Search results for “[Subject: infinity]”

• Author(s): Will Kinney • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyWhat happened before the primordial fire of the Big Bang: a theory about the ultimate origin of the universe. In the beginning was th...

• Author(s): Laura U. Marks • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralTracing the connections--both visual and philosophical--between new media art and classical Islamic art.In both classical Is...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Christof Koch • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceA thought-provoking argument that consciousness--more widespread than previously assumed--is the ...

• 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...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Joel Fineman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralJoel Fineman was considered one of the most brilliant literary critics of his generation, gifted in doing what the Russian formalists called making st...

• Author(s): Mark Wolverton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsThe riveting story of a modern age scientific feud between two Nobel Prize-winning scientists over the nature of cosmic rays and the ...

• Author(s): Aron Vinegar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsA theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions. Subj...

• Author(s): Roderic A. Grupen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA comprehensive introduction to the mathematical foundations of movement and actuation that apply equally to animals an...

• Author(s): Braxton Soderman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileA critical discussion of the experience and theory of flow (as conceptualized by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) in video games. Flow--as conc...