Social & Cultural Theory Flyer - August 2022

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TravisHolloway

ATheoryof Assembly

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BlackFemmeArtfor Survival

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Tinsley

Acelebrationofthe distinctiveandpolitically defiantartofBlackqueer, cis-,andtransfemmes,from theworkofJanelleMonáe andJanetMocktothatof IndyaMooreandKelseyLu.Thisbookconceptualizes Blackfemmeasasetofconsciously,continually rescriptedculturalandaestheticpracticesthat disruptsconventionalmeaningsofrace,gender,and sexuality.

9781503633339 £11.99 Paperback

ANaturalandCultural HistoryofLastAnimals

Omise'ekeNatasha

KyleParry

HowtoLiveattheEndofthe World isahopefulexploration ofhowwemightinheritthe name"Anthropocene," renarrateit,andreviseour wayoflifeorthoughtinviewofit.Inhisbookon time,art,andpoliticsinaneraofescalatingclimate change,Hollowaytakesupdifficult,unanswered questionsandsketchesapathtowardaradicalform ofdemocracy—azoocracy,or,aruleofallofthe living.

Digitalandsocialmediahave transformedhowmuchand howfastwecommunicate. Buttheyhavealsoalteredthe paletteofexpressive strategies:theculturalforms thatshapehowcitizens, activists,andartistsspeakandinteract.Mostfamiliar amongthesestrategiesarestorytellingand representation.KyleParryarguesthatoneofthe mostpowerfulandpervasiveculturalformsinthe digitaleraisassembly.

May2022138pp

HowtoLiveatthe EndoftheWorld Theory,Art,andPoliticsfor theAnthropocene

TheColorPynk

January202373b&willus.and11colorplates320pp 9781517913168 £24.99 Paperback

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JoshuaSchuster

FromMuseumstoMemes

LifeonEarthisfacingamass extinctioneventofourown making.Humanactivityis changingthebiologyandthe meaningofextinction. What IsExtinction? examines severalkeymomentsthat havecometodefinethetermsofextinctionoverthe pasttwocenturies,exploringinstancesofanimaland humanfinitudeandtheculturalformsusedto documentandinterprettheseevents.

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February202316b&willus.304pp 9781531501655 £24.99 Paperback

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WhatIsExtinction?

December2022105illus.376pp 9781478018629 £23.99 Paperback

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HistoriesofFeminisminContemporary Art

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ArtistsReimaginetheArcticand Antarctic LisaE.Bloom

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October202217illus.248pp 9781478018865 £20.99 Paperback

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BadEducation

CatherineGrant

Longawaitedafter NoFuture,andmaking queertheorycontroversialagain,thisbook proposesaqueernesswithoutpositive identity—aqueernessunderstoodasa figuralnameforthevoid,itselfunnamable, aroundwhichthesocialordertakesshape.

BreathingAesthetics

BernardDionysiusGeoghegan

November202296illus.,including32incolor 288pp 9781478023241 £22.99 Paperback

Tracesthesharedintellectualandpolitical historyofcomputerscientists, cyberneticists,anthropologists,linguists, andtheoristsacrossthehumanitiesasthey developedacommunicationand computational-basedtheorythatgrasped cultureandsocietyintermsofcodes.

ATimeofOne'sOwn

Code

Jean-ThomasTremblay

Series:TheoryQ

Examineshowcontemporaryfeminist artistsareturningtobroadhistoriesof feminismrangingfrompoliticalorganizing andartworksfromthe1970stoqueerart andactivisminthe1990s.Accountingfor thegrowinginterestinfeministart, politics,andideasacrossgenerations, Grantdemonstratesthatformany contemporaryfeministartists,thepresent momentcanonlybeunderstoodthrough anembodiedengagementwithhistoryin whichfeministpastsarereinhabitedand reimagined.

