Lorraine Daston - Against Nature
A sharp-edged work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Daston proposes that human reason practiced in hu..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262537339
Author: Lorraine Daston
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Anthropology, Philosophy.
Alexi Kukuljevic - Liquidation World – The Art Of Living Absently
Liquidation World examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an o..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262534192
Author: Alexi Kukuljevic
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Humour, Surrealism.
Jesper Juul - Handmade Pixels – Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity
An investigation of independent video games – creative, personal, strange, and experimental – and their claims to handcrafted authenticity in a pure..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262042796
Author: Jesper Juul
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Culture Theory, Video Games.
Michael F. Leruth - Fred Forest’s Utopia
Described as “France’s most famous unknown artist,” the innovative media provocateur Fred Forest was a precursor of Eduardo Kac, Jodi, the Yes Men, RT..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262036498
Author: Michael F. Leruth
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, France, Hacking, Utopia.
Merve Emre - Once And Future Feminist
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9781946511102
Author: Merve Emre
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Feminism, Politics, Technology.
Roberto Simanowski - Waste – A New Media Primer
On Facebook and fake news, selfies and self-consciousness, selling our souls to the Internet, and other aspects of the digital revolution.
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262536271
Author: Roberto Simanowski
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: New Media Theory, Social Media.
George Estreich - Fables and Futures – Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories we Tell Ourselves
How new biomedical technologies—from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques—require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong.
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262039567
Author: George Estreich
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: biotechnology, Disability, Science.
Christopher J. Preston - The Synthetic Age
Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262037617
Author: Christopher J. Preston
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Biology, Design, Ecology, Science, Technology.
Gloria Sutton - The Experience Machine – Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema
In 1965, the experimental filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927–1984) unveiled his Movie-Drome, made from the repurposed top of a grain silo. VanDerBeek envisioned ..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262028493
Author: Gloria Sutton
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '60s, '70s, Cinema, Pioneers, USA.
