Provides an introduction to major theories of democracy. This edition takes into account significant transformations in world politics. It is useful for those interested in politics, political theory, and political philosophy.

My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence is an improvisational call-and-response writing performance conducted by a language artist and an AI language model and is arranged as a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum.

This book establishes first, that melancholy serves as an important focal point in the interpretation of Benjamin's early work, and second, that Benjamin's approach to melancholy releases it from its customary psychological context, turning it into a philosophical premise.