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Materials received August 2008
Plymouth:
The Drawing Book. A Survey of Drawing: the Primary Means of Expression.
By Tania Kovats (ed.)
Black Dog Publishing, London, UK, 2008.
pp. 316, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN 10: 1-904772-81-1
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Platform for Art. Art on the Underground.
By Tamsin Dillon (ed.)
Black Dog Publishing, London, UK, 2008.
pp. 172, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978 1 906155 06 3
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Informal Architectures. Space and Contemporary Culture.
By Anthony Kiendl.
Black Dog Publishing, London, UK, 2008.
pp. 207, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978 1 906155 33 9
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Eco-Chic. The Fashion Paradox.
By Sandy Black.
Black Dog Publishing, London, UK, 2008.
pp. 254, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978 1 906155 09 4
(received Plymouth August 2008)
For Ever Godard.
By M. Temple, J. Williams, M. Witt (eds.)
Black Dog Publishing, London, UK, 2008.
pp. 458, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN 10: 1 904772 82
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Krazy. The Delirious world of Aime + Comics + Video Games + Art.
By B. Greenville et al (eds.)
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, US, 2008.
pp. 275, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-520-25784-9
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Fight Pictures. A History of Boxing and Early Cinema.
By Dan Streible (Foreword by Charles Musser).
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, US, 2008.
pp. 396, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-520-25074-1
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Two Bits. The Cultural Significance of Free Software.
By Christopher M. Kelty.
Duke University Press, Durham and London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 378, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4264-9
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Tactical Biopolitics. Art, Activism, and Technoscience.
By B. da Costa and K. Philip (ed.)
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2008.
(Leonardo Book Series)
pp. 509, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-26204249-9
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Beyond Barbie & Mortal Kombat. New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming.
By Y. B. Kafai, C. Heeter, J. Denner and J. Y. Sun (eds.)
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2008.
pp. 349, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-11319-9
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Awakening the Performing Body.
By Jade Rosina McCutcheon.
(Series Consciousness, Literature and the Arts)
Rodopi Press, Amsterdam/New York, NL, USA, 2008.
pp. 173, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-90-420-2431-1
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Cognition in Emotion. An Investigation through Experiences with Art.
By Tone Roald.
(Series Consciousness, Literature and the Arts)
Rodopi Press, Amsterdam/New York, NL, USA, 2008.
pp. 129.
ISBN: 978-90-420-2333-8
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Digital Contagions. A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses.
(Digital Formations, Vol. 44)
By Jussi Parikka.
Peter Lang, New York, USA, 2007.
pp. 327, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-1-4331-0093-2
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Hollywood in the Neighbourhood. Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing.
By Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (ed.)
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, US, 2008.
pp. 276.
ISBN: 978-0-520-23067-5
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Making Truth. Metaphor in Science.
By Theodore L. Brown.
University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, USA, 2008.
pp. 215, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-252-07582-7
(received Plymouth August 2008)
The Pleasures of Computer Gaming.
By M. Swalwell and J. Wilson (eds.)
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2008.
pp. 197, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-7864-3595-1
(received Plymouth August 2008)
A Computer in the Art Room. The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-80.
By Catherine Mason.
JJG Publishing, Norkfolk, UK, 2008.
pp. 266, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-1-899163-89-2
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Charles Ives Reconsidered.
By Gayle Sherwood Magee.
University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, USA, 2008.
pp. 231, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-252-03326-1
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Dying and Death. Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives.
By Asa Kasher (ed.)
Rodopi Press, Amsterdam/New York, NL, USA, 2008.
pp. 217, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-90-420-2245-4
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Ghosts of Futures Past. Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America.
By Molly McGarry.
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, US, 2008.
pp. 269, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-520-25260-8
(received Plymouth August 2008)
DVDs:
All White In Barking.
By Marc Isaacs.
73 mins, col., 2007.
First Run Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2008.
www.frif.com
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Jerusalem Cuts.
By Liran Arzmor.
52 mins, col., 2008.
The Cinema Guild, New York, USA, 2008.
www.cinemaguild.com
(received Plymouth August 2008)
CDs:
Tabligh
By Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet.
Cuneiform Records, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 2008.
www.cuneiformrecords.com
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Univers Zero
By Univers Zero.
Cuneiform Records, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 2008.
www.cuneiformrecords.com
(received Plymouth August 2008)
"The Story so far..." "...Oh Really?"
By Steve Miller / Lol Coxhill.
Cuneiform Records, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 2008.
www.cuneiformrecords.com
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Early and Late.
By Steve Lacy – Roswell Rudd Quartet.
Cuneiform Records, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 2008.
www.cuneiformrecords.com
(received Plymouth August 2008)
Material received May 2008
Plymouth:
Arabic Tattoos.
By Jon Udelson.
Mark Batty Publisher, New York, USA, 2008.
pp. 127, illus. col.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9779850-8-1
(received Plymouth May 2008)
The Emergence of Genetic Rationality.
By Phillip Thurtle.
(In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science)
University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 381, illus. b/w.
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98756-9
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Notes on the Underground. An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination.
By Rosalind Williams. (New Edition)
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2008.
pp. 283, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-73190-4
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption. Eating the Avant-Garde.
By Michel Delville.
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, UK/US, 2008.
pp. 150, illus. b/w.
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-95831-8
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Writing and Seeing Architecture.
By Christian de Portzamparc and Philippe Sollers.
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 137.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4567-1
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Sacred Mathematics. Japanese Temple Geometry.
By Fukagawa Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 2008.
pp. 348, illus. b/w, col (incl. mathematical formula).
ISBN: 978-0-691-12745-3
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Educating Artists for the Future. Learning at the Intersection of Art, Science, Technology and Culture.
By Mel Alexenberg (ed.).
Intellect Books, Bristol and Chicago, UK/USA, 2008.
pp. 344, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-1-84150-191-8
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre.
By Maaike Bleeker (ed.)
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008.
pp. 270, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978 90 5356 516 2
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen.
Digital Art Weeks and Interactive Futures 2006/2007, Zurich, Switzerland and
Victoria, BC, Canada, Selected Papers.
By Randy Adams, Steve Gibson, Stefan Mueller Arisona (eds.)
Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, 2008.
pp. 500, illus. b/w.
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-79485-1
(received Plymouth May 2008)
DVDs:
Operation Filmmaker.
By Nina Davenport.
92 mins, col., 2007.
First Run Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2008.
www.frif.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
The Nuclear Comeback.
By Justin Pemberton.
58 mins, col., 2007.
First Run Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2008.
www.frif.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Five Sound Installations.
By Michael J. Schumacher.
Xirecords, New York, USA, 2007.
www.michaeljschumacher.com
www.xirecords.org
(received Plymouth May 2008)
CDs:
Smiling Through My Teeth.
Curated by Vicki Bennett (ed.)
Sonic Arts Network, London, UK, 2008.
www.sonicartsnetwork.org
CD and booklet (pp. 24, illus. b/w.)
(received Plymouth May 2008)
The Most of Now.
By Nikola Kodjabashia.
ReR Megacorp, Surrey, UK, 2008.
www.rermegacorp.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
The Art of Memory II
By Fred Frith & John Zorn.
Fred Records/ReR Megacorp
www.fredfrith.com, www.rermegacorp.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Technology of Tears.
By Fred Frith.
Fred Records/ReR Megacorp
www.fredfrith.com, www.rermegacorp.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Media Dreams.
By Sun Ra.
Art Yard, London, UK, 2008.
www.rermegacorp.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Business Cide. Musical Situations 1977-1989.
By Michael Maksymenko.
ReR Megacorp, Surrey, UK, 2008.
www.rermegacorp.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Frog Bug Guitar Computer.
By Steve Maclean.
ReR Megacorp, Surrey, UK, 2008.
www.rermegacorp.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Brainville 3.
By Daevid Allen, Hugh Hopper, Chris Cutler.
ReR Megacorp, Surrey, UK, 2008.
www.rermegacorp.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Cold Peace Counterpoints.
By Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer.
ReR Megacorp, Surrey, UK, 2008.
www.rermegacorp.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Cigar Smoke.
By Esther Lamneck.
Clarinet and Electronics.
Innova, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 2008.
www.innova.mu
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Lingua II: Maledetto/Antiphony VIII
By Kenneth Gaburo.
Pogus, New York, USA, 2008.
www.pogus.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Love & Lamentation.
By Simon Wickham-Smith.
Pogus, New York, USA, 2008.
www.pogus.com
(received Plymouth May 2008)
Material received April 2008
Plymouth:
Falling for Science. Objects in Mind.
By Sherry Turkle (ed.)
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2008.
pp. 318, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-20172-8
(received Plymouth April 2008)
Digital Apollo. Human and Machine in Spaceflight.
By David. A. Mindell.
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2008.
pp. 359, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-13497-2
(received Plymouth April 2008)
Ephemeral Bodies. Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure.
By Roberta Panzanelli.
Getty Publications, Los Angeles, California, US, 2008.
pp. 327, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-89236-859-4
(received Plymouth April 2008)
Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability.
By William S. Saunders (ed.)
A Harvard Design Magazine Reader | 6
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 201, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5358-4
(received Plymouth April 2008)
Delusive Spaces. Essays on Culture, Media and Technology.
By Eric Kluitenberg.
Institute of Network Cultures, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2008.
pp. 391, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-90-5662-617-4
(received Plymouth April 2008)
French Theory. How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States.
By Francois Cusset.
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 388.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4732-3
(received Plymouth April 2008)
Digital Dice. Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems.
By Paul J. Nahin.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 2008.
pp. 263, illus. b/w.
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12698-2
(received Plymouth April 2008)
A Small World. Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day.
By Davin Heckman.
Duke University Press, Durham and London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 214, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4158-1
(received Plymouth April 2008)
Life as Surplus. Biotechnology & Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era.
By Melinda Cooper.
Series IN VIVO. The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science.
University of Washington Press, Seattle & London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 222.
ISBN: 978-0-295-98791-0
(received Plymouth April 2008)
Grand Designs. Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture.
By Lara Kriegel.
Duke University Press, Durham and London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 305, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4072-0
(received Plymouth April 2008)
CDs:
Untitled, or not yet.
By M. Bullock, J. Coleman, D. Gross, S. Roden.
(1.8)sec.records, Winnipeg MB, Canada, 2008.
www.1pt8.com
(received Plymouth April 2008)
Material received March 2008
Moral Spectatorship. Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child.
By Lisa Cartwright.
Duke University Press, Durham and London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 287, illus. b/w.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4177-2
(received Plymouth March 2008)
Italian Locations. Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema.
By Noa Steinmatsky.
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 246, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5087-3
(received Plymouth March 2008)
Feeling Modern. The Eccentricities of Public Life.
By Justus Nieland.
University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, USA, 2008.
pp. 313, illus. b/w.
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03337-7
(received Plymouth March 2008)
Societal Impact of Spaceflight.
By Steven J. Dick, Roger D. Launius (eds.)
NASA, Washington DC, USA, 2007.
pp. 680, illus. b/w.
NASA SP-2007-4801
(received Plymouth March 2008)
Pavilion of Virginia Puff-Paint.
By Jeremy Laing and Will Munro.
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada, 2006.
pp. ca. 50, illus. col
ISBN: 0-921972-47-4
(received Plymouth March 2008)
Writing China Sinographies.
By Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven G. Yao (eds.)
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 381, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4724-8
(received Plymouth March 2008)
DVDs:
Inside Time.
By Jason Young.
35 mins, col, 2007.
National Film Board of Canada.
www.nfb.ca
(received Plymouth March 2008)
Material received February 2008
Plymouth:
The Great Starvation Experiment. Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved
for Science.
By Todd Tucker.
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 270, illus. b/w.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5161-0
(received Plymouth February 2008)
Cinema Babel. Translating Global Cinema.
By Abe Mark Nornes.
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA/UK, 2008.
pp. 285, illus. b/w.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5041-5
(received Plymouth February 2008)
The Odd One In. On Comedy.
By Alenka Zupancic.
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2008.
pp. 229.
ISBN: 978-0-262-74031-9
(received Plymouth February 2008)
Post Impressions. A Travel Book for Tragic Intellectuals.
By Hollis Taylor.
Twisted Fiddle, Portland, Origon, USA, 2007.
pp. 243, illus. b/w, col. (includes DVD)
ISBN: 9780646471747
(received Plymouth February 2008)
Swan Quake. The User Manual.
By Scott deLahunta (ed.)
Liquid Press/i-DAT, Plymouth, UK, 2007.
pp. 128, illus. b/w, col.
ISBN: 978-1-84102-172-0
(received Plymouth February 2008)
Die Welt als virtuelles Environment/The world as virtual environment.
(Language: mainly English, some articles in German only)
By Johannes Birringer, Thomas Dumke und Klaus Nicolai.
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V., Dresden, Germany, 2007.
pp. 200, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 3-9810247-3-7
(received Plymouth February 2008)
DVDs:
Corporations in the Classroom: A is for Advertising, B is for Brand, C
is for commercialism.
By Jill Sharpe.
2007, 45 mins, col.
National Film Board of Canada
www.nfb.ca
(received Plymouth February 2008)
The Refugees of the Blue Planet.
By Helene Choquette and Jean-Philippe Duval.
2006, 53 mins, col.
National Film Board of Canada
www.nfb.ca
(received Plymouth February 2008)
The Water Bearer.
By Pascal Gelinas.
2007, 52 mins, col.
National Film Board of Canada
www.nfb.ca
(received Plymouth February 2008)
CDs:
8th May - The John Moran Corperation.
By John Moran.
Produced by John Moran and Dax Liniere, 2007.
(received Plymouth February 2008)
Materials received January 2008
Plymouth:
Mechademia: Networks of Desire (Volume 2)
By Frenchy Lunning (ed.).
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA/UK, 2007.
pp. 304, illus. b/w
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5266-2
(received Plymouth January 2008)
Writing and Developing Your College Textbook, Second Edition. A
Comprehensive Guide to Textbook Authorship and Higher Education
Publishing.
By Mary Ellen Lepionka.
Atlantic Path Publishing, Gloucester, MA, USA, 2008.
pp. 305.
ISBN: 978-0-9728164-7-2
(received Plymouth January 2008)
CDs:
Electric Brew.
By Bob Gluck.
Electronic Music Foundation Ltd.
2007, Albany, New York, USA.
www.emf.org
(received Plymouth January 2008)
Ginger Leigh and the Hallucinations.
www.gingerleigh.com
Masuno, 2007.
Plymouth received December 2007:
States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi
By Kristine Stiles (ed.)
Duke University Press, Durham, USA, 2007.
pp. 224, illus. b/w, col.
ISBN: 978-0-9389-8930-1
(received Plymouth December 2007)
Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film.
By Cindy Patton.
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA/UK, 2007.
pp. 189, illus. b/w
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3411-8
(received Plymouth December 2007)
The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road.
By Catherine Lui, John Mowitt, Thomas Pepper, and Jakki Spicer (eds.)
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA/UK, 2007.
pp. 379.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4799-6
(received Plymouth December 2007)
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