Technology & Engineering
Exterranean
Phillip John Usher
Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean eschews the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across periods and languages. congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across periods and languages.
ISBN: 9780823284214
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Being Brains
Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega
Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms across a range of contexts, including mental health, the human sciences, and literature and film.
ISBN: 9780823283682
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Cool
Salvatore Basile
A narrative history of the development of air conditioning from its beginnings to its current state, with an emphasis on its reception by members of the public.
ISBN: 9780823271788
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Strategies for Media Reform
Jonathan A. Obar, Jonathan Obar, Cheryl Martens and Robert W. McChesney
Edited by Des Freedman
This collection brings together strategies for advancing media reform, prepared by 33 scholars and activists from around the world. Chapters consider how best to secure change in areas including media ownership, media literacy, net neutrality, community radio, online surveillance and public service broadcasting.
ISBN: 9780823271658
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Husserl's Missing Technologies
Don Ihde
Don Ihde, contemporary postphenomenological philosopher of science and technology—technoscience—examines the important philosophical role of Husserl, here in relation to technologies, and his classical phenomenology. With concrete analyses of both the science of Husserl’s time and a retrospective reading from new technoscience interpretations, scientific instruments, technologies of reading and writing, and new imaging technologies are discussed.
ISBN: 9780823269617
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Upside-Down Gods
Peter Harries-Jones
Human survival requires a reorientation of science away from its exclusive technical and materialist premises focused on control, towards feedback and relational processes of organism-plus-environment. Gregory Bateson’s holistic approach unites culture, communication, psychology, biology and ecology within a single trans-disciplinary enquiry substituting pattern, perceptual difference, and relations for ‘thinginess’ of scientific data.
ISBN: 9780823270354
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The Ethnography of Rhythm
Haun Saussy
A history of the concept of orality (that is, the creation and transmission of literary works without the use of writing), this book shows awareness of this medium emerging from the encounter of many literary and scientific developments (romanticism, post-symbolism, structuralism; physiology, psychology, the study of expression, anthropology; phonography, cinema).
ISBN: 9780823270477
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Earth, Life, and System
Edited by Bruce Clarke
Earth, Life & System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet explores the multiple themes of Lynn Margulis’s science: microbial evolution, ecology and symbiosis, the coupled interactions of environment and life in Gaia theory, and the connections of these newer scientific ideas to cultural and creative productions.
ISBN: 9780823265251
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Beyond Broadband Access
Edited by Richard D. Taylor and Amit M. Schejter
After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding “information societies”? And, more important, in shaping their policies? Beyond counting people with broadband access,...
ISBN: 9780823251841
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Deus in Machina
Edited by Jeremy Stolow
This interdisciplinary volume explores how two domains of human experience and action–religion and technology–are implicated in one another. Combining rich historical and ethnographic detail with extended theoretical reflection, Deus in Machina challenges longstanding assumptions about religion and/as technology and outlines new directions of inquiry at the crossroads of religious studies, science and technology studies, communication studies, history, anthropology, and philosophy.
ISBN: 9780823249817
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Advances in Cyber Security
Edited by D. Frank Hsu and Dorothy Marinucci
Advances in Cyber Security provides, in a technical yet easy to understand fashion, a real life story of the evolving cyberspace ecosystem from the perspectives of structure, function, and application. It also provides ways and means to secure and sustain this ecosystem by the collective wisdom of professionals and practitioners from government, academia, and industry across national and international boundaries.
ISBN: 9780823244577
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New York's Golden Age of Bridges
Joan Marans Dim
In New York’s Golden Age of Bridges, artist Antonio Masi’s paintings and Joan Marans Dim’s text encourage the understanding and appreciation of the art and history of the city’s nine “Golden-Age” bridges, explore the connections they’ve fostered, and reveal their impact on the city, nation, and world.
ISBN: 9780823240654
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Technology For Humanitarian Action
Edited by Kevin M. Cahill
Humanitarian workers around the world struggle under dangerous conditions. Yet many do not have the technological tools readily available elsewhere to help them realize their mission to provide essential...
ISBN: 9780823223947
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High Tech Medicine:
Mindi McKenna and Daniel Z. Sands
This timely book is a practical, easy-to-use guide to using computers and web-based resources to improve all aspects of a medical practice.Expertly blending critical issues in technology,...
ISBN: 9781886761308
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