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+----------------------------------------------------------------------- - | The MIT Press | New Media +----------------------------------------------------------------------- - | 12/2/2005 +----------------------------------------------------------------------- - 20% E-Mail List Member Discount Get a 20% discount on these new titles in New Media by entering code MW1015 when checking out. This discount is good on all book titles, and valid until December 31, 2005. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Shaping Things By Bruce Sterling "It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year.... I can tell that this is a book I'll return to again and again and get more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and timely work that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal information resources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no better primer for putting it all together." -- Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing.net September 2005 ISBN 0-262-69326-7 $17.95/=A311.95 (PAPER) http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=3D2&tid=3D10603&mlid=3D499 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Placing Words Symbols, Space, and the City By William J. Mitchell Reflections on architecture and the exchange of information in the spaces and places of the city, from the necessity of skyscrapers in an age of Web sites to cities as talent magnets, from architectural bling to the neo-minimalism of the new MoMA. September 2005 ISBN 0-262-63322-1 $16.95/=A310.95 (PAPER) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available: http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=3D2&tid=3D10599&mlid=3D499 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - User InfoTechnoDemo By Peter Lunenfeld Doing theory and criticism in real time: essays on subjects ranging from art and industrial design to The Matrix and Web porn. August 2005 ISBN 0-262-62198-3 $25.95/=A316.95 (PAPER) Table of Contents Available: http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=3D2&tid=3D10604&mlid=3D499 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Handbook of Computer Game Studies Edited by Joost Raessens and Jeffrey Goldstein A broad treatment of computer and video games from a wide range of perspectives, including cognitive science and artificial intelligence, psychology, history, film and theater, cultural studies, and philosophy. June 2005 ISBN 0-262-18240-8 $50.00/=A332.95 (CLOTH) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available: http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=3D2&tid=3D10331&mlid=3D499 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Media Ecologies Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture By Matthew Fuller A "dirty materialist" ride through the media cultures of pirate radio, photography, the Internet, media art, cultural evolution, and surveillance. June 2005 ISBN 0-262-06247-X $34.95/=A322.95 (CLOTH) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available: http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=3D2&tid=3D10449&mlid=3D499 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In the Bubble Designing in a Complex World By John Thackara How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. April 2005 ISBN 0-262-20157-7 $29.95/=A319.95 (CLOTH) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available: http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=3D2&tid=3D10445&mlid=3D499 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Soft Cinema Navigating the Database By Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky Leading artists from different cultural fields collaborate on three films that explore the aesthetic possibilities of computer-driven cinema. March 2005 ISBN 0-262-13456-X $30.00/=A319.95 (VIDEO) http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=3D2&tid=3D10584&mlid=3D499 - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann