Provocations – serie
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21 produkter
Of Weapons and Words
Al-Aqsa Flood and the Compass of Anti-Colonial Resistance
Häftad, 2026
131 kr
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“What happened on October 7—a moment of resistance that disrupted the normalized colonial structures—is an opening for bigger possibilities in the imagination and practices. It’s a confession that liberation is possible.”Of Weapons and Words presents six essays of contemporary political commentary …
Against Affect
Av Lisa Downing
Häftad, 2026
259 kr
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Against Affect interrogates shibboleths of feeling and reason and their relationship with ideas of identity, gender, and freedom in the twenty-first century. Lisa Downing starts with the familiar premise that emotion has been historically gendered and racialized since the Enlightenment, with women, …
Abolishing Freedom
A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism
Av Frank Ruda
Häftad, 2016
275 kr
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Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and …
Declarations of Dependence
Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care
Häftad, 2018
275 kr
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Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics. Scott Ferguson regrounds critical theory in the alternative conception of money articulated by the contemporary heterodox school of …
Contra Instrumentalism
A Translation Polemic
Häftad, 2019
316 kr
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Contra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This “instrumental” model of translation has dominated translation theory and commentary for more than two millennia, and its influence can be …
I'm not Like Everybody Else
Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music
Häftad, 2018
283 kr
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Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop’s music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact, found a central …
Dirty Knowledge
Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism
Häftad, 2022
267 kr
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Dirty Knowledge explores the failure of traditional conceptions of academic freedom in the age of neoliberalism. While examining and rejecting the increasing tendency to view academic freedom as a form of free speech, Julia Schleck highlights the problem of basing academic freedom on employment …
People Are Missing
Minor Literature Today
Häftad, 2021
219 kr
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“The people are missing” is a constant refrain in Gilles Deleuze and FÉlix Guattari’s writings after the 1975 publication of Kafka: Pour une litterature mineure. With the translation of this work into English (Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature) in 1986, the refrain quickly became a hallmark of …
Hatred of Sex
Av Oliver Davis, Tim Dean
Häftad, 2022
267 kr
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Hatred of Sex links Jacques RanciÈre’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity …
Free Listening
Häftad, 2024
275 kr
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Free Listening offers a radical reframing of seemingly intractable debates and polarized positions on free speech, academic freedom, systemic injustice, and political dissent by shifting attention from our voices to our ears. Instead of reclaiming the terrain of free speech that is increasingly …
Who Would You Kill to Save the World?
Häftad, 2023
313 kr
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Winner of the 2024 Hugh J. Silverman Book PrizeWho Would You Kill to Save the World? examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world-and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society. Claire Colebrook redefines “the …
Earth Is Evil
Häftad, 2025
275 kr
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The Earth Is Evil examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, political, and environmental struggles. Steven Swarbrick maintains that psychoanalysis does not simply help us integrate our desires into a …
Shut Up and Chant
Recipes for the Attention Insurgency
Häftad, 2027
312 kr
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Let's face it. Whatever attention the ubiquitous brain rot of the smartphone dosed on social media fails to exploit, the AI prompt will surely slurp up as global markets and technologies get in cahoots to harvest the totality of human attention—and, by extension, our self-awareness.Look it up for …
Renewable Normal
Av After Oil Collective, Caleb Wellum m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
259 kr
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The Renewable Normal confronts the aesthetic, affective, and political dimensions of the transition to renewable energy. Written by the After Oil Collective, the book examines how renewable energy is being marshaled to sustain existing systems of inequality and exploitation under a banner of …
Crisis of Social Reproduction
Av Silvia Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
178 kr
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War on The Old
Inbunden, 2016
114 kr
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The war on the old has been declared.In the post-Brexit world, intergenerational conflict has become a visible phenomenon. There is an overwhelming sense of blame from younger generations: it was 'the wrinklies', the grey-haired plutocracy, who voted Leave; who are overburdening hospitals, shutting …
New Philistines
Inbunden, 2016
130 kr
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Contemporary art is obsessed with the politics of identity. Visit any contemporary gallery, museum or theatre, and chances are the art on offer will be principally concerned with race, gender, sexuality, power and privilege.The quest for truth, freedom and the sacred has been thrust aside to make …
