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Resurgent Commons - Feminist Political Ecologies In The European South

by Miriam Tola

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 Once dismissed as tragedy, the commons have been making a comeback. Amid intensifying social and environmental injustices in neoliberal regimes, scholars and activists have turned to the commonshistorically, the shared ownership of landas a way to express more just ways of living within and against the grasp of capitalism. Resurgent Commons reframes the commons by foregrounding relations of care and socio-ecological reproduction, while questioning anthropocentric formulations that would render the commons a set of available resources and the product of human cooperation. Interdisciplinary in nature, Tolas book troubles universalist accounts of the commons by unearthing its ambivalent role in European colonial histories marked by racial and sexual violence and environmental destruction. As central case studies, the book considers contemporary political projects that enact feminist, anti-racist and more-than-human practices of urban commoning in Rome, a sprawling built environment in the European South that is also a city of ruins. From transfeminist commons to struggles for repairing areas where industrial ruins and recalcitrant natures coexist, to encounters with indigenous perspectives from the Americas, resurgent commons enact forms of life that are at odds with dominant regimes of property and governance. The book shows how a reconsideration of a supposedly obsolete mode of shared ownership can enable new modes of inhabiting the earth.
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Cybernetic Capitalism - A Critical Theory Of The Incommunicable

by Jan Overwijk

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 Cybernetic Capitalism develops a critical systems theory in order to conceptualize the cybernetic rationalization of contemporary capitalism. Today, the book argues, capital no longer aims at total communicability, but seeks to put the incommunicable to work.
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Last Acts - The Art Of Dying On The Early Modern Stage

by Maggie Vinter

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 Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death. The book analyzes representations of dying in plays by writers including Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson, alongside devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory.
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Earth, Life, And System - Evolution And Ecology On A Gaian Planet

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 Earth, Life & System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet explores the multiple themes of Lynn Margulisâ€™s science: microbial evolution, ecology and symbiosis, the coupled interactions of environment and life in Gaia theory, and the connections of these newer scientific ideas to cultural and creative productions.
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The Unconstructable Earth - An Ecology Of Separation

by Frédéric Neyrat

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 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.
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The Technological Introject - Friedrich Kittler Between Implementation And The Incalculable

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 The Technological Introject explores the futures opened up across the humanities and social sciences by the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler. Joining the German tradition of media studies and systems theory to the Franco-American theoretical tradition marked by poststructuralism, Kittler’s work has redrawn the boundaries of disciplines and of scholarly traditions. The contributors position Kittler in relation to Marshall McLuhan, Jacques Derrida, discourse analysis, film theory, and psychoanalysis. Ultimately, the book shows the continuing relevance of the often uncomfortable questions Kittler opened up about the cultural production and its technological entanglements.
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The Beginning Of Heaven And Earth Has No Name - Seven Days With Second-Order Cybernetics

by Heinz Von Foerster

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 Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of Heinz von Foerster's cybernetic ideas and of the philosophy latent within them.
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The Beginning Of Heaven And Earth Has No Name - Seven Days With Second-Order Cybernetics

by Heinz Von Foerster

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 Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of Heinz von Foerster's cybernetic ideas and of the philosophy latent within them.
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Google Me - One-Click Democracy

by Barbara Cassin

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 "Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy." In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. Enlisting her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition, Cassin demolishes the Google myth of a "good" tech company and its "democracy of clicks," laying bare the philosophical poverty and political naiveté that underwrites its founding slogans: "Organize the world’s information," and "Don’t be evil." For Cassin, this conjunction of globalizing knowledge and moral imperative is frighteningly similar to the way American demagogues justify their own universalizing mission before the world. While sensitive to the possibilities of technology and to Google’s playful appeal, Cassin shows what is lost when a narrow worship of information becomes dogma, such that research comes to mean data mining and other languages become provincial "flavors" folded into an impoverished Globish, or global English.
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Earth, Life, And System - Evolution And Ecology On A Gaian Planet

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 Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis’s work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural science studies, and literature and science. Addressing the multiple themes that animated Margulis’s science, the essays within take up, variously, astrobiology and the origin of life, ecology and symbiosis from the microbial to the planetary scale, the coupled interactions of earthly environments and evolving life in Gaia theory and earth system science, and the connections of these newer scientific ideas to cultural and creative productions. Dorion Sagan acquaints the reader with salient issues in Lynn Margulis’s scientific work, the controversies they raised, and the vocabulary necessary to follow the arguments. Sankar Chatterjee synthesizes several strands of current theory for the origin of life on earth. James Strick tells the intertwined origin stories of James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis and Margulis’s serial endosymbiosis theory. Jan Sapp explores the distinct phylogenetic visions of Margulis and Carl Woese. Susan Squier examines the epigenetics of embryologist and developmental biologist C. H. Waddington. Bruce Clarke studies the convergence of ecosystem ecology, systems theory, and science fiction between the 1960s and the 1980s. James Shapiro discusses the genome evolution that results not from random changes but rather from active cell processes. Susan Oyama shows how the concept of development balances an over-emphasis on genetic coding and other deterministic schemas. Christopher Witmore studies the ways in which a concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, mixes up natural resources, animal lives, and human appetites. And Peter Westbroek brings the insights of earth system science toward a new worldview essential for a proper response to global change.
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Expanded Cinema - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

by Gene Youngblood

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In Your Eyes I See My Words - Homilies And Speeches From Buenos Aires, Volume 2: 2005â€“2008

by Pope Francis

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Resurgent Commons - Feminist Political Ecologies In The European South

by Miriam Tola

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 Resurgent Commons shows how a reconsideration of a supposedly obsolete mode of shared ownership can enable new modes of inhabiting the earth.
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Resurgent Commons - Feminist Political Ecologies In The European South

by Miriam Tola

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 Resurgent Commons shows how a reconsideration of a supposedly obsolete mode of shared ownership can enable new modes of inhabiting the earth.
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Cybernetic Capitalism - A Critical Theory Of The Incommunicable

by Jan Overwijk

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 Cybernetic Capitalism develops a critical systems theory in order to conceptualize the cybernetic rationalization of contemporary capitalism. Today, the book argues, capital no longer aims at total communicability, but seeks to put the incommunicable to work.
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Be That Way

by Hope Larson

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Superbaby

by Stephanie Ledyard; Illustration: Lincoln Agnew

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Brooklyn Bridge Park - A Dying Waterfront Transformed

by Henrik Krogius

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A Worldly Affair - New York, The United Nations, And The Story Behind Their Unlikely Bond

by Pamela Hanlon

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Exterranean - Extraction In The Humanist Anthropocene

by Phillip John Usher

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Reading Sideways - The Queer Politics Of Art In Modern American Fiction

by Dana Seitler

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Noir Affect

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 Noir Affect defines noir in relationship to negative affect. It traces noirâ€™s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and a range of different media. The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation, resentment, resistance, and refusal.
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Xenocitizens - Illiberal Ontologies In Nineteenth-Century America

by Jason Berger

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 Xenocitizens returns to the nineteenth century in order to uncover realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant liberal paradigms. Examining how antebellum crises pushed writers to formulate alternative ontological and social models for personhood and sociality, Xenocitizens glimpses startlingly unique and unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change.
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Osnabruck Station To Jerusalem

by Hélène Cixous

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 An inventive literary account of Cixousâ€™s remarkable journey to her motherâ€™s birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust.
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