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CONTENTS
architecture 22-23, 41
art 2, 8, 12-21, 37-38, 40-41, 43, 67
art history 35
bioethics 81
biography 2
cognitive science 48, 74-77
computational biology 50, 80
computer science 42, 45-46, 68,
computer-human interaction 67
cultural studies 31, 44
current affairs 3, 25-26, 34, 42
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education 42, 66 978-0-262-01309-3 978-0-262-01366-6 978-0-262-01359-8
environment 7, 9-11, 48, 59-60
fiction 32
game studies 5, 44
history 3, 39
history of science 36, 51, 55, 56-57
history of technology 24, 39, 50, 50-51, 55
linguistics 69-72
mathematics 65
memoir 40
music 44, 82
neuroscience 49, 76-79
new media 8, 43-44, 67
philosophy 30, 48-49, 54, 69, 72-74, 82
political science, politics 10, 26-29, 33-34, 43, 49, 59-60, 62
public policy 52-53, 60
robotics 69
race studies 42, 53
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science 6, 24, 40, 58, 65, 72
978-0-262-01336-9 978-0-262-51293-0 978-0-262-01337-6
science, technology, and society 54
sociology 5, 54, 57, 75
technology 3-4, 7, 42-43, 52
urban studies 1, 50, 55
vision science 80

Afterall Books 37-38


Semiotext(e) 29-33
Zone Books 34-36

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Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns.
urban studies/transportation

REINVENTING THE AUTOMOBILE


Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century
William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns
How to leave behind our
This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. unwieldy, gas-guzzling, carbon
The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the dioxide–emitting vehicles
Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. for cars that are green,
smart, connected, and fun.
In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes.
They’re well suited for conveying multiple passengers over long distances at
high speeds, but inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities — March
8 x 8, 240 pp.
where most of the world’s people now live. In this pathbreaking book, William 102 illus., color throughout
Mitchell and two industry experts reimagine the automobile, describing vehicles
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of the near future that are green, smart, connected, and fun to drive. They roll 978-0-262-01382-6
out four big ideas that will make this both feasible and timely.
First, we must transform the DNA of the automobile, basing it on electric-
drive and wireless communication rather than on petroleum, the internal
combustion engine, and stand-alone operation. This allows vehicles to become
lighter, cleaner, and “smart” enough to avoid crashes and traffic jams. Second,
automobiles will be linked by a Mobility Internet that allows them to collect
and share data on traffic conditions, intelligently coordinates their movements,
and keeps drivers connected to their social networks. Third, automobiles must
be recharged through a convenient, cost-effective infrastructure that is integrated
with smart electric grids and makes increasing use of renewable energy sources.
Finally, dynamically priced markets for electricity, road space, parking space, and
shared-use vehicles must be introduced to provide optimum management of
urban mobility and energy systems.
The fundamental reinvention of the automobile won’t
be easy, but it is an urgent necessity — to make urban
mobility more convenient and sustainable, to make cities
more livable, and to help bring the automobile industry
out of crisis.
William J. Mitchell is the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr., Professor
of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and directs the
Smart Cities research group at MIT’s Media Lab. He is the author
of many books, including The World’s Greatest Architect (2008)
and Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City (2005), both
published by the MIT Press. Christopher E. Borroni-Bird is Director
of Advanced Vehicle Concepts at General Motors, where Lawrence
D. Burns was Vice President of Research and Development before
his retirement.

FOUR BIG IDEAS THAT COULD TRANSFORM THE AUTOMOBILE


• Base the underlying design principles on electric-drive and
wireless communications rather than the internal combustion
engine and stand-alone operation
• Develop the Mobility Internet for sharing traffic and travel data
• Integrate electric-drive vehicles with smart electric grids that
use clean, renewable energy sources
• Establish dynamically priced markets for electricity, road space,
parking space, and shared-use vehicles

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art/biography

WHEN MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ DIES


A Biography
James Westcott
The extraordinary life
and death-defying work of Marina Abramović, the legendary performance artist, is legendary for a reason.
one of the most important She has spent four decades making traumatic and transcendent artworks using
and pioneering performance her own body as a material, breaking through the boundaries of the acceptable
artists in contemporary art.
in visual art. In the early 1970s alone, she lost consciousness while lying in the
center of a burning five-pointed star (symbol of the communism of her native
March Yugoslavia), took pills to induce hyperactivity and then catatonia, and remained
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100 illus. determinedly passive as an audience member pushed a loaded gun to her neck.
When Marina Abramovi c´ Dies examines the extraordinary life and death-
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978-0-262-23262-3 defying work of one of contemporary art’s most important and pioneering
performance artists. It chronicles the artist’s formative and until now undocu-
mented years in Yugoslavia and looks closely at Abramović’s partnership with
the German artist Ulay — one of the twentieth century’s great examples of
the fusion of artistic and private life. In their final performance, Abramović
and Ulay walked toward each other from opposite ends of the Great Wall
of China until, after ninety days, they met in the middle and said goodbye.
In one of many performances of the renewed solo career that followed,
Abramović famously lived in a New York gallery for twelve days without eating
or speaking, nourished only by eye contact with the audience. It was here, in
2002, that author James Westcott first encountered Abramović, beginning an
exceptionally close collaboration of biographer and
subject. For When Marina Abramovi c´ Dies, Westcott
draws on his personal observations of Abramović, his
unprecedented access to her archive, and hundreds
of hours of interviews with the artist and the people
closest to her. The result is a unique and vivid por-
trait of the charismatic self-proclaimed “grandmother
of performance art.”
James Westcott has written on art, architecture, and politics
for numerous publications including the Guardian and the
Village Voice, and was editor of artreview.com. He now writes
and edits for AMO, the think tank and publishing unit of
Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in
Rotterdam.

“This book honors the legendary career of a fierce and


fearless performer, and at the same time celebrates the
warm, generous human being she is and the many myths
and fables that have accumulated around her (not a few
the result of her own self-deprecating sense of humor).”
— Robert Wilson

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history/current affairs

WHY AMERICA IS NOT A NEW ROME


Vaclav Smil
America’s post–Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence An investigation of the
inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most America-Rome analogy that goes
powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in deeper than the facile comparisons
protracted fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffering the worst economic made on talk shows and in
glossy magazine articles.
downturn since the Great Depression, comparisons are to the bloated, decadent,
ineffectual later Empire. In Why America Is Not a New Rome, Vaclav Smil looks
at these comparisons in detail, going deeper than the facile analogy-making of March
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talk shows and glossy magazine articles. He finds profound differences. 57 illus.
On the surface, the vision of America as the new Rome has resonance.
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There are obvious, intriguing parallels and amusing — even disconcerting — 978-0-262-19593-5
similarities. The America-Rome analogy deserves a closer look, and this is what
Smil, a scientist and a lifelong student of Roman history, offers. He does this
by focusing on several fundamental concerns: the very meaning of empire; the Also available
actual extent and nature of Roman and American power; the role of knowledge GLOBAL CATASTROPHES AND TRENDS
The Next Fifty Years
and innovation in the two states and the importance of machines and energy Vaclav Smil
sources; and demographic and economic basics — population dynamics, illness, 2008, 978-0-262-19586-7
death, wealth, and misery. America is not a latter-day Rome, Smil finds, and $29.95T/£22.95 cloth
we need to understand this in order to look ahead without the burden of ENERGY IN NATURE AND SOCIETY
counterproductive analogies. Superficial similarities do not imply long-term General Energetics of
Complex Systems
political, demographic, or economic outcomes identical to Rome’s. Vaclav Smil
2007, 978-0-262-69356-1
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba and the author of
many books, including Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years (2008), Energy $34.00S/£25.95 paper
in Nature and Society: General Energetics ENERGY AT THE
of Complex Systems (2007), and Energy CROSSROADS
at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives Global Perspectives
and Uncertainties (2005) all published
and Uncertainties
by the MIT Press. He was awarded the
Vaclav Smil
2007 Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Award
for excellence in writing and editing in 2005, 978-0-262-69324-0
the population sciences. $19.95T/£14.95 paper

“Repetition by pundits and literary


commentators in the mass media has
entrenched in people’s minds the notion
that America is a new Rome. Smil’s
book, tightly argued and rigorously
documented, is a concise and persuasive
scientific demolition of the Rome-America
parallel, totally deflating the usefulness
of the analogy as a tool of historical
analysis. Why America Is Not a New
Rome is a much-needed corrective.”
— Paul Demeny, Distinguished
Scholar, Population Council,
New York

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U.S. history/technology

WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT


A History of Blackouts in America
David E. Nye
Blackouts — whether they result
from network failure or human Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm?
error, — offer snapshots of Preparing for air attack in World War II? In the Northeast in 1965, when the
electricity’s increasingly central power failed from Toronto to the East coast? In New York City during a similar
role in American society.
but more frightening blackout in 1977? In California when rolling blackouts
hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty million people
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in Canada and in the northeastern United States without electricity? We often
26 illus. remember vividly our time in the dark. In When the Lights Went Out, David Nye
$27.95T/£20.95 cloth views power outages in America from 1935 to the present not simply as technical
978-0-262-01374-1 failures but variously as military tactic, social disruption, crisis in the networked
city, outcome of political and economic decisions, sudden encounter with
sublimity, and memories enshrined in photographs. Our electrically lit-up life
Also available is so natural to us that when the lights go off, the darkness seems abnormal.
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
Questions to Live With
Nye looks at America’s development of its electrical grid, which made large-
David E. Nye scale power failures possible; military blackouts before and during the Second
2007, 978-0-262-64067-1 World War (“The silence was the big surprise of the blackout, the darkness
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discounted,” wrote Harold Ross in the New Yorker in 1942); New York City’s
AMERICA AS SECOND CREATION contrasting 1965 and 1977 blackout experiences (the first characterized by
Technology and Narratives
of New Beginnings cooperation, the second by looting and disorder); the growth in consumer
David E. Nye demand that led to rolling blackouts made worse by energy traders’ market
2004, 978-0-262-64059-6 manipulations; blackouts caused by terrorist attacks and sabotage; and, finally,
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the “greenout” (exemplified by the new tradition of “Earth Hour”), the volun-
tary reduction organized by environmental organizations.
Blackouts, writes Nye, are breaks in the flow of social time
that reveal much about the trajectory of American history. Each
time one occurs, Americans confront their essential condition —
not as isolated individuals, but as a community that increasingly
binds itself together with electrical wires and signals.
David E. Nye is Professor of American History at the University of
Southern Denmark. The winner of the 2005 Leonardo da Vinci Medal
of the Society for the History of Technology, he is the author of Image
Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930 (1985),
Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940
(1990), American Technological Sublime (1994), Consuming Power: A
Social History of American Energies (1997), America as Second Creation:
Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (2003), and Technology
Matters: Questions to Live With (2006), all published by the MIT Press.

“Meticulously researched and engagingly written, When the Lights


Went Out is part history and part cautionary tale. David Nye
illumines his subject with such insight and skill that a reader won't
ever be able to flip on an electrical switch without thinking of this
book and its consequential message.”
— Robert Schmuhl, Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce
Chair in American Studies and Journalism,
University of Notre Dame

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game studies/sociology

THE WARCRAFT CIVILIZATION


Social Science in a Virtual World
William Sims Bainbridge
An exploration of the popular online
World of Warcraft is more than a game. There is no ultimate goal, no winning role-playing game World of Warcraft
hand, no princess to be rescued. WoW contains more than 5,000 possible quests, as a virtual prototype of the
games within the game, and encompasses hundreds of separate parallel realms real human future.

(computer servers, each of which can handle 4,000 players simultaneously).


WoW is an immersive virtual world in which characters must cope in a dangerous March
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to use technology, and compete for dwindling resources. Beyond the fantasy and
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science fiction details, as many have noticed, it’s not entirely unlike today’s world. 978-0-262-01370-3
In The Warcraft Civilization, sociologist William Sims Bainbridge goes further
than this, arguing that WoW can be seen not only as an allegory of today but also
as a virtual prototype of tomorrow, of a real human future in which tribe-like Also available
groups will engage in combat over declining natural resources, build temporary DIGITAL CULTURE, PLAY,
alliances on the basis of mutual self-interest, and seek a set of values that AND IDENTITY
A World of Warcraft Reader
transcend the need for war. edited by Hilde G. Corneliussen
Bainbridge explored the complex Warcraft universe firsthand, spending more than and Jill Walker Rettberg
2,300 hours there, deploying twenty-two characters of all ten races, all ten classes, 2008, 978-0-262-03370-1
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and numerous professions. Each chapter begins with one character’s narrative,
then goes on to explore a major social issue — such as religion, learning, coop-
eration, economy, or identity — through the lens of that character’s experience.
What makes WoW an especially good place to look for
insights about Western civilization, Bainbridge says, is that it
bridges past and future. Founded on Western cultural tradition,
it is aimed toward the virtual worlds we could create in times to
come.
William Sims Bainbridge is a prolific and influential sociologist who
has worked in both academia and government, currently as Director
of the Human-Centered Computing program at the National Science
Foundation. He is the author of many books, including Nanoconvergence,
Across the Secular Abyss, and God from the Machine: Artificial Intelligence
Models of Religious Cognition.

“ World of Warcraft will eventually be recognized as a signature


artistic, technological, and sociological achievement of our time.
Bainbridge provides the best analysis to date of the way WoW
and similar new media forms, with their millions and millions of
users, are reshaping central aspects of our culture: groups, religion,
economy, education, and more.”
— Edward Castronova, Professor of Telecommunications,
Indiana University, author of Synthetic Worlds:
The Business and Culture of Online Games

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science

IN PRAISE OF SCIENCE
Curiosity, Understanding, and Progress
Sander Bais
A virtuoso introduction
to the field of science, In this engaging, lyrical book, physicist Sander Bais shows how science can
the most democratic of liberate us from our cultural straitjacket of prejudice and intolerance. We’re living
human endeavors. in a time in which technology is taken for granted, yet belief in such standard
scientific facts as evolution is actually decreasing. How is it possible for cell phones
March and Creationism to coexist? Science — fundamental, fact-based knowledge, not
7 1/2 x 6 3/4, 192 pp. the latest technological gadget — can give us the global and local perspectives
40 color illus., 14 black & white illus.
we need to make the world a better place. Bais argues that turning points in the
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978-0-262-01435-9
history of science have been accompanied by similar milestones in social change,
deeply affecting our view of nature, our perception of the human condition, and
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our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
After a lively description of how curiosity trumps prejudice and pseudoscience
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in matters ranging from lightning rods to the transmission of HIV, Bais considers
what drives science and scientists, a quest that culminates in that miraculous
mixture of creativity and ingenuity found in the greatest scientists. He describes
what he calls the “circle of science” — the microcosm and the macrocosm as mir-
ror images — and demonstrates unity in a dazzling sequence of topics, including
the hierarchy of structures, the forces of nature, cosmological evolution, and the
challenge of complexity. Finally, Bais takes on the obstacles science encounters
in a world dominated by short-term political and economic interests. Science,
he says, needs to get its message out. Drawing on sources that range from
Charles Darwin and Karl Popper to Herbert Marcuse and Richard Feynman,
with In Praise of Science, Bais does just that.
Sander Bais is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of
Amsterdam and External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute.
He is the author of The Equations: Icons of Knowledge and Very
Special Relativity: An Illustrated Guide.

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environment/technology

GREENING THROUGH I T
Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability
Bill Tomlinson
How the tools of information
Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and technology can support
labyrinthine layers of complexity. In Greening through IT, Bill Tomlinson environmental sustainability
investigates how the tools and techniques of information technology (IT) can by tackling problems that
span broad scales of time,
help us tackle environmental problems at such vast scales. Tomlinson describes space, and complexity.
theoretical, technological, and social aspects of a growing interdisciplinary
approach to sustainability, “Green IT,” offering both a human-centered
May
framework for understanding Green IT systems and specific examples and 7 x 9, 216 pp.
case studies of Green IT in action. 19 illus.
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which environmental concerns play out to the relatively narrow horizons of 978-0-262-01393-2
human understanding: it’s hard for us to grasp thousand-year projections of
global climatic disruption or our stake in melting icecaps thousands of miles
away. IT can bridge the gap between human scales of understanding and
environmental scales.
Tomlinson offers many examples of efforts toward sustainability supported
by IT — from fishermen in India who eliminated waste by coordinating their
activities with mobile phones to the installation of smart meters that optimize
electricity use in California households — and offers three detailed studies of
specific research projects that he and his colleagues have undertaken: EcoRaft,
an interactive museum exhibit to help children learn principles
of restoration ecology; Trackulous, a set of web-based tools
with which people can chart their own environmental behavior;
and GreenScanner, an online system that provides access to
environmental-impact reports about consumer products.
Taken together, these examples illustrate the significant
environmental benefits that innovations in information
technology can enable.
Bill Tomlinson is Associate Professor of Informatics at the University
of California, Irvine, and a Researcher at the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology.

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art/new media

GREEN LIGHT
Toward an Art of Evolution
George Gessert
How humans’ aesthetic perceptions
have shaped other life forms, from Humans have bred plants and animals with an eye to aesthetics for centuries:
racehorses to ornamental plants. flowers are selected for colorful blossoms or luxuriant foliage; racehorses are bred
for the elegance of their frames. Hybridized plants were first exhibited as fine art
April in 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed Edward
7 x 9, 192 pp. Steichen’s hybrid delphiniums. Since then, bio art has become a genre; artists
30 illus.
work with a variety of living things, including plants, animals, bacteria, slime
$24.95T/£18.95 cloth molds, and fungi. Many commentators have addressed the social and political
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concerns raised by making art out of living material. In Green Light, however,
A Leonardo Book George Gessert examines the role that aesthetic perception has played in bio art
and other interventions in evolution.
Gessert looks at a variety of life forms that humans have helped shape, focus-
ing on plants — the most widely domesticated form of life and the one that has
been crucial to his own work as an artist. We learn about Ongadori chickens,
bred to have tail feathers up to more than thirty feet long; pleasure gardens of
the Aztecs, cultivated for intoxicating fragrance; Darwin’s relationship to the
arts; the rise and fall of eugenics; the aesthetic standards promoted by national
plant societies; a daffodil that looks like a rose; and praise for weeds and wild-
flowers. Gessert surveys recent bio art and its accompanying philosophical prob-
lems, the “slow art” of plant breeding, and how to create new life that takes into
account what we know about ecology, aesthetics, and ourselves.
George Gessert is an artist whose work focuses on the overlap between art and genetics.
His exhibits often involve plants he has hybridized or documentation of breeding projects.
His writings have appeared in Leonardo, Art Papers, Design Issues, Massachusetts Review,
Hortus, Best American Essays 2007, Pushcart Prize XXX, and other publications.

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photography/environment

CLIMATE REFUGEES
Collectif Argos
introduction by Hubert Reeves
preface by Jean Jouzel Heartbreaking stories and pictures
document the phenomenon of
Our job is to tell stories we have heard and to bear witness to what we have seen. populations displaced by climate
The science was already there when we started in 2004, but we wanted to emphasize change—homes, neighborhoods,
livelihoods, and cultures lost.
the human dimension, especially for those most vulnerable.
— Guy-Pierre Chomette, Collectif Argos
We have all seen photographs of neighborhoods wrecked and abandoned after a April
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hurricane, of dry, cracked terrain that was once fertile farmland, of islands wiped 171 color illus.
out by a tsunami. But what happens to the people who live in these areas? $29.95T/£22.95 paper
According to the United Nations, some 150 million people will become climate 978-0-262-51439-2
refugees by 2050. The journalists and photographers of Collectif Argos have spent
four years seeking out the first wave of people displaced by the consequences of
climate change. Using the massive 2,500-page report of the Intergovernmental COLLECTIF ARGOS
Guy-Pierre Chomette
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as their guide, these photographers and writers Guillaume Collanges
pinpointed nine locales around the world in which global warming has had a Hélène David
measureable impact. In Climate Refugees, they take us to these places — from Jérômine Derigny
Cédric Faimali
the dust bowl that was once Lake Chad to the melting permafrost in Alaska — Donatien Garnier
offering a first-hand look in words and photographs at the devastating effects Eléonore Henry de Frahan
of rising global temperatures on the daily lives of ordinary people. Aude Raux
Laurent Weyl
Climate Refugees shows us damage wrought to homes and livelihoods by Jacques Windenberger
rapid warming near the Arctic; rising sea levels that threaten the island nations
of Tuvulu, the Maldives, and Halligen; farmers displaced by the desert’s advance
in Chad and China; floods that wash away life in Bangladesh; and Hurricane
Katrina evacuees in shelters far away from their New Orleans
neighborhoods. Added to the devastating environmental effect
of climate change is the immeasurable and irretrievable loss
of ethnic and cultural diversity that
occurs when vulnerable local cultures
disperse. It is this often forgotten
and tragic consequence of global
warming that Collectif Argos
painstakingly documents.
Created in 2001, Collectif Argos brings
together ten journalists — photographers
and writers — who share a commitment
to documenting the changes taking place
in the world — ecological, economic,
political, and cultural, subtle or
spectacular, global or local.

top left: New Orleans, Louisiana


bottom left: Lonbaoshan, China
Photographs by Collectif Argos. From Planet Refugees.

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environment/political science

LIVING THROUGH THE END OF NATURE


The Future of American Environmentalism
Paul Wapner
How environmentalism can
reinvent itself in a postnature Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but
age: a proposal for navigating now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated
between naive naturalism and the natural world that safeguarding it from humans is no longer an option.
technological arrogance.
Humanity’s imprint is everywhere; efforts to “preserve” nature require extensive
human intervention. At the same time, we are repeatedly told that there is
March no such thing as nature itself — only our own conceptions of it. One person’s
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endangered species is another’s dinner or source of income. In Living Through
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the End of Nature, Paul Wapner probes the meaning of environmentalism in a
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post-nature age.
Wapner argues that the end of nature represents not environmentalism’s
death knell but an opportunity to build a more effective political movement.
He outlines the polarized positions of environmentalists, who strive to live
in harmony with nature, and their opponents, who seek mastery over nature.
Wapner argues that, without nature, neither of these two outlooks — the
“dream of naturalism” or the “dream of mastery” — can be sustained today.
Neither is appropriate for addressing such problems as biodiversity loss and
climate change; we can neither go back to a preindustrial Elysium nor forward
to a technological utopia. Instead, he proposes a third way that takes seriously the
breached boundary between humans and nature and charts a co-evolutionary
path in which environmentalists exploit the tension between naturalism and
mastery to build a more sustainable, ecologically vibrant, and socially just world.
Beautifully written and thoughtfully argued,
Living Through the End of Nature provides a powerful
vision for environmentalism’s future.
Paul Wapner is Associate Professor and Director of the
Global Environmental Politics Program in the School of
International Service at American University. He is the
author of Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics,
winner of the 1997 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for
the best book on international environmental affairs.

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environment

TREADING SOFTLY
Paths to Ecological Order
Thomas Princen
How to imagine and then realize an
We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecologi- ecological order based on living
cal, consuming the planet’s resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it’s within our biophysical means.
hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy
credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that suport life? March
How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas 5 3/8 x 8, 224 pp.
Princen helps us imagine an alternative. We need, he says, a new normal, a new $22.95T/£16.95 cloth
ecological order that is actually economical with resources, that embraces limits, 978-0-262-01417-5
that sees sustainable living not as a “lifestyle” but as a long-term relationship with
the planet, a connection to fresh, free-flowing water, fertile soil, and healthy food.
Also available
That economies must grow is a fundamental belief among economists,
THE LOGIC OF SUFFICIENCY
politicians, and journalists. But it is rampant material growth that has brought Thomas Princen
us to this precipice. Princen argues that it is time to build an economy that is 2005, 978-0-262-66190-4
$32.00S/£23.95 paper
grounded in the way natural systems work; that operates as if we have just
the right amount of resources rather than endless frontiers. The goal is to live CONFRONTING CONSUMPTION
edited by Thomas Princen,
well by living well within the capacities of those resources. Society’s material Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca
foundations would be grounded in the biophysical, its practices based on 2002, 978-0-262-66128-7
satisfying work, self-reliance, and restraint rather than the purchasing of goods. $34.00S/£25.95 paper
Princen doesn’t offer a quick fix — there’s no list of easy ways
to save the planet to hang on the refrigerator. He gives us
instead a positive, realistic sense of the possible, with an abun-
dance of examples, concepts, and tools for imagining, then
realizing, how to live within our biophysical means.
Thomas Princen is Associate Professor of Natural Resources and
Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural
Resources and Environment. He is the author of The Logic of Sufficiency
(2005) and the coeditor of Confronting Consumption (2002), both pub-
lished by the MIT Press and both winners of the Harold and Margaret
Sprout Award for best book on international environmental affairs.

“This is an eloquent and impassioned book. It is clearly written,


lacks confounding academic artifice, and conveys a message that is
simultaneously simple and profound.”
— Maurice J. Cohen, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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PSYCHEDELIC
Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s
edited by David S. Rubin
The history of an aesthetic
sensibility that began with This eye-popping book offers a visual history of the psychedelic sensibility.
Op Art and album covers; with In pop culture, that sensibility is associated with lava lamps, album covers, and
many stunning color images. “teashades,” but it first manifested itself in the extreme colors and kaleidoscopic
compositions of 1960s Op Artists. The psychedelic sensibility didn’t die at the end
April of the 1960s; Psychedelic traces it through the day-glo colors of painters Peter Saul,
7 1/2 x 12, 140 pp. Alex Grey, and Kenny Scharf,
78 color illus.
the pill and hemp leaf paintings
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01404-5
of Fred Tomaselli, the intensi-
fied palettes of Douglas
Copublished with the
San Antonio Museum of Art
Bourgeois and Sharon Ellis,
and mixed-media and new
media works by younger artists
EXHIBITION in the new millennium.
San Antonio Museum of Art Although the term
San Antonio, Texas
March 13–August 1, 2010 “psychedelic” was coined
to describe hallucinatory expe-
Memorial Art Gallery,
University of Rochester riences produced by drugs
Rochester, New York used psychotherapeutically, the
October 23, 2010–January 2, 2011 story these images tell is about
Telfair Museum of Art the influence of psychedelic
Savannah, Georgia culture on the art world — not
March 2–May, 2011
necessarily the influence of
drugs. As contemporary art
evolved into a diverse and plu-
ralistic discipline, the psyche-
delic evolved into a language of
color and light. In Psychedelic,
more than seventy-five vivid
color images chart this devel-
opment, exploring the art
chronologically, from early Op Art through recent work
using digital technology. The book, which accompanies
an exhibition organized by the San Antonio Museum of
Art, includes three essays that set the works in historical
and cultural context.
David S. Rubin is The Brown Foundation Curator of Contemporary
Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

top: Isaac Abrams, Cosmoerotica,


1968. Oil on canvas, 48 x 72. ARTISTS INCLUDE
Courtesy of the artist. Isaac Abrams, Albert Alvarez, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Chio Aoshima, Kamrooz Aram, Jeremy Blake,
Richie Budd, Gordon Cheung, Judy Chicago, George Cisneros, James Cobb, Steve DiBenedetto,
bottom left: Hean Moreno,
Untitled, 2004. Mixed media collage, Carole Feuerman, Jack Goldstein, Alex Grey, Peter Halley, Al Held, Mark Hogensen, Constance Lowe,
Courtesy of Shaheen Modern and Erik Parker, Ed Paschke, Lari Pittman, Ray Rapp, Deborah Remington, Bridget Riley, Susie Rosmarin,
Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Alex Rubio, Sterling Ruby, Julian Stanczak, Jennifer Steinkamp, Frank Stella, Philip Taaffe,
Barbara Takenaga, Fred Tomaselli, Victor Vasarely, Michael Velliquette, Andy Warhol, Robert Williams
bottom right: Victor Vasarely,
Tekers-MC, 1981. 92 1/2 x 79 1/2.
Collection of Michèle-Catherine Vasarely. ESSAYS BY
David S. Rubin, Robert C. Morgan, Daniel Pinchbeck
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ED RUSCHA’S LOS ANGELES


Alexandra Schwartz
Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska and raised in Oklahoma, but he belongs to The first critical examination
Los Angeles in a way that few other artists do. Since the 1960s, Ruscha’s iconic of the groundbreaking work
images of the cityscape and culture of Los Angeles — freeway gas stations, of the artist who exemplifies
parking lots, palm trees, motels, swimming pools, and billboards — have both West Coast cool.

reflected and shaped popular perceptions of Hollywood and the city that
surrounds it. In Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles, Alexandra Schwartz views Ruscha’s April
groundbreaking early work as a window onto the radically shifting cultural 4 1/4 x 7, 336 pp.
74 illus.
and political landscape in which it was produced.
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
Schwartz examines Ruscha’s diverse body of work, including paintings,
978-0-262-01364-2
drawings, prints, photographs, books, and films, and discusses his relationship
with other artists — including John Altoon, Ed Kienholz, Billy Al Bengston,
and Dennis Hopper, all of them associated with the famous Ferus Gallery — Also available
with whom he sparked the movement known as West Coast pop. She also LEAVE ANY INFORMATION
explores his links to the mainstream film industry, then evolving into the experi- AT THE SIGNAL
Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages
mental New Hollywood of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his association with Ed Ruscha
emerging discourse on L.A. architecture and urbanism; and his participation in edited by Alexandra Schwartz
the politics of the L.A. art world, where his presentation and self-marketing 2004, 978-0-262-68152-0
$27.95T/£20.95 paper
reflected contemporary attitudes toward gender, race, and class.
Despite Ruscha’s fame, this is the first comprehensive critical consideration
of his art, and the first to consider it in the context of L.A.’s tumultuous
1960s and 1970s. It shows how Ruscha, borrowing from and
critiquing the methods and myths of Hollywood, forged a new
paradigm of the artist as a popular culture scribe — a soothsayer
for the entertainment age.
Alexandra Schwartz is the editor of a collection of Ed Ruscha’s writings,
Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages
(MIT Press, 2002) and the coeditor of Individuals: Women Artists in
the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

“Ed Ruscha’s brilliant work of the 1960s has finally been located
in relation to Los Angeles, the city from which it grew. . . . Tracing
Ruscha's relationships with figures like Dennis Hopper, Denise Scott
Brown, Walter Hopps, and Wallace Berman, Schwartz recovers
an interlocking set of hip, little-known subcultures. Important,
engaging, and eminently readable, with a light touch befitting its
elusive, deadpan subject.”
— Harry Cooper, Curator of Modern and
Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art

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SITUATION AESTHETICS
The Work of Michael Asher
Kirsi Peltomäki
The first book-length study of
this influential artist’s work, Michael Asher doesn’t make typical installations. Instead, he extracts his art
focusing on the participatory from the institutions in which it is shown, culling it from collections, histories,
role of the human subject rather or museums’ own walls. Since the late 1960s, Asher has been creating situations
than the art object.
that have not only taught us about the conditions and contexts of contemporary
art, but have worked to define it.
March In Situation Aesthetics, Kirsi Peltomäki examines Asher’s practice by analyzing
7 x 9, 256 pp.
48 illus. the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants,
and institutional representatives (including gallery directors, curators, and other
$27.95T/£20.95 cloth
978-0-262-01368-0 museum staff members). Drawing on art criticism, the reports of viewers and
participants in Asher’s projects, and the artist’s own archives, Peltomäki offers a
comprehensive account of Asher’s work over the past four decades. Because of
the intensely site-specific nature of Asher’s work, as well as the artist’s refusal to
reconstruct past works or mount retrospectives, many of the projects Peltomäki
discusses are described here for the first time.
Asher’s work has commonly been associated with minimalism, conceptual art,
and, most frequently, institutional critique. Peltomäki takes a different perspective,
focusing on the work’s social dimension. Because Asher’s installations typically
address the given context — the situation — of their exhibition directly and
exclusively, they cease to exist after the exhibitions end, leaving behind few
material traces. By emphasizing the social and psychological sites of art rather
than the production of autonomous art objects, Peltomäki argues, Asher
constructs experientially complex
situations that profoundly affect
those who encounter them, bringing
about both personal and institutional
transformation.
Kirsi Peltomäki is Assistant Professor of
Art History at Oregon State University.

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RICHARD HAMILTON
edited by Hal Foster with Alexander Bacon
Still little-known in the United States, Richard Hamilton is a key figure in Essays and articles
twentieth-century art. An original member of the legendary Independent Group about Richard Hamilton, “the
in London in the 1950s, Hamilton organized or participated in groundbreaking intellectual father of Pop art.“
exhibitions associated with the group — in particular This Is Tomorrow (1956),
for which his celebrated collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, March
so appealing?, crystallizing the postwar world of consumer capitalism, was made. 6 x 9, 184 pp.
51 illus.
With his colleagues in the Independent Group, Hamilton promoted the artistic
investigation of popular culture, undertaking this analysis in paintings, prints, $17.95T/£13.95 paper
978-0-262-51372-2
and texts, thus setting the stage for Pop art — indeed, he is often called the
intellectual father of Pop. At the same time, Hamilton was crucial to the postwar $35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01381-9
reception of Marcel Duchamp, transcribing his notes for The Large Glass and
producing a reconstruction of this epochal piece for the first Duchamp retrospec- October Files
tive in Britain, in 1966. Over the years Hamilton has continued to develop his
work, in a variety of media, on subjects
Also available in this series
ranging from the Rolling Stones to the GERHARD RICHTER
Troubles in Northern Ireland, from edited by
new commodities and technologies to Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
2009, 978-0-262-51312-8
the oldest genres in Western painting. $17.95T/£13.95 paper
True to the mission of the October
GABRIEL OROZCO
Files series, this volume collects the edited by Yve-Alain Bois
most telling essays on Hamilton 2009, 978-0-262-51301-2
(including several hard-to-find texts $18.95T/£14.95 paper
by the artist), spanning the entire
range of his extraordinary career.
Hal Foster is Townsend Martin ’17 Professor
of Art and Archaeology at Princeton
University. He is the author of Compulsive
Beauty (1993), The Return of the Real:
Art and Theory at the End of the Century
(1996), and Prosthetic Gods (2004), all
published by the MIT Press, and other
books. Alexander Bacon is a PhD candidate
at Princeton University.

CONTENTS
Michael Craig-Martin Richard Hamilton in Conversation with Michael Craig-Martin (1990)
David Mellor The Pleasures and Sorrows of Modernity (1992)
Greil Marcus The Vortex of Gracious Living (2007)
Hal Foster Notes on the First Pop Age (2003)
Richard Hamilton Urbane Image (1962/82)
Stephen Bann Exteriors/Landscapes (1990)
Richard Hamilton An Inside View (1990)
Mark Francis Grand New Artificer (1988)
Sarat Maharaj “A Liquid Elemental Scattering”: Marcel Duchamp and Richard Hamilton (1992)
Richard Hamilton Products (2003)
Richard Hamilton Concept/Technology>Artwork (1989)
Hal Foster Citizen Hamilton (2008)

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HALL OF MIRRORS
Roy Lichtenstein and the Face of Painting in the 1960s
Graham Bader
A sustained study of Lichtenstein’s
pop oeuvre, offering new readings In Hall of Mirrors, Graham Bader traces the development of Roy Lichtenstein’s
of such canonical works as Look art into, through, and beyond his classic pop oeuvre of the 1960s. Bader charts
Mickey and Happy Tears. the trajectory of Lichtenstein’s practice from his student days in the late 1940s to
his mirror paintings of the 1970s, offering new readings of such canonical paint-
March ings as Look Mickey and Girl with Ball as well as examinations of lesser-known
7 x 9, 296 pp. works across a range of media. Bader’s analysis goes beyond the standard critical
84 illus.
view of pop as a reaction to the high-culture pieties of abstract expressionism.
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-02647-5
Instead, Bader sees Lichtenstein’s work as motivated by the forces of “unoriginal
originality” — Lichtenstein’s discovery that he could make art by “borrowing”
An October Book
from other images — and “disembodied bodies” — his use of flattened and
schematic forms to reinvigorate figurative painting. For example, Bader argues
Also available that 1961’s Look Mickey, Lichtenstein’s inaugural pop work, established a template
ROY LICHTENSTEIN for the tension between embodiment and disembodiment that animates much of
edited by Graham Bader his 1960s work: between an evacuation of sensory experience, on the one hand,
2009, 978-0-262-51231-2
and a repeated focus on emphatic bodily acts (squeezing, kissing, crying, etc.)
$17.95T/£13.95 paper
October Files on the other. A similar dialectical friction exists between Lichtenstein’s process
and product: consistently hand-painted canvases that
increasingly feign the look of industrial production.
Hall of Mirrors moves chronologically, beginning
with Lichtenstein’s studies at Ohio State University
and late-’50s moves toward pop, through his
seminal canvases of the early 1960s, to his late-’60s
experiments across sculpture, painting, installation,
and film. The book ends with an examination of
Lichtenstein’s Mirror paintings of 1969–72. These
little-discussed works, Bader argues, exemplify
Lichtenstein’s late-’60s shift of focus to the embodied
experience of his own viewers — and thus culminate
and conclude his practice of the decade.
Graham Bader is Mellon Assistant Professor of Art History at
Rice University. He is the editor of the October Files volume
Roy Lichtenstein (MIT Press, 2009).

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PERPETUAL INVENTORY
Rosalind E. Krauss
The job of an art critic is to take perpetual inventory, constantly revising her In essays that span three decades,
ideas about the direction of contemporary art and the significance of the work one of contemporary art’s most
she writes about. In these essays, which span three decades of assessment and esteemed critics celebrates
reassessment, Rosalind Krauss considers what she has come to call the “post- artists who have persevered
in the service of a medium.
medium condition” — the abandonment by contemporary art of the modernist
emphasis on the medium as the source of artistic significance. Jean-François
Lyotard argued that the postmodern condition is characterized by the end of a March
7 x 9, 336 pp.
“master narrative,” and Krauss sees in the postmedium condition of contemporary 47 illus.
art a similar farewell to coherence. The master narrative of contemporary art
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
ended when conceptual art and other contemporary practices jettisoned the spe- 978-0-262-01380-2
cific medium in order to juxtapose image and written text in the same work. For
An October Book
Krauss, this spells the end of serious art, and she devotes much of Perpetual
Inventory to “wrest[ling] new media to the mat of specificity.”
Krauss also writes about artists who are reinventing the medium, artists Also available
who persevere in the service of a nontraditional medium — “strange new THE ORIGINALITY OF THE
apparatuses” often adopted from commercial culture — among them Ed Ruscha, AVANT-GARDE AND OTHER
MODERNIST MYTHS
Christian Marclay, William Kentridge, and James Coleman. Rosalind E. Krauss
Krauss’s essays work against the grain of the received ideas of contemporary 1986, 978-0-262-61046-9
criticism; she considers the postmedium condition a “monstrous myth.” With $34.00T/£25.95 paper

Perpetual Inventory, she offers an alternative view. THE OPTICAL UNCONSCIOUS


Rosalind E. Krauss
Rosalind E. Krauss, University Professor 1994, 978-0-262-61105-3
at Columbia University and an editor $34.00T/£25.95 paper
and cofounder of October magazine,
is the author of The Originality of THE PICASSO PAPERS
the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Rosalind E. Krauss
Myths (1985), The Optical Unconscious 1999, 978-0-262-61142-8
(1993), The Picasso Papers (1999), $23.00T
and Bachelors (1999), all published Not for sale in the United
by the MIT Press, and coauthor (with Kingdom or Commonwealth
Yve-Alain Bois) of Formless: A User’s countries except Canada
Guide (Zone Books, 1997).
BACHELORS
Rosalind E. Krauss
2000, 978-0-262-61165-7
$24.00T/£12.95 paper

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CURATING CONSCIOUSNESS
Mysticism and the Modern Museum
Marcia Brennan
How prominent curator and
author James Johnson Sweeney Artists have often taken rational, material existence as a starting point for
cast the modern museum as a engagement with metaphysics and mysticism, with the paradoxes of visibility
secular temple of art. and invisibility. But no book until now has consistently traced these compelling
themes in modernist curatorial practices. In Curating Consciousness, Marcia
March Brennan gives voice to this unacknowledged story by focusing on one of its
7 x 9, 304 pp. main protagonists, James Johnson Sweeney (1900 –1986). As a colleague of
8 color plates,
60 black & white illus. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1940s and director of
$29.95T/£22.95 cloth
the Guggenheim Museum in the 1950s and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
978-0-262-01378-9 in the 1960s, Sweeney provocatively engaged motifs of mysticism in order to cast
the modern museum as a secular temple of art. Sweeney believed that artworks
could engender visionary perspectives and induce alternative modes of conscious-
Also available ness in their viewers; his career can be seen as an exercise in curating modernist
PAINTING GENDER, CONSTRUCTING consciousness itself.
THEORY
The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and Brennan describes how these motifs informed Sweeney’s curatorial and tex-
American Formalist Aesthetics tual engagements with specific artists and projects, including Marcel Duchamp’s
Marcia Brennan intricately androgynous constructions, Alberto Burri’s images of hermetic
2002, 978-0-262-52336-3
$28.00T/£20.95 paper alchemy and blood miracles, Pierre Soulages’s creative transmutations of sacred
stones into gestural abstract paintings, Jean Tinguely’s apocalyptic yet playful
MODERNISM’S
MASCULINE SUBJECTS kinetic experiments, and Eduardo Chillida’s translations of theology and
Matisse, the New York School, and philosophy into sculpted fields of sparkling light.
Post-Painterly Abstraction
Marcia Brennan Marcia Brennan is Associate Professor of
2006, 978-0-262-52468-1 Art History at Rice University. She is the
$14.95T/£11.95 paper author of Painting Gender, Constructing
Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and
American Formalist Aesthetics (2002)
and Modernism’s Masculine Subjects:
Matisse, the New York School, and
Post-Painterly Abstraction (2006),
both published by the MIT Press.

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RETHINKING CURATING
Art after New Media
Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook
Redefining curatorial practice
foreword by Steve Dietz
for those working with
As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art — new kinds of art.
but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation
and is often about process rather than objects. New media artworks, difficult to March
classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by 7 x 9, 368 pp.
medium, geography, and chronology, present the curator with novel challenges 68 illus.

involving interpretation, exhibition, and dissemination. This book views these $34.95T/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01388-8
challenges as opportunities to rethink curatorial practice. It helps curators of new
media art develop a set of flexible tools for working in this fast-moving field, and A Leonardo Book
it offers useful lessons from curators and artists for those working in such other
areas of art as distributive and participatory systems.
Also available in this series
Rethinking Curating explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art,
WHITE HEAT COLD LOGIC
including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates British Computer Art 1960–1980
them to such contemporary art forms as video art, conceptual art, socially edited by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere,
Nicholas Lambert, and
engaged art, and performance art. The authors, both of whom have extensive
Catherine Mason
experience as curators, offer numerous examples of artworks and exhibitions to 2008, 978-0-262-02653-6
illustrate how the roles of curators and audiences can be redefined in light of $44.95T/£33.95 cloth
new media art’s characteristics. They discuss modes of curating, from the famil- TACTICAL BIOPOLITICS
iar default mode of the museum, through parallels with publishing, broadcast- Art, Activism, and Technoscience
edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita
ing, festivals, and labs, to more recent hybrid ways of working online and off, Philip
including collaboration and social networking. Rethinking Curating offers 2008, 978-0-262-04249-9
curators a route through the hype around platforms and autonomous zones $40.00S/£29.95 cloth
by following the lead of current artists’ practice.
Beryl Graham, an educator, artist, arts organizer, and
curator, is currently Professor of New Media Art at
the University of Sunderland and coeditor of the
CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss)
Web site. Sarah Cook, a research fellow and cofounder
of CRUMB, has curated exhibitions of new media art
internationally.

“An intelligent, well-informed, and creative analysis


which will be immensely valuable for the better
understanding of this fast-changing field.”
— Sandy Nairne, Director,
National Portrait Gallery, London

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CHANCE
edited by Margaret Iversen
Why chance remains a key strategy
The chance situation or random event — whether as a strategy or as a subject of
in artists’ investigations into the investigation — has been central to many artists’ practices across a multiplicity
contemporary world. of forms, including expressionism, automatism, the readymade, collage, surrealist
and conceptual photography, fluxus event scores, film, audio and video, per-
March formance, and participatory artworks. But why — a century after Dada and
6 x 8 1/2, 240 pp. Surrealism’s first systematic enquiries — does chance remain a key strategy in
$24.95T paper artists’ investigations into the contemporary world?
978-0-262-51392-0 The writings in this anthology examine the gap between intention and
Documents of Contemporary outcome, showing it to be crucial to the meaning of chance in art. The book
Art series provides a new critical context for chance procedures in art since 1900 and aims
Copublished with to answer such questions as why artists deliberately set up such a gap in their
Whitechapel Gallery, London practice; what new possibilities this suggests; and why the viewer finds the art
Not for sale in the United Kingdom so engaging.
or Europe
Margaret Iversen is Professor of Art History
and Theory at the University of Essex.
Her books include Alois Riegl: Art History
Also available in this series and Theory and Beyond Pleasure: Freud,
SITUATION Lacan, Barthes.
edited by Claire Doherty
2009, 978-0-262-51305-0
$24.95T paper
UTOPIAS
edited by Richard Noble
2009, 978-0-262-64069-5
$24.95T paper
BEAUTY
edited by Dave Beech
2009, 978-0-262-51238-1
$24.95T paper
APPROPRIATION
edited by David Evans
2009, 978-0-262-55070-3
$24.95T paper
COLOUR
edited by David Batchelor
2008, 978-0-262-52481-0
$24.95T paper
THE EVERYDAY
edited by Stephen
Johnstone
2008, 978-0-262-60074-3 ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE
$24.95T paper Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Francis Alÿs, William Anastasi, John Baldessari, Walead Beshty, Mark Boyle,
THE ARTIST’S JOKE George Brecht, Marcel Broodthaers, John Cage, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Marcel Duchamp,
edited by Jennifer Higgie Brian Eno, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Huang Yong Ping, Douglas Huebler, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles,
2007, 978-0-262-58274-2 Jiri Kovanda, Jorge Macchi, Christian Marclay, Cildo Meireles, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono,
$24.95T paper Gabriel Orozco, Cornelia Parker, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Daniel Spoerri, Wolfgang Tillmans,
Keith Tyson, Jennifer West, Ceryth Wyn Evans, La Monte Young

WRITERS INCLUDE
Paul Auster, Jacquelynn Baas, Georges Bataille, Daniel Birnbaum, Claire Bishop, Guy Brett,
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Stanley Cavell, Lynne Cooke, Fei Dawei, Gilles Deleuze, Anna Dezeuze,
Russell Ferguson, Branden W. Joseph, Siegfried Kracauer, Jacques Lacan, Susan Laxton, Sarat Maharaj,
Midori Matsui, John Miller, Alexandra Munroe, Gabriel Pérez Barreiro, Jasia Reichardt, Julia Robinson,
Eric L. Santner, Sarah Valdez, Katharina Vossenkuhl

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THE SUBLIME
edited by Simon Morley
In the contemporary world, where technology, spectacle, and excess seem to The continuing relevance and
eclipse nature, the individual, and society, what might be the characteristics constant reinvention of the
of a contemporary sublime? If there is any consensus, it is in the idea that the sublime — the transcendent,
sublime represents a testing of limits to the point at which fixities begin to the awe-inspiring, the
unpresentable — in art
fragment. This anthology examines how contemporary artists and theorists and culture since 1945.
explore ideas of the sublime, in relation to the unpresentable, transcendence,
terror, nature, technology, the uncanny, and altered states.
March
Providing a philosophical and cultural context for discourse around the 6 x 8 1/2, 240 pp.
sublime in recent art, the book surveys the diverse and sometimes conflicting
$24.95T paper
interpretations of the term as it has evolved from the writings of Longinus, 978-0-262-51391-3
Burke, and Kant to present-day writers and artists. The sublime underlies
Documents of Contemporary
the nobility of Classicism, the awe of Romantic nature, and the terror of the Art series
Gothic. In the last half-century, the sublime has haunted postwar abstraction,
Copublished with Whitechapel
returned from the repression of Gallery, London
theoretical formalism, and has Not for sale in the
become a key term in critical United Kingdom or Europe
discussions of human otherness
and posthuman realms of nature
and technology. Also available in this series
THE GOTHIC
Simon Morley is a British artist and edited by Gilda Williams
art historian who has contributed to 2007, 978-0-262-73186-7
international art journals including $24.95T paper
Art Monthly, Untitled, Contemporary
Visual Art, Tate Etc. and Tema Celeste. THE CINEMATIC
A Lecturer in Painting at Winchester edited by David Campany
School of Art, England, he is the 2007, 978-0-262-53288-4
author of Writing on the Wall: $24.95T paper
Word and Image in Modern Art.
DESIGN AND ART
edited by Alex Coles
2007, 978-0-262-53289-1
$24.95T paper
PARTICIPATION
edited by Claire Bishop
2006, 978-0-262-52464-3
$24.95T paper
THE ARCHIVE
edited by Charles Merewether
2006, 978-0-262-63338-3
$24.95T paper

ARTISTS SURVEYED INCLUDE


Marina Abramović, Joseph Beuys, Tacita Dean, Walter De Maria, A K Dolven, Olafur Eliasson,
Andreas Gursky, Jitka Hanzlová, Gary Hill, Susan Hiller, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anish Kapoor,
Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Yves Klein, Richard Long, Barnett Newman, Tony Oursler,
Cornelia Parker, Gerhard Richter, Doris Salcedo, Lorna Simpson, Hiroshi Sugimoto,
Fred Tomaselli, James Turrell, Luc Tuymans, Bill Viola, Zhang Huan

WRITERS INCLUDE
Marco Belpoliti, John Berger, Paul Crowther, Jacques Derrida, Okwui Enwezor, Jean Fisher,
Barbara Claire Freeman, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Doreet LeVitte-Harten, Eleanor Hartney,
Lynn M. Herbert, Luce Irigaray, Fredric Jameson, Lee Joon, Julia Kristeva,
Jean-François Lyotard, Thomas McEvilley, Vijay Mishra, David Morgan, Jean-Luc Nancy,
Jacques Rancière, Gene Ray, Robert Rosenblum, Philip Shaw, Paul Virilio,
Marina Warner, Thomas Weiskel, Slavoj Žižek

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architecture

BACK IN PRINT
A SCIENTIFIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aldo Rossi
Available again, a lyrical memoir translated by Lawrence Venuti
by one of the major figures of
postmodernist architecture; with
postscript by Vincent Scully
drawings of architectural projects This revealing memoir by Aldo Rossi (1937–1997), one of the most visible and
prepared especially for the book. controversial figures ever on the international architecture scene, intermingles
discussions of Rossi’s architectural projects — including the major literary and
March artistic influences on his work — with his personal history. Drawn from note-
8 3/4 x 10, 128 pp. books Rossi kept beginning in 1971, these ruminations and reflections range
35 illus.
from his obsession with theater to his concept of architecture as ritual. The book
$19.95T/£14.95 paper
978-0-262-51438-5
originally appeared as one of the landmark titles in the MIT Press’s Oppositions
Books series, but has been out of print for many years. This newly issued paper-
Oppositions Books series
back reprint includes illustrations — photographs, evocative images, and a set
of drawings of Rossi’s major architectural projects prepared particularly for this
Also available publication — selected by the author himself to augment the text.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and architecture theorist and the author of The
Aldo Rossi Architecture of the City (MIT Press, 1984) and other books. He was awarded the Pritzker
1984, 978-0-262-68043-1 Architecture Prize in 1990.
$29.00T/£21.95 paper
“As nostalgia has swept the architectural community in recent years, one of the most
Proustian design sensibilities to emerge has been that of Italian architect Aldo Rossi.
The enfant terrible of Italy’s 1960s Tendenza group, which fulminated against the
modern movement, Rossi published influential polemics and kept an equally eloquent
personal record in the form of notebooks, which MIT has published as the handsome
A Scientific Autobiography. . . . His own reminiscences — convents and castles,
the emotional pull of holy statuary, Melville’s dramatics, an adolescent’s fear of death,
a young artist’s ways with life — fill his lyrical, erudite notebooks.”
— Portfolio
“A document of architectural imagination rather than a merely
autobiographical or abstractly theoretical text. . . . Rossi allows his
thoughts to roam freely from childhood memories to philosophical
observations about architecture tout court. . . . His own projects
attempt, and his writings explain, the creation of a magic triangle
whose sides are symbolic of life, death, and illusion.”
— Kurt Forster, architectural historian

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architecture

PERSPECTA 42
The Real
The Yale Architectural Journal
Amid the tricks and trompe l’oeils
edited by Matthew Roman and Tal Schori of contemporary practices,
It is often suggested that architecture is more “real” than the other arts, more architecture is now, more than
ever, in pursuit of the real.
grounded and definitive. Yet even the most fundamental and concrete elements
of architecture are often designed to conceal. This issue of Perspecta — the oldest
and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America — April
9 x 12, 176 pp.
embraces the paradoxical nature of the real, presenting it as a lens that magnifies
100 color illus.,
the strategies and tactics of architecture, past, present, and future. How does 100 black & white illus.
architecture create real effects, change our built environment, and respond to $25.00T/£18.95 paper
crises? What are the tricks and trompe l’oeils of contemporary practice? Amid 978-0-262-51393-7
fake Europes, shape-shifting materials, and underwater asylums, Perspecta 42
navigates architecture’s disciplinary boundaries to locate the real in the most
unlikely of places. CONTRIBUTORS
Michelle Addington, Lucia Allais,
The real has been central to our understanding of architecture for the last Alejandro Aravena, Mario Ballesteros,
hundred years, even if the discussion has been couched in other terms. While BIG, Andrew Blauvelt,
architecture anxiously situates itself between building and discourse, it never Keller Easterling, Olafur Eliasson and
Kurt Forster, Hal Foster, Lorens Holm,
fully capitulates to either side. Through historical inquiry, theoretical writing, Jiang Jun, L.E.FT., Armin Linke,
and contemporary projects, Perspecta 42 asserts that now, more than ever, archi- Metahaven, Spyros Papapetros,
tecture is in search of the real. Emmanuel Petit, Antoine Picon,
Bill Rankin, Damon Rich,
The issue revolves around three encounters with the real. First, the physical: Francois Roche, Matthew Stadler,
texts, projects, and conversations that relate to issues of material properties and Albena Yaneva, Yoon+Howeler,
our bodily surroundings — thoughts on such topics as sensory environments, Andrew Zago, Mirko Zardini
smart materials, and the floor as a landscape of logistics. Second, authenticity:
explorations of representation and hybrid realities, including the digital and
the surreal. And, finally, institutional failures and
man-made or natural crises: considerations of war,
the current economic calamity, and racial politics.
Matthew Roman and Tal Schori are practicing designers and
graduates of the Yale School of Architecture.

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history of technology/science

A VAST MACHINE
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
Paul N. Edwards
The science behind global warming,
and its history: how scientists Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific
learned to understand the case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they
atmosphere, to measure it, warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine,
to trace its past, and to model
its future. Paul Edwards has news for these doubters: without models, there are no data.
Today, no collection of signals or observations — even from satellites, which
can “see” the whole planet with a single instrument — becomes global in time
April
6 x 9, 528 pp. and space without passing through a series of data models. Everything we know
74 illus. about the world’s climate we know through models. Edwards offers an engaging
$32.95T/£24.95 cloth and innovative history of how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere —
978-0-262-01392-5 to measure it, trace its past, and model its future.
Edwards argues that all our knowledge about climate change comes from
three kinds of computer models: simulation models of weather and climate;
Also available
reanalysis models, which recreate climate history from historical weather
THE CLOSED WORLD
Computers and the Politics of data; and data models, used to combine and adjust measurements from many
Discourse in Cold War America different sources. Meteorology creates knowledge through an infrastructure
Paul N. Edwards (weather stations and other data platforms) that covers the whole world, making
1997, 978-0-262-55028-4
$24.95T/£18.95 paper global data. This infrastructure generates information so vast in quantity and
so diverse in quality and form that it can be understood only by computer
CHANGING THE ATMOSPHERE
Expert Knowledge and analysis — making data global. Edwards describes the science behind the
Environmental Governance scientific consensus on climate change, arguing that over the years data and
edited by Clark Miller and models have converged to create a stable, reliable, and trustworthy basis for
Paul N. Edwards
2001, 978-0-262-63219-5 the reality of global warming.
$32.00S/£23.95 paper
Paul N. Edwards is Associate Professor in
the School of Information at the University
of Michigan. He is the author of The Closed
World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse
in Cold War America (1996) and a coeditor
(with Clark Miller) of Changing the Atmosphere:
Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance
(2001), both published by the MIT Press.

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current affairs/health care

HEALTH CARE TURNING POINT


Why Single Payer Won't Work
Roger M. Battistella
An expert debunks popular
The battle over health care reform has reached a turning point. We can try misconceptions about health policy,
to fashion new policies based on old ideas — or we can acknowledge today’s including the merits of single-payer
demographic and economic realities. In Health Care Turning Point, health policy plans, and offers an alternative.

expert Roger Battistella argues that the conventional wisdom that dominates
health policy debates is out of date. Battistella takes on popular misconceptions March
about the advantages of single-payer plans, the role of the market, and other 6 x 9, 160 pp.

health policy issues and outlines a pragmatic new approach. $21.95T/£16.95 cloth
978-0-262-01407-6
Few would disagree that the current system is broken. Employer-supplied
health insurance no longer works; it imposes a heavy burden on American
companies when they compete against international firms and creates insecurity
and instability for American workers. But, Battistella asserts provocatively, a
government takeover of health insurance patterned after Medicare and Medicaid
won’t work either. With a battered economy and an aging population, the
country simply can’t afford it. Battistella argues that contrary to popular belief,
single-payer coverage will not lower health spending but would encourage
overconsumption and drive costs up. The most efficient and affordable way
to reform health care, Battistella contends, is for consumers to take ownership
of it. If consumers were responsible for buying their own health insurance (as
they are for buying their own car and home insurance), he argues, they’d look
for value and demand greater price and quality transparency from providers.
Health insurance would be more like other forms of insurance and focus on
major expenses, with routine care paid for out of pocket.
The economic shibboleth that the principles of market
competition don’t apply to health care is nonsense, Battistella
says. We won’t achieve real health care reform until policy
makers adjust to this reality and adopt a more pragmatic view.
Roger M. Battistella is Emeritus Professor of Health Policy and
Management in the Sloan Graduate Program in Health Administration
at Cornell University.

