4S: Science and Technology
Web sale for those interested in science and technology studies and/or attendees of the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 20% OFF BOOKS + FREE SHIPPING
All books below qualify for 20% off and free domestic shipping using code MNSTS22. Code expires January 10, 2023.
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 Prison House of the Circuit Politics of Control from Analog to Digital Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena and Joshua Reeves 2022 Fall
- Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?
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Citizens of Worlds Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle Jennifer Gabrys 2022 Fall
- An unparalleled how-to guide to citizen-sensing practices that monitor air pollution
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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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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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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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Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring
- An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging
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The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring
- A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
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Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring
- A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy
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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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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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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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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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Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall
- An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century
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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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Sweetness in the Blood Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes James Doucet-Battle 2021 Spring
- A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
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Nuclear Suburbs Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale 2021 Spring
- From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War
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Prosthesis David Wills 2021 Spring
- An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects
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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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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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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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Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
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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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Unraveling Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2020 Fall
- Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human
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Acid Revival The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy Danielle Giffort 2020 Fall
- A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science
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On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring
- An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
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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