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    [1]    From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
           Subject: new book: Digital Humanities in the India Rim (38)

    [2]    From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
           Subject: another new book: Fantasies and Failures (36)


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        Date: 2024-11-19 09:34:23+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: new book: Digital Humanities in the India Rim

Digital Humanities in the India Rim:
Contemporary Scholarship in Australia and India
Hart Cohen, Ujjwal Jana and Myra Gurney, eds.
London: Open Book, 2024

Available to read online, download and buy. See
<https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0423>

From the publisher's summary:

This varied collection delves into illuminating examples of Digital
Humanities research and practice currently being undertaken by academics
in India and Australia, and seeks to understand the shared challenges as
well as the points of similarity and difference between them. From the
influence of Netflix on International Relations to contemporary digital
adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, via detours into erobotics
(empathic robots) and the cultural specificity of online dating, these
essays convey the distinctive breadth and imagination of research in
this field.

Digital Humanities is a relatively new discipline in the India Rim, and
this novelty has created space for innovative research ideas, as well as
the use of traditional methodologies and software in different ways
within these unique cultural spaces that could potentially influence how
Digital Humanities is conceptualised internationally. For example,
drawing on Indian classical logic leads to novel designs and
applications of computation.

This lively volume offers a fresh look at the Digital Humanities and an
important overview of the work taking place in a region other than the
Western countries that typically dominate the field. It has much to
offer both experienced researchers and those new to the Digital Humanities.

--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk

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        Date: 2024-11-19 10:46:54+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: another new book: Fantasies and Failures

Maya Indira Ganesh, Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI,
Ethics, and the Driverless Car (Arnhem: ArtEZ Press, 2024)
<https://artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-correct/>

From the publisher's summary:

The ‘Trolley Problem,’ a well-known thought experiment, has come to
symbolise the ‘ethics of autonomous driving’—a powerful narrative that
gained traction alongside the excitement surrounding driverless cars.
While the problem is still used in classrooms to highlight the contrasts
between utilitarian and deontological ethical frameworks in analytic
philosophy, it has also influenced our expectations of AI-driven
technologies. It suggests that ethical decision-making can be automated
and data-driven, rather than remaining a human, social, or
individualised practice.

Auto-Correct explores the language and materiality around ‘autonomy,’ as
well as the cultural impact of epistemic tools like the Trolley Problem
and Moral Machine. These shape how safety and automobility are framed as
challenges for the driverless car to solve. Blending critical studies of
technology, culture, and society, the book examines how driverless cars
are reshaping forms of governance, responsibility and values.

Auto-Correct examines the cultural ontologies of the driverless car: as
an AI/robot imaginary, a big data infrastructure, and a conventional
twentieth-century automobile. The book ultimately argues for broader
understanding of ethics and values—not just as outputs of AI systems but
as essential components of our present and future social and
technological landscapes.


--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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