Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism (Lovink Geert)(Paperback)

Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism (Lovink Geert)(Paperback)

Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app. Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of the growing social

The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism (Reginster Bernard)(Paperback)

In America - Travels with John Steinbeck (Mak Geert)(Paperback / softback)

In Europe (Vintage Classic Europeans Series) (Mak Geert)(Paperback / softback)

Beyond Nihilism: The Knot of Plurality (Di Marco Chiara)(Paperback)

Nihilism and/or community. The European matter. The gift of the in-common. Touching on different themes and authors, the papers presented here probe the prolificness that the terms sacred and community could have - if subtracted from the game of reactive nihilism - in checking the violence of the

In Europe - Travels Through the Twentieth Century (Mak Geert)(Paperback / softback)

Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to

Culture′s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations (Hofstede Geert)(Paperback)

Geert Hofstede has completely rewritten, revised and updated Culture′s Consequences for the twenty-first century, he has broadened the book′s cross-disciplinary appeal, expanded the coverage of countries examined from 40 to more than 50, reformulated his arguments and a large amount of new

The Essence of Nihilism (Severino Emanuele)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translation Between 1961 and 1970, Emanuele Severino was subjected to a thorough investigation by the Vatican Inquisition. The 'fundamental incompatibility' identified between his thought and Christian doctrine

Nihilism (Gertz Nolen)(Paperback)

An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, 'an ideology of nothing. ' Is nihilism, then,

Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Brassier R.)(Paperback)

This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy. Contrary to the 'post-analytic' consensus uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against scientism and scepticism, this book links

Nihilism and Technology (Gertz Nolen)(Paperback)

Heidegger, Marcuse, and Ellul warned against the rise of a technological mass culture. Philosophy of technology has since turned away from such dystopic views, promoting instead the view that we shape technologies just as technologies shape us. Yet the rise of Big Data has exceeded our worst fears

The Will to Power (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)(Paperback)

Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others. Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse into the workshop and mind of a great thinker,

Exile (Ejersbo Jakob)(Paperback / softback)

The first novel in a major trilogy exposing the guilt, loneliness and nihilism of the ex-pat experience in post-colonial

The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics (Chiesa Lorenzo)(Paperback)

This volume brings together essays by different generations of Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative, problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent Italian

Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (Warren Calvin L.)(Paperback)

In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the 'Negro question' is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for

The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (Land Nick)(Paperback)

An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's writings. In no way, though, is Nick Land's book an

An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village (Mak Geert)(Paperback)

A fascinating account from a highly acclaimed writerof the life and charming inhabitants of a typical countryside village, and how it must adapt and change in order to survive in the modern worldThe countryside is in crisis. The shops are closing down in the villages, there is no school for miles

Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures (Hofstede Gert Jan)(Paperback)

A masterpiece in intercultural training!Exploring Culture brings Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture to life. Gert Jan Hofstede and his co-authors Paul Pedersen and Geert Hofstede introduce synthetic cultures, the ten 'pure' cultural types derived from the extremes of the five

Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City (Mak Geert)(Paperback)

A magnet for trade and travelers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. In this fascinating examination of the

Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art (Woodward Ashley)(Paperback)

Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard's ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and cutting-edge sciences and technologies are

Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity (Stevens Brett)(Paperback)

Most people see the world in binary categories. They believe that there is either an inherent moral good that we must all obey, or there are no rules and life is pointless anarchy. Nihilism argues for a middle path: we lack inherent order, but are defined by our choices, which means that we must

Digital Food: From Paddock to Platform (Lewis Tania)(Paperback)

Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture (Gharajedaghi Jamshid)(Paperback)

Systems Thinking, Third Edition combines systems theory and interactive design to provide an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly characterized by chaos and complexity. This new edition has been updated to include all new chapters on

The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet (Steinberg Marc)(Paperback)