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Virtue Hoarders
The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class
Häftad, 2021
131 kr
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A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroismProfessional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally …
Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Häftad, 2018
138 kr
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Rewriting the “origin stories” of the AnthropoceneNo geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the …
Theory for the World to Come
Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology
Häftad, 2019
154 kr
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Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible. Drawing on speculative fiction and social …
Mediators
Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
Häftad, 2014
134 kr
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Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture …
Politics of Bitcoin
Software As Right-Wing Extremism
Häftad, 2016
134 kr
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Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology subscribe to a form of cyberlibertarianism that depends to a surprising extent …
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age
Häftad, 2016
134 kr
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Once, humans were what they believed. Now, the modern person is determined by data exhaust-an invisible anthropocentric ether of ones and zeros that is a product of our digitally monitored age. Author Mark Jarzombek argues that the world has become redesigned to fuse the algorithmic with the …
Anthrobscene
Häftad, 2014
134 kr
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Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an …
Aesop's Anthropology
A Multispecies Approach
Häftad, 2014
134 kr
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Aesop’s Anthropology is a guide for thinking through the perplexing predicaments and encounters that arise as the line between human and nonhuman shifts in modern life. Recognizing that culture is not unique to humans, John Hartigan Jr. asks what we can learn about culture from other species. He …
No Speed Limit
Three Essays on Accelerationism
Häftad, 2015
134 kr
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Accelerationism is the bastard offspring of a furtive liaison between Marxism and science fiction. Its basic premise is that the only way out is the way through: to get beyond capitalism, we need to push its technologies to the point where they explode. This may be dubious as a political strategy, …
Deep Mapping the Media City
Häftad, 2015
134 kr
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Going beyond current scholarship on the “media city” and the “smart city,” Shannon Mattern argues that our global cities have been mediated and intelligent for millennia. Deep Mapping the Media City advocates for urban media archaeology, a multisensory approach to investigating the material history …
Geek's Chihuahua
Living with Apple
Av Ian Bogost
Häftad, 2015
134 kr
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At dinnertime: check. At a traffic light: check. In bed at the end of the day: check. In line at the coffee shop: check. In The Geek’s Chihuahua, Ian Bogost addresses the modern love affair of “living with Apple” during the height of the company’s market influence and technology dominance. The …
Martin Heidegger Saved My Life
Av Grant Farred
Häftad, 2015
134 kr
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In Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism. In the fall of 2013 while raking leaves outside his home, Farred experienced a racist encounter: a white woman stopped to ask him, “Would you …
Mandela's Dark Years
A Political Theory of Dreaming
Häftad, 2015
131 kr
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Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life. Sharon Sliwinski guides the reader through the psychology of apartheid, recasting dreaming as a vital form of resistance to political violence, away from a rational binary of …
Cinema Without Reflection
Jacques Derrida's Echopoiesis and Narcissim Adrift
Häftad, 2016
142 kr
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Cinema without Reflection traces an implicit film theory in Jacques Derrida’s oeuvre, especially in his frequent invocation of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Derrida’s reflections on the economies of image and sound that reverberate in this story, along with the spectral dialectics of love, …
Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance
Häftad, 2018
130 kr
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How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governanceCharter school expansion. Vouchers. Scholarship tax credit programs. The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance offers a new social theory to explain why these and other privatization policies and programs win …
Celebrity Persona Pandemic
Häftad, 2016
134 kr
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The Celebrity Persona Pandemic explores how the construction of a public persona is fetishized in contemporary culture. As social media has progressively led to a greater focus on the production of the self, so this book looks at the most visible versions of persona through figures such as Stephen …
Dark Deleuze
Av Andrew Culp
Häftad, 2016
134 kr
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French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts created to defeat capitalism have been …
How Noise Matters to Finance
Häftad, 2016
138 kr
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As scores of crises over the past century have shown, the stock market is manipulable and manipulated. The market is composed of human-made machines, which are affected by a lack of predictability more fundamental than the human: the noise of the material world. Nicholas A. Knouf draws on …
Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics
Häftad, 2016
134 kr
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Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics is an invitation to culture makers, political thinkers of all kinds, and everyday spectators to reconsider their love of the world of appearances. Inspired by Jacques Rancie8res Ten Theses on Politics and work by Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, and Roland …
Third University Is Possible
Av la paperson
Häftad, 2017
134 kr
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A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and …
Uberfication of the University
Av Gary Hall
Häftad, 2016
130 kr
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Even after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy-an economy that has little to do with sharing access to good and services and everything to do …
Fifty Years of "the Battle of Algiers"
Past As Prologue
Häftad, 2016
142 kr
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The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film that poetically captures Algerian resistance to French colonial occupation, is widely considered one of the greatest political films of all time. With an artistic defiance that matched the boldness of the anticolonial struggles of the time, it was embraced across …
Carceral Humanitarianism
Logics of Refugee Detention
Av Kelly Oliver
Häftad, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
134 kr
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Coopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of taking them in versus turning them away, using a risk-benefit analysis that often reduces refugees to collateral damage in proxy wars fought in the war …
UW Struggle
When a State Attacks Its University
Av Chuck Rybak
Häftad, 2017
130 kr
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A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warningUW Struggle provides an on-the-ground view of the smoldering attack on public higher education in Wisconsin. Chuck Rybak, who works in the University of Wisconsin System, provides important glimpses into the personal lives of those affected, the …
Shareveillance
The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data
Häftad, 2017
134 kr
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Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecyIn an era of open data and ubiquitous dataveillance, what does it mean to “share”? This book argues that we are all “shareveillant” subjects, called upon to be transparent and render data open at the same time as the security state invests in …
Callous Objects
Designs Against the Homeless
Häftad, 2017
138 kr
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Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundingsCallous Objects unearths cases in which cities push homeless people out of public spaces through a combination of policy and strategic design. Robert Rosenberger examines such commonplace devices as garbage cans, fences, signage, and …
Neocolonialism of the Global Village
Av Ginger Nolan
Häftad, 2018
138 kr
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Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhanThe term “global village”-coined in the 1960s by Marshall McLuhan-has persisted into the twenty-first century as a key trope of techno-humanitarian discourse, casting economic and technical transformations in a utopian …
Aspirational Fascism
The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy Under Trumpism
Häftad, 2017
134 kr
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Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilitiesThis quick and engaging study clearly lays out the United States’ current democratic crisis. Examining the early stages of the Nazi movement in Germany, William E. Connolly detects synergies with Donald …
End of Man
A Feminist Counterapocalypse
Häftad, 2018
134 kr
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Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropesWhere the Anthropocene has become linked to an apocalyptic narrative, and where this narrative carries a widespread escapist belief that salvation will come from a supernatural elsewhere, Joanna Zylinska has a different take. The End of …
Learning Versus the Common Core
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformityNicholas Tampio watched as his kindergartner’s class shifted from one where teachers, aides, parents, and students worked hard to create a rewarding educational experience to one in which teachers delivered hours-long lectures using packaged …
