Verlag: The MIT Press Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1635901685 ISBN 13: 9781635901689
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the internet's transformation from communication tool to computational infrastructure.The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a residual technology, still effective in the present but less intelligible as such. After nearly two decades and a couple of financial crises, it has become the almost imperceptible background of today's Corporate Platform Complex (CPC)a pervasive planetary technological infrastructure that meshes communication with computation.In the essays collected in this book, written mostly between the mid-2000s and the late 2010s, Tiziana Terranova bears witness to this monstrous transformation. Mobilizing theories of cognitive capitalism, neo-monadology, and sympathetic cooperation, considering ideas such as the attention economy and its psychopathologies, and evoking the relation between algorithmic automation and the Common, she provides real-time takes on the mutations that have changed the technological, cultural, and economic ethos of the Internet. Mostly conceived, elaborated, and discussed in collective activist spaces, After the Internet is neither apocalyptic lamentation nor melancholic "rise and fall" story of betrayed great expectations. On the contrary, it looks within the folds of the recent past to unfold the potential futurities that the post-digital computational present still entails.
Verlag: MIT Press Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1635901766 ISBN 13: 9781635901764
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The life, times, and mysteries of Fred Halsted, gay porn's first film auteur, in a new, updated, and expanded edition.Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly muttering "new information for me." Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished Los Angeles, a city at once rural and sleazy. Although his cultural notoriety at one point equaled that of Kenneth Anger or Jack Smith, Halsted's star waned in the 1980s with the emergence of a more commercial gay porn industry. After the death from AIDS of his long-time partner, lover, spouse (and tormentor) Joey Yale in 1986, Halsted committed suicide in 1989. In Halsted Plays Himself, acclaimed artist and filmmaker William E. Jones documents his quest to capture the elusive public and private personas of Halstedto zero in on an identity riddled with contradictions. Jones assembles a narrative of a long-gone gay lifestyle and an extinct Hollywood underground, when independent films were still possible, and the boundary between experimental and pornographic was not yet established. The book also depicts what sexual liberation looked like at a volatile point in timeand what it looked like when it collapsed. The revised and expanded edition of Halsted Plays Himself includes material that came to light since the book's first publication, including details about the restoration of Halsted's films by the Museum of Modern Art, the true identities of several key figures in his life, new testimony from family members, and the rediscovery of his feature film Truck It (1973), previously considered lost.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262544415 ISBN 13: 9780262544412
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'How US Copyright law should be reformed to ensure open access to research and scholarship'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262544717 ISBN 13: 9780262544719
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Originally published as La natura del duce: una storia ambientale del fascismo.'.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 026254394X ISBN 13: 9780262543941
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Uneven Futures reimagines the SF megatext as a vibrantly dialogical and enduringly ethical methodology for our living political futures'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262047268 ISBN 13: 9780262047265
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Italian cities have been points of reference for much of architect Peter Wilson's professional life and the many reasons for visiting the country have long presented themselves as not just the easy list - holidays, food, architecture and culture - but as the prompt for a more ingrained understanding of Italy's wider architectural habitat and cultural mythology. This book, first published by the AA School in 2016, appears in the form of a latter-day Baedeker. But rather than a pragmatic itinerary, its content offers an eclectic and idiosyncratic list of assorted reasons to head south, richly illustrated by Wilson's own drawings and watercolors'.
Verlag: The MIT Press Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262047365 ISBN 13: 9780262047364
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Redish builds on work on morality in economics, genetics, evolution, etc. and combines it with the latest research in neuroscientific decision-making to develop a coherent science of morality'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262544555 ISBN 13: 9780262544559
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The pandemic has raised awareness of the need for universal access to high speed internet service in the United States. This book shows us that the debate about internet access is but the latest chapter in a long history of debates about universal service in the United States. This book analyzes the history, costs, and benefits of providing universal access to technologies and services, including education, postal service, telephone service, electrification, public libraries, and Internet'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262544598 ISBN 13: 9780262544597
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The book explores the origin story of the Open Government Partnership and place the open government reform movement in the context of the long history of public sector reform'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 026254458X ISBN 13: 9780262544580
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book re-focuses media design for material as well as human needs. It provides examples, critical discussions, and defining criteria for media that do not serve humans alone anymore'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1913029670 ISBN 13: 9781913029678
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A detailed examination of the motivations and precise coordinates of Duchamp's break from painting into the field of the linguistic sign.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262539985 ISBN 13: 9780262539982
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city's infrastructure and services.The majority of the world's inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also often harbor the solutions to the inequalities they create, as this book makes clear. With examples drawn from cities worldwide, Co-Cities outlines practices, laws, and policies that are presently fostering innovation in the provision of urban services, spurring collaborative economies as a driver of local sustainable development, and promoting inclusive and equitable regeneration of blighted urban areas. Identifying core elements of these diverse efforts, Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione develop a framework for understanding how certain initiatives position local communities as key actors in the production, delivery, and management of urban assets or local resources. Within this framework, they explain the forms such initiatives increasingly take, like community land trusts, new kinds of co-housing, neighborhood cooperatives, community-shared broadband and energy networks, and new local offices focused on citizen science and civic imagination. The "Co-City" framework is uniquely rooted in the authors' own decades-long research and first-hand experience working in cities around the world. Foster and Iaione offer their observations as "design principles"adaptable to local contextto help guide further experimentation in building just and self-sustaining urban communities.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262544768 ISBN 13: 9780262544764
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A critical examination of how single-family housing, the building block of US cities, is changing and its transformative potential for American urbanism'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262544636 ISBN 13: 9780262544634
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is a theoretical music technology book, influenced by new research in embodied music cognition. The main focus is on musical instruments and how they shape our experiences of music'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262544547 ISBN 13: 9780262544542
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A sober, but polemical text on how the linguistics and language field has lost sight of the fact that syntactic structure remains crucial'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262544318 ISBN 13: 9780262544313
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A philosopher explains how it feels to undergo a psychotic break and what mental health professionals need to know to assist recovery'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262047306 ISBN 13: 9780262047302
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A book in the Ohlin Lectures series on trade agreements'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262047551 ISBN 13: 9780262047555
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An introduction to robotics for undergraduates in engineering. The book is explicitly robot-agnostic, reflecting the timeliness of fundamental concepts'--.
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd Dez 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0262047292 ISBN 13: 9780262047296
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An undergraduate game theory text that integrates behavioral economics and applications to other economic subdisciplines'--.