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  • The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies

    by William Preston Robertson ...
    Series series The Year's Work
    A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences—westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus—and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom, surrealism, college culture, and of course bowling. The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies contains ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon

    Work, Power and Political Strategy

    by Aaron Jaffe ...
    Series series Mapping Social Reproduction Theory
    How do we integrate the theoretical underpinnings of Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) into our understanding of the social harms inflicted upon us? How can we use it to inform our struggles and affect societal change under capitalism?Integrating our understanding of productive and reproductive spheres and exploring the connection between identity-based oppression and class exploitation, SRT has ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center

    by Stephen Watt, Dan Hassler-Forest, Erik Bohman, Stephen Shapiro, Jack Raglin, Atia Sattar, Seth Morton, Andrea Ruthven, Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe, John Gibson, Jonathan P. Eburne, Stephen Schneider, Jeffrey T. Nealon ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

    by Joseph Campana, Theodore Bale, Atia Sattar, Beth A. McCoy, Robin Blyn, Dennis Allen, Timothy Sweet, Charles M. Tung, Aaron Jaffe, Grant Farred, Seth Morton, David L. Martin ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera."—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy AnthologyThe modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the ... Read more

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  • Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois

    A Progressive Tackles State Government,1970–2015

    by Charles M. Barber ...
    Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois is an oral history of Aaron Jaffes legislative, judicial, and executive branch careers. It is also a story of how the author met Judge Jaffe and gained wisdom from a master politician operating in one of America's most notorious political battlegrounds. As legislator, Jaffe changed rape laws to reflect victims' perspectives. Though white, he was recruited to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Thinking Further

    Fragments of Communicology

    by Vilém Flusser, Friedrich A. Kittler ...
    Translated by Andrew Battaglia, Daniel Raschke ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    The first English-language translation of Vilém Flusser’s final series of lectures: the definitive introduction to his methods and ideas in new media theoryIn summer 1991, shortly before his death, Vilém Flusser gave a series of lectures as guest professor at Ruhr University Bochum at the invitation of Friedrich Kittler. Flusser intended for these lectures to be the definitive introduction to his ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Spoiler Alert

    A Critical Guide

    by Aaron Jaffe ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of itConcurrent with the compulsory connectivity of the digital age is the rise of the spoiler. The inevitability of information has changed the critical quality of modernity, leaving us with acute vertigo—a feeling that nothing new is left out there. Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, Vilem Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism

    Edited by Prof. Aaron Jaffe, Prof. Michael F. Miller, Prof. Rodrigo Martini ...
    Series series Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
    The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence of contemporary media theory and media archeology. His work engages and also rethinks several mythologies of modernity, devising new methodologies, experimental literary practices, and expanded hermeneutics that trouble traditional practices of literary/literate knowledge, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies

    Edited by Aaron Jaffe, Edward P. Dallis-Comentale ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences—westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus—and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom, surrealism, college culture, and of course bowling. The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies contains ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Election 2016: Democracy in Disarray

    A Campaign Bloated with Bombastry, Bigotry, and Blatant Lies

    by Sandra Lee Stuart, Aaron Jaffe ...
    When people look back at the 2016 Election, they will use many words to describe it. Among them will not be “decorous,” “thoughtful,” “reasoned,” and “civil.”The campaign, at times, has seemed as if it was waged in an alternate cartoon universe.It’s hard to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or Abraham Lincoln boasting in a public forum about the size of their genitals. We have had a candidate being ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Way Things Go

    An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism

    by Aaron Jaffe ...
    Buffed up to a metallic shine; loose fitting, lopsided, or kludgy; getting in the way or getting lost; collapsing in an explosion of dust caught on the warehouse CCTV. Modern things are going their own ways, and this book attempts to follow them. A course of thought about their comings and goings and cascading side effects, The Way Things Go offers a thesis demonstrated via a century-long ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Modernist Star Maps

    Celebrity, Modernity, Culture

    Edited by Aaron Jaffe, Jonathan Goldman ...
    Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range of transatlantic canonical and noncanonical figures, from the expected (Virginia Woolf and F. Scott ... Read more

    $33.99 USD