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Freedom Principle Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
ISBN: PB: 9780226319308, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour plates
On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement.  "The Freedom Principle", which accompanies an exhibition on t...
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Neighborhood Technologies Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks
ISBN: PB: 9783037345238, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
"Neighborhood Technologies" expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across many different disciplines. Up...
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£34,00
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Cities, Museums and Soft Power
ISBN: PB: 9781941963036, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
272 pp., 23.4x16.5 cm
"Soft power" emerged as a concept in the late twentieth century to describe international relations based not on military or economic strength, but on influence. While the resources of "hard power" are tangible – force and finance – soft power resour...
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In the Watches of the Night Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930
ISBN: PB: 9780226269542, ISBN: HB: 9780226036021, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones
Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks,...
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£42,00
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Democratic Art The New Deal's Influence on American Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780226247182, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 1 table
Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn't always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million – roughly $469 million to...
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Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self
ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.
The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...
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Rereading the Machine in the Garden Nature and Technology in American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9783593501918, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
246 pp., 21x13.9 cm
This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out in one of the founding texts of American studies by Leo Marx fifty years ago. The contributors to this volume explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture...
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Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones
In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....
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Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
ISBN: PB: 9780226192307, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings
Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness – of decision-making, data, and organizational structure – is seen as the cu...
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Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of American Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226896182, ISBN: HB: 9780226896168, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
312 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 halftones
If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American m...
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