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Insurgencies
Constituent Power and the Modern State
Häftad, 2009
302 kr
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New EditionIn the ten years since the initial publication of Insurgencies, Antonio Negri's reputation as one of the world's foremost political philosophers has grown dramatically. An invigorating appraisal of revolutionary thought, Insurgencies is both the precursor to and the historical basis for …
Means Without End
Notes on Politics
Häftad, 2000
282 kr
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An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. In this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben builds on his previous work to address the status and …
Labor of Dionysus
A Critique of the State-Form
Häftad, 1994
329 kr
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“Labor is the living, form-giving fire,” Marx wrote. “It is the transitoriness of things, their temporality, as their transformation by living time.” How is it, then, that labor, with all its life-affirming potential, has become the means of capitalist discipline, exploitation, and domination in …
Coming Community
Häftad, 1993
282 kr
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Unquestionably an influential thinker in Italy today, Giorgio Agamben has contributed to some of the most vital philosophical debates of our time. "The Coming Community" is an indispensable addition to the body of his work. How can we conceive a human community that lays no claim to identity - …
Capital Times
Tales from the Conquest of Time
Av Eric Alliez
Häftad, 1996
329 kr
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Time is money, Benjamin Franklin once said, and in a reading of European philosophy, this text shows how true this adage is. A history of philosophy of time, and a comparison of ways of conceiving the temporal, this work attempts to unravel the theoretical frameworks that have given time its shape …
Cinematic Body
Häftad, 1993
316 kr
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In The Cinematic Body, Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbinder’s gay sex icons and George Romero’s flesh-eating zombies, The Cinematic Body cuts across disciplinary boundaries and seeks to engage new currents in …
Bad Aboriginal Art
Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons
Häftad, 1994
302 kr
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Bad Aboriginal Art is the extraordinary account of Eric Michaels’ period of residence and work with the Warlpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on remote Aboriginal communities.Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, Michaels records with an …
Power and Invention
Situating Science
Häftad, 1997
316 kr
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Using the law of thermodynamics, Stengers sets out to explain the consequences of non-linear dynamics (or chaos theory) for philosophy and science. The author makes a case for the concept of complexity that transcends the conventional boundaries of scientific discourse and that clearly exposes the …
New Spinoza
Av Warren Montag, Warren Montag m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
302 kr
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To see the presence of Spinoza, Louis Althusser once quipped "one must at least have heard of him". The essays collected in this volume suggest that what applies to Althusser applies to this whole generation - that Spinoza is an unsuspected but very real presence in the work of contemporary …
Metamorphoses of the Body
Av Jose Gil
Häftad, 1998
316 kr
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This investigation of power and the body offers an account of the nature of force as it functions in religious rituals, sorcery, political relations, and other social domains. It should be of interest to those interested in how bodies and power circulate in a range of human contexts and cultures.
Methodology of the Oppressed
Häftad, 2000
274 kr
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A new approach to feminist thought that challenges current critical theories.In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that …
Arrow of Chaos
Romanticism and Postmodernity
Häftad, 1997
508 kr
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Traces the relationship between the texts and obsessions of the Romantic and postmodern periods.Arrow of Chaos navigates through postmodern coordinates such as chaos theory and fractals as well as literary and cultural theory, mapping the ongoing mutations of Romanticism in postmodern culture and …
When Pain Strikes
Av Bill Burns, Cathy Busby m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
699 kr
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When Pain Strikes was first published in 1998. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.When pain strikes, do you raid the medicine cabinet? Read a …
Critical Environments
Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside"
Av Cary Wolfe
Häftad, 1998
288 kr
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Argues for a pragmatist orientation for postmodern theory.Taking up the problem that has stalled contemporary theory-its treatment of the object of knowledge, the “outside,” as nothing but what a particular discourse makes of it-this book suggests a solution: a reinvigorated, posthumanist form of …
Deleuze
The Clamor of Being
Av Alain Badiou
Häftad, 1999
245 kr
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This volume draws on a five-year correspondence undertaken by Badiou and Deleuze near the end of Deleuze''s life, when the two put aside long-standing political and philosophical differences to exchange ideas about similar problems in their work'
Globalizing Aids
Av Cindy Patton
Häftad, 2002
282 kr
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A long-awaited look at responses to the AIDS epidemic in relation to globalizationAs AIDS began to appear around the "global village" in the early 1980s, the closeness brought by new technologies no longer promised wondrous cultural exchange; instead it made possible the transmission of a …
Matrixial Borderspace
Häftad, 2006
311 kr
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Artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents an original theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. Ettinger works through Lacan's late works, the anti-Oedipal perspectives of Deleuze and Guattari, as well …
Signs of Danger
Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat
Häftad, 2004
275 kr
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Questions the literal burying of the nuclear threat and how it relates to expectations for our futureA rising ocean. A falling building. A toxic river. Species extinguished. A nuclear landscape. In a world so configured, the state of contemporary ecological thought and practice is woefully-and …
Modernity at Sea
Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis
Häftad, 2002
331 kr
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Analyzes nineteenth-century seafaring narratives and their importance to ideas of modernityAt once a literary-philosophical meditation on the question of modernity and a manifesto for a new form of literary criticism, Modernity at Sea argues that the nineteenth-century sea narrative played a …
Wetwares
Experiments in Postvital Living
Häftad, 2003
302 kr
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A dizzying tour of the ways technologies, both real and imagined, can transform humanityThe mind of the machine, the body suspended in time, organs exchanged, thought computed, genes manipulated, DNA samples abducted by aliens: the terrain between science and speculation, fraught with the …
Neuropolitics
Thinking, Culture, Speed
Häftad, 2002
245 kr
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A surprising exploration of connections between culture, neuroscience, and our experience of time.Why would a political theorist venture into the nexus between neuroscience and film? According to William Connolly-whose new book is itself an eloquent answer-the combination exposes the ubiquitous …
Trust
Häftad, 2004
205 kr
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A traveler to the world’s remote corners muses on human relationships and the nature of travelTrust is inherent in travel. We ask strangers for directions or for a ride. We live among people whose language, culture, and motivations we don’t understand. Trust binds us to one another with an …
Sound Ideas
Music, Machines, and Experience
Av Aden Evens
Häftad, 2005
325 kr
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As people from record collectors to file swappers know, the experience of music - making it, marketing it, listening to it - relies heavily on technology. From the viola that amplifies the vibrations of a string to the CD player that turns digital bits into varying voltage, music and technology are …
Radical Thought in Italy
A Potential Politics
Häftad, 2006
288 kr
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Over the past several decades, Italian revolutionary politics has offered a model for new forms of political thinking. Radical Thought in Italy continues that tradition by providing an original view of the potential for a radical democratic politics today that speaks not only to the Italian …
Year of Passages
Häftad, 1995
347 kr
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Straddling the boundary between fiction and nonfiction, this rich and unconventional novel provokes thought at the turn of every page. It is a tale of exile and passage, a tale that moves in multiple directions, full of gusto and rollicking irony.The tale is narrated by a North African author who …
Becoming-Woman
Häftad, 1997
330 kr
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Griggers analyses contemporary articulations of the feminine in American cultural practices ranging from fashion to foeticide, and from Hollywood''s production of fe minine charismatic military leaders to pop-mediated lesbiani sm. '
Cinematic Identity
Anatomy of a Problem Film
Av Cindy Patton
Häftad, 2007
261 kr
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Though largely forgotten today, the 1949 film Pinky had a significant impact on the world of cinema. Directed by Elia Kazan, the film was a box office success despite dealing with the era’s most taboo subjects-miscegenation and racial passing-and garnered an Academy Award nomination for its African …
