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Other Related Matters
Muindi Fanuel Muindi's first three books, collected in the volume titled Triptych, asked the question, "How do I become what I am?" Other Related Matters, his fourth book, asks the immediate follow up question: "Knowing how I become what I am, how do I relate to others?" The two texts that form the core of Other Related Matters approach the question of "relating to others" from two different "logical" perspectives. The first of the core texts, "A Genealogy of Sociality", is a philosophical essay approaching the question from a "sociological" perspective, attending to "social relations". The second, "I-and-Other, Child-and-Mother", is compendium of concepts approaching the question from a "ps...
Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter
A groundbreaking conception of interactive media, inspired by continuity, field, and process, with fresh implications for art, computer science, and philosophy of technology. In this challenging but exhilarating work, Sha Xin Wei argues for an approach to materiality inspired by continuous mathematics and process philosophy. Investigating the implications of such an approach to media and matter in the concrete setting of installation- or event-based art and technology, Sha maps a genealogy of topological media—that is, of an articulation of continuous matter that relinquishes a priori objects, subjects, and egos and yet constitutes value and novelty. Doing so, he explores the ethico-aesthe...
Impressionable Biologies
During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes, and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for biological heredity. Such views shaped the politics of human heredity: in the eugenic era, controlling heredity meant intervening in the distribution of "good" and "bad" genes. However, since the turn of the twenty-first century, this centrality of genes has been challenged by a number of "postgenomic" disciplines. The rise of epigenetics in particular signals a shift from notions of biological fixedness to ideas of plasticity and "impressionability" of biological material. This book investigates a long history of the beliefs about the plasticity...
Solutions for Postmodern Living
Muindi Fanuel Muindi's follow up to Whither, Otherwise is another an-archic book of philosophy. Whither, Otherwise was the labyrinth that foreclosed the philosopher's monstrosity, a baroque tragedy, a claustrophobic work that wanted sacrifices. Solutions for Postmodern Living is the desert island where the philosopher's abjection and ecstasy fortuitously encounter one another and become entwined, a rococo comedy, a light, airy, and voluptuous burlesque.
Sentient Flesh
In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham’s 1937 remark “we should have our liberty 'cause . . . us is human flesh" as a point of departure for an extended meditation on questions of the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in which the black being is understood. Drawing on numerous fields, from literary theory and musicology, to political theory and phenomenology, as well as Greek and Arabic philosophy, Judy engages literary texts and performative practices such as music and dance that express knowledge and conceptions of humanity appositional to those grounding modern racialized capitalism. Operating as critiques of Western humanism, these practices and modes of being-in-the-world—which he theorizes as “thinking in disorder,” or “poiēsis in black”—foreground the irreducible concomitance of flesh, thinking, and personhood. As Judy demonstrates, recognizing this concomitance is central to finding a way past the destructive force of ontology that still holds us in thrall. Erudite and capacious, Sentient Flesh offers a major intervention in the black study of life.
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Do Not Call Us Negros
Library Laureate and California Sesquicentennial Commendation award winning anthology of the central role of Africans in the development of early California from its naming by the first African to visit what is now the United States in the 1500s to the allegorical black queen whose story the name was first cited in. Full of contemporary accounts from black authors and primary source documents. Perfect for university, school and museum libraries for researchers of the Spanish and Mexican eras, the abolitoin movement, the Westward expansion and the development of popular entertainment.
Triptych
By turns swaggering and stumbling, the Triptych is the dramatization of Muindi Fanuel Muindi's dream of becoming what Roland Barthes called a 'logothète' the founder of a language. The Triptych contains Muindi's first two published books, Whither, Otherwise and Solutions for Postmodern Living, and a brief and baffling third book, Improbable Aberrations & Other Idiocies. If pressed to name the precursors of this literary curio, one might recognize Muindi's voice, or his habits, in Lucretius' De rerum natura, in Friedrich Schlegel's Fragments, in R.D. Laing's Knots, in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Mille Plateaux, and in Anne Carson's Plainwater--but Muindi's idiosyncrasies, although recognizable in the works of his precursors, will always remain his own.
The Ends of the World
The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these visions have been given a new lease on life. Information and analyses concerning the human causes and the catastrophic consequences of the planetary ‘crisis’ have been accumulating at an ever-increasing rate, mobilising popular opinion as well as academic reflection. In this book, philosopher Déborah Danowski and a...
Shanzhai
Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original. Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, shanzhai politicians, shanzhai stars. There is a shanzhai Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll, in which Harry takes on his nemesis Yandomort. In the West, this would be s...
