Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Year: 2025
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction.
How Debility Reshapes Our Bodies
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2025
In Interface Frictions, Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms reshape, condition, and break our bodies. She shows that while features such as refresh, playback speed, autoplay, and night mode are convenient, they can lead to “digital debility”—the slow and often invisible ways that technologies may harm human bodies. These features all assume an able-bodied user and at the same time push users to ignore their bodily limitations like the need for rest,...
Publisher: Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Co-authored by Ido Lewit
Publisher: Princton University Press
Publication Year: 2023
Francesco Casetti advances a provocative hypothesis: instead of being prostheses that expand or extend our perceptions, modern screen-based media are in fact apparatuses that shelter and protect us from exposure to the world. Rather than bringing us closer to external reality, dominant forms of visual media function as barriers or enclosures that defend against the apparent threats and dangers that seem increasingly to surround us.
Publisher: University if Calafornia
Publication Year: 2022
By Andre Bazin, Dudley Andrew (Editor), Deborah Glassman (Translator),
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Year: 2021
Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s (“Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!”) to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other gear. But the more Bechdel tries...
Post-War German Culture 1960–1995
Publisher: Koenigshausen & Neumann
Publication Year: 2021
Beginning in the 1960s, the belief in landscape’s degradation provides a kind of rallying cry for psychoanalysts and cultural critics attempting to diagnose the state of contemporary society.
Publisher: Yale Unversity Press
Publication Year: 2020
A wide-ranging study of the painted panorama’s influence on art, photography, and film
Publisher:
Publication Year: 2020
Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google.
In Search of Media Series
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2020
Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an ‘acting at a distance,’ an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality of transmission. This book explores this crucial phenomenon thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial.
