{"product_id":"prototyping-cultures-alberto-corsin-jimenez-9781138693746","title":"Prototyping Cultures: Art, Science and Politics in Beta","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrototypes have acquired much prominence and visibility in recent times. Software development is perhaps the case in point, where the release of non-stable versions of programmes (beta versions) has become commonplace, as is famously the case in free and open source software. Prototyping has also become an important currency of explanation and description in art-technology contexts, where the emphasis is on the productive and processual aspects of experimentation: Medialabs, hacklabs, community and social art collectives, dorkbots, open collaborative websites or design thinking workshops are spaces and sites where prototyping and experimentation have taken hold as both modes of knowledge-production and cultural and sociological styles of exchange and interaction. Experimentation has also been at the centre of recent reassessments of the organisation of laboratory, expert and more generally epistemic cultures in the sciences. An interesting development is the shift in emphasis from the experimental as a knowledge-site to the experimental as a social process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book brings some of the leading scholars in the fields of anthropology, social studies of science and technology, and critical design thinking, in a theoretical and ethnographic dialogue to explore the affordances of the 'prototype' as a figure of our contemporary. This book was originally published as a special issue of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Cultural Economy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alberto Corsin Jimenez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 113869374X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138693746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d","brand":"Alberto Corsin Jimenez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48112767860991,"sku":"9781138693746","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb0d66a4-0de6-4223-b502-710cd4548f90.jpg?v=1769610795","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prototyping-cultures-alberto-corsin-jimenez-9781138693746","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}