Media Studies Book Sale: Media Theory
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Books on sale, special selection: Media theory.
40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MNSCMS23. Code expires June 15, 2023.
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BACK TO ALL MEDIA STUDIES BOOKS ON SALE
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Fantasies of Precision American Modern Art, 1908–1947 Ashley Lazevnick 2023 Spring
- Redefining the artistic movement that helped shape American modernism
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring
- A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
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Operational Images From the Visual to the Invisual Jussi Parikka 2023 Spring
- An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics
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The Birth of Computer Vision James E. Dobson 2023 Spring
- A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies
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Making Sense in Common A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse Isabelle Stengers 2023 Spring
- A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy
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Chinese Film Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age Jason McGrath 2022 Fall
- A tour de force chronicling the development of realism in Chinese cinema
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The New Real Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji Jonathan E. Abel 2022 Fall
- Unlocking a vital understanding of how literary studies and media studies overlap and are bound together
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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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Imagination and Invention Gilbert Simondon 2022 Fall
- A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images
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Italian Political Cinema Figures of the Long ’68 Mauro Resmini 2022 Fall
- An exploration of how film has made legible the Italian long ’68 as a moment of crisis and transition
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Endless Intervals Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 Jeffrey West Kirkwood 2022 Fall
- Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the human
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Arte Programmata Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy Lindsay Caplan 2022 Fall
- Tracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde’s pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control
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Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang Nicholas de Villiers 2022 Fall
- A brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan’s greatest auteurs
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On Posthuman War Computation and Military Violence Mike Hill 2022 Spring
- Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself
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Technopharmacology Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia, Susanna Paasonen and Ravi Sundaram 2022 Spring
- Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals
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Global Debates in the Digital Humanities Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte, Editors 2022 Spring
- A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities
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The Lab Book Situated Practices in Media Studies Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka 2021 Fall
- An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life
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What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring
- An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
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Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring
- Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
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Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring
- How media shapes our actions and feelings about race
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Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
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The Poetics of Cruising Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr 2022 Spring
- A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets
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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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Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall
- A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
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The Big No Kennan Ferguson, Editor 2021 Fall
- What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no
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People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall
- An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
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The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall
- How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
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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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The Burden of Representation Essays on Photographies and Histories John Tagg 2021 Fall
- A powerhouse in photographic theory—updated and with a new essay
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Anime's Identity Performativity and Form beyond Japan 2021 Fall
- A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism
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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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Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall
- What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
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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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The Editor Function Literary Publishing in Postwar America Abram Foley 2021 Fall
- Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history
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Savage Mind to Savage Machine Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design Ginger Nolan 2020 Fall
- An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design
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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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The Rhythm of Images Cinema beyond Measure Domietta Torlasco 2021 Spring
- A rigorous and imaginative inquiry into rhythm’s vital importance for film and the moving image
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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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Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring
- How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
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Ends of Cinema Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Editors 2020 Fall
- Leading film and media scholars discuss multiple “ends” in the history of cinema
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Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 2020 Fall
- Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema
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Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring
- A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living
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Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volume II Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring
- Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual
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Action at a Distance John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger and Christina Vagt 2020 Fall
- How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?
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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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Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring
- A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
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Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring
- All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
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Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall
- A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
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Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall
- A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
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The Eloquent Screen A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 2019 Spring
- A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move us
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Archives Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak and Rick Prelinger 2019 Fall
- How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
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Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring
- Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
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Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring
- An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
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Information Fantasies Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Xiao Liu 2019 Spring
- A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
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Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring
- On the social consequences of machines
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Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring
- A media theory of markets
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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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Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall
- The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
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What Is Information? Peter Janich 2018 Spring
- A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
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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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Playing with Feelings Video Games and Affect 2018 Spring
- How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code
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Making Things and Drawing Boundaries Experiments in the Digital Humanities Jentery Sayers, Editor 2017 Fall
- A major new look at why art, digitization, and design are vital to “making” in the humanities
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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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Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring
- Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
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Bodies in Suspense Time and Affect in Cinema Alanna Thain 2017 Spring
- How can cinema make us live time?
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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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Cinema’s Bodily Illusions Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Scott C. Richmond 2016 Fall
- On the history and theory of perceptual illusions in cinema
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Cinema without Reflection Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift Akira Mizuta Lippit 2016 Spring
- Excavates a theory of cinema in Derrida’s writing on love, narcissism, echopoiesis, and fluidity
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On the Existence of Digital Objects Yuk Hui 2016 Spring
- How and why digital objects are best theorized through relations
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Ambient Media Japanese Atmospheres of Self Paul Roquet 2016 Spring
- How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan
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A Geology of Media Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
- A sweeping new ecological take on technology
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Fiery Cinema The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945 Weihong Bao 2015 Spring
- Examines media spectatorship and affect through the unique case of modern China
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From Light to Byte Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema Markos Hadjioannou 2012 Fall
- Explores the question of technological change in cinema
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Anime’s Media Mix Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan Marc Steinberg 2012 Spring
- Untangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime
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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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Insect Media An Archaeology of Animals and Technology Jussi Parikka 2010 Fall
- Uncovering the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society
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Screens Viewing Media Installation Art Kate Mondloch 2010 Spring
- Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums
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Tactical Media Rita Raley 2009 Spring
- The first book to focus exclusively on the tactics and goals of new media art activists
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The Exploit A Theory of Networks Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker 2007 Fall
- From P2P protocols to al-Qaeda, a new approach to network culture
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Gaming Essays on Algorithmic Culture Alexander R. Galloway 2006 Spring
- A groundbreaking examination of the rise of video games.