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Black and Blur
<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>Black and Blur</i>-the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy <i...
2017
Eating in Theory
As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In <i>Eating in Theory</i> Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mo...
2021
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
One night on tv is worth weeks at the paramount
One night on tv is worth weeks at the paramount
2012
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation
<div>In <i>Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation</i> critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancho...
2019
The Nature of Space
In <i>The Nature of Space</i>, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology. He argues that when geographers consider the inseparability of time and space, they can then transcend fragmented realitie...
2021
Wild Things
In <i>Wild Things</i> Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality...
2020
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