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Media Studies
Knowledge Worlds
Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University Reinhold Martin
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Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that the material infrastructures of the modern university reveal the ways in which knowledge is created and reproduced in different kinds of institutions.
$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18983-5 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18982-8 March 2021 384 pages 90 illus. Looking Through Images
A Phenomenology of Visual Media Emmanuel Alloa Translated by Nils F. Schott Afterword by Andrew Benjamin
Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18793-0 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-18792-3 August 2021 368 pages 36 illus.
COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
Postprint
Books and Becoming Computational N. Katherine Hayles
N. Katherine Hayles traces the emergence of what she identifies as the postprint condition, exploring how the interweaving of print and digital technologies has changed not only books but also language, authorship, and what it means to be human.
$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19825-7 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19824-0 February 2021 248 pages 25 illus.
THE WELLEK LIBRARY LECTURES
Bookishness
Loving Books in a Digital Age Jessica Pressman
Jessica Pressman explains the rise of “bookishness” as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window decor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she considers the multivalent meanings of books in contemporary digital culture.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19513-3 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19512-6 2020 216 pages
LITERATURE NOW
Information
Keywords Edited by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan E. Abel
Bringing together essays by prominent critics and scholars, Information: Keywords highlights the humanistic nature of information practices and concepts by thinking through key terms. It describes and anticipates directions for how the humanities can contribute to our understanding of information from a range of theoretical, historical, and global perspectives.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19877-6 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-19876-9 January 2021 232 pages Information
A Reader Edited by Eric Hayot, Anatoly Detwyler, Lea Pao
Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural studies. It features excerpts from more than forty texts by theorists and critics who have helped establish the notion of the “information age” or expand upon it.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18621-6 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-18620-9 September 2021 384 pages
The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left
Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond L. Benjamin Rolsky
L. Benjamin Rolsky examines the ways in which American liberalism has helped shape cultural conflict since the 1970s through the story of how television writer and producer Norman Lear galvanized the religious left. He foregrounds the roles played by popular culture, television, and media in America’s religious history.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19363-4 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19362-7 2019 272 pages
COLUMBIA SERIES ON RELIGION AND POLITICS
Japan, 1972
Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism Yoshikuni Igarashi
Japan, 1972 takes an early-seventies year as a vantage point for understanding how Japanese society came to terms with cultural change. Yoshikuni Igarashi examines a broad selection of popular film, television, manga, and other media, exposing the underpinnings of mass culture and investigating deeper anxieties over agency and masculinity.
$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-19555-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19554-6 April 2021 384 pages
Artificial Intimacy
Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers Rob Brooks
Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider how new technologies and fundamental human behaviors interact. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs—and are getting better at what they do.
$32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-20094-3 September 2021 288 pages 2 illus. Artificial Whiteness
Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence Yarden Katz
Bringing together theories of whiteness and race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep understanding of the history and practice of science and computing, Artificial Whiteness is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19491-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19490-7 2020 352 pages 25 illus.
One Up
Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games Joost van Dreunen
One Up offers a pioneering empirical analysis of innovation and strategy in the video game industry to explain how it has evolved from a fringe activity to become a mainstream form of entertainment. Joost van Dreunen demonstrates that video game companies flourish when they bring the same level of creativity to business strategy that they bring to game design.
$29.95/ £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19752-6 2020 296 pages 39 illus.
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Barriers Down
How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media Diana Lemberg
Barriers Down reveals the unexpected origins of freedom of information in political, economic, and cultural battles in the postwar period. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world under the banner of the “free flow of information,” showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power.
$26.00 /£22.00 paper 978-0-231-18217-1 $60.00 /£50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18216-4 March 2021 304 pages 15 illus.
Radio Empire
The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel Daniel Ryan Morse
Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC’s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19837-0 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19836-3 2020 288 pages
MODERNIST LATITUDES
Infowhelm
Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data Heather Houser
Heather Houser explores the ways contemporary art manages environmental knowledge in the age of climate crisis and informational overload. She argues that the infowhelm—a state of abundant yet contested scientific information—is an unexpectedly resonant resource for environmental artists seeking to go beyond communicating stories about crises.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18733-6 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-18732-9 2020 336 pages 37 illus.
LITERATURE NOW
Duchamp Is My Lawyer
The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb Kenneth Goldsmith
In 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. It grew into an essential archive of avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. In Duchamp Is My Lawyer, Goldsmith explains the motivations behind the site and how it offers a different model for the internet.
$26.00 /£20.00 paper 978-0-231-18695-7 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-18694-0 2020 328 pages Poetry Unbound
Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram Mike Chasar
Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, he follows poetry’s travels off the page into new media formats.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18895-1 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-18894-4 2020 288 pages 30 illus.
Reading “Black Mirror”
Insights into Technology and the Post-Media Condition Edited by German A. Duarte and Justin Michael Battin
The dystopian series Black Mirror is infamous for its apocalyptic portrayals of humankind’s relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies. This timely collection offers innovative interdisciplinary perspectives on how confrontations with such issues should be considered and understood.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5232-1 January 2021 400 pages
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Sensing and Making Sense
Photosensitivity and Light-to-Sound Translations in Media Art Graziele Lautenschlaeger
Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and proposals in media art: material/immaterial, organic/machinic, and theory/practice.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5331-1 January 2021 300 pages 51 illus.
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Presence, Process, and the Pictorial Real
Perspectives on Painting Edited by Tillmann Damrau
Today, painting has lost its dominant position and has become one artistic medium among others. This book offers a variety of perspectives on the role of painting in the twenty-first century, discussing whether and how painting is still pertinent to contemporary image production.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5017-4 2020 300 pages 36 illus.
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Radio as Art
Concepts, Spaces, Practices Edited by Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Ursula Frohne, Jee-Hae Kim, Maria Peters, Franziska Rauh, and Sarah Rothe
This volume investigates a broad range of aesthetic experiments with the broadcasting technology of radio. It also sheds light on the use of radio as a means of disseminating artistic concepts and on questions of the mediation of this art form.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-3617-8 2019 304 pages 60 illus.
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Emerging Affinities
Possible Futures of Performative Arts Edited by Mateusz Borowski, Mateusz Chaberski, and Małgorzata Sugiera
This volume is a response to the growing need for new methodological approaches to the rapidly changing landscape of performative practices. The contributors address a host of contemporary phenomena situated at the crossroads between science and fiction that employ various media and merge live participation with hybrid experiences.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-4906-2 2020 264 pages 29 illus.
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Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition
On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face Lila Lee-Morrison
This book offers an analysis of automated facial recognition algorithms from a critical visual culture studies perspective. It traces a history of the merging of statistics and vision and addresses contemporary artistic engagements with facial recognition technology.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-4846-1 2020 198 pages 36 illus.
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Social Media – Art – Research Barbara Lüneburg
Between 2014 and 2017, the artistic research project “Transcoding: From ‘Highbrow Art’ to Participatory Culture” encouraged creative participation in multimedia art via social media. Based on the artworks that emerged from the project, Barbara Lüneburg investigates authorship, authority, motivational factors, and aesthetics in participatory art created with the help of web 2.0 technology.
$30.00 paper 978-3-8376-4108-0 2019 204 pages 67 illus.
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Listen Up!
Radio Art in the USA Edited by Anne Thurmann-Jajes and Regine Beyer
Listen Up! is the first book to examine American radio art as a distinct sound art practice. Analytical essays by leading media art historians and practitioners discuss how the field took shape in the context of changing broadcast environments and sociopolitical realities, while manifestos and other original documents provide vivid glimpses into the concerns of artists seeking to insert their alternative visions into the mass medium of radio.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4625-2 2020 350 pages
