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Poppy
Coltsfoot 1
photography/architecture/psychiatry
ASYLUM
Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
Photographs by Christopher Payne
Powerful photographs of the
grand exteriors and crumbling
with an essay by Oliver Sacks
interiors of America’s abandoned For more than half the nation’s history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent
state mental hospitals.
feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early
September
11 3/4 x 10 1/4, 216 pp. twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United
111 color photographs States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for
69 multi-tone black & white these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas Story
photographs
61 black & white images Kirkbride: a central administration building flanked symmetrically by pavilions
and surrounded by lavish grounds with pastoral vistas. Kirkbride and others
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978-0-262-01349-9 believed that well-designed buildings and grounds, a peaceful environment, a
regimen of fresh air, and places for work, exercise, and cultural activities would
heal mental illness. But in the second half of the twen-
tieth century, after the introduction of psychotropic
drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care,
patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many
of these beautiful, massive buildings — and the patients
who lived in them — neglected and abandoned.
Architect and photographer Christopher Payne
spent six years documenting the decay of state mental
hospitals like these, visiting seventy institutions in
thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial
exteriors (some designed by such prominent architects
as H. H. Richardson and Samuel Sloan) and crum-
bling interiors — chairs stacked against walls with
peeling paint in a grand hallway; brightly colored
toothbrushes still hanging on a rack; stacks of
suitcases, never packed for the trip home.
Accompanying Payne’s striking and powerful photographs is an essay by
Oliver Sacks (who described his own experience working at a state mental
hospital in his book Awakenings). Sacks pays tribute to Payne’s photographs and
to the lives once lived in these
places, “where one could be
both mad and safe.”
Christopher Payne is a photographer
and practicing architect in New York
City and the author of New York’s
Forgotten Substations: The Power
Behind the Subway. Oliver Sacks,
a neurologist, is the author of
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for
a Hat, Awakenings, Musicophilia,
and other books.
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popular culture/game studies
A CASUAL REVOLUTION
Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
Jesper Juul
How casual games like Guitar Hero,
Bejeweled, and those for Nintendo The phenomenal popularity of the Nintendo Wii, Guitar Hero, and smaller
Wii are expanding the audience games like Bejeweled or Zuma, has turned the stereotype of the obsessed young
for video games. male gamer on its head. Players of these casual games are not required to possess
an intimate knowledge of video game history or to devote hours or days to play.
November At the same time, many players of casual games show a dedication and skill
6 x 9, 256 pp. that is anything but casual. In A Casual Revolution, Jesper Juul describes this
109 illus.
as a reinvention of video games, and of our image of video game players, and
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explores what this tells us about the players, the games, and their interaction.
With this reinvention of video games, the game industry reconnects with a
general audience. Many of today’s casual game players once enjoyed Pac-Man,
Also available Tetris, and other early games, only to drop out when video games became more
HALF-REAL specialized. For a long time, video games asked players to structure their lives
Video Games between Real Rules to fit the demands of a game; with casual games, it is the game that is designed
and Fictional Worlds
Jesper Juul to fit into the lives of players. These flexible games make it possible for everyone
2005, 978-0-262-10110-3 to be a video game player.
$36.00S/£26.95 cloth Juul shows that it is only by understanding what a game requires of players,
what players bring to a game, how the game industry works, and how video
games have developed historically that we can understand what makes video
games fun and why we choose to play (or not to play) them.
Jesper Juul is a video game lecturer and researcher at the
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab at MIT. He is the author
of Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional
Worlds (2005), published by the MIT Press.
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current affairs/security studies
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business/cognitive science
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cognitive science/artificial intelligence
CHESS METAPHORS
Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind
Diego Rasskin-Gutman
How the moves of thirty-two
translated by Deborah Klosky
chess pieces over sixty-four
When we play the ancient and noble game of chess, we grapple with ideas about squares can help us understand
honesty, deceitfulness, bravery, fear, aggression, beauty, and creativity, which echo the workings of the mind.
(or allow us to depart from) the attitudes we take in our daily lives. Chess is an
activity in which we deploy almost all our available cognitive resources; therefore, September
it makes an ideal laboratory for investigation into the workings of the mind. 6 x 9, 232 pp.
58 illus.
Indeed, research into artificial intelligence (AI) has used chess as a model for
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intelligent behavior since the 1950s. In Chess Metaphors, Diego Rasskin-Gutman
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explores fundamental questions about memory, thought, emotion, consciousness,
and other cognitive processes through the game of chess, using the moves of
thirty-two pieces over sixty-four squares to map the structural and functional Also available
organization of the brain. MODULARITY
Rasskin-Gutman focuses on the cognitive task of problem solving, exploring edited by Werner Callebaut and
Diego Rasskin-Gutman
it from the perspectives of both biology and AI. He examines concept after 2009, 978-0-262-51326-5
concept, move after move, delving into the varied mental mechanisms and the $29.00S/£21.95 paper
cognitive processes underlying the actions of playing chess. Bringing the game
of chess into a larger framework, he analyzes its collateral influences that spread
along the frontiers of games, art, and science. Finally, he investigates AI’s effort
to program a computer that could beat a flesh-and-blood grandmaster (and win
a world chess championship) and how the results fall short when compared to
the truly creative nature of the human mind.
Diego Rasskin-Gutman is Ramón y Cajal Research Associate and Head of
the Theoretical Biology Research Group at the Institute Cavanilles for
Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain. He
is the coeditor (with Werner Callebaut) of Modularity: Understanding
the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems (MIT Press,
2009).
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business/innovation
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science/aviation
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environment/cultural studies/art
WATER
edited by John Knechtel
Writers and artists offer new
Water is the chemical matrix required for life, the molecular chain that connects
perspectives on water, with all organisms on the planet. But in the twenty-first century, water may replace oil
writings and projects that touch as the most prized of resources. Just as gas-guzzling SUVs use more than their
on subjects ranging from new share of fuel, water-guzzling regions threaten the water supply for the rest of the
water infrastructures to the
bliss of bathing. world. In Water, writers, scientists, architects, and artists consider the many
aspects of water, at levels from the microscopic to the global, touching on sub-
jects that range from new water infrastructures to ancient bathing rituals.
October
4 3/4 x 6 1/4, 320 pp. Water includes a chemist’s accounting of the true cost of water; photographs
200 color illus. taken inside a city’s secret waterways; an urban planner’s description of how
$15.95T/£11.95 cloth Toronto, New York, Hamburg, and Seoul have redesigned and rethought their
978-0-262-01329-1 waterfront areas; a conceptual artist’s series of water bottles “branded” with
Alphabet City 14 various modern credos; photographs of a water-damaged ledger from the 1905
Yukon gold rush; two architects’ rethinking of how to collect, divert, and trans-
port water from water-rich to water-poor regions; a philosopher’s invocation
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FUEL of the spiritual lessons of water; and photographs of a disturbingly beautiful
edited by John Knechtel flooded landscape.
2008, 978-0-262-11325-0
$15.95T/£11.95 cloth John Knechtel is Director of
Alphabet City 13 Alphabet City Media in Toronto.
FOOD
edited by John Knechtel
2007, 978-0-262-11309-0
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Alphabet City 12
TRASH
edited by John Knechtel
2006, 978-0-262-11301-4
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Alphabet City 11
SUSPECT
edited by John Knechtel
2005, 978-0-262-11290-1
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Alphabet City 10
SUBTITLES
edited by Atom Egoyan and
Ian Balfour
2004, 978-0-262-05078-4
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Alphabet City 9
Each volume of Alphabet City’s
pocketbook anthology series
gathers the work of a diverse
group of writers and artists to
investigate a single topic from
many angles.
Isaac Applebaum,
The Flood of ’97.
ART SCHOOL
(Propositions for the 21st Century)
edited and with an introduction by Steven Henry Madoff
Leading international artists
The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the and art educators consider the
German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world — its challenges of art education
increasing professionalization, the pervasive power of the art market, and funda- in today’s dramatically
changed art world.
mental shifts in art-making itself in our post-Duchampian era — combined with
a revolution in information technology, raise fundamental questions about the
education of today’s artists. Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) brings October
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together more than thirty leading international artists and art educators to 29 illus.
reconsider the practices of art education in academic, practical, ethical, and
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philosophical terms. 978-0-262-13493-4
The essays in the book range over continents, histories, traditions, experiments,
and fantasies of education. Accompanying the essays are conversations with
such prominent artist/educators as John Baldessari, Michael Craig-Martin,
Hans Haacke, and Marina Abramović, as well as questionnaire responses
from a dozen important artists — among them Mike Kelley,
Ann Hamilton, Guillermo Kuitca, and Shirin Neshat — about
their own experiences as students. A fascinating analysis of
the architecture of major historical art schools throughout the
world looks at the relationship of the principles of their designs
to the principles of the pedagogy practiced within their halls.
