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  • Choreomata

    Performance and Performativity after AI

    Edited by Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks ...
    Is artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more and more expressive, or is human thought adopting more and more structures from computation? What does it mean to perform oneself through AI, or to construct one’s subjectivity through AI? How does AI continue to complicate what it means to have a body? Has the golden age of AI, especially with regards to creative applications, already ended?Choreomata ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

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    Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism

    by Leif Weatherby ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    How generative AI systems capture a core function of languageLooking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a convergence of computation and language, Leif Weatherby contends that AI does not simulate cognition, as ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Discognition

    by Steven Shaviro ...
    What is consciousness? What is it like to feel pain, or to see the color red? Do robots and computers really think? For that matter, do plants and amoebas think? If we ever meet intelligent aliens, will we be able to understand what they say to us? Philosophers and scientists are still unable to answer questions like these. Perhaps science fiction can help. In Discognition, Steven Shaviro looks at ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Promise of Artificial Intelligence

    Reckoning and Judgment

    by Brian Cantwell Smith ...
    An AI expert argues that—despite dramatic advances in the field—artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent.In this provocative book, Brian Cantwell Smith argues that artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. Second-wave AI, machine learning, even visions of third-wave AI: none will lead to human-level ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Nonhuman Turn

    Edited by Richard Grusin ...
    Series series 21st Century Studies
    Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize—and therefore consolidate—a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each of these approaches is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Literary Gaming

    by Astrid Ensslin ...
    A new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works.In this book, Astrid Ensslin examines literary videogames—hybrid digital artifacts that have elements of both games and literature, combining the ludic and the literary. These works can be considered verbal art in the broadest sense (in that language plays ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Playing with Feelings

    Video Games and Affect

    by Aubrey Anable ...
    How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and codeWhy do we so compulsively play video games? Might it have something to do with how gaming affects our emotions? In Playing with Feelings, scholar Aubrey Anable applies affect theory to game studies, arguing that video games let us “rehearse” feelings, states, and emotions that give new tones and textures to our everyday lives and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Media Poetry

    An International Anthology

    Edited by Eduardo Kac ...
    The first international anthology to document a radically new poetry which takes language beyond the confines of the printed page into a non-linear world of digital interactivity and hyperlinkage. The work of the poets discussed in this book challenges even the innovations of experimental poetics. It embraces new technologies to explore a new syntax made of linear and non-linear animation, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Archaeologies of Touch

    Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing

    by David Parisi ...
    A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and mediaSince the rise of radio and television, we have lived in an era defined increasingly by the electronic circulation of images and sounds. But the flood of new computing technologies known as haptic interfaces—which use electricity, vibration, and force feedback to stimulate the sense of ... Read more

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  • The Semiotics of Emoji

    The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet

    by Professor Marcel Danesi ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer variety of verbal communication on the internet and English's still-controversial role as lingua mundi for the web, these icons have emerged as a ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Switching Codes

    Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

    Edited by Thomas Bartscherer, Roderick Coover ...
    Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion.Responding to this challenge, Switching Codes brings ... Read more

    $45.19 CAD

  • Ideal Subjects

    The Abstract People of AI

    by Olga Goriunova ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    How data and artificial intelligence create a new, abstract digital subjectIdeal Subjects examines how samples of our lives and daily behaviors have come to reside in the world of data and artificial intelligence—and what this means for who we are and what we may become. Detailing how AI-facilitated algorithmic prediction and data modeling make “ideal subjects” of us, Olga Goriunova explores the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD