When Marina Abramovic Dies examines the extraordinary life anddeath-defying work of one of the most pioneering artists of her generation--and one who is still atthe forefront of contemporary art today
Money plays a paradoxical role in the creation of architecture. Formless itself,money is a fundamental form giver. At all scales, and across the ages, architecture is a product ofthe financial environ
Big Data is made up of lots of little data: numbers entered into cell phones,addresses entered into GPS devices, visits to websites, online purchases, ATM transactions, and anyother activity that leav
This introduction to neuroscience is unique in its emphasis on how we know what weknow about the structure and function of the nervous system. What are the observations andexperiments that have taught
In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from theenactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mindand applies them for the first time to af
Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where shehad a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati Anavil Brahmin family. Her academicbrilliance won her
Over the past twenty years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affectingnot just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. Thehierarchical and rest
America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that arehatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale.Apple, the supersta
For as long has humans have lived in communities, storytelling has bound people toeach other and to their environments. In recent times, scholars have noted how social networks arisearound issues of r
For as long has humans have lived in communities, storytelling has bound people toeach other and to their environments. In recent times, scholars have noted how social networks arisearound issues of r
McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to r
Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated the natural world that safeguarding it from huma
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured notjust in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or athousand trillion). Data collection is con
Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, 'pataphysics--thescience of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions--has proven to be one of the mostdurable. Originatin
The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system isespecially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately small in relation to its adult size andopen to cultural s
As the power of computing has grown over the past few decades, the field of machinelearning has advanced rapidly in both theory and practice. Machine learning methods are usuallybased on the assumptio
In the battle over health care reform we can try to fashion new policies based on oldideas--or we can acknowledge today's demographic and economic realities. In Health CareTurning Point, health polic
The project of all philosophy may be to gain reconciliation with time, even if notevery philosopher has dealt with time expressly. A confrontation with the passing of time and withhuman finitude runs
Dirt presents a selection of works that share dirty attitudes:essays, interviews, excavations, and projects that view dirt not as filth but as a medium, ametaphor, a material, a process, a design tool
Some of the most challenging questions in philosophical ethics concern thejustification of action. Can you have reasons to do something that you are not, and perhaps cannotbe, motivated to do? If reas
As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, man-chasing proto-punk poet and artist, the BaronessElsa von Freytag-Loringhoven left in her wake a ripple that is becoming a rip--one hundred yearsafter she exploded
For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life onthe Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about howtechnology enters our p
Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the eth
Consciousness is a wonderful thing. But if we are fully to appreciate the wonder ofconsciousness, we need to articulate what it is about consciousness that makes it such aninteresting and important ph
The work of the philosopher Donald Davidson (1917--2003) is not only wide ranging inits influence and vision, but also in the breadth of issues that it encompasses. Davidson's workincludes seminal con
After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code isextensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clockthat wakes us t
Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most online journalism just translates existing practices to the Web: stories are written and edited as they are for print; video
"In 1998, President Boris Yeltsin's government defaulted on its domestic debt and Russia experienced a financial meltdown that brought it to the brink of disaster. In No Precedent, No plan, Martin Gil
"This manifesto-memoir comes none too soon to rescue Architecture from the trash bin of postmodernism. Lucid, intelligent, and visionary, this small book is destined to become a guide for 21st century
Climate change represents a "tragedy of the commons" on a global scale,requiring the cooperation of nations that do not necessarily put the Earth's well-being above theirown national interests. And ye
"This book takes the label 'competitiveness' as a fact-of-life and embeds it in sound economic analysis. If your are serious about improvement in economic policies for purposes of sustainable prosperi
Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries: flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are bred for the elegance of their frames. Hyb
Roland Barthes's 1980 book Camera Lucida is perhaps the most influential book ever published on photography. The terms studium and punctum, coined by Barthes for two different ways of responding to p
This text is the first comprehensive presentation of reduction semantics in one volume; it also introduces the first reliable and easy-to-use tool set for such forms of semantics. Software engineers
From one cell to another, from one individual to another, and from one species to another, the content of DNA molecules is often similar. The organization of these molecules, however, differs dramati
One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a master of self-invention who carefully regulated the image he projected through self-portraiture and thr
Beauty is among the most hotly contested subjects in current discussions on art and culture. After decades of disavowal, beauty's resurgence in recent art has engaged some of the most influential arti
The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home videogame market so completely that "Atari" became the generic term for a videogame console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the
In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made an exceptional series of artworks. Hsieh realized five separate one-ye
This startlingly original (and sure to be controversial) account of the evolution of Christianity shows that the economics of religion has little to do with counting the money in the collection baske
