Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment

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

Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science edited

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hypertext Revisited

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era

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

Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind

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

Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents

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

Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture

Ethos and Narrative Interpretation: The Negotiation of Values in Fiction

Henri Lefebvre: Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

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

Art, Science, and Cultural Understanding

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

Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation

World Projects: Global Information before World War I

Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67

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

Barry Le Va: The Aesthetic Aftermath

Softimage: Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image

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

Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest

Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture

Holograms: A Cultural History

American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

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

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