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        Irreversible Noise

        Irreversible Noise

        by Inigo Wilkins

        ISBN: 9780995455030

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: March 5, 2024

        A detailed critical examination of the concept of noise, its significance in scientific disciplines, and its use and misuse in the humanities and sonic arts.
        The Intolerable Image

        The Intolerable Image

        Reason, Realism and Art

        by Amanda Beech

        ISBN: 9781915103024

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: March 5, 2024

        On how art can be understood as a space within which the project of reason is pursued.
        What’s That Smell?

        What's That Smell?

        A Philosophy of the Olfactory

        by Simon Hajdini

        ISBN: 9780262547567

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 5, 2024

        How our sense of smell engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy—and how it can help enrich our understanding of the nature of truth, language, economy, and sexuality.
        Sonic Faction

        Sonic Faction

        Audio Essay as Medium and Method

        Edited by Justin Barton, Steve Goodman and Maya B. Kronic

        ISBN: 9781915103123

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: February 13, 2024

        Explorations of the audio essay as medium and method.
        Visual Cultures as World Forming

        Visual Cultures as World Forming

        by Adnan Madani and Jean-Paul Martinon

        ISBN: 9783956795374

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 6, 2024

        How the world—and the world of visual culture in particular—creates itself in a creative act that knows no economic return.
        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.”
        Subject Matter

        Subject Matter

        The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown

        by Aron Vinegar

        ISBN: 9780262546362

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 28, 2023

        A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.
        Three Entries in the Form of Escape Diagrams

        Three Entries in the Form of Escape Diagrams

        An Instruction Manual for Contemporary Art (Undoing the Image 4)

        by Éric Alliez

        With Jean-Claude Bonne

        Translated by Robin Mackay

        ISBN: 9781913029975

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: October 10, 2023

        An "operating manual for contemporary art" that addresses the work of Daniel Buren, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Günter Brus.
        The Beauty of Games

        The Beauty of Games

        by Frank Lantz

        ISBN: 9780262048538

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 3, 2023

        How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.
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