John Guillory challenges the most fundamental premises of the canon debate by resituating the problem of canon formation in an entirely new theoretical framework. The ...
Continue Reading →I want to make plausible the following claim: Analyzing scientific inquiry as a species of socially distributed cognition has a variety of advantages for science ...
Continue Reading →In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate ...
Continue Reading →Life typically becomes an object of reflection when it is seen to be under threat. In particular, humans have a tendency to engage in thinking ...
Continue Reading →In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ...
Continue Reading →The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital ‘second life’, genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and ...
Continue Reading →Sex After Life aims to consider the various ways in which the concept of life has provided normative and moralizing ballast for queer, feminist and ...
Continue Reading →Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, in Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and ...
Continue Reading →This first volume of Niklas Luhmann’s two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize ...
Continue Reading →“Rob Shields provides here an immensely sophisticated and detailed examination of the topological turn. He has been examining these issues for some decades and this ...
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