HEALTH CARE TURNING POINT’S MYTHS ABOUT


HEALTH CARE REFORM
• Health care is a social good that should be free to all.
• Single-payer coverage lowers health spending and eliminates social
and economic health disparities.
• Prevention generates big savings.
• More health spending will stimulate the economy and have a positive
effect on health status and longevity.
• Canada provides a desirable blueprint for U.S. health reform.
• The principles of market competition aren’t applicable to health care.

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current affairs/political science economics/policy

RULE OF LAW, MISRULE OF MEN TAKING ECONOMICS SERIOUSLY


Elaine Scarry Dean Baker
This book is a passionate call for There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker
citizen action to uphold the rule contends, but economists routinely ignore their own
of law when government does principles when it comes to economic policy. What
not. Arguing that post-9/11 leg- would policy look like if we took basic principles of
islation and foreign policy sev- mainstream economics seriously and applied them
ered the executive branch from consistently?
the will of the people, Elaine In the debate over regulation, for example, Baker —
Scarry offers a fierce defense of one of the few economists who predicted the meltdown
the people’s role as guarantor of of fall 2008 — points out that ideological blinders have
our democracy. She begins with obscured the fact there is no “free market” to protect.
the groundswell of local resistance to the 2001 Patriot Modern markets are highly
Act, when hundreds of towns, cities, and counties regulated, although intrusive
passed resolutions refusing compliance with the infor- regulations such as copyright
mation-gathering the act demanded, showing that citi- and patents are rarely viewed
zens can take action against laws that undermine the as regulatory devices. If we
rights of citizens and noncitizens alike. Scarry, once admit the extent to which
described in the New York Times Sunday Magazine as the economy is and will be
“known for her unflinching investigations of war, tor- regulated, we have many more
ture, and pain,” then turns to the conduct of the Iraqi options in designing policy and
occupation, arguing that the Bush administration led deciding who benefits from it.
the country onto treacherous moral terrain, violating On health care reform, Baker
the Geneva Conventions and the armed forces’ own complains that economists ignore another basic idea:
most fundamental standards. She warns of the damage marginal cost pricing. Unlike all other industries, med-
done to democracy when military personnel must ical services are priced extraordinarily high, far above
choose between their own codes of warfare and the ille- the cost of production, yet that discrepancy is rarely
gal orders of their civilian superiors. If our military addressed in the debate about health care reform. What
leaders uphold the rule of law when civilian leaders do if we applied marginal cost pricing — making doctors’
not, might we come to prefer them? Finally, reviewing wages competitive and charging less for prescription
what we know now about the Bush administration’s drugs and tests such as MRIs?
crimes, Scarry insists that prosecution — whether local, Taking Economics Seriously offers an alternative Econ
national, or international — is essential to restoring 101. It introduces economic principles and thinks
the rule of law, and she shows how a brave town in through what we might gain if we free ourselves from
Vermont has taken up the challenge. ideological blinders and get back to basics in the most
Throughout the book, Scarry finds hope in moments troubled parts of our economy.
where citizens withheld their consent to grievous crimes, Dean Baker, Codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy
finding creative ways to stand by their patriotism. Research in Washington, D.C., is author of Plunder and Blunder:
The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy and The Conservative
Elaine Scarry is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics Nanny State. He also writes a popular blog on economic
and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. She is reporting, Beat the Press, for The American Prospect.
the author of The Body in Pain, On Beauty and Being Just,
and Who Defended the Country?
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Boston Review Books are accessible, short books that take ideas seriously. They are animated by hope,
committed to equality, and convinced that the imagination eludes political categories. The editors aim
to establish a public space in which people can loosen the hold of conventional preconceptions and start
to reason together across the lines others are so busily drawing.

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economics/political science

THE VIOLENCE OF FINANCIAL CAPITALISM


Christian Marazzi
translated by Kristina Lebedeva
An innovative analysis
of financialization in the This first English-language edition of Christian Marazzi’s most recent book,
context of postfordist The Violence of Financial Capitalism makes a groundbreaking work on the global
cognitive capitalism. financial crisis available to a new audience of readers. Marazzi, a leading figure in
the European postfordist movement, first takes a broad look at the nature of the
January crisis and then provides the theoretical tools necessary to comprehend capitalism
4 1/2 x 7, 112 pp. today, offering an innovative analysis of financialization in the context of post-
$12.95T/£9.95 paper fordist cognitive capitalism. He argues that the processes of financialization are
978-1-58435-083-5 not simply irregularities between the traditional categories of wages, rent, and
Intervention series profit, but rather a new type of accumulation adapted to the processes of social
Distributed for Semiotext(e) and cognitive production today. The financial crisis, he contends, is a fundamen-
tal component of contemporary accumulation and not a classic lack of economic
growth.
Also available from Semotext(e) Marazzi shows that individual debt and the management of financial markets
CAPITAL AND LANGUAGE
are actually techniques for governing the transformations of immaterial labor,
From the New Economy
to the War Economy general intellect, and social cooperation. The financial crisis has radically
Christian Marazzi undermined the very concept of unilateral and multilateral economico-political
2008, 978-1-58435-067-5
hegemony, and Marazzi discusses efforts toward a new geo-monetary order
$14.95T/£11.95
that have emerged around the globe in response. Offering a radically new
understanding of the current stage of international
economics as well as crucial post-Marxist guidance
for confronting capitalism in its newest form, The
Violence of Financial Capitalism is a valuable addition
to the contemporary arsenal of postfordist thought.
This expanded edition includes a new appendix for
comprehending the esoteric neolanguage of financial
capitalism — a glossary of “Words in Crisis,” from
“AAA” to “toxic asset.”
Christian Marazzi is Professor and Director of Socio-Economic
Research at the Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana.
He is the author of Capital and Language: From the New
Economy to the War Economy (Semiotext(e), 2008).

“At last, a fresh interpretation of the global economic


crisis that vehemently departs from traditional academic
canons in order to assert a new kind of economic and
political thought.”
— Antonio Negri

Semiotext(e)’s Intervention series offers polemical texts by intellectual agitators. Short, engaged,
and highly focused manifestos, essays, and critiques, these palm-sized salvos address a variety of
political and cultural topics but share a passion for provocation, and allow for more immediate
excursions in Semiotext(e)’s ongoing mission of intellectual activism.

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political science

INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL WAR


Tiqqun
translated by Alexander R. Galloway and Jason Smith
Activists explore the possibility
Society no longer exists, at least in the sense of a differentiated whole. There is only a that a new practice of communism
may emerge from the end of
tangle of norms and mechanisms through which THEY hold together the scattered
society as we know it.
tatters of the global biopolitical fabric, through which THEY prevent its violent
disintegration. Empire is the administrator of this desolation, the supreme manager
of a process of listless implosion. January
4 1/2 x 7, 160 pp.
— from Introduction to Civil War
$12.95T/£9.95 paper
Society is not in crisis, society is at an end. The things we used to take for granted 978-1-58435-086-6
have all been vaporized. Politics was one of these things, a Greek invention that Intervention series
condenses around an equation: to hold a position means to take sides, and to take Distributed for Semiotext(e)
sides means to unleash civil war. Civil war, position, sides — these were all one
word in the Greek: stasis. If the history of the modern state in all its forms —
absolute, liberal, welfare — has been the continuous attempt to ward off this Also available from Semotext(e)
stasis, the great novelty of contemporary imperial power is its embrace of civil THE COMING INSURRECTION
The Invisible Committee
war as a technique of governance and disorder as a means of maintaining control. 2009, 978-1-58435-080-4
Where the modern state was founded on the institution of the law and its $12.95T/£9.95 paper
constellation of divisions, exclusions, and repressions, imperial power has
replaced them with a network of norms and apparatuses that conspire in the
production of the biopolitical citizens of Empire.
In their first book available in English, Tiqqun explores the
possibility of a new practice of communism, finding a founda-
tion for an ontology of the common in the politics of friendship
and the free play of forms-of-life. They see the ruins of society
as the ideal setting for the construction of the community to
come. In other words: the situation is excellent. Now is not the
time to lose courage.
Tiqqun is a French collective of authors and activists formed in 1999.
The group published two journal volumes in 1999 and 2001 (in which
the collective author “The Invisible Committee” first appeared), as
well as the books Théorie du Bloom and Théorie de la jeune fille.

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philosophy

A THOUSAND MACHINES
A Concise Philosophy of the Machine as Social Movement
Gerald Raunig
The machine as a social movement
translated by Aileen Derieg
of today’s “precariat”—those whose
labor and lives are precarious. In this “concise philosophy of the machine,” Gerald Raunig provides a historical
and critical backdrop to a concept proposed forty years ago by the French
March philosophers Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze: the machine, not as a technical
4 1/2 x 7, 128 pp. device and apparatus, but as a social composition and concatenation. This con-
$12.95T/£9.95 paper ception of the machine as an arrangement of technical, bodily, intellectual, and
978-1-58435-085-9 social components subverts the opposition between man and machine, organism
Intervention series and mechanism, individual and community. Drawing from an unusual range of
Distributed for Semiotext(e) films, literature, and performance — from the role of bicycles in Flann O’Brien’s
fiction to Vittorio de Sica’s Neorealist film The Bicycle Thieves, and from Karl
Marx’s “Fragment on Machines” to the deus ex machina of Greek drama —
Also available from Semotext(e) Raunig arrives at an enhanced conception of the machine as a social movement,
ART AND REVOLUTION finding its most apt and concrete manifestation in the Euromayday movement,
Transversal Activism in the
Long Twentieth Century
which since 2001 has become a transnational activist and discursive practice
Gerald Raunig focused upon the precarious nature of labor and lives.
2007, 978-1-58435-046-0
$17.95T/£13.95 paper Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theorist who lives in Vienna. He is the author of
Art and Revolution (Semiotext(e), 2007).

“It is to Gerald Raunig’s great credit that his essay reintroduces the
concept of the machine as defined by Deleuze and Guattari; he
examines it against the background of Marxist tradition, which
has been articulated most innovatively in post-operaism. His work
shows the possible intersections and continuities, but also points to
discontinuities between these two theories which have evolved at
markedly different periods.”
— Maurizio Lazzarato

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cultural studies/queer theory

THE SCREWBALL ASSES


Guy Hocquenghem
translated by Noura Wedell
A founder of Queer theory
Alone in his forest dwelling, an ogre had spent years building machines to contends that the ruling classes
have invented homosexuality as
force his visitors to make love to one another: machines with pulleys, chains,
a sexual ghetto, splitting and
clocks, collars, leather leggings, metal breastplates, oscillatory, pendular, or mutilating desire in the process.
rotating dildos. One day, some adolescents who had lost their way, seven
or eight brothers, entered the ogre’s house…
January
— From The Screwball Asses 4 1/2 x 7, 88 pp.
Our asshole is revolutionary. $12.95T/£9.95 paper
— Guy Hocquenghem 978-1-58435-081-1
Intervention series
Workers of the world, masturbate!
— Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire slogan Distributed for Semiotext(e)

First published anonymously in Félix Guattari’s Recherches in the notorious


1973 issue on homosexuality (seized and destroyed by the French government), Also available from Semiotext(e)
CHAOSOPHY
The Screwball Asses remains a dramatic treatise on erotic desire. In this classic
Texts and Interviews 1972–1977
underground text, queer theorist and post-’68 provocateur Guy Hocquenghem New Edition
takes on the militant delusions of the gay liberation movement. Hocquenghem, Félix Guattari
2008, 978-1-58435-060-6
founder and leader of the Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire, vivisects
$17.95T/£13.95 paper
not only the stifled mores of bourgeois capitalism but the phallocratic conces-
GOOD SEX ILLUSTRATED
sions of so-called homophiles, and, ultimately, the very act of speaking desire Tony Duvert
(and non-desire). Rejecting any “pure theory” of homosexuality that claims its translated by Bruce Benderson
“otherness” as a morphology of revolution, he contends that the ruling classes 2007, 978-1-58435-043-9
$14.95T/£11.95 paper
have invented homosexuality as a sexual ghetto, splitting and mutilating desire
in the process. It is only when non-desire and the desire of
desire are enacted simultaneously through speech and body that
homosexuality can finally be sublimated under the true act of
“making love.” There are thousands of sexes on earth, according
to Hocquenghem, but only one sexual desire.
Available in English for the first time, The Screwball Asses
is a revelatory disquisition, earning Hocquenghem his
rightful place among the minoritarian elite of Gilles Deleuze,
Jean Genet, and Tony Duvert.
Guy Hocquenghem (1946–1988), essayist and activist, is often
considered the father of Queer theory. He was the author of
Homosexual Desire (1972) and L’Amour en relief (1982). The
Screwball Asses is his first work available from Semiotext(e).

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fiction

COMA
Pierre Guyotat
translated by Noura Wedell
A poetic exploration of trauma and
renewal from the last avant-garde Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverberates and feels and throbs all over, it
visionary of the twentieth century.
begins to circumscribe my body along with my self, and my body gives it shape in turn:
the “joy” of living, of experiencing, of already foreseeing dismembers it, this entire
April body explodes, neurons rush toward what attracts them, zones of sensation break off
6 x 9, 192 pp.
almost in blocks that come to rest at the four corners of the landscape, at the four
1 color illus, 8 black & white illus.
corners of Creation.
$17.95T/£13.95 paper
978-1-58435-089-7
— from Coma
Native Agents series The novelist and playwright Pierre Guyotat has been called the last great avant-
Distributed for Semiotext(e) garde visionary of the twentieth century, and the near-cult status of his work —
because of its extreme linguistic innovation and its provocative violence — has
made him one of the most influential of French writers today. He has been
hailed as the true literary heir to Lautréamont and Arthur Rimbaud, and his
“inhuman” works have been mentioned in the same breath as those by Georges
Bataille and Antonin Artaud.
Winner of the 2006 prix Décembre, Coma is the deeply moving, vivid por-
trayal of the artistic and spiritual crisis that wracked Guyotat in the 1980s when
he reached the physical limits of his search for a new language,
entered a mental clinic, and fell into a coma brought on by
self-imposed starvation. A poetic, cruelly lucid account, Coma
links Guyotat’s illness and loss of subjectivity to a broader
concern for the slow, progressive regeneration of humanity.
Written in what the author himself has called a “normalized
writing,” this book visits a lifetime of moments that have in
common the force of amazement, brilliance, and a flash of
life. Grounded in experiences from the author’s childhood
and his family’s role in the French Resistance, Coma is a tale
of initiation that provides an invaluable key to interpreting
Guyotat’s work, past and future.
Pierre Guyotat (born in 1940) has been a source of French literary
scandal since the 1967 publication of Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers.
The French government banned his novel Eden Eden Eden from being
publicized, advertised on posters, or sold to anyone under the age
of 18, from the time of its publication in 1970 until 1981.

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economics/political science

CRISIS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY


Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios
edited by Andrea Fumagalli and Sandro Mezzadra
Exit strategies from the current
translated by Jason Francis Mc Gimsey
financial crisis that may lead
afterword by Antonio Negri us toward a new horizon of
Crisis in the Global Economy is the latest and most innovative collective reflection constructing the common.
on the state of global capitalism, developed in the mobile “multiversity” of the
UniNomade network of international researchers and activists during the months March
immediately following the first signals of the current financial and economic 6 x 9, 256 pp.
crisis. It constitutes the first organic and interdisciplinary attempt to analyze a $17.95T/£13.95 paper
crisis that is not merely financial in nature but implicates globalization and 978-1-58435-087-3

neoliberal capitalism. Active Agents series


Crisis in the Global Economy begins with the recognition that the current Distributed for Semiotext(e)
financial crisis is a systemic crisis of the entire capitalistic system as it has been
developing since the 1890s. Taking as its premise that today’s
financial markets are the pulsing heart of cognitive capitalism,
financing the activity of accumulation, Crisis in the Global
Economy shows how the flow of capital rewards production that
exploits knowledge and controls spaces beyond traditional busi-
ness. The ineffectiveness of the extraordinary economic meas-
ures taken by single nation-states over the past few months
demonstrates that this crisis is of a completely different order.
A financial crisis that affects the “real economy” shows that
financialization is one of the most recent and perverse articula-
tions of capitalism.
The contributions to Crisis in the Global Economy invite us
to consider exit strategies from the current crisis — strategies
that may lead us toward a new horizon of constructing the
common.
Andrea Fumagalli is Professor in the Departments of Political Economy
and Economics at the University of Pavia. Sandro Mezzadra teaches in
the Department of Political Science in the University of Bologna.

CONTENTS
Sandro Mezzadra Introduction
Christian Marazzi The Violence of Financial Capitalism
Andrea Fumagalli The Global Economic Crisis and Socioeconomic Governance
Carlo Vercellone The Crisis of the Law of Value and the Becoming-Rent of Profit
Stefano Lucarelli Financialization as Biopower
Federico Chicchi On the Threshold of Capital, at the Thresholds of the Common
Tiziana Terranova New Economy, Financialization, and Social Production in the Web 2.0
Bernard Paulré Cognitive Capitalism and the Financialization of Economic Systems
Karl Heinz Roth Global Crisis — Global Proletarianization — Counter-perspectives
UniNomade Nothing Will Ever Be The Same
Antonio Negri A Reflection on Income in the “Great Crisis” of 2007 and Beyond

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current affairs/political science

CONTEMPORARY STATES OF EMERGENCY


The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions
edited by Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi
The new form of “humanitarian
government” that is emerging From natural disaster areas to zones of political conflict around the world, a new
from natural disasters and military logic of intervention combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates
occupations, and the moral and moral imperatives and political arguments, and confuses the concepts of legitimacy
political consequences.
and legality. The mandate to protect human lives — however and wherever
endangered — has given rise to a new form of humanitarian government that
May moves from one crisis to the next, applying the same battery of technical
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expertise (from military logistics to epidemiological risk management to the
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latest social scientific tools for “good governance”) and reducing people with
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these contemporary states of emergency.
Drawing on the critical insights of anthropologists, legal scholars, political
Also available from Zone Books scientists, and practitioners from the field, Contemporary States of Emergency
NONGOVERNMENTAL POLITICS examines historical antecedents as well as the moral, juridical, ideological, and
edited by Michel Feher economic conditions that have made military and humanitarian interventions
2007, 978-1-890951-74-0 common today. It addresses the practical process of intervention in global
$39.95T/£29.95 paper
situations on five continents, describing both differences and similarities,
and examines the moral and political consequences of
these generalized states of emergency and the new form
of government associated with them.
Didier Fassin is James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at
the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and
Director of Studies in Anthropology at the École des hautes études
en sciences sociales. His recent publications include When Bodies
Remember: Experience and Politics of AIDS in South Africa and
(with Richard Rechtman) The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into
the Condition of Victimhood. Mariella Pandolfi is Professor in the
Department of Anthropology at the University of Montreal.

“ Contemporary States of Emergency demands that we rethink


the very nature of violence, benevolence, and vulnerability in the
face of what Paula Vasquez Lezama felicitously calls ‘compassionate
militarization.’”
— Gil Anidjar, author of Semites: Race, Religion, Literature

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art history/Renaissance history

ANACHRONIC RENAISSANCE
Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood
In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a Examining the complex and
subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. layered temporalities
Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses, and effects of Renaissance images
of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition and artifacts.

in Renaissance images and artifacts. Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths


traveled by works and artists — a landscape obscured by art history’s disciplinary April
compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings, paintings, draw- 7 1/4 x 10 7/8, 456 pp.
120 illus.
ings, prints, sculptures, and medals discussed were shaped by concerns about
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authenticity, about reference to prestigious origins and precedents, and about the
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without hands”), the activities of spoliation and citation, differing approaches
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all of these emerge as basic conceptual structures of Renaissance art. THE VIENNA SCHOOL READER
Although a work of art does bear witness to the moment of its fabrication, Politics and Art Historical
Method in the 1930s
Nagel and Wood argue that it is equally important to understand its temporal
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in divinity. This book is not the story about the Renaissance, nor is it just a
story. It imagines the infrastructure of many possible stories.
Alexander Nagel is Professor of Renaissance Art History at the Institute
of Fine Arts in New York, and the author of Michelangelo and the Reform
of Art. Christopher S. Wood is Professor in the Department of History
of Art, Yale University. He is the author of Albrecht Altdorfer and the
Origins of Landscape, and the editor of The Vienna School Reader:
Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s (Zone Books, 2000).

Marmo osiriano, twelfth and fifteenth


centuries. Viterbo, Museo Civico.

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history of science/women’s studies

SECRETS OF WOMEN
Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
Katharine Park
Women’s bodies and the study of
anatomy in Italy between the late Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began
thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth to devote increasing attention to what they called “women’s secrets,” by which
centuries. they meant female sexuality and generation. At the same time, Italian physicians
and surgeons began to open human bodies in order to study their functions and
March the illnesses that afflicted them, culminating in the great illustrated anatomical
6 x 9, 419 pp. treatise of Andreas Vesalius in 1543. In Secrets of Women, Katharine Park traces
62 illus.
these two closely related developments through a series of case studies of women
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whose bodies were dissected after their deaths: an abbess, a lactating virgin,
several patrician wives and mothers, and an executed criminal.
cloth 2006 Secrets of Women explodes the myth that medieval religious prohibitions
978-1-890951-67-2 hindered the practice of human dissection in medieval and Renaissance Italy,
Distributed for Zone Books arguing that female bodies, real and imagined, played a central role in the
history of anatomy during that time. The opened corpses of holy women
Winner of the History of Science
Rossiter Prize, 2007, and the
revealed sacred objects, while the opened corpses of wives and mothers yielded
American Association for the History crucial information about where babies came from and about the forces that
of Medicine Welch Medal, 2009 shaped their vulnerable flesh. In the process, what male writers knew as the
“secrets of women” came to symbolize the most difficult challenges posed by
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human bodies — challenges that dissection promised to overcome. Park’s study
WONDERS AND THE ORDER OF of women’s bodies and men’s attempts to know them — and through these
NATURE, 1150–1750 efforts to know their own — demonstrates the centrality of gender to the
Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park development of early modern anatomy.
2001, 978-0-942299-91-5
$29.95T/£22.95 paper Katharine Park is Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard
University. Her book Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750 (Zone Books, 1998),
coauthored with Lorraine Daston, won the Pfizer Prize for the best book in the history
of science.

“Park’s meticulously documented book is medical


historiography at its best.... [Park] has shed light
on a notion — ‘the secrets of women’ — that
should have long ago been recognized as deserving
far more attention than has been paid to it.”
— Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic
“Park’s book will undoubtedly prove to be an
important contribution to the history of anatomy.
For the first time, it extensively discusses the his-
tory of anatomy from the viewpoint of the corpse
and, because of its particular focus on women’s
bodies, it will radically change the way we think
about the (male) history of the anatomized body.”
— Nature

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AFTERALL BOOKS
art

MARCEL DUCHAMP
Étant donnés
Julian Jason Haladyn
Duchamp’s famous last artwork,
Following Marcel Duchamp’s death in 1968, the Philadelphia Museum of Art seen not as a summation of
stunned the art world by unveiling a project on which he had been working his work but as an invitation
secretly for twenty years, long after he had supposedly given up art for chess. to endless interpretation.

Installed by the museum curators with the assistance of Duchamp’s widow


Teeny and stepson Paul Matisse, Étant donnés (known in English as Given, April
or, literally, “being given”) consists of a small room with a locked wooden door; 6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp.
12 color illus., 20 black & white illus.
through a peephole can be seen a landscape of trees, with a naked female figure
$16.00T/£9.95 paper
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In this illustrated study, Julian Haladyn argues that Duchamp’s intention
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in this final piece was similar to Raymond Roussel’s in How I Wrote Certain 978-1-84638-061-7
of My Books: not, as many have maintained, to provide a neat summation of his
career, but the opposite — to open his artwork (which he had made sure was
fully represented in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection) to endless One Work series

interpretation and reinterpretation. Duchamp’s engagement with his legacy Distributed for Afterall Books
(by orchestrating first the purchase of his work and then the donation of those
purchases to the museum) is a significant historical development in the critical
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relationship between artists and the institution of art — a relationship that
MICHAEL SNOW
would later be further explored by such artists as Andrea Fraser and Michael Wavelength
Asher. Additionally, Haladyn sees that the staging of Étant donnés — especially Elizabeth Legge
the way that Duchamp forces viewers to become aware of the act of looking 2009, 978-1-84638-056-3
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and their bodily presence in the gallery space — foreshadowed strategies used
by Minimalism as well as installation, spectatorship, and institutional critique. SARAH LUCAS
Au Naturel
Julian Jason Haladyn is a writer and artist Amna Malik
based in Canada. He teaches at the 2009, 978-1-84638-054-9
University of Western Ontario. $16.00T/£9.95 paper
CHRIS MARKER
La Jetée
Janet Harbord
2009, 978-1-84638-048-8
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art

RICHARD LONG
A Line Made by Walking
Dieter Roelstraete
An illustrated study of a work
that marks the transition from In 1967, Richard Long, then twenty-two years old and a student at Saint Martin’s
minimalism to a new mode of School of Art in London, walked back and forth along a straight line in the grass
practice encompassing conceptual in the English countryside, leaving a track that he then photographed in black
art, land art, and performance art.
and white. The resulting work, A Line Made by Walking, was not only the start-
ing point for Long’s career as an artist but also a landmark for a new kind of art
April emerging in Europe and the Americas. The formal simplicity of Long’s artwork
6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp.
12 color illus., 20 black & white illus. suggested a relation to minimalism, but its location outside the gallery context
and its suggestion of bodily actions also connected it to a new generation of
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978-1-84638-058-7 artists whose work combined the organic, the temporary, the nonmaterial, and
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the performative to offer a critique of the art system and its language, forms, and
978-1-84638-060-0 values. Long’s work bridged the concerns of his North American and European
One Work series
counterparts, connecting the industrial scale of Robert Smithson to the modesty
of Gilberto Zorio, the exercises in dematerialization of Robert Morris with the
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organic forms of Alighiero e Boetti, and the performance of Yvonne Rainer
with that of Joseph Beuys.
Also available in this series Although A Line Made by Walking is an instantly recognizable work, no
HANNE DARBOVEN detailed analysis of this foundational piece has yet been published. At a time
Cultural History 1880–1983 when Richard Long’s career is being celebrated and reassessed, this study by
Dan Adler
2009, 978-1-84638-050-1
writer and curator Dieter Roelstraete could not be more timely.
$16.00T/£9.95 paper Dieter Roelstraete is a writer, editor, and curator based in Berlin and Antwerp. He is a
ANDY WARHOL curator at MuHKA, Antwerp, and one of the editors of Afterall journal. His writing has
appeared in many magazines and books, including the catalogue of the 2008 Berlin
Blow Job
Biennial, When Things Cast No Shadow.
Peter Gidal
2008, 978-1-84638-041-9
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YVONNE RAINER
The Mind is a Muscle
Catherine Wood
2007, 978-1-84638-037-2
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history of technology/history

A CULTURE OF IMPROVEMENT
Technology and the Western Millennium
Robert Friedel
A history of technological change,
Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference from plows and printing presses
does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western to penicillin, the atomic bomb,
experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through and the computer.

the pursuit of improvement — the deep-rooted belief that things could be done
in a better way. What Friedel calls the “culture of improvement” is manifested April
every day in the ways people carry out their tasks in life — from tilling fields 8 x 9, 600 pp.
117 illus.
and raising children to waging war.
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Friedel traces technology from the plow and the printing press to the internal 978-0-262-51401-9
combustion engine, the transistor, and the space shuttle. Familiar figures from
the history of invention are joined by others — the dairywomen displaced from cloth 2007
their control over cheesemaking, the little-known engineer who first suggested 978-0-262-06262-6
a grand tower to Gustav Eiffel. The most comprehensive attempt to tell the
story of Western technology in many years, engagingly written and lavishly
illustrated, A Culture of Improvement documents the ways in which the drive
for improvement has shaped our modern world.
Robert Friedel is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland. He
is the author of Pioneer Plastic: The Making and Selling of Celluloid, Edison’s Electric Light,
and Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty.

Finalist for the 2008 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Award

“Friedel’s dazzling tour de force describes almost every aspect of technology.”


— Joel Mokyr, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
“Robert Friedel. . . . can not only impart the lesser-known details of
a familiar story but masterfully show how strange and wonderful it
is that things happened the way they did.”
— Adam Keiper, The Wall Street Journal
“A rare, detailed, nontheoretical survey that exposes the veins of
invention that run through Western culture, creating an astonishing
picture of achievement through its careful accumulation of small
details. Under [Mr. Friedel’s] firm touch it begins to be possible to
feel something like the primal pulse of this culture.”
— Edward Rothstein, The New York Times

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NOW IN PAPER
memoir science/art

RIDING THE WAVES THE HIDDEN SENSE


A Life in Sound, Science, Synesthesia in Art and Science
and Industry Cretien van Campen
Leo Beranek
What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste
Leo Beranek, an Iowa farm voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different
boy who became a Renaissance color? These uncommon sensory experiences are
man — scientist, inventor, examples of synesthesia, when two or more senses
entrepreneur, musician, television cooperate in perception. In The Hidden Sense,
executive, philanthropist, and Cretien van Campen explores synesthesia from
author — has lived life in both artistic and scientific perspectives.
constant motion. His seventy-year career, through Van Campen investigates
the most tumultuous and transformative years of the just what the function of
last century, has always been propelled by the sheer synesthesia might be and
exhilaration of trying something new. In Riding the what it might tell us about
Waves, Leo Beranek tells his story. our own sensory perceptions.
Beranek, one of the world’s leading experts on He examines the experiences
acoustics, invented the Hush-A-Phone — a telephone of individual synesthetes —
accessory that began the chain of regulatory challenges from Patrick, who sees music
and lawsuits that led ultimately to the breakup of the as images and finds the most
Bell Telephone monopoly in the 1980s; devised the beautiful ones spring from
world’s largest muffler to quiet jet noise; served as the music of Prince, to the
acoustical consultant for concert halls around the schoolgirl Sylvia, who is surprised to learn that not
world; as president of the acoustical consulting firm everyone sees the alphabet in colors as she does.
Bolt Beranek and Newman, assembled the software And he finds suggestions of synesthesia in the work
group that invented both the ARPANET, the forerun- of Scriabin, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Nabokov, Poe,
ner of the Internet, and e-mail; and turned Boston’s and Baudelaire.
Channel 5 into one of the country’s best TV stations. What is synesthesia? It is not, van Campen
Riding the Waves is a testament to the boldness, dili- concludes, an audiovisual performance, a literary
gence, and intelligence behind Beranek’s lifetime of technique, an artistic trend, or a metaphor. It is,
extraordinary achievement. perhaps, our hidden sense — a way to think visually;
Leo Beranek is a pioneer in acoustical research, known for his a key to our own sensitivity.
work in noise control and the acoustics of concert halls, and
the author of twelve books on these topics. The many awards Cretien van Campen is a Senior Researcher at the Social and
he has received include the Presidential National Medal of Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands. He is the author
Science, presented in 2003. of two books on perception and visual art.

“Beranek’s account of his truly remarkable life is a superbly “A gentle, insightful, often personal, account of colored
written and concise autobiography that tells a great story.” words, smells, tones, pains, even orgasms, that will fascinate
— Philip Nelson, Times Higher Education Supplement scientists, artists, synesthetes and others.”
— Chris McManus, Nature
“A fascinating glimpse into a time unique in American
industrial history . . . . It is the spirit of Leo Beranek that “This slim volume provides a good introduction to the fas-
shines throughout this book — a spirit of confidence, cinating phenomenon of synesthesia in art and science . . . .
open-mindedness, and intellectual adventure.” A welcome addition to the growing literature on the subject.”
— Roger Zimmerman, IEEE Spectrum — Simon Shaw-Miller, The Art Book

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NOW IN PAPER
art architecture

WORDS TO BE LOOKED AT ARCHITECTURE OR


Language in 1960s Art TECHNO-UTOPIA
Liz Kotz Politics after Modernism
Language has been a primary element in visual art Felicity D. Scott
since the 1960s — whether in the form of printed texts, In Architecture or Techno-Utopia,
painted signs, words on the wall, or recorded speech. Felicity Scott traces an alternative
In Words to Be Looked At, Liz Kotz traces this practice genealogy of the postmodern
to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry, turn in American architecture,
and experimental music created in focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics
and around New York City from that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scott
1958 to 1968. In many of these examines projects, conceptual work, exhibitions,
works, language has been reduced publications, pedagogical initiatives, and agitprop
to an object nearly emptied of performances that had as their premise the belief that
meaning. Robert Smithson architecture could be ethically and politically relevant.
described a 1967 exhibition at Although most of these strategies were far from the
the Dwan Gallery as consisting mainstream of American architectural practice, Scott
of “Language to be Looked at suggests that their ambition — the demonstration of
and/or Things to be Read.” Kotz architecture’s ongoing potential for social and political
considers the paradox of artists living in a time of engagement — was nonetheless remarkable.
social upheaval who used words but chose not to make Scott examines both the marginal and the promi-
statements with them. nent, from the Marxist architectural criticism of Meyer
Kotz makes two works the “bookends” of her study: Schapiro to Emilio Ambasz’s introduction of ideas
the “text score” for John Cage’s legendary 1952 work from environmental design to the video and architec-
4’33” — written instructions directing a performer to tural collective Ant Farm. She connects these earlier
remain silent during three arbitrarily determined time practices to the present day, in particular the missed
brackets — and Andy Warhol’s notorious a: a novel — opportunities for political engagement in the competi-
twenty-four hours of endless talk, taped and transcribed tion sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Development
— published by Grove Press in 1968. Kotz argues that Corporation for the World Trade Center site. At a
the turn to language in 1960s art was a reaction to the time of increasing receptiveness to thinking politically
development of new recording and transmission media: about architecture and design, Architecture or Techno-
words took on a new materiality and urgency in the Utopia offers a detailed account of the ways in which
face of magnetic sound, videotape, and other emerging the work of architects and designers can speak to the
electronic technologies. Words to Be Looked At is gener- contemporary condition.
ously illustrated, with images of many important and Felicity D. Scott is Assistant Professor of Architecture in the
influential but little-known works. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
at Columbia University and a founding editor of Grey Room.
Liz Kotz teaches in the Art History Department at the
University of California, Riverside.
“At a time when many prominent architects are given over
“Words to Be Looked At is a landmark account of the to formal navel-gazing or corporate branding or both,
central story of postwar art: the first sustained investigation [Scott’s] call to revivify the critically utopian dimension
of the ‘linguistic turn’ that has defined the arts since the of design is very bracing.”
1960s.” — Hal Foster, Townsend Martin ’17 Professor of
— Craig Dworkin, Department of English, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
University of Utah
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education/computer science/race studies current affairs/technology

STUCK IN THE PRIVACY ON THE LINE


SHALLOW END The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Education, Race, Updated and Expanded Edition
and Computing Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau
Jane Margolis Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure.
with Rachel Estrella, The Cold War culture of recording devices in tele-
Joanna Goode, phone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been
Jennifer Jellison Holme, succeeded by a post-9/11 world of National Security
and Kimberly Nao Agency wiretaps and demands for data retention.
The number of African Amer- Meanwhile, regulations requiring that the computer
icans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and and communication industries
advanced degrees in computer science is disproportion- build spying into their systems
ately low, according to recent surveys. And relatively few for the government’s conven-
African American and Latino/a high school students ience have increased rapidly.
receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educa- In Privacy on the Line,
tional opportunities, and preparation needed for them Whitfield Diffie and Susan
to choose computer science as a field of study and Landau strip away the hype sur-
profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis rounding the policy debate over
looks at the daily experiences of students and teachers privacy to examine the national-
in three Los Angeles public high schools and finds an security, law-enforcement, com-
insidious “virtual segregation” that maintains inequality. mercial, and civil-liberties issues. They discuss the
Margolis traces the interplay of school structures social function of privacy, how it underlies a demo-
(such factors as course offerings and student-to-coun- cratic society, and what happens when it is lost. This
selor ratios) and belief systems — including teachers’ updated and expanded edition revises their original —
assumptions about their students and students’ assump- and prescient — discussions of policy and technology
tions about themselves. Stuck in the Shallow End is a in light of recent controversies over NSA spying and
story of how inequality is reproduced in America — other government threats to communications privacy.
and how students and teachers, given the necessary
Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public-key cryptography, is
tools, can change the system. Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway College at the University
of London. Susan Landau is Distinguished Engineer at Sun
Jane Margolis is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Microsystems.
Democracy, Education, and Access at UCLA’s Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies. She is the First edition awarded the 1998 Donald McGannon Award for
coauthor of Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women and Computing Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research
(MIT Press, 2002).
“Diffie and Landau deserve a large audience. Their lucid
“Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, Jane
exposition adds valuable context to debates that for too long
Margolis exposes a barely recognized fact: minority children
have been abstract.”
are still stuck in separate and unequal educational settings.
— Aziz Huq, The American Prospect
Margolis points out why having high-tech equipment
without a system in place to foster critical thinking does “An incredibly comprehensive insight into the world of
little to close the achievement gap in poor communities.” encryption and wiretaps, its political machinations, legal
— Geoffrey Canada, President/CEO, Harlem aspects, technologies, vulnerabilities, costs, limitations, and
Children’s Zone, and author of Fist Stick Knife Gun: near-ubiquity.”
A Personal History of Violence in America — G. Ernest Govea, Security Management

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art/new media/politics music/technology

FEEDBACK THE PRODUCER AS COMPOSER


Television against Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music
Democracy Virgil Moorefield
David Joselit
In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned
American television embodies a the convention that recordings should recreate the illu-
paradox: it is a privately owned sion of a concert hall setting. The Wall of Sound that
and operated public communica- Phil Spector built behind various artists and the intri-
tions network that most citizens cate eclecticism of George Martin’s recordings of the
are unable to participate in except Beatles did not resemble live performances — in the
as passive spectators. Television Albert Hall or elsewhere — but instead created a new
creates an image of community while preventing sonic world. The role of the
the formation of actual social ties because behind its record producer, writes Virgil
simulated exchange of opinions lies a highly centralized Moorefield in The Producer as
corporate structure that is profoundly antidemocratic. Composer, was evolving from
In Feedback, David Joselit describes the privatized that of organizer to auteur.
public sphere of television and recounts the tactics Underlying the transforma-
developed by artists and media activists in the 1960s tion, Moorefield writes, is tech-
and 1970s to break open its closed circuit. nological development: new
The figures whose work Joselit examines — among techniques — tape editing, over-
them Nam June Paik, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Abbie dubbing, compression — and, in
Hoffman, Andy Warhol, and Melvin Van Peebles — the last ten years, inexpensive digital recording equip-
staged political interventions within the space of televi- ment that allows artists to become their own producers.
sion. Their strategies, Joselit writes, remain valuable Much has been written about rock and pop in the
today in a world where the overlapping information last thirty-five years, but hardly any of it deals with
circuits of television and the Internet offer different what is actually heard in a given pop song. The Producer
opportunities for democratic participation. as Composer tries to unravel the mystery of good pop:
In Feedback, Joselit analyzes such midcentury why does it sound the way it does?
image-events using the procedures and categories of
Virgil Moorefield is a composer, producer, and sound artist.
art history. In a televisual world, Joselit argues, where He is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan Ann
democracy is conducted through images, art history Arbor, where he teaches composition and new media.
has the capacity to become a political science.
“Virgil Moorefield has given us a first-rate inside view of
David Joselit is Professor and Chair of the Department of the how gifted producers have changed the way we create and
History of Art at Yale University and the author of Infinite
Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 (MIT Press, 1998) and consume music. This book is essential for anyone who cares
American Art Since 1945. about how music has changed in the last thirty years."
— Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that
“A sharply cautionary tale from our recent media past. . . .
Subliminal Kid, author of Rhythm Science
Joselit’s book suggests that the glow of TV’s tawdry sunset
and editor of Sound Unbound
may well provide the best light by which to illuminate art
history’s future path.” “An enjoyable read, liberally peppered with anecdotes that
— Caroline A. Jones, Artforum humanize the people involved in the transformation of
recording from a strictly technical attempt to capture a
“An elegant, passionately argued, and crucially important
live performance to an artistically crucial element of
rallying cry. . . . There may be hope that this call to arms for
modern music.”
the fields of art history and criticism will not go unheeded.”
— Kent Williams, Groove
— Ulrich Baer, Modern Painters
April — 6 x 9, 168 pp.
April — 6 x 9, 232 pp. — 51 illus.
$10.95T/£8.95 paper
$14.95T/£11.95 paper 978-0-262-51405-7
978-0-262-51402-6
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SECOND PERSON THEORIZING DIGITAL


Role-Playing and Story in CULTURAL HERITAGE
Games and Playable Media A Critical Discourse
edited by Pat Harrigan and edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
In Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage, experts offer a
Games and other playable forms, critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital
from interactive fictions to media by cultural heritage institutions. Previous discus-
improvisational theater, involve sions of cultural heritage and digital technology have
role-playing and story — something played and some- left the subject largely unmapped
thing told. In Second Person, game designers, authors, in terms of critical theory; the
artists, and scholars examine the different ways in essays in this volume offer this
which these two elements work together in tabletop long-missing perspective on the
role-playing games (RPGs), computer games, board challenges of using digital media
games, card games, electronic literature, political simu- in the research, preservation,
lations, locative media, massively multiplayer games, management, interpretation, and
and other forms that invite and structure play. representation of cultural her-
In engaging essays that range in tone from the itage. The contributors — schol-
informal to the technical, these writers offer a variety ars and practitioners from a range
of approaches for the examination of an emerging field of relevant disciplines — ground theory in practice,
that includes works as diverse as George R. Martin’s considering how digital technology might be used to
Wild Cards series and the classic Infocom game transform institutional cultures, methods, and relation-
Planetfall. ships with audiences.
Taken together, the multidisciplinary conversations The contributors examine the relationship between
in Second Person, along with Harrigan and Wardrip- material and digital objects in collections of art and
Fruin’s other collections First Person and Third Person, indigenous artifacts; the implications of digital tech-
offer essential insights into how fictions are con- nology for knowledge creation, documentation, and the
structed and maintained in very different forms of concept of authority; and the possibilities for “virtual
media at the beginning of the twenty-first century. cultural heritage” — the preservation and interpreta-
Pat Harrigan is a freelance writer and author of the novel tion of cultural and natural heritage through real-time,
Lost Clusters. Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Assistant Professor in the
Computer Science Department at the University of California,
immersive, and interactive techniques.
Santa Cruz. They are the coeditors of First Person: New Media Fiona Cameron is Associate Director, Innovation at UWS
as Story, Performance, and Game (2004) and Third Person: Innovation and Consulting, University of Western Sydney.
Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives (2007), both Sarah Kenderdine is Coordinator of Special Projects, Museum
published by the MIT Press. Victoria, Melbourne.

March — 8 x 9, 432 pp. — 200 illus. “This is an indispensable work for students and professionals
$22.00S/£16.95 paper in cultural preservation and management.”
978-0-262-51418-7 — C. S. Peebles, Choice

cloth 2006 March — 7 x 9, 480 pp. — 53 illus.


978-0-262-08356-0
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PRESS ON SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING


Principles of Interaction edited by Olivier Chapelle, Bernhard Schölkopf,
Programming and Alexander Zien
Harold Thimbleby In the field of machine learning, semi-supervised
Interactive systems and devices, learning (SSL) occupies the middle ground between
from mobile phones to office supervised learning (in which all training examples are
copiers, do not fulfill their labeled) and unsupervised learning (in which no label
potential for a wide variety of data are given). Interest in SSL has increased in recent
reasons — not all of them technical. Press On shows that years, particularly because of application domains
we can design better interactive systems and devices if in which unlabeled data are
we draw on sound computer science principles. It uses plentiful, such as images, text,
state machines and graph theory as a powerful and and bioinformatics. This first
insightful way to analyze and design better interfaces comprehensive overview of SSL
and examines specific designs and creative solutions presents state-of-the-art algo-
to design problems. Programmers — who have the rithms, a taxonomy of the field,
technical knowledge that designers and users often selected applications, benchmark
lack — can be more creative and more central to experiments, and perspectives on
interaction design than we might think. Sound ongoing and future research.
programming concepts improve device design. Semi-Supervised Learning first presents the key
Press On highlights key principles throughout the assumptions and ideas underlying the field: smooth-
text and provides cross-topic linkages between chapters ness, cluster or low-density separation, manifold
and suggestions for further reading. Additional mate- structure, and transduction. The core of the book is
rial, including all the program code used in the book, the presentation of SSL methods, organized according
is available on an interactive Web site. Press On is an to algorithmic strategies. After an examination of
essential textbook and reference for computer science generative models, the book describes algorithms that
students, programmers, and anyone interested in the implement the low-density separation assumption,
design of interactive technologies. graph-based methods, and algorithms that perform
Harold Thimbleby is Professor of Computer Science at Swansea
two-step learning. The book then discusses SSL appli-
University, Wales. He is the author or editor of a number of cations and offers guidelines for SSL practitioners by
books, including User Interface Design, and nearly 400 other analyzing the results of extensive benchmark experi-
publications.
ments. Finally, the book looks at interesting directions
Winner, American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly for SSL research. The book closes with a discussion of
Excellence, Computers and Information Sciences category
the relationship between semi-supervised learning and
“Highly recommended” transduction.
— J. Beidler, Choice Olivier Chapelle is Senior Research Scientist in Machine Learning
at Yahoo. Bernhard Schölkopf is Professor and Director at the
“The book will be of value to anyone who creates interfaces Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and
to computers and electronic devices, from the smallest to the is coauthor of Learning with Kernels (2002) and is a coeditor
of Advances in Kernel Methods: Support Vector Learning (1998),
most complex.” Advances in Large-Margin Classifiers (2000), and Kernel Methods
— Terry Winograd, Department of Computer in Computational Biology (2004), all published by the MIT
Science, Stanford University Press. Alexander Zien is Senior Analyst in Bioinformatics at
LIFE Biosystems GmbH, Heidelberg.
March — 7 x 9, 528 pp. — 156 illus.
March — 8 x 10, 528 pp. — 98 illus.
$24.00S/£17.95 paper
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978-0-262-51412-5
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COMBINATORIAL GLOBAL IMBALANCES AND THE


AUCTIONS LESSONS OF BRETTON WOODS
edited by Peter Cramton, Barry Eichengreen
Yoav Shoham, and
In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods,
Richard Steinberg
Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the argument that
foreword by Vernon L. Smith,
Nobel Prize in Economics, today’s international financial system is largely analo-
2002 gous to the Bretton Woods system of the period 1958
to 1973. Then, as now, it has been argued, the United
The study of combinatorial States ran balance of payment deficits, provided inter-
auctions — auctions in which bidders can bid on national reserves to other coun-
combinations of items or “packages” — draws on the tries, and acted as export market
disciplines of economics, operations research, and com- of last resort for the rest of the
puter science. This landmark collection integrates these world. Then, as now, the story
three perspectives, offering a state-of-the art survey of continues, other countries were
developments in combinatorial auction theory and reluctant to revalue their curren-
practice by leaders in the field. cies for fear of seeing their
Combinatorial auctions (CAs), by allowing bidders export-led growth slow and
to express their preferences more fully, can lead to suffering capital losses on their
improved economic efficiency and greater auction foreign reserves. Eichengreen
revenues. Challenges arise, however, in both design argues in response that the power
and implementation. Combinatorial Auctions addresses of historical analogy lies not just in finding parallels but
bidding languages and questions of efficiency, consider- in highlighting differences, and indeed he finds impor-
ing possible strategies for solving the computationally tant differences in the structure of the world economy
intractable problem of how to compute the objective- today. Such differences — two of the most salient of
maximizing allocation (known as the winner determi- which are the twin deficits and low savings rate of the
nation problem) and questions of how to test alternative United States, which do not augur well for the sustain-
algorithms. The authors discuss five important applica- ability of the country's international position — he con-
tions of CAs: spectrum auctions, airport takeoff and cludes, mean that the current constellation of exchange
landing slots, procurement of freight transportation rates and payments imbalances is unlikely to last as long
services, the London bus routes market, and industrial as the original Bretton Woods system.
procurement.
Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee
Peter Cramton is Professor of Economics at the University of Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University
Maryland. Yoav Shoham is Professor of Computer Science at of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Capital Flows and
Stanford University. Richard Steinberg is Chair in Operations Crises (MIT Press, 2002) and other books.
Management at the London School of Economics.
“Eichengreen’s book should be the starting point for the
“Combinatorial auctions are the great frontier of auction debate about what will happen after the inevitable end
theory today, and this book provides a state-of-the-art of an unsustainable system. With this and his many other
survey of this exciting field.” books, Eichengreen has established himself as one of the
— Roger B. Myerson, University of Chicago, most important voices in that debate.”
Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002 — Rawi Abdelal, Business History Review
“An essential reference for scholars and practitioners alike.”
March — 5 3/8 x 8, 208 pp. — 13 illus.
— Paul Klemperer, University of Oxford
$13.00S/£9.95 paper
March — 7 x 9, 672 pp. — 11 illus. 978-0-262-51414-9

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EXPLORING GENERAL ECONOMICS AND PSYCHOLOGY


EQUILIBRIUM A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field
Fischer Black edited by Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer
with a previously unpublished The integration of economics and psychology has cre-
paper by the author ated a vibrant and fruitful emerging field of study. The
new foreword by essays in Economics and Psychology take a broad view
Edward Glaeser of the interface between these two disciplines, going
Fischer Black was known for his beyond the usual focus on “behavioral economics.” As
brilliance as well as for his some- documented in this volume, the influence of psychology
times controversial opinions. on economics has been responsible for a view of human
Highly respected for his scholarly writings in finance, behavior that calls into question the assumption of
with this book he moved into different territory, offer- complete rationality (and raises
ing an incisive, unconventional assessment of general the possibility of altruistic acts),
equilibrium theory and what that theory reveals about the acceptance of experiments
business cycles, growth, and labor economics. as a valid method of economic
In Exploring General Equilibrium, Black asserts research, and the idea that utility
that the general equilibrium approach can be used to or well-being can be measured.
explain most of the economy’s behavior. It can explain The contributors, all leading
business cycles and growth without using sticky prices, researchers in the field, offer
irrationality, economies of scale, or imperfect competi- state-of-the-art discussions of
tion. It can explain the volatility of consumption, out- such topics as pro-social behavior
put, sales, investment, and inventories with axiomatic and the role of conditional coop-
utility and constant-returns-to-scale production. It eration and trust, happiness research as an empirical
can explain temporary layoffs, job changes with and tool, the potential of neuroeconomics as a way to
without intervening unemployment, and the behavior deepen understanding of individual decision making,
of vacancies. It can explain lower wages in part-time and procedural utility as a concept that captures the
jobs, wages that increase rapidly with time on the job, well-being people derive directly from the processes
and the forces that cause migration from poor to and conditions leading to outcomes. Taken together,
rich countries. the essays in Economics and Psychology offer an assess-
This paperback edition of Exploring General ment of where this new interdisciplinary field stands
Equilibrium includes a previously unpublished paper and what directions are most promising for future
by Black, “Neutral Technical Change,” edited by research, providing a useful guide for economists,
Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, who also psychologists, and social scientists.
contributes the foreword. Bruno S. Frey is Professor of Economics at the University
of Zurich. Alois Stutzer is Assistant Professor in the Faculty
Fischer Black (1938–1995), coauthor with Myron Scholes of of Business and Economics at the University of Basel.
the Black-Scholes equation on option pricing, held positions
at the University of Chicago, MIT’s Sloan School of Management,
and Goldman Sachs. In 1997, Scholes received the Nobel Prize “The contributions show the fruitful integration of
in Economics for his work with Black on option pricing. psychological methods and insights in economic research
and impressively demonstrate how much progress was
March — 6 x 9, 368 pp. already made.”
$30.00S/£22.95 paper — Bettina Rockenbach,
978-0-262-51409-5 Journal of Economics and Statistics
cloth 1995 March — 6 x 9, 296 pp. — 69 illus.
978-0-262-02382-5
$16.00S/£11.95 paper
978-0-262-51416-3

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978-0-262-06263-3
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cognitive science/psychology/environment philosophy/evolutionary psychology

THE NATIVE MIND EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY


AND THE CULTURAL AS MALADAPTED PSYCHOLOGY
CONSTRUCTION Robert C. Richardson
OF NATURE Human beings, like other organisms, are the products
Scott Atran and of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits
Douglas Medin that are the product of natural selection. Our psycho-
Surveys show that our growing logical capacities are evolved traits as much as are
concern over protecting the our gait and posture. This much few would dispute.
environment is accompanied by Evolutionary psychology goes further than this,
a diminishing sense of human contact with nature. claiming that our psychological
In The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of traits — including a wide variety
Nature, Scott Atran and Douglas Medin trace the cog- of traits, from mate preference
nitive consequences of this loss of knowledge. Drawing and jealousy to language and
on nearly two decades of cross-cultural and develop- reason — can be understood
mental research, they examine the relationship between as specific adaptations to
how people think about the natural world and how they ancestral Pleistocene conditions.
act on it and how these two phenomena are affected In Evolutionary Psychology as
by cultural differences. Maladapted Psychology, Robert
These studies reveal critical universal aspects of mind Richardson takes a critical look
as well as equally critical cultural differences. The book at evolutionary psychology by
includes two intensive case studies, one focusing on subjecting its ambitious and controversial claims to the
agro-forestry among Maya Indians and Spanish speak- same sorts of methodological and evidential constraints
ers in Mexico and Guatemala and the other on resource that are broadly accepted within evolutionary biology.
conflict between Native-American and European- Richardson shows that existing explanations within
American fishermen in Wisconsin. The Native Mind evolutionary psychology fall woefully short of accepted
and the Cultural Construction of Nature offers new per- biological standards. Evolutionary psychology, Richards
spectives on general theories of human categorization, argues, is speculation rather than sound science — and
reasoning, decision making, and cognitive development. we should treat its claims with skepticism.
Scott Atran is Research Director in Anthropology at France’s Robert C. Richardson is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of
National Center for Scientific Research and Visiting Professor Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati.
of Psychology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
Douglas Medin is Professor in the Psychology Department at “Richardson’s arguments are informed, informative,
Northwestern University. Medin and Atran are the coeditors of
Folkbiology (MIT Press, 1999). and incisive, and they provide an important cautionary
brief against the adaptationist program in evolutionary
“This book is essential reading for psychologists, who all too psychology.”
often look at problems from the lens of just one culture; for — David J. Buller, Ethology
anthropologists, who all too often neglect evolved universals
“In this excellent book, Richardson shows very clearly that
of thought; and for anyone else interested in the relations
attempts at reconstruction of our cognitive history amount
among culture, thought, and human values.”
to little more than ‘speculation disguised as results.’ ”
— Frank Keil, Department of Psychology,
— Johan J. Bolhuis, Science
Yale University
March — 6 x 9, 232 pp. — 13 illus.
March — 6 x 9, 344 pp. — 3 illus.
$15.00S/£11.95 paper
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978-0-262-18260-7
978-0-262-13489-7
Life and Mind series: Philosophical Issues in Biology
Life and Mind series: Philosophical Issues in Biology
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philosophy/political science neuroscience/computational neuroscience

DEMOCRACY DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS


ACROSS BORDERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
From Dêmos to Dêmoi The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting
James Bohman Eugene M. Izhikevich
Today democracy is both exalted In order to model neuronal behavior or to interpret the
as the “best means to realize results of modeling studies, neuroscientists must call
human rights” and seen as weak- upon methods of nonlinear dynamics. This book offers
ened because of globalization and an introduction to nonlinear dynamical systems theory
delegation of authority beyond for researchers and graduate students in neuroscience.
the nation-state. In this provoca- It also provides an overview of neuroscience for mathe-
tive book, James Bohman argues that democracies maticians who want to learn the
face a period of renewal and transformation and that basic facts of electrophysiology.
democracy itself needs redefinition according to a Dynamical Systems in
new transnational ideal. Democracy, he writes, should Neuroscience presents a systematic
be rethought in the plural; it should no longer be study of the relationship of elec-
understood as rule by the people (dêmos), singular, trophysiology, nonlinear dynam-
with a specific territorial identification and connotation, ics, and computational properties
but as rule by peoples (dêmoi), across national bound- of neurons. It emphasizes that
aries. Bohman shows that this new conception of information processing in the
transnational democracy requires reexamination of such brain depends not only on the
fundamental ideas as the people, the public, citizenship, electrophysiological properties
human rights, and federalism, and he argues that it of neurons but also on their dynamical properties.
offers a feasible approach to realizing democracy in a Each chapter proceeds from the simple to the
globalized world. complex, and provides sample problems at the end.
James Bohman is Danforth Professor of Philosophy and Concepts are presented in terms of both neuroscience
Professor of International Studies at Saint Louis University. and mathematics, providing a link between the two
He is the author, editor, or translator of many books, includ- disciplines.
ing Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy
(MIT Press, 1996) and Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant’s Eugene M. Izhikevich is Chairman and CEO of Brain Corporation
Cosmopolitan Ideal (edited with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, in San Diego and was formerly Senior Fellow in Theoretical
MIT Press, 1997). Neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute, San Diego.
He is editor-in-chief of Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed
“Highly persuasive. . . . An important contribution to the encyclopedia.
literature on normative global governance and an elegant
“A unique contribution to the theoretical neuroscience litera-
argument for republican federalism.”
ture that can serve as a useful reference for audiences rang-
— Barbara Buckinx, Ethics in International Affairs
ing from quantitatively skilled undergraduates interested
“Deploying deep theoretical insight and wide-ranging in mathematical modeling, to neuroscientists at all levels,
concrete examples, Bohman’s Democracy Across Borders to graduate students and even researchers in the field of
compellingly and with great originality characterizes a theoretical neuroscience.”
feasible global democracy.” — Jonathan E. Rubin, Mathematical Review
— Henry S. Richardson, Professor
“A stimulating, entertaining, and scenic tour of neuronal
of Philosophy, Georgetown University
modeling from a nonlinear dynamics viewpoint.”
March — 6 x 9, 232 pp. — John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and
$18.00S/£13.95 paper Courant Institute, New York University
978-0-262-51410-1
March — 7 x 10, 528 pp. — 409 illus.
cloth 2007 $32.00S/£23.95 paper
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SYSTEM MODELING IN URBAN MACHINERY


CELLULAR BIOLOGY Inside Modern European Cities
From Concepts to edited by Mikael Hård and Thomas J. Misa
Nuts and Bolts Urban Machinery investigates the technological dimen-
edited by Zoltan Szallasi, sion of modern European cities, vividly describing the
Jörg Stelling, and
most dramatic changes in the urban environment over
Vipul Periwal
the last century and a half. Written by leading scholars
Research in systems biology from the history of technology, urban history, and the
requires the collaboration of sociology of science and technology, the book views the
researchers from diverse backgrounds, including biol- European city as a complex con-
ogy, computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, struct entangled with technology.
and biochemistry. These collaborations, necessary The chapters examine the
because of the enormous breadth of background needed increasing similarity of modern
for research in this field, can be hindered by differing cities and their technical infra-
understandings of the limitations and applicability of structures (including communica-
techniques and concerns from different disciplines. This tion, energy, industrial, and
comprehensive introduction and overview of system transportation systems) and the
modeling in biology makes the relevant background resulting tension between
material from all pertinent fields accessible to homogenization and cultural differentiation. The con-
researchers with different backgrounds. tributors emphasize the concept of circulation — the
The emerging area of systems level modeling in process by which architectural ideas, urban planning
cellular biology has lacked a critical and thorough principles, engineering concepts, and societal models
overview. This book fills that gap. It is the first to spread across Europe as well as from the United States
provide the necessary critical comparison of concepts to Europe. They also examine the parallel process of
and approaches, with an emphasis on their possible appropriation — how these systems and practices have
applications. It presents key concepts and their theoret- been adapted to prevailing institutional structures and
ical background, including the concepts of robustness cultural preferences.
and modularity and their exploitation to study biologi-
Mikael Hård is Professor of History at Darmstadt University
cal systems; the best-known modeling approaches and of Technology. His books include The Intellectual Appropriation
their advantages and disadvantages; lessons from the of Technology: Discourses on Modernity, 1900-1939 (coedited
application of mathematical models to the study of with Andrew Jamison; MIT Press, 1998). Thomas J. Misa is
ERA–Land Grant Professor of the History of Technology at
cellular biology; and available modeling tools and the University of Minnesota, where he directs the Charles
datasets, along with their computational limitations. Babbage Institute. His books include Modernity and Technology
(coedited with Philip Brey and Andrew Feenberg; MIT Press,
Zoltan Szallasi is Professor in the Center for Biological 2003).
Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark.
Jörg Stelling is a faculty member of the Department of “By placing technology at the center of its historical narra-
Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zürich.
Vipul Periwal is with the Mathematical Cell Modeling tives, the volume provides original insights into some of the
Section, NIDDK, National Institute of Health. most crucial episodes of modern urban history.”
— Jens Lachmund, Isis
“Whether for graduate students or researchers, this book
provides an excellent introduction to systems biology March — 7 x 9, 360 pp. — 48 illus.
modeling.” $22.50S/£16.95 paper
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SHIPS AND SCIENCE WIRELESS


The Birth of Naval From Marconi’s Black-Box to the Audion
Architecture in the Sungook Hong
Scientific Revolution,
1600–1800 Fifteen years after Marconi’s famous invention, wireless
Larrie D. Ferreiro had become an essential means of communication and
a hobby for many. In Wireless, Sungook Hong offers a
“Naval architecture was born in new perspective on the early days of wireless communi-
the mountains of Peru, in the cation. Drawing on previously untapped archival evi-
mind of a French astronomer dence and recent work in the history and sociology of
named Pierre Bouguer who never built a ship in his science and technology, Hong
life.” So writes Larrie Ferreiro at the beginning of this examines the substance and con-
pioneering work on the science of naval architecture. text of both experimental and
Bouguer’s monumental book Traité du navire (Treatise theoretical aspects of engineering
of the Ship) founded a discipline that defined not the and scientific practices in the
rules for building a ship but the theories and tools to first years of this technology.
predict a ship’s characteristics and performance before it He offers new insights into the
was built. In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the relationship between Marconi
birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of and his scientific advisor, the
the Scientific Revolution. Using Bouguer’s work as a physicist John Ambrose Fleming
cornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often (inventor of the vacuum tube). It includes the full story
unexpected development of this new discipline and of the infamous 1903 incident in which Marconi’s
describes its practical application to ship design in the opponent Nevil Maskelyne interfered with Fleming’s
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. public demonstration of Marconi’s syntonic tuning sys-
Larrie D. Ferreiro is a naval architect and historian. He trained tem at the Royal Institution by sending derogatory
and worked as a naval architect in the U.S., British, and
French navies and the U.S. Coast Guard and has served as
messages from his own transmitter. Hong’s analysis of
technical expert for the International Maritime Organization. the Maskelyne affair highlights the struggle between
He has a PhD in the History of Science and Technology from Marconi and his opponents, the efficacy of early
Imperial College, London.
syntonic devices, Fleming’s role as a public witness
Winner, 2007 John Lyman Award for Best Book in Science and to Marconi’s private experiments, and the nature of
Technology, sponsored by the North American Society for
Oceanic History
Marconi’s “shows.” It also provides a rare case study
of how the credibility of an engineer can be created,
“A work of the highest importance, linking science, ships, and consumed, and suddenly destroyed. The book concludes
sea power.” with a discussion of Lee De Forest’s audion and the
— Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of shift from wireless telegraphy to radio.
Naval History, King's College London Sungook Hong is Associate Professor at the Institute for
the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at
“This is a superb volume, and is likely to be regarded in the University of Toronto.
coming years as the starting point of the now fast growing
study of the foundations of applied science and engineering.” “Historians of science and technology will regard this book
— Fred M. Walker, Mariner’s Mirror as the definitive work on the scientific underpinnings and
technological development of wireless in its first fifteen years.”
March — 7 x 9, 472 pp. — 92 illus. — David Hochfelder, Business History Review
$25.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51415-6 March — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 45 illus.
$22.00S/£16.95 paper
cloth 2006 978-0-262-51419-4
978-0-262-06259-6
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science cloth 2001
and Technology 978-0-262-08298-3
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The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and
Reports on a new generation of Jonathan Zittrain
Internet controls that establish
a normative terrain in which
foreword by Miklos Haraszti
surveillance and censorship Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increas-
are routine.
ing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic countries
as well as in authoritarian states. The first generation of Internet controls
April consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China’s famous
7 x 9, 656 pp.
“Great Firewall of China” is one of the first national Internet filtering systems.
34 illus.
Today the new tools for Internet controls that are emerging go beyond mere
$25.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51435-4
denial of information. These new techniques, which aim to normalize (or even
legalize) Internet control, include targeted viruses and the strategically timed
$50.00S/£37.95 cloth
978-0-262-01434-2 deployment of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, surveillance at key
points of the Internet’s infrastructure, take-down notices, stringent terms of
Information Revolution and
Global Politics series usage policies, and national information shaping strategies. Access Controlled
reports on this new normative terrain.
The book, a project from the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a collaboration of
Also available the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International
ACCESS DENIED Studies, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the SecDev
The Practice and Policy of
Global Internet Filtering Group, offers six substantial chapters that analyze Internet control in both
edited by Ronald Deibert, Western and Eastern Europe and a section of shorter regional reports and
John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, country profiles drawn from material gathered by the ONI around the world
and Jonathan Zittrain
2008, 978-0-262-54196-1 through a combination of technical interrogation and field research methods.
$21.00S/£15.95 Ronald Deibert is Associate Professor of Political
Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk
Centre for International Studies at the University
of Toronto. John Palfrey is Henry N. Ess II Professor
CHAPTER
of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information
AUTHORS Resources at Harvard Law School. Rafal Rohozinski
Ronald Deibert is a Principal with the SecDev Group, a global strat-
Colin Maclay egy and research analytics firm. Jonathan Zittrain
John Palfrey is Professor at Harvard Law School and the author
Hal Roberts of The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It.
Rafal Rohozinski Deibert, Palfrey, Rohozinski, and Zittrain are the
Nart Villeneuve coeditors of Access Denied: The Practice and Policy
Ethan Zuckerman of Global Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008).

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information technology race studies/public policy

WORLD WIDE RESEARCH WHAT’S THE USE OF RACE?


Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities Modern Governance and the
edited by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys Biology of Difference
foreword by Ian Goldin edited by Ian Whitmarsh and David S. Jones
Advances in information and communication technology The post–civil rights era perspective of many scientists
are transforming the way scholarly research is conducted and scholars was that race was nothing more than a
across all disciplines. The use of increasingly powerful social construction. Recently, however, the relevance
Experts examine ways and versatile computer-based How race as a
of race as a social, legal, and
in which the use of and networked systems prom- category — reinforced medical category has been
increasingly powerful ises to change research activity by new discoveries in reinvigorated by science,
and versatile digital genetics — is used as a especially by discoveries in
as profoundly as the mobile
information and basis for practice and
communication phone, the Internet, and email policy in law, science,
genetics. Although in 2000
technologies are have changed everyday life. and medicine. the Human Genome Project
transforming research This book offers a comprehen- reported that humans shared
activities across 99.9 percent of their genetic code, scientists soon began
sive and accessible view of the
all disciplines.
use of these new approaches — to argue that the degree of variation was actually greater
called “e-Research” — and their ethical, legal, and insti- than this, and that this variation maps naturally onto
tutional implications. The contributors, leading scholars conventional categories of race. In the context of
from a range of disciplines, focus on how e-Research this rejuvenated biology of race, the contributors to
is reshaping not only how research is done but also, What’s the Use of Race? investigate whether race can
and more important, its outcomes. By anchoring their be a category of analysis without reinforcing it as a
discussion in specific examples and case studies, they basis for discrimination. Can policies that aim to
identify and analyze a promising set of practical alleviate inequality inadvertently increase it by reifying
developments and results associated with e-Research race differences?
innovations. The essays focus on contemporary questions at the
The contributors, who include Geoffrey Bowker, cutting edge of genetics and governance, examining
Christine Borgman, Paul Edwards, Tim Berners-Lee, them from the perspectives of law, science, and
and Hal Abelson, explain why and how e-Research medicine. The book follows the use of race in three
activity can reconfigure access to networks of infor- domains of governance: ruling, knowing, and caring.
mation, expertise, and experience, changing what Contributors first examine the use of race and genetics
researchers observe, with whom they collaborate, how in the courtroom, law enforcement, and scientific
they share information, what methods they use to oversight; then explore the ways that race becomes,
report their findings, and what knowledge is required implicitly or explicitly, part of the genomic science
to do this. that attempts to address human diversity; and finally
William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute,
investigate how race is used to understand and act
Professor of Internet Studies, and Professorial Fellow of on inequities in health and disease. Answering these
Balliol College at the University of Oxford. Paul W. Jeffreys, questions is essential for setting policies for biology
formerly Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, is Director
of IT at the University of Oxford, Professor of Computing, and citizenship in the twenty-first century.
and Professorial Fellow of Keble College at the University
Ian Whitmarsh is Assistant Professor in the Department of
of Oxford.
Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University
of California, San Francisco. David S. Jones is Associate
July — 7 x 9, 424 pp. — 8 illus. Professor of History and Culture of Science and Technology
at MIT.
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May — 7 x 9, 296 pp. — 7 illus.
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science, technology, and society/philosophy science, technology, and society/sociology

BETWEEN REASON AND EXPERIENCE IGNORANCE AND SURPRISE


Essays in Technology and Modernity Science, Society, and Ecological Design
Andrew Feenberg Matthias Gross
afterword by Michel Callon Ignorance and surprise belong together: surprises can
The technologies, markets, and administrations of today’s make people aware of their own ignorance. And yet,
knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring perhaps paradoxically, a surprising event in scientific
disasters in every domain: climate change, energy research — one that defies prediction or risk assessment
A leading philosopher shortages, economic meltdown. The relationship between — is often a window to new
of technology calls The system is broken, despite ignorance and surprise and unexpected knowledge.
for the democratic everything the technocrats and a conceptual In this book, Matthias Gross
coordination of framework for dealing
claim to know about science, examines the relationship
technical rationality with the unexpected,
with everyday technology, and economics. as seen in ecological between ignorance and sur-
experience. These problems are exacer- design projects. prise, proposing a conceptual
bated by the fact that today framework for handling the
powerful technologies have unforeseen effects that unexpected and offering case studies of ecological
disrupt everyday life; the new masters of technology design that demonstrate the advantages of allowing
are not restrained by the lessons of experience, and for surprises and including ignorance in the design
accelerate change to the point where society is in and negotiation processes.
constant turmoil. In Between Reason and Experience, Gross draws on classical and contemporary socio-
leading philosopher of technology Andrew Feenberg logical accounts of ignorance and surprise in science
makes a case for the interdependence of reason — and ecology and integrates these with the idea of
scientific knowledge, technical rationality — and experiment in society. He develops a notion of how
experience. unexpected occurrences can be incorporated into a
Feenberg examines different aspects of the tangled model of scientific and technological development
relationship between technology and society from that includes the experimental handling of surprises.
the perspective of critical theory of technology, an Gross discusses different projects in ecological design,
approach he has pioneered over the past twenty years. including Chicago’s restoration of the shoreline of
Feenberg points to two examples of democratic inter- Lake Michigan and Germany’s revitalization of
ventions into technology: the Internet (in which user brownfields near Leipzig. These cases show how igno-
initiative has influenced design) and the environmental rance and surprise can successfully play out in ecologi-
movement (in which science coordinates with protest cal design projects, and how the acknowledgment of
and policy). He examines methodological applications the unknown can become a part of decision making.
of critical theory of technology to the case of the The appropriation of surprises can lead to robust
French Minitel computing network and to the rela- design strategies. Ecological design, Gross argues,
tionship between national culture and technology in is neither a linear process of master planning nor a
Japan. Finally, Feenberg considers the philosophies process of trial and error but a carefully coordinated
of technology of Heidegger, Habermas, Latour, and process of dealing with unexpected turns by means
Marcuse. The gradual extension of democracy into of experimental practice.
the technical sphere, Feenberg argues, is one of the Matthias Gross is Senior Researcher in the Department of
great political transformations of our time. Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research–UFZ.
Andrew Feenberg is Professor and Canada Research Chair in
Philosophy of Technology at the School of Communication at
Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Critical Theory June — 6 x 9, 256 pp. — 12 illus.
of Technology, Alternative Modernity, Questioning Technology,
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth
Transforming Technology, and Heidegger and Marcuse.
978-0-262-01348-2

June — 6 x 9, 248 pp. — 2 illus. Inside Technology series

$22.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51425-5
Inside Technology series

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history of science/urban studies history of technology

URBAN MODERNITY TECHNOLOGY AND THE MAKING


Cultural Innovation in the Second OF THE NETHERLANDS
Industrial Revolotion The Age of Contested Modernization,
Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, 1890–1970
Robert H. Kargon, and Morris Low edited by Johan Schot, Harry Lintsen, and
At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization Arie Rip
and urbanization marked the end of the traditional This study offers both an account of twentieth-century
understanding of society as technology in the Netherlands
How Paris, London, An account of
Chicago, Berlin, and rooted in agriculture. Urban the trajectory of and a view of Dutch history
Tokyo created modernity Modernity examines the con- modernization through through the lens of technology.
through science and struction of an urban-centered, technology in the It describes the trajectory of
technology by means Netherlands.
industrial-based culture — an modernization through tech-
of urban planning,
international expositions, entirely new social reality based nology in certain characteristically Dutch contexts —
and museums. on science and technology. including the omnipresence of water, the pervasiveness
The authors show that this of urbanization coupled with a high-tech agricultural
invention of modernity was brought about through the sector, and the legacy of colonialism — but at the same
efforts of urban elites — businessmen, industrialists, time makes it clear that Dutch struggles over technol-
and officials — to establish new science- and technol- ogy choices, infrastructure development, mass produc-
ogy-related institutions. International expositions, tion, and the role of government are comparable to the
museums, and other such institutions and projects experience of any Western industrialized country.
helped stem the economic and social instability fueled The book, which synthesizes findings originally
by industrialization, projecting the past and the future presented in a series of seven volumes published in the
as part of a steady continuum of scientific and technical Netherlands, uses the idea of contested modernization
progress. The authors examine the dynamic connecting as an overarching concept through which to under-
urban planning, museums, educational institutions, stand Dutch technological history. The modernizers
and expositions in Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, of Dutch society — including engineers, management
and Tokyo from 1870 to 1930. consultants, architects, and others — did not always
In Third Republic Paris, politicians, administrators, agree on how to modernize; moreover, the unruliness
social scientists, architects, and engineers implemented of specific practices often derailed or redirected imple-
the future city through a series of commissions, agen- mentation. Tensions between top-down and bottom-
cies, and organizations; in rapidly expanding London, up modernization, and between scale-enlargement and
cultures of science and technology were both rooted in more flexible arrangements of mutual coordination
and constitutive of urban culture; in Chicago after the and cooperation shaped Dutch history. The chapters
Great Fire, Commercial Club members pursued civic examine such topics as attempts to create an industrial
ideals through scientific and technological change; in nation, materially connected through infrastructure; the
Berlin, industry, scientific institutes, and the popular- conflicts that came with the arrival of mass production
ization of science helped create a modern metropolis; and the emergence of a consumer society; and land-use
and in Meiji-era Tokyo (Edo), modernization and planning in a low-lying country.
Westernization went hand in hand. Johan Schot and Harry Lintsen are Professors of the History
Miriam R. Levin is Professor of History and Art History at Case of Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Arie
Western Reserve University. Sophie Forgan is on the faculty of Rip is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology in
Teesside University, Middlesbrough, England. Martina Hessler the School of Management and Governance of the University
is Professor of Society and Technology at the University of Art of Twente.
and Design, Offenbach am Main, Germany. Robert H. Kargon is
Professor of the History of Science at Johns Hopkins University. February — 6 x 9, 640 pp.
Morris Low is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University
of Queensland. $45.00S/£26.95 cloth
978-0-262-01362-8
May — 6 x 9, 272 pp. — 25 illus. Copublished with Walberg Pers, the Netherlands
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01398-7

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literature/history of science

THERMOPOETICS
Energy in Victorian Literature and Science
Barri J. Gold
An engaging exploration of the
mutually productive interaction In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined,
of literature and energy science and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous
in the Victorian era, as seen emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in literature and in physics that
in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker,
and others. began in the 1830s, Gold finds that not only can science influence literature,
but literature can influence science, especially in the early stages of intellectual
development. Nineteenth-century physics was often conducted in words. And,
March
5 3/8 x 8, 336 pp. Gold claims, a poet could be a genius in thermodynamics and a novelist a damn
2 illus. good engineer.
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth Gold’s lively readings of works by Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Herbert
978-0-262-01372-7 Spencer, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, and others offer a decidedly literary intro-
duction to such elements of thermodynamic thought as conservation and dissi-
pation, the linguistic tension between force and energy, the quest for a grand
unified theory, strategies for coping within an inexorably entropic universe, and
the demonic potential of the thermodynamically savvy individual. Victorian
literature embraced the language and ideas of energy physics to address the
era’s concerns about religion, evolution, race, class, empire, gender, and sexuality.
These concerns in turn, Gold argues, shaped the hopes and fears expressed
about the new physics. With ThermoPoetics Gold not only offers us a new lens
through which to view Victorian literature, but also provides in-depth examples
of the practical applications of such a lens. Thus Gold shows us that in In
Memoriam, Tennyson expresses thermodynamic optimism with a vision of
transformation after loss; in A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens produces order in spite
of the universal drive to entropy, and in Bleak House treats the
novel itself as a series of engines; and how Wilde’s Dorian Gray
and Stoker’s Dracula reveal the creative potential of chaos.
Barri J. Gold is Associate Professor of English at Muhlenberg College.

“ ThermoPoetics bridges the literary and the scientific in a way that


is lively, original, and poignant. Barri Gold’s writing has the flair,
personality, and humor that will attract and please many readers.
Through her vivid readings, Victorian literature opens intriguing
new perspectives on the poetic ramifications of science."
— Peter Pesic, St. John's College, Santa Fe,
author of Sky in a Bottle
“Tennyson was a genius of thermodynamics, Maxwell, undoubtedly
a poet. The tensions between science and literature have never been
as great as they were in the Victorian era, and Barri Gold explores
how these two fields revealed themselves, informing striking revela-
tions in the other. This book beautifully mends the tear between
science and metaphor.”
— Eric Wilson, Department of English,
Wake Forest University

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history of science/physics sociology/economic history

CRAFTING THE QUANTUM PRUDENCE AND PRESSURE


Arnold Sommerfeld and the Reproduction and Human Agency
Practice of Theory, 1890–1926 in Europe and Asia, 1700–1900
Suman Seth Noriko O. Tsuya, Wang Feng, George Alter,
James Z. Lee, et al.
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951) was among the most
significant contributors to the birth of modern theoreti- This pioneering study reconceptualizes the impact of
cal physics. At the University of Munich, beginning in social organizations, economic conditions, and human
1906, he trained two genera- agency on human reproduction
An intellectual and A study of human
cultural history of the tions of theoretical physicists. reproduction and in preindustrial communities
birth of theoretical Eight of his students (among social organization in Europe and Asia. Unlike
physics in Germany. them Werner Heisenberg, in preindustrial previous studies, in which
communities that
Wolfgang Pauli, and Hans Asia is measured by European
reveals important
Bethe) went on to win the Nobel Prize. In Crafting the similarities between standards, Prudence and Pressure
Quantum, Suman Seth offers the first English-language Europe and Asia. develops a Eurasian perspec-
book-length study of Sommerfeld’s work, presenting an tive. Drawing on rich new data
intellectual and cultural history of theoretical physics in and the tools of event-history analysis, the authors chal-
Germany viewed through the lens of Sommerfeld’s lenge the accepted Eurocentric Malthusian view that
research and pedagogy. attributes “prudence” (smaller families due to late mar-
Seth examines the practical origins of many of the riage) to the preindustrial West and “pressure” (high
problems undertaken by Sommerfeld and his school, a mortality due to overpopulation) to the East, showing
number of which carried over from his years of teach- instead important similarities between Europe and Asia
ing at an engineering school. Some of this research was in human motivation and population behavior.
later applied by his students during World War I to The authors analyze age, gender, family and house-
such problems as the stability of aircraft wings and hold, kinship, social class and power, religion, culture,
the functioning and directional operation of antennas. and economic resources in order to compare reproduc-
Seth describes in detail Sommerfeld’s pedagogical tive strategies and outcomes. They reveal underlying
practice, including his characteristic amalgamation of similarities between East and West in two major com-
research and teaching. He relates the history of the ponents of the reproductive regime — marriage and
“older” quantum theory and Sommerfeld’s engagement childbearing — and offer evidence showing that prein-
with the work of Max Planck and Niels Bohr and dustrial reproduction was motivated and governed by
compares Sommerfeld’s “physics of problems” to human agency at least as much as by human biology.
Planck’s and Bohr’s more abstract “physics of princi- Noriko O. Tsuya is Professor of Economics at Keio University,
ples.” To illuminate the nature of Sommerfeld’s work, Tokyo. Wang Feng is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the
University of California, Irvine. George Alter is Professor of
Seth offers detailed descriptions of the contrasting History at the University of Michigan. James Z. Lee is
work of other theorists. Seth’s innovative account chal- Professor and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social
lenges idealist depictions of the nature of theoretical Sciences at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

work in physics, describing not only modes of practice


February — 6 x 9, 416 pp. — 33 illus.
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social life from which science draws resources and to $40.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01352-9
which it contributes.
Eurasian Population and Family History series
Suman Seth is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.

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March — 7 x 9, 376 pp. — 24 illus.
LIFE UNDER PRESSURE
$32.00S/£23.95 cloth Mortality and Living Standards
978-0-262-01373-4 in Europe and Asia, 1700 –1900
Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, and James Z. Lee
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and 2009, 978-0-262-51243-5
Technology $23.00S/£16.95 paper

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science/evolution science/evolution

EVOLUTION EVOLUTION–THE
The Modern Synthesis EXTENDED SYNTHESIS
The Definitive Edition edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller
Julian Huxley
In the six decades since the publication of Julian Huxley’s
with a new foreword by Massimo Pigliucci and
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, the spectacular
Gerd B. Müller
empirical advances in the biological sciences have been
This classic work by Julian Huxley, first published in accompanied by equally significant developments
1942, captured and synthesized within the core theoretical
The definitive edition Prominent evolutionary
of one of the most all that was then known about biologists and framework of the discipline.
important scientific evolutionary biology and philosophers of As a result, evolutionary theory
books of the twentieth gave a name to the Modern science survey recent
century, setting out the work that expands
today includes concepts and
Synthesis, the conceptual even entire new fields that
conceptual structure the core theoretical
underlying evolutionary structure underlying the field framework underlying were not part of the founda-
biology. for most of the twentieth the biological sciences. tional structure of the Modern
century. Many considered Synthesis. In this volume, sixteen leading evolutionary
Huxley’s book a popularization of the ideas then emerg- biologists and philosophers of science survey the con-
ing in evolutionary biology, but in fact Evolution: The ceptual changes that have emerged since Huxley’s land-
Modern Synthesis is a work of serious scholarship that mark publication, not only in such traditional domains
is also accessible to the general educated public. It is of evolutionary biology as quantitative genetics and
a book in the intellectual tradition of Charles Darwin paleontology but also in such new fields of research as
and Thomas Henry Huxley — Julian Huxley’s genomics and EvoDevo.
grandfather, known for his energetic championing Most of the contributors to Evolution — the
of Darwin’s ideas. Extended Synthesis accept many of the tenets of the
A contemporary reviewer called Evolution: The classical framework but want to relax some of its
Modern Synthesis “the outstanding evolutionary treatise assumptions and introduce significant conceptual
of the decade, perhaps the century.” This definitive edi- augmentations of the basic Modern Synthesis
tion brings one of the most important and successful structure — just as the architects of the Modern
scientific books of the twentieth century back into Synthesis themselves expanded and modulated
print. It includes the entire text of the 1942 edition, previous versions of Darwinism. This continuing
Huxley’s introduction to the 1963 second edition revision of a theoretical edifice the foundations of
(which demonstrates his continuing command of the which were laid in the middle of the nineteenth
field), and the introduction to the 1974 third edition, century — the reexamination of old ideas, proposals
written by nine experts (many of them Huxley’s associ- of new ones, and the synthesis of the most suitable —
ates) from different areas of evolutionary biology. shows us how science works, and how scientists have
Julian Huxley (1887–1975), an English evolutionary biologist, painstakingly built a solid set of explanations for what
was a prolific author and the leading figure in the mid-twentieth Darwin called the “grandeur” of life.
century effort to develop the modern synthesis of evolutionary
theory. He was the first director of UNESCO, a founding Massimo Pigliucci is Professor of Philosophy at the City
member of the World Wildlife Fund, and the recipient of University of New York. Gerd B. Müller is Professor of
UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science in Theoretical Biology at the University of Vienna and Chairman
1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition
the Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society Research.
in 1958.
April — 6 x 9, 504 pp. — 52 illus.
March — 6 x 9, 784 pp. — 2 illus.
$40.00S/£29.95 paper
$35.00S/£25.95 paper 978-0-262-51367-8
978-0-262-51366-1

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political science/international security environment/political science

