MIT PRESS
(H/B) THE ADVENTURE
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0356
Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one's life as an adventure - not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding that adventure, as a spec... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) ENERGY AND CIVILIZATION
A HISTORY
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0458 A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization. Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows-ranging from fossil fue... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) NIHILISM
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0412 An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters. When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, "an ideology of nothing. " Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? Or is it the belief that life is nothing? Or the belief that the beliefs we have amount to nothing? If we can learn to recognize the many varieties of nihilism, Nolen Gertz writes, then we can learn to distinguish what is... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) JOURNEY TO THE EAST
EDITED, ANNOTATED, TRANSLATED AND WITH A NEW PREFACE BY IVAN ZAKNIC
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0160 This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe in 1911. In a flood of highly personal impressions and visual notations, it records his first contact with the vernacular architecture that would preoccupy him for the rest of his life and his first sight of the monuments he most admired: the mosque complexes, the Acropolis, and the Parthenon. Le Corbusier himself suppressed publication of this book during ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE GLOBAL CONTEMPORARY AND THE RISE OF NEW ARTS WORLDS
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0459
Mapping the new geography of the visual arts, from the explosion of biennials to the emerging art markets in Asia and the Middle East. The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin. The art world distributed itself into art worlds. With the emergence of new art scenes in Asia and the Middle East and the explosion of biennials, the visual arts have become globalized as ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) SIGNS OF LIFE
BIO ART AND BEYOND
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0460
The theory and practice of bio art, a new art form that uses the materials and processes of biotechnology, with examples of work by such prominent artists as Eduardo Kac and Marc Quinn. Bio art is a new art form that has emerged from the cultural impact and increasing accessibility of contemporary biotechnology. Signs of Life is the first book to focus exclusively on art that uses biotechnology as its medium, defining and discussing the theoretical and historical implications of bio art and offering examples of work by prominent artists. B... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(H/B) A FATHER
PUZZLE
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0422
The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father. "When I was born, my father was already no longer there." Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan's first marriage: the fruit of despair ("some will say of desire, but I do no... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE CRISIS OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0187
The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representative democracy. Described both as "the Hobbes of our age" and as "the philosophical godfather of Nazism," Carl Schmitt was a brilliant and controversial political theorist whose doctrine of political leadership and critique of liberal democratic ideals distinguish him as one of the most original contributors to modern political theory. The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representati... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0433
The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence. The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity"-that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both-has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at its current dizzying rat... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) COMPUTING
A CONCISE HISTORY
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0274
The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful perspective. He identifies four major threads that run throughout all of computing's technological development: digitization--the coding of information, computation... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) WASTE
A NEW PRIMER (VOLUME 13)
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0391
On Facebook and fake news, selfies and self-consciousness, selling our souls to the Internet, and other aspects of the digital revolution. With these engaging and provocative essays, Roberto Simanowski considers what new media has done to us. Why is digital privacy being eroded and why does society seem not to care? Why do we escape from living and loving the present into capturing, sharing and liking it? And how did we arrive at a selfie society without self-consciousness? Simanowski, who has been studying the Internet and social media s... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(H/B) PUBLISHING MANIFESTOS
AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY FROM ARTISTS AND WRITERS
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0429 Manifestos by artists, authors, editors, publishers, designers, zinesters explore publishing as artistic practice. Independent publishing, art publishing, publishing as artistic practice, publishing counterculture, and the zine, DIY, and POD scenes have proliferated over the last two decades. So too have art book fairs, an increasingly important venue-or even medium-for art. Art publishing experienced a similar boom in the 1960s and 1970s, in response to the culture's "linguistic turn." Today, art publishing confronts the internet and the... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) LOOKING AWRY
AN INTRODUCTION TO JACQUES LACAN THROUGH POPULAR CULTURE
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0096
Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements in Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan through the works of contemporary popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films. (From the publisher) "Zizek is a one-person culture mulcher. Flinging out readings of film noir or Hitchcock's The Birds, drawing maps of the unconscious, analyzing the commodity form, Stephen King, or Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, be plays the ph... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) MATADATA
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0386
Everything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day. When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone calls - information about the caller, the recipient, the time, the duration, the location - and not recordings of... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) DYNAMIC MACROECONOMICS
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0456
An advanced treatment of modern macroeconomics, presented through a sequence of dynamic equilibrium models, with discussion of the implications for monetary and fiscal policy. This textbook offers an advanced treatment of modern macroeconomics, presented through a sequence of dynamic general equilibrium models based on intertemporal optimization on the part of economic agents. The book treats macroeconomics as applied and policy-oriented general equilibrium analysis, examining a number of models, each of which is suitable for investigatin... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) ENLIVENMENT
TOWARD A POETICS FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0436
A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature. We have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In Enlivenment, German philosopher Andreas Weber presents an alternative understanding of our relationship with nature, arguing not that humans control nature but that humans and nature exist in a commons of mutual transformation. There is no nature-human dualism, he contends, because the fundamental dim... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(H/B) THE ENDS GAME
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0455
How some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce by pursuing "ends"-actual outcomes-rather than selling "means"-their products and services. Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car or transportation? A theater performance or entertainment? In The Ends Game, Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg describe how some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce: instead of selling the "means" (products and services), they adopt innovative revenue models to pursue the "en... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(H/B) THE DEEP LEARNING REVOLUTION
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0378
How deep learning - from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants - is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy. The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning networks can play poker better than professional poker players and defeat a world champion at Go. In this book, Terry Sejnowski explains how deep le... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(H/B) DEEP LEARNING
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0445
Deep learning is a form of machine learning that enables computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. Because the computer gathers knowledge from experience, there is no need for a human computer operator to formally specify all the knowledge that the computer needs. The hierarchy of concepts allows the computer to learn complicated concepts by building them out of simpler ones; a graph of these hierarchies would be many layers deep. This book introduces a broad range of topics in deep le... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) CARBON CAPTURE
Εκδότης: MIT PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 2615-0417
A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway. The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), and these CO2 emissions are a major driver of climate change. Carbon capture offers a path to climate change mitigation that has received relatively little attention. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Howard Herzog offers a concise guide to carbon capture, covering basic information as well as the larger context of climate technolo... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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