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Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Handby Malcolm McCulloughISBN 0262133261 (0-262-13326-1)
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At a Distance: Precursors to Art And Activism on the Internetby Annmarie Chandler, Norie NeurmarkISBN 0262532859 (0-262-53285-9)
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Beyond Mechanization: Work and Technology in a Postindustrial Ageby Larry HirschhornISBN 0262580810 (0-262-58081-0)
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Building Construction Before Mechanizationby John FitchenISBN 026256047X (0-262-56047-X)
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Building the Nineteenth Centuryby Tom F. PetersISBN 0262161605 (0-262-16160-5)
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Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modelingby Tommaso ToffoliISBN 0262200600 (0-262-20060-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling'Book summary:Recently, cellular automata machines with the size, speed, and flexibility for general experimentation at a moderate cost have become available to the scientific community. These machines provide a laboratory in which the ideas presented in this book can be tested and applied to the synthesis of a great variety of systems. Computer scientists and researchers interested in modeling and simulation as well as other scientists who do mathematical modeling will find this introduction to cellular automata and cellular automata machines (CAM) both useful and timely.Cellular automata are the computer scientist's counterpart to the physicist's concept of 'field' They provide natural models for many investigations in physics, combinatorial mathematics, and computer science that deal with systems extended in space and evolving in time according to local laws. A cellular automata machine is a computer optimized for the simulation of cellular automata. Its dedicated architecture allows it to run thousands of times faster than a general-purpose computer of comparable cost programmed to do the same task. In practical terms this permits intensive interactive experimentation and opens up new fields of research in distributed dynamics, including practical applications involving parallel computation and image processing.Contents: Introduction. Cellular Automata. The CAM Environment. A Live Demo. The Rules of the Game. Our First rules. Second-order Dynamics. The Laboratory. Neighbors and Neighborhood. Running. Particle Motion. The Margolus Neighborhood. Noisy Neighbors. Display and Analysis. Physical Modeling. Reversibility. Computing Machinery. Hydrodynamics. Statistical Mechanics. Other Applications. Imaging Processing. Rotations. Pattern Recognition. Multiple CAMS. Perspectives and Conclusions.Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus are researchers at the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT. Cellular Automata Machines is included in the Scientific Computation Series, edited by Dennis Cannon.
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Changing Minds: Comuters, Learning, and Literacyby Andrea A. DisessaISBN 0262541327 (0-262-54132-7)
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Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Ageby Phyllis Dain, Redmond Kathleen MolzISBN 0262133466 (0-262-13346-6)
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The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War Americaby Paul N. EdwardsISBN 0262550288 (0-262-55028-8)
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Code: Collaborative Ownership And the Digital Economyby Rishab Aiyer GhoshISBN 0262572362 (0-262-57236-2)
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The Copyright Book: A Practical Guideby William S. StrongISBN 0262194198 (0-262-19419-8)
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The Culture of Technologyby Arnold PaceyISBN 0262160935 (0-262-16093-5)
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Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fictionby Patricia S. WarrickISBN 026223100X (0-262-23100-X)
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Cybernetics Groupby Steve Joshua HeimsISBN 0262082004 (0-262-08200-4)
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Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing And Seeing by Technical Meansby Siegfried Zielinski, Timothy Druckrey, Gloria CustanceISBN 0262240491 (0-262-24049-1)
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The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?by Benjamin M. CompaineISBN 0262531933 (0-262-53193-3)
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Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowingby Malcolm McCulloughISBN 0262134357 (0-262-13435-7)
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Digital Librariesby William Y. ArmsISBN 0262511274 (0-262-51127-4)
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Digital Mantras: The Languages of Abstract and Virtual Worldsby Steven R. HoltzmanISBN 0262581434 (0-262-58143-4)
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Digitizing The News: Innovation In Online Newspapersby Pablo J. BoczkowskiISBN 0262524392 (0-262-52439-2)
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The Economics of Industrial Innovationby Christopher Freeman, Luc SoeteISBN 0262561131 (0-262-56113-1)
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Eloquent Images: Word And Image in the Age of New Mediaby Mary E. Hocks, Michelle R. KendrickISBN 0262582619 (0-262-58261-9)
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Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Imageby Felice FrankelISBN 0262562057 (0-262-56205-7)
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First Person: New Media As Story, Performance, and Gameby Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat HarriganISBN 0262232324 (0-262-23232-4)
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From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked Worldby Christine L. BorgmanISBN 0262523450 (0-262-52345-0)
