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This book goes beyond Baudrillard's writings on consumer objects, the Gulf War and America, to identify the fundamental logic that underpins his writings. It does this through a series of close readings of his main texts, paying particular attenti...

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The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers and literary theorists. This clear and accessibly ...

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Slavoj Zizek is undoubtedly one of the worlds leading cultural critics. His witty, psychoanalytically-inspired analyses of contemporary society have almost single-handedly revived the notion of ideology. His brilliant commentaries on the French ps...

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The Universal Exception is the second volume of the selected writings of Slavoj ek-one of the most provocative and inspiring writers on culture at work today. Bringing together a broad selection of ek's major writings on politics, The Univers...

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UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art. Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson do not seek to identify a distinctive national sensibility; instead, they demonstrate that Australian art and a...

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Modeled after the famed TV sci-fi series The X-Files, The &-Files gathers together a covert body of documents following the long and often controversial career of Art &am...

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Slavoj ?i?ek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings ? across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion ? always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, th...

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Slavoj ?i?ek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings ? across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion ? always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, th...

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In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term ?post-medium? in her work. It was a nod to the American ?ordinary language? philosopher Stanley Cavell, who had been thinking th...

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In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term post-medium in her work. It was a nod to the American ordinary language philosopher Stanley Cavell, who had been thinking throug...

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In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term ?post-medium? in her work. It was a nod to the American ?ordinary language? philosopher Stanley Cavell, who had been thinking th...

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The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garons is undoubtedly one of the worlds major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropoli...

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The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garons is undoubtedly one of the worlds major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropoli...

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churchfails is a collection of 100 articles describing people who claim to be Christians doing foolish things. Each article will include a picture of the subject.From the Introduction: Groucho Marx once said, ';I refuse to join any club that would...

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What is Philosophy? is the last instalment of a remarkable twenty-year collaboration between the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. This hugely important text attempts to explain the terms of their collaboration and ...

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The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers, and literary theorists. This guide offers a close...

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The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers, and literary theorists. This guide offers a close...

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Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj i ek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring, provocative and entertaining cultural critics at work t...

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The Universal Exception is the second volume of the selected writings of Slavoj ?i?ek-one of the most provocative and inspiring writers on culture at work today. Bringing together a broad selection of ?i?ek''s major writings on politics, The Unive...

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Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj i ek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring, provocative and entertaining cultural critics at work t...

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What is Philosophy? is the last instalment of a remarkable twenty-year collaboration between the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. This hugely important text attempts to explain the terms of their collaboration and ...

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Slavoj i ek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Cove...

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Slavoj i ek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Cove...

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Slavoj ?i?ek is one of the world''s foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. The Univer...

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Slavoj ?i?ek is one of the world''s foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. The Univer...

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The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been criticized for subjecting his female characters to u...

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The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been criticized for subjecting his female characters to unacce...

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The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been criticized for subjecting his female characters to unacce...

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The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been criticized for subjecting his female characters to u...

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This collection analyzes Joshua Oppenheimers diptych The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence as a cinematic event that invites interrelated questions on historical memory, truth and reconciliation, and the limits of documentary filmmaking. Feat...

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