And throughout the volume, attention is paid to new initiatives
and proposals about what an art school can and should be in
the twenty-first century — and what it shouldn’t be. No other
book on the subject covers more of the questions concerning
art education today or offers more insight into the pressures,
challenges, risks, and opportunities for artists and art educators
in the years ahead.
Steven Henry Madoff, an award-winning writer, editor, and poet, has
written extensively on contemporary art for such publications as
Artforum, the New York Times, and Time magazine, and published
numerous monographs on leading artists. He is Senior Critic at Yale
University’s School of Art.
CONTRIBUTORS
Marina Abramović, Dennis Adams, John Baldessari, Ute Meta Bauer, Daniel Birnbaum, Saskia Bos,
Tania Bruguera, Luis Camnitzer, Michael Craig-Martin, Thierry de Duve, Clémentine Deliss, Charles Esche,
Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Hans Haacke, Ann Lauterbach, Ken Lum, Steven Henry Madoff, Brendan D. Moran,
Ernesto Pujol, Raqs Media Collective, Charles Renfro, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Michael Shanks, Robert Storr,
Anton Vidokle
QUESTIONNAIRES
Thomas Bayrle, Paul Chan, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Piero Golia, Ann Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Mike Kelley,
Guillermo Kuitca, Shirin Neshat, Paul Ramírez-Jonas, Dana Schutz, Brian Sholis, Fred Wilson
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art/education
Top: Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Frankenstein (after Mary Shelley), 1981-84.
Acrylic on book pages mounted on linen, 9 x 12 feet.
Bottom: Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Amerika I (after Franz Kafka), 1984-1985.
Oil stick, acrylic, china marker on paper, 71 x 177 inches.
From Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
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new media/music/art
CRACKED MEDIA
The Sound of Malfunction
Caleb Kelly
How the deliberate cracking and
From the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first, artists and musicians breaking of playback media has
manipulated, cracked, and broke audio media technologies to produce novel produced experimental music and
sounds and performances. Artists and musicians, including John Cage, Nam June sound by artists and musicians
ranging from Nam June Paik
Paik, Yasunao Tone, and Oval, pulled apart both playback devices (phonographs and Christian Marclay to
and compact disc players) and the recorded media (vinyl records and compact Yasunao Tone and Oval.
discs) to create an extended sound palette. In Cracked Media, Caleb Kelly
explores how the deliberate utilization of the normally undesirable (a crack, a September
break) has become the site of productive creation. Cracked media, Kelly writes, 6 3/4 x 6 3/4, 392 pp.
slides across disciplines, through music, sound, and noise. Cracked media 20 illus.
encompasses everything from Cage’s silences and indeterminacies, to Paik’s often $24.95T/£18.95 cloth
humorous tape works, to the cold and clean sounds of digital glitch in the work 978-0-262-01314-7
of Tone and Oval. Kelly offers a detailed historical account of these practices,
arguing that they can be read as precursors to contemporary new media.
Kelly looks at the nature of recording technology and the music industry in
relation to the crack and the break, and discusses the various manifestations of
noise, concluding that neither theories of recording nor theories of noise offer
an adequate framework for understanding cracked media. Connecting the
historical avant-garde to modern-day turntablism, and predigital destructive
techniques to the digital ticks, pops, and clicks of the glitch,
Kelly proposes new media theorizations of cracked media that
focus on materiality and the everyday.
Caleb Kelly is a lecturer at the Sydney College of Art, the University of
Sydney, Australia.
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art/museum studies
INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
An Anthology of Artists’ Writings
edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson
An anthology of writings and
projects by artists who developed “Institutional critique” is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own
and extended the genre of housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art
institutional critique. itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new
urgency at the end of the 1960s, when — driven by the social upheaval of the
October time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art — institutional
7 x 9, 440 pp. critique emerged as a genre. This anthology traces the development of institu-
60 illus.
tional critique as an artistic concern from the 1960s to the present by gathering
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writings and representative art projects of artists from across Europe and
throughout the Americas who developed and extended the genre. The texts
and artworks included are notable for the range of perspectives and positions
they reflect and for their influence in pushing the boundaries of what is meant
ARTISTS REPRESENTED by institutional critique.
INCLUDE
Wieslaw Borowski, Daniel Buren,
Like Alberro and Stimson’s Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, this volume
Marcel Broodthaers, will shed new light on its subject through its critical and historical framing.
Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel, Even readers already familiar with institutional critique will come away from
Hans Haacke, Robert Smithson,
John Knight, Graciela Carnevale,
this book with a greater and often redirected understanding of its significance.
Osvaldo Mateo Boglione, Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright ’51 Associate Professor of Art History at
Guerilla Art Action Group, Barnard College. He is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2004).
Art Workers’ Coalition, Blake Stimson is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. He is
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (2006). Alberro and
Michael Asher, Mel Ramsden, Stimson are coeditors of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (2000), all published by
Adrian Piper, The Guerrilla Girls, the MIT Press.
Laibach, Silvia Kolbowski,
Andrea Fraser, Fred Wilson,
Mark Dion, Maria Eichhorn,
Critical Art Ensemble,
Bureau d’Études, WochenKlausur,
The Yes Men, Hito Steyerl,
Andreas Siekmann
Also available
CONCEPTUAL ART
A Critical Anthology
edited by Alexander Alberro and
Blake Stimson
2000, 978-0-262-51117-9
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CONCEPTUAL ART AND THE POLITICS
OF PUBLICITY
Alexander Alberro
2004, 978-0-262-51184-1
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THE PIVOT OF THE WORLD
Photography and Its Nation
Blake Stimson
2006, 978-0-262-69333-2
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SITUATION
edited by Claire Doherty
Key texts on the notion
Situation — a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and
of “situation” in art and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations — has become a
theory that consider site, key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s
place, and context, temporary and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current
interventions, remedial actions,
place-making, and public space. context of globalization. This anthology offers key writings on areas of art
practice and theory related to situation, including notions of the site specific,
the artist as ethnographer or fieldworker, the relation between action and public
October
6 x 8 1/2, 240 pp. space, the meaning of place and locality, and the crucial role of the curator in
recent situation specific art.
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978-0-262-51305-0 In North America and Europe, the site-specific is often viewed in terms of
resistance to art’s commoditization, while elsewhere situation-specific practices
Documents of Contemporary Art series
have defied institutions of authority. The contributors discuss these recent
Copublished with Whitechapel
tendencies in the context of proliferating international biennial exhibitions,
Gallery, London
curatorial place-bound projects, and strategies by which artists increasingly
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unsettle the definition and legiti-
mation of situation-based art.
Clare Doherty is Senior Research Fellow
Also available in this series in Fine Art at the University of West
BEAUTY England, Bristol, where she established
edited by Dave Beech Situations (www.situations.org.uk), a
2009, 978-0-262-51238-1 research and international commission-
$24.95T paper ing program. She is Visiting Lecturer
in Curating at the Royal College of
APPROPRIATION Art, London, and and Curatorial Director
edited by David Evans of the One Day Sculpture series,
2009, 978-0-262-55070-3 New Zealand. She is the editor of
$24.95T paper Contemporary Art: From Studio
to Situation.
COLOUR
edited by David Batchelor
2008, 978-0-262-52481-0
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THE EVERYDAY
edited by Stephen Johnstone
2008, 978-0-262-60074-3
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THE ARTIST’S JOKE
edited by Jennifer Higgie
2007, 978-0-262-58274-2
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WRITERS INCLUDE
Arjun Appaduri, Marc Augé, Wim Beeren, Josephine Berry Slater, Daniel Birnbaum, Ava Bromberg, Susan Buck-Morss, Michel de Certeau,
Douglas Crimp, Gilles Deleuze, T. J. Demos, Rosalyn Deutsche, Thierry de Duve, Charles Esche, Graeme Evans, Patricia Falguières,
Marina Fokidis, Hal Foster, Hou Hanrou, Brian Holmes, Mary Jane Jacob, Vasif Kortun, Miwon Kwon, Lu Jie, Doreen Massey,
James Meyer, Ivo Mesquita, Brian O’Doherty, Craig Owens, Irit Rogoff, Peter Weibel
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UTOPIAS
edited by Richard Noble
Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contra- Utopian strategies in contemporary
dictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgement that art seen in the context of the
its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted histories of utopian thinking
by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the and avant-garde art.
failed and build the new. Contemporary art reflects this general ambivalence.
