Product Description: Esta es la historia de un biologo que repentinamente hereda de su padre dos librerias en la ciudad de Barcelona. Ambas son diametralmente opuestas y lo unico que tienen en comun es que ninguna da ganancias. El protagonista, despues de estudiar el funcionamiento de ambas, decide efectuar unos cambios en la forma de gestionar al personal instaurando unos sencillos cambios para fomentar la motivacion y la implicacion de los empleados en el futuro de la empresa...read more

Product Description: Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman begins with a comprehensive and original anthropological analysis of Vertov's film The Man With a Movie Camera. Tomas then explores the film's various aspects and contributions to media history and practice through detailed discussions of selected case studies...read more

Product Description: The first publication in North America devoted to the installation work of the German filmmaker Harun Farocki. Various aspects of Farockis work, including his artistic process, his use of the museum space, his vision machines and the influence of Dziga Vertov on his work are discussed in a series of essays by Harun Farocki, Rembert Hüser, Michèle Thériault, David Tomas and Volker Pantenburg...read more

Product Description: Beyond the Image Machine is an eloquent and stimulating argument for an alternative history of scientific and technological imaging systems. Drawing on a range of hitherto and marginalised examples from the world of visual representation and the work of key theorists and thinkers, such as Latour, de Certeau, McLuhan and Barthes, David Tomas offers a disarticulated and deviant view of the relationship between archaic and new representations, imaging technologies and media induced experience...read more

Product Description: Providing a study of intercultural spaces invaded and transgressed upon by explorers, both real and fictional, this book focuses on British East India's exploration of the Andaman Islands, with illustrations, ships logs', and official published reports...read more

Product Description: In art theory, as in cultural life generally, there has a long been tension between theory and artistic practice. The desire to resolve these tensions has been a principal impulse shaping artistic work and criticism over the last century...read more