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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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(P/B) STATE, SPACE, WORLD
State, Space, World collects a series of Lefebvre's key writings on the state. Making available in English for the first time the as-yet-unexplored political aspect of Henri Lefebvre's work, it contains essays on philosophy, political theory, state formation, spatial planning, and globalization, as well as provocative reflections on the possibilities and limits of grassroots democracy under advanced capitalism. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FLUSSER: WRITINGS
Vilem Flusser's innovative writings theorize - and ultimately embrace - the epochal shift that humanity is undergoing from what he termed "linear thinking" (based on writing) toward a new form of multidimensional, visual thinking embodied by digital culture. For Flusser, these new modes and technologies of communication make possible a society (the "telematic" society) in which dialogue between people becomes the supreme value. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE NONNHUMAN TURN
A groundbreaking work introducing a new series in twenty-first-century studies This is the first book to name and consolidate a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each of these approaches is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman, understood by contributors in a variety of ways-in terms of animals, affectivity, bodies, materiality, technologies, and organic and geophysical systems. (From the...
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(P/B) OBLIVION
For the health of the individual and the society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forget, Marc Auge' suggests, not just to live fully in the present but also to comprehend the past. Oblivion moves with authority among a variety of sources to illustrate the interplay of memory and forgetting in the stories told across cultures and times. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE DIFFEREND
"This work is of vital importance in a period when revisionism of all stripes attempts to rewrite, and often simply deny, the occurrence of historical and cultural events, i.e. in attempting to reconstruct 'reality' in the convenient names of 'truth' and 'common sense.'" French Review...
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(P/B) SEXUALITY IN SCHOOL
From concerns over the bullying of LGBTQ youth and battles over sex education to the regulation of sexual activity and the affirmation of queer youth identity, sexuality saturates the school day. Rather than understand these conflicts as an interruption to the work of education, Jen Gilbert explores how sexuality comes to bear on and to enliven teaching and learning. Gilbert investigates the breakdowns, clashes, and controversies that flare up when sexuality enters spaces of schooling. Education must contain the volatility of sexuality, Gi...
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(P/B) HISTORY OF STRUCTURALISM (VOLUME 1)
Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault - the ideas of this group of French intellectuals who propounded structuralism and poststructuralism have had a profound impact on disciplines ranging from literary theory to sociology, from anthropology to philosophy, from history to psychoanalysis. In this long-awaited translation, History of Structuralism examines the thinkers who made up the movement, providing a fascinating elucidation of a central aspect of postwar intellectual h...
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(P/B) MECHANIZATION TAKES COMMAND
First published in 1948, Mechanization Takes Command is an examination of mechanization and its effects on everyday life. A monumental figure in the field of architectural history, Sigfried Giedion traces the evolution and resulting philosophical implications of such disparate innovations as the slaughterhouse, the Yale lock, the assembly line, tractors, ovens, and "comfort" as defined by advancements in furniture design. A groundbreaking text when originally published, Giedion's pioneering work remains an important contribution to archite...
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(P/B) FOUCAULT AND HEIDEGGER
Michel Foucault and Martin Heidegger are two of the most important intellectual figures of the twentieth century, and yet there are significant, largely unexplored questions about the relationship between their projects. Foucault and Heidegger stages a crucial critical encounter between these two thinkers; in doing so, it clarifies not only the complexities of the Heidegger Foucault relationship but also their relevance to questions about truth and nihilism, acquiescence and resistance, and technology and agency that are central to debates...
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(P/B) VERDI'S AIDA
Verdi's Aida was first published in 1978. 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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) CULTURE AND CONTROL IN COUNTER-REFORMATION SPAIN
Contemporary cultural historians have located the Counter-Reformation as the most significant point in the material, intellectual, and spiritual development of Spain. Robust and full of productive contradictions, Spanish culture took a critical turn in 1492 when Ferdinand II, in his quest for purity and orthodoxy, expelled the Jews and Arabs from Spain. Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain examines the various modes of repression and social control exerted by Spanish institutions during the Counter-Reformation as they attempted...
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