Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008-08-29
Type: BOOK
In Always Already New, Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history.
Always Already Free
Publisher: Baraka Publishing (an imprint of InnerSelf Pty Ltd
Published: 2015-02-01
Type: BOOK
In this book, the author: • Presents her own personal direct encounter with the awakened state. • Thoroughly addresses the ongoing debate between the necessity of spiritual practice and the ever-present possibility of sudden awakening, ...
Paper Knowledge
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2014-03-28
Type: BOOK
Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format).
Raw Data Is an Oxymoron
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2013-01-25
Type: BOOK
This book reminds us that data is anything but “raw,” that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted.
The Violence of Modernity
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2020-03-03
Type: BOOK
The book develops a new account of Baudelaire's significance as a modernist by dislodging him both from his traditional status as a practitioner of "art for art's sake" and from his more recent incarnation as the poet of trauma.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2021-02-16
Type: BOOK
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.
Theory for the World to Come
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2019-04-15
Type: BOOK
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on such authors as Kim Stanley Robinson and Octavia Butler, and engages with afrofuturism, indigenous speculative fiction, and films from the 1970s and ’80s to help think differently about the future and its ...
Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2009-02-22
Type: BOOK
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation.
Born Translated
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-08-04
Type: BOOK
The book understands that contemporary literature begins at once in many places, engaging in a new type of social embeddedness and political solidarity.
I Live a Life Like Yours
Publisher: FSG Originals
Published: 2021-08-17
Type: BOOK
Along the way, Grue moves effortlessly between his own story and those of others, incorporating reflections on philosophy, film, art, and the work of writers from Joan Didion to Michael Foucault.