Douglas Kahn (Editor) - Energies in the Arts
This book investigates energies—in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun— as they are expressed in the arts. With contr..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262039383
Author: Douglas Kahn (Editor)
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Art, Art Theory, Ecology, Physics, Science, Sound Art.
Jonas Staal - Propaganda Art in the 21st Century
Propaganda art delivers a message. But, as Jonas Staal argues in this book, propaganda does not merely make a political point; it aims to construct reality itse..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262042802
Author: Jonas Staal
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Media Theory, Politics.
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.
Boris Groys (editor) - Russian Cosmism
Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russi..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262037433
Author: Boris Groys (editor)
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Art, Avant-Garde, Biopolitics, Russia, Science, Science Fiction.
Merve Emre - Once And Future Feminist
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9781946511102
Author: Merve Emre
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Feminism, Politics, 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.
