The Cybernetic Hypothesis (Tiqqun)(Paperback)

The Cybernetic Hypothesis (Tiqqun)(Paperback)

An early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance.The cybernetician's mission is to combat the general entropy that threatens living beings, machines, societies--that is, to create the experimental conditions for a continuous

Communist Hypothesis (Badiou Alain)(Paperback / softback)

'We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy--the form of state suited to capitalism--and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.'--Alain

Introduction to Civil War (Tiqqun)(Paperback)

Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis (Mazur Barry)(Paperback)

Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl (Tiqqun)(Paperback)

A theoretical dissection of capitalism's ultimate form of merchandise: the living spectacle of the Young-Girl.The Young-Girl is not always young; more and more frequently, she is not even female. She is the figure of total integration in a disintegrating social totality.--from Theory of the

This Is Not a Program (Tiqqun)(Paperback)

An urgent critique of the biopolitical subject and omnipresent Empire.Historical conflict no longer opposes two massive molar heaps, two classes--the exploited and the exploiters, the dominant and dominated, managers and workers--between which, in each individual case, it would be possible to

The Love Hypothesis (Hazelwood Ali)(Paperback)

When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what

Psychology and Alchemy (Jung C. G.)(Paperback)

Alchemy is central to Jung's hypothesis of the collective unconscious. In this volume he begins with an outline of the process and aims of psychotherapy, and then moves on to work out the analogies between alchemy, Christian dogma and symbolism and his own understanding of the analytic

Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (Fisher Mark)(Paperback)

Galileo: A Very Short Introduction (Drake Stillman)(Paperback)

In a startling reinterpretation of Galileo's trial, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's prosecution and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers. Galileo's own beautifully lucid arguments are

The Cinema Hypothesis: Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond (Bergala Alain)(Paperback)

This is the first English translation of Alain Bergala's seminal text on the potentials, possibilities, and problems of bringing film to schools and other educational contexts. Based on the author's own experiences of writing about and teaching film as well as serving as an adviser to then-Minister

Cyberiad - Fables for the Cybernetic Age (Lem Stanislaw)(Paperback / softback)

'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian One of the world's most beloved science fiction writers, Stanislaw Lem was famed for his wryly comic, outlandish imaginings of the relationship between humans and technology. In this playful cosmic fantasia, two 'constructors' compete to dream

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Haidt Jonathan)(Paperback)

The bestselling author of The Righteous Mind and The Coddling of the American Mind draws on philosophical wisdom and scientific research to show how the meaningful life is closer than you thinkThe Happiness Hypothesis is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea

Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (Crick Francis)(Paperback)

Traditionally, the human soul is regarded as a nonphysical concept that can only be examined by psychiatrists and theologists. In his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis, Nobel Laureate Francis Crick boldly straddles the line between science and spirituality by examining the soul from the

The Fantasy Bond: Effects of Psychological Defenses on Interpersonal Relations (Firestone Robert W.)(Paperback)

This book offers a hypothesis centering around the concept of the 'Fantasy Bond,' an illusion of connection formed with the mother and later with significant others in the individual's

Love Hypothesis (Steven Laura)(Paperback / softback)

An LGBT romantic comedy with a twist from the Comedy Women in Print prize winner Laura Steven, author of The Exact Opposite of Okay. A hilarious love story with bite, for fans of Sex Education, Booksmart, Becky Albertalli's Love, Simon and Jenny Han's To All The Boys I've Loved

Sharing the Fire: Outline of a Dialectics of Sensitivity (Irigaray Luce)(Paperback)

1. ​Hypothesis: Longing for another Absolute than Knowledge2. The Desire to Be2.1 Giving Birth to our To Be2.2 Dwelling place opened by desire2.3 The gift of nothing2.4 Assuming non-being2.5 Sexuation as first logos2.6 Infinity arising from finiteness3. Elements of a Dialectics of

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future (Pickering Andrew)(Paperback)

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (Medina Eden)(Paperback)

A historical study of Chile's twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics.In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was

Eternity by the Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis (Blanqui Louis-Auguste)(Paperback)

In a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the constant revolutionary, wrote Eternity by the Stars in the last months of 1871 while incarcerated in Fort du Taureau, a marine cell of the

Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (Wolf-Meyer Matthew J.)(Paperback)

Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental

On the Wings of Hypothesis: Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema (Michelson Annette)(Pevná vazba)

Annette Michelson's erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.This posthumous volume gathers Annette Michelson's erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, giving

The Monster Hypothesis (Bernard Romily)(Pevná vazba)

Welcome to Bohring-home to 453 people, 2,053 alligators, and one monster curse.Correction: home to 454 people, now that Kick Winter is living in the swamp Hollows with her Grandma Missouri, the town (fake) psychic. Bohring is anything but boring for Kick who has already blown a hole through the

The Lost Tools of Learning and the Mind of the Maker (Paperback) (Sayers Dorothy)(Paperback)