This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs aby Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism and modern architecture, architectural...
In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly...
The idea that human history is approaching a żsingularityżżthat ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or...
What is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere social construct--or is it perhaps a neurologically induced illusion? The legitimacy of the concept of the self has been questioned żeby...
with a new introduction żeby Lewis H. Lapham This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then...
The Generative Lexicon presents a novel and exciting theory of lexical semantics that addresses the problem of the "multiplicity of word meaning"; that is, how we are able to give an...
The experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art s postwar histories.In Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical...
Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies.Urban humanities is an...
Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated żeby impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and...
Six essays żeby artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky on how education can foster inventiveness, paired with commentary żeby Minsky's former colleagues and students.
An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.The Chernobyl disaster has...
Cosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the European avant-garde, two other movements that shared this intellectual...
How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to...
A provocative call for the transformation of science museums into "idea colliders" that spark creative collaborations and connections. Today's science museums descend from the Kunst-und...
In Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly...
When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris--but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than his literary...
Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogical strategies to...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...