Decolonizing Extinction
Juno Salazar Parreñas
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In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan
Janus's Gaze
Carlo Galli
Nanovision
Colin Milburn
The dawning era of nanotechnology promises to transform life as we know it. Visionary scientists are engineering materials and devices at the molecular scale that will forever alter the way we thin
Ruling Oneself Out
Ivan Ermakoff
What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute suc
Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk
Edward LiPuma
The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives w
Touching Feeling
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
评分 9.5分
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in "Touching Feeling", her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays t
Racial Castration
David L. Eng
Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexua
Tokens of Exchange
Lydia H. Liu (Editor)
评分 7.9分
The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among p
The Skin of the Film
Laura U. Marks
评分 8.3分
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working bet
On Longing
Susan Stewart
评分 8.7分
Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating an
Five Faces of Modernity
Matei Calinescu
评分 9.1分
"Five Faces of Modernity" is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: "modernity," "avant-garde," "decade
Terrorist Assemblages
Jasbir Puar
评分 8.8分
In this path-breaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, c
Cruel Optimism
Lauren Berlant
评分 8.1分
Cruel Optimism provides important new ways of understanding subjectivity, temporality, attachment, and the political in the present moment. Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affecti
