ASAP: Science and Technology
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN89700. Code expires November 15, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
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The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
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Architecture of Life Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Alla Vronskaya 2022 Spring
- Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences
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Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall
- A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
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How We Became Sensorimotor Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson 2021 Fall
- An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner senses
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Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall
- How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be
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Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall
- A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it
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Profit over Privacy How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet Matthew Crain 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet
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The Filing Cabinet A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson 2021 Spring
- The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information
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Breathing Race into the Machine The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun 2021 Spring
- How race became embedded in a medical instrument
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The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall
- A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
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The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall
- Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
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Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall
- Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare
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Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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Hacked Transmissions Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi 2020 Spring
- Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day
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Circuit Listening Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s Andrew F. Jones 2020 Spring
- How the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution
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The Responsive Environment Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s Larry D. Busbea 2019 Fall
- How new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s
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Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring
- A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
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Silent Cells The Secret Drugging of Captive America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2019 Spring
- A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systems
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Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall
- A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
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Breathtaking Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner 2018 Fall
- People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?
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The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
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The Eye of War Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone Antoine Bousquet 2018 Fall
- How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present
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After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
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Human Programming Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Scott Selisker 2016 Fall
- The first cultural history of the idea of the programmable mind in U.S. culture, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
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The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Jean-François Lyotard 1984 Spring
- This founding essay of the postmodern movement argues that knowledge-science, technology, and the arts-has undergone a change of status since the 19th century and especially since the late 1950s.