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Accident of Art
Lotringer, Sylvère & Paul Virilio
Lotringer argues that "the art of the motor" (electronics, computer, Internet, and so on) has surpassed the static nature of the visual arts. Digital technology has replaced the analogical, and art has become extra-retinal. Something has been lost in the arts of the 20th century and their very succe... (more)

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Baudrillard and the Media: A Critical Introduction
Merrin, William
'Baudrillard and the Media' is the first in-depth critical study of Jean Baudrillard's media theory. Rejecting the common positioning of Baudrillard within the discipline as a postmodernist it argues instead for the necessity of a fuller reading of his ideas and critical project. Contextualising Bau... (more)

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Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means
Zielinski, Siegfried & Gloria Custance, trans.
Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development -- dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of ... (more)

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House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live
Gallagher, Winifred
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Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan
Wren, Gayden
Written more than a century ago and initially regarded even by their creators as nothing more than light entertainment, the fourteen operas of Gilbert & Sullivan emerged over the course of the twentieth century as the world's most popular body of musical-theater works, ranking second only to Shakesp... (more)

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Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects
Moneo, Rafael
A prominent architect considers his contemporaries -- James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Herzog & De Meuron -- in a lavishly illustrated series of profiles.... (more)

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