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Signal and Noise
Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or...
Translating Time
Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock-time itself, the modern concept of time is considered universal and culturally neutral. What Walter Benjamin called “homogeneous, empty time” founds the modern notions of progress...
by Fred Moten, Charles McGovern, Josh Kun
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet’s mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation,...
Brother Men
The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
Brother Men is the first published collection of private letters of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the phenomenally successful author of adventure, fantasy, and science fiction tales, including the Tarzan series. The correspondence presented here is Burroughs’s decades-long exchange with Herbert T. Weston,...
by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of...
Greenwich Village 1963
Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1993
The year was 1963 and from Birmingham to Washington, D.C., from Vietnam to the Kremlin to the Berlin Wall, the world was in the throes of political upheaval and historic change. But that same year, in New York's Greenwich Village, another kind of history and a different sort of politics were being...
Machiavelli
The Chief Works and Others, Vol. III
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
From praise for the 1965 edition:
Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Allan...
Empires of Vision
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpts focus on the paintings, maps, geographical surveys, postcards, photographs, and other media that...
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro
Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions.
by Joanna Page
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
There has been a significant surge in recent Argentine cinema, with an explosion in the number of films made in the country since the mid-1990s. Many of these productions have been highly acclaimed by critics in Argentina and elsewhere. What makes this boom all the more extraordinary is its coinciding...
Crumpled Paper Boat
Experiments in Ethnographic Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Crumpled Paper Boat is a book of experimental ventures in ethnographic writing, an exploration of the possibilities of a literary anthropology. These original essays from notable writers in the field blur the boundaries between ethnography and genres such as poetry, fiction, memoir, and cinema. They...
The Art of Transition
Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neoliberal market-driven economies. Delving into the conflicting efforts of intellectuals to name and speak to what...
Pleasure Consuming Medicine
The Queer Politics of Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
On a summer night in 2007, the Azure Party, part of Sydney’s annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, is underway. Alongside the party outfits, drugs, lights, and DJs is a volunteer care team trained to deal with the drug-related emergencies that occasionally occur. But when police appear at the gates...
Tacit Subjects
Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify...