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The art of agent-oriented modeling / The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling
A new approach for conceptualizing and modeling multi-agent systems that consist of people, devices, and software agents.
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- 1 online resource (xix, 367 pages) :
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Understanding the art of sound organization / the Art of Sound Organization
The first work to propose a comprehensive musicological framework to study sound-based music, a rapidly developing body of work that includes electroacoustic art music, turntable composition, and acoustic and digital sound installations.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages)
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Cinematic mythmaking : Philosophy in Film
Mythic themes and philosophical probing in film as an art form, as seen in works of Preston Sturges, Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kubrick, and various other filmmakers. Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythology are both larger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world, and they tell us a good story. Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and…
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- 1 online resource (x, 245 pages).
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Semblance and event : Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
An investigation of the "occurrent arts" through the concepts of the "semblance" and "lived abstraction."
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Relationscapes : Movement, Art, Philosophy
Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and the new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement, developing the concept of preacceleration which makes palpable how movement creates relational intervals out of which displacements take form.
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Things and places :
Problems in linking representation and perceived things in the world are discussed in light of the role played by a preconceptual indexing mechanism that functions to identify, reidentify, and track objects.
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : illustrations.
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Critical play : Radical Game Design
An examination of subversive games-games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.
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Embodied music cognition and mediation technology / Music Cognition and Media…
"Digital media handle music as encoded physical energy, but humans consider music in terms of beliefs, intentions, interpretations, experiences, evaluations, and significations. In this book, drawing on work in computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology, Marc Leman proposes an embodied cognition approach to music research that will help bridge this gap. Assuming that the body p…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : illustrations, music
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Time and realism : Metaphysical and Antimetaphysical Perspectives
A new view of the metaphysics of time, arguing that the traditional tensed-tenseless debate within analytic philosophy should be seen as the first stage in a philosophical investigation of time, and that the next stage belongs to phenomenology.
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Far-fetched facts : A Parable of Development Aid
This is a fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, international experts and local managers.
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