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  • Nothing

    Three Inquiries in Buddhism

    by Marcus Boon, Timothy Morton, Eric Cazdyn ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on "nothing"—essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Already Dead

    The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness

    by Eric Cazdyn ...
    In The Already Dead, Eric Cazdyn examines the ways that contemporary medicine, globalization, politics, and culture intersect to produce a condition and concept that he names "the new chronic." Cazdyn argues that just as contemporary medicine uses targeted drug therapies and biotechnology to manage rather than cure diseases, global capitalism aims not for resolution but rather for a continual ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Flash of Capital

    Film and Geopolitics in Japan

    by Eric Cazdyn, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan’s capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, Eric Cazdyn theorizes a cultural history that highlights the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders—where culture and capital ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • After Globalization

    by Eric Cazdyn, Imre Szeman ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    AFTER GLOBALIZATION“Relentlessly, remorselessly, endlessly, we are told there is no alternative to globalization, whether our lecturers are bourgeois economists, progressive journalists, or imaginative litterateurs. Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman dare to go beyond the standard thinking of the day and query the very heart of mobile capital and its impact on daily life. Their alternative vision ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

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  • Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of ... Read more

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  • Liberalism and Its Discontents

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
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  • Our Posthuman Future

    Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
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    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
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    Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga

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    $14.99 USD

  • Japanese Visual Culture

    Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime

    by Mark W. MacWilliams ...
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  • No Speed Limit

    Three Essays on Accelerationism

    by Steven Shaviro ...
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