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Telling the Bees

An Interspecies Monologue

Dominic Pettman

Could an ancient tradition replace social media? What if we shared our thoughts with the bees, rather than the hive mind of the Internet?

ISBN: 9781531508494

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The Planning Moment

Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Edited by Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Anindita Nag, Martina Schlünder and Sarah Van Beurden

Contributor(s): Itty Abraham, Benjamin Allen, Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Lino Camprubi, John DiMoia, Mona Fawaz, Lilly Irani, Chihyung Jeon, Robert Kett, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Karen McAllister, Laura Mitchell, Gregg Mitman, Aaron Moore, Nada Moumtaz, Tahani Nadim, Anindita Nag, Raul Necochea López, Tamar Novick, Juno Salazar Parreñas, Benjamin Peters, Dagmar Schäfer, Martina Schlünder, Sarah Van Beurden, Ana Carolina Vimiero, Alexandra Widmer and Alden Young

The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book’s twenty-seven case studies draw attention to the centrality of planning in colonial and postcolonial environments, relationships, and contexts.

ISBN: 9781531506636

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Thinking Through the Imagination

Aesthetics in Human Cognition

John Kaag

An important scholarly contribution from the author of several trade books on philosophy that have reached a wide readership.

ISBN: 9781531501846

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Kaleidophonic Modernity

Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature

Brett Brehm

What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting...

ISBN: 9781531501495

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Infectious Liberty

Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism

Robert Mitchell

Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era debates...

ISBN: 9780823294596

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Arvo Pärt

Sounding the Sacred

Edited by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt and Robert Saler

Contributor(s): Andrew Albin, Peter C. Bouteneff, Maria Cizmic, Jeffers Engelhardt, Adriana Helbig, Kevin Karnes, Alexander Lingas, Christopher May, Ivan Moody, Robert Saler, Andrew Shenton and Sevin Yaraman

Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo Pärt: Sounding...

ISBN: 9780823289769

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The Geological Unconscious

German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary

Jason Groves

Already in the nineteenth century, German-language writers were contending with the challenge of imagining and accounting for a planet whose volatility bore little resemblance to the images of the Earth...

ISBN: 9780823288090

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Living with Tiny Aliens

The Image of God for the Anthropocene

Adam Pryor

Living with Tiny Aliens imagines in theological terms how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists within a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities.

ISBN: 9780823287710

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Radical Botany

Plants and Speculative Fiction

Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari

Radical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. The book traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants within literature and art for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought.

ISBN: 9780823286621

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Levels of Organic Life and the Human

An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology

Helmuth Plessner

Translated by Millay Hyatt

A modern classic, this powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment was first published in German in 1928 and now appears in English for the first time. With reference simultaneously to science, social theory, and philosophy, Plessner shows how life can be seen on its own terms to establish its own boundaries. Plessner’s account of how the human establishes itself in relation to the nonhuman will invigorate a range of current conversations around the animal, posthumanism, the material turn, and the biology and sociology of cognition.

ISBN: 9780823283989

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Being Brains

Making the Cerebral Subject

Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega

Sketches the history of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, and documents and critically discusses its contemporary forms across a range of contexts, including mental health, the human sciences, and literature and film.

ISBN: 9780823283682

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The Reproduction of Life Death

Derrida's La vie la mort

Dawne McCance

Based on archival translations of Derrida’s as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance’s The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida’s engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity as theorized and performed by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

ISBN: 9780823283903

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The Color of the Moon

Lunar Painting in American Art

Hudson River Museum

Edited by Laura L. Vookles and Bartholomew F. Bland

Contributor(s): Stella Paul, Ted Barrow and Melissa Martens Yaverbaum

ON MY MODERN MET'S TOP TEN LIST OF BEST CREATIVE BOOKS TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOON LANDINGThe moon—its face, color, and power—threads through the tapestry of American landscape painting,...

ISBN: 9780823280971

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Pathological Realities

Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History

Mirko Grmek

Translated and Edited by Pierre-Olivier Méthot

A collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting some important strands of his published work, it covers deep epistemological changes in disease concepts and major advances in the life sciences and their historiography.

