In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise since the 1960s. Exploring spaces shaped by noise around Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), she shows how noise is a way of attuning toward the atmospheric: through noise we learn to listen to the sky and...(展开全部)

In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Ma...(展开全部)

From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe. Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will do so unilluminated. Yet the black hole collision is an event more powerful than any since the origin of the universe. The p...(展开全部)

In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Ma...(展开全部)

In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of this community, which conceptualized VR as an “empathy machine” that could provide glimpses into diverse social realities. She outlines...(展开全部)

哈维尔•马里亚斯，西班牙著名作家，1951年生于马德里。他的父亲胡里安•马里亚斯是西班牙著名哲学家，因为反对佛朗哥政权而被监禁，获释后被禁止在西班牙任教，于是他带全家去了美国大学教书。 哈维尔•马里亚斯从小立志写作。他在21岁之前就出版了两部小说《狼的领地》（1971）和《地平线之旅》（1973）。从马德里康普顿斯大学毕业后的六年之内，他的兴趣转向文学翻译，先后把厄普代克、哈代、康拉德、纳博科夫、福克纳、吉卜林、亨利•詹姆斯、史蒂文森、约翰•阿什伯利、莎士比亚等作家的书翻译成西班牙文。1979年，他因翻译《项狄传》而获得西班牙国家翻译奖。1983年至1985年，哈维尔•马里亚斯在牛津大学教授西班牙文学和翻译理论。 马里亚斯的第七部小说《如此苍白的心》（1992）为他带来了空前的成功，英译版1997年获得IMPAC都柏林国际文学奖。此后他又出版《明日战...(展开全部)