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  • Empire of Deterrence

    Nuclear Weapons and the Containment of Politics

    by Michael Gardiner ...
    A nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to ‘automate’ much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimesEmpire of Deterrence reveals how nuclear strategy, once framed as a tool for security, has become an invisible but ever-present law — shaping the very foundations of political authority, economic order, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bakhtin and the Human Sciences

    No Last Words

    Edited by Michael Gardiner, Michael Mayerfeld Bell ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin′s thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays′ implications extend into other fields in the human sciences. The volume emphasizes Bakhtin′s work on dialogue, carnival, ethics and everyday life, as ... Read more

    $117.89 USD

  • The British Stake In Japanese Modernity

    Readings in Liberal Tradition and Native Modernism

    by Michael Gardiner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some well-known and some less-known Japanese texts. From the mid-nineteenth century, and particularly as hastened by the spectre of China in the First Opium War, Japan’s modernity was bound up with a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Bakhtin in the Fullness of Time

    Bakhtinian Theory and the Process of Social Education

    Edited by Craig Brandist, E Jayne White, Carl Mika, Michael Gardiner ...
    This book takes the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as its inspiration in the contemplation of the potential of dialogic scholarship for philosophy of education. While Bakhtin’s work has been widely received in educational studies in recent years, the academic literature does not sufficiently convey the sophistication of his cultural-historical works.Selected works on the limits and perspectives of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Constitution of English Literature

    The State, the Nation and the Canon

    by Professor Michael Gardiner ...
    Series series The WISH List
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.In this extended essay, Michael Gardiner examines the ideology of the discipline of English Literature in the light of the serious redefining work on England and Englishness that has been conducted in Political Studies in the last decade. He argues that English ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Time and Action in the Scottish Independence Referendum

    by Michael Gardiner ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book describes the recent Scottish independence referendum as the latest incarnation of a contest between two times on one hand, an ideally continuous time beyond determination underpinning financial sovereignty, on the other the interruptions to this ideal continuity inherent in human action. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum

    A Musical and Metaphysical Analysis

    by Michael Gardiner ...
    The Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingen’s twelfth-century music-drama, is one of the first known examples of a large-scale composition by a named composer in the Western canon. Not only does the Ordo’s expansive duration set it apart from its precursors, but also its complex imagery and non-biblical narrative have raised various questions concerning its context and genre. As a poetic meditation on ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Boredom Studies Reader

    Frameworks and Perspectives

    Edited by Julian Jason Haladyn, Michael Gardiner ...
    Boredom Studies is an increasingly rich and vital area of contemporary research that examines the experience of boredom as an importan – even quintessential – condition of modern life. This anthology of newly commissioned essays focuses on the historical and theoretical potential of this modern condition, connecting boredom studies with parallel discourses such as affect theory and highlighting ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Orwell and England

    Selected Essays

    by George Orwell ...
    Series series Macmillan Collector's Library
    George Orwell, perhaps one of the most perceptive writers of the twentieth century, wrote extensively about English life and politics. This selection of his essays and journalism brings together his most provocative and insightful writing on England and Englishness.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Dialogics of Critique

    M.M. Bakhtin and the Theory of Ideology

    by Michael Gardiner ...
    As interest in the work of Bakhtin grows there is an increasing demand for a well organized, readable text which explains his main ideas and relates them to current social and cultural theory. This book is designed to supply this demand. Elegantly written with the needs of the student coming to Bakhtin for the first time in mind, it provides the essential guide to this important and neglected ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Critiques of Everyday Life

    An Introduction

    by Michael Gardiner ...
    Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In Critiques of Everyday Life Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorising. This counter-tradition has sought not merely to describe lived experience, but to transform it by elevating our understanding of the everyday to the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    Empire of Deterrence

    Nuclear Weapons and the Containment of Politics

    by Michael Gardiner ...
    Narrated by Adrian Hobart ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 39 min

    This book considers nuclear deterrence as a form of authority. It describes the rise of deterrence in the Anglosphere particularly as the rule of economic law hardened to protect a civilization in its deterministic, automated phase. Nuclear deterrence has increasingly been leveraged against populations to smother politics and protect an absolute stasis with its heart in a cybernetics of human ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook