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Language Machines Volume 74
Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism
Häftad, 2025
311 kr
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How generative AI systems capture a core function of languageLooking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that humanistic scholarship misconstrues how large language models (LLMs) function. Seeing LLMs as a …
Parasite
Häftad, 2007
232 kr
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Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue-creating diversity and complexity …
Matters of Care
Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds
Häftad, 2017
327 kr
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To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, Mareda Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical …
When Species Meet
Häftad, 2007
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278 kr
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“When Species Meet is a breathtaking meditation on the intersection between humankind and dog, philosophy and science, and macro and micro cultures.” -Cameron Woo, Publisher of Bark magazine In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million …
Cosmopolitics II
Häftad, 2011
304 kr
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Originally published in French in seven volumes, Cosmopolitics investigates the role and authority of the sciences in modern societies and challenges their claims to objectivity, rationality, and truth. Cosmopolitics II includes the first English-language translations of the last four books: …
Bioaesthetics
Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts
Häftad, 2017
334 kr
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In recent years, bioaesthetics has used the latest discoveries in evolutionary studies and neuroscience to provide new ways of looking at art and aesthetics. Carsten Strathausens remarkable exploration of this emerging field is the first comprehensive account of its ideas, as well as a timely …
Hyperobjects
Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World
Häftad, 2013
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278 kr
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Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. …
Abyss Stares Back
Encounters with Deep-Sea Life
Av Stacy Alaimo
Häftad, 2025
296 kr
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In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea?As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also grant us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world’s oceans, facilitating the …
Cosmopolitics I
Häftad, 2010
304 kr
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From Einstein’s quest for a unified field theory to Stephen Hawking’s belief that we “would know the mind of God” through such a theory, contemporary science-and physics in particular-has claimed that it alone possesses absolute knowledge of the universe. In a sweeping work of philosophical …
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information
Häftad, 2020
302 kr
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A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the livingFrom Democritus’s atomism to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, from Aristotle’s reflections on the individual to Husserl’s call for a focused return to things, from the …
Neofinalism
Häftad, 2016
302 kr
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Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post–World War II French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism, considered by many to be Ruyer’s magnum …
Bleak Joys
Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility
Av Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova
Häftad, 2019
288 kr
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A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of lifeBleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes-from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation-as aesthetic. It is also a book about “bad” …
Manifestly Haraway
Häftad, 2016
217 kr
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Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges-of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location-are …
Ideal Subjects Volume 76
The Abstract People of AI
Häftad, 2025
302 kr
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How data and artificial intelligence create a new, abstract digital subjectIdeal Subjects examines how samples of our lives and daily behaviors have come to reside in the world of data and artificial intelligence—and what this means for who we are and what we may become. Detailing how …
Obsolescence of the Human Volume 75
Av Günther Anders, Christopher John Müller m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
387 kr
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Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technologyWith this first English translation of influential German philosopher GÜnther Anders’s 1956 masterpiece of critical theory, The Obsolescence of the Human, a new generation of readers can now …
Memory of the World
Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology
Av Ted Toadvine
Häftad, 2024
331 kr
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Advancing a phenomenological approach to deep time Our imagination today is dominated by the end of the world, from sci-fi and climate fiction to actual predictions of biodiversity collapse, climate disruption, and the emergence of the Anthropocene. This obsession with the world’s precarity, The …
Jagged Ontologies Volume 81
Volume 81
Av Cary Wolfe
Häftad, 2026
285 kr
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Rethinking life, justice, and the biosphere through the sharp edges of jagged ontologyIn this groundbreaking book, Cary Wolfe dismantles some of the most entrenched assumptions in contemporary interdisciplinary thought, foremost among them the idea that "flat" ontologies are adequate to the …
What Is Posthumanism?
Av Cary Wolfe
Häftad, 2009
273 kr
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What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of …
Manifestly Haraway
Inbunden, 2016
795 kr
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Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges-of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location-are …
Gaian Systems
Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene
Av Bruce Clarke
Häftad, 2020
302 kr
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A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory’s intersections with neocybernetic systems theory Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s by atmospheric chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis. Gaian Systems is a pioneering …
Our Grateful Dead
Stories of Those Left Behind
Häftad, 2021
248 kr
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An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the livingA common remedy after suffering the loss of a loved one is to progress through the “stages of grief,” with “acceptance” as the final stage in the process. But is it necessary to leave death behind, to stop dwelling …
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis
A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique De Recherche Paranaturaliste
Häftad, 2012
248 kr
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How far apart are humans from animals-even the “vampire squid from hell”? Playing the scientist/philosopher/provocateur, VilÉm Flusser uses this question as a springboard to dive into a literal and a philosophical ocean. “The abyss that separates us” from the vampire squid (or vampire octopus, …
Abyss Stares Back
Encounters with Deep-Sea Life
Av Stacy Alaimo
Inbunden, 2025
1273 kr
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In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea?As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also grant us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world’s oceans, facilitating the …
Bios
Biopolitics and Philosophy
Häftad, 2008
274 kr
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Roberto Esposito is one of the most prolific and important exponents of contemporary Italian political theory. BÍos-his first book to be translated into English-builds on two decades of highly regarded thought, including his thesis that the modern individual-with all of its civil and political …
Poetics of DNA
Av Judith Roof
Häftad, 2007
300 kr
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How has DNA come to be seen as a cosmic truth, representative of all life, potential for all cures, repository for all identity, and end to all stories? In The Poetics of DNA, Judith Roof examines the rise of this powerful symbol and the implications of its ascendancy for the ways we think-about …
Animal Capital
Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times
Inbunden, 2009
767 kr
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Illuminates the profound contingency of market life on animal figures and fleshThe juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies-two subjects seldom theorized together-signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with …
Animal Capital
Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times
Häftad, 2009
273 kr
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Illuminates the profound contingency of market life on animal figures and fleshThe juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studies-two subjects seldom theorized together-signals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with …
Dorsality
Thinking Back Through Technology and Politics
Av David Wills
Häftad, 2008
277 kr
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In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should instead imagine an originary imbrication of …
Cosmopolitics II
Inbunden, 2011
851 kr
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Originally published in French in seven volumes, Cosmopolitics investigates the role and authority of the sciences in modern societies and challenges their claims to objectivity, rationality, and truth. Cosmopolitics II includes the first English-language translations of the last four books: …
Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans
With a Theory of Meaning
Häftad, 2010
302 kr
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Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject? With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von UexkÜll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within …
