Death of the PostHuman undertakes a series of critical encounters with the legacy of what had come to be known as ‘theory,’ and its contemporary ...
Continue Reading →Michael W. Clune is an American writer and critic. His creative and critical writing has appeared in Harper’s, Salon, Granta, PMLA, the New Yorker, and ...
Continue Reading →In this major work, sociologists Boltanski and Chiapello ask why anti-capitalist critique seems so impotent in the face of new forms of market-oriented business practice, ...
Continue Reading →Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was a groundbreaking writer—a utopian visionary, a scientist, a science-fiction pioneer. She moved in philosophical circles that included Thomas ...
Continue Reading →Like us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through their senses. Yet sensory experience has rarely been considered in ...
Continue Reading →In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most “material” dimensions of ...
Continue Reading →Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the ‘queer troublemaker’ is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern ...
Continue Reading →This book explores the future of critique in view of our planetary condition. How are we to intervene in contemporary constellations of finance capitalism, climate ...
Continue Reading →From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell—a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic—has played a pivotal role in western culture ...
Continue Reading →The idea of the fourth dimension of space has been of sustained interest to nineteenth-century and Modernist studies since the publication of Linda Dalrymple Henderson’s ...
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