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Syracuse University Press Steel and Grit
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Syracuse University Press Victims of Commemoration
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account of space's centrality to confronting state-endorsed violence, this volume draws upon ethnographic research gathered throughout the first half of the 2010s, the period of Turkey's quickly deteriorating global image.
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Syracuse University Press Womens War Stories The Lebanese Civil War Womens
Book SynopsisDeveloped out of a larger oral history project collecting and archiving the ways in which women narrated their experiences of the Lebanese Civil War, this book focuses on a wide range of subjects, all framed as women telling their ‘war stories’.
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Syracuse University Press What the War Left Behind
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Syracuse University Press The Logic of Cooperation in Autocracies
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University of Arizona Press Alterhumanism
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John Wiley & Sons Indigenizing Japan
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University of Minnesota Press Differend
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University of Minnesota Press Unruly Practices
Book Synopsis“A wonderfully rich and insightful collection of well-integrated essays on important current thinkers and social movements.” -Martin Jay University of California, BerkeleyUnruly Practices brings together a series of widely discussed essays in feminism and social theory. Read together, they constitute a sustained critical encounter with leading European and American approaches to social theory. In addition, Nancy Fraser develops a new and original socialist-feminist critical theory that overcomes many of the limitations of current alternatives. First, in a series of critical essays, she deploys philosophical and literary techniques to sort the wheat from the chaff in the work of Michel Foucault, the French deconstructionists, Richard Rorty, and Jurgen Habermas. Then, in a group of constructive essays, she incorporates their respective strengths in a new critical theory of late-capitalist political culture. Fraser breaks new ground methodo
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University of Minnesota Press Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend
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University of Minnesota Press Infinite Conversation
Book SynopsisMaurice Blanchot here sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers, including Kafka, Pascal, Nietzsche, Brecht, and Camus, who are central to the history of Western thought and who have influenced virtually all the themes that inflect contemporary literary and philosophical debate.Table of ContentsPlural speech (the speech of writing); the limit experience; the absence of the book (the neutral, the fragmentary).
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University of Minnesota Press Fear Of A Queer Planet Queer Politics and Social
Book SynopsisReveals how queer activists and theorists have come to challenge basic assumptions of social and political thought.Table of ContentsIntroduction Michael Warner PART I Get over it: HeteroTheory; PART II Get used to it: the new queer politics
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University of Minnesota Press AntiPolitics Machine
Book SynopsisThis is a detailed case study of the workings of the "development" industry in one country, Lesotho. It shows how, despite "expertise" these projects can often fail and have serious repercussions upon the country.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction. Part 2 The "development" apparatus conceptual apparatus: the constitution of the object of "development"; Lesotho as "less developed country"; institutional apparatus - the Thaba-Tseka development project. Part 3 The "target population" - the setting - aspects of economy and society in rural Lesotho; the Bovine mystique; a study of power, property, and livestock in rural Lesotho. Part 4 The deployment of "development": livestock development; the decentralization debacle; crop development and some other programs of the Thaba-Tseka project. Part 5 Instrument-effects of a "development" project; the anti-politics machine.
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University of Minnesota Press Metamorphoses Of The Body
Book SynopsisThis investigation of power and the body offers an account of the nature of force as it functions in religious rituals, sorcery, political relations, and other social domains. It should be of interest to those interested in how bodies and power circulate in a range of human contexts and cultures.
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University of Minnesota Press Blush Faces of Shame
Book SynopsisExposes shame as a valuable emotion essential to our humanity.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Shame in love1. Doing shame2. Shame, bodies, places3. The Shamer and the shamed4. Ancestral shame5. Writing shame NotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Disagreement
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University of Minnesota Press Monster Theory
Book SynopsisMonsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argues the essays in this wide-ranging collection that asks the question, what happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture?Table of ContentsPart 1 Monster theory: Monster culture (seven theses), Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; Beowulf as palimpsest, Ruth Waterhouse; Monstrosity, illegibility, denegation: the martyrology after de Man, David L. Clark. Part 2 Monstrous identity: the odd couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb, Anne Lake Prescott; America's united siameses brothers: Chang and Eng and nineteenth century ideologies of democracy and domesticity, Allison Pingree; Liberty, equality, monstrosity: revolutionizing the family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, David Hirsch. Part 3 Monstrous inquiry: No monsters at the resurrection: inside some conjoined twins, Stephen Pender; Representing the cripple: cognition, cripples, and other limp parts, Larry Kritzman; Hermaphrodites newly discovered: the cultural monsters of sixteenth century France, Kathleen Perry Long; Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's monsters of cosmetology, Mary Baine Campbell. Part 4 Monstrous history: Vampire culture, Frank Grady; The alien and the alienated as unquiet dead in the sagas of the Icelanders, Will Sayers; Unthinking the monster: twelfth-century responses to saracen alterity, Michael Uebel; Dinosaurs-R-us: the (un)natural history of Jurassic Park, John O'Neill.
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University of Minnesota Press Manual for Using the MMPI2 as a Therapeutic
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University of Minnesota Press After The End Representations Of PostApocalypse
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University of Minnesota Press Invention Of Modern Science
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University of Minnesota Press Against The Romance Of Community
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University of Minnesota Press The Collected Poems Of Édouard Glissant
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The magnificent work of one of the most important contemporary novelists, essayists, and poets in the field of what we in Europe and North America call postcolonial literature."—American Book Review"Reading or re-reading these texts, published over half a century, one is struck by the power of this poetry, the extraordinary persistence in its original inspiration and the manner in which it announces and then exemplifies the theories developed in Poetics of Relation or Caribbean Discourse."—Literature and Arts of the Americas
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University of Minnesota Press The Reification of Desire Toward a Queer Marxism
Book SynopsisThe Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed together—formative arguments for Marxism and those that have been the basis for queer theory—and productively scrutinizes these ideas both with and against each other to put forth a new theoretical connection between Marxism and queer studies.
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University of Minnesota Press Sex Objects
Book SynopsisShows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life. This book examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized images, words, and performances. It offers an exploration of how and where art and sex connect, and reimagines the relationship between sex and art.Trade Review"Like a brassy fag hag crashing a gay sex party, Jennifer Doyle mixes it up here with a queer lot. Whether she's just watching or actively participating, whether turned on or bored, thinking or crying, or most likely all of these at once, Doyle shows how crucial a queer feminist perspective is to understanding the erotics of art." - Douglas Crimp, University of Rochester, author of Melancholia and Moralism"
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University of Minnesota Press The End Of Capitalism As We Knew It
Book SynopsisFocuses on representations of capitalism and their political effects. This edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to "The End of Capitalism" and outlines the economic research and activism they have been engaged in since the book was first published.Trade Review"Paralyzing problems are banished by this dazzlingly lucid, creative, and practical rethinking of class and economic transformation." - Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, Hong Kong "Profoundly imaginative." - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, City University of New York "Filled with insights, it is clearly written and well supported with good examples of actual, deconstructive practices." - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"
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University of Minnesota Press Politics of Touch
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University of Minnesota Press Language and Death
Book SynopsisExplores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.
