The Mit Press: 939 books
Moving without a Body
Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
A radically empirical exploration of movement and technology and the transformations of choreography in a digital realm.
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information....
Feeling Beauty
The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry.
In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions...
by Andrea Moro
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible “fingerprint” of human language.
Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy,...
Ambient Commons
Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and...
Collaborative Media
Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
A thorough analysis of contemporary digital media practices, showing how people increasingly not only consume but also produce and even design media.
With many new forms of digital media–including such popular social media as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr—the people formerly known as the...
Living Well Now and in the Future
Why Sustainability Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
A philosopher and a scientist propose that sustainability can be understood as living well together without diminishing opportunity to live well in the future.
Most people acknowledge the profound importance of sustainability, but few can define it. We are ethically bound to live sustainably...
by John R. Stilgoe
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.
“Mr. Stilgoe does not ask that we take his book outdoors with us; he believes that reading and experiencing landscapes are activities that should be kept separate. But, as I learned in his book, the hollow storage area in a car...
Robot Ethics
The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war.
Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to...
by Lev Manovich
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema.
In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries....
Technologies of Vision
The War Between Data and Images
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
An investigation of the computational turn in visual culture, centered on the entangled politics and pleasures of data and images.
If the twentieth century was tyrannized by images, then the twenty-first is ruled by data. In Technologies of Vision, Steve Anderson argues that visual culture...
Playing with Sound
A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
An examination of the player's experience of sound in video games and the many ways that players interact with the sonic elements in games.
In Playing with Sound, Karen Collins examines video game sound from the player's perspective. She explores the many ways that players interact with a game's...
Workflow Management
Models, Methods, and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2004
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to workflow management, the management of business processes with information technology. By defining, analyzing, and redesigning an organization's resources and operations, workflow management systems ensure that the right information reaches the right...
by Thomas H. Cormen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
For anyone who has ever wondered how computers solve problems, an engagingly written guide for nonexperts to the basics of computer algorithms.
Have you ever wondered how your GPS can find the fastest way to your destination, selecting one route from seemingly countless possibilities in mere...
by Murray Shanahan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence.
The idea that human history is approaching a “singularity”—that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines...