Nothing But the Music: Documentaries from Nightclubs, Dance Halls & a Tailor’s Shop in Dakar
American Steam Locomotives: Design and Development, 1880–1960
Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers: Writers on Comics edited by Sean Howe. Pantheon Books, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2004. 228 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-375-42256-0.
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga by Jimmy Maher. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. 344 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-262-01720-6
YLEM Journal Special Issue: Science Fiction and Its Discontents edited by Loren Means. YLEM, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., 2006. Volume 25, Nos. 10 and 12. ISSN: 1507-2031
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2012. 624 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-01-953-8894-7
Anime Explosion: The What? Why? Wow! of Japanese Animation by Patrick Drazen. Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2003. 382 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 1-880656-72-8
Missions for Thoughtful Gamers by Andrew Cutting. ETC Press, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., 2011. 204 pp. Trade, free download. ISBN-13: 978-1-257-97970-7
The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite by Ann Finkbeiner. Viking, New York, 2006. 304 pp. Trade. ISBN: 0-670-03489-4
Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel by Paul Scheerbart. Wakefield Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. Originally published in German, 1913. 280 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 976-0-9841155-9-4
Design Anarchy by Kalle Lasn. Adbusters Media Foundation, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2006. 416 pp., 420 illus. Cloth. ISBN: 0-9746800-9-5
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds by Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce and T.L. Taylor. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2012. 264 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-691-14950-9; ISBN: 978-0-691-14951-6
The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States by Carla Yanni. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2007. 191 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN 10: 0-8166-4940-5
In the Field: The Art of Field Recording edited by Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle. Uniformbooks, Axminister, U.K., 2013. 240 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-9568559-6-1
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance edited by Judith Rugg and Michèle Sedgwick. Intellect, Bristol, U.K., 2007. 184 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-1-84150-162-8
The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid That Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse by Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2007. 320 pp., illus. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-262-12294-8
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
The Pleasures of Computer Gaming: Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics edited by Melanie Swalwell and Jason Wilson. McFarland Company, Jefferson, NC, U.S.A., 2008. 197 pp., illus.
Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice edited by Cathy Lane. CRiSAP, London, U.K., 2008. 205 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-9558273-3-4
Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music
Sonic Mediations: Body Sound Technology edited by Carolyn Birdsall and Anthony Enns. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., 2008. 286 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 1-84718-483-9
Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America
Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks by Alexander Russo. Duke Univ. Press, Durham, NC, 2010. 278 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4532-9
Cyberculture and New Media edited by Francisco J. Ricardo. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009. 312 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-90-420-2518-9
Introduction to Graphic Design: A Guide to Thinking, Process, and Style
Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves edited by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki. PAJ Publications, New York, U.S.A., 2011. 200 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-155554151-4
High Static, Dead Lines: Sonic Spectres and the Object Hereafter
How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2011. 192 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-8166-7646-0; ISBN: 978-0-8166-7647-7
Hybrid Practices: Art in Collaboration with Science and Technology in the Long 1960s
Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids by Sidney Perkowitz. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 2004. 238 pp. Trade. ISBN: 0-309-08987-5
Radio: Essays in Bad Reception by John Mowitt. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2011. 248 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-5202-7049-7; ISBN: 978-05202-7050-3
Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City
EPISODE NOTES (click through for transcript and more)
Chicana indigenous mestiza transborder nepantlera activista Liliana Conlisk Gallegos discusses decolonization through the expansion of borders and the Eurocentric myth of modernity. John F. Barber reviews Nothing But the Music: Documentaries from Nightclubs, Dance Halls and a Tailor's Shop in Dakar by Thulani Davis.
