Books written by Lev Manovich

The Language of New Media

A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema. In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.
Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture

Everything visual is deemed worthy of analysis, whether painting or propaganda banners, architecture or candy wrappers, mass celebrations or urban refuse. Most of the essays appear here in English for the first time.
Cultural Analytics

In Cultural Analytics, Lev Manovich presents concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data.
Software Takes Command

... Martin Campbell-Kelly's From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry (2004), and Nathan Ensmenger's The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise ...
Remote: Exploring the Geography of New Media Culture

Remote: Exploring the Geography of New Media Culture
The Language of New Media

A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema. In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.
Making Art of Databases

Computational geometry offers a rival locus for visual imagination. All branches of science now depend for their everyday work on synthetic graphic constructions. These are not pretty pictures, but simulations and CAD (Computer Aided ...
Software Takes Command

Offers the first look at the aesthetics of contemporary design from the theoretical perspectives of media theory and 'software studies'.
The Illusions, digital original edition: A BIT of The Language of New Media

This BIT offers an excerpt from a book that has shaped the study of new media. In The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich offered the field's first systematic and rigorous theory.
Cultural Analytics

In Cultural Analytics, Lev Manovich presents concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data.