Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics – serie
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Prometheanism
Technology, Digital Culture and Human Obsolescence
Häftad, 2016
528 kr
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Günther Anders’s prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders’s pragmatic thought and current trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power that are configuring themselves around our …
Hypermodernity and Visuality
Inbunden, 2019
1838 kr
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This book engages with the question of making sense of seeing in today’s technologically dominated world. It does so by exploring the notion of the ‘hypermodern’, a term which is used to capture the drive in contemporary culture to achieve ever greater speed and efficiency. The volume draws …
Archaeology of Colonisation
From Aesthetics to Biopolitics
Häftad, 2022
471 kr
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This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance. Using Foucault’s philosophical archaeology as method, this work argues …
Arts of Healing
Cultural Narratives of Trauma
Av Arleen Ionescu, Maria Margaroni
Häftad, 2022
499 kr
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This book occurs at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and the visual arts. Each chapter looks at art produced in various traumatogenic cultures: detention centres, post-Holocaust film, autobiography and many more.Other chapters look at the Juarez femicides, the …
Contested Borders
Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb
Häftad, 2026
478 kr
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This book broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through examining new representations of same-sex desire emerging in recent francophone autofictional writing from the Maghreb.Long-established traditions pertaining to gender and sexuality are brought into contact with new forms …
Creole in the Archive
Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure
Inbunden, 2016
1893 kr
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The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from …
Creole in the Archive
Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure
Häftad, 2016
645 kr
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The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from …
Creole in the Archive
Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure
E-bok, 2016
706 kr
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The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from …
Prometheanism
Technology, Digital Culture and Human Obsolescence
Inbunden, 2016
1556 kr
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Günther Anders’s prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders’s pragmatic thought and current trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power that are configuring themselves around our …
Prometheanism
Technology, Digital Culture and Human Obsolescence
E-bok, 2016
577 kr
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Günther Anders’s prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders’s pragmatic thought and current trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power that are configuring themselves around our …
Homemaking
Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora
Inbunden, 2018
1790 kr
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Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora examines …
Homemaking
Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora
Häftad, 2020
591 kr
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Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora examines …
Homemaking
Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora
E-bok, 2018
645 kr
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Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have? Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora examines …
Extreme in Contemporary Culture
States of Vulnerability
Inbunden, 2017
1838 kr
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This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing …
Extreme in Contemporary Culture
States of Vulnerability
Häftad, 2017
627 kr
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This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing …
Extreme in Contemporary Culture
States of Vulnerability
E-bok, 2017
686 kr
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This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing …
Credo Credit Crisis
Speculations on Faith and Money
Av Aidan Tynan, Laurent Milesi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1697 kr
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Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age. But what happens when individual belief (credo, ‘I’ believe) and the systems into which it …
Credo Credit Crisis
Speculations on Faith and Money
Av Aidan Tynan, Laurent Milesi m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
598 kr
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Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age. But what happens when individual belief (credo, ‘I’ believe) and the systems into which it …
Credo Credit Crisis
Speculations on Faith and Money
Av Aidan Tynan, Laurent Milesi m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
641 kr
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Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age. But what happens when individual belief (credo, ‘I’ believe) and the systems into which it …
Culture Control Critique
Allegories of Reading the Present
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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When “revolution” becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary …
Culture Control Critique
Allegories of Reading the Present
Häftad, 2016
711 kr
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When “revolution” becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary …
Culture Control Critique
Allegories of Reading the Present
E-bok, 2016
779 kr
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When “revolution” becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary …
Attention Economy
Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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The attention economy is a notion that explains the growing value of human attention in societies characterised by post-industrial modes of production. In a world in which information and knowledge become central to the valorisation process of capital, human attention becomes a scarce and hence …
Attention Economy
Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism
Häftad, 2017
711 kr
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The attention economy is a notion that explains the growing value of human attention in societies characterised by post-industrial modes of production. In a world in which information and knowledge become central to the valorisation process of capital, human attention becomes a scarce and hence …
Attention Economy
Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism
E-bok, 2016
779 kr
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The attention economy is a notion that explains the growing value of human attention in societies characterised by post-industrial modes of production. In a world in which information and knowledge become central to the valorisation process of capital, human attention becomes a scarce and hence …
Partitions and Their Afterlives
Violence, Memories, Living
Av Radhika Mohanram, Anindya Raychaudhuri
Inbunden, 2019
1697 kr
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How can we theorise partitions differently? How are new identities, moralities, polities and life constructed post-partition? How are gender and sexuality recalibrated after partition? How can violence be theorised? What is the relationship between identity in the diaspora and identity after …
Partitions and Their Afterlives
Violence, Memories, Living
Av Radhika Mohanram, Anindya Raychaudhuri
Häftad, 2019
598 kr
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How can we theorise partitions differently? How are new identities, moralities, polities and life constructed post-partition? How are gender and sexuality recalibrated after partition? How can violence be theorised? What is the relationship between identity in the diaspora and identity after …
Partitions and Their Afterlives
Violence, Memories, Living
Av Radhika Mohanram, Anindya Raychaudhuri
E-bok, 2019
655 kr
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How can we theorise partitions differently? How are new identities, moralities, polities and life constructed post-partition? How are gender and sexuality recalibrated after partition? How can violence be theorised? What is the relationship between identity in the diaspora and identity after …
Materialities of Sex in a Time of HIV
The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides
Av Annette-Carina van der Zaag
Inbunden, 2017
1893 kr
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Contemporary feminist theory has moved into posthuman terrains as feminist theorists utilise human/nonhuman relations and a motley crew of nonhuman entities to reinvigorate feminist critique of nature/culture dichotomies. But what place is left for sex/gender relations in this move beyond the …
Materialities of Sex in a Time of HIV
The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides
Av Annette-Carina van der Zaag
Häftad, 2019
598 kr
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Contemporary feminist theory has moved into posthuman terrains as feminist theorists utilise human/nonhuman relations and a motley crew of nonhuman entities to reinvigorate feminist critique of nature/culture dichotomies. But what place is left for sex/gender relations in this move beyond the …