RETHINKING VIOLENCE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF


States and Non-State Actors in Conflict HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS
edited by Erica Chenoweth and Adria Lawrence Challenges of Multilevel Management
foreword by Stathis Kalyvas Henrik Selin
Although major wars between sovereign states have The challenges posed by managing hazardous chemicals
become rare, contemporary world politics has been rife cross boundaries, jurisdictions, and constituencies. Since
with internal conflict, ethnic cleansing, and violence the 1960s, a chemicals regime — a multitude of formally
An original argument against civilians. This book asks An analysis of the independent but functionally
about the causes how, why, and when states and regime for the related treaties and programs —
and consequences non-state actors use violence management of has been in continuous devel-
of political violence hazardous chemicals,
against one another, and exam- opment, as states and organi-
and the range of highlighting the insights
strategies employed. ines the effectiveness of various it provides for effective zations collaborate at different
forms of political violence. multilevel governance governance levels to mitigate
In the process of addressing these issues, the essays in other areas. the health and environmental
make two conceptual moves that illustrate the need problems caused by hazardous chemicals. In this book,
to reconsider the way violence by states and non-state Henrik Selin analyzes the development, implementa-
actors has typically been studied and understood. tion, and future of the chemicals regime.
The first is to think of violence not as dichotomous, Selin focuses his analysis on three themes: coalition
as either present or absent, but to consider the wide building in support of policy change; the diffusion
range of nonviolent and violent options available and of regime components across policy venues; and the
ask why actors come to embrace particular strategies. influence of institutional linkages on the design and
The second is to explore the dynamic nature of violent effectiveness of multilevel governance efforts. He pro-
conflicts, developing explanations that can account for vides in-depth empirical studies of the four multilateral
the eruption of violence at particular moments in time. treaties that form the core of the chemicals regime:
The arguments focus on how changes in the balance the Basel Convention (1989), which regulates the
of power between and among states and non-state transboundary movement and disposal of hazardous
actors generate uncertainty and threat, thereby creating wastes; the Rotterdam Convention (1998), which
an environment conducive to violence. This innovative governs the international trade in chemicals; the
way of understanding violence deemphasizes the role CLRTAP POPs Protocol (1998), designed to reduce
of ethnic cleavages and nationalism in modern conflict. the release and transnational transport of emissions
Erica Chenoweth is Assistant Professor of Government at of persistent organic pollutants; and the Stockholm
Wesleyan University and an Associate of the Belfer Center at Convention (2001), which targets the production, use,
Harvard Kennedy School. Adria Lawrence is Assistant Professor
of Political Science at Yale University and a Research Fellow trade, and disposal of persistent organic pollutants.
at Yale’s McMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Selin’s analysis of these linkages in the chemicals
regime offers valuable theoretical and policy-relevant
“This pathbreaking collection forcefully destroys old paradigms insights into the growing institutional density in global
and provides important new optics through which to study governance.
violence in war.”
— Robert I. Rotberg, Director of the Program on Henrik Selin is Assistant Professor in the Department of
International Relations at Boston University. He is the
Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, coeditor, with Stacy VanDeveer, of Changing Climates in
Harvard Kennedy School North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and
Multilevel Governance (MIT Press, 2009).
April — 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 400 pp.
March — 6 x 9, 240 pp.
$25.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51428-6 $22.00S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51390-6
$50.00S/£37.95 cloth
978-0-262-01420-5 $44.00S/£32.95 cloth
978-0-262-01395-6
Belfer Center Studies in International Security
Politics, Science, and the Environment series

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environment/public policy economics/political science

ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND THE NATURAL RESOURCES TRAP


U.S. CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY Private Investment without
edited by David M. Driesen Public Commitment
edited by William Hogan and
The United States, once a world leader in addressing Federico Sturzenegger
international environmental challenges, became a vigor-
ous opponent of action on climate change over the past Volatility in commodity prices has been accompanied
two decades, repudiating regulation and promoting only by perpetual renegotiation of contracts between private
ineffectual voluntary actions to investors in natural resource
Experts examine how Experts discuss the
reliance on free markets meet a growing global threat. contractual instability production and the govern-
contributed to the Why has the United States resulting from commodity ments of states with mineral
U.S. failure to address
failed so utterly to address the
price volatility and and energy wealth. When
climate change and its effect on private
most pressing environmental prices skyrocket, governments
offer recommendations investment and public
for new ideas to guide issue of the age? This book involvement. want a larger share of revenues,
policy. argues that the failure arose sometimes to the point of
from an unyielding ideological stance that embraced nationalization or expropriation; when prices fall, larger
free markets and viewed government action as anath- state participation becomes a burden and the private
ema. The most notorious result of this hands-off sector is called back in. Recent and newsworthy changes
approach was the financial meltdown of late 2008; but in the price of oil (which fell from an all-time high of
strict reliance on free markets also hobbled government $147 in mid-2008 to $40 by year’s end) are notable for
policymakers’ response to the challenge of global warm- their speed and the steepness of their rise and fall, but
ing. This book explores the relationship between free- the up-and-down pattern itself is not unusual. If the
market fundamentalism and U.S. inaction on climate unpredictability of commodity prices is so predictable,
change and offers recommendations for new why do contracts not allow for this with mechanisms
approaches that can lead to effective climate-change that would provide a more stable commercial frame-
policy and improve environmental, health, and safety work? In The Natural Resources Trap, top scholars
policies in general. address this question in terms of both theory and
After describing the evolution of U.S. climate practice. Theoretical contributions range across a num-
change policy and the influence of neoliberal economic ber of fields, from contract theory to public finance,
thought, the book takes up the question of what ideas and treat topics that include taxation, royalties, and
might supersede the neoliberal reliance on cost-benefit expropriation cycles. Case studies examine experiences
analysis, overly broad market-based mechanisms, and in the U.K., Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, and other
rejection of precautionary approaches and environmen- parts of the world
tal justice concerns. With a new administration in CONTRIBUTORS Philippe Aghion, George-Marios Angeletos,
Washington, the need for a new policy framework is Fernando Candia Castillo, Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra,
acute; this book supplies a timely guide to the kinds of Eduardo Engel, Ramón Espinasa, Ronald Fischer, Jeffrey Frankel,
Nicolás Gadano, Dieter Helm, William Hogan, Robert MacCulloch,
policies that are most promising. Osmel Manzano, Francisco Monaldi, Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani,
Erich Muehlegger, Fernando H. Navajas, Robert Pindyck,
David M. Driesen is University Professor at Syracuse University
College of Law. He is the author of The Economic Dynamics Lucía Quesada, Roberto Rigobon, Eduardo Schwartz,
of Environmental Law (MIT Press, 2003), winner of the 2004 Federico Sturzenegger, Lawrence Summers, Laurence Tai,
Lynton Keith Caldwell Award for best book on environmental Michael Tomz, Anders Trolle, Louis Wells, Nils Wernerfelt,
policy, presented by the American Political Science Association. Mark Wright, Richard Zeckhauser, Jeromin Zettelmeyer

William Hogan is Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy


May — 6 x 9, 352 pp. — 3 illus. Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Federico
$24.00S/£17.95 paper Sturzenegger is President of the Banco Ciudad de Buenos
978-0-262-54198-5 Aires. He is the coauthor, with Jeromin Zettelmeyer, of Debt
Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises (MIT Press, 2007).
$48.00S/£35.95 cloth
978-0-262-04252-9 June — 6 x 9, 520 pp. — 43 illus.
American and Comparative Environmental Policy series $40.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01379-6

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economics

THE ECONOMICS OF MICROFINANCE


Second Edition
Beatriz Armendáriz and Jonathan Morduch
An accessible analysis of the
The microfinance revolution has allowed more than 150 million poor people global expansion of financial
around the world to receive small loans without collateral, build up assets, and markets in poor communities,
buy insurance. The idea that providing access to reliable and affordable financial incorporating the latest
thinking and evidence.
services can have powerful economic and social effects has captured the imagina-
tion of policymakers, activists, bankers, and researchers around the world; the
2006 Nobel Peace Prize went to microfinance pioneer Muhammed Yunis and May
6 x 9, 456 pp.
Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. This book offers an accessible and engaging 18 illus.
analysis of the global expansion of financial markets in poor communities. It
$35.00S/£25.95 paper
introduces readers to the key ideas driving microfinance, integrating theory with 978-0-262-51398-2
empirical data and addressing a range of issues, including savings and insurance,
$70.00S/£51.95 cloth
the role of women, impact measurement, and management incentives. 978-0-262-01410-6
This second edition has been updated throughout to reflect the latest data.
A new chapter on commercialization describes the rapid growth in investment
in microfinance institutions and the tensions inherent in the efforts to meet
both social and financial objectives. The chapters on credit contracts, savings
and insurance, and gender have been expanded substantially; a new section in
the chapter on impact measurement describes the growing
importance of randomized controlled trials; and the chapter on
managing microfinance offers a new perspective on governance
issues in transforming institutions. Appendixes and problem
sets cover technical material.
Beatriz Armendáriz is a Lecturer in Economics in the Department
of Economics at Harvard University, a Senior Lecturer on leave from
University College London, and coeditor of The Microfinance Handbook.
Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at
New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
He is a coauthor of Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor
Live on $2 a Day.

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION


“An excellent analysis of the evolution of microfinance and the
economic theory behind it. . . .Though the style is that of a textbook,
including exercises and numerical examples, the text is well written
and an excellent source for economists who want to learn about
this topic.”
— Branko Milanovich, Times Higher Education Supplement

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economics/political science economics/Internet studies

RATIONAL CHOICE INTERNET ARCHITECTURE


Itzhak Gilboa AND INNOVATION
This book offers a rigorous, concise, and nontechnical Barbara van Schewick
introduction to some of the fundamental insights of The Internet’s remarkable growth has been fueled by
rational choice theory. It draws on formal theories innovation. New applications continually enable new
of microeconomics, decision making, games, and ways of using the Internet, and new physical network-
social choice, and on ideas developed in philosophy, ing technologies increase the range of networks over
A nontechnical, psychology, and sociology. A detailed examination which the Internet can run.
concise, and rigorous Itzhak Gilboa argues that of how the underlying Questions about the relation-
introduction to economic theory has provided technical structure of ship between innovation and
the rational choice the Internet affects the
a set of powerful models and the Internet’s architecture
paradigm, focusing economic environment
on basic insights broad insights that have for innovation and the have shaped the debates over
applicable in fields changed the way we think implications for public open access to broadband
ranging from economics about everyday life. He focuses policy. networks, network neutrality,
to philosophy.
on basic insights of the rational nondiscriminatory network management, and future
choice paradigm — the general conceptualization Internet architecture. In Internet Architecture and
rather than a particular theory — that survive recent Innovation, Barbara van Schewick explores the eco-
(and well-justified) critiques of economic theory’s nomic consequences of Internet architecture, offering
various failures. Gilboa explains the main concepts a detailed analysis of how it affects the economic
in language accessible to the nonspecialist, offering environment for innovation.
a nonmathematical guide to some of the main ideas Van Schewick describes the design principles on
developed in economic theory in the second half of which the Internet’s original architecture was based —
the twentieth century. modularity, layering, and the end-to-end arguments —
Chapters cover feasibility and desirability, utility and shows how they shaped the original architecture
maximization, constrained optimization, expected of the Internet. She analyzes in detail how the original
utility, probability and statistics, aggregation of prefer- Internet architecture affected innovation — in particu-
ences, games and equilibria, free markets, and rational- lar, the development of new applications — and the
ity and emotions. Online appendixes offer a survey of how changing the architecture would affect this kind
relevant mathematical concepts, a rigorous exposition of innovation.
of the formal models described in the book, exercises Van Schewick concludes that the original architec-
and problems, and solutions. These materials are useful ture of the Internet fostered application innovation.
supplements to the book for classroom use. Current changes that deviate from the Internet’s origi-
Itzhak Gilboa is Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences nal design principles reduce the amount and quality
at HEC (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Paris, and of application innovation, limit users’ ability to use the
Professor of Economics at Berglas School of Economics, Tel
Aviv University. He is the coauthor (with David Schmeidler)
Internet as they see fit, and threaten the Internet’s abil-
of Theory of Case-Based Decisions and the author of Theory ity to realize its economic, social, cultural, and political
of Decision under Uncertainty. potential. If left to themselves, network providers
will continue to change the internal structure of the
April — 6 x 9, 200 pp. — 7 illus.
Internet in ways that are good for them but not neces-
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth sarily for the rest of us. Government intervention may
978-0-262-01400-7
be needed to save the social benefits associated with
the Internet’s original design principles.
Barbara van Schewick is Assistant Professor at Stanford
Law School, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for
Internet and Society, and Assistant Professor (by courtesy)
of Electrical Engineering in Stanford University’s Department
of Electrical Engineering.

July — 6 x 9, 560 pp. — 29 illus.


$45.00S/£33.95 cloth
978-0-262-01397-0
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economics economics

OFFSHORING IN PROSPECTS FOR MONETARY


THE GLOBAL ECONOMY COOPERATION AND INTEGRATION
Microeconomic Structure and IN EAST ASIA
Macroeconomic Implications Ulrich Volz
Robert C. Feenstra foreword by Koichi Hamada
In the early 1990s, trade and labor economists, noting East Asian countries were notably uninterested in
the fall in wages for low-skilled workers relative to regional monetary integration until the late 1990s,
An elegant synthesis high-skilled workers, began to An investigation into when the Asian financial crisis
of key research on debate the impact of trade on monetary cooperation revealed the fragility of the
the globalization of wages. This debate — which in East Asia that region’s exchange rate arrange-
production and its examines options
led to a sometimes heated ments and highlighted the
relation to wage ranging from informal
movements. exchange on the role of trade policy coordination to need for a stronger regional
versus the role of technological the introduction of a financial architecture. Since
change in explaining wage movements — continues common currency. then, the countries of East
today, with the focus now shifting to workers in Asia have begun taking steps to explore monetary and
the middle of the wage distribution. In Offshoring in financial cooperation, establishing such initiatives as
the Global Economy, noted economist Robert Feenstra regular consultations among finance ministers and cen-
offers a synthesis of fifteen years of research — linking tral bank governors and the pooling of foreign exchange
his own work to related research by others — on the reserves. In this book, Ulrich Volz investigates the
globalization of production and its relation to wage prospects for monetary cooperation and integration in
movements. East Asia, using state-of-the-art theoretical and empiri-
Feenstra first contrasts the views of trade economists cal tools to analyze the most promising policy options.
Paul Krugman and Edward Leamer, who both relied Volz recommends a gradual approach toward
(to different ends) on the Heckscher–Ohlin model. He monetary integration in East Asia, one that pursues
then examines the new type of trade models focusing less extensive forms of monetary cooperation before
on the transfer of production processes across coun- tackling such highly challenging projects as a regional
tries. Feenstra suggests a new calculation of the factor exchange rate system or a regional monetary union.
content of trade that demonstrates the durability of the This would allow East Asian countries to develop an
Heckscher–Ohlin model. integrationist spirit and gain experience in cooperation.
Feenstra then examines the macroeconomics of off- After providing an in-depth analysis of the costs
shoring, focusing on business cycle volatility, prices, and benefits of monetary integration, Volz examines
and productivity. Finally, he discusses the broader different options for East Asian countries. He then
implications of both empirical and theoretical work on proposes a strategy whereby countries first opt for a
offshoring and suggests directions for future research. managed float of exchange rates guided by a regional
Robert C. Feenstra is Professor of Economics and C. Bryan currency basket into which an “Asian currency unit”
Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics at the is introduced as a virtual parallel currency to circulate
University of California, Davis. He directs the International
Trade and Investment Program at the National Bureau of alongside national currencies.
Economic Research and is the author of Advanced International Ulrich Volz is Senior Economist at the German Development
Trade: Theory and Evidence. Institute.

February — 5 3/8 x 8, 160 pp. — 26 illus. May — 6 x 9, 416 pp. — 27 illus.


$30.00S/£22.95 cloth $40.00S/£29.95 cloth
978-0-262-01383-3 978-0-262-01399-4
Ohlin Lectures series

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PROFESSIONAL
economics mathematics/finance

MONETARY THEORY AND POLICY INTRODUCTION TO


Third Edition QUANTITATIVE FINANCE
Carl E. Walsh A Math Toolkit
This text presents a comprehensive treatment of the Robert R. Reitano
most important topics in monetary economics, focusing This text offers an accessible yet rigorous development
on the primary models monetary economists have of many of the fields of mathematics necessary for suc-
employed to address topics in theory and policy. It cess in investment and quantitative finance, covering
A new edition of
covers the basic theoretical An introduction to topics applicable to portfolio
the leading text in approaches, shows how to do many mathematical theory, investment banking,
monetary economics, simulation work with the mod- topics applicable to option pricing, investment, and
a comprehensive els, and discusses the full range quantitative finance
treatment revised and that teaches how to
insurance risk management.
enhanced with new
of frictions that economists “think in mathematics” The approach emphasizes the
material reflecting have studied to understand the rather than simply do mathematical framework pro-
recent advances in impacts of monetary policy. mathematics by rote. vided by each mathematical
the field. Among the topics presented discipline, and the application of each framework to the
are money-in-the-utility function, cash-in-advance, and solution of finance problems. It emphasizes the thought
search models of money; informational, portfolio, and process and mathematical approach taken to develop
nominal rigidities; credit frictions; the open economy; each result instead of the memorization of formulas to
and issues of monetary policy, including discretion and be applied (or misapplied) automatically. The objective
commitment, policy analysis in new Keynesian models, is to provide a deep level of understanding of the rele-
and monetary operating procedures. vant mathematical theory and tools that can then be
The use of models based on dynamic optimization effectively used in practice, to teach students how to
and nominal rigidities in consistent general equilibrium “think in mathematics” rather than simply to do mathe-
frameworks, relatively new when introduced to students matics by rote.
in the first edition of this popular text, has since become Each chapter covers an area of mathematics such
the method of choice of monetary policy analysis. as mathematical logic, Euclidean and other spaces, set
This third edition reflects the latest advances in the theory and topology, sequences and series, probability
field, incorporating new or expanded material on such theory, and calculus, in each case presenting only mate-
topics as monetary search equilibria, sticky information, rial that is most important and relevant for quantitative
adaptive learning, state-contingent pricing models, and finance. Each chapter includes finance applications that
channel systems for implementing monetary policy. demonstrate the relevance of the material presented.
Much of the material on policy analysis has been reor- Problem sets are offered on both the mathematical
ganized to reflect the dominance of the new Keynesian theory and the finance applications sections of each
approach. Monetary Theory and Policy continues to be chapter. A solutions manual for students provides
the only comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of solutions to the book’s Practice Exercises; an instruc-
monetary economics, not only the leading text in the tor’s manual offers solutions to the Assignment
field but also the standard reference for academics Exercises as well as other materials.
and central bank researchers.
Robert R. Reitano is Professor of the Practice in Finance at
Carl E. Walsh is Professor of Economics at the University of Brandeis University’s International Business School. He was
California, Santa Cruz. He is coeditor of the International formerly Executive Vice President and Chief Investment
Journal of Central Banking and Visiting Scholar at the Federal Strategist of John Hancock/Manulife.
Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
March — 7 x 9, 736 pp. — 31 illus.
May — 7 x 9, 632 pp.
$80.00S/£49.95 cloth
$80.00S/£43.95 cloth 978-0-262-01369-7
978-0-262-01377-2
STUDENT SOLUTIONS MANUAL TO ACCOMPANY
INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE FINANCE
A Math Toolkit
Robert R. Reitano
March — 8 1/2 x 11, 146 pp.
$21.95S/£16.95 paper
978-0-262-51434-7
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PROFESSIONAL
mathematics science/education

STREET-FIGHTING MATHEMATICS LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE IN


The Art of Educated Guessing and SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Opportunistic Problem Solving Case Studies from MIT
Sanjoy Mahajan Mya Poe, Neal Lerner, and Jennifer Craig
foreword by Carver A. Mead foreword by James Paradis
In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for To many science and engineering students, the task of
fools: do whatever works — don’t just stand there! Yet writing may seem irrelevant to their future professional
we often fear an unjustified careers. At MIT, however, stu-
An antidote to Case studies and
mathematical rigor leap, even though it may pedagogical strategies dents discover that writing
mortis, teaching how land us on a correct result. to help science and about their technical work is
to guess answers Traditional mathematics teach- engineering students
without needing a improve their writing
important not only in solving
proof or an exact
ing is largely about solving and speaking skills real-world problems but also
calculation. exactly stated problems exactly, while developing in developing their profes-
yet life often hands us partly professional identities. sional identities. MIT puts
defined problems needing only moderately accurate into practice the belief that “engineers who don’t write
solutions. This engaging book is an antidote to the well end up working for engineers who do write well,”
rigor mortis brought on by too much mathematical requiring all students to take “communications-inten-
rigor, teaching us how to guess answers without sive” classes in which they learn from MIT faculty and
needing a proof or an exact calculation. writing instructors how to express their ideas in writing
In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan and in presentations. Students are challenged not only
builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated to think like professional scientists and engineers but
guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem also to communicate like them.
solving across diverse fields of knowledge — from This book offers in-depth case studies and peda-
mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six gogical strategies from a range of science and engineer-
tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture ing communication-intensive classes at MIT. It traces
proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by the progress of seventeen students from diverse back-
analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous exam- grounds in seven classes that span five departments.
ples, he carefully separates the tool — the general Undergraduates in biology attempt to turn scientific
principle — from the particular application, so that findings into a research article; graduate students learn
the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use to define their research for scientific grant writing;
on problems of particular interest. undergraduates in biomedical engineering learn to
Street-Fighting Mathematics grew out of a short use data as evidence; and students in aeronautic and
course taught by the author at MIT for students rang- astronautic engineering learn to communicate collabo-
ing from first-year undergraduates to graduate students ratively. Each case study is introduced by a description
ready for careers in physics, mathematics, management, of its theoretical and curricular context and an outline
electrical engineering, computer science, and biology. of the objectives for the students’ activities. The studies
They benefited from an approach that avoided rigor describe the on-the-ground realities of working with
and taught them how to use mathematics to solve faculty, staff, and students to achieve communication
real problems. and course goals, offering lessons that can be easily
Street-Fighting Mathematics will appear in print and applied to a wide variety of settings and institutions.
online under a Creative Commons Noncommercial
Mya Poe is Director of Technical Communication, Neal Lerner
Share Alike license. is Director of Training in Communication Instruction, and
Jennifer Craig is Lecturer in Writing Across the Curriculum
Sanjoy Mahajan studied mathematics at the University of
in MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.
Oxford and received a PhD in theoretical physics at Cal Tech.
He is now Associate Director of the Teaching and Learning
Laboratory and a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical March — 7 x 9, 272 pp. — 9 illus.
Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-16247-0
March — 7 x 9, 152 pp. — 95 illus.
$25.00S/£18.95 paper
978-0-262-51429-3
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education/media education/media

THE FUTURE OF THINKING NEW DIGITAL MEDIA AND


Learning Institutions in a Digital Age LEARNING AS AN EMERGING
Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg AREA AND “WORKED EXAMPLES”
with the assistance of Zoë Marie Jones AS ONE WAY FORWARD
Over the past two decades, the way we learn has James Paul Gee
changed dramatically. We have new sources of informa- In this report, noted scholar James Paul Gee discusses
tion and new ways to exchange and to interact with the evolution of digital media and learning (DMAL)
How traditional learning information. But our schools A proposal to move from its infancy as an “acade-
institutions can become and the way we teach have the academic study mic area” into a more organized
as innovative, flexible, remained largely the same of digital media and
field or coherent discipline.
robust, and collaborative learning toward more
for years, even centuries. Distinguishing among aca-
as the best social coherence.
networking sites. What happens to traditional demic areas, fields, disciplinary
educational institutions when specializations, and thematic disciplines, Gee describes
learning also takes place on a vast range of Internet other academic areas that have fallen into these cate-
sites, from Pokemon Web pages to Wikipedia? This gories or developed into established disciplines. He
report investigates how traditional learning institutions argues that DMAL will not evolve until a real coherence
can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collabo- develops through collaboration and the accumulation of
rative as the best social networking sites. The authors shared knowledge. Gee offers a concrete proposal of one
propose an alternative definition of “institution” as a way scholars in DMAL could move the area forward to
“mobilizing network” — emphasizing its flexibility, a more cohesive, integrated, and collaborative enterprise:
the permeability of its boundaries, its interactive pro- the production of what he terms “worked examples.”
ductivity, and its potential as a catalyst for change — In Gee’s sense of a worked example, scholars
and explore the implications for higher education. attempting to build the new area of DMAL would
The Future of Thinking reports on innovative, virtual publicly display their methods of valuing and thinking
institutions. It also uses the idea of a virtual institution about a specific problem, proposing them as examples
both as part of its subject matter and as part of its of “good work” in order to engender debate about
process: the first draft was hosted on a Web site for what such work in DMAL might come to look like
collaborative feedback and writing. The authors use and what shape the area itself might take. The goal
this experiment in participatory writing as a test case would not be for the proposed approach to become
for virtual institutions, learning institutions, and a new the accepted one but for it to become fodder for new
form of collaborative authorship. The finished version work and collaboration. Gee concludes by offering a
is still posted and open for comment. This book is the sample worked example that illustrates his proposal.
full-length report of the project, which was summarized
James Paul Gee is Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of
in an earlier MacArthur volume, The Future of Learning Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author
Institutions in a Digital Age. of Social Linguistics and Literacies, a foundational work in the
field of New Literacy Studies, and Why Video Games Are Good
Cathy N. Davidson is John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute For Your Soul.
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. Devarney
Professor of English at Duke University. David Theo Goldberg
is Director of the University of California Humanities Research March — 5 3/8 x 8, 92pp. — 3 illus.
Institute. $14.00S/£10.95 paper
978-0-262-51369-2
March — 5 3/8 x 8, 320 pp. — 44 illus.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports
$17.00S/£12.95 paper on Digital Media and Learning
978-0-262-51374-6
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports
on Digital Media and Learning

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present find-
ings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports result from research proj-
ects funded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of its $50 million initiative in digital media and learning. They are published openly
online (as well as in print) in order to support broad dissemination and to stimulate further research in the field.

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computer-human interaction art/new media

THE TUNING OF PLACE ENTANGLED


Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media Technology and the Transformation
Richard Coyne of Performance
Chris Salter
How do pervasive digital devices — smartphones,
foreword by Peter Sellars
iPods, GPS navigation systems, and cameras, among
others — influence the way we use spaces? In The This ambitious and comprehensive book explores tech-
Tuning of Place, Richard Coyne argues that these nology’s influence on artistic performance practices in
ubiquitous devices and the the twentieth and twenty-first
How pervasive digital How technologies,
devices — smartphones, networks that support them from the mechanical centuries. In Entangled, Chris
iPods, GPS navigation become the means of making to the computational, Salter shows that technologies,
systems, and their have transformed from the mechanical to the
incremental adjustments
networks — help us artistic performance
formulate a sense within spaces — of tuning practices.
computational — from a “bal-
of place and refine place. Pervasive media help let of objects and lights” staged
social relationships. us formulate a sense of place, by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary
writes Coyne, through their capacity to introduce small technologically-enabled “responsive environments” —
changes, in the same way that tuning a musical instru- have been entangled with performance across a wide
ment invokes the subtle process of recalibration. Places range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and exten-
are inhabited spaces, populated by people, their con- sive history of performance experimentation in theater,
cerns, memories, stories, conversations, encounters, and music, dance, the visual and media arts, architecture,
artifacts. The tuning of place — whereby people use and other fields; explores the political, social, and eco-
their devices in their interactions with one another — nomic context for the adoption of technological prac-
is also a tuning of social relations. tices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of
The range of ubiquity is vast — from the familiar common histories despite their disciplinary borders.
phones and hand-held devices through RFID tags, Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different
smart badges, dynamic signage, microprocessors in form: theater scenography, architecture, video and
cars and kitchen appliances, wearable computing, and image making, music and sound composition, body-
prosthetics, to devices still in development. Rather than based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive
catalog achievements and predictions, Coyne offers a environments constructed for research, festivals, and
theoretical framework for discussing pervasive media participatory urban spaces. Salter’s exhaustive survey
that can inform developers, designers, and users as and analysis shows that performance traditions have
they contemplate interventions into the environment. much to teach other emerging practices — in particu-
Processes of tuning can lead to consideration of themes lar in the burgeoning fields of new media. Students of
highly relevant to pervasive computing: intervention, digital art need to master not only electronics and code
calibration, wedges, habits, rhythm, tags, taps, tactics, but also dramaturgy, lighting, sound, and scenography.
thresholds, aggregation, noise, and interference. Entangled will serve as an invaluable reference for stu-
dents, researchers, and artists as well as a handbook for
Richard Coyne is Professor and Chair of Architectural Computing
at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Designing future praxis.
Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method
to Metaphor (1995), Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Chris Salter is an artist and Assistant Professor of Design and
Holism, and the Romance of the Real (2001), and Cornucopia Computation Arts at Concordia University, Montreal. His works,
Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet (2005), all large-scale multimedia environments, have been exhibited
published by the MIT Press. worldwide.

May — 6 x 9, 344 pp. March — 7 x 9, 480 pp.— 78 illus.

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978-0-262-01391-8 978-0-262-19588-1

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PROFESSIONAL
computer science/machine learning computer science/robotics

INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFIGURATION SPACE


MACHINE LEARNING METHOD FOR KINEMATIC DESIGN
Second Edition OF MECHANISMS
Ethem Alpaydın Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz
The goal of machine learning is to program computers This book presents the configuration space method for
to use example data or past experience to solve a given computer-aided design of mechanisms with changing
problem. Many successful applications of machine part contacts. Configuration space is a complete and
A new edition of learning exist already, including A novel algorithmic compact geometric representa-
an introductory text systems that analyze past approach to mechanism tion of part motions and part
in machine learning sales data to predict customer design based on a interactions that supports the
that gives a unified geometric representation
behavior, optimize robot core mechanism design tasks
treatment of machine of kinematic function
learning problems behavior so that a task can be called configuration of analysis, synthesis, and tol-
and solutions. completed using minimum space partitions. erancing. It is the first general
resources, and extract knowl- algorithmic treatment of the
edge from bioinformatics data. The second edition of kinematics of higher pairs with changing contacts. It
Introduction to Machine Learning is a comprehensive will help designers detect and correct design flaws and
textbook on the subject, covering a broad array of topics unexpected kinematic behaviors, as demonstrated in
not usually included in introductory machine learning the book’s four case studies taken from industry.
texts. In order to present a unified treatment of machine After presenting the configuration space framework
learning problems and solutions, it discusses many and algorithms for mechanism kinematics, the authors
methods from different fields, including statistics, describe algorithms for kinematic analysis, tolerancing,
pattern recognition, neural networks, artificial intelli- and synthesis based on configuration spaces. The case
gence, signal processing, control, and data mining. All studies follow, illustrating the application of the config-
learning algorithms are explained so that the student uration space method to the analysis and design of
can easily move from the equations in the book to a automotive, micro-mechanical, and optical mecha-
computer program. nisms. Appendixes offer a catalog of higher-pair mech-
The text covers such topics as supervised learning, anisms and a description of HIPAIR, an open source
Bayesian decision theory, parametric methods, multi- C++ mechanical design system that implements some
variate methods, multilayer perceptrons, local models, of the configuration space methods described in the
hidden Markov models, assessing and comparing clas- book, including configuration space visualization and
sification algorithms, and reinforcement learning. New kinematic simulation. HIPAIR comes with an interac-
to the second edition are chapters on kernel machines, tive graphical user interface and many sample mecha-
graphical models, and Bayesian estimation; expanded nism input files.
coverage of statistical tests in a chapter on design and The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design
analysis of machine learning experiments; case studies of Mechanisms will be a valuable resource for students,
available on the Web (with downloadable results for researchers, and engineers in mechanical engineering,
instructors); and many additional exercises. All chap- computer science, and robotics.
ters have been revised and updated.
Elisha Sacks is Professor of Computer Science at Purdue
Ethem Alpaydın is a Professor in the Department of Computer University. Leo Joskowicz is Professor at the School of
Engineering at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem.
February — 8 x 9, 584 pp. — 172 illus.
April — 6 x 9, 200 pp. — 159 illus.
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SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS LANGUAGE AND EQUILIBRIUM


An Introduction Prashant Parikh
Kasper Stoy, David Brandt, and In Language and Equilibrium, Prashant Parikh offers a
David J. Christensen new account of meaning for natural language. He argues
Self-reconfigurable robots are constructed of robotic that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting
modules that can be connected in many different ways. forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and
These modules move in relationship to each other, shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from
A comprehensive survey
which allows the robot as a A new framework that first principles by modeling it
of the growing field whole to change shape. This shows how to derive as a system of interdependent
of self-reconfigurable shapeshifting makes it possible the meaning of an games.
robots that discusses for the robots to adapt and utterance from first
His account results in a
the history of the field, principles by modeling
design considerations,
optimize their shapes for dif- it as a system of novel view of semantics and
and control strategies. ferent tasks. Thus, a self-recon- interdependent games. pragmatics and describes
figurable robot can first assume how both may be integrated
the shape of a rolling track to cover distance quickly, with syntax. It considers many aspects of meaning —
then the shape of a snake to explore a narrow space, including literal meaning and implicature — and
and finally the shape of a hexapod to carry an artifact advances a detailed theory of definite descriptions
back to the starting point. The field of self-reconfig- as an application of the framework.
urable robots has seen significant progress over the last Language and Equilibrium is intended for a wide
twenty years, and this book collects and synthesizes readership in the cognitive sciences, including philoso-
existing research previously only available in widely phers, linguists, and artificial intelligence researchers as
scattered individual papers, offering an accessible guide well as neuroscientists, psychologists, and economists
to the latest information on self-reconfigurable robots interested in language and communication.
for researchers and students interested in the field.
Prashant Parikh is Senior Research Scholar at the University of
Self-Reconfigurable Robots focuses on conveying Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research in Cognitive Science and
the intuition behind the design and control of self- an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department.
He is the author of The Use of Language.
reconfigurable robots rather than technical details.
Suggestions for further reading refer readers to the March — 6 x 9, 360 pp. — 45 illus.
underlying sources of technical information. The book
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tory of the field; discussion of module design consider-
ations, including module geometry, connector design,
and computing and communication infrastructure;
an in-depth presentation of strategies for controlling
self-reconfiguration and locomotion; and exploration
of future research challenges.
Kasper Stoy is Associate Professor at the Maersk Mc-Kinney
Moller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark, where
he is Codirector of the Modular Robotics Lab. David Brandt
and David J. Christensen are postdoctoral researchers at the
Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute.

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SUPERTAGGING LOCALITY IN VOWEL HARMONY


Using Complex Lexical Descriptions Andrew Nevins
in Natural Language Processing
Vowel harmony results from a set of restrictions that
edited by Srinivas Bangalore and determine the possible and impossible sequences of
Aravind K. Joshi
vowels within a word. The study of syntax begins with
The last decade has seen computational implementations the observation that the words of a sentence cannot go
of large hand-crafted natural language grammars in for- in just any order, and the study of phonology begins
mal frameworks such as Tree- with the same observation for
Investigations into A view of the locality
employing statistical Adjoining Grammar (TAG), conditions on vowel the consonants and vowels of
approaches with Combinatory Categorical harmony, aligning a word. In this book, Andrew
linguistically motivated Grammar (CCG), Head- empirical phenomena
Nevins investigates long-dis-
representations and within phonology with
driven Phrase Structure tance relations between vowels
its impact on Natural the principles of the
Language processing Grammar (HPSG), and Minimalist program. in vowel harmony systems
tasks. Lexical Functional Grammar across a range of languages,
(LFG). Grammars in these with the aim of demonstrating that the locality condi-
frameworks typically associate linguistically motivated tions that regulate these relations can be attributed to
rich descriptions (Supertags) with words. With the the same principle that regulates long-distance syntactic
availability of parse-annotated corpora, grammars in dependencies. He argues that vowel harmony represents
the TAG and CCG frameworks have also been auto- a manifestation of the Agree algorithm for feature-valu-
matically extracted while maintaining the linguistic ation (formulated by Chomsky in 2000), as part of an
relevance of the extracted Supertags. In these frame- overarching effort to show that phonology can be
works, Supertags are designed so that complex linguis- described in terms of the principles of the Minimalist
tic constraints are localized to operate within the program.
domain of those descriptions. While this localization Nevins demonstrates that the principle of target-
increases local ambiguity, the process of disambiguation driven search, the phenomenon of defective interven-
(Supertagging) provides a unique way of combining tion, and the principles regulating the size of the
linguistic and statistical information. domain over which dependencies are computed
This volume investigates the theme of employing apply to both phonological and syntactic phenomena.
statistical approaches with linguistically motivated Locality in Vowel Harmony offers phonologists new
representations and its impact on Natural Language evidence that viewing vowel harmony through the
Processing tasks. In particular, the contributors lens of relativized minimality has the potential to unify
describe research in which words are associated with different levels of linguistic representation and different
Supertags that are the primitives of different grammar domains of empirical inquiry in a unified framework.
formalisms including Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Moreover, Nevins’s specific implementation of the
Grammar (LTAG). locality of dependencies represents a major advance
Srinivas Bangalore is Principal Technical Staff Member at AT&T in understanding constraints on possible harmonic
Labs–Research. Aravind K. Joshi is Henry Salvatori Professor languages.
of Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of
Pennsylvania. He received the David Rumelhardt Prize for An online tool on the MIT Press Web site demon-
fundamental theoretical contributions to the cognitive strates the algorithm for calculating vowel harmony
sciences in 2003.
with the derivations exemplified in the book.
March — 7 x 9, 512 pp. — 159 illus. Andrew Nevins is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard
University.
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UTTERING TREES GRAMMAR AS SCIENCE


Norvin Richards Richard K. Larson
In Uttering Trees, Norvin Richards investigates the con- illustrations by Kimiko Ryokai
ditions imposed upon syntax by the need to create syn- This introductory text takes a novel approach to the
tactic objects that can be interpreted by phonology — study of syntax. Grammar as Science offers an introduc-
that is, objects that can be pronounced. Drawing exten- tion to syntax as an exercise in scientific theory con-
sively on linguistic data from a variety of languages, struction. Syntax provides an excellent instrument for
A study of the interface including Japanese, Basque, An introduction to the
introducing students from a
between syntax and Tagalog, Spanish, Kinande study of syntax that wide variety of backgrounds to
phonology that seeks (Bantu language spoken in the also introduces students the principles of scientific the-
deeper explanations for to the principles of orizing and scientific thought;
Democratic Republic of the
such syntactic problems scientific theorizing.
as case phenomena Congo), and Chaha (Semitic it engages general intellectual
and the distribution language spoken in Ethiopia), themes present in all scientific theorizing as well as
of overt and covert Richards makes two new pro- those arising specifically within the modern cognitive
wh-movement.
posals about the relationship sciences. The book is intended for students majoring in
between syntax and phonology. linguistics as well as non-linguistics majors who are tak-
The first, “Distinctness,” has to do with the process ing the course to fulfill undergraduate requirements.
of imposing a linear order on the constituents of the Grammar as Science covers such core topics in syntax
tree. Richards claims that syntactic nodes with many as phrase structure, constituency, the lexicon, inaudible
properties in common cannot be directly linearized and elements, movement rules, and transformational con-
must be kept structurally distant from each other. He straints, while emphasizing scientific reasoning skills.
argues that a variety of syntactic phenomena can be The individual units are organized thematically into
explained by this generalization, including much of sections that highlight important components of this
what has traditionally been covered by case theory. enterprise, including choosing between theories, con-
Richards’s second proposal, “Beyond Strength and structing explicit arguments for hypotheses, and the
Weakness,” is an attempt to predict, for any given lan- conflicting demands that push us toward expanding
guage, whether that language will exhibit overt or our technical toolkit on the one hand and constraining
covert wh-movement. Richards argues that we can pre- it on the other.
dict whether or not a language can leave wh in situ by Grammar as Science is constructed as a “laboratory
investigating more general properties of its prosody. science” course in which students actively experiment
This proposal offers an explanation for a cross-linguis- with linguistic data. Syntactica, a software application
tic difference — that wh-phrases move overtly in some tool that allows students to create and explore simple
languages and covertly in others — that has hitherto grammars in a graphical, interactive way, is available
been simply stipulated. In both these areas, it appears online in conjunction with the book. Students are
that syntax begins constructing a phonological repre- encouraged to “try the rules out,” and build grammars
sentation earlier than previously thought; constraints rule-by-rule, checking the consequences at each stage.
on both word order and prosody begin at the begin- Richard K. Larson is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook
ning of the derivation. University.

Norvin Richards is Professor in the Department of Linguistics


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THE PRIMACY OF GRAMMAR COLOR ONTOLOGY


Nirmalangshu Mukherji AND COLOR SCIENCE
The contemporary discipline of biolinguistics is begin- edited by Jonathan Cohen and Mohan Matthen
ning to have the feel of scientific inquiry. Biolinguistics Philosophers and scientists have long speculated about
— especially the work of Noam Chomsky — is sug- the nature of color. Atomists such as Democritus
gesting that the design of language may be “perfect”: thought color to be “conventional,” not real; Galileo
language is an optimal solution to conditions of sound and other key figures of the Scientific Revolution
A proposal that the and meaning. What is the Leading philosophers thought that it was an erro-
biolinguistic approach scope of this inquiry? Which and scientists consider neous projection of our own
to human languages aspect of nature does this sci- what conclusions about sensations onto external
may have identified, color can be drawn
ence investigate? What is its objects. More recently,
beyond the study of when the latest analytic
language, a specific relation to the rest of science? tools are applied to philosophers have enriched
structure of the What notions of language and the most sophisticated the debate about color by
human mind. mind are under investigation? color science. aligning the most advanced
This book is a study of such foundational questions. color science with the most sophisticated methods of
Exploring Chomsky’s claims, Nirmalangshu Mukherji analytical philosophy.
argues that the significance of biolinguistic inquiry In this volume, leading scientists and philosophers
extends beyond the domain of language. examine new problems with new analytic tools, consid-
Biolinguistics is primarily concerned with grammars ering such topics as the psychophysical measurement
that represent just the computational aspects of the of color and its implications, the nature of color experi-
mind/brain. This restriction to grammars, Mukherji ence in both normal color-perceivers and the color
argues, opens the possibility that the computational blind, and questions that arise from what we now
system of human language may be involved in each know about the neural processing of color information,
cognitive system that requires similar computational color consciousness, and color language. Taken together,
resources. Deploying analytical argumentation and these papers point toward a complete restructuring of
empirical evidence, Mukherji suggests that a computa- current orthodoxy concerning color experience and
tional system of language consisting of very specific how it relates to objective reality.
principles and operations is likely to be involved in
each articulatory symbol system — such as music — CONTRIBUTORS Justin Broackes, Alex Byrne,
Paul M. Churchland, Austen Clark, Jonathan Cohen,
that manifests unboundedness. In that sense, the David R. Hilbert, Kimberly A. Jameson, Rolf Kuehni,
biolinguistics approach may have identified, after Don I. A. MacLeod, Mohan Matthen, Rainer Mausfeld,
thousands of years of inquiry, a specific structure of Richard Niederée, Jonathan Westphal
the human mind. Jonathan Cohen is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate
Nirmalangshu Mukherji is Professor of Philosophy at the Studies in the Department of Philosophy at the University of
University of Delhi. California, San Diego. Mohan Matthen is Professor of Philosophy
and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto.

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Life and Mind series: Philosophical Issues in Biology
and Psychology
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KNOWLEDGE AND SKEPTICISM TIME AND IDENTITY


edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, edited by Joseph Keim Campbell,
Michael O’Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein Michael O’Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein
There are two main questions in epistemology: What The concepts of time and identity seem at once
is knowledge? And: Do we have any of it? The first unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an
question asks after the nature of a concept; the second intricate part of our experience — it would seem that
involves grappling with the skeptic, who believes that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any
no one knows anything. This experience at all — and yet
New essays by Original essays on the
leading philosophers collection of original essays metaphysics of time, recalcitrant questions about
explore topics in addresses the themes of knowl- identity, and the self, time remain. Is time real?
epistemology, offering edge and skepticism, offering written by distinguished Does time flow? Do past
both contemporary scholars and important
philosophical analysis
both contemporary epistemo- rising philosophers.
and future moments exist?
and historical logical analysis and historical Philosophers face similarly
perspectives. perspectives from leading stubborn questions about identity, particularly about
philosophers and rising schol- the persistence of identical entities through change.
ars. Contributors first consider knowledge: the intrinsic Indeed, questions about the metaphysics of persistence
nature of knowledge — in particular, aspects of what take on many of the complexities inherent in philo-
distinguishes knowledge from true belief; the extrinsic sophical considerations of time. This volume of original
examination of knowledge, focusing on contextualist essays brings together these two essentially related con-
accounts; and types of knowledge, specifically percep- cepts in a way not reflected in the available literature.
tual, introspective, and rational knowledge. The final The contributors, distinguished authors and rising
chapters offer various perspectives on skepticism. scholars, first consider the nature of time and then turn
Knowledge and Skepticism provides an eclectic yet to the relation of identity, focusing on the metaphysical
coherent set of essays by distinguished scholars and connections between the two, with a special emphasis
important new voices. The cutting-edge nature of its on personal identity. The volume concludes with essays
contributions and its interdisciplinary character make it on the metaphysics of death, issues in which time and
a valuable resource for a wide audience — for philoso- identity play a significant role. This groundbreaking col-
phers of language as well as for epistemologists, and lection offers both cutting-edge epistemological analysis
for psychologists, decision theorists, historians, and and historical perspectives on contemporary topics.
students at both the advanced undergraduate and
CONTRIBUTORS Harriet Baber, Lynne Rudder Baker,
graduate levels. Ben Bradley, John W. Carroll, Reinaldo Elugardo, Geoffrey Gorham,
Mark Hinchliff, Jenann Ismael, Barbara Levenbook, Andrew Light,
CONTRIBUTORS Kent Bach, Joseph Keim Campbell, Joseph Cruz, Lawrence B. Lombard, Ned Markosian, Harold Noonan, John Perry,
Fred Dretske, Catherine Z. Elgin, Peter S. Fosl, Peter J. Graham, Harry S. Silverstein, Matthew H. Slater, Robert J. Stainton,
David Hemp, Michael O’Rourke, George Pappas, John L. Pollock, Neil A. Tognazzini
Duncan Pritchard, Joseph Salerno, Robert J. Stainton,
Harry S. Silverstein, Joseph Thomas Tolliver, Leora Weitzman
Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry S.
Silverstein are coeditors of Causation and Explanation
Joseph Keim Campbell is Associate Professor in the Department (MIT Press, 2007), a previous volume in the Topics in
of Philosophy at Washington State University. Michael O’Rourke Contemporary Philosophy series.
is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the
University of Idaho. Harry S. Silverstein is Professor in the
Department of Philosophy at Washington State University. July — 6 x 9, 312 pp.
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978-0-262-51396-8 978-0-262-01409-0

$70.00S/£51.95 cloth Topics in Contemporary Philosophy


978-0-262-01408-3
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THE EXTENDED MIND EFFORTLESS ATTENTION


edited by Richard Menary A New Perspective in the Cognitive Science
of Attention and Action
Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world
begin? In their famous 1998 paper “The Extended
edited by Brian Bruya
Mind,” philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers Attention and action require effort, and the expectation
posed this question and answered it provocatively: cog- is that under normal circumstances effort increases
nitive processes “ain’t all in the head.” The environment as one meets rising demands. Sometimes, however,
Leading scholars has an active role in driving The phenomena of
attention and action seem
respond to the cognition; cognition is some- effortless attention to flow effortlessly despite
famous proposition times made up of neural, and action and the high demands. Although
by Andy Clark and challenges they pose the phenomena of effortless
bodily, and environmental
David Chalmers that to current cognitive
cognition and mind processes. Their argument models of attention
attention and action have
are not located excited a vigorous debate and action. been observed across a range
exclusively in the head. among philosophers, both of normal activities — ranging
supporters and detractors. from rock climbing to chess playing — fundamental
This volume brings together for the first time the best questions about the cognitive science of effortlessness
responses to Clark and Chalmers’s bold proposal. These have gone largely unasked. This book explores those
responses, together with the original paper by Clark questions.
and Chalmers, offer a valuable overview of the latest Starting from the premise that the phenomena of
research on the extended mind thesis. effortless attention and action provide an opportunity
The contributors first discuss (and answer) objec- to test current models of attention and action, the con-
tions raised to Clark and Chalmers’s thesis. Andy Clark tributors examine such topics as effort as a cognitive
himself responds to critics in an essay that uses the resource, the role of effort in decision-making, the
movie Memento’s amnesia-aiding notes and tattoos neurophysiology of effortless action, the neurophysio-
to illustrate the workings of the extended mind. logical correlates of Zen enlightenment experience,
Contributors then consider the different directions how to study flow in the lab, effortless action and
in which the extended mind project might be taken, automaticity, effortless action and expert performance,
including the need for an approach that focuses on and the neurophysiology and benefits of attentional
cognitive activity and practice. training.
CONTRIBUTORS Fred Adams, Ken Aizawa, David Chalmers, CONTRIBUTORS Joshua M. Ackerman, James H. Austin,
Andy Clark, Stephen Cowley, Susan Hurley, James Ladyman, John A. Bargh, Roy F. Baumeister, Sian L. Beilock, Chris Blais,
Richard Menary, John Preston, Don Ross, Mark Rowlands, Matthew M. Botvinick, Brian Bruya, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
Rob Rupert, David Spurrett, John Sutton, Michael Wheeler, Marci S. DeCaro, Arne Dietrich, Yuri Dormashev, László Harmat,
Rob Wilson Bernhard Hommel, Rebecca Lewthwaite, Örjan de Manzano,
Joseph T. McGuire, Brian P. Meier, Arlen C. Moller,
Richard Menary is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Jeanne Nakamura, Michael I. Posner, Mary K. Rothbart,
University of Wollongong. He is the author of Cognitive
M. R. Rueda, Brandon J. Schmeichel, Edward Slingerland,
Integration and other books.
Oliver Stoll, Yiyuan Tang, Töres Theorell, Fredrik Ullén,
Gabriele Wulf
June — 6 x 9, 424 pp. — 2 illus.
$40.00S/£29.95 cloth Brian Bruya is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eastern
978-0-262-01403-8 Michigan University.

Life and Mind series: Philosophical Issues in Biology July — 7 x 9, 424 pp. — 33 illus.
and Psychology
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COGNITIVE PRAGMATICS WHAT IS ADDICTION?


The Mental Processes of Communication edited by Don Ross, Harold Kincaid, David
Bruno G. Bara Spurrett, and Peter Collins
translated by John Douthwaite The image of the addict in popular culture combines
In Cognitive Pragmatics, Bruno Bara offers a theory of victimhood and moral failure; we sympathize with
human communication that is both formalized through addicts in films and novels because of their suffering
logic and empirically validated through experimental and their hard-won knowledge. And yet actual scien-
data and clinical studies. Bara tific knowledge about addic-
An argument that Leading addiction
communication is a argues that communication is researchers survey tion tends to undermine this
cooperative activity a cooperative activity in which the latest findings cultural construct. In What Is
between agents, who in addiction science,
two or more agents together countering the Addiction?, leading addiction
together consciously
and intentionally consciously and intentionally simplistic cultural researchers from neuroscience,
stereotypes of
construct the meaning construct the meaning of their the addict.
psychology, genetics, philoso-
of their interaction. interaction. In true communi- phy, economics, and other
cation (which Bara distin- fields survey the latest findings in addiction science.
guishes from the mere transmission of information), They discuss such questions as whether addiction is one
all the actors must share a set of mental states. kind of condition, or several; if addiction is neurophysi-
Bara takes a cognitive perspective, investigating ological, psychological, or social, or incorporates aspects
communication not from the viewpoint of an external of all of these; to what extent addicts are responsible for
observer (as is the practice in linguistics and the phi- their problems, and how this affects health and regula-
losophy of language) but from within the mind of the tory policies; and whether addiction is determined by
individual. Bara examines communicative interaction inheritance or environment or both.
through the notion of behavior and dialogue games, The chapter authors discuss the possibility of a
which structure both the generation and the compre- unifying basis for different addictions (considering
hension of the communication act (either language or both substance addiction and pathological gambling),
gesture). He describes both standard communication offering both neurally and neuroscientifically grounded
and nonstandard communication (which includes accounts as well as discussions of the social context of
deception, irony, and “as-if ” statements). Failures are addiction. There can be no definitive answer yet to
analyzed in detail, with possible solutions explained. the question posed by the title of this book; but these
Bara investigates communicative competence in both essays demonstrate a sweeping advance over the sim-
evolutionary and developmental terms, tracing its plistic conception embedded in popular culture.
emergence from hominids to homo sapiens and defining Don Ross is Professor of Economics and Professor of
the stages of its development in humans from birth to Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
and Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town,
adulthood. He correlates his theory with the neuro- South Africa. Harold Kincaid is Professor and Chair of the
sciences, and explains the decay of communication that Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for
occurs both with different types of brain injury and Ethics and Values in the Sciences at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham. David Spurrett is Professor of Philosophy and
with Alzheimer’s disease. Throughout, Bara offers sup- Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the Howard
porting data from the literature and his own research. College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa. Peter Collins is Professor of Public Policy and Director
The innovative theoretical framework outlined by Bara of the Centre for the Study of Gambling at the University of
will be of interest not only to cognitive scientists and Salford, U.K.
neuroscientists but also to anthropologists, linguists,
and developmental psychologists. March — 7 x 9, 464 pp. — 27 illus.
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FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING


edited by Stephen José Hanson and Martin Bunzl
Neuroimagers and philosophers
The field of neuroimaging has reached a watershed. Brain imaging research
of mind explore critical issues has been the source of many advances in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive
and controversies that have arisen science over the last decade, but recent critiques and emerging trends are raising
from the use of brain mapping foundational issues of methodology, measurement, and theory. Indeed, concerns
in cognitive neuroscience and
cognitive science. over interpretation of brain maps have created serious controversies in social
neuroscience, and, more important, point to a larger set of issues that lie at the
heart of the entire brain mapping enterprise. In this volume, leading scholars —
June
7 x 9, 344 pp. neuroimagers and philosophers of mind — reexamine these central issues and
31 illus. explore current controversies that have arisen in cognitive science, cognitive
$38.00S/£28.95 paper neuroscience, computer science, and signal processing.
978-0-262-51394-4 The contributors address both statistical and dynamical analysis and modeling
$76.00S/£55.95 cloth of neuroimaging data and interpretation, discussing localization, modularity, and
978-0-262-01402-1 neuroimagers’ tacit assumptions about how these two phenomena are related;
A Bradford Book controversies over correlation of fMRI data and social attributions (recently
characterized for good or ill as “voodoo correlations”); and the standard inferen-
CONTRIBUTORS tial design approach in neuroimaging. Finally, the contributors take a more
William Bechtel philosophical perspective, considering the nature of measurement in brain imag-
Bharat Biswal
Matthew Brett
ing, and offer a framework for novel neuroimaging data structures (effective and
Martin Bunzl functional connectivity — “graphs”).
Max Coltheart
Karl J. Friston Stephen José Hanson is Professor of Psychology (Newark Campus) and Member of the
Cognitive Science Center (New Brunswick Campus) at Rutgers University. Martin Bunzl
Joy J. Geng
is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
Clark Glymour
Kalanit Grill-Spector
Stephen José Hanson
Trevor Harley
Gilbert Harman
James V. Haxby
Rik N. Henson
Nancy Kanwisher
Colin Klein
Richard Loosemore
Sébastien Meriaux
Chris Mole
Jeanette A. Mumford
Russell A. Poldrack
Jean-Baptiste Poline
Richard C. Richardson
Alexis Roche
Adina L. Roskies
Pia Rotshtein
Rebecca Saxe
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NATURALIZING INTENTION THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE


IN ACTION OF MIND
edited by Franck Grammont, Dorothée Legrand, A Tribute to Michael S. Gazzaniga
and Pierre Livet edited by Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz,
Intention was seen traditionally as a philosophical con- Kathleen Baynes, George R. Mangun, and
cept, before being debated more recently from psycho- Elizabeth A. Phelps
logical and social perspectives. Today the cognitive These essays on a range of topics in the cognitive neu-
sciences approach intention rosciences report on the
An interdisciplinary Leaders in the cognitive
empirically, at the level of its progress in the field over the
integration of neurosciences address
theoretical and underlying mechanisms. This a variety of topics in twenty years of its existence
empirical approaches naturalization of intention the field and reflect and reflect the many ground-
to the question of makes it more concrete and on Michael Gazzaniga’s
intentional action. pioneering work and
breaking scientific contribu-
graspable by empirical sciences. enduring influence. tions and enduring influence
This volume offers an interdisciplinary integration of of Michael Gazzaniga, “the
current research on intentional processes naturalized godfather of cognitive neuroscience” — founder of the
through action, drawing on the theoretical and empiri- Cognitive Neuroscience Society, founding editor of
cal approaches of cognitive neuroscience, psychology, the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and editor of
philosophy, and sociology. Each chapter integrates sev- the major reference work, The Cognitive Neurosciences,
eral disciplinary perspectives. Taken together, the chap- now in its fourth edition (MIT Press, 2009). The
ters show that the reunification of the different essays, grouped into four sections named after four
dimensions of intentional processes may constitute an of Gazzaniga’s books, combine science and memoir in
adequate basis for a general model of intentional varying proportions, and offer an authoritative survey
processes and their links to action. This can be applied of research in cognitive neuroscience.
at various levels, from neuronal activity to self-constitu- “The Bisected Brain” examines hemispheric topics
tion, from the expression of intentional actions at the pioneered by Gazzaniga at the start of his career; “The
individual level to their expression in social contexts, Integrated Mind” explores the theme of integration
and to the recognition of intention in actions executed by domination; the wide-ranging essays in “The Social
by others. Brain” address subjects from genes to neurons to social
CONTRIBUTORS Colin Allen, Mireille Bonnard, Vittorio Gallese, conversations and networks; the topics explored in
Jozina B. de Graaf, Franck Grammont, Patrick Haggard, “Mind Matters” include evolutionary biology,
Marco Iacoboni, Dorothée Legrand, Pierre Livet, Albert Ogien,
methodology, and ethics.
Jean Pailhous, Jean-Luc Petit, Jean-Michel Roy,
Jessica A. Sommerville, Manos Tsakiris, Amanda L. Woodward CONTRIBUTORS Kathleen Baynes, Giovanni Berlucchi,
Franck Grammont is Assistant Professor at the J. A. Dieudonné Leo M. Chalupa, Mark D’Esposito, Margaret G. Funnell,
Laboratory, University of the Sciences of Nice. Dorothée Mitchell Glickstein, Scott A. Guerin, Todd F. Heatherton,
Legrand is a Researcher in Philosophy at the Center for Steven A. Hillyard, William Hirst, Alan Kingstone,
Research in Applied Epistemology, Paris. Pierre Livet is Stephen M. Kosslyn, Marta Kutas, Elisabetta Làdavas,
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Provence. Joseph Ledoux, George R. Mangun, Michael B. Miller,
Elizabeth A. Phelps, Steven Pinker, Michael I. Posner,
Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Mary K. Rothbart, Andrea Serino,
February — 6 x 9, 352 pp. — 12 illus.
Brad E. Sheese
$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01367-3 Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz is Professor of Psychology and
Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. Kathleen Baynes
is Professor at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University
of California, Davis. George R. Mangun is Professor in the
Department of Psychology at the University of California,
Davis. Elizabeth A. Phelps is Professor of Psychology at
New York University.

May — 6 x 9, 256 pp. — 25 illus.


$35.00S/£25.95 cloth
978-0-262-01401-4

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PROFESSIONAL
neuroscience/psychology

THE ANATOMY OF BIAS


How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options
Jan Lauwereyns
An integrative account of the
neural underpinnings of decision I will recklessly endeavor to scavenge materials from these various fields with the sin-
making, emphasizing the ways
in which some information
gle aim of producing a coherent, but open-minded account of attention, or bias versus
sources are given more weight sensitivity, or how the activities of neurons allow us to decide one way or another that,
than others. with a faint echo of Hamlet in the background, something appears to be or not to be.
— from The Anatomy of Bias
February
7 x 9, 288 pp.
In this engaging, even lyrical, book, Jan Lauwereyns examines the neural under-
32 illus. pinnings of decision-making, using “bias” as his core concept rather than the
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth
more common but noncommittal terms “selection” and “attention.” Lauwereyns
978-0-262-12310-5 offers an integrative, interdisciplinary account of the structure and function of
bias, which he defines as a basic brain mechanism that attaches different weights
to different information sources, prioritizing some cognitive representations at
the expense of others.
Lauwereyns introduces the concepts of bias and sensitivity
based on notions from Bayesian probability, which he trans-
lates into easily recognizable neural signatures, introduced by
concrete examples from the experimental literature. He exam-
ines, among other topics, positive and negative motivations for
giving priority to different sensory inputs, and looks for the
neural underpinnings of racism, sexism, and other forms of
“familiarity bias.”
Lauwereyns — a poet and essayist as well as a scientist —
connects findings and ideas in neuroscience to analogous
concepts in such diverse fields as post-Lacanian psychoanalysis,
literary theory, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology,
and experimental economics. With The Anatomy of Bias, he
gives readers that rarity in today’s world of proliferating and
ever more narrowly focused technical research papers: a work
of sustained, rational thinking, elegantly expressed.
Jan Lauwereyns is Associate Professor at the School of Psychology
at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has published
articles in journals including Nature, Journal of Neuroscience, and
Trends in Cognitive Science as well as poetry, fiction, and essays.

“Jan Lauwereyns brings together concepts that are generally treated as disparate, and
traces the historical evolution of their relation to one another and to current research.
The significance of this contribution will be partly as a stimulus to new ideas (for my
own part, reading this book prompted a great deal of thought — not just about rela-
tionships between concepts, but ideas for possible new experiments), as well as its
achievement in situating current ideas about decision firmly in their historical intellec-
tual milieu. Anatomy of Bias is the kind of book that will change people’s thinking —
and lives.”
— R. H. S. Carpenter, Professor of Oculomotor Physiology, Department of
Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, Cambridge University

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PROFESSIONAL
neuroscience biology

THE TWO HALVES OF THE BRAIN WORK MEETS LIFE


Information Processing in Exploring the Integrative Study of Work in
the Cerebral Hemispheres Living Systems
edited by Kenneth Hugdahl and edited by Robert Levin, Simon Laughlin,
René Westerhausen Christina De La Rocha, and Alan Blackwell
Hemispheric asymmetry is one of the basic aspects of The work performed by living systems ranges from
perception and cognitive processing. The different photosynthesis to prodigious feats of computation and
functions of the left and right organization. This multidisci-
State-of-the-art Work as fundamental
research on brain hemispheres of the brain have to life, explored at plinary volume explores the
asymmetry, explained been studied with renewed different levels of relationships between work
from molecular to interest in recent years, as organization from and the study of work across
clinical levels. the perspectives of a
scholars explore applications many different levels of organ-
variety of biological
to new areas, new measuring techniques, and new and nonbiological ization. By addressing how
theoretical approaches. This volume provides a compre- disciplines. work gets done, and why, from
hensive view of the latest research in brain asymmetry, the perspectives of a range of
offering not only recent empirical and clinical findings disciplines, including cell and evolutionary biology,
but also a coherent theoretical approach to the subject. neuroscience, psychology, electrical and computer
In chapters that report on the field at levels from the engineering, and design, the volume sets out to estab-
molecular to the clinical, leading researchers address lish an integrative approach to the study of work.
such topics as the evolution and genetics of brain asym- Chapters introduce the biological work of producing
metry; animal models; findings from structural and energy in the cell; establish inherent trade-offs between
functional neuroimaging techniques and research; sex energy and information in neural systems; relate princi-
differences and hormonal effects; sleep asymmetry; ples of integrated circuit manufacture to work in bio-
cognitive asymmetry in visual and auditory perception; logical systems; explore the work of photosynthesis;
and auditory laterality and speech perception, memory, investigate how work shapes organisms’ evolutionary
and asymmetry in the context of developmental, neu- niches; consider the human work of design; describe the
rological, and psychiatric disorders. effects of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction on work-
life balance; and address the effects of environmental
CONTRIBUTORS Katrin Amunts, Ulrike Bayer, Alfredo Brancucci,
Vince D. Calhoun, Maria Casagrande, Marco Catani, challenges (stress) on how humans and animals do
Michael C. Corballis, Patricia E. Cowell, Timothy J. Crow, work. Finally, the editors and contributors draw these
Tom Eichele, Stephanie Forkel, Patrick J. Gannon, Isabelle George, studies together and point to future developments.
Onur Güntürkün, Heikki Hämäläinen, Markus Hausmann,
Joseph B. Hellige, Kenneth Hugdahl, Masud Husain, CONTRIBUTORS Alan Blackwell, Gillian Brown,
Grégoria Kalpouzos, Bruno Laeng, Martina Manns, Christina De La Rocha, Kevin Laland, Simon Laughlin,
Chikashi Michimata, Deborah W. Moncrieff, Lars Nyberg, Robert Levin, Michael Lightner, Steven Maier, Joseph Rosse,
Godfrey Pearlson, Stefan Pollmann, Victoria Singh-Curry, Stacy Saturay
Iris E. C. Sommer, Tao Sun, Nathan Swanson, Fiia Takio,
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, René Westerhausen Robert Levin is Director and Fellow of the Center for the
Integrative Study of Work at the University of Colorado at
Kenneth Hugdahl is Professor in the Department of Biological Boulder. Simon Laughlin is Professor of Neurology in the
and Medical Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Department of Zoology and a Fellow of Churchill College,
He is the coeditor of two previous books on brain asymmetry, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Brain Asymmetry (1994) and The Asymmetrical Brain (2002), Christina De La Rocha is Professor in the Marine Environmental
both published by the MIT Press. René Westerhausen is a Sciences Laboratory of the European Institute for Marine
postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biological and Research at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale. Alan
Medical Psychology at the University of Bergen. Blackwell is Reader in Interdisciplinary Design in the
Computer Laboratory and a Fellow of Darwin College,
University of Cambridge.
July — 7 x 9, 688 pp. — 9 color illus., 85 black & white illus.
$75.00S/£55.95 cloth June — 7 x 9, 272 pp. — 37 illus.
978-0-262-01413-7
$30.00S/£22.95 cloth
978-0-262-01412-0

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PROFESSIONAL
computational biology vision science

LEARNING AND INFERENCE IN SEEING


COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS BIOLOGY The Computational Approach
edited by Neil D. Lawrence, Mark Girolami, to Biological Vision
Magnus Rattray, and Guido Sanguinetti Second Edition
John P. Frisby and James V. Stone
Computational systems biology unifies the mechanistic
approach of systems biology with the data-driven Seeing has puzzled scientists and philosophers for cen-
approach of computational biology. Computational sys- turies and it continues to do so. This new edition of a
tems biology aims to develop classic text offers an accessible
Tools and techniques A rigorous but
for biological inference algorithms that uncover the accessible and but rigorous introduction to
problems at scales structure and parameterization generously illustrated the computational approach to
ranging from of the underlying mechanistic introduction to the understanding biological visual
genome-wide to computational approach
model — in other words, to systems. The authors of Seeing,
pathway-specific. to the study of vision.
answer specific questions about taking as their premise David
the underlying mechanisms of a biological system — in Marr’s statement that “to understand vision by studying
a process that can be thought of as learning or inference. only neurons is like trying to understand bird flight
This volume offers state-of-the-art perspectives from by studying only feathers,” make use of Marr’s three
computational biology, statistics, modeling, and machine different levels of analysis in the study of vision: the
learning on new methodologies for learning and infer- computational level, the algorithmic level, and the
ence in biological networks. hardware implementation level. Each chapter applies
The chapters offer practical approaches to biological this approach to a different topic in vision by examining
inference problems ranging from genome-wide infer- the problems the visual system encounters in interpret-
ence of genetic regulation to pathway-specific studies. ing retinal images and the constraints available to solve
Both deterministic models (based on ordinary differen- these problems; the algorithms that can realize the
tial equations) and stochastic models (which anticipate solution; and the implementation of these algorithms
the increasing availability of data from small popula- in neurons.
tions of cells) are considered. Several chapters empha- Seeing has been thoroughly updated for this edition
size Bayesian inference, so the editors have included an and expanded to more than three times its original
introduction to the philosophy of the Bayesian approach length. It is designed to lead the reader through the
and an overview of current work on Bayesian infer- problems of vision, from the common (but mistaken)
ence. Taken together, the methods discussed by the idea that seeing consists just of making pictures in the
experts in Learning and Inference in Computational brain to the minutiae of how neurons collectively
Systems Biology provide a foundation upon which the encode the visual features that underpin seeing.
next decade of research in systems biology can be built. Although it assumes no prior knowledge of the field,
some chapters present advanced material. This makes
Neil D. Lawrence is Senior Lecturer and Member of the
Machine Learning and Optimisation Research Group in the it the only textbook suitable for both undergraduate
School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. and graduate students that takes a consistently compu-
Mark Girolami is Professor of Computing and Inferential
Science in the Department of Computing Science and the tational perspective, offering a firm conceptual basis for
Department of Statistics at the University of Glasgow. Magnus tackling the vast literature on vision. It covers a wide
Rattray is Senior Lecturer and Member of the Machine Learning range of topics, including aftereffects, the retina, recep-
and Optimisation Research Group in the School of Computer
Science at the University of Manchester. Guido Sanguinetti tive fields, object recognition, brain maps, Bayesian
is Lecturer in Systems Biology jointly in the Department of perception, motion, color, and stereopsis.
Computer Science and the Chemical Engineering Life Sciences
Interface Institute, Department of Chemical and Process John P. Frisby is Emeritus Professor in the Department of
Engineering, at the University of Sheffield. Psychology at the University of Sheffield. James V. Stone is
Reader in Psychology at the University of Sheffield and the
author of Independent Component Analysis (MIT Press, 2004).
February — 7 x 9, 368 pp. — 73 illus.
$40.00S/£29.95 cloth April — 7 x 9, 576 pp.
978-0-262-01386-4 132 color illus., 399 black & white illus.
Computational Molecular Biology series $55.00S/£38.95 paper
978-0-262-51427-9

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PROFESSIONAL
bioethics bioethics/neuroscience

PROGRESS IN BIOETHICS PRAGMATIC NEUROETHICS


Science, Policy, and Politics Improving Treatment and
edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger Understanding of the Mind-Brain
foreword by Harold Shapiro Eric Racine
Bioethics has become increasingly politicized over the Today the measurable health burden of neurological
past decade. Conservative voices dominated the debate and mental health disorders matches or even surpasses
at first, but the recent resurgence of progressivism and any other cluster of health conditions. At the same
Leading scholars debate the application of its core A survey of the
time, the clinical applications
politically progressive values (social justice, critical emerging field of of recent advances in neuro-
perspectives on optimism, practical problem neuroethics that calls science are hardly straightfor-
bioethics and the for a multidisciplinary, ward. In Pragmatic Neuroethics,
solving) to bioethical issues
implications for society, pragmatic approach for
politics, and science in have helped correct this ideo- tackling key issues and
Eric Racine argues that the
the twenty-first century. logical imbalance. Progress in improving patient care. emerging field of neuroethics
Bioethics is the first book to offers a way to integrate such
debate the meaning of progressive bioethics and to offer specialties as neurology, psychiatry, and neurosurgery
perspectives on the topic both from bioethicists who with the humanities and social sciences, neuroscience
consider themselves progressive and from bioethicists research, and related healthcare professions, with the
who do not. Its aim is to begin a dialogue and to pro- goal of tackling key ethical challenges and improving
vide a foothold for readers interested in understanding patient care. Racine provides a survey of the often
the field. diverging perspectives within neuroethics, offers a
The chapter authors, leading scholars in the field, theoretical framework supported by empirical data,
discuss the meaning of progressive bioethics, the rise and discusses the neuroethical implications of such
of conservative bioethics, the progressive stance toward issues as media coverage of neuroscience innovation
biotechnology, the interplay of progressive bioethics and and the importance of public concerns and lay opinion;
religion, and progressive approaches to such specific nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals for performance
policy issues as bioethics commissions, stem-cell enhancement; and the discord between intuitive
research, and health care reform. notions about consciousness and behavior and the
The arrival of a new administration in 2009 — one scientific understanding of them.
that is open to progressive ideas and rejects ideological Racine proposes a pragmatic neuroethics that com-
interventions in science — makes this book and its bines pluralistic approaches, bottom-up research per-
new approach to bioethics relevant and timely. spectives, and a focus on practical issues (in contrast to
other more theoretical and single-discipline approaches
CONTRIBUTORS to the field). In addition, he outlines a pragmatic
Sam Berger, Daniel Callahan, Arthur L. Caplan, R. Alta Charo,
Marcy Darnovsky, John H. Evans, Kathryn Hinsch, James Hughes, framework for neuroethics, based on the philosophy
Richard Lempert, William F. May, Eric M. Meslin, of emergentism, which identifies conditions for the
Jonathan D. Moreno, Michael Rugnetta, Paul Root Wolpe,
meaningful contribution of neuroscience to ethics,
Laurie Zoloth
and sketches new directions and strategies for meeting
Jonathan D. Moreno is David and Lyn Silfen University future challenges for neuroscience and society.
Professor of Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics and of
the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Eric Racine is Director of the Neuroethics Research Unit at
Pennsylvania. He is the author of Mind Wars: Brain Research the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal and Assistant
and National Defense, among other books, and editor of In Research Professor at the Clinical Research Institute of
the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis Montreal. He also holds appointments at the University
(MIT Press, 2003). Sam Berger is a J.D. candidate at Yale of Montreal (Medicine, Preventive and Social Medicine, and
Law School. Bioethics) and McGill University (Neurology and Neurosurgery
and Biomedical Ethics).

January — 6 x 9, 308 pp. — 4 illus.


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THE IRVING SINGER LIBRARY
music/philosophy

BACK IN PRINT
MOZART AND BEETHOVEN
The Concept of Love in Their Operas
An exploration of the sensuous Irving Singer
and the passionate, as expressed with a new preface by the author
in operas by Mozart and Beethoven.
Music, language, and drama come together in opera to make a whole that
conveys emotional reality. In this book, Irving Singer develops a new mode for
January understanding and experiencing the operas of Mozart and Beethoven, approach-
6 x 9, 176 pp.
ing them not as a musical technician but as a philosopher concerned with their
$25.00S/£18.95 paper expressive and mythic elements. Singer explores not only the treatment of love in
978-0-262-51364-7
these operas but also the emotional and intellectual orientation
of these two great composers. Singer contrasts the cool sensuality
of the Don in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Leonora’s passionate
love for her husband in Beethoven’s Fidelio and compares the
erotic playfulness of some of Mozart’s letters with Beethoven’s
fervent (and unsent) letter to “the immortal beloved.” Don
Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Così Fan Tutte, and The Magic
Flute all express the conflict between the sensuous and the
passionate, but it is only in The Magic Flute, says Singer, that
this conflict is resolved. Beethoven, an admirer of The Magic
Flute, emulated both its music and its ideology, and produced
in Fidelio the greatest of all operas about married love.
Written while Singer was also at work on the three-volume
The Nature of Love, Mozart and Beethoven can be read as a
companion volume to this masterful trilogy and as a forerunner
to his later work on philosophy in film.
Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He is the author of
the trilogies The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life as well as Reality
Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique (2000); Three Philosophical
Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir (2004); Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic
Philosopher (2007); and Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film
(2008), and Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up (2009), all
published by the MIT Press, and many other books.

The Irving Singer Library makes available Irving Singer’s classic works on philosophy and aesthetics, with new prefaces by the author,
as well as his more recent books on these topics.

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DESIGN ISSUES WORLD POLICY JOURNAL


Bruce Brown, David A. Andelman, editor
Richard Buchanan,
Dennis Doordan, and World Policy Journal is a highly respected and widely cited
Victor Margolin, editors forum on international relations.
In addition to policy articles, it
The first American academic includes historical and cultural
journal to examine design essays, book reviews, profiles,
history, theory, and criticism, and reportage.
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Branden W. Joseph, articles address traditional policy
Reinhold Martin, issues such as war and peace, as
Tom McDonough, and well as more recent dimensions
Felicity D. Scott, editors of security, including the growing
importance of environmental,
Grey Room brings together
demographic, and humanitarian
scholarly and theoretical arti-
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cles from the fields of archi-
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JOURNALS
economics economics

JOURNAL OF THE REVIEW OF ECONOMICS


THE EUROPEAN AND STATISTICS
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Mark W. Watson, editors
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The Review of Economics and Statistics is a distinguished
Journal of the European
general journal of applied (especially quantitative)
Economic Association replaces
economics. Edited at Harvard University’s Kennedy
the European Economic
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Review as the official journal
Review publishes the field’s most
of the association. Publishing
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Lawrence F. Katz, editors
NEW FOR 2009
The Quarterly Journal of Economics is the oldest professional
journal of economics in the English language. Edited David Buckingham, Tara McPherson, and
at Harvard University’s
Katie Salen, editors
Department of Economics, The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM)
it covers all aspects of the is a groundbreaking online-only journal that provides an
field — from the journal’s international forum for scholars, researchers and practi-
traditional emphasis on tioners to explore the relationship between emerging forms
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empirical and theoretical Through scholarly articles, editorials, case studies, and an
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Access Controlled, Deibert 52 Culture of Improvement, Friedel 39 Global Imbalances and the Lessons of
Bretton Woods, Eichengreen 46
Alpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning, Curating Consciousness, Brennan 18
second edition Extended Mind, Menary 74
Davidson, The Future of Thinking 66
Anachronic Renaissance, Nagel 35 Gold, ThermoPoetics 56
Deibert, Access Controlled 52
Anatomy of Bias, Lauwereyns 78 Graham, Rethinking Curating 19
Democracy across Borders, Bohman 49
Architecture or Techno-Utopia, Scott 41 Grammar as Science, Larson 71
Diffie, Privacy on the Line, updated and
Armendáriz, The Economics of Microfinance, expanded edition 42 Grammont, Naturalizing Intention in Action
second edition 61 77
Driesen, Economic Thought and U.S. Climate
Atran, The Native Mind and the Cultural Change Policy 60 Green Light, Gessert 8
Construction of Nature 48
Dutton, World Wide Research 53 Greening through IT, Tomlinson 7
Bader, Hall of Mirrors 16
Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience, Gross, Ignorance and Surprise 54
Bainbridge, The Warcraft Civilization 5 Izhikevich 49
Guyotat, Coma 32
Bais, In Praise of Science 6 Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change
Policy, Driesen 60 Haladyn, Marcel Duchamp 37
Baker, Taking Economics Seriously 27
Economics and Psychology, Frey 47 Hall of Mirrors, Bader 16
Bangalore, Supertagging 70
Economics of Microfinance, second edition, Hanson, Foundational Issues in Human
Bara, Cognitive Pragmatics 75 Armendáriz 61 Brain Mapping 76
Battistella, Health Care Turning Point 25 Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles, Schwartz 13 Hård, Urban Machinery 50
Beranek, Riding the Waves 40 Edwards, The World in a Machine 24 Harrigan, Second Person 44
Between Reason and Experience, Feenberg Effortless Attention, Bruya 74 Health Care Turning Point, Battistella 25
54
Eichengreen, Global Imbalances and the Hidden Sense, van Campen 40
Black, Exploring General Equilibrium 47 Lessons of Bretton Woods 46 Hocquenghem, The Screwball Asses 31
Bohman, Democracy across Borders 49 Entangled, Salter 67 Hogan, The Natural Resources Trap 60
Brennan, Curating Consciousness 18 Evolution — the Extended Synthesis, Hong, Wireless 51
Bruya, Effortless Attention 74 Pigliucci 58
Hugdahl, The Two Halves of the Brain 79
Cameron, Theorizing Digital Cultural Evolution, Definitive Edition, Huxley 58
Heritage 44 Huxley, Evolution, The Definitive Edition
Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted 58
Campbell, Knowledge and Skepticism 73 Psychology, Richardson 48
Ignorance and Surprise, Gross 54
Campbell, Time and Identity 73 Exploring General Equilibrium, Black 47
In Praise of Science, Bais 6
Chance, Iversen 20 Fassin, Contemporary States of Emergency
34 Internet Architecture and Innovation,
Chapelle, Semi-Supervised Learning 45 van Schewick 62
Feedback, Joselit 43
Chenoweth, Rethinking Violence 59 Introduction to Civil War, Tiqqun 29
Feenberg, Between Reason and Experience
Climate Refugees, Collectif Argos 9 54 Introduction to Machine Learning,
second edition, Alpaydin 68
Cognitive Neuroscience of Mind, Feenstra, Offshoring in the Global Economy
Reuter-Lorenz 77 63 Introduction to Quantitative Finance,
Reitano 64
Cognitive Pragmatics, Bara 75 Ferreiro, Ships and Science 51
Iversen, Chance 20
Cohen, Color Ontology and Color Science Foster, Richard Hamilton 15
72 Izhikevich, Dynamical Systems in
Foundational Issues in Human Brain Neuroscience 49
Collectif Argos, Climate Refugees 9 Mapping, Hanson 76
Joselit, Feedback 43
Color Ontology and Color Science, Cohen Frey, Economics and Psychology 47
72 Knowledge and Skepticism, Campbell 73
Friedel, A Culture of Improvement 39
Coma, Guyotat 32 Kotz, Words to Be Looked At 41
Frisby, Seeing, second edition 80
Combinatorial Auctions, Cramton 46 Krauss, Perpetual Inventory 17
Fumagalli, Crisis in the Global Economy 33
Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Language and Equilibrium, Parikh 69
Design of Mechanisms, Sacks 68 Future of Thinking, Davidson 66
Larson, Grammar as Science 71
Contemporary States of Emergency, Fassin Gee, New Digital Media and Learning as an
34 Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as Lauwereyns, The Anatomy of Bias 78
One Way Forward 66 Lawrence, Learning and Inference in
Coyne, The Tuning of Place 67
Gessert, Green Light 8 Computational Systems Biology 80
Crafting the Quantum, Seth 57
Gilboa, Rational Choice 62 Learning and Inference in Computational
Cramton, Combinatorial Auctions 46 Systems Biology, Lawrence 80
Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals,
Crisis in the Global Economy, Fumagalli 33 Selin 59 Learning to Communicate in Science and
Engineering, Poe 65

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Levin, Urban Modernity 55 Psychedelic, Rubin 12 Student Solutions Manual to Accompany


Introduction to Quantitative Finance:
Levin, Work Meets Life 79 Racine, Pragmatic Neuroethics 81 A Math Toolkit, Reitano 64
Living Through the End of Nature, Wapner Rational Choice, Gilboa 62 Sublime, Morley 21
10
Raunig, A Thousand Machines 30 Supertagging, Bangalore 70
Locality in Vowel Harmony, Nevins 70
Reinventing the Automobile, Mitchell 1 System Modeling in Cellular Biology, Szallasi
Mahajan, Street-Fighting Mathematics 65 50
Reitano, Introduction to Quantitative
Marazzi, The Violence of Financial Capitalism Finance 64 Szallasi, System Modeling in Cellular Biology
28 50
Reitano, Student Solutions Manual to
Marcel Duchamp, Haladyn 37 Accompany Introduction to Quantitative Taking Economics Seriously, Baker 27
Finance: A Math Toolkit 64
Margolis, Stuck in the Shallow End 42 Technology and the Making of the
Rethinking Curating, Graham 19 Netherlands, Schot 55
Menary, The Extended Mind 74
Rethinking Violence, Chenoweth 59 Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage,
Mitchell, Reinventing the Automobile 1
Reuter-Lorenz, The Cognitive Neuroscience Cameron 44
Monetary Theory and Policy, third edition, of Mind 77
Walsh 64 ThermoPoetics, Gold 56
Richard Hamilton, Foster 15 Thimbleby, Press On 45
Moorefield, The Producer as Composer 43
Richard Long, Roelstraete 38 Thousand Machines, Raunig 30
Moreno, Progress in Bioethics 81
Richards, Uttering Trees 71 Time and Identity, Campbell 73
Morley, The Sublime 21
Richardson, Evolutionary Psychology as Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War 29
Mozart and Beethoven, Singer 82 Maladapted Psychology 48
Mukherji, The Primacy of Grammar 72 Tomlinson, Greening through IT 7
Riding the Waves, Beranek 40
Nagel, Anachronic Renaissance 35 Treading Softly, Princen 11
Roelstraete, Richard Long 38
Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Tsuya, Prudence and Pressure 57
Ross, What Is Addiction? 75
Nature, Atran 48 Tuning of Place, Coyne 67
Rossi, A Scientific Autobiography 22
Natural Resources Trap, Hogan 60 Two Halves of the Brain, Hugdahl 79
Rubin, Psychedelic 12
Naturalizing Intention in Action, Grammont Urban Machinery, Hård 50
77 Rule of Law, Misrule of Men, Scarry 26
Urban Modernity, Levin 55
Nevins, Locality in Vowel Harmony 70 Sacks, The Configuration Space Method for
Kinematic Design of Mechanisms 68 Uttering Trees, Richards 71
New Digital Media and Learning as an
Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” Salter, Entangled 67 van Campen, The Hidden Sense 40
as One Way Forward, Gee 66
Scarry, Rule of Law, Misrule of Men 26 van Schewick, Internet Architecture and
Nye, When the Lights Went Out 4 Innovation 62
Schori, Perspecta 42 23
Offshoring in the Global Economy, Feenstra Violence of Financial Capitalism, Marazzi
63 Schot, Technology and the Making of the 28
Netherlands 55
Parikh, Language and Equilibrium 69 Volz, Prospects for Monetary Cooperation
Schwartz, Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles 13 and Integration in East Asia 63
Park, Secrets Of Women 36
Scientific Autobiography, Rossi 22 Walsh, Monetary Theory and Policy, third
Peltomäki, Situation Aesthetics 14 edition 64
Scott, Architecture or Techno-Uwtopia 41
Perpetual Inventory, Krauss 17 Wapner, Living Through the End of Nature
Screwball Asses, Hocquenghem 31
Perspecta 42, Schori 23 10
Second Person, Harrigan 44
Pigliucci, Evolution — the Extended Warcraft Civilization, Bainbridge 5
Synthesis 58 Secrets Of Women, Park 36
Westcott, When Marina Abramovic Dies 2
Poe, Learning to Communicate in Science Seeing, second edition, Frisby 80
What Is Addiction?, Ross 75
and Engineering 65 Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Stoy 69
What's the Use of Race?, Whitmarsh 53
Pragmatic Neuroethics, Racine 81 Selin, Global Governance of Hazardous
Chemicals 59 When Marina Abramovic Dies, Westcott 2
Press On, Thimbleby 45
Semi-Supervised Learning, Chapelle 45 When the Lights Went Out, Nye 4
Primacy of Grammar, Mukherji 72
Seth, Crafting the Quantum 57 Whitmarsh, What's the Use of Race? 53
Princen, Treading Softly 11
Ships and Science, Ferreiro 51 Why America Is Not a New Rome, Smil 3
Privacy on the Line, updated and expanded
edition, Diffie 42 Singer, Mozart and Beethoven 82 Wireless, Hong 51
Producer as Composer, Moorefield 43 Situation Aesthetics, Peltomäki 14 Words to Be Looked At, Kotz 41
Progress in Bioethics, Moreno 81 Smil, Why America Is Not a New Rome 3 Work Meets Life, Levin 79
Prospects for Monetary Cooperation and Stoy, Self-Reconfigurable Robots 69 World in a Machine, Edwards 24
Integration in East Asia, Volz 63
Street-Fighting Mathematics, Mahajan 65 World Wide Research, Dutton 53
Prudence and Pressure, Tsuya 57
Stuck in the Shallow End, Margolis 42
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Afterall Books 37-38


Semiotext(e) 29-33
Zone Books 34-36

Front cover, inside front cover, and back cover art: $39.95T/£29.95 cloth $39.95T/£29.95 cloth $15.95T/£11.95 cloth
from Reinventing the Automobile by William J. Mitchell, 978-0-262-01349-9 978-0-262-01303-1 978-0-262-01329-1
Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns.

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