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March Short Fuses — Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Alice Phoebe Lou, Antigone, Arch-Conspirator, Backwoodz Studioz, Blake Maddux, Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in The Hub, Buffalo Philharmonic, Christian Tezlaff, Clea Simon, Donna Leon, Eyelids, Garret Shanley, Greek Tragedy, Grove Atlantic, JoAnn Falletta, Lars Vogt, Lorcan Finnegan, Margaret Bonds, Mark Favermann, MIT Press, Nocebo, Ondine, science-fiction, SKECH185, So Shall You Reap, Sophocles, Steve Erickson, Steven Beaucher, Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence, strongboi, Tanya Tetzlaff, Veronica Roth, Ziv Yamin

Book Review: Food for Thought, but Pie in the Sky: “Running with Robots — The American High School’s Third Century”

Running with Robots not only makes reading about education reform fun, but also prods a broad readership to think critically about how learning should work in a future guided by artificial intelligence.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: edtech, Greg Toppo, Jim Tracy, MIT Press, Robots, Running with Robots: The American High School’s Third Century

June Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: " Opera Rara, Alexandre Kantorow, Bianco e Falliero, Carry Me Home, Ermione, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Hahn: Poèmes & Valses, Harvard University Press, Herbert Blomstedt, Hyperion, Jason M. Rubin, John Higgs, Kendall Square, La donna del lago, Levon Helm, Mavis Staples, MIT Press, Ninja Thyberg, Not Thinking Like a Liberal, Pavel Kolesnikov, Pleasure, Raymond Geuss, Reynaldo Hahn, Robert Buderi, Rossini, Seagull Press, Tapiola Sinfonietta, William Blake vs. The World

Book Review: How to Win the War Against Climate Change — Go Electric

Instead of techno-utopian rhetoric, Electrify offers a plan with pragmatic steps to create a better environment and a stronger economy.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ed Meek, Electrify, MIT Press, Saul Griffith

Book Review: “On The Couch” — A Beautiful Visual Tour

On the Couch is an extraordinary coffee table book for anyone interested in “recumbency” and how the couch became the icon of psychoanalysis.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud, MIT Press, Nathan Karvis, On the Couch

Book Review: “Expressive Processing” for the Masses?

Author Noah Wardrip-Fruin argues that each of the sometimes tangentially related processes in a video game shapes “the audience’s experience as fundamentally as the specifics of the images used in a motion picture.” Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies by Noah Wardrip-Fruin. The MIT Press, 480 pp, $34.95. Reviewed by Mark Nolan […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Video Games Tagged: Eliza, Expressive Processing, Mark Nolan, MIT Press, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Sim City

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