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Architectures of Care
Drawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary voices, this book explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms, from the most intimate scale of the body to our planetary commons. Typical definitions of care center around the maintenance of a livable life, encompassing everything from shelter and welfare to health and safety. Architecture plays a fundamental role in these definitions, inscribed in institutional archetypes such as the home, the hospital, the school, and the nursery. However, these spaces often structure modes of care that prescribe gender roles, bodily norms, and labor practices. How can architecture instead engage with an expanded definition o...
Social Fabric
Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil brings together the work of ten artists who reflect upon the long-standing histories of oppressive power structures in the territory now known as Brazil. Blurring the line between art and activism and spanning installation, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video, these artists contribute to local and global conversations about the state of democracy, racial injustice, and the violence inflicted by the nation-state. This first English-language, book-length study of contemporary Brazilian art in relationship to activism assembles artist-authored texts, interviews, essays, and a conceptual mapping of Brazilian history to illuminate the function of art as a platform for critical engagement with the historical, political, and cultural configurations of a particular place. By refusing to remain neutral, these artists create spaces of vibrant and vital community and self-construction to explore how healing and justice may be possible, especially in the Black, LGBTQIA+, and Indigenous communities to which many of them belong.
British Literature 1640-1789
Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies. A thoroughly updated new edition of this popular anthology which focuses firmly on the eighteenth century without neglecting the seventeenth century Contains new texts including the play Rover by Aphra Behn, and Beggars' Opera by John Gay; increased canonical works, including works by Dryden, Pope, and Johnson; and historical contextual materials, with particualr attention to the Americas Features updated introductions throughout, taking into acccount recent critical works and editions Includes useful resources such as an alternative list of contents by theme, and a chronolgy of literary and political events, providing valuable historical and cultural context
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
“An entertaining romp that tells us where and why the tech industry, once America’s darling, went wrong, and what it might do to recover its good graces.” —Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day. It’s time we change that. In Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed choices about the services we use—and to demand more from the companies behind them. A Wired Top Tech Book of the Year A Fast Company Best Business and Leadership Book of the Year
Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity
Founded by a band of young iconoclasts, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood stunned Victorian England with its revaluation of culture and lifestyle. With Pre-Raphaelitism ascendant in the 1850s and canonical by the 1880s, the movement’s refractory reception history is an object lesson in how avant-gardes burst upon the scene, dispense with their antagonistic posture, and become a mainstay of tradition. Wendy Graham traces the critical discourses that greeted the Pre-Raphaelites’ debut, shaped their contemporary reception, and continued to inform responses to them well after their heyday. She explains the mechanics of fame and the politics of scandal contributing to the rise of aestheticism, p...
Autobiografia de um polvo
A improvável combinação de filosofia, ciência e literatura de ficção científica faz de Autobiografia de um polvo um livro bastante singular. Nele, Vinciane Despret, uma das pensadoras mais instigantes da atualidade, se inspira na ciência ficcional da therolinguística, a disciplina científica que estuda a linguagem dos animais criada pela escritora Ursula K. Le Guin, para apresentar em cada capítulo um estudo sobre a comunicação e a poética de diferentes animais, como as aranhas, os vombates e os polvos. As narrativas estão situadas em um futuro no qual os conhecimentos sobre a linguagem dos animais conformam um campo de pesquisa bem consolidado, composto de diversas vertentes ...
Autobiografie eines Kraken
Was ist, wenn wir Menschen nicht die einzigen Lebewesen sind, die Kreativität beweisen und den Wunsch hegen, dass man sich an ihre Existenz erinnert? In der Welt, in der die drei Geschichten dieses Bandes verortet sind, werden Tiere als Wesen betrachtet, die fähig sind zu Spiel, Ritus und Dichtung. Die Anthropologie wurde von der Therologie (von griech. therion, Tier) abgelöst, insbesondere der Therolinguistik. Despret lässt uns eintauchen in die spannenden Debatten dieser neuen Disziplin: Senden die Spinnen vibrierende Hilferufe, da sie unter dem Überfluss menschenproduzierter Schwingungen leiden? Zeugen die Kotbauten der Wombats von einer »Fäkalkosmologie«? Beklagen die Kraken über Tintenspuren auf Tonscherben die Überfischung und Verschmutzung der Ozeane, die ihre Wiedergeburt verhindern? Vinciane Despret schreibt im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Science-Fiction. Raffiniert verwischt sie die Grenzen zwischen Wissenschaft und Literatur, zwischen Mensch und Tier. Ein so geist- wie fantasievolles Plädoyer für einen radikal neuen Blick auf die Tierwelt – und unseren Platz darin.
The Avery Review
The essays in this volume examine what we talk about when we talk about climate, particularly in relation to architecture and its allied fields. How does climate inflect our understanding of human settlement, global migration, spatial violence, and resource extraction? How does climate figure into our conception of what architecture is and does? What are the material and conceptual infrastructures that render climate legible, knowable, and actionable? How do these questions offer new vantage points on the architectural ramifications of climate change, amplifying our understanding of resiliency, sustainability, and ecotechnology? Investigating climatic territories, imaginaries, and visibility, these essays clarify the exigencies of environment through design.
Behind the Mormon Curtain
“I MAKE A LOT OF MONEY AS A CALL GIRL” wasn't the answer author Steve Cuno expected when he asked a new acquaintance how she planned to capitalize her start-up business.Wait, hold on, he thought. In Salt Lake City? Home to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormon Church, where all it takes to become the object of steamy gossip is for a neighbor to see you take a sip of coffee? In a religion where nonmarital sex is second in seriousness to murder?“You've no idea the people I could get in trouble,” she told him. She'd entertained politicians, police officers, judges, defense lawyers, prosecutors, doctors—all of them married, almost all of them practicing Mormons. M...
