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        Dissonant Waves

        Dissonant Waves

        Dissonant Waves

        Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century

        by Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie

        ISBN: 9781913380564

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: July 11, 2023

        An investigation of the cultures and technologies of early radio and how a generation of cultural operators—with Schoen at the center—addressed crisis and adversity.
        Facing Black Star

        Facing Black Star

        Facing Black Star

        Edited by Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie

        ISBN: 9780262047845

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 13, 2023

        The Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency's print collection.
        Making Art Work

        Making Art Work

        Making Art Work

        How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture

        by W. Patrick McCray

        ISBN: 9780262044257

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 20, 2020

        The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years.
        Deserting from the Culture Wars

        Deserting from the Culture Wars

        Deserting from the Culture Wars

        Edited by Maria Hlavajova and Sven Lütticken

        ISBN: 9780262539432

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 6, 2020

        Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the “culture wars”—a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture.
        Think Tank Aesthetics

        Think Tank Aesthetics

        Think Tank Aesthetics

        Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present

        by Pamela M. Lee

        ISBN: 9780262043526

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 17, 2020

        How the approaches and methods of think tanks—including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics—paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.
        Mission Moon 3-D

        Mission Moon 3-D

        Mission Moon 3-D

        A New Perspective on the Space Race

        by David J. Eicher and Brian May

        Foreword by Charlie Duke

        Afterword by Jim Lovell

        ISBN: 9780262039451

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 23, 2018

        The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images.
        Tales from the Embassy

        Tales from the Embassy

        Tales from the Embassy

        Communiqués from the Guild of Transcultural Studies, 1976-1991

        by Dave Tomlin

        ISBN: 9781907222566

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: September 8, 2017

        Vignettes of a peculiar occupation: the Guild of Transcultural Studies in the abandoned Cambodian embassy.
        The Unreliable Nation

        The Unreliable Nation

        The Unreliable Nation

        Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War

        by Edward Jones-Imhotep

        ISBN: 9780262036511

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 28, 2017

        An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.
        Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

        Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

        Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

        Edited by Naomi Oreskes and John Krige

        ISBN: 9780262526531

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2014

        Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.
        A Landscape History of New England

        A Landscape History of New England

        A Landscape History of New England

        Edited by Blake Harrison and Richard W. Judd

        Afterword by John Elder

        ISBN: 9780262525275

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 13, 2013

        An examination of New England's diverse landscapes, and our varying perceptions of them, across two centuries of settlement, work, and recreation.
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