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Drawing on this history of bird writing, in Aaaaw to Zzzzzd John Bevis offers a
lexicon of the words of birds. For tourists in Birdland, there could be no more
charming phrasebook.
Consulting it, we find seven distinct variations of “hoo” attributed to
seven different species of owls, from a simple hoo to the more ambitious
hoo hoo hoo-hoo, ho hoo hoo-hoo; the understated cheet of the tree swallow;
the resonant kreeaaaaaaaaaaar of the Swainson’s hawk; the modest
peep peep peep of the meadow pipit. We learn that some people hear the
Baltimore oriole saying “here, here, come right here, dear” and the yel-
lowhammer saying “a little bit of bread and no cheese.”
Bevis, a poet, frames his lexicons — one for North America and one
for Britain and northern Europe — with an evocative appreciation of
birds, birdsong, and human attempts to capture the words of birds in
music and poetry. He also offers an engaging account of other methods of
documenting birdsong — field recording, graphic notation, and mechan-
ical devices including duck calls and the serinette, an instrument used to
teach song tunes to songbirds.
The singing of birds is nature at its most sublime, and words are our
medium for expressing this sublimity. Aaaaw to Zzzzzd belongs in the
bird lover’s backpack and on the word lover’s bedside table, an unexpected
and sui generis pleasure.
John Bevis is a writer, poet, and book artist living in London.
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NONOBJECT
Branko Lukic with text by Barry M. Katz
foreword by Bill Moggridge
What happens when designers
think beyond the object to The “objective” world is one of facts, data, and actuality. The world of the
create positive, unexpected “nonobject” is about perception, experience, and possibility. In this highly original
design experiences. and visually extravagant book, Branko Lukic (an award-winning designer) and
Barry Katz (an authority on the history and philosophy of design) imagine what
October would happen if design started not from the object but from the space between
8 x 10, 240 pp. people and the objects they use. The “nonobject,” they explain, is the designer’s
82 illus., color throughout
personal experiment to explore our relation to the observable world.
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth So they show us an umbrella that puts us in a harmonious relationship with
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nature by sending falling rain rushing through the handle from an upturned top
that resembles a flower; a spoon with a myriad of tiny bowls that allow us to
savor our soup; a “superpractical” cell phone with keypad, speaker, and micro-
phone on every surface. They imagine the ideal material, “Thinium,” incredibly
thin and incredibly strong, environmentally and aesthetically beneficial. They
show us clocks and watches that free us from time told by artificial demarcation
and consider the possibility of a digital camera that captures the part of the
scene we didn’t see.
In NONOBJECT, product design meets philosophy, poetry, and the theater
of the imagination. The nonobject fills us with surprise and delight.
Branko Lukic is Founder of Nonobject, a multidisciplinary design
consultancy in Palo Alto, California, and creator of the philoso-
phy of the nonobject. As lead industrial designer at frog design
and IDEO, he led projects for such clients as Nike, Samsung,
Pepsi, Starbucks, and Ford. He has won numerous design awards.
Barry M. Katz, Professor of Humanities and Design at California
College of the Arts and Consulting Professor of Design at
Stanford University, has written extensively on the history
and philosophy of design. He is the author of Technology and
Culture: A Historical Romance and other books.
DESIGNING MEDIA
Bill Moggridge
Mainstream media, often known simply as MSM, have not yet disappeared in a Connections and clashes between
digital takeover of the media landscape. But the long-dominant MSM — televi- new and old media, as told by
sion, radio, newspapers, magazines, and books — have had to respond to emer- interviewees ranging from the
gent digital media. Newspapers have interactive Web sites; television broadcasts founder of Twitter to the publisher
of the New York Times.
over the Internet; books are published in both electronic and print editions. In
Designing Media, design guru Bill Moggridge examines connections and conflicts
between old and new media, describing how MSM have changed and how new October
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patterns of media consumption are emerging. The book features interviews with 300 color illus.
thirty-seven significant figures in both traditional and new forms of mass com- includes DVD
munication; interviewees range from the publisher of the New York Times to the $39.95T/£29.95 cloth
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We learn about innovations in media that rely on contributions from a crowd
INTERVIEWS WITH
(or a community), as told by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Craigslist’s Craig Chris Anderson, Rich Archuleta,
Newmark; how the band OK Go built a following using YouTube; how real- Blixa Bargeld, Colin Callender,
time connections between dispatchers and couriers inspired Twitter; how a Fred Deakin, Martin Eberhard,
David Fanning, Jane Friedman,
BusinessWeek blog became a quarterly printed supplement to the magazine; and Mark Gerzon, Ira Glass, Nat Hunter,
how e-readers have evolved from Rocket eBook to QUE. Ira Glass compares Chad Hurley, Joel Hyatt, Alex Juhasz,
the intimacy of radio to that of the Internet; the producer of PBS’s Frontline Jorge Just, Alex MacLean,
Bob Mason, Roger McNamee,
supports the program’s investigative journalism by putting documentation of its Jeremy Merle, Craig Newmark,
findings online; and the developers of Google’s Trendalyzer software describe its Bruce Nussbaum, Alice Rawsthorn,
beginnings as animations that accompanied lectures about social and economic Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling,
Ola Rosling, Paul Saffo,
development in rural Africa. At the end of each chapter, Moggridge comments Jesse Scanlon, DJ Spooky,
on the implications for designing media. Designing Media is illustrated with Neil Stevenson, Arthur Sulzberger Jr.,
hundreds of images, with color throughout. Shinichi Takemura, James Truman,
Jimmy Wales, Tim Westergren,
A DVD accompanying the book includes excerpts from all of the interviews, Ev Williams, Erin Zhu,
and the material can be browsed at www.designing-media.com. Mark Zuckerberg
NEWSGAMES
Journalism at Play
Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, and Bobby Schweizer
How videogames offer a
Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most online new way to do journalism.
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 October
be for television and radio. The authors of Newsgames propose a new way of 6 x 9, 208 pp.
doing good journalism: videogames. 45 illus.
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media. Games simulate how things work by constructing interactive models; 978-0-262-01487-8
journalism as game involves more than just revisiting old forms of news produc-
tion. The book describes newsgames that can persuade, inform, and titillate;
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make information interactive; recreate a historical event; put news content into a UNIT OPERATIONS
puzzle; teach journalism; and build a community. Wired magazine’s game An Approach to
Cutthroat Capitalism, for example, explains the economics of Somali piracy by Videogame Criticism
Ian Bogost
putting the player in command of a pirate ship, offering choices for hostage 2008, 978-0-262-52487-2
negotiation strategies. And Powerful Robot’s game September 12th offers a $19.00S/£14.95 paper
model for a short, quickly produced, and widely distributed editorial newsgame. PERSUASIVE GAMES
Videogames do not offer a panacea for the ills of contemporary news organi- The Expressive Power
zations. But if the industry embraces them as a viable method of doing journal- of Videogames
Ian Bogost
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valuable contribution. $19.00S/£14.95 paper
Ian Bogost is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication,
and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Founding Partner
at Persuasive Games LLC. He is the author of Unit Operations: An Approach
to Videogame Criticism (2006) and Persuasive Games: The Expressive
Power of Videogames (2007) and the coauthor (with Nick Montfort)
of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (2009), all
published by the MIT Press. Simon Ferrari is a graduate student at
the Georgia Institute of Technology. Bobby Schweizer is a PhD student
at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
new technologies that are rapidly reducing the cost of reading someone’s personal
DNA (all six billion letters of it). Within the next ten years, hospitals may pres- September
ent parents with their newborn’s complete DNA code along with her footprints 6 x 9, 240 pp.
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and APGAR score. In Genetic Twists of Fate, distinguished geneticists Stanley
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Fields and Mark Johnston help us make sense of the genetic revolution that is
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upon us.
Fields and Johnston tell real life stories that hinge on the inheritance of one
tiny change rather than another in an individual’s DNA: a mother wrongly
accused of poisoning her young son when the true killer was a genetic disorder;
the mountain-climbing brothers with a one-in-two chance of succumbing to
Huntington’s disease; the screen siren who could no longer remember her lines
because of Alzheimer’s disease; and the president who was treated with rat
poison to prevent another heart attack. In an engaging and
accessible style, Fields and Johnston explain what our personal
DNA code is, how a few differences in its long list of our DNA
letters make each of us unique, and how that code influences
our appearance, our behavior, and our risk for such common
diseases as diabetes or cancer.
Stanley Fields is Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine at the
University of Washington and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Investigator. Mark Johnston is Professor and Chair of the Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado
School of Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genetics.
OPERATIONS RULES
Delivering Customer Value through Flexible Operations
David Simchi-Levi
An expert offers a set of rules
In recent years, management gurus have urged businesses to adopt such strategies that will help managers achieve
as just-in-time, lean manufacturing, offshoring, and frequent deliveries to retail dramatic improvements in
outlets. But today, these much-touted strategies may be risky. Global financial operations performance.
turmoil, rising labor costs in developing countries, and huge volatility in the price
of oil and other commodities can disrupt a company’s entire supply chain and September
threaten its ability to compete. In Operations Rules, David Simchi-Levi identifies 6 x 9, 208 pp.
