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Thinking Through Data - How Outliers, Aggregates, And Patterns Shape Perception

by Maja Bak Herrie

~~23,84€~~ 21,46€ 10% OFF

 We encounter digital data processing on a range of platforms and in a multitude of contexts today. This fascinating book explores the historical context of the current data-driven paradigm and explains how elusive yet crucial statistical concepts such as outliers, aggregates, and patterns form how we sense and make sense of data.
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Technoskepticism - Between Possibility And Refusal

by Disco Network

~~15,89€~~ 14,30€ 10% OFF

 From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create and how refusal of new technologies is an especially powerful mode, particularly for those who have historically not been given the option to say no.
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Organizing Color - Toward A Chromatics Of The Social

by Timon Beyes

~~30,46€~~ 27,41€ 10% OFF

 <p>We live in a world that is saturated with color, but how should we make sense of color''s force and capacities? This book develops a theory of color as fundamental medium of the social. </p><p>Constructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years, <i>Organizing Color</i> demonstrates how the interests of capital, management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with color''s allure and flux. Beyes takes readers from Goethe''s chocolate experiments in search of chromatic transformation to nineteenth-century Scottish cotton mills designed to modulate workers'' moods and productivity, from the colonial production of Indigo in India to globalized categories of skin colorism and their disavowal. Tracing the consumption, control and excess of industrial and digital color, other chapters stage encounters with the literary chromatics of Pynchon''s <i>Gravity''s Rainbow</i> processing the machinery of the chemical industries, the red of political revolt in Godard''s films, and the blur of education and critique in Steyerl''s <i>Adorno''s Grey</i>.</p><p>Contributing to a more general reconsideration of aesthetic capitalism and the role of sensory media, this book seeks to pioneer a theory of social organization—a "chromatics of organizing"—that is attuned to the protean and world-making capacity of color.</p>
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White Musical Mythologies - Sonic Presence In Modernism

by Edmund Mendelssohn

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard VarÃ¨se with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the avant-garde ideal of ""pure sound"" was always an expression of western ethnocentrism.
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Malicious Deceivers - Thinking Machines And Performative Objects

by Ioana B. Jucan

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 <p>In <i>Malicious Deceivers</i>, Ioana B. Jucan traces a genealogy of post-truth intimately tied to globalizing modernity and connects the production of repeatable fakeness with capitalism and Cartesian metaphysics. Through case studies that cross times and geographies, the book unpacks the notion of fakeness through the related logics of dissimulation (deception) and simulation (performativity) as seen with software/AI, television, plastics, and the internet. Specifically, Jucan shows how these (dis)simulation machines and performative objects construct impoverished pictures of the world, ensuring a repeatable sameness through processes of hollowing out embodied histories and lived experience. </p><p>Through both its methodology and its subjects-objects of study, the book further seeks ways to counter the abstracting mode of thinking and the processes of voiding performed by the twinning of Cartesian metaphysics and global capitalism. Enacting a model of creative scholarship rooted in the tradition of writing as performance, Jucan, a multimedia performance-maker and theater director, uses the embodied "I" as a framing and situating device for the book and its sites of investigation. In this way, she aims to counter the Cartesian voiding of the thinking "I" and to enact a different kind of relationship between self and world from the one posited by Descartes and replayed in much Western philosophical and — more broadly — academic writing: a relationship of separation that situates the "I" on a pedestal of abstraction that voids it of its embodied histories and fails to account for its positionality within a socio-historical context and the operations of power that define it.</p>
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Communicology - Mutations In Human Relations?

by Vilém Flusser

37,10€ + 10% CARD

 <p><i>Communicology</i> is Vilém Flusser''s first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomenon that permeates every aspect of human existence. Clearly organized around questions such as "What is Communication?," "What are Codes?," and "What is Technical Imagination?," the work touches on theater, photography, film, television, and more. Originally written in 1978, but only posthumously published in German, the book is one of the clearest statements of Flusser''s theory of communication as involving a variably mediated relation between humans and the world. Although Flusser was writing in the 1970s, his work demonstrates a prescience that makes it of significant contemporary interest to scholars in visual culture, art history, media studies, and philosophy.</p>
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My Life As An Artificial Creative Intelligence

by Mark Amerika

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 <p><b>A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum.</b></p><p>Is it possible that creative artists have more in common with machines than we might think?</p><p>Employing an improvisational call-and-response writing performance coauthored with an AI text generator, remix artist and scholar Mark Amerika, interrogates how his own "psychic automatism" is itself a nonhuman function strategically designed to reveal the poetic attributes of programmable worlds still unimagined. Through a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum, Amerika critically reflects on whether creativity itself is, at root, a nonhuman information behavior that emerges from an onto-operational presence experiencing an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility. Amerika engages with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations. He draws from jazz performance, beatnik poetry, Buddhist thought, and surrealism to suggest that his own artificial creative intelligence operates as a finely tuned remix engine continuously training itself to build on the history of avant-garde art and writing.</p><p>Playful and provocative, <i>My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence</i> flips the script on contemporary AI research that attempts to build systems that perform more like humans, instead self-reflexively making a very nontraditional argument about AI''s impact on society and its relationship to the cosmos.</p>
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Law And Media

by Cornelia Vismann

~~24,32€~~ 21,89€ 10% OFF

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Law And Media

by Cornelia Vismann

~~102,74€~~ 92,47€ 10% OFF

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Communicology - Mutations In Human Relations?

by Vilém Flusser

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Chinese Media Improvisations - Thriving On Deficits

by Xuenan Cao

~~32,43€~~ 29,19€ 10% OFF

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Chinese Media Improvisations - Thriving On Deficits

by Xuenan Cao

~~140,60€~~ 126,54€ 10% OFF

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Cultural Techniques Of Biosensing - A History Of The Body In Error

by Christopher O'Neill

~~75,71€~~ 68,14€ 10% OFF

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Unseparate - Modernism, Interdisciplinary Art, And Network Aesthetics

by Steven Henry Madoff

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Unseparate - Modernism, Interdisciplinary Art, And Network Aesthetics

by Steven Henry Madoff

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Thinking Through Data - How Outliers, Aggregates, And Patterns Shape Perception

by Maja Bak Herrie

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 We encounter digital data processing on a range of platforms and in a multitude of contexts today. This fascinating book explores the historical context of the current data-driven paradigm and explains how elusive yet crucial statistical concepts such as outliers, aggregates, and patterns form how we sense and make sense of data.
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Thinking Through Data - How Outliers, Aggregates, And Patterns Shape Perception

by Maja Bak Herrie

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White Musical Mythologies - Sonic Presence In Modernism

by Edmund Mendelssohn

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 Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard VarÃ¨se with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the avant-garde ideal of ""pure sound"" was always an expression of western ethnocentrism.
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White Musical Mythologies - Sonic Presence In Modernism

by Edmund Mendelssohn

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 Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard VarÃ¨se with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the avant-garde ideal of ""pure sound"" was always an expression of western ethnocentrism.
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Malicious Deceivers - Thinking Machines And Performative Objects

by Ioana B. Jucan

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Malicious Deceivers - Thinking Machines And Performative Objects

by Ioana B. Jucan

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Communicology - Mutations In Human Relations?

by Vilém Flusser

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My Life As An Artificial Creative Intelligence - A Speculative Fiction

by Mark Amerika

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