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Book Review: Biology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life by Phillip Thurtle

Biology in the Grid by Phillip Thurtle sees grids as a framework within a biopolitical circumstance and makes the point that “living in the grid’ does not equalize us because all lives are not treated similarly despite the seeming uniformity of the form. • • • • • •More

Book Review: Art Nouveau In Buenos Aires: A Love Story by Anat Meidan

Book Review: Art Nouveau In Buenos Aires: A Love Story by Anat Meidan. Reviewed by Amy Ione. A museum curator with a special interest in the Art Nouveau movement, the book succeeds because Anat Meidan's love story combines a passion for the art with a scholarly perspective. Adorned by beautiful color photographs of remarkable buildings […]

Book Review: Headhunters: The Search for a Science of the Mind by Ben Shephard

Book Review: Headhunters: The Search for a Science of the Mind by Ben Shephard. Reviewed by Amy Ione. This book traces a slice of history that in turn introduces us to some of those drawn to study human psychology and mental health a few decades after Darwin’s theory of evolution took root. Four of these pioneers […]

Book Review: Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature by Alva Noë

Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature by Alva Noë. Reviewed by Amy Ione Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature endeavors to, as Alva Noë the author puts it, introduce art as “its own manner of investigation and its own legitimate source of knowledge” (p. xii) using the enactive approach that he has been working with for a number […]

Book Review: The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene by Oswald J. Schmitz

The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene by Oswald J. Schmitz. Reviewed by Amy Ione. Perhaps it is because Paul J. Crutzen and Oswald J. Schmitz, the author of The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene, come from different backgrounds that there is a noteworthy difference in how each embraces the term […]