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Memo for Nemo
"Originally published in 2016 by Architectural Association.""An architectural, social, and cultural history of the undersea, using Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and more especially his charasmatic villain Captain Nemo, as his prompt"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262370486
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Make shift :dispatches from the post-pandemic future
Science fiction stories of pandemic-inspired ingenuity, grit, and determination. This new volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series of science fiction anthologies looks at how science and technology -- existing or speculative -- might help us create a more equitable and hopeful world after the coronavirus pandemic. The original stories presented here, from a diverse collection of authors, offer no …
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- 9780262363495
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- 1 online resource (176 pages).
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Uneven futures :strategies for community survival from speculative fiction
"Uneven Futures reimagines the SF megatext as a vibrantly dialogical and enduringly ethical methodology for our living political futures"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262370172
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Creative hustling :women making and distributing films from Nairobi
"Creative Hustling is the first book length study about Nairobi-based female filmmakers and their labor as artists and entrepreneurs. Based on original empirical research, Steedman explores how these women pair their cinematic ability with an equally apt business acumen, contributing to a narrative of what it takes to succeed as a filmmaker in Nairobi. This book theorizes "hustling" as a creati…
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- 9780262372688
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Managing meaning in Ukraine :information, communication, and narration since …
"This book shows how confusion resulting from conflicts in Ukraine have repeatedly created the urgent need for meaning in a chaotic situation. Focusing on Ukraine in the aftermath of the so-called Euromaidan revolution in late 2013 and up through the present Russian invasion, this book analyzes how meaning is made as a nation seeks to control its image at home and especially abroad"--OCLC-licen…
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- 9780262374576
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The age of prediction :algorithms, AI, and the shifting shadows of risk
The power of the ever-increasing tools and algorithms for prediction and their paradoxical effects on risk. The Age of Prediction is about two powerful, and symbiotic, trends: the rapid development and use of artificial intelligence and big data to enhance prediction, as well as the often paradoxical effects of these better predictions on our understanding of risk and the ways we live. Beginnin…
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- 9780262373203
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- 1 online resource (208 pages).
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A new history of the future in 100 objects
"Speculative fiction that presents a possible future -- as rich, complex, and compromised as our present -- in 100 vignettes, each focusing on individual technologies or social innovations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262360371
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Dubcon :fanfiction, power, and sexual consent
"This book examines the treatment of issues of sexual consent in erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366010
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Twelve entanglements :tomorrow's lovers, families, and friends
"Anthology of original science fiction short stories, published in conjunction with the MIT Technology Review"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262359344
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Science fiction
"An overview of how science fiction has grappled with the ways that science and technology shape and change human lives, emphasizing the challenges of the 21st century"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363631
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