Books
A select list of books by CMS/W faculty, lecturers, and alumni.
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Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities (2016)
Nick Montfort reveals programming to be not merely a technical exercise within given constraints but a tool for sketching, brainstorming, and inquiring about important topics.
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Writing in Biology: A Brief Guide (2016)
At once sophisticated and practical, Writing in Biology advises students on composing research articles, literature reviews, oral presentations, and other key biology genres.
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Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self (2016)
Ambient Media examines music, video art, film, and literature as tools of atmospheric design in contemporary Japan.
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The Hunt for Vulcan (2015)
A dramatic human story of Newton, Einstein, and others’ epic quest, Tom Levenson’s The Hunt for Vulcan offers insight into how science really advances.
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Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space (2015)
Studios Before the System expands the social and cultural footprint of cinema’s virtual worlds and their contribution to wider developments in global technology and urban modernism.
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How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (2014)
“In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change.”
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Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! (2014)
Drawing on extensive interviews, workshops, and media organizing projects, Sasha Costanza-Chock presents case studies of transmedia organizing in the immigrant rights movement.
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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.
