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[Announcement of Publication] "Platforms and Social Foundations: How to engage the Monsters" (Series: The Monsterizing Platform Power and Law vol. 4) edited by T. Isobe, H. Kawashima, Y. Shibata, G. Horiguchi and S. Mizubayashi

2024.10.07

"Platforms and Social Foundations: How to engage the Monsters", a book written and edited by T. Isobe, H. Kawashima, Y. Shibata, G. Horiguchi and S. Mizubayashi, members of the KGRI Research Project (Platform and the "2040 Problem"), has been published by Keio University Press, as a part of the book series "The Monsterizing Platform Power and Law".

Overview of the Series

In the context of rapidly advancing science and technology, particularly artificial intelligence, new "monsters" distinct from the Leviathan (i.e., the state) are emerging, shaking the foundations of the modern legal system that presumes the dominance of the Leviathan. This series, titled "The Monsterizing Platform Power and Law", likens global mega-platforms to the Behemoth, a creature depicted alongside the sea monster Leviathan in the Old Testament (the Book of Job, chapters 40-41). It aims to explore the confrontation and control of the powers of Leviathan and Behemoth from a legal perspective, and to foresee the future of freedom and democracy (from "Introduction to the Series" by Tatsuhiko Yamamoto).

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Overview of the Book

This fourth volume in the series addresses several "social foundations": health, education, and labor. With the appearance of a new monster, the Behemoth, rather than only considering a major conflict between one thing and another, it is possible to imagine a new ally for patients, children, and workers, who will help them in their health, studies, and working lives. In the age of the DPF, what is expected of the state, the DPF, and the actors who have been playing central roles in each of these areas?
*An English version of this book will be published within the fiscal year 2024.

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