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  • Why Education Is Useless

    by Daniel Cottom ...
    Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past twenty years.Critics of education point to the Nazism of Martin Heidegger, for example, to assert the ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Why Education Is Useless

    by Daniel Cottom ...
    Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past twenty years.Critics of education point to the Nazism of Martin Heidegger, for example, to assert the ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Unhuman Culture

    by Daniel Cottom ...
    It is widely acknowledged that the unhuman plays a significant role in the definition of humanity in contemporary thought. It appears in the thematization of "the Other" in philosophical, psychoanalytic, anthropological, and postcolonial studies, and shows up in the "antihumanism" associated with figures such as Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. One might trace its genealogy, as Freud did, to the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Unhuman Culture

    by Daniel Cottom ...
    It is widely acknowledged that the unhuman plays a significant role in the definition of humanity in contemporary thought. It appears in the thematization of "the Other" in philosophical, psychoanalytic, anthropological, and postcolonial studies, and shows up in the "antihumanism" associated with figures such as Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. One might trace its genealogy, as Freud did, to the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • International Bohemia

    Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life

    by Daniel Cottom ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    How did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural forms, politics, and histories they sought to animate. Beginning with the invention of ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • International Bohemia

    Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life

    by Daniel Cottom ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    How did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural forms, politics, and histories they sought to animate. Beginning with the invention of ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Digital Sociology in Everyday Life

    Edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom ...
    Digital technologies, digital media, and mobile technologies now shape the experience of everyday life in the Western world, yet the way our quotidian lives are enmeshed with these technologies is far from clearly understood.Through studies of the digital everyday, sociologists are beginning to reinvigorate the sociological imagination in light of digitization. Chapters in this Byte cover topics ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Digital Bodies

    Edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom ...
    In the early days of the internet, we assumed that digital technologies would allow us to escape embodiment and its accompanying entanglements. Yet now our embodied selves are often targeted for abuse and harassment online. As we move into the Internet of Things, the digital is increasingly on and in our bodies. The pieces in this Byte raise important questions about what it means to bring our ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Digital Sociologies

    Edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom ...
    Providing a much needed overview of the growing field of digital sociology, this handbook connects digital media technologies to the traditional sociological areas of study, like labour, culture, education, race, class and gender. Rooted in a critical understanding of inequality as foundational to digital sociology and is edited by leaders in the field. It includes topics ranging from web ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Digitized Institutions

    Edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom ...
    A key sociological insight is that institutions, whether education, the economy, politics or the media, shape the contours of individual life and drive inequality. In this Byte, the contributions take up the way that digitally meditated social processes are transforming institutions. The writing here examines the interconnectedness of institutions and considers digitization across schooling, work, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Costs of Connection

    How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

    by Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias ...
    Series series Culture and Economic Life
    Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Digital Media and Society

    An Introduction

    by Adrian Athique ...
    The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with which new forms of connectivity and communication are being incorporated into our everyday lives often gives us little time to stop and consider the social implications of those practices. Nonetheless, it is critically important that we do so, and this ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD