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Europe and the Wolf
"This book explores how the work of several contemporary artists illuminates the current crisis of Europe, whose emancipatory values are mired in the brutal realities of exclusion and policing of borders"--
Dialectical Materialism
"Originally published in French as Le materialisme dialectique."
Politically Red
How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence. “Reading is class struggle,” writes Bertolt Brecht. Politically Red contextualizes contemporary demands for social and racial justice by exploring the shifting relations between politics and literacy. Through a series of creative readings of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fredric Jameson, and others, it casts light on history as an accumulation of violence and, in doing so, suggests that it can become a crucial resource for confronting the present insurgence of inequality, racism, and fascism. Reading between the lines,...
Locating Gender in Modernism
This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-world authors have reshaped received notions of the modern and revised orthodox ideas on the modern aesthetic. Authors such as Bessie Head, Josiane Racine, T.Obinkaram Echewa, Raja Rao, Gabriel Garc...
Surplus-Enjoyment
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy, what is substantial and necessary. Indeed, without the surplus we wouldn't be able to identify what was the perfect amount. Is there any escape from the vicious cycle of surplus enjoyment or are we forever doomed to simply want more? Engaging with everything from The Joker film to pop songs and Thomas Aquinas to the history of pandemics, Žižek argues that recognising the society of enjoyment we live in for what it is can provide an explanation for the political impasses in which we find ourselves today. And if we begin, even a little bit, to recognise that the nuggets of 'enjoyment' we find in excess are as flimsy and futile, might we find a way out?
Mais-gozar
Neste livro, Slavoj Žižek nos leva a refletir sobre a sociedade contemporânea, caracterizada pelo excesso. Ele explora a ideia de que precisamos de um excedente em relação às nossas necessidades para verdadeiramente desfrutar do que temos, conduzindo-nos por um caminho filosófico. Žižek argumenta que o excedente, por ser insubstancial e desnecessário, paradoxalmente nos permite desfrutar do essencial e do necessário. Ele questiona se podemos escapar do ciclo vicioso do excesso ou se estamos condenados a sempre querer mais. Esta obra desafia nossas concepções tradicionais, convidando-nos a repensar nossa relação com o consumo, a felicidade e a própria essência da vida contemporânea. Uma leitura instigante e essencial para aqueles que buscam compreender melhor os dilemas e impasses da sociedade atual.
Politically Red
"Taking its point of departure from the writings of Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, and Fredric Jameson, this book is a kind of training manual for understanding the role and place of reading and writing within the political domain, and for imagining-across time but without losing the specificity of particular historical moments-the grounds for a collective political imagination able to extract hope from what Cadava and Melsio call the archives of communal grief"--
Humankind
A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humans What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical issue as eminently political. It is in our relationship with non-humans that we decided the fate of our humanity. Becoming human, claims Morton, actually means creating a network of kindness and solidarity with non-human beings, in the name of a broader understanding of reality that both includes and overcomes the notion of species. Negotiating the politics of humanity is the first and crucial step to reclaim the upper scales of ecological coexistence, not to let Monsanto and cryogenically suspended billionaires to define them and own them.
Public Trust
Public Trust explores the interactive artwork of the same name by Brooklyn-based artist Paul Ramirez Jonas (born 1965), delving into Ramirez Jonas' interest in public spaces, language as contract and the liminal space between fiction, lies and truth.
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