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University of Minnesota Press Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams
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University of Minnesota Press What Is Posthumanism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Posthumanism? Part One: Theories, Disciplines, Ethics 1. Meaning and Event, or, Systems Theory and "The Reconstruction of Deconstruction" 2. Language and Subjectivity: Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and The Animal 3. Flesh and Finitude: Bioethics and the Philosophy of The Living 4. "Animal Studies," Disciplinarity, and the (Post)Humanities 5. Learning from Temple Grandin: Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject Part Two: Media, Culture, Practices 6. From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: The Animal Question in Contemporary Art 7. When You Can't Believe Your Eyes (Or Voice): Dancer in The Dark 8. Lose the Building: Form and System in Contemporary Architecture 9. Emerson's Romanticism, Cavell's Skepticism, Luhmann's Modernity 10. The Idea of Observation at Key West: Systems Theory, Poetry, and Form Beyond Formalism 11. The Digital, the Analog, and the Spectral: Echographies from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Notes Publication History Index
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University of Minnesota Press Digital Art and Meaning
Book SynopsisHow to interpret and critique digital arts, in theory and in practice.Trade Review"Against an aesthetic thought that privileges erotics over hermeneutics and performative presence over meaning, Roberto Simanowski demonstrates in critical detail how the web has not spelt the end of interpretation, but has complicated it. Mobilizing the history and theory of the avant-garde from Apollinaire and Dada to situationsim and aleatoric poetry, he analyzes salient examples of digital art and literature, engaging with the ways in which code and programming, hypertext, collaborative writing, and interactive installations challenge notions of authorship and audience, reading and writing. A major work on the aesthetics of the digital media by a superb close reader who cuts across literary and media studies and opens up new dimensions for the humanities. A must read for programmers and humanists, engineers and artists alike." —Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University"In a tightly interlocked set of readings of representative works ranging from concrete poetry to interactive installations, Roberto Simanowski makes a compelling case for a re-fashioned semiotic analysis that attends to the meaning produced by the formal intricacies of the work itself as well as by external processes of production and reception. In Simanowski, digital art finds the thoughtful, incisive, and erudite reader it truly deserves." —Rita Raley, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsPreface: Against the Embrace Introduction: Close Reading 1. Digital Literature 2. Kinetic Concrete Poetry 3. Text Machines 4. Interactive Installations 5. Mapping Art 6. Real-Time Web Sculpture Epilogue: Code, Interpretation, Avant-Garde Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Into the Universe of Technical Images
Book SynopsisAn examination of the promise and peril of digital communication technologies.Trade Review"Vilém Flusser’s flashes of brilliant insight, his intuitions about the psychology of gadgets and convergences, his deeply well-read and philosophically grounded investigations of wide-ranging consequences of a new literacy, are widely admired and deserve an Anglophone audience. Into the Universe of Technical Images and Does Writing Have a Future? are of the first rank in the canon of new media studies and digital culture." —Peter Krapp, author of Déjà Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory"Perhaps a turn to Flusser will change the disregard for media that so characterizes the cultural theory of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. For Flusser, however flamboyant and polemical his writing at times is, thought deeply about the emergence of electronic media and its implications for not only Western but truly global culture." —Mark Poster, from the IntroductionTable of ContentsAn Introduction to Vilém Flusser’s Into the Universe of Technical Images and Does Writing Have a Future? Mark Poster Into the Universe of Technical Images Warning To Abstract To Depict To Make Concrete To Touch To Envision To Signify To Interact To Scatter To Instruct To Discuss To Play To Create To Prepare To Decide To Govern To Shrink To Suffer To Celebrate Chamber Music Summary Translator’s Afterword and Acknowledgments Nancy Roth Translator’s Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Hegel or Spinoza
Book SynopsisThe first English-language translation of a classic work of French philosophyTrade Review"Pierre Macherey not only demonstrates how Hegel misread Spinoza, but also offers against the backdrop of the Hegelian dialectic an exciting and original interpretation of Spinoza’s thought. The alternative—Hegel or Spinoza—thus becomes a powerful and significant dividing line for politics and thought. And Macherey forces you to choose which side you are on." —Michael Hardt, coauthor of Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth"Hegel or Spinoza is a classic. Both Spinoza and Hegel emerge from Macherey’s work in nearly unrecognizable forms, allowing us to read them in unprecedented ways." —Warren Montag, author of Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and His ContemporariesTable of ContentsContentsTranslator’s Introduction: A Dialectics of EncounterTranslator’s Note and AcknowledgmentsPreface to the Second EditionThe Alternative1. Hegel Reads Spinoza2. More Geometrico3. The Problem of the Attributes4. Omnis Determinato est NegatioAbbreviationsNotesIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Alien Phenomenology or What Its Like to Be a
