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  • Viral World

    Global Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    by Long T. Bui ...
    Series series The COVID-19 Pandemic Series
    This book argues that the catastrophe of COVID-19 provided a momentous time for groups, institutions, and states to reassess their worldviews and relationship to the entire world. Following multiple case studies across dozens of countries throughout the course of the pandemic, this book is a timely contribution to cultural knowledge about the pandemic and the viral politics at the heart of it ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Model Machines

    A History of the Asian as Automaton

    by Long T. Bui ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    In the contemporary Western imagination, Asian people are frequently described as automatons, which disavows their humanity. In Model Machines, Long Bui investigates what he calls Asian roboticism or the ways Asians embody the machine and are given robotic characteristics.Bui offers the first historical overview of the overlapping racialization of Asians and Asian Americans through their ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Returns of War

    South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory

    by Long T. Bui ...
    Series Book 32 - Nation of Nations
    The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of Vietnamese refugeesIn 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism, marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam War. Although this former ally of the United States has vanished from the world map, Long T. Bui maintains that its memory endures for refugees with a strong attachment to this ghost country. Blending ethnography with oral ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

    by David Graeber ...
    From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our livesWhere does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence?To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Astrology

    Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor

    by Alice Sparkly Kat ...
    Tapping into the political power of magic and astrology for social, community, and personal transformation.In a cross-cultural approach to understanding astrology as a magical language, Alice Sparkly Kat unmasks the political power of astrology, showing how it can be channeled as a force for collective healing and liberation.Too often, magic and astrology are divorced from their potency and ... Read more

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  • The Subplot

    What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

    by Megan Walsh ...
    What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Techno-Orientalism

    Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

    by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Seo-Young Chu0, Abigail De Kosnik1, Jinny Huh2, Steve Choe3, Se Young Kim4, Dylan Yeats5, Julie Ha Tran6, Kathryn Allan7, Aimee Bahng8, Douglas S. Ishii9, Tzarina T. Prater0, Catherine Fung1, Charles Park2 ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • A Third University Is Possible

    by la paperson ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary schools in Kenya; and between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Alien Capital

    Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism

    by Iyko Day ...
    In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features. This ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Art in the After-Culture

    Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

    by Ben Davis ...
    It is a peculiar moment for art, as it becomes both increasingly rarefied and associated with elite lifestyle culture, while simultaneously ubiquitous, with the boom of "creative" industries and the proliferation of new technologies for making art. In these important essays, Ben Davis covers everything from Instagram to artificial intelligence, eco-art to cultural appropriation. Critical, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Full Metal Apache

    Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America

    by Takayuki Tatsumi, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Larry McCaffery ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan’s leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan’s love of both Japanese and American art and literature, he is perhaps uniquely well situated to offer this study of the dynamic crosscurrents between the avant-gardes and pop cultures of Japan and the United States. In Full Metal Apache, ... Read more

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  • A History of Popular Culture in Japan

    From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    by Dr. E. Taylor Atkins ...
    A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power, identity and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD