Tag: 2015
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Jasanoff, Sheila and Sang-Hyun Kim (eds), Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim, eds, Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015) 360 pp. $105.00 Hb. $35.00 Pb. ISBN: 9780226276496 Visions of the future, such as those contained within science fiction, involve depictions of social and technological change as closely related processes. Despite these familiar…
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Pardo, Michael S. and Dennis Patterson, Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience
Michael S. Pardo and Dennis Patterson, Minds, Brains, and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 276 pp. £16.99 Pb, £59.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780190253103 Recent developments in neuroscience offer new approaches to a plethora of complex challenges surrounding debates about legal responsibility. Medical and legal professionals are engaged in…
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Daly, Nicholas, The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City : Paris, London, New York
Nicholas Daly, The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City : Paris, London, New York (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2015) 272 pp. £22.99 Pb., $78.00 PDF, £62.00 Hb. ISBN : 978-1-107-09559-5 While the significance of nineteenth-century urbanization is well recognized, Nicholas Daly’s new book explores the larger, though related, issue of demographic change over the…
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Ryan, Marie-Laure, Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media
Marie-Laure Ryan, Narrative as Virtual Reality 2: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2015) 291pp. $34.95 Pb. ISBN: 978-1-4241-1797-4 Narrative as Virtual Reality was first published in 2001, the same year as the original Xbox console, three years before Facebook, and well before the Oculus Rift finally…
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Kline, Ronald R, The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age
Ronald R Kline The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press 2015) $24.95 Pb, $54.95 EPUB, MOBI, PDF, $54.95 Hb. ISBN: 9781421416717 With The Cybernetics Moment Ronald R Kline presents a comprehensive and compelling intervention into the history of science that highlights the period from the…
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Varga, Somogy, Naturalism, Interpretation and Mental Disorder
Somogy Varga, Naturalism, Interpretation and Mental Disorder (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 272pp. £39.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780198747253 Naturalism, Interpretation and Mental Disorder is a unique book not only with regard to its title but also to the subject matter within the book. It is one of the first works written on the subject that permits…
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Iseli, Markus, Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious
Markus Iseli, Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2015) 248 pp. $90 Hb. ISBN: 9781137501073 In Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious, Markus Iseli confronts an historiographic gap between contemporary cognitive science and the role of the unconscious in the work of Thomas De Quincey. Iseli argues that modern…
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Binfield, Kevin (ed), Writings of the Luddites
Kevin Binfield, ed, Writings of the Luddites (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2015) xxviii + 279pp. $29.95 Pb, $55.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780801876127 The 2015 paperback edition of this 2004 collection testifies to the fascinations of Luddism – and to Writings of the Luddites’s continuing appeal and utility. It is the first collection of texts written…
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Shirilan, Stephanie, Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy
Stephanie Shirilan, Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy (London: Routledge 2015) 230 pp. £60.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472417015 Stephanie Shirilan’s Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy argues that Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy seeks to transform the idea of melancholy from a disease to a beneficent spiritual state. Instead of a cure what…
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Trower, Shelley, Rocks of Nation: The Imagination of Celtic Cornwall
Shelley Trower, Rocks of Nation: The Imagination of Celtic Cornwall (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2015) vii + 258 pp. £70.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-7190-9096-7 Does the land beneath our feet define us? Do places have inherent meaning, and if so where do those meanings come from? Shelley Trower’s exciting new study, Rocks of Nation, brings together…
