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When we look at some of the most pressing issues in environmental politics today, it is hard to avoid data technologies. Big data, artificial intelligence, and data dashboards all promise "revolutionary" advances in the speed and scale at which governments, corporations, conservationists, and even individuals can respond to environmental challenges. By bringing together scholars from geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, and ecology, The Nature of Data explores how the digital realm is a significant site in which environmental politics are waged. This collection as a whole makes the argument that we cannot fully understand the current conjuncture in critical, global enviro...
thersites is an international open access journal for innovative transdisciplinary classical studies edited by Annemarie Ambühl, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Christian Rollinger and Christine Walde. thersites expands classical reception studies by publishing original scholarship free of charge and by reflecting on Greco-Roman antiquity as present phenomenon and diachronic culture that is part of today’s transcultural and highly diverse world. Antiquity, in our understanding, does not merely belong to the past, but is always experienced and engaged in the present. thersites contributes to the critical review on methods, theories, approaches and subjects in classical scholarship, which currently s...
Tre libri che nessun Papa ti farebbe mai leggere «La storia segreta e nascosta dello Stato Vaticano.» Corrado Augias, il Venerdì di Repubblica La Chiesa Cattolica combatte il vizio e punisce chi non si attiene alla morale cristiana. O almeno così sostiene il Vaticano. Ma coloro che tuonano contro i peccatori sono immacolati e irreprensibili? La loro storia è costellata di episodi che hanno ben poco a che vedere con la fede. Sin da quando alle faccende di spirito si è affiancata l’attività commerciale e finanziaria, un’ombra di peccato e di colpa ha oscurato le gerarchie ecclesiastiche. Questo volume raccoglie tre saggi di grande successo: La santa casta della Chiesa, I peccati del...