The utopian impulse informs politically activist and relational art, practices that October
fuse elements of art, design, and architecture, and collaborative projects aspiring 6 x 8 1/2, 240 pp.
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recent art: a looking backward to investigate the utopian elements of previous
eras, and the imaginative modeling of alternative worlds as intimations of possi- Documents of Contemporary Art series
bility. This anthology contextualizes these utopian currents in relation to political Copublished with
thought, viewing the utopian as a key term in the artistic lineage of modernity. Whitechapel Gallery, London
It illuminates how the exploration of utopian themes in art today contributes to Not for sale in the
our understanding of contemporary cultures, and the possibilities for shaping United Kingdom or Europe
their futures.
Richard Noble is a scholar of Also available in this series
contemporary art, critical theory, THE GOTHIC
and the interrelation of art and
edited by Gilda Williams
politics. He is a Lecturer in Fine Arts
2007, 978-0-262-73186-7
at Goldsmiths College, London.
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THE CINEMATIC
edited by David Campany
2007, 978-0-262-53288-4
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DESIGN AND ART
edited by Alex Coles
2007, 978-0-262-53289-1
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PARTICIPATION
edited by Claire Bishop
2006, 978-0-262-52464-3
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THE ARCHIVE
edited by Charles Merewether
2006, 978-0-262-63338-3
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WRITERS INCLUDE
Theodor Adorno, Jennifer Allen, Catherine Bernard, Ernst Bloch, Yve-Alain Bois,
Nicolas Bourriaud, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Alex Farquharson, Hal Foster, Michel Foucault,
Alison Green, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind Krauss, Hari Kunzru, Donald Kuspit, Dermis P. Leon,
Karl Marx, Jeremy Millar, Thomas More, William Morris, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist,
George Orwell, Jacques Rancière, Stephanie Rosenthal, Beatrix Ruf
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GERHARD RICHTER
edited by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
The first collection of essays
The contemporary painter Gerhard Richter (born in 1932) has been heralded
on Gerhard Richter, who has both as modernity’s last painter and as painting’s modern savior, seen to represent
been called “the greatest both the end of painting and its resurrection. Richter works in a dizzying variety
modern painter.” of styles, from abstraction to a German cool pop that combines painterly technique
and appropriation; his work includes photo paintings, large abstract canvases,
November and stained glass windows. This collection features writing by prominent critics,
6 x 9, 200 pp. including Hal Foster, Gertrud Koch, and Thomas Crow; an essay by Rachel
44 illus.
Haidu on Richter’s family pictures that is published here for the first time; and
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an essay and two interviews with the artist by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Richter’s
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“longtime sparring partner” (as the curator Robert Storr has called him).
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These writings examine Richter’s work as a whole, from October 18, 1977,
his dreamlike series of paintings depicting the dead Baader-Meinhof gang, to
October Files
his abstract trio Abstract Paintings; from his unsettling portrait of “Uncle Rudi”
in Nazi garb to his late series of por-
Also available in this series traits of his wife and young child.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN This addition to the October Files
edited by Graham Bader series will be an essential handbook to
2009, 978-0-262-51231-2
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one of the most enigmatic figures in
contemporary art.
CINDY SHERMAN
edited by Johanna Burton Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is Andrew W. Mellon
2006, 978-0-262-52463-6 Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University.
$16.95T/£12.95 paper He is the author of Neo-Avantgarde and
Culture Industry: Essays on European and
American Art from 1955 to 1975 (MIT
Press, 2001) and an editor of October.
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GABRIEL OROZCO
edited by Yve-Alain Bois
Gabriel Orozco’s work is sometimes considered uncategorizable; but his sculp- A collection of writings on a
ture, photography, drawing, collage, and installations are unified by their devotion conceptual and installation artist
to the antispectacular, to the everyday, and to the explorations of complexities who has been called “one of
that are not immediately obvious. Orozco (born in Mexico in 1962) pays meticu- the most important artists
of the decade.”
lous attention to what he calls the “liquidity of things” as seen in mundane and
evanescent objects and elements of everyday life — the momentary fog upon a
polished piano top, a deflated football, tins of cat food balanced on watermelons,
light through leaves, the screech of a tire, chess pieces on a chessboard. “People October
6 x 9, 240 pp.
forget that I want to disappoint,” he has said. “I use that word deliberately. I want 59 illus.
to disappoint the expectations of the one who waits to be amazed. When you
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make a decision someone is going to be disappointed because they think they 978-0-262-51301-2
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the artist and a lecture by him (this October Files
last published here for the first time in
English) as well as essays by such
prominent critics as Benjamin H. D.
Buchloh, Briony Fer, Molly Nesbit,
and the editor of the volume, Yve- Also available in this series
Alain Bois. It serves both as the sum- JAMES COLEMAN
mation of critical thinking on edited by George Baker
Orozco’s work up to now and as a 2003, 978-0-262-52341-7
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starting point for future consideration.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
Yve-Alain Bois is Professor of Art History edited by Branden Joseph
in the School of Historical Studies at 2002, 978-0-262-60049-1
the Institute for Advanced Studies in $17.00T/£12.95 paper
Princeton, New Jersey. An editor of
October, Bois is the author (with Rosalind
E. Krauss) of Formless: A User’s Guide
(Zone Books, 1997), Painting as Model
(MIT Press, 1991), and other books.
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DADA IN PARIS
Michel Sanouillet
The long-awaited publication
first English-language edition, revised and expanded by Anne Sanouillet
in English of the definitive editorial consultant, Michèle Humbert
book on Paris Dada. translated by Sharmila Ganguly
Michel Sanouillet’s Dada in Paris, published in France in 1965, reintroduced
October the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. Over
7 x 9, 640 pp. forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential
$39.95T/£29.95 cloth reference for anyone interested in Dada or the avant-garde. This first English-
978-0-262-01303-1 language edition of Sanouillet’s definitive work (a translation of the expanded
2005 French edition) gives English-speaking readers their first direct access to
Also available
the author’s monumental history (based on years of research, including personal
I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER involvement with most of the Dadaists still living at the time) and massive
Poetry, Prose, and Provocation compilation of previously unpublished correspondence, including more than
Francis Picabia 200 letters to and from such movement luminaries as Tristan Tzara,
2007, 978-0-262-16243-2
$39.95T/£29.95 cloth André Breton, and Francis Picabia.
In the years after Dada’s relatively brief Paris flowering in the 1920s, its mem-
THE ARTWORK CAUGHT BY THE TAIL
Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris bers were often depicted as opportunistic youths, hedonistic jokers engrossed in
George Baker a monstrous solipsism. Sanouillet was the first to see them instead as the most
2007, 978-0-262-02618-5 gifted and sensitive representatives of a generation, intent on finding a new way
$39.95T/£29.95 cloth
of living, writing, and feeling. Dada in Paris offers a behind-the-scenes account
DADA EAST
of the French avant-garde’s riotous adolescence, with the timeline that begins
The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire
Tom Sandqvist with Tzara and Picabia stretching to include Breton, Philippe Soupault, Louis
2006, 978-0-262-19507-2 Aragon, and Paul Éluard. Sanouillet describes the pre-Dada Parisian milieu,
$45.00T/£33.95 cloth
the connection made with Zurich Dada, and Parisian Dada projects and their
WOMEN IN DADA reception. Finally, by 1923, Dada-according-to-Tzara gave way to Dada-accord-
Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity
edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse
ing-to-Breton — which a few months later, under tumultuous circumstances,
2001, 978-0-262-69260-1 took on the new name of Surrealism. The longer-lasting, more conservative
$35.00T/£25.95 paper Surrealism would overshadow Dada for decades to come.
Michel Sanouillet is a French art historian and
one of the leading scholars of the Dada move-
ment. He is Dean Emeritus of the University of
Nice, Professor Emeritus at the University of
Toronto, and founder and first president of the
International Association for the Study of Dada
and Surrealism.
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photography
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psychoanalysis/photography
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philosophy/psychoanalysis/cultural studies
INTERFACE FANTASY
A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
André Nusselder
Behind our computer screens
Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a we are all cyborgs: through
psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, fantasy we can understand our
André Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our involvement in virtual worlds.
human-computer interfaces incorporate this function of fantasy: they mediate $18.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51300-5
the real and the virtual.