50 illus.
the crucial element in a company’s success: the link between the value it provides
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its customers and its operations strategies. And he offers a set of scientifically and 978-0-262-01474-8
empirically based rules that management can follow to achieve a quantum leap
in operations performance.
Flexibility, says Simchi-Levi, is the single most important
capability that allows firms to innovate in their operations and
supply chain strategies. A small investment in flexibility can
achieve almost all the benefits of full flexibility. And successful
companies do not all pursue the same strategies. Amazon and
Wal-Mart, for example, are direct competitors but each focuses
on a different market channel and provides a unique customer
value proposition — Amazon, large selection and reliable ful-
fillment; Wal-Mart, low prices — that directly aligns with its
operations strategy.
Simchi-Levi’s rules — regarding such issues as channels,
price, product characteristics, value-added service, procurement
strategy, and information technology — transform operations
and supply chain management from an undertaking based on
gut feeling and anecdotes to a science.
David Simchi-Levi is Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, editor-in-
chief of the journal Operations Research, and coauthor of Designing and
Managing the Supply Chain and The Logic of Logistics. He is the founder
of LogicTools (now a division of IBM’s ILOG), which provides software
solutions and professional services for supply chain planning.
Rule 2.1: The operations strategy that a company deploys must be centered on
the value proposition the firm provides to its customers.
Rule 2.2: Functional and innovative products typically require
different supply chain strategies.
Rule 5.3: Invest Now or Pay Later: Firms need to invest in flexibility or they
will pay the price later.
Rule 6.1: Enabling, supporting and enforcing a business strategy are the objec-
tives of IT investment
Rule 7.1: A small investment in flexibility can make a significant impact on
total supply chain cost.
Rule 9.1: Modular product architecture is important when flexibility is required.
Rule 10.2: Recent changes in the economy — escalating oil prices, higher
labor costs in developing countries, and decline in consumer demand — will
force a new trend of more regional activities.
— from Operations Rules
TEXTURE
Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload
Richard H. R. Harper
Why we complain about
communication overload Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that
even as we seek new we complain that there’s not enough time to get our actual work done. At home,
ways to communicate. we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that
signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It’s too much, we cry
November (or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to see
5 3/8 x 8, 384 pp. what Shaquille O’Neal has to say on Twitter. In Texture, Richard Harper asks
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why we seek out new ways of communicating even as we complain about
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communication overload.
Harper explores the interplay between technological innovation and socially
creative ways of exploiting technology, between our delight in using new forms
Also available of communication and our vexation at the burdens this places on us, and con-
THE MYTH OF THE nects these to what it means to be human — alive, connected, expressive —
PAPERLESS OFFICE today. He describes the mistaken assumptions of developers that “more” is
Abigail J. Sellen and
Richard H. R. Harper always better — that videophones, for example, are better than handhelds —
2003, 978-0-262-69283-0 and argues that users prefer simpler technologies that allow them to create
$21.00T/£15.95 paper social bonds. Communication is not just the exchange of information. There
is a texture to our communicative practices, manifest in the different means we
choose to communicate (quick or slow, permanent or ephemeral). The goal,
Harper says, should not be to make communication more efficient, but to
supplement and enrich the expressive vocabulary of human experience.
Richard H. R. Harper, currently Principal Researcher in Socio-Digital
Systems at Microsoft Research, has explored user-focused technical
innovation in academic, corporate, and small company settings. He is
the coauthor (with Abigail J. Sellen) of The Myth of the Paperless Office
(MIT Press, 2001).
grammed beams of light: both can inspire feelings of immersion and transcen-
dence. In Enfoldment and Infinity, Laura Marks traces the strong similarities, September
visual and philosophical, between these two kinds of art. Her argument is more 7 x 9, 392 pp.
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than metaphorical; she shows that the “Islamic” quality of modern and new 140 black & white illus.
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Marks proposes an aesthetics of unfolding and enfolding in which image, A Leonardo Book
information, and the infinite interact: image is an interface to information, and
information (such as computer code or the words of the Qur’an) is an interface
to the infinite. After demonstrating historically how Islamic aesthetics traveled
into Western art, Marks draws explicit parallels between works of classical
Islamic art and new media art, describing texts that burst into image, lines
that multiply to form fractal spaces, “nonorganic life” in carpets and algorithms,
and other shared concepts and images. Islamic philosophy, she suggests, can
offer fruitful ways of understanding contemporary art.
Laura U. Marks is Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture
Studies in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser
University. She is the author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural
Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses and Touch: Sensuous Theory and
Multisensory Media.
FASHIONEAST
The Spectre that Haunted Socialism
Djurdja Bartlett
A richly illustrated study of
fashion under socialism, from The idea of fashion under socialism conjures up images of babushka headscarves
state-sponsored prototypes and black market blue jeans. And yet, as Djurdja Bartlett shows in this ground-
to unofficial imitations of breaking book, the socialist East had an intimate relationship with fashion.
Paris fashion.
Official antagonism — which cast fashion as frivolous and anti-revolutionary —
eventually gave way to grudging acceptance and creeping consumerism.
October Bartlett outlines three phases in socialist fashion, and illustrates them with
7 3/4 x 11 1/2, 300 pp.
70 color illus. abundant images from magazines of the period: postrevolutionary utopian dress,
96 black & white illus. official state-sanctioned socialist fashion, and samizdat-style everyday fashion.
$34.95T/£25.95 cloth Utopian dress, ranging from the geometric abstraction of the constructivists
978-0-262-02650-5 under Bolshevism in the Soviet Union to the no-frills desexualized uniform of
a factory worker in Czechoslovakia, reflected the revolutionary urge for a clean
break with the past. The highly centralized socialist fashion system, part of
Stalinist industrialization, offered official prototypes of high fashion that were
never available in stores — mythical images of smart and luxurious dresses
that symbolized the economic progress that socialist regimes
dreamed of. Everyday fashion, starting in the 1950s, was an
unofficial, do-it-yourself enterprise: Western fashions obtained
through semiclandestine channels or sewn at home. The state
tolerated the demand for Western fashion, promising the
burgeoning middle class consumer goods in exchange for
political loyalty.
Fashion, Bartlett suggests, with all its ephemerality and
dynamism, was in perpetual conflict with the socialist regimes’
fear of change and need for control. It was, to echo the famous
first sentence from the Communist Manifesto, the spectre that
haunted socialism until the end.
Djurdja Bartlett is a Research Fellow at London College of Fashion,
University of the Arts London.
LAUGHTER
Notes on a Passion
Anca Parvulescu
Uncovering an archive of laughter,
from the forbidden giggle to the Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather, their
explosive guffaw. focus is the laughable object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous,
jokes, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter, Anca Parvulescu
September proposes a return to the materiality of the burst of laughter itself. She sets out to
6 x 9, 232 pp. uncover an archive of laughter, inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to
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its tones.
$21.95T/£16.95 paper Historically, laughter — especially the passionate burst of laughter — has
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often been a faux pas. Manuals for conduct, abetted by philosophical treatises
Short Circuits series, edited and literary and visual texts, warned against it, offering special injunctions to
by Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar,
and Alenka Zupančič ladies to avoid jollity that was too boisterous. Returning laughter to the history
of the passions, Parvulescu anchors it at the point where the history of the
grimacing face meets the history of noise. In the civilizing process that leads
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to laughter’s “falling into disrepute,” as Nietzsche famously put it, we can see
A VOICE AND NOTHING MORE
Mladen Dolar the formless, contorted face in laughter being slowly corrected into a calm,
2006, 978-0-262-54187-9 social smile.
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How did the twentieth century laugh? Parvulescu points to a gallery of
THE ODD ONE IN twentieth-century laughers and friends of laughter, arguing that it is through
On Comedy
Alenka Zupančič
Georges Bataille that the century laughed its most distinct laugh. In Bataille’s
2008, 978-0-262-74031-9 wake, laughter becomes the passion at the heart of poststructuralism. Looking
$21.95T/£16.95 paper back at the century from this vantage point, Parvulescu revisits four of its most
challenging projects: modernism, the philosophical avant-gardes,
feminism, and cinema. The result is an overview of the twentieth
century as seen through the laughs that burst at some of its
most convoluted junctures.
Anca Parvulescu is Assistant Professor in the English Department
and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at Washington
University in St. Louis.
FREUD’S MEXICO
Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis
Rubén Gallo
Freud's Mexican disciples, Mexican
Freud’s Mexico is a completely unexpected contribution to Freud studies. Here, books, Mexican antiquities,
Rubén Gallo reveals Freud’s previously undisclosed connections to a culture and and Mexican dreams.
a psychoanalytic tradition not often associated with him. Freud found a receptive
audience among Mexican intellectuals, read Mexican books, collected Mexican September
antiquities, and dreamed Mexican dreams; his writings bear the traces of a 7 x 10, 408 pp.
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longstanding fascination with the country.
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In the Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s, Freud made an impact not only
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about a “motley crew” of Freud’s readers who devised some of the most original,
elaborate, and influential applications of psychoanalytic theory anywhere in the
world: the poet Salvador Novo, a gay dandy who used Freud to vindicate marginal Also available
sexual identities; the conservative philosopher Samuel Ramos, who diagnosed MEXICAN MODERNITY
The Avant-Garde and the
the collective neuroses afflicting his country; the cosmopolitan poet Octavio Paz,
Technological Revolution
who launched a psychoanalytic inquiry into the origins of Mexican history; and Rubén Gallo
Gregorio Lemercier, a Benedictine monk who put his entire monastery into 2010, 978-0-262-51496-5
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psychoanalysis.
After describing Mexico’s Freud, Gallo offers an imaginative reconstruction
of Freud’s Mexico. Although Freud himself never visited Mexico, he owned a
treatise on criminal law by a Mexican judge who put defen-
dants — including Trotsky’s assassin — on the psychoanalyst’s
couch; he acquired Mexican pieces as part of his celebrated col-
lection of antiquities; and he recorded dreams of a Mexico that
was fraught with danger. Freud’s Mexico features a varied cast of
characters that includes Maximilian von Hapsburg, Leon
Trotsky and his assassin Ramón Mercader, Frida Kahlo, Diego
Rivera — and even David Rockefeller. Gallo offers bold and
vivid rereadings of both Freudian texts and Mexican cultural
history.
Rubén Gallo is Director of the Program in Latin American Studies and
Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and
Cultures at Princeton University. He is the author of Mexican Modernity:
The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (MIT Press, 2005).
Pop, these artists — among them Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse, Yves Klein,
Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Robert Rauschenberg — effectively estab- September
lished a new set of artistic paradigms that would influence the decade ahead. 8 1/4 x 11, 300 pp.
250 color illus.
New Realisms: 1957–1962 maps this international field of artistic practice, show- 50 black & white illus.
casing more than 200 works by artists of the period. The title echoes the name of $44.95T/£33.95 paper
the French movement of the 1960s “Nouveau Réalisme.” Indeed, the work of the 978-0-262-51522-1
Nouveaux Réalistes group anchors the book (and the exhibition it accompanies),
but at the same time, New Realisms represents a wider range of related instincts, ESSAYS BY
Julia Robinson,
diversely expressed. The emphasis is on a constellation of activities in play before Hannah Feldman, Agnes Berecz,
the new critical terms and categories of Pop Art were set in stone. The book Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen,
views the emerging artistic scene from the other end of the telescope, as it were: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
from a European perspective rather than from that of American Pop Art. New EXHIBITION
Museo Nacional Centro de
Realisms is emphatically hybrid, encompassing the initiatives of the French group Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
as well as trajectories in New York that stretched from painting to June 16th–October 4th, 2010
“Environment” to Happening. Distributed by the MIT Press
Artists include Arman, George Brecht, Cesar, for the Reina Sofia Museum
Christo, Gérard Deschamps, Jim Dine, François
Dufrêne, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Raymond Hains,
Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Roy
Lichtenstein, Piero Manzoni, Claes Oldenburg,
Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Robert Rauschenberg,
Martial Raysse, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de Saint
Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, Robert
Watts, and Robert Whitman.
Julia Robinson is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Art History at New York University. Her writing has
appeared in such journals as Performance Research, Art
Journal, October, and Grey Room.
FAILURE
edited by Lisa Le Feuvre
Amid the global uncertainties of our times, failure has become a central subject Investigations of failure as a key
of investigation in recent art. Celebrating failed promises and myths of the avant- concern — as theme, strategy,
garde, or setting out to realize seemingly impossible tasks, artists have actively and world view — of recent art.
claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here success
is deemed overrated, doubt embraced, experimentation encouraged, and risk October
considered a viable strategy. The abstract possibilities opened up by failure are 5 3/8 x 8 1/4, 240 pp.
further reinforced by the problems of physically realizing artworks — wrestling $24.95T paper
with ideas, representation, and object-making. By amplifying both theoretical 978-0-262-51477-4
and practical failure, artists have sought new, unexpected ways of opening up Documents of Contemporary Art series
endgame situations, ranging from the ideological shadow of the white cube to Copublished with Whitechapel
unfulfilled promises of political emancipation. Between the two subjective poles Gallery, London
of success and failure lies a space of potentially productive operations where Not for sale in the
paradox rules and dogma is refused. This collection of writings, statements, United Kingdom or Europe
mediations, fictions, polemics, and discussions identifies failure as a core
concern in cultural production. Failure
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identifies moments of thought that Documents of Contemporary
have eschewed consensus, choosing to Art series
address questions rather than answers. THE SUBLIME
edited by Simon Morley
Lisa Le Feuvre is Curator of Contemporary 2010, 978-0-262-51391-3
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London, and Associate Lecturer in Creative
Curating at Goldsmiths College, London. CHANCE
edited by Margaret Iversen
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WRITERS INCLUDE
Giorgio Agamben, Samuel Beckett, Daniel Birnbaum, Bazon Brock, Johanna Burton,
Emma Cocker, Gilles Deleuze, Russell Ferguson, Ann Goldstein, Jörg Heiser,
Jennifer Higgie, Richard Hylton, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Lisa Lee, Stuart Morgan,
Hans-Joachim Müller, Karl Popper, Edgar Schmitz, Coosje van Bruggen
What does it say about the value of architecture that as the world faces economic
and ecological crises, unprecedented numbers of architects are out of work? This
is the question that confronted architect Eric Cesal as he finished graduate school
at the onset of the worst financial meltdown in a generation. Down Detour Road
is his journey: one that begins off-course, and ends in a hopeful new vision of
architecture.
Like many architects of his generation, Cesal confronts a cold reality.
Architects may assure each other of their own importance, but society has come
to view architecture as a luxury it can do without. For Cesal, this recognition
becomes an occasion to rethink architecture and its value from the very core.
He argues that the times demand a new architecture, an empowered architecture
that is useful and relevant. New architectural values emerge as our cultural values
shift: from high risks to safe bets, from strong portfolios to
strong communities, and from clean lines to clean energy.
This is not a book about how to run a firm or a profession;
it doesn’t predict the future of architectural form or aesthetics.
It is a personal story — and in many ways a generational one:
a story that follows its author on a winding detour across the
country, around the profession, and into a new architectural
reality.
Eric J. Cesal holds master’s degrees in business administration,
construction management, and architecture from Washington University
in St. Louis. He is now living in Port-au-Prince, managing and coordinating
Architecture for Humanity’s design and reconstruction initiatives
in Haiti.
emerging practitioners who for the most part have not published before.
Interwoven with their proposals are conversations among these new voices and October
more established authors and practitioners, including Sanford Kwinter, Sylvia 6 3/4 x 9 1/3, 224 pp.
10 color illus., 50 black & white illus.
Lavin, K. Michael Hays, Philippe Rahm, Liam Gillick, Teddy Cruz, and
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Michael Meredith. Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else investigates the
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inner contradictions tangling and obscuring architectural discourse. It locates
Work Books series
architecture in a cultural, social, political, and situational landscape — the space it
actually occupies in the contemporary world. Examining architecture as it comes Copublished with Work Books
into contact with other disciplines — including art, art history, cultural studies,
CONTRIBUTORS
curating, landscape architecture, neuroaesthetics, pedagogy, philosophy, political Brett Albert, Matthew Allen,
science, and urbanism — the book considers architecture’s precarious position at Esther Choi, Teddy Cruz,
Suzanne Ernst, Liam Gillick,
the edge: at the edge of its own dilemmas and at the edge of “everything else.”
K. Michael Hays, Sanford Kwinter,
In different ways, all the contributors suggest how to understand the innova- Sylvia Lavin, Michael Meredith,
tive possibilities and pitfalls of spatial practices — teasing, analyzing, and cele- Yu Morishita, Trevor Patt,
Philippe Rahm, Joe Ringenberg,
brating architecture’s disciplinary ambiguity — with proposals that range from a
Jonathan Tate, Marrikka Trotter,
“lo-res” architecture to one controlled by the curatorial impulse, from customiz- Douglas Wu
able “skins” on residential buildings to the collection of residual space for new
uses. Their investigations encompass how to interpret, how to intervene, and
how to imagine. Breaking out of institutional molds and reaching across genera-
tional divides, Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else marks the beginning of
a new conversation about architecture and its expanded landscape.
Esther Choi, a multidisciplinary artist and writer, is Assistant Professor
in the Departments of Criticism and Curatorial Practices, Photography,
and the Interdisciplinary Masters in Art, Media, and Design Program at
the Ontario College of Art and Design. Marrikka Trotter is the founder
of the art and design initiative The Department of Micro-Urbanism.
She teaches advanced studio at the Boston Architectural College,
and her writing has appeared in Harvard Design Magazine.
EVENT-CITIES 4
Concept-Form
Bernard Tschumi
Tschumi introduces the
“concept-form”: a concept Event-Cities 4 is the latest in the Event-Cities series from Bernard Tschumi,
generating a form, or a form documenting recent built and theoretical projects in the context of his evolving
generating a concept views on architecture, urbanism, and design. Event-Cities 4 follows directly from
the work of Event-Cities 3, which examined the interaction of architectural
September content, concept, and context. This volume takes the interaction a step further,
6 1/2 x 9, 640 pp. looking at a series of projects for which program or context are insufficient as a
200 color illus.,
350 black & white illus. generative conceptual strategy, hence requiring a different approach. Tschumi has
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said, “Over the past years, there is one word I have almost never used, except in
978-0-262-51241-1 order to attack it: ‘form.’ ” In Event-Cities 4, Tschumi introduces the “concept-
form”: a concept generating a form, or a form generating a concept, so that one
reinforces the other. The concept may be programmatic, technological, or social.