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A History of Western Technologyby Fredrich KlemmISBN 0262610019 (0-262-61001-9)
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Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Futureby Joseph J. CornISBN 0262530767 (0-262-53076-7)
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Immersed in Technology : Art and Virtual Environmentsby Mary A. Moser, Douglas MacLeodISBN 0262133148 (0-262-13314-8)
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Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technologyby Stephen WilsonISBN 026223209X (0-262-23209-X)
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Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphorsby Mark StefikISBN 0262193736 (0-262-19373-6)
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Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows Itby Victor Frederick WeisskopfISBN 0262230984 (0-262-23098-4)
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The Languages of Edison's Lightby Charles BazermanISBN 0262523264 (0-262-52326-4)
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Libraries of the Futureby J. C. R. LickliderISBN 026212016X (0-262-12016-X)
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Managing the Flow of Technology : Technology Transfer and the Dissemination of Technological Information Within the R and D Organizationby Thomas J. AllenISBN 0262510278 (0-262-51027-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Managing the Flow of Technology : Technology Transfer and the Dissemination of Technological Information Within the R and D Organization'Book summary:The original edition of this book summarized more than a decade of work on communications flow in science and engineering organizations, showing how human and organizational systems could be restructured to bring about improved productivity and better person-to-person contact. While many studies have been done since then, few of them invalidate the general conclusions and recommendations Allen offers. In a new preface he points out - new developments, noting areas that need some modification, elaboration, or extension, and directing readers to the appropriate journal articles where the findings, are reported.The first three chapters provide an overview of the communication system in technology, present the author's research methods, and describe differences in the career paths and goals of engineers and scientists that cause special problems for organizations. The book then discusses how technological information is acquired by the R & D organization, shows how critical technical communication within the laboratory is for R & D performance, and originates the idea of the "gatekeeper," the person who links his or her organization to the world at large. Concluding chapters take up the influence of formal and informal organization and of architecture and office layouts on communication. Many of these ideas have been successfully incorporated by architects and managers in the design of new R & D facilities and complexes.Thomas J. Allen is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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Memory Practices in the Sciencesby Geoffrey C. BowkerISBN 0262025892 (0-262-02589-2)
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Metacreations: Art and Artificial Lifeby Mitchell WhitelawISBN 0262232340 (0-262-23234-0)
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Mexican Modernity: The Avant-garde And The Technological Revolutionby Ruben GalloISBN 0262072645 (0-262-07264-5)
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Modernity and Technologyby Andrew Feenberg, Thomas J. Misa, Philip BreyISBN 0262134217 (0-262-13421-7)
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Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundanceby Bc Crandall, B. C. RandallISBN 0262531372 (0-262-53137-2)
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New Media, 1740v1915by Lisa Gitelman, Geoffrey B. PingreeISBN 0262572281 (0-262-57228-1)
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Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imaginationby Rosalind WilliamsISBN 026223145X (0-262-23145-X)
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Nuclear Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Technologyby Richard WolfsonISBN 0262231581 (0-262-23158-1)
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Of Bicycles, Bakelites and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Changeby Wiebe E. BijkerISBN 0262522276 (0-262-52227-6)
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The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiencyby Robert KanigelISBN 0262612062 (0-262-61206-2)
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Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition Foundationsby David E. RumelhartISBN 0262181207 (0-262-18120-7)
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Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition Psychological and Biological Modelsby David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClellandISBN 0262132184 (0-262-13218-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition Psychological and Biological Models'Book summary:This two-volume work is now considered a classic in the field. It presents the results of the Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) group's work in the early 1980s and provides a good overview of the earlier neural network research. The PDP approach (also known as connectionism among other things) is based on the conviction that various aspects of cognitive activity are thought of in terms of massively parallel processing. The first volume starts with the general framework and continues with an analysis of learning mechanisms and various mathematical and computational tools important in the analysis of neural networks. The chapter on backpropagation is written by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams, who codiscovered the algorithm in 1986. The second volume is written with a psychological and biological emphasis. It explores the relationship of PDP to various aspects of human cognition. The book is a comprehensive research survey of its time and most of the book's results and methods are still at the foundation of the neural network field. [via]
