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Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy
<div>In <i>Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy</i>-published originally in Japanese and now available in four languages-Kōjin Karatani questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey. Contrasting Athenian democracy with Ionian isonomia-a system based on non-rule ...
2017
Livro life and death on the new york dance floor, 1980-1983
Livro life and death on the new york dance floor, 1980-1983
2016
Pink Noises
<div><i>Pink Noises</i> brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an extension of Pinknoises.com, the critically-acclaimed website founded by musician and scholar Tara Rodgers in 2000 to promote women in ele...
2010
Otaku and the struggle for imagination in japan
Otaku and the struggle for imagination in japan
2019
Across Oceans of Law
<div>In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship <i>Komagata Maru</i> left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to Calcutta. In <i>Across Oceans of Law</i> Renisa Mawani retells this well-known story of ...
2018
Cherry Grove, Fire Island
<div>First published in 1993, the award-winning <i>Cherry Grove, Fire Island</i> tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City. This new paperback edition includes a new preface by the author.</div>
2014
Geontologies
<div>In <i>Geontologies</i> Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance, Povinelli describes a mode of power she calls <i>geontopower</i>, which operates through the regulation of the distinctio...
2016
Indian Migration and Empire
<div>How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In <i>Indian Migration and Empire</i> Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration regulations was dependent upon, accompanied by, and generative of profound changes in normative conceptions of the modern state. F...
2018
Poor Queer Studies
In <i>Poor Queer Studies</i> Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also takes place beyond the halls of flagship institutions: in night school; after a three-hour commute; in overflowing classrooms at no-name colleges; with no research budget; without access to decent...
2020
Porkopolis
In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In <i>Porkopolis</i> Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses readers into...
2020
Punishment in Paradise
<div>Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In <i>Punishment in Paradise</i> Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, co...
2015
Stolen Life
<div>"Taken as a trilogy, <i>consent not to be a single being</i> is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."-Brent Hayes Edwards, author of <i>Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination</i><br><br>In <i>Stolen Life</i>-the second volume in his landmark trilogy <i>consent not to ...
2018
The Structure of World History
<div>In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the interlocking system that is the dominant form of modern global society, and the possibilities for superseding it. In <i>The Structure of World His...
2014
Unthinking Mastery
<div>Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a more productive human subjectivity that is not centered on concepts of mastery.</div>
2018
Ethnography #9
As Alan Klima writes in <i>Ethnography #9</i>, "there are other possible starting places than the earnest realism of anthropological discourse as a method of critical thought." In this experimental ethnography of capitalism, ghosts, and numbers in mid- and late-twentieth-century Thailand, Klima uses this provocation to deconstruct naive faith in the "real" and in the material in academic discourse...
2019
History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out
<div>In <i>History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out</i> James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class identities. Concerned with carving out space for individuals in the story of the worki...
2017
Ontological Terror
<div>In <i>Ontological Terror</i> Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for thinking through the tensions between blackness and Being. He illustrates how blacks embody...
2018