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  • Water Logics

    Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities

    by Matthew Brauer, Olivia Durand, Brian T. Edwards, Stefan Helmreich, Charles Heller, Nicole Horne, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Shanaaz Mohammed, Martin Munro, Supriya M. Nair, Aaron Pinnix, Nathalie Roelens, Marie Sandoz, Philip Steinberg, Bradley Stephens, Anne-Katrin Weber ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itselfWater Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Cartography

    The Ideal and Its History

    by Matthew H. Edney ...
    "In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of 'cartography' to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps." —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 MapsOver the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    by Nicholas Evans ...
    Series Book 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Land Sickness

    by Nikolaj Schultz ...
    As a heatwave hits Paris, the author's entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his growing anxieties, he flees to the small Mediterranean island of Porquerolles. But even in this idyllic setting, can he escape the harsh realities of the Anthropocene?Written as a fictionalized travelogue ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Ecology without Nature

    Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

    by Timothy Morton ...
    In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the "nature" they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Thinking with Water

    by Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod, Astrida Neimanis ...
    As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among the most troubling ecological and social concerns of our time.Water is often studied only as a "resource," a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance. Thinking with Water instead invites readers to consider how water - with its potent ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Brutalism

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Series series Theory in Forms
    In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and destruction, Mbembe contends that contemporary capitalism crushes and dominates all spheres of existence. In ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • The Predicament of Culture

    Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art

    by James Clifford ...
    The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, James Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in post-colonial contexts. His critique raises questions ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Translation Zone

    A New Comparative Literature

    by Emily Apter ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • The Progress of This Storm

    Nature and Society in a Warming World

    by Andreas Malm ...
    An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Anthropology of Nature

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a sphere of autonomous realities for all peoples. By positing a universal distribution of humans and non-humans in two separate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Superhumanity

    Design of the Self

    Edited by Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, Mark Wigley ...
    A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the selfThe field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material objects but rather extends from carefully crafted individual styles and online identities to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD