Stewart Colbert Books » Technology http://www.stewartcolbertbooks.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:37:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Post-American World http://www.stewartcolbertbooks.com/2009/05/the-post-american-world-2/ http://www.stewartcolbertbooks.com/2009/05/the-post-american-world-2/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 03:49:21 +0000 Angela http://www.stewartcolbertbooks.com/?p=331 Shop Indie Bookstores


Powells review

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by Lee Siegel

Angela’s note: if you like this book, you might also like The Age of Missing Information by Bill McKibben (one of my favorites).

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by David Levy

Powells interview

10 Reasons I’d Rather Marry a Robot, by Regina Lynn

Metal Fingers in My Body: Interview with David Levy, Author of “Love + Sex With Robots” 

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by Ian Bogost

“Videogames are both an expressive medium and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive expression, Bogost analyzes rhetoric’s unique function in software in general and videogames in particular…”

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