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(P/B) TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF ENJOYMENT
The relationship between bodily pleasure, space, and architecture - from one of the twentieth century's most important urban theorists. Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, the first publication of Henri Lefebvre's only book devoted to architecture, redefines architecture as a mode of imagination rather than a specialized process or a collection of monuments. Lefebvre calls for an architecture of jouissance - of pleasure or enjoyment - centered on the body and its rhythms and based on the possibilities of the senses. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) LACAN TO THE LETTER
To read Lacan closely is to follow him to the letter, to take him literally, making the wager that he comes right out and says what he means in many cases, though much of his argument must be reconstructed through a line-by-line examination. And this is precisely what Bruce Fink does in this ambitious book, a fine analysis of Lacan's work on language and psychoanalytic treatment conducted on the basis of a very close reading of texts in his Ecrits: A Selection. As a translator and renowned proponent of Lacan's works, Fink is an especially...
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(P/B) PROBLEMS OF DOSTOEVSKY'S POETICS
This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky's studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE MOTION OF LIGHT IN WATER
Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city's new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade's opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, viv...
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(P/B) KIERKEGAARD
Theodor Adorno's first major published work appeared in German bookshops in February 1933. Kierkegaard challenges not only the founder but also the whole tradition of existentialism, and played an important role in the formation of the Frankfurt Schools Critical Theory. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) PROGRAM EARTH
Grappling with the consequences of wiring our world, Program Earth examines how sensor technologies are programming our environments. Jennifer Gabrys suggests that the sensor-based monitoring of Earth offers the prospect of making new environments not simply as an extension of the human but rather as new "technogeographies" that connect technology, nature, and people. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SPACE AND PLACE
On the 25th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of this foundational work on human geography. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time. He suggests that place is security and space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. Whether he is considering sacred versus "biased" space, mythical space and place, time in experiential sp...
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(P/B) GHOSTLY MATTERS
Drawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches), Avery Gordon demonstrates that past or haunting social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Written with a power to match its subject, Ghostly Matters has advanced the way we look at the complex intersections of race, gender, and class as they traverse our lives in sharp relief and shadowy manifestations. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) IN THE BREAK

(P/B) EPICURUS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY
Epicurus and His Philosophy was first published in 1954. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In this volume, the first comprehensive book in English about Epicurus, existing data on the life of the ancient philosopher is related to the development of his doctrine. The result is a fascinating account that challenges traditional theories and interpretations of Epicurean philosophy. Professo...
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(P/B) DELEUZE
A major new voice from France offers a provocative reevaluation of Deleuze's philosophy. The works of Gilles Deleuze-on cinema, literature, painting, and philosophy-have made him one of the most widely read thinkers of his generation. This compact critical volume is not only a powerful reappraisal of Deleuze's thought, but also the first major work by Alain Badiou available in English. Badiou compellingly redefines "Deleuzian," throwing down the gauntlet in the battle over the very meaning of Deleuze's legacy. For those who view Deleuze as...
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(P/B) BADIOU
Badiou is the first comprehensive introduction to Alain Badiou's thought to appear in any language; it provides a highly readable discussion of each of the basic features of his ontology. Peter Hallward demonstrates in detail and in depth why Badiou's ongoing philosophical project should be recognized as the most resourceful and inspiring of his generation. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) WRITING
Writing, one of Marguerite Duras's last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write. These vary from the death of a pilot in World War II, to the death of a fly, to an art exhibition. Two of the pieces were made into documentary films, and one was originally a short film. Both autobiographical and fictional, like much of her work, Writing displays...
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(P/B) THEORY OF THE AVANT-GARDE
This volume sets before English-language readers for the first time a fully elaborated theory of the "institution of art." The author argues that it is the social status of art, its function and prestige in society, that provides the connection between the individual art work and history. Burger's concept of the institution of art establishes a framework within which a work of art is both produced and received. This volume sets before English-language readers for the first time a fully elaborated theory of the "institution of art." The aut...
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(P/B) COSMOPOLITICS I

(P/B) TAKE BACK THE ECONOMY
In the wake of economic crisis on a global scale, more and more people are reconsidering their role in the economy and wondering what they can do to make it work better for humanity and the planet. In this innovative book, J. K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, and Stephen Healy contribute complex understandings of economics in practical terms: what can we do right now, in our own communities, to make a difference? Full of exercises, thinking tools, and inspiring examples from around the world, Take Back the Economy shows how people can impl...
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(P/B) THE SAVAGE ANOMALY
In this essential rereading of Spinoza's (1632-1677) philosophical and political writings, Negri positions this thinker within the historical context of the development of the modern state and its attendant political economy. Through a close examination of Spinoza, Negri reveals him as unique among his contemporaries for his nondialectical approach to social organization in a bourgeois age. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ITALIAN CHRONICLES
Nine bloody, revenge-filled tales-several translated for the first time-from French writer Stendhal This new translation of Stendhal's Chroniques italiennes is a collection of nine tales written between 1829 and 1840, many of which were published only after his death. Complete with revenge, bloody daggers, poisonings, and thick-walled nunneries, these collected tales reveal a great novelist working with highly dramatic subject matter to forge a vision of life lived at its most intense. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) MADE TO HEAR
The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants Made to Hear sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear. Examining the consequences of cochlear implant technology for professionals and parents of deaf children, Laura Mauldin shows how certain neuroscientific claims about neuroplasticity, deafness, and language are deployed to encourage compliance with medical technolo...
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(P/B) BODY ART
An examination of the social and cultural significance of body art by a major new voice. In this definitive book, Amelia Jones explores body art projects from the 1960s and 1970s and relates their impact to the work of body artists active today, providing a new conceptual framework for defining postmodernism in the visual arts. (From the publisher)...
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