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January202347illus.272pp 9781478019008 £21.99 Paperback

Communicology MutationsinHumanRelations? VilémFlusser,EditedbyRodrigo MaltezNovaes

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LeeEdelman

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STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS Series: SensingMedia:Aesthetics,Philosophy, andCulturesofMedia December2022

FromInformationTheorytoFrench Theory

imagination.Inthisbookhelaysthe

WhyQueerTheoryTeachesUsNothing

Arguesthatdifficultbreathingindexesthe unevendistributionofriskinthe contemporaryera.Examinesthe prominenceofbreathinginresponsesto contemporarycriseswithinliterature,film, andperformancecultures,showinghow breathinghasemergedasamedium throughwhichbiopoliticaland necropoliticalforcesareincreasingly exercisedandexperienced.

Considersthewayartists,filmmakers,and activistsintheArcticandAntarcticuse theirarttoillustrateourcurrent environmentalcrisesandtoreconstruct publicunderstandingofthem.Engages feminist,Black,Indigenous,andnonWesternperspectivestoaddressthe exigenciesoftheexperienceofthe Anthropoceneanditsattendantecosystem failures,risingsealevels,andclimate-led migrations.

ClimateChangeandthe NewPolarAesthetics

VilémFlusser'sfirstthesisonhisconcepts oftechnicalimagesandtechnical groundworkforlaterwork,offeringa philosophicalapproachtocommunication asaphenomenathatpermeatesevery aspectofhumanexistence. 240pp £22.99

October202229illus.232pp 9781478018759 £20.99 Paperback

GavinButttellsthestoryofthepost-punk sceneinthenorthernEnglishcityofLeeds, showinghowbandsrangingfromGangof Four,SoftCell,andDelta5toMekons, ScrittiPolitti,andFadGadgetdrewontheir universityartschooleducationtopushthe boundariesofpopmusic.

RaceandtheCulturalProductionof Surveillance

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MisogynoirTransformed

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DavidGissen

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OntheInconvenienceof OtherPeople LaurenBerlant

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WhentheLeedsArtExperimentWent Punk

Byrecontextualizingthehistoryof architecturethroughthediscourseof disability,thisbookpresentsaunique challengetocurrentmodesofarchitectural practice,theory,andeducation. Envisioninganarchitecturaldesignthat fullyintegratesdisabledpersonsintoits production,itadvocatesforlooking beyondtraditionalnotionsofaccessibility andshowshowcertainincapacitiescan helptopositivelyreimaginetherootsof architecture.

Exploreshowartistsconfrontthe racializingdimensionsofcontemporary surveillance.Hefocusesonartistsranging fromKaiWiedenhöfer,PaoloCirio,and HankWillisThomastoClaudiaRankineand DreadScottwhoengagewithwhathecalls crisisvision—theregimesofracializing surveillancethatpositionblackandbrown bodiesastargetsforpoliceandstate violence.

September202218illus.256pp 9781478018452 £20.99 Paperback

DraggingAway

Series:WritingMatters!

November202235illus.,incl.20incolor208pp 9781478018674 £20.99 Paperback

QueerAbstractioninContemporaryArt LexMorganLancaster

TheArchitectureof Disability

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NoMachosorPopStars

CrisisVision

GavinButt

LaurenBerlantcontinuestoexploreour affectiveengagementwiththeworld, focusingontheencounterwithandthe desireforthebotherofotherpeopleand objects,showingthattobedriventoward attachmentistodesiretobe inconvenienced.

TorinMonahan

July2022248pp 9781479878741 £13.99 Paperback

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BlackWomen’sDigitalResistance MoyaBailey

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Tracestheformalandmaterialinnovations ofcontemporaryqueerandfeminist artists,showinghowtheyuseabstraction asaqueeringtacticforsocialandpolitical ends.Demonstratesthatabstractionisnot apolitical,neutral,oruniversal;itisaform ofsocialpraxisthatactivelycontributesto queer,feminist,criticalrace,trans,andcrip politics.

