"A much-needed synthesis of active inference, a theory of mind that addresses cognition, behavior, intelligence, & mental disorders and which can be extended to explain behavior in all living systems"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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How the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics--paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism. In Think Tank Aesthetics , Pamela Lee traces the complex encounters between Cold War think tanks and the art of that era. Lee shows how the approaches and methods of think tanks--including systems theory, operations research,…
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong . Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or i…
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…
"How the idea of monstrosity, as "other" in critical research, was central to nineteenth-century scientific understandings of "natural" or "normal" biology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
In ' Liquidation World', Alexi Kukuljevic examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the darkly humorous and utterly disoriented subject of modernity, a dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an object of its absence. Shorn of the truly rotten illusion that the world is a fulfilling and meaningful place, these subjects identify themselves by a…
"Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic experience enabled by these new media works can open up new perspectives for our understanding of art and media ali…
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.
How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism-Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri-advanced specific versions of modernism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.