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Noise, water, meat :a history of sound in the arts
Originally published: 1999.An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruse…
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- 0262276674
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- 1 online resource (ix, 455 pages)
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Public policy and the economics of entrepreneurship
Papers presented at a conference held at Syracuse University in April 2001.This groundbreaking collection of essays by leading economists examines different aspects of entrepreneurship and its relation to public policy.Entrepreneurship has been a subject of much recent discussion among academics and policymakers because of the belief that it invigorates the economy--producing greater productivi…
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- 9780262275606
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- 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages) :illustrations
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Re-presenting the good society
A proposal for negotiating the tension between an anti-authoritarian impulse and a guiding idea of context-transcending validity in critical social theory. Contemporary critical social theories face the question of how to justify the ideas of the good society that guide their critical analyses. Traditionally, these more or less determinate ideas of the good society were held to be independent o…
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- 9780262270779
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- 1 online resource (x, 264 pages).
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Protocol :how control exists after decentralization
How Control Exists after DecentralizationIs the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections (and disconne…
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- 9780262273428
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 260 pages) :illustrations.
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Psychoneural reduction :the new wave
John Bickle presents a new type of reductionism, one that is stronger than one-way dependency yet sidesteps the arguments that sank classical reductionism.One of the central problems in the philosophy of psychology is an updated version of the old mind-body problem: how levels of theories in the behavioral and brain sciences relate to one another. Many contemporary philosophers of mind believe …
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- 9780262268530
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- 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) :illustrations
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Radiant cool :a novel theory of consciousness
"A Bradford book."An innovative theory of consciousness, drawing on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and supported by brain-imaging, presented in the form of a hardboiled detective story.Professor Grue is dead (or is he?). When graduate student/sleuth Miranda Sharpe discovers him slumped over his keyboard, she does the sensible thing--she grabs her dissertation and runs. Little does she susp…
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- 9780262278478
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 357 pages) :illustrations
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The provisional city :Los Angeles stories of architecture and urbanism
How the modern city is formed through an endless cycle of upheavals, demolition, and debate. The provisional city is one of constant erasure and eruption. Through what Dana Cuff calls a "convulsive urban act," developers both public and private demolish an urban site and disband its inhabitants, replacing it with some vision of a better life that leaves no trace of the former structure. Archite…
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- 9780262271004
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- 1 online resource (x, 380 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Queer science :the use and abuse of research into homosexuality
What makes people gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual? And who cares? These are the twin themes of Queer Science, a scientific and social analysis of research in the field of sexual orientation. Written by one of the leading scientists involved in this research, it looks at how scientific discoveries about homosexuality influence society's attitude toward gays and lesbians, beginning with t…
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- 058500336X
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- 1 online resource (x, 364 pages)
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The psychology of art and the evolution of the conscious brain
How did the human brain evolve so that consciousness of art could develop? In The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain, Robert Solso describes how a consciousness that evolved for other purposes perceives and creates art. Drawing on his earlier book Cognition and the Visual Arts and ten years of new findings in cognitive research (as well as new ideas in anthropology and a…
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- 9780262284059
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- 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) :illustrations.
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The prism of grammar :how child language illuminates humanism
"A Bradford book."Exploring the creativity of mind through children's language: how the tiniest utterances can illustrate the simple but abstract principles behind modern grammar--and reveal the innate structures of the mind.Every sentence we hear is instantly analyzed by an inner grammar; just as a prism refracts a beam of light, grammar divides a stream of sound, linking diverse strings of in…
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- 9780262257794
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 355 pages) :illustrations
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