ISBN: 9780823280353

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The Unconstructable Earth

An Ecology of Separation

Frédéric Neyrat

Translated by Drew S. Burk

This book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire to remake and master it.

ISBN: 9780823282579

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The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

Anson Rabinbach

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at the rise and decline of “the great utopias of labor” in the first half of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780823278572

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Monkey Trouble

The Scandal of Posthumanism

Christopher Peterson

Monkey Trouble explores the turn toward immanence in contemporary posthumanism, which aims to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient things. This book argues that the displacement of anthropocentrism must cultivate a human/nonhuman relationality that affirms the immanent transcendency spawned by our phantasmatic humanness.

ISBN: 9780823277803

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Derrida after the End of Writing

Political Theology and New Materialism

Clayton Crockett

This book offers a new materialist interpretation of Derrida’s later work, including his engagements with religion and politics. It argues that there is a shift from a context or background motor scheme of writing to what Derrida calls the machinic, and Catherine Malabou calls plasticity.

ISBN: 9780823277841

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Atopias

Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism

Frédéric Neyrat

Translated by Walt Hunter and Lindsay Turner

This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside “atopia”: not utopia, a...

ISBN: 9780823277568

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Entangled Worlds

Religion, Science, and New Materialisms

Edited by Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane Rubenstein

This collection examines the intersections of religion and “new” materialisms. Calling upon an interdisciplinary throng of scholars in science studies, religious studies, and theology, it assembles a multiplicity of experimental perspectives on materiality: what is matter, how does it materialize, and what sort of worlds are enacted in its varied entanglements with divinity?

ISBN: 9780823276226

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Fueling Culture

101 Words for Energy and Environment

Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger

Edited by Imre Szeman

A collection of brief reflections on keywords related to energy, including the various substances and forces with which humans have produced energy, and their past, present, and future implications for values, politics, culture, and environment.

ISBN: 9780823273911

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The Limits of Fabrication

Materials Science, Materialist Poetics

Nathan Brown

The Limits of Fabrication engages anew with traditional understandings of poetry as a practice of making or building, putting this approach to the test and radicalizing its implications by studying models of form and structure in twentieth and twenty-first century materialist poetics alongside recent innovations in materials science and engineering.

ISBN: 9780823272990

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The Alchemy of Empire

Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism

Rajani Sudan

The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, and forms of knowledge like inoculation, arguing that East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted.

ISBN: 9780823270682

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Upside-Down Gods

Gregory Bateson's World of Difference

Peter Harries-Jones

Human survival requires a reorientation of science away from its exclusive technical and materialist premises focused on control, towards feedback and relational processes of organism-plus-environment. Gregory Bateson’s holistic approach unites culture, communication, psychology, biology and ecology within a single trans-disciplinary enquiry substituting pattern, perceptual difference, and relations for ‘thinginess’ of scientific data.

ISBN: 9780823270354

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Husserl's Missing Technologies

Don Ihde

Don Ihde, contemporary postphenomenological philosopher of science and technology—technoscience—examines the important philosophical role of Husserl, here in relation to technologies, and his classical phenomenology. With concrete analyses of both the science of Husserl’s time and a retrospective reading from new technoscience interpretations, scientific instruments, technologies of reading and writing, and new imaging technologies are discussed.

ISBN: 9780823269617

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Telling the Bees

The Planning Moment

Thinking Through the Imagination

Kaleidophonic Modernity

Infectious Liberty

Arvo Pärt

The Geological Unconscious

Living with Tiny Aliens

Radical Botany

Levels of Organic Life and the Human

Being Brains

The Reproduction of Life Death

The Color of the Moon

Pathological Realities

The Unconstructable Earth

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

Monkey Trouble

Derrida after the End of Writing

Atopias

Entangled Worlds

Fueling Culture

The Limits of Fabrication

The Alchemy of Empire

Upside-Down Gods

Husserl's Missing Technologies

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