{"product_id":"being-material-the-mit-press-9780262043281","title":"Being Material The MIT Press","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his oracular 1995 book \u003ci\u003eBeing Digital\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that social relations, media, and commerce would move from the realm of “atoms to bits”—that human affairs would be increasingly untethered from the material world. And yet in 2019, an age dominated by the digital, we have not quite left the material world behind. In \u003ci\u003eBeing Material\u003c\/i\u003e, artists and technologists explore the relationship of the digital to the material, demonstrating that processes that seem wholly immaterial function within material constraints. Digital technologies themselves, they remind us, are material things—constituted by atoms of gold, silver, silicon, copper, tin, tungsten, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors explore five modes of being material: programmable, wearable, livable, invisible, and audible. Their contributions take the form of reports, manifestos, philosophical essays, and\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733451878743,"sku":"9780262043281","price":30.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/being-material-the-mit-press-9780262043281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}