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  • War and Aesthetics

    Art, Technology, and the Futures of Warfare

    Edited by Jens Bjering, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Solveig Gade, Christine Strandmose Toft ...
    Series Book 1 - Prisms: Humanities and War
    A provocative edited collection that takes an original approach toward the black box of military technology, surveillance, and AI—and reveals the aesthetic dimension of warfare.War and Aesthetics gathers leading artists, political scientists, and scholars to outline the aesthetic dimension of warfare and offer a novel perspective on its contemporary character and the construction of its potential ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Martial Aesthetics

    How War Became an Art Form

    by Anders Engberg-Pedersen ...
    The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare.In Martial Aesthetics, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlikely merger, showing that today's creative warfare is merely the extension of a historical development that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • War and Literary Studies

    Edited by Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Neil Ramsey ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Concepts
    War and Literary Studies poses two main questions: First, how has war shaped the field of literary studies? And second, when scholars today study the literature of war what are the key concepts in play? Seeking to complement the extant scholarship, this volume adopts a wider and more systematic approach as it directs our attention to the relation between warfare and literary studies as a field of ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Ending War

    A Dialogue across Disciplines

    Edited by Chiara De Franco, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Martin Mennecke ...
    Ending War: A Dialogue across Disciplines examines how wars end from a multidisciplinary perspective and includes enquiries into the politics of war, the laws of war, and the military and intellectual history of war.In recent years, the changes in the character of contemporary warfare have created uncertainties across different disciplines about how to identify and conceptualise the end of war. A ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Humanities in the World

    by Rens Bod, Stefan Collini, Onora O'Neill ...
    Three essays highlight the worldliness of the humanities in this short book edited by Anders Engberg-Pedersen, a Danish Professor of Comparative Literature. "We need a better account of what the humanities are, what humanist scholars do and how they do it, what is done with the knowledge they produce, and how this knowledge seeps into society and other institutions and sciences through multiple ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Empire of Chance

    The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things

    by Anders Engberg-Pedersen ...
    Napoleon’s campaigns were the most complex military undertakings in history before the nineteenth century. But the defining battles of Austerlitz, Borodino, and Waterloo changed more than the nature of warfare. Concepts of chance, contingency, and probability became permanent fixtures in the West’s understanding of how the world works. Empire of Chance examines anew the place of war in the history ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Empire of Chance

    The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things

    by Anders Engberg-Pedersen ...
    Napoleon’s campaigns were the most complex military undertakings in history before the nineteenth century. But the defining battles of Austerlitz, Borodino, and Waterloo changed more than the nature of warfare. Concepts of chance, contingency, and probability became permanent fixtures in the West’s understanding of how the world works. Empire of Chance examines anew the place of war in the history ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Literature and Cartography

    Theories, Histories, Genres

    Edited by Anders Engberg-Pedersen ...
    The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the text. Today, the convergence of digital mapping and globalization has spurred a cartographic turn in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Visualizing War

    Emotions, Technologies, Communities

    Edited by Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Kathrin Maurer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Wars have always been connected to images. From the representation of war on maps, panoramas, and paintings to the modern visual media of photography, film, and digital screens, images have played a central role in representing combat, military strategy, soldiers, and victims. Such images evoke a whole range of often unexpected emotions from ironic distance to boredom and disappointment. Why is ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    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

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  • Dark Deleuze

    by Andrew Culp ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts created to defeat capitalism have been recycled into business mantras that joyously affirm “Power is vertical; potential is horizontal!”Culp ... Read more

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  • Sediments of Time

    On Possible Histories

    by Reinhart Koselleck ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with philosophical ... Read more

    $31.49 USD