University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Mechademia 3
Limits of the Human
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Dramatic advances in genetics, cloning, robotics, and nanotechnology have given rise to both hopes and fears about how technology might transform humanity. As the possibility of a posthuman future becomes increasingly likely, debates about how to interpret or shape this future abound. In Japan, anime...
Mechademia 5
Fanthropologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Passionate fans of anime and manga, known in Japan as otaku and active around the world, play a significant role in the creation and interpretation of this pervasive popular culture. Routinely appropriating and remixing favorite characters, narratives, imagery, and settings, otaku take control of the...
Mechademia 10
World Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Mechademia 10 revolves around a maelstrom of events: the devastation of 3/11—the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crises—and the ongoing environmental disasters that have recently overtaken Japan. Because anime and manga have long proposed (and illustrated) alternative worlds—some created...
Archaeologies of Touch
Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
Since the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies...
by Ian Bogost
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk? The final victory of interaction over passivity? No, probably not. Games are part art and part appliance, part tableau and part toaster....
Metagaming
Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as “games about games,” metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rules:...
Spectacle of Property
The House in American Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Much of our time at the movies is spent in other people’s homes. Cinema is, after all, often about everyday life. Spectacle of Property is the first book to address the question of the ubiquitous conjuncture of the moving image and its domestic architecture. Arguing that in cinema we pay to occupy...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
What comes after extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the Anthropocene, this collection asks authors from diverse backgrounds to address this question. After Extinction looks at the...
Curated Decay
Heritage beyond Saving
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites...
Architecture's Historical Turn
Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as...
The Freak-garde
Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Since the 1890s, American artists have employed the arts of the freak show to envision radically different ways of being. The result is a rich avant-garde tradition that critiques and challenges capitalism from within. The Freak-garde traces the arts of the freak show from P. T. Barnum to Matthew Barney...
The Assemblage Brain
Sense Making in Neuroculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Once upon a time, neuroscience was born. A dazzling array of neurotechnologies emerged that, according to popular belief, have finally begun to unlock the secrets of the brain. But as the brain sciences now extend into all corners of cultural, social, political, and economic life, a yet newer world has...
Reading Writing Interfaces
From the Digital to the Bookbound
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Lori Emerson examines how interfaces—from today’s multitouch devices to yesterday’s desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson’s self-bound fascicle volumes—mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present...
The Politics of Bitcoin
Software as Right-Wing Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology subscribe to a form of cyberlibertarianism that depends to a surprising extent on...