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Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Lifeby Mizuko Ito, Misa Matsuda, Daisuke OkabeISBN 0262090392 (0-262-09039-2)
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Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Lawby Kenneth R. Foster, David E. Bernstein, Peter W. HuberISBN 0262061562 (0-262-06156-2)
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A Primer of Visual Literacyby Donis A. DondisISBN 0262540290 (0-262-54029-0)
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Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryptionby Whitfield Diffie, Susan LandauISBN 0262042401 (0-262-04240-1)
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Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralizationby Alexander R. GallowayISBN 0262572338 (0-262-57233-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization'Book summary:Is the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections (and disconnections) possible. He does this by treating the computer as a textual medium that is based on a technological language, code. Code, he argues, can be subject to the same kind of cultural and literary analysis as any natural language; computer languages have their own syntax, grammar, communities, and cultures. Instead of relying on established theoretical approaches, Galloway finds a new way to write about digital media, drawing on his backgrounds in computer programming and critical theory. "Discipline-hopping is a necessity when it comes to complicated socio-technical topics like protocol," he writes in the preface.Galloway begins by examining the types of protocols that exist, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTML. He then looks at examples of resistance and subversion -- hackers, viruses, cyberfeminism, Internet art -- which he views as emblematic of the larger transformations now taking place within digital culture. Written for a nontechnical audience, Protocol serves as a necessary counterpoint to the wildly utopian visions of the Net that were so widespread in earlier days.
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The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Eraby William J. MitchellISBN 0262132869 (0-262-13286-9)
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Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics Of Transitionby Henry Jenkins, David Thorburn, Brad SeawellISBN 0262201461 (0-262-20146-1)
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Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology: Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfersby Stephen Doheny-FarinaISBN 0262041294 (0-262-04129-4)
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The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internetby Ken GoldbergISBN 0262571544 (0-262-57154-4)
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Russian Strategic Nuclear Forcesby P. L. Podvig, Oleg BukharinISBN 0262162024 (0-262-16202-4)
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Scheme and the Art of Programmingby Daniel P. Friedman, George SpringerISBN 0262192888 (0-262-19288-8)
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The Sciences of the Artificialby Herbert A. SimonISBN 0262193744 (0-262-19374-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sciences of the Artificial'Book summary:Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools -- chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms -- for analyzing complexity and complex systems.There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important advances in cognitive psychology and the science of design while confirming and extending the book's basic thesis: that a physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action. The chapter "Economic Reality" has also been revised to reflect a change in emphasis in Simon's thinking about the respective roles of organizations and markets in economic systems.
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Scientists against Timeby James Phinney BaxterISBN 0262520125 (0-262-52012-5)
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Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Socio-Technical Changeby Wiebe E. Bijker, John LawISBN 0262521946 (0-262-52194-6)
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The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technologyby Thomas P. Hughes, Wiebe E. Bijker, Trevor F. PinchISBN 0262521377 (0-262-52137-7)
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The Social Function of Scienceby J.D. BernalISBN 0262520060 (0-262-52006-0)
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequencesby Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh StarISBN 0262522950 (0-262-52295-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences'Book summary:Is this book sociology, anthropology, or taxonomy? Sorting Things Out, by communications theorists Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, covers a lot of conceptual ground in its effort to sort out exactly how and why we classify and categorize the things and concepts we encounter day to day. But the analysis doesn't stop there; the authors go on to explore what happens to our thinking as a result of our classifications. With great insight and precise academic language, they pick apart our information systems and language structures that lie deeper than the everyday categories we use. The authors focus first on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a widely used scheme used by health professionals worldwide, but also look at other health information systems, racial classifications used by South Africa during apartheid, and more.
Though it comes off as a bit too academic at times (by the end of the 20th century, most writers should be able to get the spelling of McDonald's restaurant right), the book has a clever charm that thoughtful readers will surely appreciate. A sly sense of humor sneaks into the writing, giving rise to the chapter title "The Kindness of Strangers," for example. After arguing that categorization is both strongly influenced by and a powerful reinforcer of ideology, it follows that revolutions (political or scientific) must change the way things are sorted in order to throw over the old system. Who knew that such simple, basic elements of thought could have such far-reaching consequences? Whether you ultimately place it with social science, linguistics, or (as the authors fear) fantasy, make sure you put Sorting Things Out in your reading pile. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programsby Harold Abelson, Julie Sussman, Gerald Jay SussmanISBN 0262510871 (0-262-51087-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs'Book summary:Abelson and Sussman's classic Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs teaches readers how to program by employing the tools of abstraction and modularity. The authors' central philosophy is that programming is the task of breaking large problems into small ones. The book spends a great deal of time considering both this decomposition and the process of knitting the smaller pieces back together.
The authors employ this philosophy in their writing technique. The text asks the broad question "What is programming?" Having come to the conclusion that programming consists of procedures and data, the authors set off to explore the related questions of "What is data?" and "What is a procedure?"
The authors build up the simple notion of a procedure to dizzying complexity. The discussion culminates in the description of the code behind the programming language Scheme. The authors finish with examples of how to implement some of the book's concepts on a register machine. Through this journey, the reader not only learns how to program, but also how to think about programming. [via]
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Supercade: A Visual History of the Videograme Age 1971-1984by Van Burnham, Ralph H. BaerISBN 0262524201 (0-262-52420-1)
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Technobabbleby John A. BarryISBN 0262521822 (0-262-52182-2)
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Technology and Privacy: The New Landscapeby Marc Rotenberg, Philip E. Agre, Philip AgreISBN 0262511010 (0-262-51101-0)
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Technology And Social Inclusion: Rethinking The Digital Divideby Mark WarschauerISBN 0262232243 (0-262-23224-3)
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Technology As Experienceby Peter Wright, John McCarthyISBN 0262134470 (0-262-13447-0)
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Technology Matters: Questions to Live Withby David E. NyeISBN 0262140934 (0-262-14093-4)
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Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the Realby Richard CoyneISBN 0262531917 (0-262-53191-7)
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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworldsby Mitchel ResnickISBN 0262181622 (0-262-18162-2)
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Utopian Entrepreneurby Brenda LaurelISBN 0262621533 (0-262-62153-3)
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What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reasonby Hubert L. DreyfusISBN 0262540673 (0-262-54067-3)
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Writing Machinesby N. Katherine Hayles, Anne BurdickISBN 0262582155 (0-262-58215-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Machines'Book summary:Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of print to the dynamic images of CRT screens, from verbal texts to the diverse sensory modalities of multimedia works, from books to technotexts.Weaving together Kaye's pseudo-autobiographical narrative with a theorization of contemporary literature in media-specific terms, Hayles examines the ways in which literary texts in every genre and period mutate as they are reconceived and rewritten for electronic formats. As electronic documents become more pervasive, print appears not as the sea in which we swim, transparent because we are so accustomed to its conventions, but rather as a medium with its own assumptions, specificities, and inscription practices. Hayles explores works that focus on the very inscription technologies that produce them, examining three writing machines in depth: Talan Memmott's groundbreaking electronic work Lexia to Perplexia, Mark Z. Danielewski's cult postprint novel House of Leaves, and Tom Phillips's artist's book A Humument. Hayles concludes by speculating on how technotexts affect the development of contemporary subjectivity.Writing Machines is the second volume in the Mediawork Pamphlets series.
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