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  • Joss Whedon, Anarchist?

    A Unified Theory of the Films and Television Series

    by James Rocha, Mona Rocha, Sherry Ginn ...
    Series series Worlds of Whedon
     Joss Whedon has created numerous TV series, movies, comics and one sing-along-blog, all of which focus on societal problems in the metaphorical guise of monsters-of-the-week and over-arching big-bads.The present work examines structural violence through interdimensional law firm Wolfram & Hart's legal representation of evil. We explore the limits of consent through the Rossum Corporation's ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Ethics of Hooking Up

    Casual Sex and Moral Philosophy on Campus

    by James Rocha ...
    The Ethics of Hooking Up: Casual Sex and Moral Philosophy on Campus provides a systematic moral analysis of hooking up, or sexual activity between people who barely know each other, frequently while intoxicated, and with little or no verbal interaction. It explores the moral quandaries resulting from this potent combination of sex, alcohol, near-anonymity, and limited communication, focusing in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Philosophical Reflections on Black Mirror

    Edited by Professor Dan Shaw, Kingsley Marshall, James Rocha ...
    Black Mirror is a cultural phenomenon. It is a creative and sometimes shocking examination of modern society and the improbable consequences of technological progress. The episodes - typically set in an alternative present, or the near future - usually have a dark and satirical twist that provokes intense question both of the self and society at large. These kind of philosophical provocations are ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Better Living through TV

    Contemporary TV and Moral Identity Formation

    by Steven A. Benko, Jill B. Delston, John Hillman, Douglas L. Howard, Matt Hummel, Alisa Johnson, Eleanor Jones, Dutton Kearney, Leigh Kellmann Kolb, Matilde Accurso Liotta0, Denis Newiak1, Douglas Rasmussen2, James Rocha3, James Shelton4, Martin Shuster5, Martina Vanzo6, H. Peter Steeves7 ...
    Watching television need not be a passive activity or simply for entertainment purposes. Television can be the site of important identity work and moral reflection. Audiences can learn about themselves, what matters to them, and how to relate to others by thinking about the implicit and explicit moral messages in the shows they watch. Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and Moral Identity ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

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  • The Art of Failure

    An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

    by Jesper Juul ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    A gaming academic offers a “fascinating” exploration of why we play video games—despite the unhappiness we feel when we fail at them (Boston Globe)We may think of video games as being “fun,” but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

    New Essays

    by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Everything and Less

    The Novel in the Age of Amazon

    by Mark McGurl ...
    **National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistBest Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub)What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism?**Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The “Everything Store” has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In Everything and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Robot Sex

    Social and Ethical Implications

    Edited by John Danaher, Neil McArthur ...
    Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification will be developed in the not-too-distant future. Despite popular culture's fascination with the topic, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Writing Creative Writing

    Essays from the Field

    Edited by Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Priscila Uppal ...
    Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada’s leading writers.Writing Creative Writing is filled with thoughtful and entertaining essays on the joys and challenges of creative writing, the complexities of the creative writing classroom, the place of writing programs in the twenty-first century, and exciting ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Media Life

    by Mark Deuze ...
    Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • On the Internet

    by Hubert L. Dreyfus ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a new level of community? Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, On the Internet argues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free floating web and Descartes' separation of mind and body. Hubert Dreyfus also shows how Kierkegaard's insights into the origins of a media-obsessed ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Infinite Distraction

    by Dominic Pettman ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    It is often argued that contemporary media homogenize our thoughts and actions, without us being fully aware of the restrictions they impose. But what if the problem is not that we are all synchronized to the same motions or moments, but rather dispersed into countless different emotional micro-experiences? What if the effect of so-called social media is to calibrate the interactive spectacle so ... Read more

    $10.00 USD