Shortlisted for the Design History Society Scholarship Prize 2001-2002 What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects after the check-out reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for the real thing become so important because the high tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropolo...(展开全部)

Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. Hanley considers daily life in the three centuries leading up to the modern era i...(展开全部)

A popular, entertaining, and insightful analysis of why some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them. B & W photographs and illustrations throughout.

In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong. The reason? The AI revolution is not so much about cyborgs and super-robots in the future, but rather massive changes in the here-and-now of everyday life. In The Culture of AI,...(展开全部)

In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de...(展开全部)

In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de...(展开全部)

In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies...(展开全部)

作者簡介 納托．湯普森（Nato Thompson） 是作家兼策展人。現職為費城當代館（Philadelphia Contemporary）的藝術總監。在此之前，他曾自二〇〇七年起擔任創意時代（Creative Time）藝術總監。他的其他著作包括了《觀看權力的方式：改變社會的21世紀藝術行動指南》（Seeing Power : Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century）、以及推想奇幻小說《沼歌》（Marshsong）。 譯者簡介 石武耕 台北人。政大廣告系、台灣大學新聞所畢，巴黎第十大學傳播學博士班肄業。 譯作《藝術的法則：文學場域的生成與結構》（合譯）、《編劇的藝術》（合譯）、《深南地方》、《形象科學》。

This title explores the emerging field of material culture and demonstrates that the study of artifacts can disclose important facts about past cultures. Eighteen essays describe how to "read" artifacts, how to "listen" to landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past.