Interface Fantasy illuminates our attachment to new media: why we love Short Circuits series,
edited by Slavoj Žižek
our devices; why we are fascinated by the images on their screens; and how it
is possible that virtual images can provide physical pleasure. Nusselder puts
such phenomena as avatars, role playing, cybersex, computer psychotherapy, Also available in this series
and Internet addiction in the context of established psychoanalytic theory. THE MONSTROSITY OF CHRIST
The virtual identities we assume in virtual worlds, exemplified best by avatars Paradox or Dialectic?
Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank
consisting of both realistic and symbolic self-representations, illustrate the three
2009, 978-0-262-01271-3
orders that Lacan uses to analyze human reality: the imaginary, the symbolic, $27.95T/£20.95 cloth
and the real. THE PARALLAX VIEW
Nusselder analyzes our most intimate involvement with information technol- Slavoj Žižek
ogy — the almost invisible, affective aspects of technology that have the greatest 2009, 978-0-262-51268-8
$14.95T/£11.95 paper
impact on our lives. Interface Fantasy lays the foundation for a new way of
thinking that acknowledges the pivotal role of the screen in the current world THE ODD ONE IN
On Comedy
of information. And it gives an intelligible overview of basic Lacanian principles Alenka Zupančič
(including fantasy, language, the virtual, the real, embodiment, and enjoyment) 2008, 978-0-262-74031-9
that shows their enormous relevance $19.95T/£14.95 paper
for understanding the current state of
media technology.
André Nusselder is a Dutch philosophical
writer and lecturer.
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architecture
“Krier’s is a humane and gentle vision of what a city might be, and
it deserves to be the more widely studied for its refusal to announce
itself — as modernism announced itself — as the voice of the
Zeitgeist. Krier’s urbanism is timeless common sense, transcribed into
drawings that leave no room for dissent.”
— Roger Scruton, writer and philosopher
“Krier’s ‘doodles’ collected here, with all their imagination, humor, and righteous indig-
nation, offer us the most hopeful visions of architecture and urbanism visible today.”
— Steven W. Semes, Academic Director, Rome Studies Program,
School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame
“The book should be a required reading for architects and urbanists, as it not only
teaches the power of drawing as polemic, but also provides a master class in the rela-
tionship of architecture to the city.”
— Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive,
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment
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architecture
ARCHITECTURE’S DESIRE
Reading the Late Avant-Garde
K. Michael Hays
Theorizes an architectural ethos of
While it is widely recognized that the advanced architecture of the 1970s left extreme self-reflection and finality
a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense as any in from a Lacanian perspective.
architecture’s history, there has been no general theory of that ethos. Now, in
Architecture’s Desire, K. Michael Hays writes an account of the “late avant-garde” November
as an architecture systematically twisting back on itself, pondering its own histor- 5 3/8 x 8, 192 pp.
4 color illus., 34 black & white illus.
ical status, and deliberately exploring architecture’s representational possibilities
right up to their absolute limits. In close readings of the brooding, melancholy $19.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51302-9
silence of Aldo Rossi, the radically reductive “decompositions” and archaeologies
of Peter Eisenman, the carnivalesque excesses of John Hejduk, and the “cine- Writing Architecture series
grammatic” delirium of Bernard Tschumi, Hays narrates the story of architecture
confronting its own boundaries with objects of ever more reflexivity, difficulty,
Also available
and intransigence. ARCHITECTURE THEORY SINCE 1968
The late avant-garde is the last architecture with philosophical aspirations, an edited by K. Michael Hays
architecture that could think philosophical problems through architecture rather 2000, 978-0-262-58188-2
$46.00T/£34.95 paper
than merely illustrate them. It takes architecture as the object of its own reflec-
tion, which in turn produces an unrelenting desire. Using the tools of critical MODERNISM AND THE
POSTHUMANIST SUBJECT
theory together with the structure of Lacan’s triad imaginary-symbolic-real, The Architecture of Hannes Meyer
Hays constructs a theory of architectural desire that is historically specific and and Ludwig Hilberseimer
yet sets the terms and the challenges of all subsequent architectural practice, K. Michael Hays
1995, 978-0-262-58141-7
including today’s. $30.00T/£22.95 paper
K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at
Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In 2000 he was appointed
the first Adjunct Curator at the Whitney Museum for American Art.
He is the author, among other books, of Modernism and the
Posthumanist Subject (1995) and the editor of Architecture
Theory since 1968 (2000), both published by the MIT Press.
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psychology
WHY WE COOPERATE
Michael Tomasello
Understanding cooperation as a
with Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, and Elizabeth Spelke
distinctly human combination of Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she’s likely to pick it up for
innate and learned behavior.
you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues.
Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed,
October Tomasello shows that children are naturally — and uniquely — cooperative.
4 1/2 x 7, 208 pp.
Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth work together and share, but choose not to.
978-0-262-01359-8
As children grow, their almost reflexive desire to help — without expectation
A Boston Review Book of reward — becomes shaped by culture. They become more aware of being a
member of a group. Groups convey mutual expectations, and thus may either
encourage or discourage altruism and collaboration. Either way, cooperation
Also available in this series
GOD AND THE WELFARE STATE
emerges as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.
Lew Daly In Why We Cooperate, Tomasello’s studies of young children and great apes
2006, 978-0-262-04236-9 help identify the underlying psychological processes that very likely supported
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
humans’ earliest forms of complex collaboration and, ultimately, our unique
THE END OF THE WILD forms of cultural organization, from the evolution of tolerance and trust to
Stephen M. Meyer
2006, 978-0-262-13473-6
the creation of such group-level structures as cultural norms and institutions.
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth Scholars Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, and Elizabeth Spelke
MAKING AID WORK respond to Tomasello’s findings and explore the implications.
Abhijit Banerjee Michael Tomasello is Codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2007, 978-0-262-02615-4 in Leipzig, Germany. His books include The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition, Constructing
$14.95T/£9.95 cloth a Language, and The Origins of Human Communication (MIT Press, 2008).
THE STORY OF CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
Colin Dayan
2007, 978-0-262-04239-0
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
MOVIES AND THE MORAL ADVENTURE
OF LIFE
Alan A. Stone
2007, 978-0-262-19567-6
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT CLIMATE
CHANGE
Kerry Emanuel
2007, 978-0-262-05089-0
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
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urban studies
usual won’t help us. No longer young, no longer without limitations or constraints,
the country is facing a midlife crisis. September
Drawing on personal experiences and the stories of communities in Illinois, 4 1/2 x 7, 144 pp.
New York, and other areas, Gecan draws a vivid picture of civic, political, and $14.95T/£11.95 cloth
978-0-262-01360-4
religious institutions in trouble, from suburban budget crises to failing public
schools. Gecan shows that the loss of social capital has followed closely upon A Boston Review Book
institutional failure. He looks in particular at the two main support systems of
social mobility and economic progress for the majority of working poor
Also available in this series
Americans in the first half of the last century — the Roman Catholic school
WHY NUCLEAR
system and the American public high school. As these institutions that gener- DISARMAMENT MATTERS
ated social progress have faded, those depending on social regression — prisons, Hans Blix
2008, 978-0-262-02644-4
jails, and detention centers — have thrived.
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
Can we reverse the trends? Gecan offers hope and a direction forward. He
THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY IN IRAN
calls on national and local leadership to shed old ways of thinking and face new Akbar Ganji
realities, which include not only the substantial costs of change, but also its 2008, 978-0-262-07295-3
considerable benefits. Only then will we enjoy the next rich phase of our local $14.95T/£11.95 cloth
and national life. RACE, INCARCERATION, AND
AMERICAN VALUES
Michael Gecan, a community organizer trained in part by Saul Alinsky, is affiliated with Glenn C. Loury
the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). He has worked in both Chicago and New York City with Pamela Karlan,
and is the author of Going Public: An Organizer’s Guide to Citizen Action.
Tommie Shelby, Loı̈c Wacquant
2008, 978-0-262-12311-2
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
THE MEN IN MY LIFE
Vivian Gornick
2008, 978-0-262-07303-5
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
INVENTING AMERICAN HISTORY
William Hogeland
2009, 978-0-262-01288-1
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
AFRICA’S TURN?
Edward Miguel
2009, 978-0-262-01289-8
$14.95T/£11.95 cloth
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technology/education
ENGINEERING PLAY
A Cultural History of Children’s Software
Mizuko Ito
How the influential industry
that produced such popular Today, computers are part of kids’ everyday lives, used both for play and for
games as Oregon Trail and KidPix learning. We envy children’s natural affinity for computers, the ease with
emerged from experimental efforts which they click in and out of digital worlds. Thirty years ago, however, the
to use computers as tools in
child-centered learning. computer belonged almost exclusively to business, the military, and academia.
In Engineering Play, Mizuko Ito describes the transformation of the computer
from a tool associated with adults and work to one linked to children, learning,
October
6 x 9, 224 pp. and play. Ito gives an account of a pivotal period in the 1980s and 1990s, which
34 illus. saw the rise of a new category of consumer software designed specifically for ele-
$24.95T/£18.95 cloth mentary school–aged children. “Edutainment” software sought to blend various
978-0-262-01335-2 educational philosophies with interactive gaming and entertainment, and
The John D. and included such titles as Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, KidPix, and Where in the
Catherine T. MacArthur World is Carmen San Diego?
Foundation Series on Digital Media
Drawing from observations of kids’ play, interviews with software developers,
and Learning
and advertising and industry materials, Ito identifies three educational philoso-
phies and genres in children’s software that connect players in software produc-
Also available tion, distribution, and consumption: instruction, focused on transmission of
PERSONAL, PORTABLE, PEDESTRIAN academic content; exploration, tied to open-ended play; and construction,
Mobile Phones in Japanese Life aimed at empowering young users to create and manipulate digital media.
edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe
and Misa Matsuda The children’s software boom (and the bust that followed), says Ito, can be
2006, 978-0-262-59025-9 seen as a microcosm of the negotiations surrounding new technology, children,
$21.95T/£16.95 paper and education. The story she tells is both a testimonial to the transformative
power of innovation and a cautionary tale about its limitations.
Also available in this series Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropolo-
CIVIC LIFE ONLINE gist who studies new media use,
particularly among young people,
Learning How Digital Media
in Japan and the United States.
Can Engage Youth
She is the lead author of Hanging
edited by W. Lance Bennett Out, Messing Around, and Geeking
2008, 978-0-262-52482-7 Out: Kids Living and Learning with
$16.00S/£11.95 paper New Media (2009), and a coeditor
DIGITAL MEDIA, YOUTH, AND of Personal, Portable, Pedestrian:
CREDIBILITY Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
(2006), both published by the
edited by Miriam J. Metzger and
MIT Press.
Andrew J. Flanagin
2008, 978-0-262-56232-4
$16.00S/£11.95 paper
THE ECOLOGY OF GAMES
Connecting Youth, Games,
and Learning
edited by Katie Salen
2008, 978-0-262-69364-6
$16.00S/£11.95 paper
YOUTH, IDENTITY, AND
DIGITAL MEDIA
edited by David Buckingham
2008, 978-0-262-52483-4
$16.00S/£11.95 paper
LEARNING RACE AND ETHNICITY
Youth and Digital Media
edited by Anna Everett
2008, 978-0-262-55067-3
$16.00S/£11.95 paper
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popular culture/game studies
CRITICAL PLAY
Radical Game Design
Mary Flanagan
An examination of subversive
For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But games — games designed
what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for political, aesthetic,
for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual and social critique.
thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical Play, artist and game designer
Mary Flanagan examines alternative games — games that challenge the accepted September
norms embedded within the gaming industry — and argues that games designed 7 x 9, 336 pp.
116 illus.
by artists and activists are reshaping everyday game culture.
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
Flanagan provides a lively historical context for critical play through 978-0-262-06268-8
twentieth-century art movements, connecting subversive game design to
subversive art: her examples of “playing house” include Dadaist puppet shows
and The Sims; her discussion of language play includes puns, palindromes, Also available
Yoko Ono’s Instruction Paintings, and Jenny Holzer’s messages in LED. RE:SKIN
Flanagan also looks at artists’ alternative computer-based games, examining edited by Mary Flanagan and
Austin Booth
projects from Persuasive Games and Gonazalo Frasca and other games created 2009, 978-0-262-51249-7
through the use of interventionist strategies in the design process. And she $21.00S/£15.95 paper
explores games for change, considering the way activist concerns — among RELOAD
them Darfur, worldwide poverty, and AIDS — can be incorporated into Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
edited by Mary Flanagan and
game design.
Austin Booth
Arguing that this kind of conscious practice — which now constitutes the 2002, 978-0-262-56150-1
avant-garde of the computer game medium — can inspire new working methods $32.00T/£23.95 paper
for designers, Flanagan offers a model for designing that will encourage the
subversion of popular gaming tropes through new styles of game making, and
proposes a theory of alternate game design that focuses on the reworking of
contemporary popular game practices.
Mary Flanagan, artist and game designer, is Founder and Director of
Tiltfactor Laboratory and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor
of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. She is the coeditor (with
Austin Booth) of Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture (2002),
and re:skin (2009), both published by the MIT Press.
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popular culture/game studies
COMMUNITIES OF PLAY
Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Celia Pearce and Artemesia
The odyssey of a group of
forewords by Tom Boellstorff and Bonnie A. Nardi
“refugees” from a closed-down
online game and an exploration Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games;
of emergent fan cultures in they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing
virtual worlds.
games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, how-
ever, new varieties of adult play communities have appeared, most notably within
September online games and virtual worlds. Players in these networked worlds sometimes
7 x 9, 336 pp.
67 illus. develop a sense of community that transcends the game itself. In Communities of
Play, game researcher and designer Celia Pearce explores emergent fan cultures
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-16257-9 in networked digital worlds — actions by players that do not coincide with the
intentions of the game’s designers.
Pearce looks in particular at the Uru Diaspora — a group of players whose
game, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, closed. These players (primarily baby boomers)
immigrated into other worlds, self-identifying as “refugees”; relocated in
There.com, they created a hybrid culture integrating aspects of their old world.
Ostracized at first, they became community leaders. Pearce analyzes the prop-
erties of virtual worlds and looks at the ways design affects emergent behavior.
She discusses the methodologies for studying online games, including a personal
account of the sometimes messy process of ethnography.
Pearce considers the “play turn” in culture and the advent of
a participatory global playground enabled by networked digital
games every bit as communal as the global village Marshall
McLuhan saw united by television. Countering the ludological
definition of play as unproductive and pointing to the long
history of pre-digital play practices, Pearce argues that play
can be a prelude to creativity.
Celia Pearce is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Institute
of Technology, where she is Director of the Experimental Game Lab and
the Emergent Game Group. She is the author of The Interactive Book:
A Guide to the Interactive Revolution. Artemesia is her coauthor and
avatar.
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popular culture/game studies
EXPRESSIVE PROCESSING
Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
From the complex city-planning
What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external game SimCity to the virtual
appearance and audience experience of software enough — or should we look therapist Eliza: how computational
further? In Expressive Processing, Noah Wardrip-Fruin argues that understanding processes open possibilities
for understanding and
what goes on beneath the surface, the computational processes that make digital creating digital media.
media function, is essential.
Wardrip-Fruin suggests that it is the authors and artists with knowledge of
September
these processes who will use the expressive potential of computation to define 7 x 9, 480 pp.
the future of fiction and games. He also explores how computational processes 29 illus.
themselves express meanings through distinctive designs, histories, and intellec- $34.95T/£25.95 cloth
tual kinships that may not be visible to audiences. 978-0-262-01343-7
Wardrip-Fruin looks at “expressive processing” by examining specific works Software Studies series
of digital media ranging from the simulated therapist Eliza and the first major
story-generation system Tale-Spin to the complex city-planning game SimCity.
