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Art power
Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function.…
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- 1 online resource (187, [3] pages)
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Tactical biopolitics :art, activism, and technoscience
'Tactical Biopolitics' suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, science and art are best addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical theorising and reflective practices. The multidisciplinary contributions focus on the political significance of recent advances in biological science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262271127
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 511 pages) :illustrations.
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The allure of machinic life :cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI
"A Bradford Book."This account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life and artificial intelligence analyses both their similarities and their differences in actualising life. The author draws on the work of scientists as well as work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276351
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 461 pages) :illustrations
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The ethics of protocells :moral and social implications of creating life in t…
Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255301
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- 1 online resource (x, 365 pages) :illustrations.
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Big box reuse
What happens to the landscape, to community, and to the population when vacated big box stores are turned into community centers, churches, schools, and libraries? America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box "supercenter" down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leave…
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- 9780262270267
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- 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
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Artificial intelligence :the very idea
"A Bradford book.""Machines who think--how utterly preposterous," huff beleaguered humanists, defending their dwindling turf. "Artificial Intelligence--it's here and about to surpass our own," crow techno-visionaries, proclaiming dominion. It's so simple and obvious, each side maintains, only a fanatic could disagree.Deciding where the truth lies between these two extremes is the main purpose o…
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- 9780262291149
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- 1 online resource (287 pages) :illustrations
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AI in the 1980s and beyond :an MIT survey
Based on a conference held Jan. 21-23, 1986 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Laboratory for Computer Science, and the Seminar Office of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study, all at MIT.AI in the 1980s and Beyond provides an inside report on current applications, trends, and future opportunities in one of the world's majo…
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- 0262256266
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- 1 online resource (374 pages) :illustrations.
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The acquisition of syntactic knowledge
"This landmark work in computational linguistics is of great importance both theoretically and practically because it shows that much of English grammar can be learned by a simple program. The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge investigates the central questions of human and machine cognition: How do people learn language? How can we get a machine to learn language? It first presents an explici…
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- 0585368910
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- 1 online resource (xii, 368 pages) :illustrations.
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Entangled :technology and the transformation of performance
"Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different form: theater scenography, architecture, video and image making, music and sound composition, body-based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive environments constructed for research, festivals, and participatory urban spaces. Salter's exhaustive survey and analysis shows that performance traditions have much to teach other emerging pr…
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- 9780262315104
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- 1 online resource (xxxix, 460 pages) :illustrations
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Artificial life :an overview
"A Bradford book."Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of th…
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- 0585036152
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- 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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