Also available The form may be singular or multiple, regular or irregular. Concept-forms act as
EVENT-CITIES 2 organizing devices or common denominators for the multiple dimensions of pro-
Bernard Tschumi
2001, 978-0-262-70074-0 grams and their evolution over time, and drive the projects featured in this book.
$45.00S/£33.95 paper Highlights include master plans for a pair of media-based work spaces and
EVENT-CITIES 3 cultural campuses in Singapore and Abu Dhabi; a major master plan for a finan-
Concept vs. Context vs. Content cial center with 40,000 projected inhabitants in the Dominican Republic; the
Bernard Tschumi
innovative Blue Residential Tower in New York City; a group of museums and
2005, 978-0-262-70110-5
$40.00T/£29.95 paper cultural buildings in France, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and South Korea; a pedestrian
INDEX ARCHITECTURE
bridge in France; and a “multi-programmatic” furniture piece, the TypoLounger.
A Columbia Architecture Book The book contains more than twenty of the Tschumi firm’s recent projects,
edited by Bernard Tschumi and showcasing the most current and forward-looking designs of one of the world’s
Matthew Berman
2003, 978-0-262-70095-5
leading architectural practices.
$38.00T/£28.95 paper Bernard Tschumi is Principal of Bernard
Tschumi Architects, New York and Paris. He
was dean of the Columbia Graduate School
of Architecture from 1988 to 2003.
PERSPECTA 43
Taboo
The Yale Architectural Journal
Exploring the ill-defined realm
edited by John Capen Brough, Seher Erdogan and Parsa Khalili of the architectural taboo, from
We are beset by unspoken rules. As a result, we learn to find consensus in nots the hidden spaces of American
life to artistic practices in
and to seek refuge in don’ts. A taboo is a restriction invented and agreed upon by
postrevolutionary Iran.
a social group that maintains stability (disciplinary order) but also induces trans-
gressions (the possibility of an avant-garde). Taboos structure our thinking and
frame our discussions. In architecture, taboos create an operative way of thinking September
9 x 12, 196 pp.
about and making architecture through unspoken agreement. This issue of 146 color illus.
Perspecta — the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural jour-
$25.00T/£19.95 paper
nal in America — tackles architectural unutterables. In articles and projects, his- 978-0-262-51479-8
torians, theorists, and practitioners investigate contemporary and historical
instances of taboo, aiming to uncover its function in the pedagogy and praxis of
architecture. Also available
The contributors, asked simply “What is Taboo?”, respond with a range of RE-READING PERSPECTA
The First Fifty Years of the Yale
examples. These include an examination of the relatively unknown work of Architectural Journal
the Italian architect Rinaldo Semino; photographs documenting the unseen, edited by Robert A. M. Stern, Peggy
peripheral spaces of American life; a series of marginalia illustrating certain Deamer and Alan Plattus
2005, 978-0-262-19506-5
typographic don’ts in all their absurdity; a study of memorials erected to Maoist $75.00T/£55.95 cloth
insurgents killed by police and paramilitary forces in India; and a critique, by
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redaction and reconstruction, of Rem Koolhaas’s essay “Typical Plan.” The Real
The Yale Architectureal
John Capen Brough is an architect practic-
Journal
ing in New York City. Seher Erdogan is an
architect practicing in New Haven. Parsa edited by Matthew Roman
Khalili is an architect practicing in New and Tal Schori
York City. All three are graduates of the 2010, 978-0-262-51393-7
Yale School of Architecture. $25.00T/£18.95 paper
CONTRIBUTORS
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Glen Cummings, Thomas de Monchaux, Arindam Dutta, Edward Eigen,
Mario Gooden, Alicia Imperiale, Pamela Karimi, Keith Krumwiede, Erika Naginski,
NaJa & DeOstos, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Neri Oxman, Michelangelo Sabatino,
Taryn Simon, Marcel Vellinga, Loïc Wacquant
INTERVIEWS
Sunil Bald, Thomas Beeby, Peggy Deamer, Peter Eisenman, Greg Lynn, and Robert A. M. Stern
AIR
edited by John Knechtel
Writers, artists, and scholars
The thin layer of atmosphere that clings to the surface of our planet is a fragile
consider the fragility of air, and corrupted brew. Air is in constant, restless migration around the globe, con-
the ultimate commons. necting us in the most intimate fashion. From the dust storms that sweep into
Beijing from faraway deserts to the smog from Chinese factories that shrouds
October Los Angeles, our air, the ultimate commons, is tragically defenseless. Breathing
4 3/4 x 6 1/4, 320 pp. air is an involuntary physical function, but keeping the air breathable requires acts
200 color illus.
of political imagination and will. Air considers the condition of this basic compo-
$15.95T/£11.95 cloth nent of life on earth from a range of perspectives. It reveals the thick materiality
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of air, air as stinky, clotted, corrupted matter — in a word, dirty. We see the stuff
Alphabet City 15 of air in the form of molecules from disintegrating artworks, or as the material
for building forms; as the bearer of scents and germs and as the substrate for
communications both digital and pneumatic. Here, an asthmatic strains to inhale
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SUBTITLES
the air that bears the cause of her distress; a philosopher muses on the intelligi-
On the Foreigness of Film bility of air; an artist dreams of being the accountant of dust; and city construc-
edited by Atom Egoyan tion sheds are replaced by a floating “urbanCLOUD.” Air leads us to perceive air,
and Ian Balfour
2004, 978-0-262-05078-4
and the imperative to protect it, anew.
$35.00T/£25.95 cloth John Knechtel is Director of Alphabet
Alphabet City 9 City Media in Toronto.
SUSPECT
edited by John Knechtel
2005, 978-0-262-11290-1
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Alphabet City 10
TRASH
edited by John Knechtel
2006, 978-0-262-11301-4
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Alphabet City 11
FOOD
edited by John Knechtel
2007, 978-0-262-11309-0
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Alphabet City 12
FUEL
edited by John Knechtel
2008, 978-0-262-11325-0
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Alphabet City 13
WATER
edited by John Knechtel
2009, 978-0-262-01329-1
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Alphabet City 14
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FOOD JUSTICE
Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi
In today’s food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, The story of how the emerging
low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restau- food justice movement is seeking
rants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than whole- to transform the American food
someness, and the international reach of American fast-food franchises has been system from seed to table.
“Gottlieb and Joshi name names and pull no punches. Their point
of view, that the dominant agroindustrial food industry is inherently
unjust to farm workers, consumers, and the communities that suffer
from the external costs of food production comes through loud
and clear.”
— Nevin Cohen, Eugene Lang College,
New School for Liberal Arts
SACRIFICE ZONES
The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States
Steve Lerner
The stories of residents of
foreword by Phil Brown
low-income communities across
the country who took action when
“I just got mad. I couldn’t breathe in my own house.”
pollution from heavy industry
contaminated their towns. — Ruth Reed, a resident of Ocala, Florida,
who lives next door to a Royal Oak Charcoal factory
September
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Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or
minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of
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978-0-262-01440-3 them, like Ruth Reed, reach a point at which they say “Enough is enough.” After
living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-
related health problems, they start to take action — organizing, speaking up,
Also available documenting the effects of pollution on their neighborhoods.
ECO-PIONEERS In Sacrifice Zones, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from
Practical Visionaries Solving
Today’s Environmental Problems
Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases
Steve Lerner causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution. He calls these low-
1998, 978-0-262-62124-3 income neighborhoods “sacrifice zones” — repurposing a Cold War term coined
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by U.S. government officials to designate areas contaminated with radioactive
DIAMOND pollutants during the manufacture of nuclear weapons. And he argues that resi-
A Struggle for Environmental
Justice in Louisiana’s dents of a new generation of sacrifice zones, tainted with chemical pollutants,
Chemical Corridor need additional regulatory protections.
Steve Lerner Studies show that poor and minority neighborhoods are more polluted than
2006, 978-0-262-62204-2
$16.95T/£12.95 paper wealthier areas located farther away from heavy industry. Sacrifice Zones goes
beyond these disheartening statistics and gives us the voices of the residents
themselves. We hear from people like Margaret L. Williams,
who organized her neighbors to demand relocation away from
two Superfund hazardous waste sites; Hilton Kelley, who came
back to his hometown to find intensified emissions from the
Exxon Mobil refinery next to the housing project in which he
grew up; and Laura Ward, who found technicians drilling a
hole in her backyard to test groundwater for pollution from the
nearby Lockheed Martin weapons plant. Sacrifice Zones offers
compelling portraits of accidental activists who have become
grassroots leaders in the struggle for environmental justice
and details the successful tactics they have used on the fence
line with heavy industry.
Steve Lerner is Research Director of Commonweal, a health and
environment research institute. He is the author of Eco-Pioneers:
Practical Visionaries Solving Today’s Environmental Problems (1998)
and Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s
Chemical Corridor (2005), both published by the MIT Press.
“Easy to read, compelling, and hard to put down. The stories are
important, have not been told, and need to be recounted in a public
way. This book will give motivation to some, solace to others, and
consternation to organizations that are exposed.”
— Peter L. DeFur, Virginia Commonwealth University
BOTANIC GARDENS
Modern-Day Arks
Sara Oldfield
A lavishly illustrated look at
botanic gardens and the work All life depends on plants, but we often take them for granted in our everyday
that goes on behind the scenes lives. It is easy to ignore the fact that we are facing a crisis: scientists estimate
to save our botanical heritage. that one third of all flowering plant species are threatened with extinction.
This lavishly illustrated volume considers the essential conservation role of
September botanic gardens, telling the story of how a global network is working to save
10 1/2 x 8 1/2, 240 pp. our botanical heritage. Chapters feature gardens from countries around the
200 color photographs
world, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Germany,
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Turkey, Uganda, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, and China.
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Comments and photographs from the gardeners involved give the book a
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personal touch, revealing the human side of the important work that goes on
behind the scenes of these spectacular gardens. Author Sara Oldfield shows
us how botanic gardens are truly “modern-day arks,” safeguarding species and
saving resources on which we may someday depend.
Sara Oldfield, based in Kew, London, is Secretary General of Botanic
Gardens Conservation International. She is the author of Rainforest
(2003) and Deserts: The Living Drylands (2004), both published by
the MIT Press.
HELMHOLTZ
From Enlightenment to Neuroscience
Michel Meulders
The first biography in English
translated by Laurence Garey
of a nineteenth-century German
Although Hermann von Helmholtz was one of most remarkable figures of nine- scientist whose experimental
teenth-century science, he is little known outside his native Germany. Helmholtz approach influences
today’s neuroscience.
(1821–1894) made significant contributions to the study of vision and perception
and was also influential in the painting, music, and literature of the time; one
of his major works analyzed tone in music. This book, the first in English to October
6 x 9, 264 pp.
describe Helmholtz’s life and work in detail, describes his scientific studies, 32 illus.
analyzes them in the context of the science and philosophy of the period — in
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neuroscience.
Helmholtz, trained by Johannes Müller, one of the best physiologists of
his time, used a resolutely materialistic and empirical scientific method in his
research. This puts him in the tradition of Kant and the English empirical
philosophers and directly opposed to the idealists and naturalists who inter-
preted nature based on metaphysical presuppositions. Helmholtz’s research on
color vision put him at odds with Goethe’s more romantic theorizing on the
subject; but at the end of his life, Helmholtz honored Goethe’s contributions,
acknowledging that artistic intuition could reveal truths about the human mind
that are inaccessible to science.
Helmholtz’s work, eclipsed at the beginning of the twentieth
century by new ideas in neurophysiology, has recently been
rediscovered by psychologists. They recognize in Helmholtz’s
methods — which were based on his belief in the intercon-
nectedness of physiology and psychology — the origins of
neuroscience.
Michel Meulders is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience and Honorary
Prorector of the Catholic University of Louvain, where he also was
Dean of the Medical School from 1974 to 1979. Laurence Garey, a
neuroscientist and anatomist, is the translator of Michel Jouvet’s
The Paradox of Sleep (2001) and The Castle of Dreams (2008),
both published by the MIT Press.
LENIN’S LAUREATE
Zhores Alferov’s Life in Communist Science
Paul R. Josephson
The life and work of a leading
In 2000, Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for
Soviet physicist and an exploration
of the strengths and weaknesses his discovery of the heterojunction, a semiconductor device the practical applica-
of Soviet science from Stalin tions of which include LEDs, rapid transistors, and the microchip. The Prize
through Gorbachev. was the culmination of a career in Soviet science that spanned the eras of Stalin,
Khrushchev, and Gorbachev — and continues today in the postcommunist
October Russia of Putin and Medvedev. In Lenin’s Laureate, historian Paul Josephson
6 x 9, 296 pp. tells the story of Alferov’s life and work and examines the bureaucratic, economic,
23 illus.
and ideological obstacles to doing state-sponsored scientific research in the
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Lenin and the Bolsheviks built strong institutions for scientific research,
Transformations: Studies in the
rectifying years of neglect under the Czars. Later generations of scientists,
History of Science and Technology
including Alferov and his colleagues, reaped the benefits, achieving important
breakthroughs: the first nuclear reactor for civilian energy, an early fusion device,
and, of course, the Sputnik satellite. Josephson’s account of Alferov’s career
reveals the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet science — a schizophrenic
environment of cutting-edge research and political interference. Alferov, born
into a family of Communist loyalists, joined the party in 1967. He supported
Gorbachev’s reforms in the 1980s, but later became frustrated by the recession-
plagued postcommunist state’s failure to fund scientific research adequately.
An elected member of the Russian parliament since 1995, he uses his prestige
as a Nobel laureate to protect Russian science from further cutbacks.
Drawing on extensive archival research and the
author’s own discussions with Alferov, Lenin’s
Laureate offers a unique account of Soviet science,
presented against the backdrop of the USSR’s turbu-
lent history from the revolution through perestroika.
Paul R. Josephson, Professor of History at Colby College, is
the author of Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?, Motorized
Obsession, and other books.
NO PRECEDENT, NO PLAN
Inside Russia’s 1998 Default
Martin Gilman
The definitive insider’s, account
In 1998, President Boris Yeltsin’s government defaulted on Russia’s debts and the of Russia’s painful transition to
country experienced a financial meltdown that brought its people to the brink of a market economy, as told
disaster. In No Precedent, No Plan, Martin Gilman offers an insider’s view of by the IMF’s senior man in
Moscow at the time.
Russia’s financial crisis. As the senior representative of the International
Monetary Fund in Moscow beginning in 1996, Gilman was in the eye of the
storm. Now, he tells the dramatic story of Russia’s economic evolution following October
6 x 9, 416 pp.
the collapse of the Soviet Union and analyzes the 1998 crisis and its aftermath. 7 illus.
Gilman argues that the default and collapse, although avoidable, actually spurred
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Russia to integrate its economy with the rest of the world’s and served as a har- 978-0-262-01465-6
binger of the recent global economic crisis. Gilman details the IMF’s involve-
ment and defends it against criticism by economist Joseph Stiglitz and others.
In the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union left Russia in chaos, with
a barely functioning government and no consensus on the path toward a
democratic and economic transformation. The smooth transition to a market
economy that had been accomplished in other countries in
Eastern Europe was impossible. Gilman describes the ordeal
of the 1998 crisis and argues that the IMF helped Russia avoid
an even greater catastrophe. He recounts Russia’s emergence
from the IMF’s tutelage and explains how the shell-shocked
Russian public turned to Vladimir Putin in search of stability
after the trauma of 1998.
No Precedent, No Plan offers a definitive account — the first
from an insider’s perspective — of Russia’s painful transition to
a market economy.
Martin Gilman, with the International Monetary Fund from 1981 to
2005, was the IMF’s senior representative in Moscow during Russia’s
period of default and rebuilding. Currently Professor of Economics
at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, he lives in Moscow with his
wife, the distinguished Russian journalist Tatiana Malkina, and their
two children.
building block of the digital world: the microchip. Founded in 1957 by eight
former employees of the Schockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Fairchild created September
the model for a successful Silicon Valley start-up: intense activity with a common 7 1/2 x 10, 368 pp.
117 illus.
goal, close collaboration, and a quick path to the market (Fairchild’s first device
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hit the market just ten months after the company’s founding). Fairchild
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Semiconductor was one of the first companies financed by venture capital,
and its success inspired the establishment of venture capital firms in the
San Francisco Bay area. These firms would finance the explosive growth of Also available
Silicon Valley over the next several decades. MAKING SILICON VALLEY
This history of the early years of Fairchild Semiconductor examines the Innovation and the Growth
of High Tech, 1930-1970
technological, business, and social dynamics behind its innovative products. The Christophe Lécuyer
centerpiece of the book is a collection of documents, reproduced in facsimile, 2007, 978-0-262-62211-0
including the company’s first prospectus; ideas, sketches, and plans for the $23.00S/£17.95 paper
company’s products; and a notebook kept by cofounder Jay Last that records
problems, schedules, and tasks discussed at weekly meetings. A historical
overview, interpretive essays, and an introduction to semiconductor technology
in the period accompany these primary documents.
Christophe Lécuyer is Principal Economic Analyst in the Office of the
President of the University of California and the author of Making
Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
(MIT Press, 2005). David C. Brock is Senior Research Fellow at the
Chemical Heritage Foundation’s Center for Contemporary History and
the editor of Understanding Moore’s Law: Four Decades of Innovation.
ATLAS OF SCIENCE
Visualizing What We Know
Katy Börner
Science maps that can help
us understand and navigate Cartographic maps have guided our explorations for centuries, allowing us to
the deluge of results generated navigate the world. Science maps have the potential to guide our search for
by today’s science and technology. knowledge in the same way, allowing us to visualize scientific results. Science
maps help us navigate, understand, and communicate the dynamic and changing
October structure of science and technology — help us make sense of the avalanche of
13 x 11, 288 pp. data generated by scientific research today. Atlas of Science, featuring more than
500 color illus.
thirty full-page science maps, fifty data charts, a timeline of science-mapping
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milestones, and 500 color images, serves as a sumptuous visual index to the evo-
lution of modern science and as an introduction to “the science of science” —
EXHIBITION charting the trajectory from scientific concept to published results.
