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The digital dialectic: new essays on new media
The Digital Diolectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. …
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- 9780262278645
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 298 pages) :illustrations.
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Digital mantras: the languages of abstract and virtual worlds
Holtzman synthesizes ideas from music, computing, art, and philosophy with biographical and historical anecdotes and a thread of mysticism to arrive at a new philosophy of creativity for the digital age.
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- 0262291169
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- 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Analytical methods for dynamics modelers
"Simulation modeling is increasingly integrated into research and policy analysis of complex sociotechnical systems in a variety of domains. Model-based analysis and policy design inform a range of applications in fields from economics to engineering to health care. This book offers a hands-on introduction to key analytical methods for dynamic modeling. Bringing together tools and methodologies…
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- 0262331446
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 416 pages) :illustrations
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A case for climate engineering
A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming."Climate engineering -- which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere -- has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries unknown risks and it may undermine comm…
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- 9781461943839
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 194 pages).
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Interface
In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes, is at once ubiquitous and hidden from view. It is both the bottleneck through which our relationship to technology must pass and a productive encounter embedded within the use of technology. It is a site of contestation -- between human and mach…
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Re-reasoning ethics :the rationality of deliberation and judgment in ethics
How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345637
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages).
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Efficient cognition :the evolution of representational decision making
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345262
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Managing equity portfolios : a behavioural approach to improving skills and i…
A groundbreaking framework for improving portfolio performance that goes beyond traditional analytics, offering new ways to understand investment skills, process, and behaviors.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262323017
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) :illustrations
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A History of Chilean Literature
This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnational, hemispheric, and global approaches to Chilean literature, it reflects the relevance of themes such as neoliberalism, migration and exile, as well as subfields like ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies. It showcases the diversity of …
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- 9781108766616
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Hanan al-cinema : affections for the moving image
An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers' creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262331074
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- 1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) :illustrations.
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