ACH: Theory
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
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BROWSE BOOKS:
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // THEORY // DIGITAL CULTURE // DESIGN
LITERARY CRITICISM // RACE // WOMEN'S STUDIES, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
DEBATES IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES SERIES // FORERUNNERS SERIES
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A Theory of Assembly From Museums to Memes Kyle Parry 2022 Fall
- A vital reckoning with how we understand the basic categories of cultural expression in the digital era
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Technics Improvised Activating Touch in Global Media Art Timothy Murray 2022 Spring
- Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures
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Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson 2022 Spring
- Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child?
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The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin 2021 Spring
- Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism
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Deep Mediations Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures Karen Beckman and Jeff Scheible, Editors 2021 Spring
- The preoccupation with “depth” and its relevance to cinema and media studies
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The Other Side of the Digital The Sacrificial Economy of New Media Andrea Righi 2021 Spring
- A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity
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Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring
- The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
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Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall
- A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
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Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall
- An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
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Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring
- A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
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Deconstruction Machines Writing in the Age of Cyberwar Justin Joque 2018 Spring
- A bold new theory of cyberwar argues that militarized hacking is best understood as a form of deconstruction
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Playing with Feelings Video Games and Affect 2018 Spring
- How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code
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Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall
- A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
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Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring
- A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames
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Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring
- A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
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Anti-Book On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing Nicholas Thoburn 2016 Fall
- A major new look at experimental political writing and publishing
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The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Hugo Gernsback 2016 Fall
- The founder of science fiction and his other inventions
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The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck, Editors 2016 Fall
- An unprecedented transdisciplinary call to reassess the meaning of participation in the digital age
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The Uberfication of the University Gary Hall 2016 Fall
- The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2016 Spring
- If the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities in 2012 marked the “digital humanities moment,” this book—the first in a series of annual volumes—will chart the possibilities and tensions of the field as it grows.
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Computing as Writing Daniel Punday 2015 Fall
- If we consider e-book authors to be writers, should we think of e-book programmers as writers, too?
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A Geology of Media Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
- A sweeping new ecological take on technology
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Digital Shift The Cultural Logic of Punctuation Jeff Scheible 2015 Spring
- Examines the punctuation of our digital lives and why it matters
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Comparative Textual Media Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman, Editors 2013 Fall
- Proposes a new paradigm for the humanities by recognizing print as a medium within a comparative context
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Off the Network Disrupting the Digital World Ulises Ali Mejias 2013 Spring
- Critiques how the Internet, social media, and the digital network change users’ understanding of the world
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Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst Jussi Parikka, Editor 2012 Fall
- Explores how media infrastructure, not content, shapes contemporary digital culture
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Debates in the Digital Humanities Matthew K. Gold, Editor 2012 Spring
- Leading figures in the digital humanities explore the field’s rapid revolution
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Gameplay Mode War, Simulation, and Technoculture Patrick Crogan 2011 Fall
- Understanding the military logics that created and continue to inform computer games
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remixthebook Mark Amerika 2011 Fall
- A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection on digital media