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  • The War In-Between

    Indexing a Visual Culture of Survival

    de Wendy Kozol ...
    Explores the ambiguities and contradictions that disrupt the assumed boundaries of battle zonesAgainst the fabric of suffering that unfolds around more spectacular injuries and deaths, The War In-Between studies visual depictions of banal, routine, or inscrutable aspects of militarized violence. Spaces of the in-between are both broader and much less visible than battlefields, even though ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Distant Wars Visible

    The Ambivalence of Witnessing

    de Wendy Kozol ...
    Series series Critical American Studies
    In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to such enduring questions about conflict photography and other forms of visual advocacy, whether in support of U.S. military objectives or ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • In/visible War

    The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America

    Series series War Culture
    In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, ... Leer más

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  • Immediacy

    Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

    de Anna Kornbluh ...
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  • Framers

    Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

    “Cukier and his co-authors have a more ambitious project than Kahneman and Harari. They don’t want to just point out how powerfully we are influenced by our perspectives and prejudices—our frames. They want to show us that these frames are tools, and that we can optimise their use.”—ForbesFrom pandemics to populism, AI to ISIS, wealth inequity to climate change, humanity faces unprecedented ... Leer más

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  • The Internet of Us

    Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

    "An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" —David Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of BooksWe used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world’s information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the ... Leer más

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  • The Education of a Graphic Designer

    de Steven Heller ...
    Revised and updated, this compelling collection of essays, interviews, and course syllabi is the ideal tool to help teachers and students keep up in the rapidly changing field of graphic design. Top designers and educators talk theory, offer proposals, discuss a wide range of educational concerns-such as theory versus practice, art versus commerce, and classicism versus postmodernism-and consider ... Leer más

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  • Against Flow

    Video Games and the Flowing Subject

    A critical discussion of the experience and theory of flow (as conceptualized by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) in video games.Flow--as conceptualized by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi--describes an experience of "being in the zone," of intense absorption in an activity. It is a central concept in the study of video games, although often applied somewhat uncritically. In Against Flow, Braxton ... Leer más

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  • On Microfascism

    Gender, Death, and War

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  • The Synthetic Eye

    Photography Transformed in the Age of AI

    de Fred Ritchin ...
    A revelatory glimpse into the future of photography, one where the very nature of how images are created is fundamentally transformed by artificial intelligence. An invaluable roadmap in a new world.The revolution caused by artificial intelligence in terms of what a photograph can and cannot do is profound. This book looks at photography’s strengths, what it has meant for individuals and for ... Leer más

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  • Media Life

    de Mark Deuze ...
    Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Leer más

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  • Selfies

    Why We Love (and Hate) Them

    Series series SocietyNow
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