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Buildings,Cities,andLandscapes beyondAccess

WhenMoyaBaileyfirstcoinedtheterm misogynoir,shedefineditasthewaysantiBlackandmisogynisticrepresentation shapebroaderideasaboutBlackwomen, particularlyinvisualcultureanddigital spaces.Baileydelvesintoher groundbreakingconcept,highlightingBlack women’sdigitalresistancetoanti-Black misogynyonYouTube,Facebook,Tumblr, andotherplatforms.

January202326b&willus.224pp 9781517912505 £20.99 Paperback

DamagedPlanet

Ashuman-inducedenvironmentalchange threatensmultispecieslivability,thisbook putsforwardaboldproposal:entangled histories,situatednarratives,andthick descriptionsofferurgent“artsofliving.” Includedingessaysbyscholarsin anthropology,ecology,sciencestudies,art, literature,andmorewhopositcriticaland creativetoolsforcollaborativesurvivalina more-than-humanAnthropocene.

November20224b&whalftones,16color halftones,1diagram240pp 9781501766978 £24.99 Paperback

Afrotopia

October202221illus.232pp 9781478018919 £17.99 Paperback

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ThePromiseofMultispecies Justice

RanjanGhosh

TanyaZackandMarkLewis

December2022251colorillus.,1map368pp

ThePlasticTurn

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EditedbySophieChao,Karin BolenderandEbenKirksey

Thisbookoffersastunningportraitof Johannesburgandpersonalstoriesofits residents,showinghowitsurban transformationoccursnotinaseriesof dramatic,widescalechangesbutinthe everydaylives,actions,anddreamsof individuals.

EditedbyAnnaLowenhauptTsing, NilsBubandt,ElaineGanand HeatherAnneSwanson

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TheMiniaturists

Browningexploresherattractionto tininessandthestoriesofthosewhoshare it.Interweavingautobiographywith researchonunexpectedtopicsandletting hervoraciouscuriosityguideher,sheoffers aseriesofcharmingshortessaysthat plumbwhatitmeanstoponderthe minuscule.Sheshowshowa preoccupationwithallthingstinycanbelie anattempttograspvast,andevencosmic, realities.

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November202223illus.296pp 9781478018896 £21.99 Paperback

WakeUp,ThisIsJoburg

BarbaraBrowning

Offersanovelwayoflookingatplasticas thedefiningmaterialofourageandatthe plasticityofplasticasaninnovativemeans ofunderstandingtheartsandliterature. Ghoshtermsthisapproachthematerialaestheticand,throughthisconcept,traces theemergenceanddevelopmentofplastic polymersalongthesamehistorical trajectoryasliterarymodernism.

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GhostsandMonstersofthe Anthropocene

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ArtsofLivingona

FelwineSarr,TranslatedbyDrewS. BurkandSarahJones-Boardman

Series:Univocal March2020128pp 9781517906917 £20.99

Whatarethepossibilitiesformultispecies justice?Howdosocialjusticestruggles intersectwiththelivesofanimals,plants, andothercreatures?Leadingthinkersin anthropology,geography,philosophy, speculativefiction,poetry,and contemporaryartanswerthesequestions fromdiversegroundedlocations.

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Throughareflectiononcontemporary Africanwriters,artists,intellectuals,and musicians,SarrelaboratesAfrica’sunique philosophiesandnotionsofcommunal valueandeconomydeeplyrootedinits ancienttraditionsandlandscape— conceptssuchasubuntu,thelifeforcein Dogonculture;theRwandanimihigo;and theSenegaleseteranga

Music,Politics,People,andMachines

DialecticofEnlightenment MaxHorkheimerandTheodorW. Adorno,EditedbyGunzelin SchmidNoeri,Translatedby EdmundJephcott Anew,improvedtranslationofthemost influentialpublicationoftheFrankfurt SchoolofCriticalTheory.Adornoand Horkheimeraimed"toexplainwhy humanity,insteadofenteringatruly humanstate,issinkingintoanewkindof barbarism." STANFORDUNIVERSITYPRESS Series:CulturalMemoryinthePresent

UniversityofIllinoisPress

Series:CulturalMemoryinthePresent May202296pp 9781503631762 £12.99 Paperback

Arelationofcrueloptimismexistswhen somethingyoudesireisactuallyan obstacletoyourflourishing.Offeringbold newwaysofconceivingthepresent, LaurenBerlantdescribesthecruel optimismthathasprevailedsincethe 1980s,asthesocial-democraticpromiseof thepostwarperiodintheUnitedStates andEuropehasretracted.

