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"As the founder of Cornell's Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and the multimedia journal CTHEORY, Timothy Murray is a renown, internationally-active figure in new media art. His book Digital Baroque (UMP 2008) charted the emergence of new media art and he here revisits that curatorial and aesthetic landscape to explore how art resists and transcends the political and economic structures that govern technology. Technics Improvised provides a broad overview of the intersection of global media art, curatorial practice, tactical media, and philosophy. Grounded in his twenty-five years of curating and archiving experience, the author reads a wide range of creative performances and critical texts that envelope artistic and digital materials in unstable, political relations of touch, body, exhibition, and technology. From video to net.art and interactive performance, Technics Improvised considers both canonical and unheralded examples of activist technics that disturb the hegemony of biopolitical/digital networks by staging the very touch of the unsettling discourse erupting from within"--

In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a highly developed early modern philosophy of art? Making an exquisite and unexpected connection between the old and the new, Digital Baroque analyzes the philosophical paradigms that inform contemporary screen arts. Examining a wide range of art forms, Murray reflects on the rhetorical, emotive, and social forces inherent in the screen arts' dialogue with early modern concepts. Among the works discu.

The definition of best response for a player in the Nash equilibrium is based on maximizing the expected utility given the strategy of the rest of the players in a game. In this work, we consider stochastic games, that is, games with random payoffs, in which a finite number of players engage only once or at most a limited number of times. In such games, players may choose to deviate from maximizing their expected utility. This is because maximizing expected utility strategy does not address the uncertainty in payoffs. We instead define a new notion of a stochastic superiority best response. This notion of best response results in a stochastic superiority equilibrium in which players choose to play the strategy that maximizes the probability of them being rewarded the most in a single round of the game rather than maximizing the expected received reward, subject to the actions of other players. We prove the stochastic superiority equilibrium to exist in all finite games, that is, games with a finite number of players and actions, and numerically compare its performance to Nash equilibrium in finite-time stochastic games. In certain cases, we show the payoff under the stochastic superiority equilibrium is 70% likely to be higher than the payoff under Nash equilibrium.

This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy's thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This "singular plural" dimension of thought in Nancy's philosophical writings demands explication.In this book, some of today's leading scholars in the theoretical humanities shed light on how Nancy's thought both shares with and departs from Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Weil, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Lyotard, elucidating "the sharing of voices," in Nancy's phrase, between Nancy and these thinkers.Contributors: Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher, Eleanor Kaufman, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy, and John H. Smith

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Deleuze and New Technology -- CONTROL -- Chapter 1 Deleuze and Machines: A Politics of Technology? -- Chapter 2 Of Rhizomes, Smooth Space, War Machines and New Media -- Chapter 3 Deleuze's Objectile: From Discipline to Modulation -- Chapter 4 How to Surf: Technologies at Work in the Societies of Control -- Chapter 5 Chemical-Control™®: From the Cane to the Pill -- Chapter 6 Politics in the Age of Control -- BECOMING -- Chapter 7 Smash the Strata! A Programme for Techno-Political ®evolution -- Chapter 8 Deleuze and the Internet -- Chapter 9 Swarming: Number versus Animal? -- Chapter 10 The Body Without Organs and Internet Gaming Addiction -- Chapter 11 Deleuze's Concept in the Information- Control Continuum -- Chapter 12 Illusionary Perception and Cinema: Experimental Thoughts on Film Theory and Neuroscience -- Chapter 13 Surface Folds: The Archival Events of New Medialised Art -- Afterword -- Notes on Contributors -- Index