Arts grantmaker based in Austin, TX. Star Trek & Jazz.
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With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old …
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying …
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, …
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet …
An inside look at modern open source software development and its influence on our online social world.
Open source software, …
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val …
A satire about an incompetent military espionage organization trying to regain its former glory by attempting to verify a Communist …
To live in data in the twenty-first century is to be incessantly extracted from, classified …
Utterly fantastic. A poetic, approachable guide to how to think about data from multiple viewpoints. The book for our present moment. I loved it.
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in …
Set in Kolkata, India, the novel tells the story of its central character Jivan, a woman who witnesses a terrorist …
A study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS.
David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would …
