Science Studies

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Infectious Liberty

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...

ISBN: 9780823294596

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Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, Robert Saler, Andrew Albin, Peter C. Bouteneff, Maria Cizmic, Jeffers Engelhardt, Adriana Helbig, Paul Hillier, Kevin Karnes, Alexander Lingas, Christopher May, Ivan Moody, Robert Saler, Andrew Shenton, Toomas Siitan, Sevin Yaraman

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

Contributor(s): Andrew Albin, Peter C. Bouteneff, Maria Cizmic, Jeffers Engelhardt, Adriana Helbig, Paul Hillier, Kevin Karnes, Alexander Lingas, Christopher May, Ivan Moody, Robert Saler, Andrew Shenton, Toomas Siitan 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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Material Mystery

Karmen MacKendrick

Material Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or “glorious” body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine character of all matter.

ISBN: 9780823294558

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The Geological Unconscious

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...

ISBN: 9780823288090

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Living with Tiny Aliens

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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Expanded Cinema

Gene Youngblood, R. Buckminster Fuller

Gene Youngblood

Published in 1970, Expanded Cinema was the first book to capture the explosion of video, computers, and holography as filmmaking technologies, inaugurating media arts as an artistic and scholarly discipline. The introductory essay by R. Buckminster Fuller established an encompassing 1960s countercultural context. The new Introduction of the 50th anniversary edition brings Expanded Cinema into the twenty-first century by exploring the social, cultural, and political implications of today’s expanded cinema technologies.

ISBN: 9780823287413

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Being Brains

Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega

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

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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Levels of Organic Life and the Human

Helmuth Plessner, Millay Hyatt, J. M. Bernstein

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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Reoccupy Earth

David Wood

Habit rules our lives. While many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell ecological disaster. Beyond consumerism, other ways of living are clearly possible. Reoccupy Earth shows how an approach to philosophy attuned to our ecological existence can suspend the taken-for-granted and open up alternative forms of earthly dwelling.

ISBN: 9780823283538

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Exterranean

Phillip John Usher

Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images...

ISBN: 9780823284214

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Pathological Realities

Mirko Grmek, Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

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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When God Was a Bird

Mark I. Wallace

2019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNERIn a time of rapid climate change and species extinction, what role have the world’s religions played in ameliorating—or causing—the crisis we now...

ISBN: 9780823281312

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Deep Time, Dark Times

David Wood

The new geological epoch we call the Anthropocene is not just a scientific classification. It marks a radical transformation in the background conditions of life on Earth, one taken for granted by...

ISBN: 9780823281350

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Systems of Life

Richard A. Barney, Warren Montag, Richard A. Barney, Timothy C. Campbell, Mrinalini Chakravorty, James Edward Ford, III, Amanda Jo Goldstein, Pierre Macherey, Annika Mann, Christian Marouby, Warren Montag, Catherine Packham, Joseph Serrano

Edited by Richard A. Barney and Warren Montag

Contributor(s): Richard A. Barney, Timothy C. Campbell, Mrinalini Chakravorty, James Edward Ford, III, Amanda Jo Goldstein, Pierre Macherey, Annika Mann, Christian Marouby, Warren Montag, Catherine Packham and Joseph Serrano

Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid– eighteenth to the mid–nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature,...

ISBN: 9780823281718

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The Unconstructable Earth

Frédéric Neyrat, Drew S. Burk

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 Color of the Moon

Laura L. Vookles, Bartholomew F. Bland, Hudson River Museum, Stella Paul, Ted Barrow, Melissa Martens Yaverbaum

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...

ISBN: 9780823280971

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Plato and the Invention of Life

Michael Naas

Beginning with a reading of Plato’s Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in Plato’s thought. It argues that in his later dialogues Plato discovers—or invents—a form of true or real life that transcends all merely biological life and everything that is commonly called life.

ISBN: 9780823279685

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Eco-Deconstruction

Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes, David Wood, Karen Barad, Timothy Clark, Claire Colebrook, Matthias Fritsch, Vicki Kirby, John Llewelyn, Philippe Lynes, Michael Marder, Dawne McCance, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Michael Peterson, Ted Toadvine, Cary Wolfe, David Wood

Edited by Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes and David Wood

Contributor(s): Karen Barad, Timothy Clark, Claire Colebrook, Matthias Fritsch, Vicki Kirby, John Llewelyn, Philippe Lynes, Michael Marder, Dawne McCance, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Michael Peterson, Ted Toadvine, Cary Wolfe and David Wood

Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher...

ISBN: 9780823279517

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Monkey Trouble

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

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

Frédéric Neyrat, Walt Hunter, Lindsay Turner, Steven Shaviro

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,...

ISBN: 9780823277568

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The Writing of Spirit

Sarah M. Pourciau

Contemporary thought has been profoundly shaped by the early-twentieth-century turn toward synchronic models of explanation, which analyze phenomena as they appear at a single moment, rather than...

ISBN: 9780823275632

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Entangled Worlds

Catherine Keller, Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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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Renaissance Posthumanism

Joseph Campana, Scott Maisano

Edited by Joseph Campana and Scott Maisano

Renaissance Posthumanism brings together two historical periods—“Renaissance” signifying a rebirth of the ancient and “Posthumanism” a death of the modern—to ponder each through the possibilities of the other. This collection rethinks the humanities under the auspices of the posthumanities of the posthumanities under the auspices of Renaissance humanism.

ISBN: 9780823269563

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Science Studies

Infectious Liberty

Arvo Pärt

Material Mystery

The Geological Unconscious

Living with Tiny Aliens

Expanded Cinema

Being Brains

The Reproduction of Life Death

Levels of Organic Life and the Human

Reoccupy Earth

Exterranean

Pathological Realities

When God Was a Bird

Deep Time, Dark Times

Systems of Life

The Unconstructable Earth

The Color of the Moon

Plato and the Invention of Life

Eco-Deconstruction

Monkey Trouble

Derrida after the End of Writing

Atopias

The Writing of Spirit

Entangled Worlds

Renaissance Posthumanism

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