"Ubiquitous computational technologies will define our future, and this book takes the hopeful view that such technologies, properly designed, can enhance rather than diminish human agency. As people co-evolve with our technology, we can develop technological assistance to enhance our decision making and compensate for our biases: personalized medicine, intelligent romance, digital law, hybrid …
"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.
"A reconsideration of the first century, before there were chronological centuries, and how it troubles our contemporary boundaries between religion, philosophy, and law"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Scientists debate the role of scientific research in the military-industrial complex and consider the complicity of academic science in American wars. On March 4, 1969, MIT faculty and students joined together for an extraordinary day of protest. Growing out of the MIT community's anguish over the Vietnam War and concern over the perceived complicity of academic science with the American war ma…
Translated from the German.Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = xn: an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Includes index.How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Sound, tone, music, voice, and noise as forms of sonority through which our current economic and ecological crises can be understood.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq…
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.