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How to Research Like a Dog
Kafka's New Science
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
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
A Cartography
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
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
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
Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
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
Collected Writings 2003–2018
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
Taking Liberties with History
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
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
On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds
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.
How to Research Like a Dog
Kafka's New Science
ISBN: 9780262543545
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 16, 2024
R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life
R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life
ISBN: 9780262544504
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 2, 2024
Dispositif
A Cartography
ISBN: 9780262544337
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 5, 2023
Nicolas Pages
ISBN: 9781635901948
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: November 14, 2023
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
ISBN: 9780262048323
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
Imaginary Languages
Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
ISBN: 9780262547154
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
Abducting the Outside
Collected Writings 2003–2018
ISBN: 9780997567489
Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press
Pub Date: August 29, 2023
Memory, Edited
Taking Liberties with History
ISBN: 9780262048477
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
Voidopolis
ISBN: 9780262048262
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 2023
A Gallery of Recuperation
On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds
ISBN: 9780262546171
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023