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  • Giving Bodies Back to Data

    Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology

    de Silvia Casini ...
    Series series Leonardo
    An examination of the bodily, situated aspects of data-visualization work, looking at visualization practices around the development of MRI technology.Our bodies are scanned, probed, imaged, sampled, and transformed into data by clinicians and technologists. In this book, Silvia Casini reveals the affective relations and materiality that turn data into image--and in so doing, gives bodies back to ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • The Age of Spiritual Machines

    When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

    de Ray Kurzweil ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review).“Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of ... Leer más

    Antes $14.99 USD Ahora $7.99 USD

  • Information

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Luciano Floridi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet. Some say we suffer from 'infoglut'. But what is information? The concept of 'information' is a profound one, rooted in mathematics, central to whole branches of science, yet with implications on every aspect of our everyday lives: DNA provides the information to ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Transhumanist Reader

    Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future

    Edición de Max More, Natasha Vita-More ...
    The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinkingThe rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core writings by seminal thinkers in the speculative possibilities of the posthuman condition, essays address key philosophical arguments for and against ... Leer más

    $42.00 USD

  • The Amazing Journey of Reason

    from DNA to Artificial Intelligence

    de Mario Alemi ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This Open Access book explores questions such as why and how did the first biological cells appear? And then complex organisms, brains, societies and –now– connected human societies? Physicists have good models for describing the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang, but can we apply the same concepts to the evolution of aggregated matter –living matter included? The Amazing Journey ... Leer más

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  • Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog

    Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century

    de Harry Collins ...
    "In part an account of sociological fieldwork among scientists in the field and part astronomy-history mystery. . . . a terrific read." — NatureGravity's Ghost and Big Dog brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but also ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sonic Warfare

    Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

    de Steve Goodman ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Parallel Minds

    Discovering the Intelligence of Materials

    de Laura Tripaldi, Matteo de Giuli ...
    Insights into the intelligence throughout the natural and technical environment, in the fabric of our devices and dwellings, in our clothes, and under our skin.Is there a way to understand the materials that surround us not as passive objects, but as other intelligences interacting with our own? In Parallel Minds, expert in materials science and nanotechnology Laura Tripaldi delivers not only ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013

    Edición de Mircea Pitici ...
    Series series The Best Writing on Mathematics
    The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world, with a foreword by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger PenroseThis annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013 makes available to a wide audience many articles not ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • The Rhythmic Event

    Art, Media, and the Sonic

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Relive

    Media Art Histories

    Edición de Sean Cubitt, Paul Thomas ...
    Series series Leonardo
    Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future.In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories of these arts? These scholars and practitioners redefine the nature of the field, focusing on the materials ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Archaeologies of Touch

    Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD