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  • Hatred of Sex

    by Oliver Davis, Tim Dean ...
    Series series Provocations
    Hatred of Sex links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and undermines identity, rendering us all a little more deplorable than we ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Porn Archives

    Edited by Tim Dean, Steven Ruszczycky, David Squires ...
    While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography—as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category—is a modern invention. The contributors to Porn Archives explore how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and transmitting documents and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Time for the Humanities

    Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy

    by Tim Dean, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek ...
    This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the human, and of finitude underlie recurring anxieties about the humanities in our current geopolitical ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Raw

    PrEP: Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking

    by Tim Dean ...
    Series series The Exquisite Corpse
    Marking the tenth anniversary of Tim Dean’s Unlimited Intimacy, Raw returns to the question of sex without condoms, or barebacking, a timely topic in the age of PrEP, a drug that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV. "Essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of sex, sexuality and sexual representation in the 21st century." —John Mercer, author of Gay Pornography "Finally, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    Outline of the Theory of Structuration

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Parallax View

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Undoing Gender

    by Judith Butler ...
    Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Organs without Bodies

    On Deleuze and Consequences

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    With a new introduction by the authorIn this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian concepts around in order to explore the 'organs without bodies' in such ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Literary Theory

    by David Carter ...
    Series series Pocket Essential series
    Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. It sounds daunting: all those -isms, long technical words, weird French thinkers, and incomprehensible Germans. Most books ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Learning

    Democratic Education for a Human Future

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • What Is Posthumanism?

    by Cary Wolfe ...
    Series Book 8 - Posthumanities
    What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities—posthumanities—respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Identity

    Sociological Perspectives

    by Steph Lawler ...
    Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do the often stark differences between how we self-identify and the way others see and define us reveal about our social world? Why do we attach such significance to 'being ourselves'?In this new edition of her popular and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD