Science Studies

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Reoccupy Earth

David Wood

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

The Color of the Moon

The Color of the Moon

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

Edited by Laura L. Vookles and Bartholomew F. Bland

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

The moon—its face, color, and power—threads through the tapestry of American landscape painting, holding timeless allure for artists and beloved by viewers of paintings everywhere. The Hudson...

ISBN: 9780823280971

Exterranean

Phillip John Usher

Phillip John Usher

Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean eschews the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across periods and languages. congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across periods and languages.

ISBN: 9780823284214

Pathological Realities

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

Systems of Life

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

When God Was a Bird

When God Was a Bird

Mark I. Wallace

Mark I. Wallace

In 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 face? Religion in general, and Christianity...

ISBN: 9780823281312

The Unconstructable Earth

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

Plato and the Invention of Life

Plato and the Invention of Life

Michael Naas

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

Eco-Deconstruction

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

Derrida after the End of Writing

Derrida after the End of Writing

Clayton Crockett

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

Monkey Trouble

Christopher Peterson

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

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

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

Levels of Organic Life and the Human

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

The Reproduction of Life Death

The Reproduction of Life Death

Dawne McCance

Dawne McCance

Based on archival translations of Derrida’s as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance’s Derrida and 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

The Writing of Spirit

The Writing of Spirit

Sarah M. Pourciau

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

Entangled Worlds

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

Fueling Culture

Fueling Culture

Imre Szeman, Jennifer Wenzel, Patricia Yaeger

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

Light and Death

Light and Death

Judith H. Anderson

Judith H. Anderson

Death, light, figuration and, especially, analogical expressions of figuration, are the primary subjects of this book. They generate associated interests: the relation of literature and science, the methodology of thought and argument, and the processes of narrative, discovery, and interpretation. Creativity, optics, rhetoric, and language are focal as well.

ISBN: 9780823272778

Mental Language

Mental Language

Claude Panaccio, Joshua P. Hochschild, Meredith K. Ziebart

Claude Panaccio

Translated by Joshua P. Hochschild and Meredith K. Ziebart

This book offers a history of the idea that human thought is structured like a language, from Plato and Aristotle up to the fourteenth century when William of Ockham gave it a new importance and developed it in a systematic way.

ISBN: 9780823272600

The Limits of Fabrication

The Limits of Fabrication

Nathan Brown

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

The Alchemy of Empire

The Alchemy of Empire

Rajani Sudan

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

Husserl's Missing Technologies

Husserl's Missing Technologies

Don Ihde

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

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ

Leif Weatherby

Leif Weatherby

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs Romantic Organology, a discourse that German Romantics developed by combining scientific and philosophical discourses about biological function and speculative thought. Organology attempted to think a politically and scientifically destabilized world, and offered a metaphysics meant to alter the structure of that world.

ISBN: 9780823269419

Upside-Down Gods

Upside-Down Gods

Peter Harries-Jones

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