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30 produkter
Given Time II
Av Jacques Derrida, Laura Odello m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
416 kr
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The long-awaited conclusion to Derrida’s seminar on the gift and time. In 1991, Jacques Derrida published the first half of a seminar delivered from 1978 to 1979 on gifts and time, but the second installment (though expected) was not completed in his lifetime. Given Time II completes the seminar …
Prophecies of Leviathan
Reading Past Melville
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2010
544 kr
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Reading Melville is not only reading. Reading Melville means being already engaged in the abyssal process of reading reading. Reading what reading is and what reading does.With Melville, Prophecies of Leviathan argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only …
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A History of Our Ears
Av Peter Szendy
Inbunden, 2008
1157 kr
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In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician, but where exactly does the listener stand in relation to the music s/he listens to? What is the …
Supermarket of the Visible
Toward a General Economy of Images
Av Peter Szendy
Inbunden, 2019
1321 kr
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Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described "a one hundred per cent image-space." Such an image space saturates our world now more than ever, constituting the visibility in which we live. The Supermarket of the Visible analyzes this space and the icons that populate it as the culmination of a …
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A History of Our Ears
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2008
444 kr
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In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician, but where exactly does the listener stand in relation to the music s/he listens to? What is the …
Prophecies of Leviathan
Reading Past Melville
Av Peter Szendy
Inbunden, 2010
1291 kr
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Reading Melville is not only reading. Reading Melville means being already engaged in the abyssal process of reading reading. Reading what reading is and what reading does.With Melville, Prophecies of Leviathan argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only …
Hits
Philosophy in the Jukebox
Av Peter Szendy
Inbunden, 2012
1229 kr
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Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what apple has convinced us is "the soundtrack of our lives." How does music come to inhabit us, to possess and haunt us? What does it mean that a piece of music can insert itself—Szendy's term for this, borrowed from German, is the …
Hits
Philosophy in the Jukebox
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2012
411 kr
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Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what apple has convinced us is "the soundtrack of our lives." How does music come to inhabit us, to possess and haunt us? What does it mean that a piece of music can insert itself—Szendy's term for this, borrowed from German, is the …
Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials
Cosmopolitical Philosofictions
Av Peter Szendy
Inbunden, 2013
1194 kr
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"Yes, Kant did indeed speak of extraterrestrials." This phrase could provide the opening for this brief treatise of philosofiction (as one speaks of science fiction). What is revealed in the aliens of which Kant speaks—and he no doubt took them more seriously than anyone else in the history of …
Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials
Cosmopolitical Philosofictions
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2013
388 kr
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"Yes, Kant did indeed speak of extraterrestrials." This phrase could provide the opening for this brief treatise of philosofiction (as one speaks of science fiction). What is revealed in the aliens of which Kant speaks—and he no doubt took them more seriously than anyone else in the history of …
Apocalypse-Cinema
2012 and Other Ends of the World
Av Peter Szendy
Inbunden, 2015
1057 kr
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Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade …
Apocalypse-Cinema
2012 and Other Ends of the World
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2015
445 kr
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Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade …
Phantom Limbs
On Musical Bodies
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2015
371 kr
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The prostheses Peter Szendy explores—those peculiar artifacts known as musical instruments—are not only technical devices but also bodies that live a strange phantom life, as uncanny as a sixth finger or a third lung.The musicological impulse to inventory those bodies that produce sound is called …
All Ears
The Aesthetics of Espionage
Av Peter Szendy
Inbunden, 2016
1183 kr
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The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA's warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalized …
Of Stigmatology
Punctuation As Experience
Av Peter Szendy
Inbunden, 2018
1032 kr
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What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to a close, or our images by the cinematic cuts that mark them off? Are we, like Chekhov's clerk, who dreams of being pursued by …
Of Stigmatology
Punctuation As Experience
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2018
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365 kr
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What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to a close, or our images by the cinematic cuts that mark them off? Are we, like Chekhov's clerk, who dreams of being pursued by …
Supermarket of the Visible
Toward a General Economy of Images
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2019
385 kr
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Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described "a one hundred per cent image-space." Such an image space saturates our world now more than ever, constituting the visibility in which we live. The Supermarket of the Visible analyzes this space and the icons that populate it as the culmination of a …
Narratives of Debt
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2020
186 kr
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As the problem of debt grows more and more urgent in light of the central role it plays in neoliberal capitalism, scholars have analyzed debt using numerous approaches: historical analysis, legal arguments, psychoanalytic readings, claims for reparations in postcolonial debates, and more. …
For an Ecology of Images
Av Peter Szendy
Häftad, 2025
146 kr
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When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental …
For an Ecology of Images
Av Peter Szendy
E-bok, 2025
130 kr
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When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental …
Supermarket of Images
Av Peter Szendy, Emmanuel Alloa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
446 kr
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The visible world overflows with pictures: more than three billion of them stream across social media every day. This overproduction this excess needs to be managed. Images must be stored, formatted and transported, their flow and exchange must be organised. They require road networks (such as …
Ecotones
Investigating Sounds and Territories
Av Valentin Bansac, Valentin Bansac m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
248 kr
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Bajo escucha
Estética del espionaje
Av Peter Szendy, Fabiola Ruiz m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
94 kr
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Peter Szendy se interesa en la manera en que nos apropiamos de la música y en cómo "firmamos" lo que escuchamos. Su obra filosófica interroga la genealogía de nuestras escuchas musicales, su relación con la ley y el papel del oyente a través del tiempo.En Bajo escucha, Szendy establece una …
Poderes de la lectura
De Platón al libro electrónico
Av Peter Szendy
E-bok, 2024
75 kr
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Cuando leo, una voz en mí me intima a leer ("¡lee!"), mientras que otra pone manos a la obra y se presta a la voz del texto, como lo hacían los antiguos esclavos lectores que encontramos sobre todo en Platón. Leer es habitar esa escena que, aun cuando se interiorice en una lectura aparentemente …
