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The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
ISBN: 9781635902365
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
A personal and philosophical reflection on the question of old age as a limit concept of Western thought.
Playing at the World, 2E
The Invention of Dungeons & Dragons
ISBN: 9780262548779
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 30, 2024
The first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.
Imagining Transmedia
ISBN: 9780262547437
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2024
How the blurring of media forms—transmedia—became the default for how we experience narratives, and how that cultural transformation has redefined the worlds of education, entertainment, and our increasingly polarized public discourse.
Artless
Stories 2019–2023
ISBN: 9781635901900
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness.
Models of a Man
Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Simon
ISBN: 9780262546492
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
Essays that pay tribute to the wide-ranging influence of the late Herbert Simon, by friends and colleagues.
Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths
A Realist's View of the Human Condition
ISBN: 9780262542784
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 28, 2022
A guide for making sense of life—from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure).
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency
ISBN: 9783956791499
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2016
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency prompts a unique crossdisciplinary inquiry into the productive potential of the affect of shame. This book contests the ontological understanding of shame...
Lurching Toward Happiness in America
ISBN: 9780262028240
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2014
Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends in America.
Histories of the Dustheap
Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice
ISBN: 9780262517829
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 28, 2012
An examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.
The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
ISBN: 9781635902365
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
A personal and philosophical reflection on the question of old age as a limit concept of Western thought.
Playing at the World, 2E
The Invention of Dungeons & Dragons
ISBN: 9780262548779
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 30, 2024
The first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.
Imagining Transmedia
ISBN: 9780262547437
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2024
How the blurring of media forms—transmedia—became the default for how we experience narratives, and how that cultural transformation has redefined the worlds of education, entertainment, and our increasingly polarized public discourse.
Artless
Stories 2019–2023
ISBN: 9781635901900
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Pub Date: October 24, 2023
A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness.
Models of a Man
Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Simon
ISBN: 9780262546492
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 1, 2022
Essays that pay tribute to the wide-ranging influence of the late Herbert Simon, by friends and colleagues.
Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths
A Realist's View of the Human Condition
ISBN: 9780262542784
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 28, 2022
A guide for making sense of life—from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure).
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency
ISBN: 9783956791499
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2016
On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency prompts a unique crossdisciplinary inquiry into the productive potential of the affect of shame. This book contests the ontological understanding of shame...
Lurching Toward Happiness in America
ISBN: 9780262028240
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2014
Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends in America.
Histories of the Dustheap
Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice
ISBN: 9780262517829
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 28, 2012
An examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.