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Macro-reasoning and cognitive gaps: understanding post-Soviet Russians’ communication styles. [PDF]
, 2017 Russians and Westerners access, process and communicate information in different ways. Whilst Westerners favour detailed analysis of subject matter, Russians tend to focus on certain components that are, in their view, significant ...
Fell, Elena
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Autism = Death: The social and medical impact of a catastrophic medical model of autistic spectrum disorders [PDF]
, 2008 This discussion interrogates the continuing impact of the pervasive and persistent usage of debilitating metaphors perpetuating ‘historical’ superstitions, myths and beliefs surrounding disability.
Waltz, Mitzi
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Alignment of the Starlings: Learning With Generative AI
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT I will argue that answers to normative questions concerning the place of generative AI in learning rest on answers to ontological questions regarding (1) precisely what is happening when a human ‘interacts’ with generative AI and (2) What is distinctive about organic learning as opposed to currently existing ‘machine learning’ (3) What is the ...
Sean Watson
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Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
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Territoire en Mouvement, 2012 This article discusses the often evoked hypothesis that the future evolution of human beings will be toward cyborgs. A cyborg, or Cybernetic Organism, is a hybrid creature consisting of organic and cybernetic parts.
Jean-Claude Heudin
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Cyborg finance mirrors cyborg social media [PDF]
Big Data & Society, 2020 This article aims at showing the similarities between the financial and the tech sectors in their use and reliance on information and algorithms and how such dependency affects their attitude towards regulation. Drawing on Pasquale’s recommendations for reform, it sets out a proposal for a constant and independent scrutiny of internet service ...
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Representaciones paracientíficas de cuerpo y persistencias tecnológicas [PDF]
, 2010 El objetivo del trabajo es mostrar que las representaciones corporales actuales están lejos de los cyborgs. La opción más realista es la concepción moderna del cuerpo asentada en procesos de racionalización, secularización y medicalización.
Casado Neira, David
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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
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The Sociology of AI as an Emerging Field: Mapping Tensions and Boundaries
Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT The expanding role of artificial intelligence (AI) in social life compels a foundational reassessment of sociology's concepts, methods, and theoretical commitments. From generative language models to predictive policing, AI systems are no longer mere tools but increasingly agentic, opaque, and normative sociotechnical actors.
Canhui Liu
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Andy Clark and his Critics [PDF]
, 2019 In this volume, a range of high-profile researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and empirical cognitive science, critically engage with Clark's work across the themes of: Extended, Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, and Affective ...
Colombo, Matteo +2 more
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