BobOstertag

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TheThenandThereofQueerFuturity

April20198Illus.,color,23b&willus.280pp

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CruisingUtopia arrivedin2009toinsist thatqueernessmustbereimaginedasa futurity-boundphenomenon,aninsistence onthepotentialityofanotherworldthat wouldcrackopenthepragmaticpresent. Thiseditionincludestwoessaysthat extendandexpandthisproject.

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Escobarpresentsanewvisionofdesign theoryandpracticeaimedatchanneling design'sworld-makingcapacitytoward waysofbeingthataredeeplyattunedto theEarth.Notingthatmostdesign currentlyservescapitalistends,Escobar arguesforthedevelopmentofan “autonomousdesign”thateschews commercialaims.

CruisingUtopia,10th AnniversaryEdition

Inthiseloquentandpassionatevolume, BobOstertagexploresthecommonground andpointsoffrictionamongmusic, creativity,politics,culture,andtechnology.

July200925b&wphotos208pp 9780252076466 £17.99 Paperback

BadioubyBadiou

October201158illus.352pp 9780822351115 £20.99 Paperback

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DesignsforthePluriverse

Inthisshortandaccessiblebook,the FrenchphilosopherAlainBadiouprovides readerswithauniqueintroductiontohis systemofthought,summedupinthe trilogyof BeingandEvent, Logicsof Worlds,and TheImmanenceofTruths.A veritabletourdeforceofpedagogical clarity,thisnewstudent-friendlyworkis perhapsthesinglebestgeneral introductiontotheworkofthisprolificand committedthinker.

CruelOptimism

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RadicalInterdependence,Autonomy, andtheMakingofWorlds ArturoEscobar

JoséEstebanMuñoz,Forewordby JoshuaChambers-Letson,Tavia Nyong'oandAnnPellegrini

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AlainBadiou,TranslatedbyBruno Bosteels

LaurenBerlant

CreativeLife

Series:NewEcologiesfortheTwenty-First Century March2018312pp 9780822371052 £22.99 Paperback March2007304pp

Series:TheoryandHistoryofLiterature October1986136pp 9780816615155 £18.99 Paperback

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Feminist,Queer,Crip

April20169224pp 9780816650484 £16.99 Paperback

Hyperobjects

TinaM.Campt

AlisonKafer

Electrifying,provocative,andcontroversial whenfirstpublishedthirtyyearsago, DonnaHaraway’s“CyborgManifesto”is evenmorerelevanttoday,whenthe divisionsthatshesoeloquently challenges—ofhumanandmachinebut alsoofgender,class,race,ethnicity, sexuality,andlocation—areincreasingly complex.Deeplydedicatedtoadiverse androbustearthlyflourishing, Manifestly Haraway promisestoreigniteneeded discussioninandoutoftheacademy aboutbiologies,technologies,histories, andstillpossiblefutures.

PhilosophyandEcologyaftertheEndof theWorld

TowardaMinorLiterature

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Inthisclassicofcriticalthought,Deleuze andGuattarichallengeconventional interpretationsofKafka’swork.Insteadof exploringpreexistingcategoriesorliterary genres,theyproposeaconceptof“minor literature”—theuseofamajorlanguage thatsubvertsitfromwithin.Writingasa JewinPrague,theycontend,Kafkamade German“takeflightonalineofescape” andjoyfullybecameastrangerwithinit.

TheLogicofSensation

ListeningtoImages

TimothyMorton

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May2005224pp 9780816643424 £18.99 Paperback

September201323240pp

FrancisBacon

Globalwarmingisperhapsthemost dramaticexampleofwhatTimothyMorton calls“hyperobjects”—entitiesofsuchvast temporalandspatialdimensionsthatthey defeattraditionalideasaboutwhatathing isinthefirstplace.Mortonexplainswhat hyperobjectsareandtheirimpactonhow wethink,howwecoexist,andhowwe experienceourpolitics,ethics,andart.

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GillesDeleuze

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ManifestlyHaraway

DonnaJ.Haraway,PrefacebyCary Wolfe

9780816689231 £20.99 Paperback

Deleuzeoffersimplicitandexplicitinsights intotheoriginsanddevelopmentofhis ownphilosophicalandaestheticideas, ideasthatrepresentaturningpointinhis intellectualtrajectory.Firstpublishedin Frenchin1981, FrancisBacon hascometo berecognizedasoneofDeleuze’smost significanttextsinaesthetics.Anticipating hisworkoncinema,thebaroque,and literarycriticism,thebookcanbereadnot onlyasastudyofBacon’spaintingsbut alsoasacrucialtextwithinDeleuze’s broaderphilosophyofart.

Challengingthewaysinwhichideasabout thefutureandtimehavebeendeployedin theserviceofcompulsoryable-bodiedness andable-mindedness,Kaferrejectsthe ideaofdisabilityasapre-determined limit.Thisboldbookgoesagainstthegrain ofnormalizationandpromotesapolitical frameworkforamorejustworld.

GillesDeleuze

April2017136photos(inclu.30in152pp 9780822362708 £19.99 Paperback

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Camptexploresawayoflisteningto photographybyengagingwithlostarchives ofstateidentificationphotographsofAfrodiasporanpeopletakenbetweenthelate 1800sandthepresent,showinghowto hearthequietrefusalemanatingfrom thesephotosoriginallyintendedto dehumanizeandpolicetheirsubjects.

Kafka

May20132b&willus.276pp 9780253009340 £21.99 Paperback

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AchilleMbembe

Series:TheoryinForms

KathleenStewart

Series:SeriesQ

December199212illus.232pp 9780822313663 £20.99 Paperback

AchilleMbembetheorizesthegenealogy ofthecontemporaryworld—oneplagued byinequality,militarization,enmity,anda resurgenceofracist,fascist,andnationalist forces—andcallsforaradicalrevisionof humanismathemeanstocreateamore justsociety.

In OnDecoloniality WalterD.Mignoloand CatherineE.Walshexplorethehidden forcesofthecolonialmatrixofpower,its origination,transformation,andcurrent presence,whileaskingthecrucial questionsofdecoloniality´show,what, why,withwhom,andwhatfor.

Inthissearingpolemic,LeeEdelman outlinesaradicallyuncompromisingnew ethicsofqueertheory.Hismaintargetis theall-pervasivefigureofthechild,which hereadsasthelinchpinofouruniversal politicsof“reproductivefuturism.”In No Future,Edelmanurgesqueerstoabandon thestanceofaccommodationandaccede totheirstatusasfiguresfortheforceofa negativitythathelinkswith irony, jouissance,and,ultimately,thedeath driveitself.

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MaríaPuigdelaBellacasa

September2007144pp 9780822341079 £19.99 Paperback

SpeculativeEthicsinMorethanHuman Worlds

Concepts,Analytics,Praxis

WalterD.MignoloandCatherineE. Walsh

OrdinaryAffects

Tocarecanfeelgood,oritcanfeelbad.It candogood,itcanoppress.Butwhatis care?Amoralobligation?Aburden?Ajoy? Isitonlyhuman?In MattersofCare, MaríaPuigdelaBellacasapresentsa powerfulchallengetoconventionalnotions ofcare,exploringitssignificanceasan ethicalandpoliticalobligationforthinking inthemorethanhumanworldsof technoscienceandnaturecultures.

SusanStewart

QueerTheoryandtheDeathDrive LeeEdelman

NarrativesoftheMiniature,the Gigantic,theSouvenir,theCollection

December200461illus.208pp 9780822333692 £20.99 Paperback

October2019224pp 9781478006510 £20.99 Paperback

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Series:Posthumanities

March2017280pp

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June2018304pp 9780822371090 £22.99 Paperback

MattersofCare

OnLonging

OrdinaryAffects isasingularargumentfor attentiontotheaffectivedimensionsof everydaylifeandthepotentialthat animatestheordinary.Knownforherfocus onthepoeticsandpoliticsoflanguageand landscape,theanthropologistKathleen Stewartpondershowordinaryimpacts createthesubjectasacapacitytoaffect andbeaffected.

Necropolitics

NoFuture

OnDecoloniality

Miniaturebooks,eighteenth-century novels,TomThumbweddings,talltales, andobjectsoftourismandnostalgia:this diversegroupofculturalformsisthe subjectof OnLonging,afascinating analysisofthewaysinwhicheveryday objectsarenarratedtoanimateorrealize certainversionsoftheworld.

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Treatingsuchissuesasanimalsex,species politics,environmentaljustice,lesbian spaceand"gay"ghettos,AIDSliteratures, andqueernationalities,thislively collectionasksimportantquestionsatthe intersectionsofsexualityand environmentalstudies.Contributorsfroma widerangeofdisciplinespresentafocused engagementwiththecritical, philosophical,andpoliticaldimensionsof sexandnature.

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SensesoftheSubject

MaxLiboironmodelsananticolonial scientificpracticealignedwithIndigenous conceptsofland,ethics,andrelationsto outlinetheentanglementsofcapitalism, colonialism,andenvironmentalscience.

AndreyTarkovsky,Translatedby KittyHunter-Blair

Nowinpaperback,FredricJameson’smost wide-rangingworkseekstocrystalizea definitionof”postmodernism”.Jameson’s inquirylooksatthepostmodernacrossa widelandscape,from“high”artto“low” frommarketideologytoarchitecture,from paintingto“punk”film,fromvideoartto literature.

FredricJameson

SelectedWritingsonRace andDifference

Postmodernism,or,The CulturalLogicofLate Capitalism

SculptinginTime

Series:StuartHall:SelectedWritings April2021376pp 9781478011668 £25.99 Paperback

April1989256pp 9780292776241 £22.99 Paperback

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MaxLiboiron

DrawingonherearlyworkonHegelian desireandhersubsequentreflectionson thepsychiclifeofpowerandthepossibility ofself-narration,thisbookconsidershow passionssuchasdesire,rage,love,and griefareboundupwithbecominga subjectwithinspecifichistoricalfieldsof power.

January199224illus.,8incolor460pp 9780822310907 £15.99 Paperback

ReflectionsontheCinema

In SculptinginTime, Tarkovskysetsdown histhoughtsandhismemories,revealing forthefirsttimetheoriginalinspirations forhisextraordinaryfilms. Hediscusses theirhistoryandhismethodsofwork,he exploresthemanyproblemsofvisual creativity,andhesetsforththedeeply autobiographicalcontentofpartofhis oeuvre—mostfascinatinglyin The Mirror and Nostalgia.

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Sex,Nature,Politics,Desire

JudithButler

QueerEcologies

FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS March2015228pp 9780823264674 £20.99 Paperback

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SelectedWritingsonRaceandDifference gathersmorethantwentyessaysbyStuart Hallthathighlighthisextensiveand groundbreakingengagementwithrace, representation,identity,difference,and diaspora.

StuartHall,EditedbyPaulGilroy andRuthWilsonGilmore

PollutionIsColonialism

CatrionaMortimer-Sandilandsand BruceErickson

May202110illus.216pp 9781478014133 £20.99 Paperback

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July20103b&willus.424pp 9780253222039 £24.99 Paperback

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TowardtheCritiqueof Violence

MakingKinintheChthulucene

SummaTechnologiae

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StanisławLem,Translatedby JoannaZylinska

ThePleasureinDrawing

January20141440pp 9780816675777 £20.99 Paperback

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MarkingthecentenaryofWalter Benjamin'simmenselyinfluentialessay, thiscriticaleditionpresentsanaltogether new,fullyannotatedtranslationofawork thatiswidelyrecognizedasaclassicof modernpoliticaltheory.

