Been There and Back to Nowhere
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This book presents cultural practices that take a gendered look at minority identities in the media as well as in post-urban zones such as the ones that have developed on the U.S.-Mexican border, in Istanbul and in post-socialist countries. With texts by Avtar Brah and Yvonne Volkart, interviews with Bertha Jottar and Rosi Braidotti, video scripts and collective cultural productions. All texts in both German and English. Profusely illustrated, color throughout, varied art and text paper stock.
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A tribute to Bosnia, For/Za Sarajevo includes first-person accounts of Sarajevo under siege; reports from ehthnically-cleansed villages; the first American appearance of War Journal, by award-winnin gjournalist Zlatko Dizdarevic; an interview with filmmaker Ademir Kenovic; art from exhibitions in Sarajevo; and selections from classic Bosnian texts; Mula Baseskija’s 18th-century Chronicle, about daily life in Sarajevo’;The Dervish and Death, by Mesa Selimovic; and short fiction by Isak Samokovlija. Bilingual: all texts in both English and Serbo-Croatian.
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Dean and Massumi are archaeologists of the hegemonic moment. From blinding light to disappearance and theirruption of the State, they return to too-late-capitalist America by way of ancient China, following theself-dispersing body of the Despot. This is a history of the present intended to inform a leaderless future we will(never?) see. Do not ask to remain the same.
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Post-situationist theory from Baudrillard. Here he wrings ecstasy from interaction.”Obscenity begins when there is no more spectacle, no more illusions, when everything becomes immediatelytransparent, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication. We no longer partake in the drama of alienation, but are in the ecstasy of communication.”
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Recently the question of ethics has become a dominant issue for philosophical reflection. In THE ETHICS OF POSTMODERNITY, Gary Madison and Marty Fairbairn have collected instructive and illuminating essays that address the dilemmas left in the wake of the postmodern attack on foundationalism. This collection is a powerful statement about the many directions a post-metaphysical ethics might take. Contributors include Barry Allen, Caroline Bayard, Robert Bernasconi, Thomas W. Busch, M.C. Dillon, Marty Fairbairn, Paul Fairfield, Morna Joy, Richard Kearney, Gary B. Madison, Joseph Margolis, Tom Rockmore, Charles E. Scott, Evan Simpson, and Mark Williams.
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Caffentzis grounds this ampliative examination of Locke’s philosophy of economics, language, and history in the political crisis that resulted whenmonetary pirates “clipped” the silver currency of 17th-century England. His interventionist treatment undoes virtually all standard critical works on Locke.
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