Filter by
Twelve Tomorrows
Twelve visions of the future -- by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant -- from new and established voices in science fiction. In this book, new and established voices in science fiction come together to offer original stories of the future. Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that hijacks our empathy; Elizabeth Bear shows us a smart home tricked into kidnapping its owner; Clifford V.…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262346931
- Collation
- 1 online resource (276 pages).
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels
The ""formidably brilliant"" Zizek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262342520
- Collation
- 1 online resource.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May '68
The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action."Fifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism but quickly expanded to rebellio…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262346795
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 202 pages) :illustration
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Wittgenstein in Exile
Klagge draws on the full range of evidence, including Wittgenstein's published work, correspondence, lectures, and conversations to place Wittgenstein's work in a broad context along a trajectory of thought that includes Job, Goethe, and Dostoyevsky.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262300117
- Collation
- 1 online resource (x, 249 pages) :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content
Hutto and Myin promote the cause of a radically enactive, embodied approach to cognition which holds that some kinds of minds - basic minds - are neither best explained by processes involving the manipulation of contents nor inherently contentful. It opposes the widely endorsed thesis that cognition always and everywhere involves content. The authors defend the counter-thesis that there can be …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0262312174
- Collation
- 1 online resource
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Newsgames: Journalism at Play
Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most online journalism just translates existing practices to the Web: stories are written and edited as they are for print; video and audio features are produced as they would be for television and radio. The authors of Newsgames propose a new way of doing good journalism: videogames. Videogames are native to computers rather…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262289221
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Atari to Zelda: Japan's Videogames in Global Contexts
"In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn't recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting games to play. But since then, fans, media, and the games industry have thought further about the "Japaneseness" of particular games. Game developers try to decide whether a game's Japaneseness is a selling point or stumbling block; critics try to d…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262332187
- Collation
- 1 online resource :illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts
An examination of the transformation of the Japanese diet from subsistence to abundance and an assessment of the consequences for health, longevity, and the environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262305389
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xii, 229 pages) :illustrations.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Re-Emergence: Locating Conscious Properties in a Material World
Revisiting and defending a key doctrine of the once widely accepted school of philosophy known as emergentism, Gerald Vision proposes that conscious states are emergents, although they depend for their exsitence on their material bases.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262298599
- Collation
- 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography