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Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
Jack Linchuan Qiu, Manuel Castells, Carolyn Cartier
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• Author(s): Jack Linchuan Qiu | Manuel Castells | Carolyn Cartier • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyAn examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has...
View full detailsKnowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education
Lawrence Busch
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• Author(s): Lawrence Busch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherHow free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on...
View full detailsEmbodiment, Enaction, and Culture: Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World
Christoph Durt, Thomas Fuchs, Christian Tewes
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• Author(s): Christoph Durt | Thomas Fuchs | Christian Tewes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive ScienceThe first interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural context of enactive embodiment, offering perspe...
View full detailsDisease Eradication in the 21st Century: Implications for Global Health
Stephen L. Cochi, Walter R. Dowdle
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• Author(s): Stephen L. Cochi | Walter R. Dowdle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryExperts explore the biological, social, and economic complexities of eradicating disease. Disease eradication repr...
View full detailsBiological Foundations and Origin of Syntax
Derek Bickerton, Eors Szathmary
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• Author(s): Derek Bickerton | Eors Szathmary • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralInterdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing current research on sy...
View full detailsResponsible Brains: Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability
William Hirstein, Katrina L. Sifferd, Tyler K. Fagan
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• Author(s): William Hirstein | Katrina L. Sifferd | Tyler K. Fagan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAn examination of the relationship between the brain and culpability that offer...
View full detailsPathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families
James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, Rima Salah
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• Author(s): James F. Leckman | Catherine Panter-Brick | Rima Salah • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Developmental - ChildExperts investigate the role of child development in promoting a culture of peace, reporting o...
View full detailsPerception Beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes
Liliana Albertazzi, Gert J. Van Tonder, Dhanraj Vishwanath
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• Author(s): Liliana Albertazzi | Gert J. Van Tonder | Dhanraj Vishwanath • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionProposing a new paradigm for perceptual science that goes beyond standard...
View full detailsClassifying Psychopathology: Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
Harold Kincaid, Jacqueline A. Sullivan
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• Author(s): Harold Kincaid | Jacqueline A. Sullivan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralScholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagn...
View full detailsRe-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics
Barry Hoffmaster, Cliff Hooker
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• Author(s): Barry Hoffmaster | Cliff Hooker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyHow developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of hu...
View full detailsRemarks on the Phonological Evolution of Russian in Comparison with the Other Slavic Languages
Roman Jakobson, Ronald F. Feldstein
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• Author(s): Roman Jakobson | Ronald F. Feldstein • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThe first English translation of a classic and groundbreaking work in historical phonology. Th...
View full detailsAgrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future
Karl S. Zimmerer, Stef de Haan
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• Author(s): Karl S. Zimmerer | Stef de Haan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Biological DiversityExperts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines tha...
View full detailsThe Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities, and Clouds
Christian Ulrik Andersen, Soren Bro Pold
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• Author(s): Christian Ulrik Andersen | Soren Bro Pold • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: DigitalHow the interface has moved from the PC into cultural platforms, as seen in a series of works of net art, software art an...
View full detailsEcstatic Worlds: Media, Utopias, Ecologies
Janine Marchessault
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• Author(s): Janine Marchessault • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Film & VideoWhen media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's "Family of Man," Jacques C...
View full detailsThe Systemic Image: A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations
Inge Hinterwaldner
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• Author(s): Inge Hinterwaldner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social Aspects - Human-Computer InteractionA new conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in real-time simulations tha...
View full detailsBeyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
James Tabery
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• Author(s): James Tabery • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryWhy the "nature versus nurture" debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture. If ...
View full detailsPerspectives on Defense Systems Analysis
William P. Delaney, Robert G. Atkins, Alan D. Bernard
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• Author(s): William P. Delaney | Robert G. Atkins | Alan D. Bernard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)A guide to defense systems analysis by experts who have worked on systems that range from air...
View full detailsDolphin Communication and Cognition: Past, Present, and Future
Denise L. Herzing, Christine M. Johnson
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• Author(s): Denise L. Herzing | Christine M. Johnson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Marine BiologyExperts survey the latest research on dolphin communication and cognition, offering a comprehensive...
View full detailsFragile Rise: Grand Strategy and the Fate of Imperial Germany, 1871-1914
Xu Qiyu, Graham Allison, Joshua Hill
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• Author(s): Xu Qiyu | Graham Allison | Joshua Hill • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralGermany's rise to power before World War I from a Chinese persective, and the geopolitical lessons...
View full detailsWhat's Left of Human Nature?: A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
Maria Kronfeldner
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• Author(s): Maria Kronfeldner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyA philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. Huma...
View full detailsAuthors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity
James Meese
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• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...
View full detailsNetworked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear
Mike Ananny
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• Author(s): Mike Ananny • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: JournalismReimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear. In Networked Press Freedom, ...
View full detailsDigital Signatures: The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound
Ragnhild Brøvig, Anne Danielsen
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• Author(s): Ragnhild Brøvig | Anne Danielsen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Recording & ReproductionHow sonically distinctive digital "signatures"--including reverb, glitches, and autotuning--affect the aesthe...
View full detailsAlien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making
Chris Salter, Andrew Pickering
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• Author(s): Chris Salter | Andrew Pickering • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - GeneralAn investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways...
View full detailsThe Empire of Value: A New Foundation for Economics
Andre Orlean, M. B. Debevoise
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• Author(s): Andre Orlean | M. B. Debevoise • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsAn argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful the...
View full detailsBiological Learning and Control: How the Brain Builds Representations, Predicts Events, and Makes Decisions
Reza Shadmehr, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi
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• Author(s): Reza Shadmehr | Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceA novel theoretical framework that describes a possible rationale for the regularity in how we move, how we learn, and how...
View full detailsBorges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Juan Pablo Fernandez, Maria Kodama
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• Author(s): Rodrigo Quian Quiroga | Juan Pablo Fernandez | Maria Kodama • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceA scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who c...
View full detailsArguments That Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012
Rebecca Slayton
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• Author(s): Rebecca Slayton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Military ScienceHow differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense. In a rapidly c...
View full detailsAdvanced Manufacturing: The New American Innovation Policies
William B. Bonvillian, Peter L. Singer
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• Author(s): William B. Bonvillian | Peter L. Singer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyHow to rethink innovation and revitalize America's declining manufacturing sector b...
View full detailsPrinciples of Brain Dynamics: Global State Interactions
Mikhail I. Rabinovich, Karl J. Friston, Pablo Varona
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• Author(s): Mikhail I. Rabinovich | Karl J. Friston | Pablo Varona • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceExperimental and theoretical approaches to global brain dynamics that draw on the latest research in th...
View full detailsHello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
B. Coleman, Clay Shirky
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• Author(s): B. Coleman | Clay Shirky • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Virtual WorldsAn examination of our many modes of online identity and how we live on the continuum between the virtual and the real. Hello Avatar...
View full detailsV01ce: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media
Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson, Theo Van Leeuwen
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• Author(s): Norie Neumark | Ross Gibson | Theo Van Leeuwen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesPerspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance ...
View full detailsWaste Is Information: Infrastructure Legibility and Governance
Dietmar Offenhuber, Carlo Ratti
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• Author(s): Dietmar Offenhuber | Carlo Ratti • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsThe relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three...
View full detailsVisual Phenomenology
Michael Madary
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• Author(s): Michael Madary • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - PhenomenologyPhenomenological and empirical methods of investigating visual experience converge to support the thesis that visual perception is...
View full detailsPerspectives in Space Surveillance
Ramaswamy Sridharan, Antonio F. Pensa
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• Author(s): Ramaswamy Sridharan | Antonio F. Pensa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Aeronautics & AstronauticsThe development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveil...
View full detailsPerturbations, Optimization, and Statistics
Tamir Hazan, George Papandreou, Daniel Tarlow
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• Author(s): Tamir Hazan | George Papandreou | Daniel Tarlow • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA description of perturbation-based methods developed in machine learning to augment nove...
View full detailsPaper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929
Markus Krajewski, Peter Krapp
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• Author(s): Markus Krajewski | Peter Krapp • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Cataloging & ClassificationWhy the card catalog--a "paper machine" with rearrangeable elements--can...
View full detailsPhonology: A Formal Introduction
Alan Bale, Charles Reiss
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• Author(s): Alan Bale | Charles Reiss • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyAn introduction to generative phonology using tools of basic set theory, logic, and combinatorics. This t...
View full detailsToward a Comparative Institutional Analysis
Masahiko Aoki
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• Author(s): Masahiko Aoki • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralA conceptual and analytical framework for understanding economic institutions and institutional change. Markets are one of the most salie...
View full detailsPicturing Machines 1400-1700
Wolfgang LeFevre
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• Author(s): Wolfgang LeFevre • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow technical drawings shaped early engineering practice. Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a rang...
View full detailsThe Expressive Moment: How Interaction (with Music) Shapes Human Empowerment
Marc Leman
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• Author(s): Marc Leman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsA new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective processes underlying interactions ...
View full detailsThe Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature
Benjamin Hale
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• Author(s): Benjamin Hale • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)A brief foray into a moral thicket, exploring why we should protect nature despite tsunamis, malar...
View full detailsThe War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
Elizabeth Losh
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Losh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherAn examination of technology-based education initiatives--from MOOCs to virtual worlds--that argues against treating education as ...
View full detailsRobert Ryman: Used Paint
Suzanne P. Hudson
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• Author(s): Suzanne P. Hudson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralThis first book-length study of Robert Ryman argues that his work is a continuous experiment in the possibilities of paintin...
View full detailsSport 2.0: Transforming Sports for a Digital World
Andy Miah
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• Author(s): Andy Miah • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesRamifications of the convergence of sports and digital technology, from athlete and spectator experience to the role of media innovation at the Oly...
View full detailsMental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past
Kourken Michaelian
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• Author(s): Kourken Michaelian • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionDrawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past. In thi...
View full detailsBuilding and Interpreting Possession Sentences
Neil Myler
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• Author(s): Neil Myler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A...
View full detailsThe Bodily Self: Selected Essays
Jose Luis Bermudez
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• Author(s): Jose Luis Bermudez • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionEssays on the role of the body in self-consciousness, showing that full-fledged, linguistic self-consciousness is b...
View full detailsImmunological Bioinformatics
Ole Lund, Morten Nielsen, Claus Lundegaard
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• Author(s): Ole Lund | Morten Nielsen | Claus Lundegaard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ImmunologyUsing bioinformatics methods to generate a systems-level view of the immune system; description of the main biologi...
View full detailsMaking Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
Josh A. Lerner
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• Author(s): Josh A. Lerner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileDrawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy. Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that ...
View full detailsBits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works
Mark Stuart Day, C. A. Jennings
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• Author(s): Mark Stuart Day | C. A. Jennings • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceAn accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and ot...
View full detailsUnder Blue Cup
Rosalind E. Krauss
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• Author(s): Rosalind E. Krauss • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryA personal journey leads a celebrated critic to discover "knights of the medium," contemporary artists who battle the aesthetic m...
View full detailsCarnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography
Susanna Paasonen
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• Author(s): Susanna Paasonen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EmotionsAn exploration of the modalities, affective intensities, and disturbing qualities of online pornography. Digital production tools and online netw...
View full detailsOpen Space: The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data
Mariel Borowitz
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• Author(s): Mariel Borowitz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsAn examination of environmental satellite data sharing policies, offering a model of data-sharing policy development, case and practical rec...
View full detailsMindmade Politics: The Cognitive Roots of International Climate Governance
Manjana Milkoreit
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• Author(s): Manjana Milkoreit • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive ScienceHow integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into the effectiveness of climat...
View full detailsTechnically Together: Reconstructing Community in a Networked World
Taylor Dotson
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• Author(s): Taylor Dotson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyWhy we should not accept "networked individualism" as the inevitable future of community. If social interaction by social media has be...
View full detailsMoving Without a Body: Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts
Stamatia Portanova
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• Author(s): Stamatia Portanova • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: DigitalA radically empirical exploration of movement and technology and the transformations of choreography in a digital realm. Digital technologies of...
View full detailsDebugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon
Henry Lowood, Raiford Guins
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• Author(s): Henry Lowood | Raiford Guins • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileEssays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies ...
View full detailsDivine Games: Game Theory and the Undecidability of a Superior Being
Steven J. Brams
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• Author(s): Steven J. Brams • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Game TheoryA game-theoretical analysis of interactions between a human being and an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being highlights the inherent unknow...
View full detailsHallucination: Philosophy and Psychology
Fiona MacPherson, Dimitris Platchias
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• Author(s): Fiona MacPherson | Dimitris Platchias • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyScientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, n...
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