Vaclav Smil - How the World Really Works – A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future.
Drawing on the latest science, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead?
Publisher: Penguin / ISBN: 9780241989678
Author: Vaclav Smil
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Environment, History, Science, Technology.
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.
Various Authors - Robot Love
Lavishly illustrated hardcover book accompanied the huge exhibition in 2018 in The Netherlands, presenting 60 international artists a.o. Hito Steyerl, Roger Hio..(read more)
Publisher: Terra / ISBN: 9789089897763
Author: Various Authors
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Science, Sexuality, Technology.
David J. Helfand - A Survival Guide To The Misinformation Age
This survival guide supplies an essential set of apps for the prefrontal cortex while making science both accessible and entertaining. It will dissolve your fea..(read more)
Publisher: Columbia University Press / ISBN: 9780231168731
Author: David J. Helfand
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Environment, Physics, Science.
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - Paradigm Shift Knuckle Sandwich – & Other Examples of P.N.T. (Perverse Number Theory)
“As a child and a young man I imagined that I might be able to be invisible if I could just vibrate in such a way that light no longer reflected off me bu..(read more)
Publisher: Through The Eye Of A Needle In A Haystack Press / ISBN: 9781944786441
Author: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Art, Outsider Art, Patafysica, Science.
Mary-Jane Rubenstein - Worlds Without End – the Many Lives of the Multiverse
“Multiverse” cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and liter..(read more)
Publisher: Columbia University Press / ISBN: 9780231156639
Author: Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Philosophy, Physics, Science.
Erkki Kurenniemi - Dry ’73-9-8
Whatever DRY stands for (It could be DIMI READS YOU, I phantasize), it is related to the electronic musical instrument built by the Finnish electronic music pio..(read more)
Label: Ruton Music / RUT-003B
Artist: Erkki Kurenniemi
Medium: Music Cassette
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electronic, Pioneers, Science, Sonic Experiments, Tapes.
David P.D. Munns - A Single Sky
In A Single Sky, the historian David Munns explains how the idea of the radio telescope emerged from a new scientific community uniting the power of radio with ..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press
Author: David P.D. Munns
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: History, Science, Technology.
Albert Borgmann - Holding on to Reality. The nature of Information at the Turn of the Millenium.
Starting out with information versus reality, the author, professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana, discusses three topics in his volume: informatio..(read more)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press / ISBN 0-226-06623-1
Author: Albert Borgmann
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Philosophy, Science, Technology.
