Liviu Poenaru, Dark Machinic Epistemology (forthcoming) This regime has no flag, no single party and no leader required to appear on a balcony. It has an interface. The word dictatorship may seem excessive if understood only in its constitutional sense: elections still take place, speech still circulates and no digital apparatus holds a monopoly on violence. Yet the term becomes precise when it names a structure of command that progressively narrows the possibility of disobed

Sept. 2026 This highly topical book provides an integrated framework for understanding how artificial intelligence, personality traits, gender, and cultural contexts shape youth digital engagement and mental health outcomes. Grounded in cyberpsychology and extensive empirical research, AI ethics, and developmental psychology, this book addresses the urgent need for evidence-based approaches to supporting young people's well-being in an increasingly AI-mediated digital world.

Sept. 2026 Drawing on primary empirical research, this book considers the democratic outcomes of political news avoidance, selective news exposure, and misinformation. Political information environments across democracies are in flux, fundamentally changing the way citizens gain political information and leading to widespread concerns about consequences for democracy. From selective media use leading to increased attitudinal polarisation, to declining trust in legacy media an

Sept. 2026 This book examines and critiques Steve Fuller’s social epistemology on his study of four ways to understand the nature of post-truth: way one’s understanding is an epistemic crisis in which emotion has taken over and facts are irrelevant; way two’s understanding is a legitimation crisis of cognitive authority of science on the legitimation and delegitimation of knowledge claims; way three’s understanding is the Internet and social media have led to the democratiza

Edited by Kathrin Maurer, Rikke Munck Petersen, Dominique Routhier, Kassandra Wellendorf and Kristin Veel Sept. 2026 An interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond. The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, researchers, and artists who explore machine vision from various academic and nonacademic perspectives. Edited by Kathrin Maurer, Rikke Munck Petersen, Dominique Routhier, Kassandra Wellendorf, and Kristin V

What if artificial intelligence is not replacing the state, but concealing who already governs? Jill Lepore’s The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State is not principally a history of AI. It is a history of political substitution. Functions once associated with constitutional government—organising public discourse, representing populations, producing knowledge and shaping collective decisions—have migrated towards private technological systems. Citizens become data; deliberat

Aug. 2026 What if Silicon Valley’s authoritarian turn is not a betrayal of its culture, but one of its political conclusions? Gil Durán’s The Nerd Reich rejects the comforting story that a few eccentric billionaires suddenly drifted to the right. It reconstructs an ideological lineage: from The Sovereign Individual and Curtis Yarvin’s neo-reactionary writings to Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, Elon Musk and JD Vance. What was marketed as technological emancip

Sept. 2025 Jean Twenge, PhD, award-winning professor of psychology and author of the “lavishly informative” (The New York Times)...

An acclaimed historian of science uncovers the hidden history of brainwashing—and its troubling implications for today. Because...

Aug. 4, 2025 Alienation Studies: Collected Papers of Melvin Seeman, edited by Paul Seeman and Teresa Seeman and published by Springer,...

Mar. 18, 2025 An examination of new forms of alienation in our never-off, plugged-in culture—and a clarion call for a “conspiracy of...

Mar. 12, 2025 Meta is once again facing allegations from a former employee that a growth-at-all-costs culture has caused offline harm. A...

Mar. 3, 2025 The previous 2016 edition, "E-Mental Health," shed light on the application of telecommunications technologies to deliver...

Mar. 3, 2025 Our contemporary global digital society is not always a good place to live. Authoritarianism, hatred, false news, post-truth...

March 3, 2025 An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely...

Feb. 2, 2025 Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs--does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just...