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  • Violence

    Humans in Dark Times

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out ... Read more

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  • The Minor Gesture

    by Erin Manning ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the minor ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • For a Pragmatics of the Useless

    by Erin Manning ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning examines what falls outside the purview of already-known functions and established standards of value, not for want of potential but for carrying an excess of it. The figures are various: the infrathin, ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Propositions in the Making

    Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory

    Series series Contemporary Whitehead Studies
    How do we make ourselves a Whiteheadian proposition? This question exposes the multivalent connections between postmodern thought and Whitehead’s philosophy, with particular attention to his understanding of propositions.Edited by Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Andrew M. Davis, Propositions in the Making articulates the newest reaches of Whiteheadian propositions for a postmodern world. It ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Being of Relation

    by Erin Manning ...
    Series series Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education
    How does whiteness sediment worlds? How does it format individuality in the name of a neurotypicality that polices how one bodies and how one comes to know? And how does a poetics of relation shift the very logic of this sedimentation?Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation are bold in their call to ‘consent not to be a single being’. This transindividual consent, born in the process of worlds ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Make Money with your Digital Photography

    by Erin Manning ...
    Learn to find the opportunities and make money with your digital cameraMost digital photo buffs have thought about turning their hobby into a side business, but building a successful business takes more than passion and photographic skill. Erin Manning knows how, and she shares her expertise in this nuts-and-bolts guide.Manning, host of the DIY Network’s The Whole Picture, shows you how to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Thought in the Act

    Passages in the Ecology of Experience

    “Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s varied ways of affording itself.” —from Thought in the ActCombining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the Act is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sentient Performativities of Embodiment

    Thinking alongside the Human

    This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Always More Than One

    Individuation's Dance

    by Erin Manning ...
    In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the "more than human" in the context of movement, perception, and experience. Working from Whitehead's process philosophy and Simondon's theory of individuation, she extends the concepts of movement and relation developed in her earlier work toward the notion of "choreographic thinking." Here, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Peter Briggs : Brouillon general

    Over a two-year period, from 2016 to 2018, four French museums —Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch d’Issoudun, La Citadelle de Belfort, La Piscine in Roubaix— are joining forces to present Peter Briggs' work. All four museums are multidisciplinary and all focus a part of their exhibition programme on the art of today, and often on artists whose singularity sets them apart ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Nonhuman Turn

    Edited by Richard Grusin ...
    Series series 21st Century Studies
    Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize—and therefore consolidate—a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each of these approaches is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman, ... Read more

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  • Semblance and Event

    Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An investigation of the “occurrent arts” through the concepts of the “semblance” and “lived abstraction.”Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. But how do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much as what is actually present? In Semblance and Event, Brian Massumi, drawing on the work of William James, Alfred ... Read more

    $21.99 USD