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Thinking Media eBook Series

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  • Technológos in Being

    Radical Media Archaeology & the Computational Machine

    by Wolfgang Ernst ...
    Series series Thinking Media
    Wolfgang Ernst's new work, Technológos in Being, in its explicit media-scientific approach, aligns with the politics of the thinking media series to publish innovative works that advance media studies towards the 'new sciences.'Ernst's invites readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies: the conviction that an extended understanding of "medium" needs to include a concept of materiality that ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

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  • Reality+

    Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

    by David J. Chalmers ...
    **One of the Washington Post's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it.**Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He ... Read more

    $20.59 CAD

  • Science Fiction and Philosophy

    From Time Travel to Superintelligence

    Edited by Susan Schneider ...
    A timely volume that uses science fiction as a springboard to meaningful philosophical discussions, especially at points of contact between science fiction and new scientific developments.Raises questions and examines timely themes concerning the nature of the mind, time travel, artificial intelligence, neural enhancement, free will, the nature of persons, transhumanism, virtual reality, and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Keith Frankish, William M. Ramsey ...
    Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding, modeling, and creating intelligence of various forms. It is a critical branch of cognitive science, and its influence is increasingly being felt in other areas, including the humanities. AI applications are transforming the way we interact with each other and with our environment, and work in artificially modeling ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Artificial Intelligence

    A New Synthesis

    by Nils J. Nilsson ...
    Series series The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence
    Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in AI. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks, planning, and language ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD

  • Digital Art and Meaning

    Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

    by Roberto Simanowski ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to interpret and evaluate them. This is where Roberto Simanowski intervenes, demonstrating how such ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Singularity

    Could artificial intelligence really out-think us (and would we want it to)?

    by Uziel Awret ...
    This volume represents the combination of two special issues of the Journal of Consciousness Studies on the topic of the technological singularity. Could artificial intelligence really out-think us, and what would be the likely repercussions if it could? Leading authors contribute to the debate, which takes the form of a target chapter by philosopher David Chalmers, plus commentaries from the ... Read more

    $35.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • The Rhythmic Event

    Art, Media, and the Sonic

    by Eleni Ikoniadou ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An investigation into the affective modes of perception, temporality, and experience enabled by experimental new media sonic art.The sonic has come to occupy center stage in the arts and humanities. In the age of computational media, sound and its subcultures can offer more dynamic ways of accounting for bodies, movements, and events. In The Rhythmic Event, Eleni Ikoniadou explores traces and ... Read more

    $31.99 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

    $35.19 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

    $30.79 CAD

  • The Architecture of Information

    Architecture, Interaction Design and the Patterning of Digital Information

    by Martyn Dade-Robertson ...
    This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between information and its representation.Despite its potential to break the mould, digital information has relied on metaphors from a pre-digital era. ... Read more

    $109.92 CAD