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  • Leonardo Reviews On-Line

May 2012

Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art by Ken Johnson. Reviewed by Nicolas Langlitz.

Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds by Louise Barrett. Reviewed by Elizabeth McCardell.

A Different Light: The Photography of Sebastião Salgado by Parvati Nair. Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini.

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner. Reviewed by Amy Ione.

Infinite Instances: Studies and Images of Time by Olga Ast. Reviewed by Jack Ox.

John Cage, edited by Julia Robinson. Reviewed by Rob Harle. [End Page 500]

Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media by Jason Farman. Reviewed by Dene Grigar.

The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality by Nicholas Mirzoeff. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

April 2012

Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History by Kara Reilly. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds by Louise Barrett. Reviewed by Daniel J. Povinelli.

Global Icons. Apertures to the Popular by Bishnupriya Ghosh. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Imagery in the 21st Century, edited by Oliver Grau with Thomas Veigl. Reviewed by Amy Ione.

New Art/Science Affinities by Andrea Grover, Régine Debatty, Claire Evans, Pablo Garcia and Thumb. Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith.

Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface by Robin Clark. Reviewed by Giovanna L. Costantini.

The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France by Tom Conley and The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science and Culture by SueEllen Campbell. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.

Ship Shape: A Dazzle Camouflage Source-book by Roy R. Behrens. Reviewed by Mike Leggett.

3-D Displays and Spatial Interaction, Vol. 1 From Perception to Technology by Barry G. Blundell. Reviewed by George Shortess.

March 2012

Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life by Alastair Brotchie. Reviewed by Allan Graubard.

Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno by Miriam Bratu Hansen. Reviewed by Jan Baetens.

Duets: 1975–1976 by Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley. Reviewed by Mike Mosher.

The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution by Dean Falk. Reviewed by Rob Harle.

Great Discoveries in Medicine, edited by William Bynum and Helen Bynum. Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara.

The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy by Charles Fourier; translated and with an introduction by Geoffrey Longnecker. Reviewed by Mike Mosher.

Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian. Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara.

Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

February 2012

Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life by Brandon LaBelle. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human, edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro. Reviewed by Brian Reffin Smith.

Facebook’s “Adorno Changed My Life,” directed by Georg Boch. Reviewed by Mike Mosher.

Gaming Matters: Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium by Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

Magical Mathematics by Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham. Reviewed by Phil Dyke.

Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects by Paola Antonelli. Reviewed by John F. Barber.

Twilight Visions. Surrealism and Paris by Therese Lichtenstein. Reviewed by Jan Baetens. [End Page 501]

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