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Fred Forest's utopia :media art and activism
The innovative French media artist and prankster-provocateur Fred Forest first gained notoriety in 1972 when he inserted a small blank space in Le Monde, called it 150 cm 2 of Newspaper (150 cm 2 de papier journal), and invited readers to fill in the space with their own work and mail their efforts to him. In 1977, he satirized speculation in both the art and real estate markets by offering the…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 245 pages).
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Foolproof, and other mathematical meditations
A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability. Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too much fun to be left to the mathematicians. Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations is his entertaining and accessible exploration of mathematical terrain both far-flung and nearby, bringing r…
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- 9780262342681
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- 1 online resource (248 pages)
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Effortless Attention: A New Perspective in the Cognitive Science of Attention…
The phenomena of effortless attention, action & the challenges they pose to current cognitive models of attention & action are discussed in this volume.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269438
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- 1 online resource (viii, 449 pages) :illustrations.
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Understanding ignorance :the surprising impact of what we don't know
Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state motto because it is in Latin, and "This is America, not Mexico or Latin America." Lack of experience, not expertise, becomes a credential. Fake news and repeated falsehoods are accepted and shape firm belief. Ignorance about American government and history is so alarming that the ideal of …
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Panpsychism in the West
An updated edition of a comprehensive study of the theory that mind exists, in some form, in all living and nonliving things.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- Revised edition.
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- 9780262341523
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- 1 online resource (372 pages)
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The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites. Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries…
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The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's Disease
Patrick McNamara examines the major neuropsychiatric syndromes of Parkinson's disease in detail and offers a cognitive theory that accounts for both their neurology and their phenomenology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298360
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- 1 online resource (x, 231 pages) :illustrations
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Perception beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes
Proposing a new paradigm for perceptual science that goes beyond standard information theory and digital computation. This book breaks with the conventional model of perception that views vision as a mere inference to an objective reality on the basis of "inverse optics." The authors offer the alternative view that perception is an expressive and awareness-generating process. Perception creates…
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- 9780262295550
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- 1 online resource (ix, 445 pages) :illustrations
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Things that keep us busy :the elements of interaction
We are surrounded by interactive devices, artifacts, and systems. The general assumption is that interactivity is good -- that it is a positive feature associated with being modern, efficient, fast, flexible, and in control. Yet there is no very precise idea of what interaction is and what interactivity means. In this book, Lars-Erik Janlert and Erik Stolterman investigate the elements of inter…
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- 9780262341813
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- 1 online resource (231 pages) :illustrations
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Weather as medium :toward a meteorological art
In a time of climate crisis, a growing number of artists use weather or atmosphere as an artistic medium, collaborating with scientists, local communities, and climate activists. Their work mediates scientific modes of knowing and experiential knowledge of weather, probing collective anxieties and raising urgent ecological questions, oscillating between the "big picture systems view" and a grou…
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- 9780262353441
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- 1 online resource (xl, 233 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some colour)
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