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Jan Baetens

Jan Baetens is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Leuven. He mainly publishes in the field of word and image studies and poetry criticism. He is editor of the journal Image (&) Narrative (www.imageandnarrative.be) and coeditor of PLACE (www.place-plateform.com).

Online Reviews

February 2024
by Giselle Beiguelman, Melody Devries, Winnie Soon, and Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver
January 2024
by Nezih Erdogan and Ebru Kayaalp, Editors
November 2023
by Christoph Keller
October 2023
by Gabriel Pomerand; translated by Michael Kasper and Bhamati Viswanathan
September 2023
May 2023
Robin Cousin; translated by Edward Gauvin
March 2023
Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia
January 2023
by Géraldine David and François Mairesse, Editors
December 2022
Annette Gilbert; translated by Cadenza Academic Translations team and Antonia Hirsch
November 2022
August 2022
June 2022
by Xavier Greffe and Anne Krebs-Poignant
May 2022
by Claire Barel-Moisan and Matthieu Letourneux, Editors
April 2022
by Craig Dworkin
April 2022
Bo Florin, Patrick Vonderau, Yvonne Zimmermann
November 2021
Danièle Méaux (texts and editing), Éric Tabuchi, Jordi Ballesta and Guillaume Bonnel (photographs)
June 2021
June 2021
May 2021
May 2021
January 2021
November 2020
by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, Editors
October 2020
Abigail Lang, Michel Murat and Céline Pardo, Editors
June 2020
Sarah J. Montross, Editor
June 2020
April 2020
by Gerald C. Kane, Anh Nguyen Phillips, Jonathan R. Copulsky and Garth R. Andrus, Editors
November 2019
October 2019
David D. Clark
August 2019
Grace Lees-Maffei and Nicolas P. Maffei
June 2019
by Annabelle Honess Roe and Maria Pramaggiore, Editors
May 2019
April 2019
by Laura Miller and Rebecca Copeland, Editors
March 2019
Michael North
November 2018
Amaranth Borsuk
September 2018
by Stuart Moulthrop and Dene Grigar; foreword by Joseph Tabbi
July 2018
April 2018
by Christoph Keller
November 2017
October 2017
edited by Ina Blom, Trond Lundemo and Eivind Røssaak
June 2017
May 2017
January 2017

Journal Articles

Leonardo Reviews

The New Typography by Jan Tschichold. Ruari McLean, trans. Introduction by Robin Kinross; foreword by Richard Hendel. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2006. 286 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-0-520-25012-3

February 2008
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Mapping the Moving Image: Gesture, Thought and Cinema circa 1900 by Pasi Väliaho. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, NL, 2010. Film Culture in Transition series, 256 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-90-8964-141-0; ISBN: 978-90-8964-140-3

April 2011
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Diane Arbus's 1960s: Auguries of Experience by Frederick Gross. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2012, U.S.A., 248 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-7011-6; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-7012-3

February 2013
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Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era

October 2014
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Barry Le Va: The Aesthetic Aftermath

June 2016
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From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom

June 2018
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Designing an Internet

April 2020
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The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film by Brigitte Peucker. Stanford University Press (Cultural Memory in the Present), Stanford, CA, U.S.A., 2007. 272 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8047-5431-6; 0-8087-5430-6

February 2008
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Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture by Harris M. Berger. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010. xxi + 167 pp. ISBN-13: 9780819568779 (cloth), 978-0819568779 (paperback)

April 2011
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Under Blue Cup by Rosalind E. Krauss. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2011. 200 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-01613-1

April 2013
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The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

October 2014
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Softimage: Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image

October 2016
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Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation

June 2018
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The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation

June 2020
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Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday by Juan A. Suárez. University of Illinois Press, Chicago and Urbana, IL, 2007. 321 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-252-03150-2; ISBN: 978-0-252-07392-2

April 2008
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When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America by David E. Nye. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2010. 304 pp., illus. ISBN-10: 0-262-01374-6; ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01374-1

February 2011
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High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture by Mike Jay. Thames and Hudson, London, U.K., 2012. 192 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-500-28910-5

April 2013
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Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind

October 2014
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Art and Science: Works from the Collection of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

October 2016
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So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein

October 2018
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Adaptation and Convergence of Media: “High” Culture Intermediality versus Popular Culture Intermediality

June 2020
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Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 Edited by Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2007. 312 pages, illus. Trade, paper

June 2008
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Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture by Jim Collins. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A., 2010. 312 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4588-6; ISBN: 978-0-8223-4606-7

June 2011
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Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory by Markku Eskelinen. Continuum Books, London, U.K. New York, U.S.A., 2012. 462 pp. Trade; paper. ISBN: 978-1-44-112438-8; ISBN: 978-1-44-110745-9

April 2013
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Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, and Aesthetics

February 2015
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Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest

February 2017
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Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment

October 2018
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The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy of Images

June 2020
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Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment

February 2005
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Cartographic Cinema by Tom Conley. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2007. 264 pp. illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8166-4357-1; 0-8166-4356-3

June 2008
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Photo-texts: Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image by Andy Stafford. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, U.K., 2010. 246 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-1-8463-1052-2

June 2011
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The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918 by Elizabeth Edwards. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A., 2012. 344 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5090-3; ISBN: 978-0-8223-5104-7

June 2013
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Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents

February 2015
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Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity

February 2017
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Never Alone, Except For Now: Art, Networks, Populations

February 2019
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A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century

October 2020
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Telematic Embrace. Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness by Roy Ascott. Edited by Edward A. Shanken. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2003. 439 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-520-21803-5

April 2005
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The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science by Crétien van Campen. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2007. 208 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-22081-4

August 2008
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Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman by T.J. Demos. Afterall Books (One Work series), London, U.K., 2010. 112 pp., illus. ISBN-10: 1846380677; ISBN-13: 978-1846380679

June 2011
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Transformative Beauty: Art Museums in Industrial Britain by Amy Woodson-Boulton. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, U.S.A., 2012. 288 pp., illus. Trade, ebook. ISBN: 978-0-804-77804-6; ISBN: 978-0-804-78053-7

October 2013
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Self-Projection: The Director’s Image in Art Cinema

April 2015
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Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture

February 2017
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A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction

February 2019
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Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art

October 2020
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Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science edited

June 2005
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Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2008. 316 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN 10: 0-262-11311-2; ISBN 13: 978-0-262-11311-3

October 2008
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Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture by Paula Lupkin. Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis, 2010, 312 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-0-8166-4834-4; ISBN: 978-0-8166-4835-1

October 2011
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The Invention of Heterosexual Culture by Louis-Georges Tin. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. 208 pp. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-01770-1

October 2013
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Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture

April 2015
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Holograms: A Cultural History

April 2017
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List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed

February 2019
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Archives sonores de la poésie

April 2021
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First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game

October 2005
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Notes on the Underground, New Edition: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination by Rosalind Williams. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2008. 283 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-262-73190-8

February 2009
Leonardo Reviews

Regards Croisés: Perspectives on Digital Literature edited by Sandy Baldwin and Philippe Bootz. West Virginia University Press, Morgantown, WV, U.S.A., 2010. 128 pp., illus. Paper, eBook. ISBN: 978-1-933202-47-1; ISBN: 978-1-933202-48-8

October 2011
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. 224 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-01821-0

October 2013
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Ethos and Narrative Interpretation: The Negotiation of Values in Fiction

June 2015
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American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

April 2017
Reviews

Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication

April 2019
Leonardo Reviews

En cas de malheur de Simenon à Autant-La ra (1956–1958). Essai de génétique scénaristique

April 2021
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Shooting from the HIP: Photography, Masculinity, and Postwar America by Patricia Vettel-Becker. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2005. 199 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-8166-4301-6.

October 2006
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Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife by Akira Mizuta Lippit. Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2008. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8166-3486-6

June 2009
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Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History edited by Julie Hubbert. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2011. 508 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-520241-01-5; ISBN: 978-0-520241-022

April 2012
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Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s by Alexander Nemerov. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2012. 184 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-69-114578-5

February 2014
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Henri Lefebvre: Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

June 2015
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When Movies Were Theater: Architecture Exhibition and the Evolution of American Film

June 2017
General Notes

A Note on “Demediation”: From Book Art to Transmedia Storytelling

June 2019
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Isherwood in Transit

April 2021
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Art, Time, and Technology by Charlie Gere. Berg, Oxford, U.K. 2006. 138 pp., illus. ISBN: 1-84520-135-2

February 2007
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Roy Ascott: The Syncretic Sense Curated by Paula Orrell. Plymouth Arts Centre, 4 April–24 May 2009.

