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39 produkter
Authoring Autism
On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
Häftad, 2018
358 kr
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In Authoring Autism M. Remi Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity-neuroqueerness-rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies …
Minor Gesture
Av Erin Manning
Häftad, 2016
279 kr
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In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it …
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Politics of the Pluriverse
Häftad, 2021
269 kr
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In Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Martin Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse amid the ongoing devastation of the present. Responding to an epoch marked by the history of colonialism and ecological devastation, Savransky draws on the pragmatic pluralism of William James to …
Nature As Event
The Lure of the Possible
Häftad, 2017
259 kr
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We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objectivity, the apparent from the real, value from fact, and the human from the nonhuman? Can the great oppositions that presided over the modern invention …
William James
Empiricism and Pragmatism
Häftad, 2019
274 kr
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Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to James's thought and a pioneering rereading of it. Examining pragmatism's fundamental questions …
Minor Gesture
Av Erin Manning
Inbunden, 2016
1273 kr
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In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it …
Nature As Event
The Lure of the Possible
Inbunden, 2017
1020 kr
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We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objectivity, the apparent from the real, value from fact, and the human from the nonhuman? Can the great oppositions that presided over the modern invention …
Authoring Autism
On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
Inbunden, 2018
1529 kr
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In Authoring Autism M. Remi Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity-neuroqueerness-rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies …
Political Sublime
Inbunden, 2018
1442 kr
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In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, …
Political Sublime
Häftad, 2018
345 kr
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In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, …
See It Feelingly
Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor
Inbunden, 2018
526 kr
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“We each have Skype accounts and use them to discuss [Moby-Dick] face to face. Once a week, we spread the worded whale out in front of us; we dissect its head, eyes, and bones, careful not to hurt or kill it. The Professor and I are not whale hunters. We are not letting the whale die. We are …
Figures of Time
Affect and the Television of Preemption
Av Toni Pape
Inbunden, 2019
1531 kr
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Many contemporary television series from Modern Family to How to Get Away with Murder open an episode or season with a conflict and then go back in time to show how that conflict came to be. In Figures of Time Toni Pape examines these narratives, showing how these leaps in time create aesthetic …
Figures of Time
Affect and the Television of Preemption
Av Toni Pape
Häftad, 2019
366 kr
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Many contemporary television series from Modern Family to How to Get Away with Murder open an episode or season with a conflict and then go back in time to show how that conflict came to be. In Figures of Time Toni Pape examines these narratives, showing how these leaps in time create aesthetic …
Animate Literacies
Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism
Av Nathan Snaza
Inbunden, 2019
1658 kr
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In Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the social and used as a means to define the human. Weaving new materialism with feminist, queer, and decolonial thought, Snaza theorizes literacy as a …
Animate Literacies
Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism
Av Nathan Snaza
Häftad, 2019
396 kr
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In Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the social and used as a means to define the human. Weaving new materialism with feminist, queer, and decolonial thought, Snaza theorizes literacy as a …
William James
Empiricism and Pragmatism
Inbunden, 2019
1076 kr
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Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to James's thought and a pioneering rereading of it. Examining pragmatism's fundamental questions …
Radiation and Revolution
Av Sabu Kohso
Inbunden, 2020
1400 kr
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In Radiation and Revolution political theorist and anticapitalist activist Sabu Kohso uses the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to illuminate the relationship between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state. Combining an activist's commitment to changing the world with a theorist's …
For a Pragmatics of the Useless
Av Erin Manning
Inbunden, 2020
1301 kr
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What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning examines what falls outside the purview of already-known functions and established standards of …
World Computer
Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism
Inbunden, 2021
1217 kr
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In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily …
Radiation and Revolution
Av Sabu Kohso
Häftad, 2020
345 kr
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In Radiation and Revolution political theorist and anticapitalist activist Sabu Kohso uses the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to illuminate the relationship between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state. Combining an activist's commitment to changing the world with a theorist's …
For a Pragmatics of the Useless
Av Erin Manning
Häftad, 2020
345 kr
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What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning examines what falls outside the purview of already-known functions and established standards of …
World Computer
Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism
Häftad, 2021
331 kr
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In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily …
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Politics of the Pluriverse
Inbunden, 2021
1133 kr
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In Around the Day in Eighty Worlds Martin Savransky calls for a radical politics of the pluriverse amid the ongoing devastation of the present. Responding to an epoch marked by the history of colonialism and ecological devastation, Savransky draws on the pragmatic pluralism of William James to …
Art As Information Ecology
Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2021
1195 kr
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In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its …
Couplets
Travels in Speculative Pragmatism
Inbunden, 2021
1034 kr
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In Couplets, Brian Massumi presents twenty-four essays that represent the full spectrum of his work during the past thirty years. Conceived as a companion volume to Parables for the Virtual, Couplets addresses the key concepts of Parables from different angles and contextualizes them, allowing …
Art As Information Ecology
Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics
Häftad, 2021
311 kr
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In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its …
Couplets
Travels in Speculative Pragmatism
Häftad, 2021
373 kr
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In Couplets, Brian Massumi presents twenty-four essays that represent the full spectrum of his work during the past thirty years. Conceived as a companion volume to Parables for the Virtual, Couplets addresses the key concepts of Parables from different angles and contextualizes them, allowing …
Listening in the Afterlife of Data
Aesthetics, Pragmatics, and Incommunication
Inbunden, 2022
1133 kr
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In Listening in the Afterlife of Data, David Cecchetto theorizes sound, communication, and data by analyzing them in the contexts of the practical workings of specific technologies, situations, and artworks. In a time he calls the afterlife of data-the cultural context in which data’s hegemony …
Earworm and Event
Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains
Inbunden, 2022
1076 kr
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In Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads. Through a series of meditations on …
Dreadful Desires
The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China
Inbunden, 2022
1195 kr
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In Dreadful Desires Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population and secure China’s place in the global economy. Zhang shows how the state frames love as a set of desires that encompass heteronormative intimacy, familial and communal …
