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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.
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: May 16, 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.
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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