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.
Hugh Gusterson - Drones – Remote Control Warfare
Gusterson examines the way drone warfare has created commuter warriors and redefined the space of the battlefield. He looks at the paradoxical mix of closeness ..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262034678
Author: Hugh Gusterson
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Drones, Media Theory, Politics.
