Singularity: Politics and Poetics (Weber Samuel)(Paperback)

Singularity: Politics and Poetics (Weber Samuel)(Paperback)

An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature For readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel Weber is essential reading. Singularity is no

Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge (Briggs Charles L.)(Paperback)

A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as well as critical readings of the field, that

Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Clifford James)(Paperback)

These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, cultural studies, social history, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. They grapple with issues of power and poetics in contemporary situations of globalization, post-coloniality, and

Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity (Goldhill Simon)(Paperback)

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this book opens a new and exciting vision of how the literature of the first millennium shaped

Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse: From Poetics to Politics (Hart Christopher)(Paperback)

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary

Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures (Weber Max)(Paperback)

A new translation of two celebrated lectures on politics, academia, and the disenchantment of the world. The German sociologist Max Weber is one of the most venturesome, stimulating, and influential theorists of the modern condition. Among his most significant works are the so-called vocation

The Technological Singularity (Shanahan Murray)(Paperback)

The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence.The idea that human history is approaching a 'singularity'--that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or

Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics (Enjuto Rangel Cecilia)(Paperback)

The attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and in Madrid on March 11, 2004, provoked diverse political reactions, but the imminence of the ruins triggered a collective historical awakening. In Cities in Ruins, Cecilia Enjuto Rangel argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a

Vocation Lectures - "Science as a Vocation"; "Politics as a Vocation" (Weber Max)(Paperback / softback)

Poetics - with the Tractatus Coislinianus, reconstruction of Poetics II, and the fragments of the On Poets (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene (Weber Andreas)(Paperback)

A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.We have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In Enlivenment, German philosopher Andreas Weber presents an

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Peterson Trace)(Paperback)

The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also includes 'poetics statements'--reflections by each

The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment (Hawkes Dean)(Paperback)

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography of environmental design by looking beyond

Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of Ubuweb (Goldsmith Kenneth)(Paperback)

Poetics (Aristotle)(Paperback)

Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, and equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature In the Poetics, his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examine the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine

French Politics and Society (Cole Alistair)(Paperback)

French Politics and Society is the ideal companion for all students of France and French politics with a strong reputation for its lucidity and lively exposition of the French polity. This third edition remains a highly readable text and offers a broad, critical and comprehensive understanding of

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works (Coleridge Samuel Taylor)(Paperback)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English

Singularity Sky (Stross Charles)(Paperback / softback)

A major SF debut from a British writer who will stand alongside Banks, Hamilton and

Leviathan and Its Enemies (Francis Samuel T.)(Paperback)

Leviathan and Its Enemies is Samuel T. Francis's magnum opus on political theory and the history of the modern world, which had been lost to the world after his untimely death in 2005 and is published here for the first time. This edition includes new introductory and critical essays by Jerry

Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity (Culey Sean a.)(Paperback)

Sense and Nonsense about Crime, Drugs, and Communities (Walker Samuel)(Paperback)

Samuel Walker's SENSE AND NONSENSE ABOUT CRIME, DRUGS, AND COMMUNITIES was one of the first books to challenge common misconceptions about crime, and the new Eighth Edition remains uniquely effective at doing so. Described as a 'masterful critique' of American policies on everything from crime

Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline (Alkon Paul Kent)(Paperback)

Paul Kent Alkon's Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline provides reading of Johnson that emphasizes his moral discourse. Shortly after its publication, Alkon's book became first of all the standard reading of Johnson's essays, contrasting them with the moral ideas Johnson discussed in his sermons, as

Politics and Literature (Sartre Jean-Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A useful, concise introduction to Sartre's thinking, Politics and Literature investigates concepts and highlights conflicts, interrogations and debates that remain topical and relevant to this

Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology (Weber Andreas)(Paperback)

In Matter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expressing these desires through our bodies. Being alive is an erotic process--constantly transforming the self