October 2009
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The Secret War between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine by Peter Lunenfeld. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2011. 144 pp. Trade. ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01547-9

April 2012
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Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures by Leonard Barkan. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2012. 216 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-69-114183-1

February 2014
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Poetic Language: Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present

June 2015
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Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom

October 2017
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Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

June 2019
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Des opérations d'écriture qui ne disent pas leur nom

June 2021
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Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film by Jeffrey Skoller. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2005. 232 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8164231-1; 0-8164231-X

February 2007
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TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television by Lynn Spigel. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2009. 402 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-226-76968-4

February 2010
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The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing by Didier Maleuvre. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2011. 392 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 9780520267435

April 2012
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Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles by Erkki Huhtamo. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2013. 456 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-26-201851-7

February 2014
Leonardo Reviews

Art, Science, and Cultural Understanding

June 2015
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Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom

October 2017
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Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing

June 2019
Reviews

Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal

June 2021
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The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression by Christine Ross. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2006. 244 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8166-4538-8; ISBN: 0-8166-4539-6

April 2007
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Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees by Nalini M. Nadkarni. University of California Press, U.S.A., 2009. 336 pp., illus. Hardcover, paper. ISBN: 978-0-5202-4856-4; 978-0-5202-6165-5

April 2010
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Air edited by John Knechtel. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A, 2010. Alphabet City Media Books Series. 320 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN-10: 0-262-01466-1

February 2012
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The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses by Angela Ndalianis. Jefferson, NC, U.S.A., and London, U.K.: Macfarland, U.K., 2012. 223 pp., illus. Print (softcover) ISBN: 978-0-7864-6127-1. E-book ISBN: 978-0-7864-9043-1

April 2014
Leonardo Reviews

Modernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920–1930

October 2015
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Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species

October 2017
Leonardo Reviews

Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture

October 2019
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April 2007
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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2009. 256 pp. Trade, e-book. ISBN: 978-1-4008-3128-9

October 2010
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The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s by Malcolm Turvey. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2011. 170 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-01518-9

February 2012
Leonardo Reviews

Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies edited by Meaghan Morris and Mette Hjort. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A., 2012. 297 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-1-9326-4320-6; ISBN: 978-1-9326-4302-2

April 2014
Leonardo Reviews

Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation

February 2016
Reviews

Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving

February 2018
Leonardo Reviews

Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural Culture

October 2019
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New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories edited by Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., and London, U.K., 2006. 416 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-13463-2

June 2007
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The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism by Enda Duffy. Duke University Press, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A., 2009. 320 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN13: 978-0-8223-4430-8; 978-0-8223-4442-1

October 2010
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The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time by Jane Gallop. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A., 2011. 184 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5063-7; ISBN: 978-0-8223-5081-1

June 2012
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Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History by Derek Sayer. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2013. 656 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-6910-4380-7

April 2014
Leonardo Reviews

World Projects: Global Information before World War I

February 2016
Reviews

Making Trouble: Surrealism and the Human Sciences

April 2018
Leonardo Reviews

Grammalepsy: Essays on Digital Language Art

February 2020
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Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi by Timothy C. Campbell. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2006. 209 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8166-4441-1; 0-8166-4422-1

June 2007
General Note

Hypertext Revisited

October 2013
Leonardo Reviews

remixthebook by Mark Amerika. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2011. 336 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN 978-0-8166-7614-9; ISBN 978-0-8166-7615-6

June 2012
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The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film by Domietta Torlasco. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2013. 160 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-8166-8109-9; ISBN: 978-0-8166-8110-5

June 2014
Leonardo Reviews

Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67

April 2016
Reviews

Memory in Motion: Archives, Technology and the Social

April 2018
Leonardo Reviews

Electronic Literature

February 2020
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Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture edited by Patricia Johnston. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2006. 317 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-520-24187-8; ISBN: 0-520-24188-6

October 2007
Leonardo Reviews

North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space by Jody Berland. Duke Univ. Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A., 2009. 408 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 978-0822343066

April 2011
Leonardo Reviews

The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality by Nicholas Mirzoeff. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A., 2011. 408 pp., illus. Hardcover, Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4895-5; ISBN: 978-0822349181

February 2013
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“Raw Data” Is an Oxymoron edited by Lisa Gitelman. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2013. 208 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 9780262518284

June 2014
Leonardo Reviews

The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing

April 2016
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For Folk’s Sake: Art and Economy in Twentieth- Century Nova Scotia

June 2018
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Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color

April 2020

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