The Politics of Ape and Machine (Paperback)

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Editorial: N/A Books, 2025

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Paperback. Power shapes everything around us -- from the way governments are built to the way families, workplaces, and communities function. Yet most of us rarely stop to ask: What is power? How does it really work? And why do some people and institutions hold onto it while others lose it? In this collection of essays, Joseph Costello draws on history, politics, business, and culture to reveal the hidden and outright forces that govern our lives. Moving between vivid stories and clear frameworks, the book shows how power is created, contested, transformed, and technology's essential role -- understanding all this can help us make better choices, build stronger organizations, and navigate a rapidly changing world. Both a guide and a call to awareness, this book helps readers see the world differently: not just as it is, but as it might be reshaped. Drawing on history, literature, and philosophy, these essays trace how civilizations wrestled with the tension between nature and invention, community and individual, democracy and authoritarian control. From Aeschylus and the Furies to McLuhan and cybernetics, the narrative connects ancient struggles for justice to modern debates over information, artificial intelligence, and the meaning of democracy itself. We encounter Delphi and Apollo, Orestes and Nietzsche, Jefferson and the Populists -- voices that have tried to reconcile the promises of progress with the dangers of power. Alongside them stand scientists and thinkers like Einstein, Heisenberg, Huxley, and Illich, whose work reveals both the creative and destructive potentials of knowledge. At the heart of the book is a recognition that political life is not only shaped by human intention but also by machines we build. Industrial revolutions, feedback systems, quantum theory, and the vast circulation of information have transformed the conditions of democracy, while myths of Prometheus, Kurtz, and Oprah remind us that stories and symbols are as powerful as factories or algorithms. This is a book about the past as much as it is about the present -- about how we got here, and what it will take to sustain both our humanity and our democracy in an age of machines. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Título
The Politics of Ape and Machine (Paperback)
Autor
Joseph Costello
Editorial
N/A Books
Año de publicación
2025
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 13
9798998579639

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