Ongoing Atlas of Science, based on the popular exhibit, “Places & Spaces: Mapping
National Science Foundation,
Washington, D.C. Science,” describes and displays successful mapping techniques. The heart of the
book is a visual feast: Claudius Ptolemy’s Cosmographia World Map from
The Institute for Research
Information and Quality Assurance, 1482; a guide to a PhD thesis that resembles a subway map; “the structure of
Bonn, Germany science” as revealed in a map of citation relationships in papers published in
Storm Hall, San Diego State College 2002; a visual periodic table; a history flow visualization of the Wikipedia article
on abortion; a globe showing the worldwide distribution of patents; a forecast of
earthquake risk; hands-on science maps for kids; and many more. Each entry
includes the story behind the map and biographies of its makers.
Not even the most brilliant minds can keep up with today’s deluge of scien-
tific results. Science maps show us the landscape of what we know.
Katy Börner is Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information
Science in the School of Library and Information Science at
Indiana University. She is curator of the “Places & Spaces:
Mapping Science” exhibit that inspired Atlas of Science.
BECOMING MIT
Moments of Decision
edited by David Kaiser
The evolution of MIT, as
How did MIT become MIT? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology marks seen in a series of crucial
the 150th anniversary of its founding in 2011. Over the years, MIT has lived by decisions over the years.
its motto, “Mens et Manus” (“Mind and Hand”), dedicating itself to the pursuit
of knowledge and its application to real-world problems. MIT has produced September
leading scholars in fields ranging from aeronautics to economics, invented entire 7 x 9, 224 pp.
40 illus.
academic disciplines, and transformed ideas into market-ready devices. This book
examines a series of turning points, crucial decisions that helped define MIT. $24.95T/£18.95 cloth
978-0-262-11323-6
Many of these issues have relevance today: the moral implications of defense
contracts, the optimal balance between government funding and private invest- CONTRIBUTORS
ment, and the right combination of basic science, engineering, and humanistic Lotte Bailyn
Deborah Douglas
scholarship in the curriculum.
John Durant
Chapters describe the educational vision and fund-raising acumen of founder Susan Hockfield
William Barton Rogers (MIT was among the earliest recipients of land grant Nancy Hopkins
David Kaiser
funding); MIT’s relationship with Harvard — its rival, doppelgänger, and, for a
Christophe Lécuyer
brief moment, degree-conferring partner; the battle between pure science and Stuart W. Leslie
industrial sponsorship in the early twentieth century; MIT’s rapid expansion Bruce Sinclair
Merritt Roe Smith
during World War II because of defense work and military training courses; the
conflict between Cold War gadgetry and the humanities; protests over defense
contracts at the height of the Vietnam War; the uproar in the local community Also available
over the perceived riskiness of recombinant DNA research; and the measures MIND AND HAND
taken to reverse years of institutionalized discrimination against women scien- The Birth of MIT
Julius A. Stratton and
tists. Loretta H. Mannix
David Kaiser is Associate Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society and 2005, 978-0-262-19524-9
a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. He is the author of Drawing Theories $60.00S/£44.95 cloth
Apart: The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and editor of Pedagogy
and the Practices of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
GENERAL IDEA
Imagevirus
Gregg Bordowitz
An art project that spread
AIDS consciousness like a virus, In the mid-1980s, the Canadian art group General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix
examined by an artist-activist. Partz, and Jorge Zontal) created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, arranging
the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana’s famous LOVE logo. This
September launched Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, and exhi-
6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp. bitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using the
32 color illus.
mechanism of viral transmission. The Imagevirus spread like a virus, producing
$16.00T/£9.95 paper an image epidemic in urban spaces from Manhattan to Sydney. It was displayed
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as, among other things, a Spectacolor sign in Times Square, a sculpture on a
$35.00S/£19.95 cloth street in Hamburg, and a poster in the New York subway system. In this detailed
978-1-84638-064-8
study of the Imagevirus project, artist and writer Gregg Bordowitz analyzes the
One Work series work from the perspective of his own involvement with activist art initiatives in
Distributed for Afterall Books New York during the 1980s and 1990s.
Bordowitz explores the virus as idea, as tactic, and as identity. General Idea
felt compelled to make Imagevirus at a time when AIDS was emerging as a
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global epidemic affecting gay men disproportionately; when homophobia
ANDY WARHOL
Blow Job seemed to drive U.S. AIDS policy; and when the exigencies of AIDS activism
Peter Gidal created a demand for agit-prop and direct action. General Idea adapted their
2008, 978-1-84638-041-9 methods to the new situation, using the threat of viral infection and a poetic
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understanding of language as their model for artistic production and ideological
CHRIS MARKER struggle.
La Jetée
Janet Harbord Gregg Bordowitz is an artist, writer, and Professor of Film, Video, and New Media at the
2009, 978-1-84638-048-8 School of the Art Institute, Chicago. He is the author of The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and
$16.00T/£9.95 paper Other Writings, 1986–2003 (MIT Press, 2004). Bordowitz, who has been living with AIDS
for two decades, was a member of the groundbreaking AIDS activist group ACT UP.
HANNE DARBOVEN
Cultural History 1880-1983
Dan Adler
2009, 978-1-84638-050-1
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DARA BIRNBAUM
Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
T. J. Demos
A critical examination of
Opening with a prolonged salvo of fiery explosions accompanied by the warning Dara Birnbaum’s action-packed
cry of a siren, Dara Birnbaum’s video Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman and riveting video of Wonder
(1978–79) is a concise, action-packed, and visually riveting video. During its Woman’s transformations.
seven-minute span we see, again and again, the transformation of the drab secre-
tary Diana Prince into the super-heroic Wonder Woman. By isolating and September
repeating the moment of transformation — spinning figure, arms outstretched 6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp.
32 color illus.
— Birnbaum unmasks the technology at the heart of the metamorphosis. In this
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illustrated examination of Birnbaum’s video, T. J. Demos situates it in its histori- 978-1-84638-067-9
cal context — among other developments in postmodernist appropriation, media
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open up the transformative abilities of video as a medium.
One Work series
Demos examines Birnbaum’s influence on such artists as Douglas Gordon,
Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Candice Breitz, and the turn toward Distributed for Afterall Books
Cynical Reason, which confronted headlong the “enlightened false consciousness” Foreign Agents series
of Habermasian critical theory. Two decades later, after spending seven years in Distributed for Semiotext(e)
India studying Eastern philosophy, he is now attracting renewed interest for
his writings on politics and globalization and for his magnum opus Spheres, a
three-volume archaeology of the human attempt to dwell within spaces, from Also available from Semiotext(e)
TERROR FROM THE AIR
womb to globe: Bubbles, 1998; Globes, 1999; Foam, 2004, all forthcoming from
Peter Sloterdijk
Semiotext(e). 2009, 978-1-58435-072-9
In Neither Sun nor Death, Sloterdijk answers questions posed by German $14.95T/£11.95 paper
writer Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs, commenting on such issues as technological
mutation, development media, communication technologies, and his own
intellectual itinerary.
Iconoclastic and provocative, alternatively sparkling and
bombastic, a child of ’68 and a libertarian, Sloterdijk is the most
exciting and controversial German philosopher to appear on
the world scene since Nietzsche and Heidegger. Like Nietzsche,
Sloterdijk remains convinced that contemporary philosophers
have to think dangerously and let themselves be “kidnapped”
by contemporary “hypercomplexities”; they must forsake our
present humanist and nationalist world for a wider horizon at
once ecological and global.
Neither Sun nor Death is the best introduction available
to Sloterdijk’s philosophical theory of globalization. It reveals
a philosophe extraordinaire, encyclopedic and provocative, as
much at ease with current French Theory (Gilles Deleuze,
Paul Virilio, Gabriel Tarde) as with Heidegger and Indian
mystic Osho Rajneesh.
Peter Sloterdijk (b. 1947) is one of the best known and widely read
German intellectuals writing today. He became president of the State
Academy of Design at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe in
2001, and has been cohost of a discussion program, Der Philosophische
Quartett (Philosophical Quartet), on German television since 2002.
Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs is an anthropologist, writer, and publisher;
he lives in Germany and Spain.
NEW EDITION
ARCHEOLOGY OF VIOLENCE
Pierre Clastres
Clastres’s final, posthumous book
introduction by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
on the affirmative role of violence
in “primitive societies.” translated by Jeanine Herman
The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies
September entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is,
6 x 9, 240 pp.
the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is
$15.95T/£11.95 paper society against the State in that it is society-for-war.
978-1-58435-093-4
— from The Archeology of Violence
Foreign Agents series
Distributed for Semiotext(e) Anthropologist and ethnographer Pierre Clastres was a major influence on Gilles
Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, and his writings formed an essential
chapter in the discipline of political anthropology. The posthumous publication
Also available from Zone Books in French of Archeology of Violence in 1980 gathered together Clastres’s final
SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE
groundbreaking essays and the opening chapters of the book he had begun
Essays in Political Anthropology
Pierre Clastres before his death in 1977 at the age of 43. Elaborating upon the conclusions of
translated by Robert Hurley such earlier works as Society Against the State, in these essays Clastres critiques his
and Abe Stein
former mentor, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and devastatingly rejects the orthodoxy of
1989, 978-0-942299-01-4
$19.95T/£14.95 paper Marxist anthropology and other Western interpretive models of “primitive soci-
CHRONICLE OF THE
eties.” Discarding the traditional anthropological understanding of war among
GUAYAKI INDIANS South American Indians as arising from a scarcity of resources, Clastres instead
Pierre Clastres identifies violence among these peoples as a deliberate means to territorial seg-
translated by Paul Auster
2000, 978-0-942299-78-6
mentation and the avoidance of a State formation. In their refusal to separate
$19.95T/£14.95 paper the political from the social, and in their careful control of their tribal chiefs —
Not for sale in the U.K. and who are rendered weak so as to remain dependent on the communities they
British Commomwealth
except Canada
represent — the “savages” Clastres
presents prove to be shrewd political
minds who resist in advance any
attempt at “globalization.”
