Visual Modernities – serie
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17 produkter
Visualising the Empire of Capital
Inbunden, 2019
2519 kr
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Methods of visualising modernity and capitalism have been central to classical social science. Those methods of seeing, specifically in the work of Marx, were attempts to capture visually the fragmenting edifice of capital in its death throes and were part of a project to hasten its demise - yet …
Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction
Medicine, Military, and Morality in American Film
Inbunden, 2021
2519 kr
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With a focus on I Am Legend and Day of the Dead—two series of film remakes of popular science fiction stories—this book addresses the social origins of the recent surge in authoritarian and populist social movements. Exploring the ways in which the themes of tribalism, confidence in medical …
Art, Critical Pedagogy and Capitalism
Inbunden, 2020
2594 kr
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This book offers a re-examination of art production in terms that understand the process of learning as the production of art itself. Drawing on the thought of Ranciere, Freire, Gramsci and Mouffe, it provides an account of the politics of art production and a theoretical understanding of hegemonic …
Art Worlding
Planning Relations
Inbunden, 2021
2594 kr
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Tracing the associations between artists, planners and engineers with and within the materials of our environment, this book introduces the relational theory of ‘art worlding’ as a way of coming to know our organic continuity. Through a series of ‘sculptural’ ethnographies of the making and doing …
Art Worlding
Planning Relations
Häftad, 2023
714 kr
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Tracing the associations between artists, planners and engineers with and within the materials of our environment, this book introduces the relational theory of ‘art worlding’ as a way of coming to know our organic continuity. Through a series of ‘sculptural’ ethnographies of the making and doing …
Visualising Worlds
World-Making and Social Theory
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical sociology, including social change, transformation, …
Visualising Worlds
World-Making and Social Theory
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical sociology, including social change, transformation, …
Art, Critical Pedagogy and Capitalism
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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This book offers a re-examination of art production in terms that understand the process of learning as the production of art itself. Drawing on the thought of Ranciere, Freire, Gramsci and Mouffe, it provides an account of the politics of art production and a theoretical understanding of hegemonic …
Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction
Medicine, Military, and Morality in American Film
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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With a focus on I Am Legend and Day of the Dead—two series of film remakes of popular science fiction stories—this book addresses the social origins of the recent surge in authoritarian and populist social movements. Exploring the ways in which the themes of tribalism, confidence in medical …
Visualising the Empire of Capital
Häftad, 2021
826 kr
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Methods of visualising modernity and capitalism have been central to classical social science. Those methods of seeing, specifically in the work of Marx, were attempts to capture visually the fragmenting edifice of capital in its death throes and were part of a project to hasten its demise - yet …
Building Modern Antiquity
Hymns and Laments for Athens
Inbunden, 2024
2594 kr
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This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism. With a focus on modern antiquity as the hidden element of the dialectic between the past and the present, it suggests that the sociological study of one of the great European capital …
Building Modern Antiquity
Hymns and Laments for Athens
Häftad, 2026
684 kr
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This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism. With a focus on modern antiquity as the hidden element of the dialectic between the past and the present, it suggests that the sociological study of one of the great European capital …
Frederick Sommer
A World of Bonds
Inbunden, 2025
2594 kr
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This pioneering book offers fresh insights into the photographic work of the American artist Frederick Sommer, whose long career spanned the 20th century. With detailed analyses of individual photographs, Frederick Sommer: A World of Bonds unpacks the ways in which the artist generates ‘other ways …
Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History
Ghost Theory
Inbunden, 2023
2519 kr
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Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History looks at the global phenomena of the dead in world history, examining the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy.From Hegel’s ‘World-Spirit’ to Max Weber’s ‘Verstehen’ and Marx’s phantasms, there is a recurring obsession with the …
Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History
Ghost Theory
Häftad, 2024
649 kr
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Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History looks at the global phenomena of the dead in world history, examining the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy.From Hegel’s ‘World-Spirit’ to Max Weber’s ‘Verstehen’ and Marx’s phantasms, there is a recurring obsession with the …
Strategic Visualisation of Abstract Violence
21st Century Power and Dissident Image-Making
Av Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen
Inbunden, 2026
2557 kr
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This book explores the witnessing and visualization of 21st century warfare and state-corporate-military power, examining contemporary ‘post-photographic’ art documentary practices and their departure from socially ‘realistic’ representations of war and conflict, to more abstract, conceptual, but …
Visualising the Worlds of Modernity
Adventures in Shadow Play
Inbunden, 2027
2855 kr
Kommande
This book examines the visual and material cultures of modernity through the radical imagination of world-building. It reasserts the central concept of the authors’ previous work that visualising the imaginary makes possible the building of the actual.As the world continues to reflect on its …
