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May 6, 2020

Book Excerpt! Unbearable Life, By Arthur Bradley (introduction)

“By way of Augustine, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Schmitt, and others, Unbearable Life presents us with a generalized martyrology, reading with unceasing insights the remarkable figures of Cacus and of Jephthah’s daughter, of Robespierre and the Zapatistas, in order to diagnose and...

May 6, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Making Diabetes, Bouncing Back and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! transcript publishing From the Medical Humanities series Making Diabetes The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda Arlena Siobhan Liggins Kieran Maguire looks at the different ways in which professional football operates...

May 5, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Downsizing, Infowhelm, On the Prowl and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Literature Now series Infowhelm Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data Heather Houser Heather Houser explores the ways contemporary art manages environmental knowledge in the age of...

May 5, 2020

In the Leper Colony

By Arthur Bradley

“A conceptual passage of extreme interest that, by rethinking the performative role of negation, widens the boundaries of political ontology. The sources used—ancient, modern, and contemporary—place this work at the center of current philosophical and political debate.” ~Roberto Esposito, author...

May 1, 2020

Book Excerpt! Archives of Conjure, by Somilar Otero (introduction)

“Going beyond academic analysis and theorizing, Archives of Conjure highlights the power of ethnography that is an act of resistance and empowerment as well as sustenance for the researcher and the community. Otero’s own life experiences along with the experiences...

April 30, 2020

Yemayá, Water Logics, and Archives of Conjure in Afrolatinx Cultures

By Solimar Otero

“A poetic, fluid, and compelling book. By producing an ‘archive of conjure’ pieced together through interwoven elements of ethnography, literature, archival notations, bolero music, poetry, and other Afrolatinx inspirations, Solimar Otero provides humanities scholarship with a new, transdisciplinary technique and...

April 30, 2020

Book Excerpt! When Principles Pay, by Geoffrey Heal (preface)

“Geoffrey Heal’s scholarly work on environmental economics, the role of the state in economic life, and other contributions to economic analysis have been of great importance and wide reputation. He has now prepared a widely accessible yet careful and responsible...

April 29, 2020

How Damage to the Environment Leads to the Emergence of Previously Unknown Diseases

By Geoffrey Heal


“Geoffrey Heal’s scholarly work on environmental economics, the role of the state in economic life, and other contributions to economic analysis have been of great importance and wide reputation. He has now prepared a widely accessible yet careful and responsible...

April 29, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Productivity and The Conservative Challenge to Globalization!

The Conservative Challenge to Globalization Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing The Conservative Challenge to Globalization Anglo-American Perspectives Ray Kiely Ray Kiely examines the conservative discourse of “winners” and “losers” of globalization that has emerged...

April 28, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Thriving in Crisis, The Power of And, The Ages of Globalization and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Ages of Globalization Geography, Technology, and Institutions Jeffrey D. Sachs Jeffrey D. Sachs turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of...

April 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! Poetry Unbound, By Mike Chasar (introduction)

“By disclosing what are at once poetry’s most inscrutable and its most public aspects, Chasar reorients our understanding of poetry’s relation to the media, throwing gasoline on the fire of a question we have dodged for too long: what is...

April 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Cinema of James Cameron, by James Clarke (introduction)

“Examines Cameron’s place in the transitional paradigm of a post-analogue, posthuman, and painterly cinema where impossible bodies are rendered through reassuringly old-fashioned narrative and spectacular conventions that have made his films the biggest on the planet. This comprehensive study outlines...

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