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  • Israel-Palestine

    Federation or Apartheid?

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    Since the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October and the subsequent bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been thrust back to the centre of the world’s attention. How can this deep-rooted conflict, stretching back for more than 75 years, be brought to an end? What kind of political structure might one day enable Israelis and Palestinians to overcome the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Construction Site for Possible Worlds

    Edited by Amanda Beech, Robin Mackay, James Wiltgen ...
    Perspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds.Given the highly coercive and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, when the tremendous pressures exerted by capital on contemporary life produces an aggressively normative “official reality,” the question of the construction of other possible worlds is crucial and perhaps ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Secrets of Creation

    Edited by Robin Mackay ...
    Series Book 8 - Urbanomic / Redactions
    An artist and a mathematician debate, find common ground, and jointly create an assemblage that is neither (or both) an artwork and a mathematical model.A week-long residency project brought together artist Conrad Shawcross and mathematician Matthew Watkins to reflect on the ways in which artists use (or misuse) scientific and mathematical concepts. Secrets of Creation documents this fascinating ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Collapse, Volume 1

    Numerical Materialism

    Edited by Robin Mackay ...
    Series series Urbanomic / Collapse
    An investigation of the nature and philosophical uses of number.The first volume of Collapse investigates the nature and philosophical uses of number. The volume includes an interview with Alain Badiou on the relation between philosophy, mathematics, and science, an in-depth interview with mathematician Matthew Watkins on the strange connections between physics and the distribution of prime ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Fanged Noumena

    Collected Writings 1987-2007

    by Nick Land ...
    A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land.During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as “rabid nihilism,” “mad black deleuzianism,” and “cybergothic,” developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of “continental philosophy” —a route that was implacably blocked by the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • #Accelerate

    The Accelerationist Reader

    Edited by Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian ...
    An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy.Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Hydroplutonic Kernow

    Edited by Robin Mackay ...
    Series series Urbanomic / Redactions
    A geophilosophical odyssey through the remains of Cornwall's industrial past offers a historical portrait of geotrauma in action.This unique document provides a pioneering case study in post-“site-specific” geophilosophy. Based on a weird field trip into Cornwall's mining heartlands with geologists, philosophers, and ecologists as guides, Hydroplutonic Kernow drills down through nature, industry, ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Concept of Non-Photography

    by Francois Laruelle ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions.If philosophy has always understood its relation to the world according to the model of the instantaneous flash of a photographic shot, how can there be a “philosophy of photography” that is not ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Speculative Aesthetics

    Edited by Robin Mackay, James Trafford, Luke Pendrell ...
    Series Book 4 - Urbanomic / Redactions
    An examination of the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the planetary media network and of the aesthetic as an enabler of new modes of knowledge.This series of interventions on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics ranges from contemporary art's relation to the aesthetic, to accelerationism and abstraction, logic and design.From varied perspectives of ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Metamorphoses

    by Emanuele Coccia ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life.Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Judeophobia

    A History

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    Throughout the history of the Western world, Jews have suffered various forms of exclusion, stigmatization, and discrimination that have forced them always to be aware of their very particular situation. The Jews became a community under siege and, as Shlomo Sand argues, Judaism was shaped by the hostile gaze of Christian civilization. While the forms of hostility endured by the Jews have varied ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Brain-Eye

    New Histories of Modern Painting

    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    by Eric Alliez ...
    A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked ‘case studies’ in which philosophical thought encounters the hallucinatory sensations unleashed by ‘painter-researchers.’Rather than outlining a new ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD