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Grammatology Of Images - A History Of The A-Visible

by Sigrid Weigel

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 Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images by asking after imaging as such. How does something a-visible get transformed into an image? The book illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between religion and science, and between things that are and are not understood as art.
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Shattering Biopolitics - Militant Listening And The Sound Of Life

by Naomi Waltham-Smith

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 Failures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.
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Grammatology Of Images - A History Of The A-Visible

by Sigrid Weigel

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 Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images by asking after imaging as such. How does something a-visible get transformed into an image? The book illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between religion and science, and between things that are and are not understood as art.
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Form And Event - Principles For An Interpretation Of The Greek World

by Carlo Diano

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 Dianoâ€™s Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy, anticipating the work of Deleuze, Badiou, Esposito, and Agamben. It now appears in English for the first time, with a substantial Introduction that situates the book in the genealogy of modern political philosophy.
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Practicing Caste - On Touching And Not Touching

by Aniket Jaaware

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 Practicing Caste attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, showing the limits of the historical, sociological, political, and moral categories through which it has usually been discussed. Engaging with the resources phenomenology, structuralism, and poststructuralism offer to our thinking of the body, Jaaware helps to illuminate the ethical relations that caste entails, especially around its injunctions concerning touching. The resulting insights offer new ways of thinking about sociality that are pertinent not only to India but also to thinking the common on a planetary basis.
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Practicing Caste - On Touching And Not Touching

by Aniket Jaaware

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 Practicing Caste attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, showing the limits of the historical, sociological, political, and moral categories through which it has usually been discussed. Engaging with the resources phenomenology, structuralism, and poststructuralism offer to our thinking of the body, Jaaware helps to illuminate the ethical relations that caste entails, especially around its injunctions concerning touching. The resulting insights offer new ways of thinking about sociality that are pertinent not only to India but also to thinking the common on a planetary basis.
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Practicing Caste - On Touching And Not Touching

by Aniket Jaaware

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 Practicing Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.
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Goods - Advertising, Urban Space, And The Moral Law Of The Image

by Emanuele Coccia

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 Objects are all around us - and images of objects, advertisements for objects. Things are no longer merely purely physical or economic entities: within the visual economy of advertising, they are inescapably moral. Any object, regardless of its nature, can for at least a moment aspire to be "good," can become not just an object of value but a complex of possible happiness, a moral source of perfection for any one of us. Our relation to things, Coccia, argues in this provocative book, is what makes us human, and the object world must be conceived as an ultimate artifact in order for it to be the site of what the philosophical tradition has considered "the good." Thinking a radical political praxis against a facile materialist critique of things, Coccia shows how objects become the medium through which a city enunciates its ethos, making available an ethical life to those who live among them. When we acknowledge that our notion of "the good" resides within a world of things, we must grant that in advertising, humans have revealed themselves as organisms that are ethically inseparable from the very things they produce, exchange, and desire. In the advertising imaginary, to be human is to be a moral cyborgs whose existence attains ethical perfection only via the universe of things. The necessary alienation which commodities cause and express is moral rather than economic or social; we need our own products not just to survive biologically or to improve the physical conditions of our existence, but to live morally. Ultimately, Coccia’s provocative book offers a radically political rethinking of the power of images. The problem of contemporary politics is not the anesthetization of words but the excess power we invest in them. Within images, we already live in another form of political life, which has very little to do with the one invented and formalized by the ancient and modern legal tradition. All we need to do is to recognize it. Advertising and fashion are just the primitive, sometimes grotesque, but ultimately irrepressible prefiguration of the new politics to come.
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Bilingual Brokers - Race, Literature, And Language As Human Capital

by Jeehyun Lim

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 Bilingual Brokers examines bilingual personhood in Asian American and Latino literature through postwar debates on bilingualism to illustrate a regime of flexible inclusion where an economic calculus of value for racialized subjects crystallizes at the intersections of language and racial difference and is used in deliberations of social worthiness.
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Two - The Machine Of Political Theology And The Place Of Thought

by Roberto Esposito

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 This book describes the historical underpinnings of political theology that continue to exert their influence. The confluence of Roman and Christian notions on the person fuels an exclusionary mechanism that unites by dividing people. Restoring thought to an impersonal place of universal access can help to end this oppressive conceptual regime.
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The Subject Of Freedom - Kant, Levinas

by Gabriela Basterra

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 This book proposes a conversation between Immanuel Kantâ€™s first two Critiques and Emmanuel Levinasâ€™s Otherwise than Being to reflect on the ideas of freedom, obligation, subjectivity, ethics, autonomy and thinking.
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The Subject Of Freedom - Kant, Levinas

by Gabriela Basterra

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 This book proposes a conversation between Immanuel Kantâ€™s first two Critiques and Emmanuel Levinasâ€™s Otherwise than Being to reflect on the ideas of freedom, obligation, subjectivity, ethics, autonomy and thinking.
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The Life Of Things, The Love Of Things

by Remo Bodei

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 From prehistoric stone tools to machines to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of production, coming from diverse histories, enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often unaware.
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The Reject - Community, Politics, And Religion After The Subject

by Irving Goh

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 This book proposes the reject as the figure of thought for our contemporaneous times. It shows how the reject can open us to radical forms of relations, democratic horizons, and â€œpost-secularâ€ and â€œposthumanâ€ futures not only beyond anthropocentric limits, but also in ways by which others and their differences are affirmed respectfully.
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Stasis Before The State - Nine Theses On Agonistic Democracy

by Dimitris Vardoulakis

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 This book critiques the relation between sovereignty and democracy. Across nine theses, Vardoulakis argues that sovereignty asserts its power by establishing exclusions: the sovereign excluding other citizens from power and excludes refugees and immigrants from citizenship. Within this structure, to resist sovereignty is to reproduce the logic of exclusion characteristic of sovereignty. In contrast to this "ruse of sovereignty," Vardoulakis proposes an alternative model for political change. He argues that democracy can be understood as the structure of power that does not rely on exclusions and whose relation to sovereignty is marked not by exclusion but of incessant agonism. The term stasis, which refers both to the state and to revolution against it, offers a tension that helps to show how the democratic imperative is presupposed by the logic of sovereignty, and how agonism is more primary than exclusion. In elaborating this ancient but only recently recovered concept of stasis, Vardoulakis illustrates the radical potential of democracy to move beyond the logic of exclusion and the ruse of sovereignty.
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The Origin Of The Political - Hannah Arendt Or Simone Weil?

by Roberto Esposito

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 In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that "great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by being observed by others"— as the common origin and point of departure for our understanding of Western philosophical and political traditions, Esposito examines the foundational relation between war and the political. Drawing actively and extensively on Arendt’s and Weil’s voluminous writings, but also sparring with thinkers from Marx to Heidegger, The Origin of the Political traverses the relation between polemos and polis, between Greece, Rome, God, force, technicity, evil, and the extension of the Christian imperial tradition, while at the same time delineating the conceptual and hermeneutic ground for the development of Esposito’s notion and practice of "the impolitical." In Esposito’s account Arendt and Weil emerge "in the inverse of the other’s thought, in the shadow of the other’s light," to "think what the thought of the other excludes not as something that is foreign, but rather as something that appears unthinkable and, for that very reason, remains to be thought." Moving slowly toward their conceptualizations of love and heroism, Esposito unravels the West’s illusory metaphysical dream of peace, obliging us to reevaluate ceaselessly what it means to be responsible in the wake of past and contemporary forms of war.
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Techne Of Giving - Cinema And The Generous Form Of Life

by Timothy C. Campbell

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 In The Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving.
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Citizen Subject - Foundations For Philosophical Anthropology

by Étienne Balibar

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 A collection of Essays over the last 20 years, exploring different dimensions (historical, political, philosophical, literary) of the philosophical debate on "subjecthood" and "subjectivity" in Modernity, as it was framed by the "Controversy on the subject" from the 1960's, and showing how it is now continued in a "controversy on the Universal".
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Scandalize My Name - Black Feminist Practice And The Making Of Black Social Life

by Terrion L. Williamson

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 "A cultural analysis of representation and representational discourse that advances black feminist practice as a modality through which black social life is both theorized and made material."
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Blackpentecostal Breath - The Aesthetics Of Possibility

by Ashon T. Crawley

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 In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in which alternative or "otherwise" modes of existence can serve as disruptions against the marginalization of and violence against minoritarian lifeworlds and possibilities for flourishing. Examining the whooping, shouting, noise-making, and speaking in tongues of Black Pentecostalism—a multi-racial, multi-class, multi-national Christian sect with one strand of its modern genesis in 1906 Los Angeles—Blackpentecostal Breath reveals how these aesthetic practices allow for the emergence of alternative modes of social organization. As Crawley deftly reveals, these choreographic, sonic, and visual practices and the sensual experiences they create are not only important for imagining what Crawley identifies as "otherwise worlds of possibility," they also yield a general hermeneutics, a methodology for reading culture in an era when such expressions are increasingly under siege.
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The Disavowed Community

by Jean-Luc Nancy

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 Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Communityâ€"a book outlining a critical response to Jean-Luc Nancyâ€™s early proposal for thinking an â€œinoperative communityâ€â€"The Disavowed Community offers a close reading of Blanchotâ€™s text.
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Citizen Subject - Foundations For Philosophical Anthropology

by Étienne Balibar

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 A collection of Essays over the last 20 years, exploring different dimensions (historical, political, philosophical, literary) of the philosophical debate on â€œsubjecthoodâ€ and â€œsubjectivityâ€ in Modernity, as it was framed by the â€œControversy on the subjectâ€ from the 1960â€™s, and showing how it is now continued in a â€œcontroversy on the Universalâ€.
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Blackpentecostal Breath - The Aesthetics Of Possibility

by Ashon T. Crawley

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 Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility investigates the relationship of aesthetic productions to modes of collective, social intellectual practice. Engaging black studies, queer theory, sound studies, literary theory, theological studies, continental philosophy and visual studies, Black Pentecostal Breath analyzes the ways otherwise modes of existence are disruptions of marginalization and violence.
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Sensible Life - A Micro-Ontology Of The Image

by Emanuele Coccia

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 This book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion and language.
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