What are the new questions raised by AI for the prevention and detection of crime? How can we rationalise the Amazon Ring doorbell and Tesla’s Sentry Mode? How can algoracism be identified, and what should we think of data donation? Surveillance today cannot be understood without an awareness of how AI and algorithms have become increasingly central in the governance of security. They have led to a substantial expansion in the depth and breadth of surveillance, ranging from mass data collec...

A small group of freethinkers from the Dutch Republic played a key role in the major intellectual changes of the Early Enlightenment (1640–1720). In the wake of Cartesianism, their rationalist ideas transformed debates about science, theology, medicine, and political theory. This book studies the position of four translators in these debates on the ‘New Philosophy’: Jan Hendriksz Glazemaker, Pieter Balling, Abraham van Berkel, and Stephan Blankaart. It presents a comparative history of ...

In this book, Henk van Rinsum provides an in-depth description of the colonial past of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, from its foundation in 1636. He describes the development of (scientific) knowledge and knowledge transfer about and in the Dutch colonies, especially in the Dutch East Indies. The central theme of his book is the idea of Western superiority – the assumption that we are ‘developed’ and therefore modern, while those in the colonies are ‘not (yet) developed’ an...

'Beyond Orientalism: Sir William Jones (1746-1794), A Journey of Understanding' reconfigures our understanding of Orientalism, the formation of British Romanticism, colonialism, and late eighteenth-century British India. This volume examines the enduring legacy of Sir William Jones, a seminal figure in the intellectual exchange between East and West during the Enlightenment. Through a rigorous analysis of Jones's translations, annotations, and original compositions, the book elucidates his pr...

It is the paradox at the heart of the Dutch Republic: how could a state emerge from resistance to political slavery and subjugation by a foreign power, only to become a colonial empire that promoted slavery all over the world? Slavery and the Dutch State shows how the modern Dutch state and its predecessors were complicit in colonial slavery. It describes the roles of various actors, such as enslaved people, administrators and merchants in the Netherlands and the colonized societies. More tha...

The concept of ‘serendipity’ is traditonally associated with ‘luck’, ‘chance’ or ‘good fortune’, but the reality paints a very different picture and facts suggest otherwise: serendipity is not ‘luck’—our ‘unused braincapacity’ turns out to be our greatest cognitive power. The idea that the unconscious is the internal ‘AI supercomputer’ of the human mind, offers a fascinating perspective. Our unconsciousness operates beneath the surface, outside of our conscious a...

This document is the TOGAF Standard — Introduction and Core Concepts. It has been developed and approved by The Open Group, and is part of the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition.

This document introduces the standard, including an executive overview of Enterprise Architecture, a description of how the standard is organized, and a summary of core concepts. It also contains the material common to the individual documents that comprise the standard, such as the definitions, as well as document refer...

This document is a compilation of two documents within the TOGAF® Standard. It has been developed and approved by The Open Group, and is part of the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition.

The two documents in this set are:

1. TOGAF Standard — Architecture Content

This document describes the TOGAF Content Framework and a structured metamodel for architectural artifacts, the use of re-usable Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs), and an overview of typical architecture deliverables.

2. TOGAF Standar...

Managers today seem to have to be jacks of all trades. Delegating, co-operating,

motivating, planning and even keeping up to date with developments as

well as taking training courses: this is what is expected of managers today.

But who can possibly do all these things at the same time?

Coen Dirkx and Anton van den Dungen show us which skills you need to be a

manager, how to obtain these skills and how to put them into practice without

becoming completely snowed under. Using models, recommenda...