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  • Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.

    The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent

    by John Muller ...
    A rollicking account of how Mark Twain mocked and mined DC's self-important, incompetent, and corrupt political scene to further his literary career.When young Samuel Clemens first visited the nation's capital in 1854, both were rough around the edges and of dubious potential. Returning as Mark Twain in 1867, he brought his sharp eye and acerbic pen to the task of covering the capital for nearly a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.

    The Lion of Anacostia

    by John Muller ...
    "Reconstruct[s] Douglass's life in the nation's capital, both at home and in the halls of power, in ways that no other biographer has done" (Leigh Fought, author of Women in the World of Frederick Douglass ).The remarkable journey of Frederick Douglass from fugitive slave to famed orator and author is well recorded. Yet little has been written about Douglass's final years in Washington, DC. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Obsolescence of the Human

    by Günther Anders ...
    Translated by Christopher John Müller ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technologyWith this first English translation of influential German philosopher Günther Anders’s 1956 masterpiece of critical theory, The Obsolescence of the Human, a new generation of readers can now engage with his prescient and haunting vision of a “world without us” dominated by technology.Looking ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Prometheanism

    Technology, Digital Culture and Human Obsolescence

    by Christopher John Müller ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
    Günther Anders’s prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders’s pragmatic thought and current trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power that are configuring themselves around our increasingly “smart” machines.The book offers a comprehensive introduction to Anders’s philosophy of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism

    Edited by Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Christopher John Müller ...
    Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its ... Read more

    $719.99 USD

  • Credo Credit Crisis

    Speculations on Faith and Money

    Edited by Aidan Tynan, Laurent Milesi, Christopher John Müller ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
    Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age.But what happens when individual belief (credo, ‘I’ believe) and the systems into which it is bound (credit, ‘it’ believes) enter into crisis? Where did the sacredness of money come from, and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Self-Organizing Complexity in Psychological Systems

    by Stanley R. Palombo, Walter J. Freeman, Jim Grigsby, Jeffrey Goldstein, E Virginia Demos, John Muller ...
    Series series Psychological Issues
    This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called 'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Non-things

    Upheaval in the Lifeworld

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things – a constantly expanding ‘infosphere’ of information and communication which displaces objects and obliterates any stillness and calmness in our lives.Byung-Chul Han’s ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • The Crisis of Narration

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force.Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community – the community of ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Saving Beauty

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty.In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

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  • The Spirit of Hope

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak future. Preoccupied with crisis management, life becomes a matter of survival.But it is precisely at such moments of fear and ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

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  • The Expulsion of the Other

    Society, Perception and Communication Today

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Wieland Hoban ...
    The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and ... Read more

    $12.00 USD