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DonnaJ.Harawayrefiguresourcurrent epoch,movingawayfromthe AnthropocenetowardtheChthulucene:an epochinwhichwestaywiththetroubleof livinganddyingonadamagedearthwhile livingwithandunderstandingthe nonhumanincomplexwaysconduciveto buildingmorelivablefutures.

July2013128pp

In SummaTechnologiae,StanisławLem producedanengagingandcaustically logicalphilosophicaltreatiseabouthuman andnonhumanlifeinitspast,present,and futureforms.Afterfivedecadesthiswork haslostnoneofitsintellectualorcritical significance,resonatingwithcontemporary debatesaboutinformationandnew media,thelifesciences,andtheemerging relationshipbetweentechnologyand humanity.

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August201572pp

January2001248pp 9780816638772 £18.99 Paperback

June2021368pp

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StayingwiththeTrouble

September201631illus.,incl.2inc312pp 9780822362241 £22.99 Paperback

ThePerspectiveofExperience

Jean-LucNancy,Translatedby PhilipArmstrong

SpaceAndPlace

WalterBenjamin,EditedbyPeter FenvesandJuliaNg

TheBurnoutSociety Byung-ChulHan

OriginallywrittenforanexhibitionNancy curatedattheMuseumofFineArtsinLyon in2007,thetextaddressesthemediumof drawinginlightofforminitsformation,of formasaformativeforce,openingdrawing toquestionsofpleasureanddesire.

ExploreshowCaliforniaChicano/awriters, journalists,artists,activists,andmusicians haveusedexpressiveculturetoopposethe community-destroyingforcesofurban renewalprogramsandmassivefreeway developmentandtocreateanddefenda senseofChicanoplace-identity.

Everyepochhasitsemblematicillnesses, thisbookargues,andoursocietyis undergoingasilentparadigmshiftthathas ledtothepathologicalexhaustion commonlyreferredtoas"burnout." Denouncingaworldinwhichevery against-the-grainresponsecanleadto furtherdisempowerment,Byung-ChulHan drawsonliterature,philosophy,andthe socialandnaturalsciencestoexplorethe stakesofsacrificingintermittent intellectualreflectionforconstantneural connection.

DonnaJ.Haraway

Series:ExperimentalFutures

ACriticalEdition

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Yi-FuTuan

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Series:ElectronicMediations

WildThings

October20207illus.240pp

TheDisorderofDesire

GilbertSimondon,Translatedby DrewS.Burk

APoliticalEcologyofThings

VibrantMatter

9781478011088 £20.99 Paperback

Asaphilosopheroftechnology, Simondon’sworkhasaplaceatthe forefrontofcurrentthinkinginmedia, technology,psychology,andphilosophy withcomplexaccountsofman’s relationshiptotechnologyandtherealm thatcontinuestoformitselfviathis tensionbetweenmanandhistechnical universe.Inthisintroductionto Simondon’soeuvre,thereaderhasaccess tothegroundingofoneofthemost fundamentalandcriticalquestionsthathas beenthefocusofphilosophyformillennia: therelationshipbetweenmanandanimal.

JackHalberstamoffersanalternative historyofsexualitybytracingthewaysin whichthewild—aspacelocatedbeyond normativebordersofsexuality—offers sourcesofoppositiontoknowingand beingthattransgressEuro-American notionsofthemodernsubject.

TwoLessonsonAnimaland Man

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Series:Univocal June201288pp 9781937561017 £18.99 Paperback

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Series:PerverseModernities:ASeriesEditedby JackHalberstamandLisaLowe

Series:aJohnHopeFranklinCenterBook January2010200pp 9780822346333 £20.99 Paperback

JackHalberstam

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JaneBennett

Theorizesthepoliticalagencyofthingsand naturalphenomena—suchastrash,food, weather,andelectricity—toexaminehow non-humanelementsexertforceon humanpoliticsandsocialrelations.

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