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        The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown

        by Aron Vinegar

        ISBN: 9780262546362

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.
        Pidginization as Curatorial Method

        Pidginization as Curatorial Method

        Pidginization as Curatorial Method

        Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating

        by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

        Edited by Steven Henry Madoff

        ISBN: 9781915609083

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 1, 2023

        A new vision for activist curatorial practice.
        The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men

        The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men

        The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men

        by Catherine Lord

        ISBN: 9781949484106

        Publisher: no place press

        Pub Date: August 1, 2023

        An investigation of memory, both personal and national, that broadens the dialogue on colonialism, complicity, and cultural property.
        Just in Time

        Just in Time

        Just in Time

        Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience

        by G. Gabrielle Starr

        ISBN: 9780262048040

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 6, 2023

        Literature and neuroscience come together to illuminate the human experience of beauty, which unfolds in time.
        Computational Formalism

        Computational Formalism

        Computational Formalism

        Art History and Machine Learning

        by Amanda Wasielewski

        ISBN: 9780262545648

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 23, 2023

        How the use of machine learning to analyze art images has revived formalism in art history, presenting a golden opportunity for art historians and computer scientists to learn from one another.
        Sonia Balassanian

        Sonia Balassanian

        Sonia Balassanian

        by Omar Kholeif

        ISBN: 9781915609076

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: March 28, 2023

        The many worlds of Sonia Balassanian, an Iranian American political artist of Armenian descent who came to renown in the 1980s and early 1990s.
        I Almost Forgot

        I Almost Forgot

        I Almost Forgot

        Unpublished Colin Rowe

        Edited by Daniel Naegele

        With Zhengyang Hua

        ISBN: 9780262047128

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 10, 2023

        Unpublished writings of Colin Rowe—letters, essays, lectures, and a postcard—clarify his thinking on key concepts while revealing his wit and erudition.
        This Great Allegory

        This Great Allegory

        This Great Allegory

        On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of Art

        by Gerhard Richter

        ISBN: 9780262544146

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 29, 2022

        An engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created—a world that perishes or decays over time—and the new world that the artwork opens up.
        Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge

        Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge

        Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge

        by Hannah Star Rogers

        Foreword by Geoffrey C. Bowker and Barry Barnes

        ISBN: 9780262543682

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 17, 2022

        How the tools of STS can be used to understand art and science and the practices of these knowledge-making communities.
        The Contest of the Fruits

        The Contest of the Fruits

        The Contest of the Fruits

        Edited by Guangtian Ha and Slavs and Tatars

        ISBN: 9780262542517

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 5, 2021

        A satirical poem about the rivalry of various fruits becomes a point of departure for investigations of tolerance and identity in a pluralistic world.
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