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  • Biology in the Grid

    Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life

    by Phillip Thurtle ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organismsAs one of the most visual sciences, biology has an aesthetic dimension that lends force and persuasion to scientific arguments: how things are arranged on a page, how texts are interspersed with images, and how images are composed reflect deep-seated beliefs about how life exists on Earth. Biology in the Grid traces how our ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Emergence of Genetic Rationality

    Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920

    by Phillip Thurtle ...
    Series series In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
    The emergence of genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. Indeed, it is difficult now to consider nearly any facet of human experience without first considering the gene. But this mode of understanding life is not, of course, transhistorical. Phillip Thurtle takes us back to the moment just before the emergence of genetic rationality at the turn of the twentieth century to ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Semiotic Flesh

    Information and the Human Body

    Edited by Phillip Thurtle, Robert E. Mitchell ...
    For much of the 20th century, an apparently solid conceptual wall allowed us to separate information and bodies. Information is that which exists between elements; bodies are the elements themselves. One is abstract the other corporeal. One is intricately involved in signs and syntax, the other in cells and organs. Yet in the last few decades, it has become increasingly clear that this conceptual ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Data Made Flesh

    Embodying Information

    Edited by Robert Mitchell, Phillip Thurtle ...
    In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. Data**Made Flesh is the first collection to address the increasingly important links between information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely tempted, in the words of Donna Haraway, "to be raptured out of the bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Stylish Academic Writing

    by Helen Sword ...
    Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write. ... Read more

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  • Sonic Warfare

    Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

    by Steve Goodman ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Vital Illusion

    by Jean Baudrillard ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Aren't we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard challenges us to face up to our deadly, technologically empowered renunciation of mortality and subjectivity as he grapples with the complex issues that define our postmillennial world. What does the advent and proliferation of cloning mean for our ... Read more

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  • Virality

    Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks

    by Tony D. Sampson ...
    In this thought-provoking work, Tony D. Sampson presents a contagion theory fit for the age of networks. Unlike memes and microbial contagions, Virality does not restrict itself to biological analogies and medical metaphors. It instead points toward a theory of contagious assemblages, events, and affects. For Sampson, contagion is not necessarily a positive or negative force of encounter; it is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Visual Literacy

    Edited by James Elkins ...
    What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or in developing nations? If we all need to become "visually literate," what does that mean in practical terms? The essays gathered here examine a host of issues surrounding "the visual," exploring national and regional ideas of visuality and charting out new territories of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Materializing New Media

    Embodiment in Information Aesthetics

    by Anna Munster ...
    In Materializing New Media, Anna Munster offers an alternative aesthetic genealogy for digital culture. Eschewing the prevailing Cartesian aesthetic that aligns the digital with the disembodied, the formless, and the placeless, Munster seeks to “materialize” digital culture by demonstrating that its aesthetics have reconfigured bodily experience and reconceived materiality. Her topics range from ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Blank Slate

    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --TimeFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize**Updated with a new afterwordOne of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, ... Read more

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  • The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

    How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

    by Steven Novella, Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella ...
    An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction."It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD