{"product_id":"the-lab-book-situated-practices-in-media-studies-hardback-9781517902179","title":"The Lab Book; Situated Practices in Media Studies (Hardback) 9781517902179","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Lab Book\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSituated Practices in Media Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDarren Wershler (Author), Lori Emerson (Author), Jussi Parikka (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517902179\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 March 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 41 black \u0026amp; whilte illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.546 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Lively, timely, and filled with vivid examples, \u003ci\u003eThe Lab Book\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly readable and critically sophisticated account of current lab culture. Written by three distinguished practitioners, it examines the rhetoric that links real and imaginary ideas of experimentality with systems of power and authority across a surprising range of disciplines. A fun, smart, useful guide to ongoing work in media studies.\"-Johanna Drucker, author of \u003ci\u003eVisualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"The \u003ci\u003eLab Book\u003c\/i\u003e is a crucial intervention into humanities labs and their precarious institutional environments. Situated between science and technology studies (STS) and media archaeology, Wershler, Emerson, and Parikka’s book develops a heuristic for analyzing these hybrid spaces, producing a valuable tool for understanding the assemblages of space, apparatus, infrastructure, people, and imaginaries supporting their existence.\"-\u003ci\u003eTheory, Culture \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Richly illustrated and well argued, these chapters convincingly showcase the benefits of adopting the extended laboratory model to enhance the study of past and present laboratories.\"-\u003ci\u003eIsis: A Journal of the History of Science Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Lab Book\u003c\/i\u003e very successfully makes a complex and compelling case for a new understanding and appreciation of labs, as well as their value in media studies and beyond.\"-\u003ci\u003eInformation \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the “Big Science” of Bell Laboratories to the esoteric world of sÉance chambers to university media labs to neighborhood makerspaces, places we call “labs” are everywhere-but how exactly do we account for the wide variety of ways that they produce knowledge? More than imitations of science and engineering labs, many contemporary labs are hybrid forms that require a new methodological and theoretical toolkit to describe. \u003ci\u003eThe Lab Book\u003c\/i\u003e investigates these vital, creative spaces, presenting readers with the concept of the “hybrid lab” and offering an extended-and rare-critical investigation of how labs have proliferated throughout culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrganized by interpretive categories such as space, infrastructure, and imaginaries, The Lab Book uses both historical and contemporary examples to show how laboratories have become fundamentally connected to changes in the contemporary university. Its wide reach includes institutions like the MIT Media Lab, the Tuskegee Institute’s Jesup Wagon, ACTLab, and the Media Archaeological Fundus. The authors cover topics such as the evolution and delineation of lab-based communities, how labs’ tools and technologies contribute to defining their space, and a glossary of key hybrid lab techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProviding rich historical breadth and depth, \u003ci\u003eThe Lab Book\u003c\/i\u003e brings into focus a critical, but often misunderstood, aspect of the contemporary arts and humanities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Everything Is a Lab\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: The French Language Lab (Middlebury College, U.S.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Lab Space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: Menlo Park Laboratory (Menlo Park, U.S.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: MIT Media Lab, Part 1 (MIT, U.S.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: Media Archaeological Fundus (Humboldt University, Germany)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Lab Apparatus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: The Signal Laboratory (Humboldt University, Germany)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: The Media Archaeology Lab (University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Lab Infrastructure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: Home Economics Labs and Extension on the Canadian Prairies (Manitoba, Canada)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: Black Laboratories and Agricultural Extension\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Lab People\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: MIT Media Lab, Part 2 (MIT, U.S.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: ActLab (University of Texas Austin, U.S.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Lab Imaginaries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: Hybrid Spaces of Experimentation and Parapsychology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCase Study: Bell Labs, A Factory for Ideas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Lab Techniques\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619240898840,"sku":"9781517902179","price":72.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-lab-book-situated-practices-in-media-studies-hardback-9781517902179","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}