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        How to Research Like a Dog

        How to Research Like a Dog

        How to Research Like a Dog

        Kafka's New Science

        by Aaron Schuster

        ISBN: 9780262543545

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 16, 2024

        A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka's story “Investigations of a Dog.”
        R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life

        R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life

        R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life

        by Karel Čapek

        Edited by Jitka Čejková

        ISBN: 9780262544504

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 2, 2024

        A new translation of Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.—which famously coined the term “robot”—and a collection of essays reflecting on the play's legacy from scientists and scholars who work in artificial life and robotics.
        Dispositif

        Dispositif

        Dispositif

        A Cartography

        Edited by Greg Bird and Giovanbattista Tusa

        ISBN: 9780262544337

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 5, 2023

        A groundbreaking anthology that places dispositifs (“apparatuses”) at the center of contemporary thought.
        Nicolas Pages

        Nicolas Pages

        Nicolas Pages

        by Guillaume Dustan

        Translated by Peter Valente and James Horton

        ISBN: 9781635901948

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: November 14, 2023

        An ode to mad love, awarded the Prix de Flore in 1999.
        Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

        Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

        Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007

        by J. G. Ballard

        Edited by Mark Blacklock

        Foreword by Tom McCarthy

        ISBN: 9780262048323

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 24, 2023

        J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
        Imaginary Languages

        Imaginary Languages

        Imaginary Languages

        Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

        by Marina Yaguello

        Translated by Erik Butler

        ISBN: 9780262547154

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 19, 2023

        An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.
        Abducting the Outside

        Abducting the Outside

        Abducting the Outside

        Collected Writings 2003–2018

        by Reza Negarestani

        ISBN: 9780997567489

        Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press

        Pub Date: August 29, 2023

        From decay to geotrauma to universalism to rationalist inhumanism, a collection that charts the evolution of a uniquely radical thinker.
        Memory, Edited

        Memory, Edited

        Memory, Edited

        Taking Liberties with History

        by Abby Smith Rumsey

        ISBN: 9780262048477

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 22, 2023

        An exploration of historical memory and networks of meaning in the context of today's crises of extremism and polarization.
        Voidopolis

        Voidopolis

        Voidopolis

        by Kat Mustatea

        Afterword by Charlotte Kent and Arielle Saiber

        ISBN: 9780262048262

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 22, 2023

        A hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book, which retells Dante's Inferno as if it were set in pandemic-ravaged New York City.
        A Gallery of Recuperation

        A Gallery of Recuperation

        A Gallery of Recuperation

        On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds

        by Jaime Semprún

        Translated by Eric-John Russell

        ISBN: 9780262546171

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 1, 2023

        The first English translation of the French cult classic that lampoons France's most popular intellectuals of the post-1968 period and their ideas, which became forces of counterrevolution.
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