A sophisticated critical take on contemporary game culture that reconsiders the boundaries between gamers and games.This book is not about the future of video games. It is not an attempt to predict th
Exploring sex—bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections—in terms of play and playfulness.We all know that sex involves a quest for pleasure, that sexual palates vary across people's
How forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.”At the dawn of the Cold War era, forty-one women
An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics.From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and sc
A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology.Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change h
A lively and polemical analysis of photography and today's vernacular photographic culture. In Photography After Capitalism, Benedict Burbridge makes the case for a radically expanded conception of photography, encompassing the types of labor too often obscured by black-boxed technologies, slick platform interfaces, and the compulsion to display lives to others. His lively and polemical analysis of today's vernacular photographic cultures shines new light on the hidden work of smartphone assembly teams, digital content moderators, Street View car drivers, Google Scan-Ops, low-paid gallery interns, homeless participant photographers, and the photo-sharing masses.
A unique exploration of the history of the bicycle in cinema, from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films.Cycling and Cinema explores th
The collected manifestos of Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau: for a postcolonial humanism embodying a "unity-diversity."Manifestos, written in part in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s election in 2008, resonates with the current context of divided identities and criticisms of multiculturalism in the US, Europe, and beyond. The individual texts engage with concrete historical and political moments with respect to French, Caribbean, and North American recent history. These manifestos engage with the sociopolitical aspects of climate catastrophe, resource extraction, and toxicity, especially in the specificity of the Caribbean region and French neocolonialism in its overseas territories. Across the collection, Glissant and Chamoiseau engage with key themes articulated through their poetic vocabulary, including Relation, globalization, globality (mondialité), anti-universalism, métissage, the tout-monde ("whole-world") and the tout-vivant ("all-living," including the relationship of