Book SynopsisA bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one anotherTrade Review"This book needs to be read by many different audiences since it is not only fascinating but also of considerable significance. As the task of thinking through things as actors in their own right according to Ian Bogost’s maxim ‘all things exist, yet they do not exist equally’ becomes a real intellectual project so the implications of this stance start to multiply. In turn, they begin to produce the outlines of a landscape in which things aren’t just are. Rather, they form an active cartography which is always and everywhere—an alien ontography." —Nigel Thrift, Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick"Engaging, unpretentious, and often beautiful."—PopMatters.com"Alien Phenomenology is worth a read simply because it is innovative, cleverly written, and bold."—Indie Street Radio"Bogost goes a step further to describe not just what [object-oriented ontology] is, but how one would go about practicing it."—Experimental Progress, blog"The possibilities of Bogost’s theory applied to fine arts, theater, music, education, and even science are endless."—New Orleans Review"Bogost’s book effectively constitutes an exhortation to humans to 'stop and smell the aliens'—to allow the experience of attempting to think outside of a human conceptual framework to facilitate new ways of thinking that are based in speculation and analogy."—Invisible Culture"The power of Alien Phenomenology, in my reading, is a recreation of a sense of wonder about everything we are in contact with, including the things we craft."—Itineration Journal"Beautifully written and wonderfully stimulating."—Anthem"The refreshing voice of Bogost’s philosophy is well-suited to the brand of ontology he champions, and the strength of his prose is its capacity to communicate complex concepts in a straightforward fashion without oversimplifying or essentializing."—SubStance"Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing, informed by years of video game design, encourages philosophers and theorists to reinvigorate their commitments to craft--as writers and makers."—Art PapersTable of ContentsContents1. Alien Phenomenology2. Ontography3. Metaphorism4. Carpentry5. WonderAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press A Silvan Tomkins Handbook
Book Synopsis"An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins"--Trade Review"Taking a cartographic approach to Silvan Tomkins’s considerable volumes of work, Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson extend the reach and significance of his theories of affect into new territories, problems, concepts, and tantalizing ways of approaching the ‘strange status of subjectivity.’ Unique, persuasive, and illuminating, A Silvan Tomkins Handbook is essential reading for advancing the field of affect studies beyond psychological individualisms of all kinds."—Lisa Blackman, author of Haunted Data: Affect, Transmedia, Weird Science"Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson beautifully demonstrate the distinctiveness, suppleness, complexity, and generativity of Silvan Tomkins’s writings and concepts. The handbook makes vividly and urgently clear how much there remains, in the twenty-first century, to unearth and think through in relation to this distinctive twentieth-century psychologist and to models of affect and subjective experience more broadly."—Felicity Callard, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsContentsNote on QuotationsIntroductionPart I. Affect1. Drives 2. The Face3. Evolution4. Freedom5. The Positive6. The NegativeInterlude: Tomkins and SpinozaPart II. Imagery7. Images8. Theory, Weak and Strong9. Scenes and Scripts10. IdeologyInterlude: Tomkins and DarwinPart III. Consciousness11. Psychoanalysis at the Harvard Psychological Clinic12. Cybernetics13. The Psychology of Knowledge14. The Minding SystemAcknowledgmentsChronology of Tomkins’s Life and WorkBibliography of Tomkins’s Published WritingsReferencesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Landscapes of Fear
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An elegant encyclopedic treatise on anxiety and its various manifestations, down through the ages. Tuan is an interdisciplinary virtuoso, ranging effortlessly over history, psychology, and anthropology. An arresting and beautifully documented study." —Kirkus
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University of Minnesota Press Mechanization Takes Command
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is a provocative, enlightening, sometimes frightening story." —Thomas Sugrue, New York Times"Many people have wondered what mechanization is doing to man; nobody yet has investigated, documented, and illustrated the question to the extent of this enormous and fascinating book." —Time"Giedion reveled in the splendor of such humble things, the stuff of ordinary life. He studied them lovingly and sought to convey to his readers a sense of their inner beauty, mystery, and wonder." —Technology and Culture
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University of Minnesota Press The White Possessive
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Aileen Moreton-Robinson brilliantly shows how systematically identifying whiteness with possession and dispossession deserves foregrounding in Indigenous studies."—David Roediger, University of Kansas, author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All"The White Possessive showcases the unique intellectual contribution of Aileen Moreton-Robinson, both within Australia and internationally. Prising apart concepts of race, ethnicity, and cultural difference, her book makes visible and accountable to patriarchal white subject of possession that subtends them."—The International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies"Moreton-Robinson provides her readers with an indispensable theoretical analysis with which they can (re)think the way in which the possessive logics of whiteness structure racialised populations, particularly Indigenous subjects, experiences of (non)belonging and displacement in contemporary settler colonial life."—Sociology"Most of the essays in the volume are on Australian Indigenous issues, but have relevance globally. This book provides many thought-provoking insights that could help bridge divides between scholars of indigeneity and those of whiteness."—Tribal College Journal"Moreton-Robinson provides important conceptual tools to think through how we interpret and contest settler sovereignty today and into the future."—AntipodeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty MattersPart I. Owning Property1. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society2. The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach4. Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness LiteraturePart II. Becoming Propertyless5. Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision7. Leesa’s Story: White Possession in the Workplace8. The Legacy of Cook’s ChoicePart III. Being Property9. Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty10. Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty12. Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesAfterwordNotesPublication HistoryIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Stone
Book SynopsisJeffrey Jerome Cohen reminds us in Stone, that what is often assumed to be the most lifeless of substances is, in its own time, restless and forever in motion. Cohen seamlessly brings together a wide range of topics and invites us to apprehend the world both in geological time and in other than human terms. Trade Review"A poignant and poetic book, Stone is a provocative contribution to anthropocene studies. Rather than naming humans as agents endowed with geologic force, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen contemplates our anxious collaboration with lithic matter that outlasts and eludes us. Stone is a must-read for anyone interested in rethinking the anthropocene within the geologic turn in literary and cultural studies." —Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon"If our historic engagement with stone is the story of cave painting, toolmaking, and home building, Cohen wants to recover a secret history that moves beyond such utilitarian domination. His version is about collaboration and gregarious commingling between humans and stones."—Los Angeles Review of Books"A gorgeous lovesong to lithic form, narrative endurance, and the urgent need to connect."—The Bookfish:Thalassology, Shakespeare, and Swimming"Rendered eloquently, Cohen’s text is a useful attempt at crafting a unique theoretical framework for challenging assumptions about the differences between humans and nature."—CHOICE"Ranging between the poetic and the pedantic, heroically imagining beyond its academic constraints, Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman presents a unique history that is central to some of our most urgent ecological concerns."—The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada"An elegantly structured, stylistically-rich study in theory and criticism."—SubStance"Stone is a beautifully written book that moves from scholarly engagement with medieval texts to more contemporary issues and ideas, as well as a deal of personal material, and etymological musings."—The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers a poetically charged account of stone as uncannily lively substance, the necessary ground for any articulation of ecological (and ethical) figures."—Symploke 24"a profound exploration of a fascinating topic, one that helps me in my own thinking on ecology and materiality, and one that may well stand the test of lithic time."—KronoScope"Renders a usually inanimate and unchanging world both vivid and vibrant."—Environmental History Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Stories of Stone Geophilia: The Love of StoneExcursus: The Weight of the PastTime: The Insistence of StoneExcursus: A Heart UnknownForce: The Adventure of StoneExcursus: GeologicSoul: The Life of StoneAfterword: IcelandAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Capacity Contract Intellectual Disability
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Capacity Contract brings much-needed insights to both political theory and disability studies. Its original analysis calls for the fuller recognition of the contributions of the intellectually disabled and their social inclusion as citizens."—Kristin Bumiller, Amherst College"Most political theorists would agree with Rawls that citizens need to possess cognitive capacities ‘within some normal range,’ but Stacy Clifford Simplican argues that such a ‘capacity contract’ is wrong. She provokes us to disrupt these norms."—Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota"A very interesting read."—Catholic Medical Quarterly"Simplican presents a rich analysis of the role of capacity in classic political philosophy and offers a significant contribution to the field. "—Disability Studies Quarterly"The Capacity Contract should be required reading not just for political theorists but for everybody conscientious about being alerted to unconscious patterns of bias and exclusion in their everyday lives and practices."—The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability1. Locke’s Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming EmpoweredAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Nonhuman Turn
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As we contemplate the relevance of the humanities in the twenty- first century, The Nonhuman Turn offers a valuable, if provocative, direction to pursue—question the “human” in the humanities."—ISLE"A good overview of the various strands of thinking that have contributed to thought on the Anthropocene in relation to media."—The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"A fascinating, daring and challenging read that deserves to fuel discussion and raises some interesting challenges to anthropocentric critical discourse."—The Anthropocene Review Blog"Presents rich, compelling interdisciplinary work that pushes the boundary of how we understand the human and the nonhuman, relationality, art, sympathy, and literary critical writing."—ConfigurationsTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionRichard Grusin1. The Supernormal AnimalBrian Massumi2. Consequences of PanpsychismSteven Shaviro3. ArtfulnessErin Manning4.The Aesthetics of Philosophical CarpentryIan Bogost5. Our Predictive Condition; or, Prediction in the WildMark B. N. Hansen6. Crisis, Crisis, Crisis; or, the Temporality of NetworksWendy Hui Kyong Chun7. They Are HereTimothy Morton8. Form / Matter / Chora: Object-Oriented Ontology and Feminist New MaterialismRebekah Sheldon9. Systems and Things: On Vital Materialism and Object-Oriented PhilosophyJane BennettAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press How to Talk about Videogames
Book SynopsisLeading critic Ian Bogost posits that game critique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the term games criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea, taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture.Trade Review"This is Ian Bogost at his best. Keen intelligence, acid wit, and a restless desire to look beyond the surface and tease out games’ less obvious, more important meanings."—Frank Lantz, director, NYU Game Center"No one else is as wide-ranging, funny, or inspiringly immune to cant or groupthink as Ian Bogost. How to Talk about Videogames is his most accessible and entertaining book yet."—Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives and Apostle*"Ian Bogost can take apart a game’s design and tell you exactly what makes it work and what it means to us personally and to our game-playing society. How to Talk about Videogames has deep insights into a range of current topics we are dealing with or experiencing today. There’s a lot here to learn."—John Romero, veteran game creator"If you want an engaging, enjoyable tour of the video game commentary in 2015 conducted by a smart and entertaining writer, you’d be hard-pressed to do much better than How to Talk about Videogames by Ian Bogost. "—Boston Globe"Whether Bogost is examining old favorites like Ms. Pac-Man or scrutinizing a flash-in-the-pan app like Flappy Bird, his outlook is thoughtful, inquisitive, and amused."—Game On"Bogost embraces the preposterousness and paradox of games as both consumer products and art, and in running with that tension he offers a compelling method of understanding and writing about them."—Gamechurch.com"[How to Talk about Videogames] has already proven indispensable to those of us interested in how video games have become such a vital artistic medium."—Electronic Literature"Ian Bogost’s How to Talk About Videogames isn’t just a book about games—it’s a book about criticism, and where it fits in our wider culture. Bogost is the rare academic writer whose work is as clear and exciting as the best of the mainstream, and whose critical exercises backfire by becoming enormous commercial/popular successes."—Boing BoingTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Nobody Asked for a Toaster Critic: Doing Videogame Criticism1. The Squalid Grace of Flappy Bird2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Game Studio: Flow, Flower, Journey3. A Way of Looking: Mirror's Edge4. The Blue Shell is Everything that’s Wrong with America: Mario Kart5. Little Black Sambo, I’m Going to Eat You Up!: Scribblenauts6. Can a Gobbler Have it All?: Ms. Pac-Man7. Racketeer Sports: Farmville, Candy Crush Saga, and Free to Play8. The Haute Couture of Videogames: Hundreds9. Can the Other Come Out and Play?: Between and Way10. Free Speech is not a Marketing Plan: Bully and Medal of Honor11. Shaking the Holocaust Train: Manhunt, Train, and Gestural Control12. The Long Shot: Heavy Rain13. Puzzling the Sublime: Orbital & Drop714. Work is the Best Place to Goof Off: Flight Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator, and the New Simulation15. A Trio of Artisanal Reviews: Proteus16. What is a Sports Videogame?: FIFA, Madden, and More17. The Agony of Mastery: Swing Copters18. The Abyss Between the Human and the Alpine: Mountain19. Word Games Last Forever: Words with Friends20. Perpetual Adolescence: Gone HomeConclusion. Anything But Games: Not Doing Game CriticismNotes
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John Wiley & Sons Planning White Supremacy
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University of Alabama Press The Battle for the University of Alabama
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University of Alabama Press Theaters of Translation
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University of Alabama Press Manifesting Violence
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University of Alabama Press Under the Sun
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John Wiley & Sons Planning White Supremacy
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John Wiley & Sons Torment and Tequila in Belle Epoque Mexico Four Short Works of Fiction by Jos233 L243pez Portillo y Rojas
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