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  • Revisioning War Trauma in Cinema

    Uncoming Communities

    Series series Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
    Revisioning War Trauma in Cinema: Uncoming Communities uses philosophy and critical theory to examine films that participate in debates concerning trauma and representation. This book reflects upon films that invent—rather than represent—the moment history breaks down. Jessica Datema and Manya Steinkoler propose a twenty-first-century way forward across problems of trauma, inheritance, and ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective

    Variable Speed(s)

    Edited by Jessica Datema, Angie Voela ...
    Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s) explores philosophical and psychoanalytic theories, as well as artworks, that show sensible bodily rituals for reviving our social and subjective lives. With a wide range of contributors from interdisciplinary backgrounds, it informs readers on how to find rituals for syncing ourselves with others and world rhythms ... Read more

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    Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

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  • The Expulsion of the Other

    Society, Perception and Communication Today

    Translated by Wieland Hoban ...
    The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and ... Read more

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  • Hooked

    Art and Attachment

    by Rita Felski ...
    "Examines the way we connect to novels, films, paintings and music, and argues that our enthusiasms should be an integral part of conversations about art." —Helen Thaventhiran, London Review of BooksHow does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What ... Read more

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  • On Ambivalence

    The Problems and Pleasures of Having it Both Ways

    A concise guide to ambivalence, from Adam and Eve (to eat the apple or not?) to Hamlet (to be or not?) to globalization (e pluribus unum or not?).Why is it so hard to make up our minds? Adam and Eve set the template: Do we or don't we eat the apple? They chose, half-heartedly, and nothing was ever the same again. With this book, Kenneth Weisbrode offers a crisp, literate, and provocative ... Read more

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  • Gestures

    Translated by Nancy Ann Roth ...
    Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture ... Read more

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  • Incontinence of the Void

    Economico-Philosophical Spandrels

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Žižek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late ... Read more

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  • The Nonhuman Turn

    Edited by Richard Grusin ...
    Series series 21st Century Studies
    Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize—and therefore consolidate—a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each of these approaches is engaged in decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman, ... Read more

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  • The Christopher Bollas Reader

    This reader brings together a selection of seminal papers by Christopher Bollas.Essays such as "The Fascist State of Mind," "The Structure of Evil," and "The Functions of History" have established his position as one of the most significant cultural critics of our time. Also included are examples of his psychoanalytical writings, such as "The Transformational Object" and "Psychic Genera," that ... Read more

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  • Other Things

    by Bill Brown ...
    From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that ... Read more

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  • Staging Philosophy

    Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy

    Edited by David Krasner, David Z. Saltz ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater. Each of the contributors—leading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophy—breaks new ground, presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the way for ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD