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  • Listening in the Afterlife of Data

    Aesthetics, Pragmatics, and Incommunication

    by David Cecchetto ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    In Listening in the Afterlife of Data, David Cecchetto theorizes sound, communication, and data by analyzing them in the contexts of the practical workings of specific technologies, situations, and artworks. In a time he calls the afterlife of data—the cultural context in which data’s hegemony persists even in the absence of any belief in its validity—Cecchetto shows how data is repositioned as ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Ludic Dreaming

    How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture

    by David Cecchetto, Marc Couroux, Ted Hiebert, Eldritch Priest ...
    Ludic Dreaming uses (sometimes fictional) dreams as a method for examining sound and contemporary technoculture's esoteric exchanges, refusing both the strictures of visually dominated logic and the celebratory tone that so often characterizes the “sonic turn.” Instead, through a series of eight quasi-analytical essays on the condition of listening, the book forwards a robust engagement with ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Humanesis

    Sound and Technological Posthumanism

    by David Cecchetto ...
    Series Book 25 - Posthumanities
    Humanesis critically examines central strains of posthumanism, searching out biases in the ways that human–technology coupling is explained. Specifically, it interrogates three approaches taken by posthumanist discourse: scientific, humanist, and organismic. David Cecchetto’s investigations reveal how each perspective continues to hold on to elements of the humanist tradition that it is ostensibly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Semblance and Event

    Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An investigation of the “occurrent arts” through the concepts of the “semblance” and “lived abstraction.”Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. But how do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much as what is actually present? In Semblance and Event, Brian Massumi, drawing on the work of William James, Alfred ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Speculative Aesthetics

    Edited by Robin Mackay, James Trafford, Luke Pendrell ...
    Series Book 4 - Urbanomic / Redactions
    An examination of the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the planetary media network and of the aesthetic as an enabler of new modes of knowledge.This series of interventions on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics ranges from contemporary art's relation to the aesthetic, to accelerationism and abstraction, logic and design.From varied perspectives of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Bodies in Code

    Interfaces with Digital Media

    by Mark B. N. Hansen ...
    Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body--not high-tech computer graphics--that allows a person to feel like they are really ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Becoming Beside Ourselves

    The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being

    by Brian Rotman, Timothy Lenoir ...
    Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in Turing’s Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that they facilitate or foreclose. In Becoming Beside Ourselves, Rotman turns his attention to alphabetic ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Remodelling Communication

    From WWII to the WWW

    by Gary Genosko ...
    Covering major developments from post-war cybernetics and telegraphy to the Internet and our networked society, Remodelling Communication explores the critical literature from across disciplines and eras on the models used for studying communications and culture.Proceeding model-by-model, Genosko provides detailed explanations of mathematical, semiotic, and reception theory's encoding/decoding ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Critical Semiotics

    Theory, from Information to Affect

    by Gary Genosko ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity to act or engage with others. In a world dominated by information, how do things that seem to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • What Is Posthumanism?

    by Cary Wolfe ...
    Series Book 8 - Posthumanities
    What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities—posthumanities—respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    by Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Nonhuman Turn

    Edited by Richard Grusin ...
    Series series 21st Century Studies
    Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize—and therefore consolidate—a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each of these approaches is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD