Books
A select list of books by CMS/W faculty, lecturers, and alumni.
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The Forms of the Affects (2014)
What is the relationship between a cinematic grid of color and that most visceral of negative affects, disgust? How might anxiety be a matter of an interrupted horizontal line, or grief a figure of blazing light?
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Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism (2014)
Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression (2013)
In his new book Phantasmal Media, Fox Harrell considers the expressive power of computational media.
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Gaffe/Stutter (2013)
Gaffe/Stutter is a dead letter to Deleuze’s Logic of Sense.
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From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (2013)
The transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood.
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The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (2013)
A more comprehensive vision of the South Asian presence in the United States, focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of unacknowledged migrants.
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Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013)
Vivek Bald’s meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States.
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The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story (2013)
Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon.
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The phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture, through one line of code.
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Building Mobile Experiences (2012)
“The methods outlined apply user-centered design processes to mobile devices in a way that makes these methods relevant to the mobile experience.”
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This Is How You Lose Her (2012)
“Junot Díaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love – obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love.”
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Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (2012)
A concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds.
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The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane (2012)
“A provocative and entertaining look at the psychology of superstition and religion, how they make us human—and how we can use them to our advantage.”
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Raising the Stakes (2012)
T.L. Taylor’s book on professional computer gaming and the accompanying efforts to make a sport out of this form of play.
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Mr g: A Novel About the Creation (2012)
“’As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.’ So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr g.”
