The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy invest...(展开全部)

The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy invest...(展开全部)

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditativ...(展开全部)

瓦雷拉(F．J．Varela) 瓦雷拉1946年生于智利，2001年5月2819病逝于巴黎。瓦雷拉是一名生物学家、认知科学家、哲学家和佛教静心修行者。他曾任巴黎法国国家科学研究中心的研究主任、巴黎综合理工大学的认知科学和认识论教授。瓦雷拉一生的主要著作包括Principles of Biological Autonomy(1979)、Autopoiesis and Cognition：The Realization of the Living(1980)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Tree of Knowledge (1987)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(与汤普森和罗施合著)等。瓦雷拉是认知科学中生成认知研究纲领的主要倡导者...(展开全部)

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditativ...(展开全部)

瓦雷拉(F．J．Varela) 瓦雷拉1946年生于智利，2001年5月2819病逝于巴黎。瓦雷拉是一名生物学家、认知科学家、哲学家和佛教静心修行者。他曾任巴黎法国国家科学研究中心的研究主任、巴黎综合理工大学的认知科学和认识论教授。瓦雷拉一生的主要著作包括Principles of Biological Autonomy(1979)、Autopoiesis and Cognition：The Realization of the Living(1980)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Tree of Knowledge (1987)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(与汤普森和罗施合著)等。瓦雷拉是认知科学中生成认知研究纲领的主要倡导者...(展开全部)

This groundbreaking new survey of contemporary art covers all the major art movements since 1970, the impact they have had. Each chapter contains a one or two page spread dedicated to artists commenting on their own work or the work of other artists.

The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about science, technology, and economics. These problems are exacerbated by the fact that today powerful technologies ha...(展开全部)

Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.

At one time dismissed by many as inaccessible, elitist or even facile, contemporary art has since entered the realm of popular culture and is enjoyed by millions of gallery visitors every year. This accessible and beautifully produced up-to-date guide pinpoints key artists and events, and so helps demystify a generation of rapid change in the art world. The A-Z listing (by arti...(展开全部)