Digital media, he contends, offer particularly intelligible examples of things we Also avaiable
need to understand about software in general; if we understand, for instance, THE NEW MEDIA READER
edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and
the capabilities and histories of artificial intelligence techniques in the context Nick Montfort
of a computer game, we can use that understanding to judge the use of similar 2003, 978-0-262-23227-2
techniques in such higher-stakes social contexts as surveillance. $52.00S/£38.95 cloth
Most books on digital media focus on what the machines of digital media FIRST PERSON
New Media as Story, Performance,
look like from the outside but ignore the computational machines that make
and Game
digital media possible. With this book, the first to approach computational edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat
processes from the perspective of media, games, and fiction, Wardrip-Fruin Harrigan
examines both the outside and the inside of digital media’s machines. 2006, 978-0-262-73175-1
$22.95T/£16.95 paper
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Assistant
SECOND PERSON
Professor in the Department of
Role-Playing and Story in
Computer Science at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. He is the Games and Playable Media
coeditor of four collections published edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah
by the MIT Press: with Nick Montfort, Wardrip-Fruin
The New Media Reader (2003); with 2007, 978-0-262-08356-0
Pat Harrigan, First Person: New Media $40.00S/£29.95 cloth
as Story, Performance, and Game
THIRD PERSON
(2003), Second Person: Role-Playing
and Story in Games and Playable Authoring and Exploring Vast
Media (2007), and Third Person: Narratives
Authoring and Exploring Vast edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah
Narratives (2009). Wardrip-Fruin
2009, 978-0-262-23263-0
$40.00S/£29.95 cloth
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biography/computing
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economics
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current affairs/health care
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fiction
PACIFIC AGONY
Bruce Benderson
I gazed out my window on the sea of dark clouds as my shaking seat jiggled the image An acidic, satiric novel in the
into double vision; and I pictured the flat, geometrically divided western landscapes form of a travelogue of the
American northwest, complete
below, wondering why anyone still bothered to travel in this cookie-cutter country.
with annotations by an
What was the use of visiting identical reproductions of the same Wal-Mart or adding outraged local.
new encounters of equally streamlined mentality to the roster? As far as I was concerned,
everything had been shorn from the same cloth, woven for years in the drab bungalows
September
of suburban North America. 6 x 9, 160 pp.
— from Pacific Agony
$14.95T/£11.95 paper
978-1-58435-082-8
Depressed, cynical, and subversive, East Coaster Reginald Fortiphton has been
brought to Seattle by a West Coast publishing company that wants him to write Native Agents series
Distributed for Semiotext(e)
a guide to the American Northwest. His job is to travel, on their dime, from
Eugene, Oregon, to Vancouver, shining an admiring light on the region —
which the publishers feel has been neglected by the New York publishing Also available from Semiotext(e)
monopoly. Pacific Agony is his ironic attempt to fufill GOOD SEX ILLUSTRATED
his assignment. To ensure that the project goes as Tony Duvert
translated by Bruce Benderson
planned, the very respectable Narcissa Whitman 2007, 978-1-58435-043-9
Applegate — notable member of the Willamette- $14.95T/£11.95 paper
Columbia Historical Legion and the Daughters of the
Oregon Trail Historical Committee (and namesake
of a nineteenth century missionary who was famously
killed by Oregon’s Nez Percé Indians) — is asked
to annotate the manuscript. Her notes at the bottom
of the page become progressively more outraged as
the alienated Reginald’s mock travel narrative skewers the region
with merciless political observations — while he spirals into a
depressive mania.
This acidic, satirical novel hilariously eviscerates contempo-
rary American culture at the same time that it exposes some of
the darker motivations of American middle-class liberalism.
Novelist, translator, and essayist Bruce Benderson is the author of
a memoir, The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, winner of France’s
prestigious Prix de Flore in French translation. He is the translator
of Good Sex Illustrated (2007) by Tony Duvert for Semiotext(e).
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art/theater
BAD REPUTATION
Performances, Essays, Interviews
Penny Arcade
An autobiographical trilogy
introduction by Ken Bernard
by a cultural icon of Downtown
New York. A reform-school runaway at thirteen, a performer in the legendary New York
City Playhouse of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy
October Warhol’s Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade (born Susana Ventura)
7 x 10, 200 pp. emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an
$19.95T/£14.95 cloth originator of what came to be called performance art. Arcade’s brand of high
978-1-58435-069-9 camp and street-smart, punk-rock cabaret showmanship has been winning
Native Agents series over international audiences ever since. This autobiographical trilogy of plays
Distributed for Semiotext(e) represents her at her best.
Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore! is Penny Arcade’s raucous, cutting-edge sex and
censorship show (which continues to be a commercial hit around the world),
Also available from Semiotext(e)
featuring the daily life of a receptionist in a brothel, the upbringing and rearing
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ
A Definitive History of Five or Six of a “faghag,” the evolution of the New York gay scene in the 1990s, and a par-
Years on the Lower East Side ticipatory “audience dance break.” The funny and heart-rending title work, Bad
edited by Giancarlo Ambrosino
Reputation, portrays a young teen runaway’s coming of age in a Catholic reform
interviews by Sylvère Lotringer
2006, 978-1-58435-035-4 school (run by nuns who are former fashion models) and her subsequent life on
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth the streets of 1960s New York. La Miseria, a rare depiction of working-class
Italian-Americans from a woman’s point of view that portrays the clash between
working-class morals and compassion during the 1980s AIDS epidemic,
rounds out the trilogy.
Bad Reputation is the first book by and on
Penny Arcade. The complete scripts are accom-
panied by a new interview with Penny Arcade
by Chris Kraus, a range of archival photographs
of the East Village scene and Arcade’s perform-
ances, an introduction by playwright Ken
Bernard, and contributions by Sarah Schulman,
Steve Zehentner, and Stephen Bottoms.
Penny Arcade is a performance artist and political
activist in New York City.
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cultural studies/gender studies/biography
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cultural studies/politics
August The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves
4 1/2 x 7, 136 pp. of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible
$12.95T/£9.95 paper Committee in the vein of Guy Debord — and with comparable elegance — it
978-1-58435-080-4
has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who
Intervention series recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately
Distributed for Semiotext(e)
described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing
contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic pre-
Also available from Semiotext(e) scription for an emergent war-machine capable of “spreading anarchy and live
REVOLT, SHE SAID communism.”
Julia Kristeva Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs
2002, 978-1-58435-015-6
in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France
$11.95T/£8.95 paper
and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left
and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms
of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against
immigration control and the “war on terror.”
Hot-wired to the movement of ’77 in Italy, its preferred his-
torical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an
ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal
to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized life
forms. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the grow-
ing number of those — in France, in the United States, and
elsewhere — who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life
are separate realms.
The Invisible Committee is the collective pen-name for a small group
of French post-Situationist intellectuals and academics.
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NEW EDITION
THE GERMAN ISSUE
edited and with an introduction by Sylvère Lotringer
A first-hand account of the Western
world on the threshold of a major I like to stand with one leg on each side of the wall. Maybe this is a schizophrenic
global mutation, bridging art and
intellect, culture and politics,
position, but none other seems to me real enough.
Europe and America. — Heiner Mueller, The German Issue
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art
MICHAEL SNOW
Wavelength
Elizabeth Legge
An illustrated study of
In 1966, at the height of minimal art in New York, artist Michael Snow chose Michael Snow’s “zoom film,”
not to make another object to be placed in a room but instead spent a year which has become a touchstone
planning a film of a room: Wavelength, a forty-five-minute more or less straight- for art and film studies.
line zoom from the near to the far wall of a loft space, accompanied by a rising
sine wave. October
In this illustrated study, Elizabeth Legge describes Wavelength as a film of 6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp.
32 color illus.
virtuosically managed tensions, sensuous beauty, subtle light and color, and
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
recession into perspectival depth. At the same time, she points out, it is also 978-1-84638-056-3
austere: the loft space where the action unfolds could be the last clerical outpost
$35.00S/£19.95 cloth
of a defunct business. The zoom is punctuated by what Snow laconically called 978-1-84638-055-6
“4 human events”: a woman directs two men who carry in a bookcase and place
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it against the left wall of the room; two women come in and listen to the Distributed for Afterall Books
Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields” on the radio; a man briefly appears after protracted
crashing and glass-breaking noises, wheels around, and drops dead; a young
woman comes into the room and makes a frightened telephone call reporting Also available in this series
the dead man (“And he doesn’t look drunk, he looks dead.”). CHRIS MARKER
Wavelength won the grand prize for experimental film at Knokke-le-Zoute in La Jetée
Janet Harbord
1967, and it was crucial to critics’ efforts to establish a vocabulary for temporal
2009, 978-1-84638-048-8
art. It was a “wavelength” that could stand up to the French new wave, and it $16.00T/£9.95 paper
has functioned ever since as a touchstone for art and film studies, and as a blue ANDY WARHOL
screen in front of which a range of ideological and intellectual dramas have Blow Job
been played. Peter Gidal
2008, 978-1-84638-041-9
Elizabeth Legge is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of $16.00T/£9.95 paper
Toronto. She has written on Dada, Surrealism, and contemporary Canadian and British art
in Art History, Word and Image, and Representations. Michael Snow is a Canadian artist, FISCHLI AND WEISS
film-maker, and musician. The Way Things Go
Jeremy Millar
2007, 978-1-84638-035-8
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SARAH LUCAS
Au Naturel
Amna Malik
Does art have a sex? A study
of Sarah Lucas’s famous assemblage Amna Malik opens her study of Sarah Lucas’s Au Naturel (1994) by asking
of objects that suggest male and “Does art have a sex? And if so, what does it look like?” Au Naturel is an
female body parts. assemblage of objects — a mattress, a bucket, a pair of melons, oranges and
a cucumber — that suggest male and female body parts. Through much of
September Lucas’s work, and particularly through Au Naturel, Malik argues, we are placed
6 x 8 1/2 112 pp. in a position of spectatorship that makes us see “sex” as so many dismembered
32 color illus.
parts, with no apparent morality attached — no implication of guilt, shame, or
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978-1-84638-054-9
embarrassment. The sardonic and irreverent nature of Lucas’s observations,
moreover, violates certain assumptions about what kind of art women artists
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make. This, Malik proposes, is the significance of Lucas’s work for a later genera-
tion of artists who are unburdened by the need to insist on questions of gender
One Work series
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Lucas’s shift between high and low art and culture operates as a shift between
“high” aesthetic ideas about the art object as a metaphoric play of meaning and
Also available in this series: its “low” associations with the materiality of the literal object and its allusions
HANNE DARBOVEN to the genitals and sex. Au Naturel creates a series of associations that bring the
Cultural History 1880-1983
Dan Adler
ideal into collision with a base materialism, emphasizing desire as a condition of
2009, 978-1-84638-050-1 the meaning of the object.
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
Amna Malik is a Lecturer in Art History
ALIGHIERO E BOETTI and Theory at the Slade School of Fine
Mappa Art, London. Sarah Lucas’s work has been
Luca Cerizza included in the major surveys of new
2008, 978-1-84638-027-3 British art in the 1990s, including
$16.00T/£9.95 paper Sensation: Young British Artists from
the Saatchi Collection. Au Naturel,
YVONNE RAINER made for and exhibited for the first
The Mind is a Muscle time in “Football Karaoke,” organized
Catherine Wood by Georg Herold for Portikus, Frankfurt-
2007, 978-1-84638-037-2 am-Main, Germany, 1994, is in Damien
$16.00T/£9.95 paper Hirst’s “murderme” collection.
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with whom treaties are in vain and war remains incessant. This is the pirate,
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of exception, neither criminal nor enemy, who inhabits an extra-territorial
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tics and justifying military measures in the name of welfare and security. Archaeology of a Sensation
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remains in force today. Whenever we hear of regions outside the rule of law in
which acts of “indiscriminate aggression” have
been committed “against humanity,” we must
begin to recognize that these are acts of piracy.
Often considered part of the distant past, the
enemy of all is closer to us today than we may
think. Indeed, he may never have been closer.
Daniel Heller-Roazen is Professor of Comparative
Literature at Princeton University. He is the author
of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language (2008)
and The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation
(2009), both published by Zone Books.
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Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson,
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Thomas Cormen is Professor of Computer Science
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ENGINEERING INVENTION
Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. Electrical Industry
Frederick Dalzell
The technological breakthroughs
foreword by W. Bernard Carlson
and entrepreneurial adventures
of Frank J. Sprague during the afterword by John Sprague
transformative years of the early Over the course of a little less than twenty years, inventor Frank J. Sprague
electrical industry.
(1857–1934) achieved an astonishing series of technological breakthroughs —
from pioneering work in self-governing motors to developing the first full-scale
November operational electric railway system — all while commercializing his inventions
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others — transformed the technologies of electricity and reshaped modern life.
After working briefly for Edison, Sprague started the Sprague Electric
Railway and Motor Company; designed and built an electric railroad system
for Richmond, Virginia; sold his company to Edison and went into the field of
electric elevators; almost accidentally discovered a multiple-control system that
could equip electric train systems for mass transit; started a third company to
commercialize this; then sold this company to Edison and retired (temporarily).
Throughout his career, Dalzell tells us, Sprague framed technology as invention,
cast himself as hero, and staged his technologies as dramas. He toiled against
the odds, scraped together resources to found companies,
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Hywel Williams the University of Melbourne. Bryan McDonald is Assistant
Director of the Center for Unconventional Security at the
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and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech, the author of in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at
Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and the Animal Mind, the University of Oslo.
and the coeditor of Scientists Debate Gaia (MIT Press, 2004).
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INDEX
Acting with Technology, Kaptelinin 54 Castells, Mobile Communication and Society Felleisen, Semantics Engineering with PLT
After America's Midlife Crisis, Gecan 27 52 Redex 68
Agamben, The Signature of All Things 45 Casual Revolution, Juul 4 Fertin, Combinatorics of Genome
Change of State, Braman 53 Rearrangements 84
Alberro, Institutional Critique 14
Changing Climates in North American Fiengo, De Lingua Belief 60
Aligning Modern Business Processes and
Legacy Systems, van den Heuvel 54 Politics, Selin 80 Financing Innovation in the United States,
Chaos and Organization in Health Care, Lee 1870 to Present, Lamoreaux 64
Amerika, META/DATA 50
34 Flanagan, Critical Play 29
Amsden, Escape from Empire 48
Cheating, Consalvo 53 Frampton, Distributed Reduplication 93
Arcade, Bad Reputation 36
Chemero, Radical Embodied Cognitive Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem,
Architecture's Desire, Hays 25 Science 90 Balaguer 91
Art as Existence, Guercio 49 Chess Metaphors, Rasskin-Gutman 7 From Embryology to Evo-Devo, Laubichler
Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling, Sterling 69 Chips and Change, Brown 94 57
Art School, Madoff 11 Chomsky Effect, Barsky 48 Fuhrer, Understanding Inflation and the
Asylum, Payne 2 Implications for Monetary Policy 95
Cognition and Perception, Raftopoulos 90
Austere Realism, Horgan 59 Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital
Cognitive Neurosciences, fourth edition, Age, Davidson
Baber, Global Democracy and Sustainable Gazzaniga 86
Jurisprudence 83 Gabriel Orozco, Bois 19
Combinatorics of Genome Rearrangements,
Bad Reputation, Arcade 36 Fertin 84 Gaia in Turmoil, Crist 81
Badash, A Nuclear Winter's Tale 77 Coming Insurrection, The Invisible Gazzaniga, The Cognitive Neurosciences,
Balaguer, Free Will as an Open Scientific Committee 38 fourth edition 86
Problem 91 Communities of Play, Pearce 30 Gecan, After America's Midlife Crisis 27
Barsky, The Chomsky Effect 48 Computational Modeling Methods for Genetics of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Batchen, Photography Degree Zero 21 Neuroscientists, De Schutter 88 Goldberg 89
Benderson, Pacific Agony 35 Computational Nature of Language Learning Gerdts, Hypothesis A / Hypothesis B 92
Berardi, The Soul at Work 39 and Evolution, Niyogi 61 Gerhard Richter, Buchloh 18
Berman, Radical, Religious, and Violent 5 Confronting Income Inequality in Japan, German Issue, new edition, Lotringer 40
Tachibanaki 65 Gillespie, Wired Shut 52
Berry, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. 12
Consalvo, Cheating 53 Global Democracy and Sustainable
Beyer, Grace Hopper and the Invention of
the Information Age 32 Constraint-Based Local Search, Jurisprudence, Baber 83
Van Hentenryck 55 Global Environmental Change and Human
Bhagwati, Offshoring of American Jobs 33
Control Theory and Systems Biology, Iglesias Security, Matthew 81
Bickerton, Biological Foundations and 84
Origin of Syntax 92 Globalization and the Poor Periphery before
Corburn, Toward the Healthy City 79 1950, Williamson 65
Biermann, Managers of Global Change 82
Cormen, Introduction to Algorithms, Goethe, The Metamorphosis of Plants 1
Bijker, The Paradox of Scientific Authority third edition 66
74 Goldberg, The Genetics of Cognitive
Cracked Media, Kelly 13 Neuroscience 89
Biological Emergences, Reid 58
Crist, Gaia in Turmoil 81 Goodman, Sonic Warfare 71
Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax,
Bickerton 92 Critical Play, Flanagan 29 Governing the Tap, Mullin 79
Biomedical Signal Analysis, Theis 85 Dada in Paris, Sanouillet 20 Grace Hopper and the Invention of the
Dalzell, Engineering Invention 72 Information Age, Beyer 32
Blesser, Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?
49 De Lingua Belief, Fiengo 60 Graedel, Linkages of Sustainability 83
Bois, Gabriel Orozco 19 De Schutter, Computational Modeling Gross, A Hole in the Head 87
Bond, Lacan at the Scene 22 Methods for Neuroscientists 88 Guercio, Art as Existence 49
Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume 1: DeNardis, Protocol Politics 73 Guicciardini, Isaac Newton on Mathematical
Facsimile, McGee 76 Dendritic Spines, Yuste 87 Certainty and Method 75
Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume 2: Disorders of Volition, Sebanz 61 Hales, Relativism and the Foundations of
Transcription and Translation, Stahl 76 Philosophy 59
Distributed Reduplication, Frampton 93
Book of Michael of Rhodes, Volume 3: Handy, Brain Signal Analysis 88
Doherty, Situation 16
Studies, Long 76 Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking
Doing, Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron Out, Ito 70
Brain Signal Analysis, Handy 88 74
Braman, Change of State 53 Hays, Architecture's Desire 25
Drawing for Architecture, Krier 24
Brendel, Healing Psychiatry 57 Healing Psychiatry, Brendel 57
Dybvig, The Scheme Programming Language,
Brock, Robotics 69 fourth edition 67 Health and Medicine on Display, Brown 73
Brown, Chips and Change 94 Enemy of All, Heller-Roazen 43 Hecht, The Radiance of France 75
Brown, Health and Medicine on Display 73 Engineering Invention, Dalzell 72 Heller-Roazen, The Enemy of All 43
Brown, Science in Democracy 78 Engineering Play, Ito 28 Heller-Roazen, The Inner Touch 46
Brynjolfsson, Wired for Innovation 8 Escape from Empire, Amsden 48 Henning, The Little Black Book of Grisélidis
Réal 37
Buchloh, Gerhard Richter 18 Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era,
Klein 95 Hole in the Head, Gross 87
Callebaut, Modularity 58
Exploring the Thalamus and Its Role in Horgan, Austere Realism 59
Cantor, Making Medical Decisions for the
Profoundly Mentally Disabled 56 Cortical Function, second edition, Human Footprints on the Global
Sherman 63 Environment, Rosa 82
Expressive Processing, Wardrip-Fruin 31 Human Information Retrieval, Warner 71
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INDEX
Hypothesis A / Hypothesis B, Gerdts 92 McGee, The Book of Michael of Rhodes, Selin, Changing Climates in North American
Iglesias, Control Theory and Systems Volume 1: Facsimile 76 Politics 80
Biology 84 Meaning in Life, Volumes 1-3, Singer 47 Semantics Engineering with PLT Redex,
Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher, Meaning Liam Gillick, Szewczyk 15 Felleisen 68
Singer 47 Mental Reality, second edition, Strawson Senior, Methods in Mind 62
Inner Presence, Revonsuo 62 89 Sherman, Exploring the Thalamus and
Inner Touch, Heller-Roazen 46 META/DATA, Amerika 50 Its Role in Cortical Function,
second edition 63
Innovation in Cultural Systems, O’Brien 85 Metamodeling for Method Engineering,
Jeusfeld 67 Signature of All Things, Agamben 45
Institutional Critique, Alberro 14
Metamorphosis of Plants, Goethe 1 Signs of Life, Kac 50
Interface Fantasy, Nusselder 23
Methods in Mind, Senior 62 Simple Science of Flight, revised and
Introduction to Algorithms, third edition, expanded edition, Tennekes 9
Cormen 66 Metzger, Laws of Seeing 63
Singer, Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic
The Invisible Committee, The Coming Michael Snow, Legge 41 Philosopher 47
Insurrection 38 Mishkin, Monetary Policy Strategy 64 Singer, Meaning in Life, Volumes 1-3 47
Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Miyagawa, Why Agree? Why Move? 94
Method, Guicciardini 75 Situation, Doherty 16
Mobile Communication and Society, Castells Sonic Warfare, Goodman 71
Ito, Engineering Play 28 52
Ito, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Soul at Work, Berardi 39
Modularity, Callebaut 58
Geeking Out 70 Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?, Blesser
Monetary Policy Strategy, Mishkin 64 49
Jeusfeld, Metamodeling for Method
Engineering 67 Morris, New Media Poetics 51 Stahl, The Book of Michael of Rhodes,
Journey to Data Quality, Lee 56 Mullin, Governing the Tap 79 Volume 2: Transcription and Translation
New Media Poetics, Morris 51 76
Juul, A Casual Revolution 4
Niyogi, The Computational Nature of Sterling, The Art of Agent-Oriented
Kac, Signs of Life 50 Modeling 69
Language Learning and Evolution 61
Kaptelinin, Acting with Technology 54 Strawson, Mental Reality, second edition 89
Noble, Utopias 17
Keller, Science in Environmental Policy 78 Streetlights and Shadows, Klein 6
Nuclear Winter's Tale, Badash 77
Kelly, Cracked Media 13 Szewczyk, Meaning Liam Gillick 15
Nusselder, Interface Fantasy 23
Klein, Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Tachibanaki, Confronting Income Inequality
Era 95 O'Brien, Innovation in Cultural Systems 85
Offshoring of American Jobs, Bhagwati 33 in Japan 65
Klein, Streetlights and Shadows 6 Tennekes, The Simple Science of Flight,
Knechtel, Water 10 Online Stochastic Combinatorial
Optimization, Van Hentenryck 55 revised and expanded edition 9
Koller, Probabilistic Graphical Models 68 Theis, Biomedical Signal Analysis 85
Ophir, The Power of Inclusive Exclusion 44
Krier, Drawing for Architecture 24 Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Berry 12
Pacific Agony, Benderson 35
Lacan at the Scene, Bond 22 Tomasello, Why We Cooperate 26
Paradox of Scientific Authority, Bijker 74
Lamoreaux, Financing Innovation in the Toward the Healthy City, Corburn 79
United States, 1870 to Present 64 Payne, Asylum 2
Pearce, Communities of Play 30 Types and Tokens, Wetzel 91
Landau, The Locative Syntax of Experiencers Understanding Inflation and the
93 Photography Degree Zero, Batchen 21
Implications for Monetary Policy,
Laubichler, From Embryology to Evo-Devo Potoski, Voluntary Programs 80 Fuhrer 95
57 Power of Inclusive Exclusion, Ophir 44 Utopias, Noble 17
Laws of Seeing, Metzger 63 Probabilistic Graphical Models, Koller 68 van den Heuvel, Aligning Modern Business
Lee, Chaos and Organization in Health Care Protocol Politics, DeNardis 73 Processes and Legacy Systems 54
34 Radiance of France, Hecht 75 Van Hentenryck, Constraint-Based Local
Lee, Journey to Data Quality 56 Radical Embodied Cognitive Science, Search 55
Legge, Michael Snow 41 Chemero 90 Van Hentenryck, Online Stochastic
Linkages of Sustainability, Graedel 83 Radical, Religious, and Violent, Berman 5 Combinatorial Optimization 55
Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal, Henning Raftopoulos, Cognition and Perception 90 Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron,
37 Rasskin-Gutman, Chess Metaphors 7 Doing 74
Locative Syntax of Experiencers, Landau Reid, Biological Emergences 58 Veritas, Vision 60
93 Vision, Veritas 60
Relativism and the Foundations of
Long, The Book of Michael of Rhodes, Philosophy, Hales 59 Voluntary Programs, Potoski 80
Volume 3: Studies 76 Wardrip-Fruin, Expressive Processing 31
Revonsuo, Inner Presence 62
Lotringer, The German Issue, new edition Warner, Human Information Retrieval 71
40 Robotics, Brock 69
Rosa, Human Footprints on the Global Water, Knechtel 10
Ludlow, The Second Life Herald 51
Environment 82 Wetzel, Types and Tokens 91
Madoff, Art School 11
Sanouillet, Dada in Paris 20 Why Agree? Why Move?, Miyagawa 94
Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly
Mentally Disabled, Cantor 56 Sarah Lucas, Malik 42 Why We Cooperate, Tomasello 26
Malik, Sarah Lucas 42 Scheme Programming Language, fourth Williamson, Globalization and the Poor
edition, Dybvig 67 Periphery before 1950 65
Managers of Global Change, Biermann 82
Science in Democracy, Brown 78 Wired for Innovation, Brynjolfsson 8
Matthew, Global Environmental Change and
Human Security 81 Science in Environmental Policy, Keller 78 Wired Shut, Gillespie 52
Maurer, WMD Terrorism 77 Sebanz, Disorders of Volition 61 WMD Terrorism, Maurer 77
Second Life Herald, Ludlow 51 Yuste, Dendritic Spines 87
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