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.
Janine Marchessault - Ecstatic Worlds – Media, Utopias, Ecologies
Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators an..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262036467
Author: Janine Marchessault
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Ecology, Media Theory, Utopia.
Maurizio Lazzarato - Experimental Politics – Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age
In Experimental Politics, Maurizio Lazzarato examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism’s flexible and precarious labor ma..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262034869
Author: Maurizio Lazzarato
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Politics, Sociology.
Edward Ashford Lee - Plato And The Nerd
This book makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where prog..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262036481
Author: Edward Ashford Lee
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Computer Science, Technology.
Joseph E. Aoun - Robot-Proof – Higher Education In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262037280
Author: Joseph E. Aoun
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Education, Robots.
Michael Z. Newman - Atari Age – The Emergence Of Video Games In America
The emergence of video games in America from ball-and-paddle games to hits like Space Invaders and Pac-Man, describing their relationship to other amusements an..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262035712
Author: Michael Z. Newman
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Media Theory, USA, Video Games.
Andreas Broeckmann - Machine Art In The Twentieth Century
Broeckmann examines a variety of 20th- and early 21st-century artworks that articulate people’s relationships with machines. In the course of his investigatio..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262035064
Author: Andreas Broeckmann
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Art Theory, Technology.
Hector J. Levesque - Common Sense, The Turing Test, And The Quest For Real A.I.
If the underlying concept of Artificial Intelligence is that thinking is a computational process, then how can computation illuminate thinking? As AI migrates..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262036047
Author: Hector J. Levesque
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Computer Science, Technology.
