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AI in the wild :sustainability in the age of artificial intelligence
"The first book to analyze the consequences of the political economy of artificial intelligence for global sustainability"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262359573
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Dissidence :the rise of Chinese contemporary art in the West
How the valorization of artistic and political dissidence has contributed to the rise of Chinese contemporary art in the West. Interest in Chinese contemporary art increased dramatically in the West shortly after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Sparked by political sympathy and the mediatized response to the event, Western curators, critics, and art historians were quick to view the new art…
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- 9780262348232
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- 1 online resource (216 pages).
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The Jean Freeman Gallery does not exist
An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project--advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery--that hoodwinked the New York art world. From the summer of 1970 to March 1971, advertisements appeared in four leading art magazines-- Artforum , Art in America , Arts Magazine, and ARTnews --for a group show and six solo exhibitions at the Jean Freeman Gallery at 26…
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- 9780262348102
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- 1 online resource (416 pages).
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Investing in science :social cost-benefit analysis of research infrastructures
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- 9780262355964
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- 1 online resource (400 pages).
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Cyber republic :reinventing democracy in the age of intelligent machines
"Cyber Republic presents a radical framework for rethinking politics and business in a post-work age of human-machine collaboration. It offers an optimistic and democratic roadmap for the future"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236011X
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Gyorgy Kepes :undreaming the Bauhaus
How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites. Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of Lszlo Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthet…
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- 9780262352994
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- 1 online resource (480 pages) :illustrations
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Downtime on the microgrid :architecture, electricity, and smart city islands
Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local. Resilience now matters most, and most resilience is local--even for that most universal, foundational modern resource: the electric power grid. Today that technological marvel is changing more rapidly than it has for a lifetime, and in our new grid awareness, community microgrids have become…
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- 9780262357005
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- 1 online resource (264 pages).
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Interactive task learning :humans, robots, and agents acquiring new tasks thr…
Experts from a range of disciplines explore how humans and artificial agents can quickly learn completely new tasks through natural interactions with each other. Humans are not limited to a fixed set of innate or preprogrammed tasks. We learn quickly through language and other forms of natural interaction, and we improve our performance and teach others what we have learned. Understanding the m…
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- 9780262349420
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- 1 online resource (344 pages) :illustrations.
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The mental life of modernism :why poetry, painting, and music changed at the …
An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one. At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned rhyme and meter; music ceased to be tonally centered; and painting no longer aimed at faithful representation. These artistic developments have been attributed to cultural factors ranging from the Ind…
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- 9780262356947
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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Plastic capitalism :contemporary art and the drive to waste
An argument for the centrality of the visual culture of waste--as seen in works by international contemporary artists--to the study of our ecological condition. Ecological crisis has driven contemporary artists to engage with waste in its most non-biodegradable forms: plastics, e-waste, toxic waste, garbage hermetically sealed in landfills. In this provocative and original book, Amanda Boetzkes…
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- 9780262351188
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- 1 online resource (272 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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