The essays in this, Clastres’s final
book, cover subjects ranging from
ethnocide and shamanism to “primitive”
power and economy, and are as vibrant
and engaging as they were thirty years
ago. This new edition — which includes
an introduction by Eduardo Viverios de
Castro — holds even more relevance for
readers in today’s era of malaise and
globalization.
Pierre Clastres (1934–1977) was a French
anthropologist and ethnologist who, in
the wake of the events of May ‘68, helped
overturn anthropological orthodoxy in the
1970s. His books include Society Against
the State (1974) and Chronicle of the Guayaki
Indians (1972). Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
is a Brazilian anthropologist and a professor
at the National Museum of the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro.
DIARY OF AN INNOCENT
Tony Duvert
translated with an introduction by Bruce Benderson
Now in English, Duvert’s shocking
I’d find it amusing if, in a few centuries, the only thing that our descendents condescend novel about a sexual adventurer
among a tribe of adolescent boys
to retain of our artistic production, the only thing in which they’ll see worlds to admire,
in Northern Africa.
to penetrate, the only thing that they’ll show off as precious in immense museums after
having flushed down the toilet all our acknowledged masterpieces, the only thing that
will give them nostalgia and love for us will be our porn. September
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— from Diary of an Innocent
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Exiled from the prestigious French literary circles that had adored him in the
1970s, novelist Tony Duvert’s life ended in anonymity. In 2008, nineteen years Native Agents series
after his last book was published, Duvert’s lifeless body was discovered in the Distributed for Semiotext(e)
small village of Thoré-la-Rochette, where he had been living a life of total
seclusion.
Also available from Semiotext(e)
Now for the first time, Duvert’s most highly crafted novel is available in
GOOD SEX ILLUSTRATED
English. Poetic, brutally frank, and outright shocking, Diary of an Innocent Tony Duvert
recounts the risky experiences of a sexual adventurer among a tribe of adolescent translated by Bruce Benderson
boys in an imaginary setting that suggests North Africa. More reverie than nar- 2007, 978-1-58435-043-9
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rative, Duvert’s Diary presents a cascading series of portraits of the narrator’s
PACIFIC AGONY
adolescent sexual partners and their culture, and ends with a fanciful yet
Bruce Benderson
rigorous construction of a reverse world in which marginal sexualities have 2009, 978-1-58435-082-8
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Written with gusto and infused with a luminous bitterness,
this novel is more unsettling to readers today than it was to its
first audience when published in French in 1976. In his openly
declared war on society, Duvert presents a worldview that
offers no easy moral code and no false narrative solution of
redemption. And yet no reader will remain untouched by the
book’s dazzling language, stinging wit, devotion to matters of
the heart, and terse condemnation of today’s society.
Tony Duvert (1945–2008) is the author of fourteen books of fiction and
nonfiction. His fifth novel, Paysage de fantaisie (Strange Landscape),
won the prestigious Prix Médicis in 1973. Other books translated
into English include the novel When Jonathan Died, and the scathing
critique of sex and society Good Sex Illustrated (Semiotext(e), 2007).
Novelist, translator, and essayist Bruce Benderson is the author of
a memoir, The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, winner of France’s
prestigious Prix de Flore in French translation, and Pacific Agony
(Semiotext(e), 2009).
politics/current affairs
philosophy/cultural studies
OBJECTIVITY
Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison
Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston The emergence of objectivity in
and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth- the mid-nineteenth-century
century sciences — and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, sciences, as revealed through
truth-to-nature and trained judgment. It is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused images in scientific atlases.
Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History
of Science in Berlin, Germany. She is the coauthor of Wonders and the
Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (1998) and the editor of Things That Talk:
Object Lessons from Art and Science (2004), both Zone Books. Peter
Galison is Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and
of Physics at Harvard University. He is the author of Einstein’s Clocks,
Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time, among other books, and coeditor
(with Emily Thompson) of The Architecture of Science (MIT Press, 1999).
cloth 2008
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“Anyone who wants to know how our use of mobile phones “If there is one book on climate change that President
is changing our social lives should read this book.” Barack Obama should read, it might well be Tyler Volk’s
— Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, CO2 Rising.”
The Virtual Community, and Smart Mob — Euan Nisbet, Nature Reports Climate Change
cloth 2008
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higher education/technology technology/media
cloth 2008
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Inside Technology series
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economics/health policy/law bioethics/health policy
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TACTICAL MEDIAARTHISTORIES
BIOPOLITICS edited by Oliver Grau
Art, Activism, and Digital art has become a major contemporary art form,
Technoscience but it has yet to achieve acceptance from mainstream
edited by Beatriz da Costa cultural institutions; it is rarely collected, and seldom
and Kavita Philip
included in the study of art history or other academic
foreword by Joseph Dumit
disciplines. In MediaArtHistories, leading scholars seek
Popular culture in this “biological to change this. They take a wider view of media art,
century” seems to feed on placing it against the backdrop of art history. Their
proliferating representations of the fears, anxieties, and essays demonstrate that today’s
hopes around the life sciences, at a time when such basic media art cannot be understood
concepts as scientific truth, race and gender identity, through technological details
and the human itself are destabilized in the public eye. alone; it cannot be understood
Tactical Biopolitics suggests that the political challenges without its history, and it must
at the intersection of life, science, and art are best be understood in proximity to
addressed through a combination of artistic interven- other disciplines — film, cultural
tion, critical theorizing, and reflective practices. and media studies, computer
Contributing authors practice and theorize biology science, philosophy, and sciences
(Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins, Fatimah Jackson, dealing with images.
Jonathan King), bioart (Paul Vanouse, SymbioticA, Contributors trace the evolution of digital art, from
Claire Pentecost), tactical media (Critical Art Ensemble, thirteenth-century Islamic mechanical devices and
subRosa), anthropology (Paul Rabinow, Gabriella eighteenth-century phantasmagoria, magic lanterns,
Coleman), critical theory (Eugene Thacker), sociology and other multimedia illusions, to Marcel Duchamp’s
(Troy Duster), science studies (Donna Haraway), inventions and 1960s kinetic and op art. They reex-
health activism (Mark Harrington), feminist science amine and redefine key media art theory terms —
fiction (Gwyneth Jones), and more. machine, media, exhibition — and consider the blurred
Beatriz da Costa does interventionist art using computing lines between art products and consumer products
and biotechnologies, and Kavita Philip studies colonialism, and between art images and science images. Finally,
neoliberalism, and technoscience using history and critical
theory. Both are Associate Professors at the University of MediaArtHistories offers an approach for an interdisci-
California, Irvine. plinary, expanded image science, which demands the
“trained eye” of art history.
“ Tactical Biopolitics is a snapshot of the state-of-the-art at
one of the farthest frontiers of interdisciplinary exploration.” Oliver Grau is Professor for Image Science and Dean of the
Department for Cultural Studies, Donau-Universität Krems.
— Cheryl A. Kerfeld, PLoS Biology
“Scholars who concentrate on the nonscientific aspects of “A rich selection of important texts by some of the most
bioscience and biotechnology are often identified with noteworthy figures in media art history, and together they
ethical and legal scholarship focused on a narrow range will do much to shape the content of this new discipline.”
of issues. It is therefore refreshing to find in Tactical — Charlie Gere, The Art Book
Biopolitics a diverse collection of essays that extend the September — 7 x 9, 488 pp. — 92 illus. in color and black & white
horizon of inquiry into the meanings and impacts of
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— David Castle, The Quarterly Review of Biology
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A Leonardo Book
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Winner, 2008 Best Information Science Book Award, presented by Helga Nowotny, one of the leading European voices in Science
Studies, is President of the European Research Council and
the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, University of Vienna.
(ASIST)
“A voice of distinctive elegance, clarity, and sophistication. . . .
“Science policy-makers would do well to refer to this book in
A little book full of big ideas, Insatiable Curiosity is
framing their aspirations for a scholarly infrastructure.”
something to think with and through.”
— Richard Akerman, Nature
— Edward J. Hackett, Science
“Comprehensive, comprehensible and authoritative.”
“Acknowledging the disorienting forces of change, Nowotny
— David Bawden, Journal of Documentation
nevertheless presents an eloquent, erudite argument for
September — 6 x 9, 360 pp.— 4 illus. embracing the future in all its ambiguity.”
$20.00S/£14.95 paper — Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science
978-0-262-51490-3 and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
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“The book is a tour de force by a great cognitive scientist “A veritable gold mine for all those who teach physics or
of science.” mathematics at high-school or college level. . . . A broad
— George Lakoff, Richard and Rhoda Goldman range of academics will find Applying Cognitive Science
Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and to Education intellectually stimulating.”
Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley — Elspeth Stern, Science
cloth 2008
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PROFESSIONAL
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Norie Neumark is Associate Professor of Media Arts and October — 7 x 9, 690 pp. — 532 illus.
Production at University of Technology, Sydney, and a sound $50.00S/£37.95 cloth
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Chandler) of At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism
on the Internet (MIT Press, 2005). Ross Gibson is Professor
of Contemporary Art, Sydney College of the Arts, University
of Sydney. Theo Van Leeuwen is Professor of Media and
Communication at University of Technology, Sydney.
LINGUISTICS
An Introduction to Language and Communication
Sixth Edition
Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demers, Ann K. Farmer, and A new edition of a popular
introductory linguistics text,
Robert M. Harnish
thoroughly updated and revised,
This popular introductory linguistics text is unique for its integration of themes. with new material and
Rather than treat morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics as new examples.
completely separate fields, the book shows how they interact. It provides a sound
introduction to linguistic methodology while encouraging students to consider Available
why people are intrinsically interested in language — the ultimate puzzle of the 7 x 9, 648 pp.
88 illus.
human mind.
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The text first addresses structural and interpretive parts of language, then
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edition, all chapters have been revised.
The organization of the book gives instructors flexibility in designing their
courses. Chapters have numerous subsections with core material
presented first and additional material following as special top-
ics. The accompanying workbook supplements the text with
exercises drawn from a variety of languages. The goal is to teach
basic conceptual foundations of linguistics and the methods of
argumentation, justification, and hypothesis
testing within the field. By presenting the most fundamental
linguistics concepts in detail, the text allows students to get a
feeling for how real work in different areas of linguistics is done.
The late Adrian Akmajian was Professor of Linguistics at the University
of Arizona. Richard A. Demers is Professor Emeritus of the Department
of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Ann K. Farmer is an
Information Engineer at Google. Robert M. Harnish is Professor
Emeritus of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Arizona.
world’s three billion or so poor eager to improve their standard of living. The
Environmental Politics of Sacrifice challenges these assumptions, arguing that
they limit our policy options, weaken our ability to imagine bold action for August
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change, and blind us to the ways sacrifice already figures in everyday life.
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The chapters bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives to the topic.
Contributors offer alternatives to the conventional wisdom on sacrifice; identify
connections between sacrifice and human fulfillment in everyday life, finding CONTRIBUTORS
such concrete examples as parents’ sacrifices in raising children, religious prac- Peter Cannavò
Shane Gunster
tice, artists’ pursuit of their art, and soldiers and policemen who risk their lives Cheryl Hall
to do their jobs; and examine particular policies and practices that shape our Karen Litfin
understanding of environmental problems, including the carbon tax, incentives Michael Maniates
John M. Meyer
for cyclists, and the perils of green consumption. The Environmental Politics of Simon Nicholson
Sacrifice puts “sacrifice” firmly into the conversation about effective environmen- Anna Peterson
tal politics and policies, insisting that activists and scholars do more than change Thomas Princen
Sudhir Chella Rajan
the subject when the idea is introduced. Paul Wapner
Michael Maniates is Professor of Political Science and Environmental Justin Williams
Science at Allegheny College. He is the coeditor, with Thomas Princen
and Ken Conca, of Confronting Consumption (MIT Press, 2002).
John M. Meyer is Professor and Chair in the Department of Politics
at Humboldt State University. He is the author of Political Nature:
Environmentalism and the Interpretation of Western Thought
(MIT Press, 2001).
MIT COGNET
The Brain Sciences Connection
MIT CogNet (http://cognet.mit.edu/) is the primary online location for the brain
and cognitive science community’s scientific research and interchange. Since its “A new model for how scientific
inception in 2000, CogNet has become an essential resource for those interested publishing will look in the
in cutting-edge primary research across the range of fields concerned with under- twenty-first century is already
standing the nature of the human mind. CogNet includes ten major reference being tested today in CogNet.”
works published by the MIT Press; more than 408 MIT Press books in searchable,
— Terrence J. Sejnowski,
full-text PDF; the full text of six MIT Press journals and abstracts from more
Professor, Salk Institute;
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arts and humanities arts and humanities
Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds, Bevis 1 Carens, The Case for Amnesty 26
Absence of Work, Haidu 20 Case for Amnesty, Carens 26
Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property, Causing Human Actions, Aguilar 76
Krikorian 50 Cesal, Down Detour Road 22
Action, Ethics, and Responsibility, Campbell 77 Choi, Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else 23
Agar, Humanity’s End 86 Cinematic Mythmaking, Singer 56
Agony of Power, Baudrillard 44 Cinque, The Syntax of Adjectives 88
Agreement and Head Movement, Roberts 89 Circuit Design and Simulation with VHDL, second edition,
Aguilar, Causing Human Actions 76 Pedroni 91
Air, Knechtel 28 Clastres, Archeology of Violence, 46
Akmajian, Linguistics, sixth edition 87 CO2 Rising, Volk 53
Allure of Machinic Life, Johnston 70 Color for the Sciences, Koenderink 79
America Identified, Nelson 72 Comingled Code, Lerner 92
Applying Cognitive Science to Education, Reif 67 Computer Boys Take Over, Ensmenger 71
Archeology of Violence, Clastres 46 Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care, Lynch 61
Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else, Choi 23 Contending with Terrorism, Brown 98
Arguments as Relations, Bowers 88 Creating Scientific Concepts, Nersessian 67
Artwork Caught by the Tail, Baker 56 Crimp, Mixed Use, Manhattan 16
Ascher, Knowledge and Environmental Policy 100 Curio, Dynamic Faces 83
Aspray, The Internet and American Business 65 da Costa, Tactical Biopolitics 63
Atlas of Science, Börner 38 Dara Birnbaum, Demos 41
Audio Programming Book, Boulanger 79 Daston, Objectivity 51
Auditory Neuroscience, Schnupp 85 Dauvergne, The Shadows of Consumption 54
Austin, Zen-Brain Reflections 58 De Grauwe, Dimensions of Competitiveness 96
Baker, The Artwork Caught by the Tail 56 Demos, Dara Birnbaum 41
Bartlett, FashionEast 12 Denning, The Innovator’s Way 8
Baudrillard, The Agony of Power 44 Design for Ecological Democracy, Hester 54
Bechtel, Discovering Complexity 77 Designing Media, Moggridge 3
Becoming MIT, Kaiser 39 Designing Sound, Farnell 78
Bennett, The Privacy Advocates 65 Diary of an Innocent, Duvert 47
Besley, Institutional Microeconomics of Development 97 Digital Media and Democracy, Boler 62
Bevis, Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds 1 Dimensions of Competitiveness, De Grauwe 96
Blum, Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists 32 Discovering Complexity, Bechtel 77
Bogdan, Our Own Minds 74 Down Detour Road, Cesal 22
Bogost, Newsgames 5 Duvert, Diary of an Innocent 47
Bogost, Persuasive Games 62 Dynamic Coordination in the Brain, von der Malsburg 85
Bolender, The Self-Organizing Social Mind 83 Dynamic Faces, Curio 83
Boler, Digital Media and Democracy 62 Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain, Nicolson 69
Booth, Peer Participation and Software 81 Embick, Localism versus Globalism in Morphology and
Bordowitz, General Idea 40 Phonology 89
Boulanger, The Audio Programming Book 79 English, How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness 57
Brown, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty 48 Fairlie, Race and Entrepreneurial Success 60
Feenstra, Product Variety and the Gains from International Japan’s Bubble, Deflation, and Long-term Stagnation,
Trade 93 Kashyap 94
Fields, Genetic Twists of Fate 7 Jin, Korea’s Online Gaming Empire 81
Flanagin, Kids and Credibility 81 Johnston, The Allure of Machinic Life 70
Flinn, The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes 94 Josephson, Lenin’s Laureate 34
Food Justice, Gottlieb 29 Kaiser, Becoming MIT 39
Freud's Mexico, Gallo 15 Kashyap, Japan’s Bubble, Deflation, and Long-term
Frey, Happiness 60 Stagnation 94
Ghosal, Reforming Rules and Regulations 97 Korea's Online Gaming Empire, Jin 81
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INDEX
Nicolson, Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain 69 Smil, Prime Movers of Globalization 31
Parentonomics, Gans 52 The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes, Flinn 94
Peer Participation and Software, Booth 81 Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise, Gorman 73
Prime Movers of Globalization, Smil 31 von der Malsburg, Dynamic Coordination in the Brain 85
Product Variety and the Gains from International Trade, Wirelessness, Mackenzie 80
Feenstra 93 Young, Institutional Dynamics 98
Push Comes to Shove, Lavin 13 Yu, Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering 90
Race and Entrepreneurial Success, Fairlie 60 Zen-Brain Reflections, Austin 58
Reagle, Good Faith Collaboration 36
Reason and Resonance, Erlmann 49
Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution, Horn 73
Rediscovering Empathy, Stueber 68
Reforming Rules and Regulations, Ghosal 97
Reif, Applying Cognitive Science to Education 67
Revisiting Keynes, Pecchi 59
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