Download or read book In Time digital original edition written by Jeremy Till and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. In this BIT, Till discusses how to allow time into architecture, transcending false notions of eternity and the eternal now.
Download or read book Being No Self and Being Nice digital original edition written by Owen Flanagan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge—a “naturalized” Buddhism? In this BIT, Flanagan connects Buddhist wisdom to the compassion and lovingkindness that Buddhism endorses—linking Buddhism's metaphysics to its ethics.
Download or read book Thinking in Boxes digital original edition written by Markus Krajewski and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This BIT chronicles the history of the predigital “scholar's machine”: a box of paper slips that acted both as memory aid and text generator. In it, Markus Krajewski describes the scholar's box as a form of data protection, tracing its genealogy beginning with peculiar excerption techniques of early nineteenth century scholars.
Download or read book Stella and Combat digital original edition written by Nick Montfort and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that “Atari” became the generic term for a video game console. This BIT examines the interplay between computation and culture in the Atari emulator Stella and the Atari VCS game Combat.
Download or read book The Greening of Junkspace digital original edition written by Adrian Parr and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of “sustainability” has gone mainstream. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible development has become a bullet point in corporate ecobranding strategies. This BIT examines the conflict between ecobranding and true sustainability and considers the ambiguous influence of Prius-driving movie stars.
Download or read book What Is a Minor Architecture digital original edition written by Jill Stoner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Stoner's architect's eye tracks differently from most, drawn not to the lauded and iconic but to what she calls “the landscape of our constructed mistakes”—metropolitan hinterlands rife with failed and foreclosed developments, undersubscribed office parks, chain hotels, and abandoned malls. In this BIT, Stoner introduces the idea of “minor architectures” that emerge from the bottoms of power structures and within the language of those structures.
Download or read book Right Bam Now digital original edition written by Paul Shepheard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his writing, the architect Paul Shepheard examines old assumptions about architecture and replaces the critical theory of the academic with the active theory of the architect-citizen enamored of the world around him. In this BIT, he takes Thanksgiving Day as an opportunity to reflect on the diaspora of his family and the evolution of human emotional bonds; and, conducting a seminar, he wonders how philosophy became part of architecture.
Download or read book Sources of Uncertainty digital original edition written by Greg Costikyan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncertainty in games—from Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors—engages players and shapes play experiences. This BIT examines the sources of that uncertainty, from doubts about performance to a game's elements of randomness.
Download or read book Putting A Face on Things digital original edition written by B. Coleman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial aspect of our cultural shift from analog to digital is the continuum between online and off-, the “x-reality” that crosses between the virtual and the real. Our avatars are not just the animated figures that populate our screens but the gestalt of images, text, and multimedia that make up our online identities. In this BIT, B. Coleman looks at the research history in HCI of putting a face on things, the consequences of virtual embodiment, and our perception of simulation.
Download or read book Governing Expression Social Big Data and Neoliberalism digital original edition written by Ronald E. Day and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the modern age, indexes have gone from being explicit professional structures that mediated users and documents to being implicit infrastructural devices used in everyday information and communication acts. In this BIT, Ronald Day examines the use of social “big data” as a technique of neoliberal governance that employs indexing and analytics for purposes of surveillance.
Download or read book The Puppet Called Theology digital original edition written by Slavoj Zizek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavoj Žižek, “the wild man of theory” famously mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in his dissections of current intellectual pieties. In this BIT, he considers religion from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis, pondering a dialectical materialist theology and comparing monotheistic and polytheistic violence.
Download or read book The Resurrection of Urizenus Sklar digital original edition written by Peter Ludlow and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This BIT chronicles the migration of virtual journalist Urizenus Sklar (the avatar of author Peter Ludlow) from The Sims Online to Second Life. Banned from TSO for journalistic truth-telling, Urizenus finds a new home in Second Life, where he and other TSO refugees learn to live in a labor-intensive, richly creative virtual world of resident-created content.
Download or read book Virtual Agency digital original edition written by Daniel M. Wegner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. This BIT, excerpted from an influential book by the late Daniel Wegner, offers an innovative view of one aspect of free will. Wegner argues that when people project action to imaginary agents, they create virtual agents, apparent sources of their own volition.
Download or read book Mobile Phones Sensors and Lifelogging digital original edition written by Nathan Eagle and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Data is made up of lots of little data: numbers entered into cell phones, addresses entered into GPS devices, visits to websites, and any other activity that leaves a digital trail. Never before has it been easier to collect so much daily data about ourselves. In this BIT, Nathan Eagle and Kate Greene explore the ways in which an individual's data can be collected and logged—from a tacit, everyday interaction with a mobile phone to more purposeful digital announcements like status updates—and the privacy considerations that individuals, entrepreneurs, and big businesses need to keep in mind when collecting and analyzing the data.
Download or read book Landfill Legend digital original edition written by Raiford Guins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to video games when they are out of date, broken, nonfunctional, or obsolete? Should a game be considered an “ex-game” if it exists only as emulation, as an artifact in museum displays, in an archival box, or at the bottom of a landfill? In this BIT, Raiford Guins describes the journey of a game from flawed product to trash to memorialized relic, as seen in the history of Atari's infamous E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
Download or read book Gender in Academic Computing Alternative Career Paths and Norms digital original edition written by Janet Abbate and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people know that women were a significant presence in the early decades of computing in both the United States and Britain; programming in postwar years was considered woman's work (perhaps in contrast to the more manly task of building the computers themselves). This BIT offers a chapter in this untold history of women and computing, describing women's career stratagems in academic computing—recounting both the obstacles female scholars have faced and their resourceful strategies for gaining credentials and finding alternative ladders to visibility and career advancement.
Download or read book The Feeling of Failure digital original edition written by Jesper Juul and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, hundreds of millions of people around the world play video games—on smart phones, on computers, on consoles—and most of them will experience failure at some point in the game; they will lose, die, or fail to advance to the next level. Not completing Super Real Tennis is not a tragedy. But it feels like a failure. This BIT explores how it feels when we fail.
