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  • Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World

    Filiations Past and Future

    by Réda Bensmaïa, Timothy Bewes, Yves Citton, Giuseppina Mecchia, Christian C. Wood, Richard J. Golsan, Vincent Debaene, Pamela A. Pears, Rajeshwari S. Vallury ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Francophone World: Filiations Past and Future offers a critical reflection on some of the leading figures of twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and philosophy. Specialists re-evaluate the historical, political, and artistic legacies of twentieth-century France and the French-speaking world, proposing new formulations of the ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Mediarchy

    by Yves Citton ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences shaped by the media. We assume that our social and political destinies are shaped by the will of the people without realizing that ‘the people’ are always produced, both as individuals and as aggregates, by the media: we are all embedded in mediated ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Mythocracy

    How Stories Shape Our Worlds

    by Yves Citton ...
    Translated by David Broder ...
    Harnessing the power of storytelling for political progressMythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around affective attractors. These are much more powerful than the truth value of any given ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Politics of Curiosity

    Alternatives to the Attention Economy

    Edited by Enrico Campo, Yves Citton ...
    Series series Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
    Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to the current attention economy. Bringing together the work of leading scholars of ‘critical attention studies’ to reflect on issues such as techno-politics, socio-politics, and the politics of distraction, it offers a new and multi-disciplinary conceptualization of attention that ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Roland Barthes' Cinema

    by Philip Watts ...
    The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema. As a cultural critic, he warned of its surreptitious ability to lead the enthralled spectator toward an acceptance of a pre-given world. As a leftist, he understood that spectacle could be turned against itself and provoke deep questioning ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Ecology of Attention

    by Yves Citton ...
    Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes against the tide of these standard laments to offer a new perspective on the problem of attention in the digital age. Phrases like �paying ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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    The Future of Work

    Translated by Daniel Ross ...
    by Bernard Stiegler ...
    In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Reputation

    What It Is and Why It Matters

    by Gloria Origgi ...
    A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of contemporary lifeReputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in mystery. Why is it so powerful when the criteria by which people and things are defined as good or bad often appear to be arbitrary? Why do we care so much about how others see us that we may even do ... Read more

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  • Reassembling the Social:An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

    An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

    by Bruno Latour ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
    Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stablilized state of ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Against the Dictatorship of Capital. New Philosophical, Political and Educational Lines.

    by Stefano Ulliana ...
    Lyotard’s post-modern critic leaves the field open to the manipulation of free and creative self-determination, that belongs to human nature, by the most reactionary forces of Capital. In fact, his critic to the concept and practice of universality leads to the adfirmation of the most violent and brutal ideological forces of capitalist neoliberalism. It uses the traditional ideology built up ... Read more

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  • Non-Representational Theory

    Space, Politics, Affect

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed ... Read more

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  • Thought in the Act

    Passages in the Ecology of Experience

    by Erin Manning, Brian Massumi ...
    “Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s varied ways of affording itself.” —from Thought in the ActCombining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the Act is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition ... Read more

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