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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kevin olson”
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  • Pixar for Piano

    by Hal Leonard Corp., Kevin Olson ...
    (Piano Solo Songbook). 15 beloved songs from the Pixar movies arranged especially for piano solo. The accessible arrangements are for intermediate to early advanced level pianists and are designed for solo recitals as well as mood-setting music to special occasions! Includes: Bundle of Joy (Inside Out) * If I Didn't Have You (Monsters Inc.) * The Incredits * Lava * Married Life (Up) * Ratatouille ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Subaltern Silence

    A Postcolonial Genealogy

    by Kevin Olson ...
    Series Book 90 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Winner, 2025 Charles Taylor Book Award, APSA Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference GroupSubordination did not simply fade away in the aftermath of colonialism. Instead, this illuminating book shows, a host of subtle new techniques have arisen that dominate vast categories of people by rendering them silent. Kevin Olson investigates how contemporary societies silence the subaltern: ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Imagined Sovereignties

    The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age

    by Kevin Olson ...
    Movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party embody some of our deepest intuitions about popular politics and 'the power of the people'. They also expose tensions and shortcomings in our understanding of these ideals. We typically see 'the people' as having a special, sovereign power. Despite the centrality of this idea in our thinking, we have little understanding of why ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • What Is a People?

    by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Kevin Olson ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series Book 50 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Order Without Power

    An Introduction to Anarchism: History and Current Challenges

    by Normand Baillargeon ...
    With the rise of the global protestor—from Arab Spring to the Occupy movement—the term "anarchist" has been littered throughout mainstream media as never before. But just as frequently, its definition is skewed or left wanting: anarchists are painted as nihilists, supporters of chaos, or even terrorists.In Order without Power, an informative primer, Normand Baillargeon thoroughly defines anarchism ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Software Theory

    A Cultural and Philosophical Study

    by Federica Frabetti ...
    Series series Media Philosophy
    The cultural and philosophical study of software is crucial, both within and outside of the university, at an international level and across disciplines. Software is increasingly considered the focus of digital media studies because of the perceived need to address the invisibility, ubiquity, and power of digital media. Yet software remains quite obscure to students and scholars in media studies, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • A Mad Trapper's Examination of Reader Response and Reception Theory

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    In this project I ground my reading of reader-oriented criticism in a particular text, Rudy Wiebe's The Mad Trapper. Positioning this novel as representative of the contradictory characteristics of all texts--"always already" open to multiple interpretations--I use these multiple readings both to examine and undermine The Mad Trapper and Reader Response/Reception theory. Situating and ... Read more

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  • Philosophies of Crime Fiction

    by Josef Hoffmann ...
    Translated by Carolyn Kelly, Nadia Majid, Johanna da Rocha Abreu ...
    Philosophies of Crime Fiction provides a considered analysis of the philosophical ideas to be found in crime literature - both hidden and explicit. Josef Hoffmann ranges expertly across influences and inspirations in crime writing with a stellar cast including Conan Doyle, G K Chesterton, Dashiell Hammett, Albert Camus, Borges, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and Ted Lewis.Hoffmann examines why ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Capitalism and Desire

    The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Agamben and Indifference

    A Critical Overview

    by William Watkin ...
    Since the publication of Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world's most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political situation have found many supporters as well as garnering strong criticism from some quarters. While his wider thoughts on topics such as language, potentiality, life, law, messianism, power, and aesthetics have had significant impact on such ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Thomas Paine Reader

    by Thomas Paine ...
    This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's major works including The Rights of Man, his groundbreaking defence of the revolutionary cause in France, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Recognition or Disagreement

    A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity

    by Axel Honneth, Jacques Rancière ...
    Series Book 30 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Rancière has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of exclusion and domination that structure contemporary societies. In a rare dialogue, these two philosophers explore the affinities and tensions ... Read more

    $23.79 USD