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City at the Edge of Forever
Los Angeles Reimagined (Paperback)
by Peter Lunenfeld
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2021 by Penguin Books, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56195-8, ISBN: 0-525-56195-1

"What alchemists identify as the ethereal fifth element, or quintessence, this book positions as the glamour of Hollywood, a spell that sustains the city but also needs to be broken in order to understand Los Angeles now."

Snap to Grid(Reprint)
A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures
by Peter Lunenfeld, 39 Plt
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2001 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-62158-8, ISBN: 0-262-62158-4

"Where were you in '89? A better question may be: where have we been going since the Berlin Wall fell while, at the same time, hundreds of interdisciplinary walls dissolved in the face of new technological solutions. Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures explores these changes as they affect how we think about and react to the world through our computer-generated filters. Author Peter Lunenfeld, director of ..."

The Digital Dialectic(Updated)
New Essays on New Media (Leonardo Books)
by Peter Lunenfeld, The Mit Press
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-62137-3, ISBN: 0-262-62137-1

"Computers linked to networks have created the first broadly used systems that allow individuals to create, distribute, and receive audiovisual content with the same box. They challenge theorists of digital culture to develop interaction-based models to replace the more primitive models that allow only passive use.The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session abo ..."

User(1st Edition)
InfoTechnoDemo (Mediaworks Pamphlets)
by Peter Lunenfeld, Mieke Gerritzen
Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2005 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-62198-4, ISBN: 0-262-62198-3

"In these essays, Peter Lunenfeld does theory and criticism "in real time," looking at (among other subjects) art, video games, book design, "techno-masturbation," The Matrix, and life extension diets. "Readers will have to determine for themselves," he writes, "if this range is symptomatic of pluralism or promiscuity." User illuminates the patterns and repetitions that link ..."

Utopian Entrepreneur
(Mediaworks Pamphlets)
by Brenda Laurel, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Peter Lunenfeld
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2001 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-62153-3, ISBN: 0-262-62153-3

"A heady hybrid of critical thinking, personal narrative, and economic analysis, Utopian Entrepreneur is a field manual for those who want to do socially positive work in the context of business. One of the few Silicon Valley veterans who participated in all four of the major computer tech bubbles--games, multimedia, virtual reality, and dot-coms--Brenda Laurel is known for ..."

Rhythm Science(1st Edition)
(Mediaworks Pamphlets)
by Dr Paul D. Miller, Peter Lunenfeld, D. J. Spooky, Rhythm Science
Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2004 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-63287-4, ISBN: 0-262-63287-X

"The art of the mix creates a new language of creativity."Once you get into the flow of things, you're always haunted by the way that things could have turned out. This outcome, that conclusion. You get my drift. The uncertainty is what holds the story together, and that's what I'm going to talk about." -- Rhythm ScienceThe conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science ..."

College Basics(2nd Edition)
How to Start Right and Finish Strong
by Marvin Lunenfeld, Peter Lunenfeld
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1994 by Semester Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-9629783-1-9, ISBN: 0-9629783-1-0

"How to Start Right and Finish Strong Marvin Lunenfeld, Peter Lunenfeld ... the author's "thesis" (viewpoint). The thesis is not what the reading concerns ( American involvement in the war) and not the evidence (dates of homefront demonstrations), butffte way in which the author views the material. Skim through the chapter the first time around. Try to get some sense of what this selection is all about. Quickly look over the introduc ..."

by Bruce Sterling, Lorraine Wild, Peter Lunenfeld
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2005 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-69326-4, ISBN: 0-262-69326-7

"" Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds: "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic."Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by ..."

George Stone Probabilities(1st Edition)
A Midcareer Survey
by George Stone, Contributor-Peter Lunenfeld, Contributor-Ralph Rugoff, Carole Ann Klonarides, Norman M. Klein, Judith E.
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2003 by Fellows Of Contemporary Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-911291-30-8, ISBN: 0-911291-30-X

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Writing Machines(1st Edition)
(Mediaworks Pamphlets)
by N. Katherine Hayles, Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Bur Hayles
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-58215-5, ISBN: 0-262-58215-5

"Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of print to the dynamic images of CRT screens, from verbal texts to the diverse sensory modalities of multimedia works, from books to technotexts.Weaving togeth ..."

Digital_Humanities
(The MIT Press)
by Chair Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Chair Todd Presner, Johanna Drucker, Jeffrey Burdick Schnapp, University Of California, Los Angeles Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2016 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52886-3, ISBN: 0-262-52886-X

"A visionary report on the revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty-first century. Digital_Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question "What is digital humanities?," it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling ..."

College Basics
How to Start Right and Finish Strong
by Marvin Lunenfeld, Peter B. Lunenfeld, Illustrator-Casey Smith
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1992 by Gazelle Book Services Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-9629783-0-2, ISBN: 0-9629783-0-2

Sensorium(1st Edition)
Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art (The MIT Press)
by Caroline A. Jones, Bill Arning, Marjory Jacobson, Yuko Hasegawa, Joe Haldeman, Jane Farver, Bruno Latour, Mark Doty, Michael Bull, Donna Haraway, Stephen Wilson, Amelia Jones, Constance Classen, Peter Lunenfeld, Caroline Bassett, Yvonne Rainer, Peter Galison, Joseph Dumit, Martin Jay, Jonathan Crary, Sherry Turkle, Hiroko Kikuchi, Michel Foucault, Neal Stephenson, Chris Csikszentmihályl, Zeynep Çelik, William Gibson, Michael Swanwick, Barbara Maria Stafford, Stephen M. Kosslyn, William J. Mitchell, Thomas Y. Levin
Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2006 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-10117-2, ISBN: 0-262-10117-3

"The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy in ..."

Next Nature
Nature Changes Along with Us
by Koert Van Mensvoort, Hendrik Jan Grievink, Bruce Sterling, Kelly Kevin, Peter Lunenfeld
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2012 by Actar
ISBN-13: 978-84-92861-53-8, ISBN: 84-92861-53-3

"Today the human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. Climate change, population explosion, genetic manipulation, digital networks, plastic islands floating in the oceans. This book explores our changing notion of nature. How nature has become one of the most successful products of our time, much of what we perceive as nature is merely a simulation although a romanticized idea of a balanced, harmonic, inherently good and th ..."

Style First(160th Edition)
(German, English and French Edition)
by Mieke Gerritzen, Chantal Michetti-Prod'hom, Et Al Gerritzen, Geert Lovink, Lev Manovich, Peter Lunenfeld
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2007 by Birkhäuser Architecture
ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-8438-8, ISBN: 3-7643-8438-7

"Mieke Gerritzen hat einen starken visuellen Stil entwickelt, der sich Schritt für Schritt in eine Vision gewandelt hat eine klare Vision über den Zustand der Welt: eine Konsumgesellschaft, in welcher Ruhm, Macht und Geld den Ton angeben. Ihre kleinen Buchserien sind in sich abgeschlossene Projekte; eine Kunstform, die Ideen zu Trends in Design, Politik und Wirtschaft ausdrückt. Die intellektuelle "Visual Power Show" ist ein kritischer B ..."

Visual Power(1st Edition)
Sex
by Henk Oosterling, Max Bruinsma, Mieke Gerritzen, Geert Lovink, Peter Lunenfeld, Miekke Gerritzen, Nl Design
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2004 by Bis Pub
ISBN-13: 978-90-6369-058-8, ISBN: 90-6369-058-4

"These texts and images comprising the second volume of Visual Power is a sea of iconography that aims below the belt. The image culture is a laboratory of mass psychological seduction and sexual manipulation. What is the point?"