Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation and actions of those who are awake. How to Sleep argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena with a dynamic aesthetic and biological consistency.Arguing through examples drawn from contemporary, modern and renaissance art; from literature; film and computational medi...

Service, Sacrifice, and Salvation is an open and honest explanation of God's faithfulness, forgiveness, and how He blesses your steps as you lean on Him. Hear from Matthew as he describes his shortcomings, his sin, his mistakes, and more importantly, how God saved him from certain disaster.Whether you are looking for encouragement in your walk with God or are just curious about Matthew's testimony, this book will keep you turning the pages. You'll hear stories of faith, Ranger trai...

Computer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorithms, programming languages, abstractions and metadata that millions of people rely on every day have far-reaching implications for the way we understand the underlying dynamics of contemporary societies.In this innovative new book, software studies theorist Matthew Fuller examines how the introduction and expansion of computational syste...

這是全球頂尖十二人對網絡社會的探尋與實踐，能夠以中文繁體版出版造福讀者實感榮幸。第一屆網絡社會年會「網絡的力量」於2016年11月14日至11月16日在杭州中國美術學院舉行。來自全球的十二位專家與二十幾位青年學者共聚一堂，其中幾篇發表於2016年六月的《新美術》期刊。2018年11月，由中國美術學院出版社出版論文全集，包含了主題演講、青年學者的稿件。可惜因某些原因，致不能完全收錄。此次繁體中文版，經過全新經過編輯製作，完整地收錄十一篇主題演講全文，增加了一篇黃孫權教授的導論以及歷屆黑客松的精采紀錄。除了繁體中文慣用語及專有名詞採用台灣慣例外，內文仍保存當時譯稿的用法，不作大更動。由於電子書排版，我們在每篇文後並留有演講影片網址，讀者可以尋連結觀看到演講的全記錄，俾有助益理解文本。作者 ／黃孫權, 許煜, Wendy Chun, Geert Lovink, Ishida Hidetaka, Graham Harwood, Martina Leeker, Hiroki Azuma, Harry Halpin, Jac...

A new field of counterinvestigation across in human rights, art and lawToday, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, human rights violations, environmental crimes and technological domination. At the same time, areas not usually thought of as artistic make powerful use of aesthetics. Journalists and legal professionals pore over opensource videos and satellite imagery to undertake visual investigations. This combination of diverse fields is wh...

A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of lifeBleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes—from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation—as aesthetic. It is also a book about “bad” things, such as anguish and devastation, which relate to the ecological and technical but are also constitutive of politics, the ethical, and the formation of subje...

WINNER: Business Book Awards 2018 - 'Selling The Dream' category (1st edition)In an increasingly competitive professional services sector, it is vital that firms have an effective tendering strategy. The advantages gained from winning and retaining clients can be transformative, and the cost of losing key tenders can be catastrophic.Strategic Tendering for Professional Services provides end-to-end best practice gui...

A philosophical manual of media power for the network age.Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical techniques. Evil Media invites the reader to explore and ...

In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of thinking about aesthetics as fundamental to cultivating more liveable futures.Drawing on the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Félix Guattari, the book develops aesthetics as central to all more-than-human forms of experience, including knowledge practices. Each contribution invites readers on an adventure to explore how this broader...

Occasionally Emily could see the glint of the river, some thousands of feet below before the clouds closed in again and she was forced to stop, breathing heavily, the shotgun still clutched to her swollen stomach.She tried not to look down, putting her faith in the good Lord.But the good Lord had better keep out of her way until she had finished what she had to do that night!

This is a book about love, life and death set in Russia, during Czar Nicholas the II’s reign. It commences at the end of the 19th century with his father’s burial and his subsequent inheritance of the Crown – with absolute power. His reign is underpinned by the strong love between him and his wife Alexandra and overshadowed by the presence of Rasputin.But his unwise decisions lead to chaos, including the Khadynka Tragedy, Bloody Sunday, 1905 revolution and the Czar’s abdication. Hi...

The Australian Government is facing a national embarrassment when two ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Service) agents have gone missing on the Mornington Peninsula along with top secret files, mobile telephones, and their laptops.The director of ASIS decides to sidestep accountability by using the National Missing Persons (NMPCC) arm of the AFP (Australian Federal Police), and tasks the team of operation Reveles to work covertly to ensure that this matter never leaks out to th...