Goldsmiths Press: 9 books

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Sonic Agency

Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance

by Brandon LaBelle
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018

A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change. In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics. From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William...
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by Mark Thompson, Jon Thoday, Amanda D. Lotz
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology. Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers,...
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by Bruce Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019

A unique exploration of the history of the bicycle in cinema, from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films. Cycling and Cinema explores the history of the bicycle in cinema from the late nineteenth century through to the present...
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Future Gaming

Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture

by Paolo Ruffino
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

A sophisticated critical take on contemporary game culture that reconsiders the boundaries between gamers and games. This book is not about the future of video games. It is not an attempt to predict the moods of the market, the changing profile of gamers, the benevolence or malevolence of the...
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Many Splendored Things

Thinking Sex and Play

by Susanna Paasonen
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018

Exploring sex—bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections—in terms of play and playfulness. We all know that sex involves a quest for pleasure, that sexual palates vary across people's lifespans, and that playful experimentations play a key role in how people discover their...
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Bikes and Bloomers

Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear

by Kat Jungnickel
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

An illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear. The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives—cycle wear. This illustrated account...
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Liberalism in Neoliberal Times

Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits

by William Davies, David Chandler, Costas Douzinas
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017

An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today. What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...
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Academic Diary

Or Why Higher Education Still Matters

by Les Back
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016

Sharp and witty observations of academic life that range from the local to the global, from PowerPoint to the halls of power. Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed near Twitter? In Academic Diary, Les Back has chronicled...
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