Authors:R. Davis-Floyd, Joseph Dumit,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: techno, tots, sex, cyborg, babies
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1998-07-27
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415916046
ISBN-13: 9780415916042
Cyborg Babies explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. From foetuses scanned electronically to wired toddlers, children are being rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. The contributors, who include Sherry Turkle, Emily Martin and Mikuko Ito, discuss the co-development of the human and the machine. While much popular reporting swings between presenting technology as monstrous or science as saviour, Cyborg Babies argues for a more complex analysis, and provides a range of perspectives from cultural anthrop
Author: Bradley Quinn
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: fashion, techno
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1859736203
ISBN-13: 9781859736203
From digital-display dresses to remote control couture, this book exposes the revolutionary interface between contemporary fashion and technology. Twenty-first century fashion makes a dramatic departure from traditional methods; rather than looking to the past for inspiration, designers now look to the hi-tech future. The result is i-wear, the buzzword for intelligent clothing that fuses fashion with communication technology, electronic textiles, and sophisticated design innovations to express new ideas about appearance, construction and functionalism. Born out of the collaboration between fas
Author: Felicity D. Scott
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: modernism, politics, utopia, techno, architecture
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2010-04-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0262514060
ISBN-13: 9780262514064
Shortlisted for the 2008 RIBA Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture. In Architecture or Techno-Utopia, Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scott examines projects, conceptual work, exhibitions, publications, pedagogical initiatives, and agitprop performances that had as their premise the belief that architecture could be ethically and politically relevant. Although most of these strategies were far from
Author: Mike Seate
Publisher: Motorbooks
Keywords: chopper, builders, breed, new, chop, techno
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-07-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0760321167
ISBN-13: 9780760321164
Author: Timothy Mitchell
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: politics, modernity, techno, egypt, experts, rule
Number of Pages: 423
Published: 2002-11
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0520232623
ISBN-13: 9780520232624
Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world?Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the me
Author: Simon Reynolds
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: rave, culture, techno, world, ecstasy, generation
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 1999-07
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0415923735
ISBN-13: 9780415923736
In the early nineties, rave culture exploded with the availability of cheap computers and sampling technology, causing a punk-style do-it-yourself revolution. The resulting upsurge of independent labels and home studio-based artists spawned a legion of subgenres: hardcore, trance, jungle, ambient, gabba, big beat, and many more. Today, DJs and producers such as Fatboy Slim, Prodigy, Goldie and The Chemical Brothers have huge followings, while mainstream artists like Madonna and Bjork have turned to rave’s offspring for artistic rejuvenation. In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds take
Author: Francois Theri
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: original, reference, elgar, entrepreneurship, research, techno, handbook
Number of Pages: 335
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 1845422864
ISBN-13: 9781845422868
Techno-entrepreneurship is broadly defined as the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activities of both existing and nascent companies operating in technology-intensive environments. Boasting rich conceptual and empirical contributions by leading international specialists, this highly original Handbook will prove an invaluable tool in advancing our understanding of the theory and practice of research in this emerging area.The expert contributors initially explore the foundations of the field, clearly defining the parameters of techno-entrepreneurship. The key processes of techno-entrepreneurs
