -- 40. An inclusive approach to ascribing responsibility in robot ethics / Janina Loh -- 41. Machines and morals: Moral reasoning ability might indicate how close AI is to attaining true equivalence with human intelligence / Sukanto Bhattacharya -- 42. A women's rights perspective on safe artificial intelligence inside the United Nations / Eleonore Fournier-Tombs -- 43. From ethics to politics: Changing approaches to AI education / Randy Connolly -- 44. The transparency of reason: Ethical issues of AI art / Dejan Grba -- Part V. AI bias, normativity and discrimination -- 45. Learning about human behavior? The transcendental status of grammars of action in the processing of hci data / Andreas Beinsteiner -- 46. Algorithmic moderation: Contexts, perceptions, and misconceptions / João Gonçalves and Ina Weber -- 47. Algorithmic exclusion / Kendra Albert and Maggie Delano -- 48. Prospective but disconnected partners: Ai-informed criminal risk prediction / Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Fernando Avila -- 49. Power asymmetries, epistemic imbalances and barriers to knowledge: The (im)possibility of knowing algorithms / Ana Pop Stefanija -- 50. Gender, race and the invisible labor of artificial intelligence / Laila Brown -- 51. Machine learning normativity as performativity / Tyler Reigeluth -- 52. Queer eye on ai: Binary systems versus fluid identities / Karin Danielsson, Andrea Aler Tubella, Evelina Liliequist and Coppélie Cocq -- 53. Representational silence and racial biases in commercial image recognition services in the context of religion / Anton Berg and Katja Valaskivi -- 54. Social media as classification systems: Procedural normative choices in user profiling / Severin Engelmann and Orestis Papakyriakopoulos -- 55. From hate speech recognition to happiness Indexing: Critical issues in datafication of emotion in text mining / Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Juho Pääkkönen and Emily Öhman -- Part VI. Politics and activism in ai -- 56. Democratic friction in speech governance by ai / Niva Elkin-Koren and Maayan Perel -- 57. Automating empathy: Overview, technologies, criticism / Andrew McStay and Vian Bakir -- 58. Ideational tensions in the Swedish automation debate: Initial findings / Kalle Eriksson -- 59. En-countering AI as algorhythmic practice / Shintaro Miyazaki -- 60. Introducing political ecology of creative-ai / Andre Holzapfel -- Part VII. AI and automation in society -- 61. Automated decision-making in the public sector / Vanja Carlsson, Malin Rönnblom and Andreas Öjehag-Pettersson -- 62. The landscape of social bot research: A critical appraisal / Harry Yaojun Yan and Kai-Cheng Yang -- 63. Introducing robots and AI in human service organizations: What are the implications for employees and service users? / Susanne Tafvelin, Jan Hjelte, Robyn Schimmer, Maria Forsgren, Vicenc Torra and Andreas Stenling -- 64. Critically analyzing autonomous materialities / Mikael Wiberg -- 65. Exploring critical dichotomies of AI and the rule of law / Markus Naarttijärvi -- 66. The use of AI in domestic security practices / Jens Hälterlein -- 67. Methodological reflections on researching the sociotechnical imaginaries of AI in policing / Carrie B. Sanders and Janet Chan -- 68. Emergence of artificial intelligence in health care: A critical review / Annika M. Svensson and Fabrice Jotterand -- 69. The politics of imaginary technologies: Innovation ecosystems as political choreographies for promoting care robotics in health care / Jaana Parviainen -- 70. AI in education: Landscape, vision and critical ethical challenges in the 21st century / Daniel S. Schiff and Rinat Rosenberg-Kima -- 71. Critically assessing ai/ml for cultural heritage: Potentials and cha Løvlies / Anna Foka, Lina Eklund, Anders Sundnes Løvlie and Gabriele Griffin -- 72. AI ethnography / Anne Dippel and Andreas Sudmann -- 73. Automating social theory / Ralph Schroeder -- 74. Artificial intelligence and scientific problem choice at the nexus of industry and academia / Steve G. Hoffman -- 75. Myths, techno solutionism and artificial intelligence: Reclaiming AI materiality and its massive environmental costs / Benedetta Brevini -- 76. AI governance and civil society: The need for critical engagement / Megan LePere-Schloop and Sandy Zook -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Cracks -- Repro-Theologies in the Promised Land -- Creating an Ethical Language -- Reorienting Decision-Making -- Ending.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Epidemic media -- The epidemic episteme : health as multispecies politics -- The -morphic image : visualizing the virus -- The sensible medium : clinical translations of blood -- The multispecies kinesthetic : tracking animal host movement -- Conclusion: Media theory (in a pandemic).

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : natural things in early modern worlds / Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, and Duygu Yıldırım -- On the design / Zoë Sadokierski and Katie Dean -- Pollen : the sexual life of plants in Mesoamerica / Helen Burgos-Ellis -- Bezoar : medicine in the belly of the beast / Mackenzie Cooley -- Canal : cross-cultural encounters and control of water / Alexander Statman -- Ambergris : from sea to scent in Renaissance Italy / Mackenzie Cooley and Kathryn Biedermann -- Squid : natural history as food history / Whitney Barlow Robles -- Coffee : of melancholic Turkish bodies and sensory experiences / Duygu Yıldırım -- Manchineel : power, pain, and knowledge in the Lesser Antilles / Thomas C. Anderson -- Pitcher plant : drowning in her sweet nectar / Elaine Ayers -- Leaf : the materiality of early modern herbals / Julia Heideklang -- Armadillo : an animal in search of a place / Florencia Pierri -- Bird : living names of Félix de Azara's lost collection / Anna Toledano -- Brain : objecthood, subjecthood, and the genius of Gauss / Nicolaas Rupke -- Epilogue : nature's narratives / Paula Findlen -- Afterword : the disorder of things / Alan Mikhail.