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)

Peter Reyner Banham Hon. FRIBA was an English architectural critic and writer best known for his theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age and for his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of 'four ecologies' examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways,...(展开全部)

The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse--it came from within, from Southern California's burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle. Smogtown is the sto...(展开全部)

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)

瑪麗亞·若澤·西爾維拉Maria José Silveira 巴西當代作家、翻譯、編輯。一九四七年生於巴西戈亞斯州雅拉瓜市。西爾維拉對政治運動充滿激情與嚮往。巴西軍政府獨裁期間，西爾維拉因顛覆罪被當局通緝追捕。無奈之下，她與丈夫流亡至秘魯，直至一九七六年才返回巴西。 二〇〇二年，西爾維拉以首部小說《母親的河流》嶄露頭角，同年獲得由聖保羅藝術評論家協會 (Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte, APCA) 頒發的文學新人獎。此後，西爾維拉筆耕不輟，其創作涉獵廣泛，包括虛構小說、短篇故事、專欄散文及戲劇等，作品始終圍繞獨裁、鬥爭、流亡以及女性議題。 譯者簡介 余沛霖 葡語文學愛好者、青年譯者。 目前於葡萄牙科英布拉大學葡語文學系攻讀博士學位，研究領域為非洲葡語國家文學及其他藝術。

本书将忠实地记录一支全球人数最庞大的武装集团，在一场长达十年的狂风骤雨肆虐大地时所走过的艰辛历程。记录她曾经的功绩，曾经的荣耀，曾经的失误，曾经的挫折。

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of "four ecologies" examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways,...(展开全部)

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and, exploding social divisions and ruptures. But, he asks, if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end ...(展开全部)