4S: Science and Technology
Web sale for those interested in science and technology studies and/or attendees of the 2023 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: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below qualify for 40% off and free domestic shipping using code MN4S23. Code expires December 15, 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
- Microbial Resolution Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes Gloria Chan-Sook Kim 2024 Spring
- Why the global health project to avert emerging microbes continually fails
- The Affect Lab The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion Grant Bollmer 2023 Fall
- Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it
- Gut Anthro An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes Amber Benezra 2023 Spring
- A fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for anthropological inquiry
- The Birth of Computer Vision James E. Dobson 2023 Spring
- A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall
- A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
- 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
- Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall
- What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Sweetness in the Blood Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes James Doucet-Battle 2021 Spring
- A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
- 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
- Prosthesis David Wills 2021 Spring
- An examination of the presumed opposition between the natural human body and artificial inanimate objects
- 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
- Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring
- How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
- 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
- Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
- 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
- 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