Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for an exhibition. The expansion of the curatorial field in recent
The multiple platforms of the digital era have not diminished the role of the magazine for artists as an alternative medium and experimental space. Whether printed on paper or electronically generated
Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a "displaced philosopher," Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous parsing of language and structure t
In Adversarial Design, Carl DiSalvo examines the ways that technology design can provoke and engage the political. He describes a practice, which he terms "adversarial design," that
Architecture, the most durable of the arts, is inextricably linked to issues of memory, nostalgia, and history. Yet, in this impatient century, the discipline's relationship to the past has become inc
In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extraordinary performance art works. Between September 1978
The Little Prover introduces inductive proofs as a way to determine facts about computer programs. It is written in an approachable, engaging style of question-and-answer, with the characteristic humo
Competitive video and computer game play is nothing new: the documentary King of Kong memorably portrays a Donkey Kong player's attempts to achieve the all-time highest score; the television showStarc
In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both co
What if our whole life were turned into a game? What sounds like the premise of ascience fiction novel is today becoming reality as "gamification." As more and moreorganizations, practices, products,
It has been argued, most notably in psychoanalytic and modernist art discourse, thatthe production of works of art is fundamentally driven by sexual desire. It has been further argued,particularly sin
In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a formof relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes, is at once ubiquitous and hiddenfrom view. It is
Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas ofEconomic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity,"a measure of a society's productive knowledge.
In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the firstYouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded bycreating and posting their own variati
When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and foundthat it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epicintellectual achievements in music, l
This October Files volume gathers essays, an interview, and a roundtable discussionon the work of Robert Morris, one of the most influential American artists of the postwar period. Itincludes a little
This accessible, hands-on textbook not only introduces students to the importanttopics in historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how tothink about the issues
Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? Thisis the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoirof displacement, nostalgia, love, an
Every time we listen--to speech, to music, to footsteps approaching orretreating--our auditory perception is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricate processesthat unfold within the source
Architecture exists in the public sphere and is the product of collective work andknowledge. Yet the defining boundaries of the discipline are often contested. Architects can andoften must embody a sp
In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. The social neuroscience approach to the subject is premised on the idea that studying empathy at
Global momentum is building to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So far, so good. Theless happy news is that Earth's temperatures will continue to rise for decades. And evidence showsthat climbing temp
Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness r
Digital art has become a major contemporary art form, but it has yet to achieveacceptance from mainstream cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom included in thestudy of art history
The microfinance revolution has allowed more than 150 million poor people around the world to receive small Loans without collateral, build up assets, and buy insurance. This book offers an accessibl
In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned the convention that recordingsshould recreate the illusion of a concert hall setting. The Wall of Sound that Phil Spector builtbehind various arti
A sociological interpretation of the collective vision that shaped the origins and evolution of the Internet from the 1990s to the present day analyzes the founding myths of cyberculture, the visions
Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers ofmedia development -- dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that havebeen largely igno
"Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it'sabout everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds,"Seen from suffic
Perspecta, the oldest and most respected student-edited architectural journal in the United States, marks its fiftieth anniversary with this selection of pieces published in its pages from the 1950s t
In this book, Martha Buskirk addresses the interesting fact that since the early 1960s, almost anything can and has been called art. Among other practices, contemporary artists have employed mass-pro
Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings—among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings
Few aspects of the great European integration project have been as difficult andfraught with political conflict as the creation of a single financial market and monetary union. Itis clear, however, th
In these timely essays, Nobel prize-winning economist James Tobin shows how Keynesian economics offers corrective treatment for the economic ailments we have faced under the Ford, Carter, and Reagan a
A roadmap for how we can rebuild America's working class by transforming workforce education and training.The American dream promised that if you worked hard, you could move up, with well-paying worki
An examination of dating app culture in China, across user demographics--straight women, straight men, queer women, and queer men.In this exploration of dating app culture in China, Lik Sam Chan argue
Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors.Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of num
The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period.This book considers the
Theoretical reflections on memory and prediction, linking these concepts to the role of the cerebellum in higher cognition.What is memory? What is memory for? Where is memory in the brain? Although me
How food industry lobbyists and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food.A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have link
